Presents a graphic novel that revisits the strike to introduce new generations to its many lessons, including the power of class struggle and solidarity and the brutal tactics that governments and bosses use to crush workers'...
History and geography
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Au mois de mai et juin 1919, plus de 30 000 travailleurs et travailleuses de Winnipeg, au Manitoba, quittent leur emploi. Ils mènent une grève pour diverses raisons - de meilleurs salaires, le droit à la négociation collective, et...
- Author:Burns, EricSummary:
The Roaring Twenties is the only decade in American history with a widely applied nickname, and our fascination with this era continues. From prohibition to immigration, the birth of jazz, and the rise of expatriate literature, 1920 was...
- Author:Range, Peter RossSummary:
Adolf Hitler spent 1924 in a prison near Munich. He passed the year working feverishly on his book Mein Kampf. Until now, no one has devoted an entire book to the single, dark year of Hitler's incarceration following his attempted coup...
- Author:Haberman, ArthurSummary:
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. After the optimism of the nineteenth...
- Author:Cuthbertson, Ken.Summary:
It was a watershed year for Canada and the world. 1945 set Canada on a bold course into the future. A huge sense of relief marked the end of hostilities. Yet there was also fear and uncertainty about the perilous new world that was...
- Author:Caldwell, Wilber W.Summary:
For the two generations who have grown up since Lyndon Johnson was president, the events as well as the thinking behind the revolutionary and romantic pretensions of the 1960s are almost equally unclear. This was the era of the Beatles...
- Author:Kennedy, Scott, Hopkins, JeanneSummary:
The history of the oldest parish church in the Toronto area is also the history of North Toronto and a changing culture. The War of 1812 was barely over when the people of York Mills felled the trees that would become the first St....
- Author:Magel, RalphSummary:
The Yonge Street as conceived by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe is celebrated, from its beginning as a First Nation's Trail, to the Yonge Street we know today, extending from Toronto to Innisfil. Augustus Jones, the...
- Author:Steigerwald, BillSummary:
In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust life was for the ten million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and...
- Author:Kraack, Cynthia, Tachovsky, JosephSummary:
Behind enemy lines on the island of Saipan-where firing a gun could mean instant discovery and death-the 40 Thieves killed in silence during the grueling battle for Saipan, the D-Day of the Pacific. Now Joseph Tachovsky-whose father...
- Author:Wenner, Jann S.Summary:
For the past fifty years, Rolling Stone has been a leading voice in journalism, cultural criticism, and-above all-music. This landmark book documents the magazine's rise to prominence as the voice of rock and roll and a leading...
- Author:Eichenwald, KurtSummary:
Presents an account of the first five hundred days after September 11 that reveals previously undisclosed information about the terror wars, warrantless wiretapping, and the anthrax attacks.
- Author:Hill, GordSummary:
"500 Years of Indigenous Resistance is more than a history of European colonization of the Americas. In this slim volume, Gord Hill chronicles the resistance by Indigenous peoples, which limited and shaped the forms and extent of...
- Author:Sherk, BillSummary:
Winner of the 2004 International Gallery of Superb Printing Bronze Award for Superb Craftsmanship in Production, and the Ontario Printing and Imaging Association Excellence in Print Awards, commended for the 2004 Honourable Mention for...
- Author:Means, Howard B.Summary:
At midday on May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard launched a sixty-seven-shot barrage that left four Kent State students dead and nine wounded. Means tells the story of this iconic American moment through the eyes and...
- Author:Gee, HenrySummary:
In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman--An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place--in constant chemical flux, covered...
- Author:Byrne, AllanSummary:
The picturesque Port of St. John’s is an enduring symbol of Newfoundlanders’ inextricable link to the sea. Indeed, it was the geographic features of St. John’s harbour that encouraged initial settlement here, the starting point from...
- Author:Lovell, W. GeorgeSummary:
When A Beauty that Hurts was first published in 1995, Guatemala was still one of the world's most flagrant violators of human rights. Now that a measure of "peace" has come to the country, George Lovell revisits the land...
- Author:Smart, SusanSummary:
A Better Place describes the practices around death and burial in 19th-century Ontario. Funeral rituals, strong religious beliefs, and a firm conviction that death was a beginning not an end helped the bereaved through their times of...
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