History

Interviews with more than one thousand gay servicepeople highlight an investigation into the presence and treatment of homosexuals in the military. By the a...

May 2020 Marks The 50th Anniversary Of The Abortion Caravan, When A Group Of Women Crossed The Country To Force A Confrontation With The Canadian Government...

A Preeminent Scientist Asserts The Irrationality Of Belief In God And The Grievous Harm Religion Has Inflicted On Society From The Crusades To 9/11. He Crit...

Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, he is a ...

Elite sniper Jody Mitic loved being a soldier. His raw, candid, and engrossing memoir follows his personal journey into the Canadian military, through snipe...

Idenifies Key Individuals, Events, Places, Organizations, Movements, Political Parties, And Battles. Consultant Editor, Bruce P. Lenman ; Editor, Hilary Mar...

A masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, this blockbuster adventure takes listeners on a gripping journey into the Amazon.After stumbling upon a hidden trove...

Robert Brockhouse ; With A Photo Essay By Edward Burtynsky. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Humor & Entertainment Performing A...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Alex Kershaw, author of The Longest Winter and The Liberator, returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day...

This Book, By A Veteran Observer Of The Middle East, Tells The Story Of The Gassing Of Halabja. It Shows How Iraq Was Able To Develop Ever More Sophisticate...

This Book Publishes, For The First Time In Full, The Two Most Revealing Of Mark Twain's Private Writings. Here He Turns His Mind To The Daily Life He Shared...

Telfer, GeordieCategories: HistoryHistorical Study & Educational Resources

Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "river of grass," most people considered the area worthless. She brought the world's atten...

Why Canadians Started To Walk Away From Organized Christianity In The 1960s And How That Defection Became An Exodus. Canadians Were Once Church-goers. Durin...

a Remarkable Achievement...vivid...fluent, Graceful.... A Publishing Event.—boston Globe new York Times monumental.... History That Is Always Lively, Alway...

Now more than ever, kids want to know about our country's great struggles during World War II. This book is packed with information that kids will find fas...

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, c...

on June 18, 1812, The Americans Declared War On Britain And Attacked The Nearest British Target, Canada. Although Outnumbered Ten To One, Canadian Volunte...

Conceived during Thomas Jefferson's junket in Paris, Thomas Woodson was Jefferson's first child by Sally Hemings. He was banished from Monticello at the ag...

Do children and youth have their own history? How is it different from traditional accounts? What difference do children make to our understanding of contem...

A clear, engaging description of the six most prevalent models of worship in North American churches, presented by advocates for each position. The contrib...

John Brown is a man of many legacies, from hero, freedom fighter, and martyr, to liar, fanatic, and "the father of American terrorism." Some have said that ...

A Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Izzeldin Abuelaish is an infertility specialist who lives in Gaz...

By Studying The Ways In Which American Industrial Workers Mobilized Concerted Action In Their Own Interest, The Author Focuses On The Workplace Itself, Exam...

This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary det...

The Challenge Of Rethinking History Education Is A Must Read For Anyone Looking For A Guide To Both The Theory And Practice Of What It Means To Teach Histor...

The building of the Panama Canal was one of the most grandiose, dramatic, and sweeping adventures of all time. Spanning nearly half a century, from its be...

The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 is a landmark publication that provides the most coherent overview of women’s role and place in weste...

Toronto's Cabbagetown in the Depression...North America's largest Anglo-Saxon slum. Ken Tilling leaves school to face the bleak prospects of the dirty thirt...

Now completely revised and updated, this new edition of the essential consumer guide to wine features all the most current information for today’s wine la...

Editor, Thomas Hinde. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 343) And Index.Categories: History EuropeGreat Britain

Canadian World War II pilot Charley Fox, now in his late eighties, has had a thrilling life, especially on the day in July 1944 in France when he spotted a...

Although Most Of Us Think Of History--and Learn It--as A Conglomeration Of Facts, Dates, And Key Figures, For Professional Historians It Is A Way Of Knowing...

From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. A birder s...

Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what ...

Any travel guide to Rome will urge visitors to go the Colosseum, but none answers a simple question: Why is it called the Colosseum?The History of Rome in ...

This Nonfiction Book Examines How We Can Foster Reconciliation With Indigenous People At Individual, Family, Community And National Levels--Categories: Poli...

This is a major new edition of a stimulating and authoritative book. Merry Wiesner has updated and expanded her prize-winning study; she has added new secti...

The Book Has Ten Chapters: The First Is An Analysis Of The Build-up To The War, The Next Seven Chapters Cover The War Itself And The Final Chapter Examines ...

A fascinating narrative and pictorial history of over forty shipwrecks in the dynamic Bay of Fundy region, one of the seven wonders of North America, bord...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists.On...

Few events in American history have shaped the nation like the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It opened the American West for settlement. It redrew the map of...

To truly heal is to "make whole" on all levels, in contrast to "treating" which is limited and short-sighted, as Hawkins has emphasized in his best-selling ...

Open Virgil's Barbecue Road Trip Cookbook and you'll find a winning mix of barbecue and grilling recipes plus perfect summer sides for quick weekday dinner...

Narrating a Nation: Canadian History Pre-Confederation is a lively, narrative approach to pre-confederation history. Events are followed chronologically, fo...

From the assassination that set off World War I to the ethnic warfare sweeping Bosnia and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century--t...

Railroads played an integral role in the Second World War. Trains brought food, munitions, and essential supplies. They transported troops. They were a mean...

THE WARS OF THE ROSES is the definitive account of one of the bloodiest episodes in British history - wars between the houses of York and Lancaster. Trevor ...