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More and more people are beginning to realize that we are being manipulated and lied to. We are denied access to secrets that shouldn't be secrets.

The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work.

How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be?

From 1948 to 1966, the United Nations worked to create a common legal standard for human rights protection around the globe.

Founded by French military entrepreneur Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac in 1701, colonial Detroit was occupied by thousands of French settlers who established deep roots on both sides of the riv

For Home and Empire is the first book to compare voluntary wartime mobilization on the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand home fronts.

Plusieurs croient que le 1er juillet 1867 représente la date de la Confédération canadienne, le jour de la création du nouveau pays. Mais le processus ne faisait que s'amorcer en 1867.

Belles résidences, domestiques, voyages... la vie des dames de la bourgeoisie, au début du 20e siècle, n'avait rien à voir avec le quotidien des ménagères de milieu populaire.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Canadian government relocated people living in rural and urban communities, often against their will, in order to alleviate the all-too-common lack of social servic

The 2008 global financial crisis brought the world's economy closer to collapse than ever before. Has enough been done to prevent another crisis?

Until the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, Mackenzie King prided himself on never publicly saying anything derogatory about Hitler or Mussolini, unequivocally supporting the appeasement policies of

Life in the countryside, often perceived as either idyllic or depleted, has long been misrepresented.

George Nelson (1786-1859) was a clerk for the North West Company whose unusually detailed and personal writings provide a compelling portrait of the people engaged in the golden age of the Canadian

What did it mean to be a spectator during the lifetime of Shakespeare or of Aphra Behn?

Like the flute melody from Hinterland Who's Who, the 1970s haunt Canadian cultural memory.