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Published on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction.

12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841.

The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor.

While the conflict over slavery was a factor in the Civil War, the abolition of slavery did not become a stated objective until Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect o

While the conflict over slavery was a factor in the Civil War, the abolition of slavery did not become a stated objective until President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which went int

Charles Minor Blackford, an aristocrat from Virginia, enlisted in the Second Virginia Cavalry at the start of the American Civil War.

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography.

A controversial figure in his day, Black Hawk was the leader of the Sauk American Indian tribe in the early 1800s.

Robert E. Lee, the famed Confederate forces commander and icon of the South, is a towering figure in U.S. and military history.

A cornerstone of African-American literary history, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work by W. E. B. Du Bois.

In 1887, Nellie Bly had herself committed to the notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum in New York City with the goal of discovering what life was like for its patients.

Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past illuminates how Canada’s participation in the United Nations’ peacekeeping efforts from 1956 to 1997 was used as a symbol of national identity – in Quebec and th

This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Montreal neighbourhood, brings to life the history of Irish identity in the legendary enclave.

The legacy of residential schools has haunted Canadians, yet little is known about the day and public schools where most Indigenous children were sent to be educated.

Kurt F. Jensen argues that Canada was a more active intelligence partner in the Second World War alliance than has previously been suggested.