This is the second post in a three-part series about socialism at McGill in the 1930s. Raffaella Cerenzia As the 1930s unfolded, the soaring unemployment and general miseries of the Great Depression ...

Time to wake up!” In January 1933, deep in the midst of the Great Depression, a new student publication announced its arrival on McGill University’s campus. The paper was the production of McGill’s ...

Musically the thing about Brian Wilson is that it’s not all about Pet Sounds and Smile. A lot of Beach Boys tracks are equally impressive. Ballads such The Warmth Of The Sun and In My Room are a ...

This week I talk with Paul Kahan, author of Philadelphia: A Narrative History. We talk about the city’s origins, its connection to the American Revolution, and how the city’s history is distinct from ...

James Cullingham. One day in 2004, I was aboard the infamous #196 “York University Rocket” bus, hurtling back to what was then the Downsview subway station (now Sheppard West) in Toronto, having ...

A lot of Beach Boys tracks are equally impressive. Ballads such The Warmth Of The Sun and In My Room are a template for vocal harmonies achieved by groups such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and ...

By Sean Graham This week I talk with Mary Frances Phillips, author of Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins. We talk about the process of writing a historical ...

By Mark Humphries In the last few months, there has been a growing debate about how historians should respond to AI. And that’s a good thing. I’ve argued that we need to engage with the technology ...

This week I talk with Peter Fortna, author of The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History.We talk about the origins of the Nation, which is located in northeastern Alberta, the community ...

Sean Graham talks with Caitlin Keliiaa, author of Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labour and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program.They discuss the residential schooling system in the ...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download By Sean Graham. This week, I talk with Barbara Messamore, author of Times of Transformation: The 1921 Canadian General Election about one of Canada’s turning ...