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  1. Abortion without Apology
    Radical History for the 1990s

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Abortion without Apology gives a historical perpective and description of the experiences, successes and ideas of the early activisism from the 1959 to the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs Wade decision.
  2. Activist archiving in Toronto
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
  3. After the Ice Age
    The Return of Life to Glaciated North America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  4. Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labour, professional armies, social discipline, nationalist, ethnic and class fervour.
  5. The Age of Empire 1875 - 1914
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Covers the rise of bourgeois society, the growth of free market capitalism and the expansion of European colonialism abroad.
  6. Age of Extremes
    The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
  7. All That Our Hands Have Done
    A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    The story of working people in Hamilton's steel industry.
  8. The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  9. Anarchism
    A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas

    Resource Type: Book
  10. The Arc of Justice and the Long Run
    Hope, History, and Unpredictability

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds stay dormant far longer than that before some disturbance makes them germinate. Sometimes cause and effect are centuries apart; sometimes Martin Luther King’s arc of the moral universe that bends toward justice is so long few see its curve; sometimes hope lies not in looking forward but backward to study the line of that arc.
  11. The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
    315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Usually, when we say "American slavery" or the "American slave trade," we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But North America was a bit player. From the trade's beginning in the 16th century to its conclusion in the 19th, slave merchants brought the vast majority of enslaved Africans to two places: the Caribbean and Brazil. Of the more than 10 million enslaved Africans to eventually reach the Western Hemisphere, just 388,747 -- less than 4 percent of the total -- came to North America.
  12. Atlas of World History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  13. Australian History Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Documents on socialist history in Australia
  14. Australians Historical Statistics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  15. Banned Books
    Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  16. The Barbarians
    Warriors & Wars of the Dark Ages

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  17. Beechcombings
    The Narratives of Trees

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    The author traces the relatioship between English society and its trees through the ages, from the dependence of the middle ages to stewardship, to dominance, to landscape architecture, to a regret for the lost innocence of virginal forests.
  18. The Best of LIFE
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Photos from LIFE magazine, 1936-1972
  19. Best Practices for the Social History Domain
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Index page for the Best practices for the social history domain.
  20. Beyond Chutzpah
    On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A meticulously researched expose of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein's answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Israel contrive controversy. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.
  21. Black Workers, Fordism and the UAW
    Book Review of Bates's "The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford"

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A book review of Beth Tompkins Bates's analysis of how the automotive industry provided an opportunity for African Americans to fight for equal working rights, unionize, and forge an alliance with white workers.
  22. The Blackest Streets
    The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  23. Bound By Power
    Intended Consequences

    Resource Type: Book
    These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
  24. Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Memoirs of a woman who lived as a hobo and anarchist.
  25. Brandon University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  26. Calling All Radicals
    How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
  27. The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
    Second Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  28. Can the Ruling Class Shape History?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Originally entitled "Vietnam: Endless War".
  29. Canadians for Genocide Education
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  30. Das Capital, Volume 1
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1890
    Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
  31. Das Capital, Volume 2
    The Process of Circulation of Capital

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1956
  32. Das Capital, Volume 3
    The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  33. The Case for Grassroots Archives
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
  34. Centuries of Childhood
    Resource Type: Book
  35. Chambers Dictionary of World History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
  36. Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    The days of human history.
  37. Chomsky on MisEducation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
  38. Christopher Who? -- Discovering the Americas
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1990
    Columbus seen as a conqueror.
  39. Chronology of the Modern World 1763 - 1965
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1963
  40. Civilisation
    A Personal View

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  41. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  42. Collective Memory, Archives, and the Connexions project
    Michael Riordon interviews Ulli Diemer

    Resource Type: Audio
    Published: 2012
    An interview with Ulli Diemer about the Connexions project, collective memory, and the importance of archives and the challenges faced by those who work to preserve them.
  43. Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
    Introduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.
  44. The Color of Politics
    Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  45. Combined Retrospective Index to Journals in History 1838-1974
    Resource Type: Book
  46. Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences
    Resource Type: Book
  47. Compass Points
    Navigating the Twentieth Century

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    A radical history of the twentieth century by a wide of Canadian authors and essayists grappling with crucial developments in politics, economics, society, and culture in Canada and abroad.
  48. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  49. Connexions Library: History Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2012
    Selected articles, books, documents and other resources on historical topics.
  50. Connexions Library: Oral History Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2012
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on oral history.
  51. Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2012
  52. Connexions Mandate and Statement of Values
    Resource Type: Article
    A succinct summary of the Connexions project and the values that guide it.
  53. The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  54. The Course of Modern Jewish History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1958
    An acount of the Jews from the French revolution to the present day.
  55. Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    An account of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
  56. Culture of Complaint
    The Fraying of America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
  57. Dark Age Ahead
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
  58. The Development of the Monist View of History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1895
  59. Dialectic and History
    An Introduction

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1947
    A pamphlet extracted from James' essay Dialcetical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity, originally published in 1947.
  60. Dialogues on Cultural Studies
    Interviews with Contemporary Critics

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Thirty-three questions were asked (but not necessarily answered) of each participant, dealing with cultural studies, modernity, postmodernism, referentiality, ideology and history, post-colonialism, neo-orientalism, revolution and tragedy, intellectuals and universities, gender, Marxism, new communications technology.
  61. A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
    From 1900 to the Present Day

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    More than 2,500 entries, detailed yet concise, covering countries, individuals, political parties and movements, and events.
  62. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  63. Dow complains
    7 News responds

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    Dow Chemical writes to 7 News complaining that one of its trademarks has been misused. 7 News editor Ulli Diemer responds.
  64. A Dune Adrift
    The Strange Origins and Curious History of Sable Island

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    The history fo Sable Island.
  65. Easily Led
    A History of Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
  66. Elementary, dear teacher
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Discusses an 1868 murder as means and motive to teaching history as investigation rather than a timeline with concrete established facts, encouraging more critical thinking and acknowledgement that we can't always know the answers.
  67. Encyclopaedia Britannica
    Resource Type: Book
  68. Encyclopedia of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
  69. Encyclopedia of Historic Places
    Resource Type: Book
  70. Encyclopedia of Military History from 3,500 B.C. to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
  71. Encyclopedia of Prehistoric Life
    Resource Type: Book
  72. Encyclopeida of Asian History
    Resource Type: Book
  73. The Enemy of Nature
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
  74. The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  75. Eros in Antiquity
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    Reviewed in New York Review of Books, November 25, 1979.
  76. Eros in Greece
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Reviewed in New York Review of Books, January 25, 1979
  77. The Erotic Arts
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    Covers the uses of erotic themes in various branches of the arts at all times and in many civilizations.
  78. The Eternal Frontier
    An Ecological History of North America and its People

    Resource Type: Book
  79. Eurocentrism
    Resource Type: Book
    Amin argues that Eurocentrism is an ideological distortion, a myth and historical fallacy and argues for a new social, economic, cultural and political system based on socialist universalism.
  80. Eyewitness Chile: After 30 Years
    Against The Current vol. 108

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    When I returned to Chile for the first time in 32 years to attend a week-long seminar called “Thirty Years -- Allende Lives! Popular Alternatives and the Socialist Perspective in Latin America,” I found myself entering the chilling atmosphere of the world's first laboratory for militarily imposed economic neoliberalsm.
  81. Fear of the People's History
    England's Two Countries

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    England is two countries. One is dominated by London, the other remains in its shadow. They were another nation with a different history, different loyalties, different humour, even different values. At the heart of this was the politics of class.
  82. The First Century
    Emperors, Gods, and Everyman

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  83. Five Billion Years of Global Change
    A History of the Land

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    From the Big Bang theory to the Web, Five Billion Years of Global Change takes readers through the formation of the world, its oceans and continents, the evolution of the human species, development of agriculture and the growth of international trade. The book will be enjoyed by people interested in the history of the planet and concern for its future.
  84. For Lust of Knowing
    The Orientalists and their enemies

