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During the Cold War, more than 36,000 individuals entering Canada claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship.

In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisis—or the Kanehsatake Resistance—exposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada.

Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown.

The year 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of a decade that Auden would style “low, dishonest.” That year was one of the most reflective moments in modernity.

Her family broken apart and her identity taken away, she had to forget her past in order to face her future. But forgetting isn’t forever.

Iconic photos from the First World War, newly colourized.

The compelling story of Canada’s Irish pioneers, revealing the enormous scope of their achievements.

The untold story of how Canadian Cyclists came into their own during the Hundred Days campaign of the Great War.

Pull up a bollard and get to know the colourful language of the Royal Canadian Navy. Do you ever get channel fever so bad only a great homeward bounders will cure you?

The incredible story of the “King of the Pirates,” who burst from the waters of early Canada to become a terror of the seas.

Based on exhaustive research and dozens of fresh interviews, this book is the definitive and thrilling account of one of humankind's greatest technological achievements: the Apollo 11 mission.

Journalist Aaron Shulman presents an absorbing and atmospheric historical narrative that takes us deeply into the circumstances surrounding the Spanish Civil War through the lives, loves, and poetr

Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the 'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and sexual assault was more common in t

From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and composers.

The history of opera, illustrated by over 100 musical examples by Naxos artists and other singers.