National Network for Equitable Library Service

An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/?11 hija

A series of deftly turned vignettes of what it was like to live in England at the turn of the last millenium.

A picture of life in the year 1000. Set in England, it follows the Julian Calendar month by month, revealing amazing details of a mainly agrarian life.

From the ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion--a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, arti