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War has been, and continues to be, a key element of human history. There is archaeological evidence that we have…Read More »
Robertson Davies kept multiple diaries simultaneously. There was a sometimes cryptic private one, and a “big” one that was both…Read More »
November 9, 2015 at 10:43am | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
History and biography are often treated as two distinct subjects. The former is considered an academic discipline, focused on serious…Read More »
October 19, 2015 at 03:39pm | Filed under: History
Richard B. Wright’s eloquent memoir of his life as a novelist and teacher is written in the third-person singular. This…Read More »
October 15, 2015 at 04:24pm | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
It is not difficult to get people, even former MPs, to agree that Canada’s democracy is broken. The challenge is…Read More »
June 26, 2014 at 11:33am | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
One prevailing theme of most First World War histories is the inevitability of conflict: Europe wanted a war in 1914…Read More »
February 20, 2014 at 12:47pm | Filed under: History
It is either a coincidence or a quirk of the zeitgeist that two of the best recent books of popular…Read More »
January 2, 2007 at 05:41pm | Filed under: History
“May the day of judging President Nixon on anything less than his entire life and career come to a close.”…Read More »
December 19, 2006 at 05:05pm | Filed under: History
It’s obvious how trees in myth and literature enter the public imagination – Eden’s tree of knowledge, the Bodhi tree,…Read More »
March 22, 2005 at 12:07pm | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Now we’re looking good. A couple of years ago, a page turned in Canadian popular history. In retrospect, we can…Read More »
November 29, 2004 at 05:10pm | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture