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To understand Canada one must understand racism, for Canada was born and grew as a racist state.

Nonfiction author Myrna Kostash merges the past and the present in The Frog Lake Reader, which offers a multi-layered perspective on the tragic events surrounding the Frog Lake Massacre of 1885.

On a warm spring day in June of 1914, two hundred and thirty-five men went down into the depths of the Hillcrest mine found in Alberta?s Crowsnest Pass. Only forty-six would make it out alive.

Myrna Kostash's follow up to The Frog Lake Reader is an engaging and exciting overview of the rivalry between fur trading companies in Nineteenth Century Canada.

The generation to which Joe and Josephine Crowshoe belonged spanned more than the length of their lifetimes.

Lunch-Bucket Lives takes the reader on a bumpy ride through the history of Hamilton's working people from the 1890s to the 1930s.

Toronto's Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people's resistance.

Once known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized nation whose apostles—-the New Warriors-—are fighting to shift public opinion.

Presents a graphic novel that revisits the strike to introduce new generations to its many lessons, including the power of class struggle and solidarity and the brutal tactics that governments and

Reasoning Otherwise is the first volume of Ian McKay's three-part history of the left in Canada.

Au mois de mai et juin 1919, plus de 30 000 travailleurs et travailleuses de Winnipeg, au Manitoba, quittent leur emploi.

When A Beauty that Hurts was first published in 1995, Guatemala was still one of the world's most flagrant violators of human rights.

From Timbits to totem poles, Canada is boiled down to its syrupy core in symbolic forms that are reproduced not only on t-shirts, television ads, and tattoos but in classrooms, museums, and courtro

Enemy Alien tells the story of Canada's first national internment operations through the eyes of John Boychuk, a Ukrainian internee held in Kapuskasing from 1914 to 1917.

In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their brothers and siste