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A rebuttal of Edward Said which examines who the Orientalists were, how historically they advanced their disciplines, and what their achievements have been. Irwin calls Said's book "a work of malignant charlatanry."
  85. 1493
    Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    Alternate title in the United Kingdom: 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World. A study of the Colombian Exchange -- the biological cross-proliferation between the eastern and western hemispheres and its ripple effects through history.
  86. 1492-1992 -- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Articles critiquing the "Columbus myth, and chronicles the repression of North America's original indigenous inhabitants.
  87. 1492-1992
    Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Relates the European invasion and conquest of the Americas and also tells of the struggles and resistance of the indigenous peoples.
  88. Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
    How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Hentoff is a passionate believer in free speech who recognizes that if speech is truly to be free, we must protect the expression even of ideas we abhors. He catalogues with equal disapproval the efforts of both the right and the left to censor speech they don't like. While being sympathetic to those who object to allowing bigots, racists, pornographers, atheists, and others of many stripes the right to lay out ideas that one group or another finds repugnant, he makes both an intellectual and an emotional case for allowing everyone to have their say, no matter how much this may offend some. He points out that suppressing speech doesn't get rid of the underlying thought, but merely drives it underground and gives it the benefit of martyrdom.
  89. Freedom Now Vision Unfinished
    Book Review of LeBlanc and Yates's "A Freedom Budget for All Americans"

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Miah critiques LeBlanc and Yates' analysis of the Civil Rights Revolution, in light of the fact that the Freedom Budget issued during this time remains unfulfilled.
  90. Geschichte der Photographie
    1839 bis heute

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  91. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
  92. The Great Transformation
    The political and economic origins of our time

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
  93. The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
    Yes! Magazine Summer 2006

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    The Great Turning is a name for the transition from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining society. It identifies the shift from a self-destroying political economy to one in harmony with Earth and enduring for the future. It unites and includes all the actions being taken to honor and preserve life on Earth. It is the essential adventure of our time.
  94. A Green History of the World
    The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
  95. Grenada: Island of Conflict
    From Amerindians to People's Revolution, 1498-1979

    Resource Type: Book
    This history of the island of Grenada is a timely account of the frequently violent transitions through which Grenadians have lived since even before the arrival of European colonialists. The author provides historical details of how these Caribbean people have always had to struggle against invaders who would enslave them.
  96. A Guide to the Photographic Identification of Individual Whales Based on Natural & Acquired Markings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  97. Guns, Germs and Steel
    A Short History of Everybody for the Last 10,000 Years

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  98. Professor Randall Hansen
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  99. Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1930
    Bertrand Russell's 1930 critique of religious morality and metaphysics.
  100. Heretics and Renegades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Essasy on the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc.
  101. Historical method
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    The historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write histories in form of accounts of the past.
  102. Historical Thinking Matters
    Resource Type: Website
    Historical Thinking Matters is a website focused on key topics in U.S. history that is designed to teach students how to critically read primary sources and how to critique and construct historical narratives.
  103. Historisches Lexikon
    Von der Vorzeit bis zur Gegenwart

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1953
  104. History and Revolution
    A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1971
    Paul Cardan's critique of Marxism'.
  105. History and Revolution
    A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  106. History and Class Consciousness
    Studies in Marxist Dialectics

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  107. A History of Celibacy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    This book, mixing both anthropogy and history traces celibacy during the ages. Citing various cultures (Persian, Chinese, Greek, Roman, Europe in the Middle Ages etc.) she explores the power of celibacy and it's offence (that it is unnatural). The book in essence is a history of civilization from one particular angle. Written with both humour and anger it documents some of the strangeness of the world.
  108. The History of Marxism
    1. Marxism in Marx's Day

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  109. History of Medicine
    A Scandalously Short Introduction

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  110. A History of News
    From the Drum to the Satellite

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  111. A History of Reading
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    An exploration of what it means to be a reader of books.
  112. A History of Reading in the West
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  113. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
  114. A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
  115. A History of Warfare
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  116. History of Western Philosophy
    And its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
    A history of western philosophy in relation to its social and economic background.
  117. History Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
    Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources

