The Discovering Canada series presents information, stories and activities to make Canadian history interesting to young people. Each of the eleven illustrated books focuses on a theme in Canadian history and includes primary source...
History and geography
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Author:Smith, A. G., Livesey, RobertSummary: - Author:West, RebeccaSummary:
Examines the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia at the beginning of World War II.
- Author:Holmes Whitehead, RuthSummary:
Black Loyalists is an attempt to present hard data about the lives of Nova Scotia Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia—to bring back into our...
- Author:Komar, DebraSummary:
Shortlisted, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book Award. In 1869, in the woods just outside of the bustling port city of Saint John, a group of teenaged berry pickers discovered several badly decomposed bodies. The authorities...
- Author:Kaufmann, MirandaSummary:
A black porter publicly whips a white English gentleman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily pregnant African woman is abandoned on an Indonesian island by Sir Francis Drake. A Mauritanian diver is despatched to salvage lost...
- Author:Honey, Michael K.Summary:
The individual stories are arranged thematically in chapters on labor organizing, Jim Crow in the workplace, police brutality, white union racism, and civil rights struggles. Taken together, the stories ask us to rethink the...
- Author:Evans, M. StantonSummary:
This long-awaited book, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the US government.
- Author:Ladouceur, Barbara, Spence, PhyllisSummary:
In this bestseller, thirty-six Canadian war brides recount their early lives, their involvement in wartime duties, the magical/funny moments when they met their Canadian husbands-to-be and their journeys from Britain to Canada. The...
- Author:Seesequasis, PaulSummary:
A revelatory portrait of eight Indigenous communities from across North America, shown through never-before-published archival photographs - a gorgeous extension of Paul Seesequasis's popular social media project. The narrative essay...
- Author:Dean, John W.Summary:
A six-month New York Times bestseller: "Not only the best Watergate book, but a very good book indeed" (The Sunday Times). As White House counsel to Richard Nixon, a young John W. Dean was one of the primary players in the...
- Author:Ohler, NormanSummary:
Examination of the use of drugs during the rule of the Nazi Party. Discusses Hitler's personal physician, Theodor Morell; the impact of drug use in the military on specific operations; and more. Translated from the original 2015 German...
- Author:Wilson, KevinSummary:
The US 8th Air Force came of age in 1944. With a fresh commander, it was ready to demonstrate its true power: from Operation Argument in February-targeting German aircraft production plants-to bringing the Luftwaffe to battle over...
- Author:Hoyer, KatjaSummary:
Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea. In this study of five decades that changed the course of history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire's beginning to its defeat in World War I.
- Author:Phillips, PatrickSummary:
Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. Many black residents were...
- Author:Sedgwick, JohnSummary:
An astonishing untold story from America's past-a sweeping, powerful, and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee. Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud between two rival Cherokee...
- Author:Paranque, EstelleSummary:
Sixteenth-century Europe was a hostile world dominated by court politics and patriarchal structures, and yet against all odds, two women rose to power: Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. One a young Virgin Queen who ruled her kingdom...
- Author:Milloy, JeremySummary:
Going postal. We think of the rogue employee who snaps. But Blood, Sweat, and Fear demonstrates that workplace violence never occurs in isolation. Using violence as a lens, Jeremy Milloy provides fresh and original insights into the...
- Author:Oliver, GregSummary:
Hockey's rich history explored through some of its most fascinating documents Every great career in hockey starts with a pen and a piece of paper. In Blue Lines, Goal Lines & Bottom Lines, author Greg Oliver takes a peek into...
- Author:Oliver, GregSummary:
Hockey’s rich history explored through some of its most fascinating documents
Every great career in hockey starts with a pen and a piece of paper. In Blue Lines, Goal Lines & Bottom Lines, author Greg Oliver...
- Author:Gallagher, DannySummary:
Blue Monday: one of the most unforgettable days in Canadian baseball history. Danny Gallagher leads readers up to that infamous day in October 1981 when Rick Monday of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit a home run off of Montreal Expos pitcher...
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