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As the Holocaust is memorialized worldwide through education programs and commemoration days, the common perception is that after survivors arrived and settled in their new homes they continued on

Art has always played a significant role in the history of the labour movement.

Since it was first published in 1991, few books have come close to capturing the depth and breadth of Alexander Wilson's innovative ecocultural compendium The Culture of Nature.

In late 1936, as Franco's armies stormed toward Madrid, Stalin famously termed the defence of Spain "the common cause of all advanced and progressive mankind." As a German emigrant t

Ce livre traite des religions, de la foi et des croyances qui guident les gens dans leur vie quotidienne.

This is the story of a small group of English immigrants and their struggle to establish a community and livelihood in the forbidding environment of Cape Random on the NE coast of Newfoundland in m

Ingrid and Norah have an unconventional upbringing -- growing up in a motel, raised by their mother and her partner.

In the small hours of October 14, 1942, a German U-boat sank the passenger ferry SS Caribou in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Of the 237 people on board, 136 perished, including 49 civilians.

Think the world can’t get any crazier? Think again.

A look at the sex trade in St. John's, with profiles of some of the people who make up the city's diverse sex industry.

In The End of Music, Jamie Fitzpatrick's two mesmerizing, interwoven narratives circle the lives of Joyce, a modern young woman navigating the fraught social mores of a small town in its post-war h

In 1617, Lord Falkland's colonists in Newfoundland were instructed to bring, among other things, 20 barrels of caske (ale), 90 bushels of malt, a malt mill, 4500 pounds of hops, 1 firkin of Aq

During the tumultuous and often violent election riots of 1861, members of the Royal Newfoundland Companies opened fire on a crowd of rioters, killing three and wounding several others.

Daisy's job is to be as unobtrusive as possible.

Prohibition in the United States created new opportunities for organized crime to make profits even they couldn't imagine.