    Resource Type: Website
    A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to history in the Sources directory for the media.
  118. History: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
  119. The History We Live With
    Indian Land Claims in B.C.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    Booklet discussing the history of treaties and land claims in B.C.
  120. The Holocaust Chronicle
    A History in Words and Pictures

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    A chronological account of the genocide of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
  121. Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1973
    The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
  122. I May Be Some Time
    Ice and the English Imagination

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Spufford explores the British obsession with the world's coldest and bleakest climes, using their literary representation as his guide.
  123. Illustrated History of the World
    An Encyclopaedia of Events from Pre-Historic Times up to the Present Day

    Resource Type: Book
  124. Imagine My Joy
    A Family History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    The family story of Yitzhak and Gita Pearl Cramer and Shimon Levi and Dobeh Blinick and their descendants, spanning pre-revolutionary Czarist Russia to mid-20th Century North America.
  125. In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective: A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times
    Perspective to lift the blinders of our cultural moment

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Maria Popova has found solace in taking a more telescopic view - not merely on the short human timescale of her own life, looking back on having lived through a Communist dictatorship and having seen poems composed and scientific advances made under such tyrannical circumstances, but on far vaster scales of space and time.
  126. Ines of My Soul
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
  127. Inside Nazi Germany
    Conformity, Opposition and Racism in Everyday Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    The author describes what people's daily lives were like during the Nazi regime.
  128. International Historical Statistics: Africa and Asia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  129. International Historical Statistics: Europe 1750-1988
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  130. International Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
    Resource Type: Website
    Maintains a collection, conducts research and offers a range of services in the field of social history in general and labour history in particular. Based in the Netherlands.
  131. Iraq's greatest danger yet: collapse of 'world's most dangerous dam'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    As if Iraq has not suffered enough under Saddam Hussein, the vicious UN sanctions regime, the US-UK occupation and the depradations of Daesh, a new threat looms that could kill a million people or more, and destroy Baghdad and a string of other cities along the Tigris river. The porous rocks beneath the Mosul dam are dissolving away and the entire edifice could collapse at any moment, releasing 11 cubic kilometres of water.
  132. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
  133. Karl and Rosa
    November 1918: A German Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    A novel about the German Revolution of 1918, focusing on Karl Liebknect and Rosa Luxemburg.
  134. The Late Great Lakes
    An Environmental History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    Ashworth presents five common misunderstandings about the Great Lakes and advocates for improvements, remedial action and ecosystem strategies.
  135. The Library at Night
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    The Library at Night tells the story of the important role of libraries in human civilization and how books are an essential link between the individual and the world.
  136. Libya
    From Colony to Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    Provides the background to the Libyan revolution by discussing its history from colonization up through the 2011 rebellion/foreign intervention that ousted Mu'ammar al-Qadafi.
  137. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Nick Lane expertly reconstructs the history of life by describing the ten greatest inventions of evolution (including DNA, photosynthesis, sex, and sight), based on their historical impact, role in organisms today, and relevance to current controversies.
  138. Life in Stills
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    A photo shop owner and her grandson join forces to save the shop and the nearly one million negatives that document Israel's defining moments.
  139. The Life of Bertrand Russell
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    A biography of the political activist, philosopher and mathematician.
  140. The Long Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  141. Long Shadows
    Truth, Lies, and History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  142. Lure of the Sinister
    The Unnatural History of Satanism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  143. The Making of E.P. Thompson
    Marxism, Humanism, and History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    This study is an analysis of E.P. Thompson's humanism and Marxism as they are woven throughout his politics, theory, and historical studies. Arguing against a "purely academic reading" of Thompson, Palmer examines the criticisms of Thompson's work and defends the view of history and human agency that leads to a politics of practice, rather than a politics of theory.
  144. The Making of the English Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Discusses the development of a working class consciousness from the 1790s to the Great Reform Bill
  145. Making Sex
    Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    This is a book about the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology.
  146. Making Their Own Freedom
    Book Review of Rediker's "The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom"

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A review of Rediker's re-centering of The Amistad Revellion toward a bottom-up perspective from that of the African slaves involved.
  147. Making Trouble
    Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  148. The Mammoth and the Mouse
    Microhistory and Morphology

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Essays exploring the theoretical relationship between the microhistorical method of paying careful attention to revealing details and the morphological method of looking for homologies among cultural artifacts or texts from different places and times.
  149. Manifestos, Programs, Visions
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs

    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2016
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
  150. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
  151. The Many Roots of Christian Europe
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    This is a transcript of a I talk I gave yesterday at the LSE Literary Festival. My thanks to Arthur Bradley who also took part and responded to many of the themes I raised here and to Danielle Sands of the Forum for European Philosophy for organising the discussion.
  152. A Marxist History of the World: Making the future
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Historian Neil Faulkner concludes A Marxist History of the World by looking at what that history can tell us about the possibility for radical social change.
  153. A Marxist History of the World part 28: The cycles and arrows of time
    me

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    In Part 9 of A Marxist History of the World, we paused to discuss ‘how history works’. It would be useful to pause again to review some general lessons of the history of the ancient and medieval civilisations we have looked at since.
  154. A Marxist History of the World part 9: How History Happens
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The complex societies that emerged from the division of society into classes also created societies that were wasteful, violent, stagnant and crisis prone. Understanding why is the key to how history happens argues Neil Faulkner.
  155. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  156. Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism – and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative – this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
  157. Marx's Ecological Notebooks
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    This article investigate Marx's natural-scientific notebooks, especially those of 1868, which will be published for the first time in volume four, section eighteen of the new Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe(MEGA). As Burkett and Foster rightly emphasize, Marx's notebooks allow us to see clearly his interests and preoccupations before and after the publication of the first volume of Capital in 1867, and the directions he might have taken through his intensive research into disciplines such as biology, chemistry, geology, and mineralogy, much of which he was not able fully to integrate into Capital.
  158. Meander
    East to West, Indirectly, Along a Turkish River

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Jeremy Seal travels down the Meander river and through the history of Turkey in this travelogue.
  159. The Meaning of Everything
    The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  160. Memoirs of Montparnasse
    Second Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Glassco reconstructs his adventures in Paris in the 1920s. It's comprised of vignettes featuring James Joyce and Gertrude Stein among others.
  161. Memorial University of Newfoundland
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  162. Memory of Fire: Genesis
    Part One of a Triology

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New, and an an attempt "to rescue the kidnapped memory of all America." A fierce, impassioned, and kaleidoscopic historical experience that takes us from the creation myths of the Makiritare Indians of the Yukatan to Columbus's first joyous moments in the New World to the English capture of New York.
  163. Memory of Fire: Faces & Masks
    Part Two of a Trilogy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    A view of the 'New World' in the making, from the 1700s to the end of the nineteenth century.
  164. Memory of Fire: Century of the Wind
    Part Three of a Trilogy

    Resource Type: Book
  165. Mirrors
    Stories of Almost Everyone

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Open any history book and you'll learn about revolutionary leaders, decorated generals, genius scientists and passionate artists. What about the leaders’ assistants? The loyal soldiers? The helpful lab assistants and the inspirations for great art? History books are so filled with greatness that the stories of the people are often neglected. Mirrors resolves this issue. Mirrors is a mosaic of humanity.
  166. The Modern Age
    1760-1955

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1963
  167. Museum of the World and Image
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Challenges the "official narrative" that re-writes the Civil War as a struggle of "national security" against an "internal communist threat," manifested in the form of unions, student groups, human rights and refugee organizations, progressive Christian base communities, and the peasant insurgency of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
  168. National Geographic Atlas of World History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  169. Nature of Economies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
  170. Neue Geschichte der Photographie
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  171. The New Cambridge Modern History Atlas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  172. New Hogtown Press - Spanish Wikipedia Article
    Wikipedia article - Spanish

    Resource Type: Article
  173. The New Popular History of the World
    The Story of Mankind from Earliest Times to the Present Day - Volume 2

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1964
  174. The Not-So-Secret History of Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    This is a coda to my review of Paul Collier’s book Exodus. I questioned the moral and social arguments that Collier employs to justify his arguments, and suggested that there is often a chasm between that evidence and Collier’s more contentious arguments, while many of his policy prescriptions are morally questionable.
  175. Notes on Radicalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Questions frequently asked when introduced as a co-author of Radical Sydney are: "What is radicalism?"; "Is radicalism dead?"; and specifically with regard to Australia, "Where is radicalism today?". Often, it seems, the unstated, implied premise behind some of these questions is that radicalism once was, but is no more, a questioning underpinned by senses of defeat, confusion, with a hint of nostalgia thrown in.
  176. On Active Service in War and Peace
    Politics and Ideology in the American Historical Profession

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    A well-documented attack on the American historical profession for its rabid anti-radicalism and its complicity in American imperialism.
  177. 150 Years of Photo Journalism
    150 Jahre Photojournalismus / 150 Jaar Fotojournalistiek - The Hulton Getty Picture Collection

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  178. Oral history
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    The recording, preservation and interpretation of historical information, based on the personal experiences and recollections of the speaker.
  179. Organizing that Changed Mississippi
    Book Review of Salter Jr.'s "Jackson Mississippi" and Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi"

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A review of two books about the Mississippi's civil rights movement in 1965 from the perspectives of an African-American female student and a Native American male professor.
  180. The Other Mexico
    The North American Triangle Completed

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  181. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
    Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
  182. Out In The World
    Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  183. The Outline of History Volume I
    Being a plain history of life and mankind

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  184. The Outline of History Volume II
    Being a plain history of life and mankind

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  185. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Here are the basic details of the main events, institutions, places, and people in Canada's past. The topics appear to be politics, economy, education, religion, law, medicine, science, transportation, social and cultural events.
  186. The Oxford History of Modern War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    The book is a military history, principally from the defeat of the Ottoman besiegers of Vienna in 1683.
  187. The Paris Commune told in pictures
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1934
    An illustrated history of the Paris Commune of 1871.
  188. Passionate Declarations
    Essays on War and Justice

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Essays looking at American political ideology.
  189. The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (to 1815)
    Resource Type: Book
  190. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  191. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  192. People's History, Memory & Archives
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A gateway to resources on people's history and grassroots archives.
  193. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  194. The Perspective of the World
    Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  195. The Phenomenology of Mind
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1807
    The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.
  196. The Philosophy of Antonio Negri
    Resistance in Practice

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
  197. Pocket History of the British Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1964
    A brief history of the British working class.
  198. Politics of Communication
    A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  199. The Professionalization of History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1971
    The professionalization of history in the US and Canada.
    Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1971.
  200. Progress and Barbarism
    The World in the Twentieth Century

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  201. Quotes about History
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  202. Radical Mass Media Criticism
    A Cultural Geneology

    Resource Type: Book
    Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
  203. Ragpicking Through History: Class Memory, Class Struggle and its Archivists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Our current conjuncture invites a renewed rethinking of two historical imaginaries: first, what is class memory? To ask this question is really to reopen a discussion on what is class struggle – and, more specifically, how does our collective memorialisation of struggles past inform our relationship to struggle in the present. Second, and relatedly, who can be this struggle's archivist?
  204. Remember the '80s
    Social Movements Between Woodstock and the Web

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    The history of 1980s activism deserves to be remembered and studied by those fighting for change today.It always helps to have a fuller view of the past, to figure out what to keep and what to discard.
  205. Rescuing Memory: the Humanist Interview with Noam Chomsky
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
  206. Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
  207. Responsibility and Judgment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  208. The Revenge of History
    The Battle for the 21st Century

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    A critical account of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
  209. Review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A book review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island.
  210. The Rise of the West
    A History of the Human Community

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1963
  211. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1937
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
  212. Rooms with a View of Russian Artistic History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Discussing the challenges for the small historic museums seeking to establish themselves in St. Petersburg.
  213. Royal BC Museum
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  214. A Saga of Revolution
    Book Review of Reiss' "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo"

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A review of Tom Reiss' biography of Alexandre Dumas, a largely underemphasized figure in the French Revolution and the slave trade during the 18th century.
  215. Said, Edward, Critical Notes on
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Orientalism,' was confused and sloppy to be point of being unethical.
  216. Seeds of Fire
    A People's Chronology

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
  217. Selections from the Prison Notebooks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
  218. The Seventh Decade
    The New Shape of Nuclear Danger

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    The Seventh Decade reveals many things. Amongst them is the history of global nuclear politics and the Bush government's policies that endanger the security of Americans and the world. Schell asserts that the Bush/ Cheney administration has forsaken traditional diplomacy and treaties that restrain nuclear proliferation preferring a first-strike military option. In so doing they have attacked Iraq using the excuse that they had WMD's, and have threatened North Korea and Iran with no results-North Korea now has the bomb and Iran is on the way. The administration has also encouraged the development of new generations of such weapons. He contends that the policies of the American government has intensified the trafficking of nuclear weapons which pose a renewed threat to humanity.
  219. Sexual Anarchy
    Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  220. Sexual Practices: The Story of Human Sexuality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    An introduction to how to think about sexual behavior as an anthropologist, or any scientist, should.
  221. Shaping Histories
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    During the last few years, a number of researchers have interviewed the authors regarding their politics and practice in relation to 'history'. In reflecting upon their individual 'historiographies', they have put the following together.
  222. Skills Mania
    Snake Oil in Our Schools?

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Davis argues that the purpose of education should not be primarily that of teaching skills useful in the job market.
  223. The Slave Trade
    The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
  224. Slavery's Harrowing Reality
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A review of the film "12 Years as a Slave" in the context of the literary genre of slave narratives.
  225. Social History Portal
    Resource Type: Website
    Search and browse digital collections on social history and the history of the labour movement from the late 18th to the beginning of the 21st century. More than 900,000 digitised objects (archives, books, brochures, leaflets, photographs, posters, prints, cartoons, sound, films and videos) from 15 specialized archives and libraries in Europe.
  226. Social and Labour History News
    Resource Type: Website
    Recent new from the field of social and labour history.
  227. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  228. The Socialist Register 1990
    Volume 26: The Retreat of the Intellectuals

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    Essays on the retreat away from socialism and Marxism by Left or formerly Left intellectuals.
  229. Sources welcomes Canadians for Genocide Education
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    CGE is a multi-cultural coalition of associations committed to equity and inclusivity in education on and commemoration of Genocide. Our focus areas are school curriculum and government funded projects relating to genocide and human rights.
  230. Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
  231. The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Paul Preston charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate all ‘those who do not think as we do’ – some 200,000 men, women and children across Spain.
  232. Spartacus Educational
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2018
    Free educational resource for history teachers and students. With particular focus on Britain, the USA, Russia, Germany, WWI, WWII, Women's history, Black history, Civil Rights.
  233. Spuren suchen
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  234. The Story of English
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  235. The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
    Resource Type: Website
    The Tamiment Library contains some of the most important collections in the United States relating to labor and social history [labor collections], the history of the Left, the place of the worker in American society, the evolution of labor law, women's history, immigrant history, and much more.
  236. Targeting Iran
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
  237. Telling Tales
    Storytelling in the family

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    A guide to the art of storytelling.
  238. Theories of History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Conventional history tends to make ordinary people invisible. The motive forces of history are treated as some combination of "great men" (very occasionally women, almost always hetero and white regardless of gender) and impersonal forces like "economics" (treated in ways that reify them and give them agency outside of the local, everyday human activities that actually produce them).
  239. There Was a Country
    A Personal History of Biafra

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    A coming of age account, set against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War, or the Biafran War, of 1967-1970.
  240. Three Myths of Immigration
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Kenan Malik sets out to explain to a Canadian audience, for whom multiculturalism has a very different meaning than it does to a European one, the contours of the European debate, as well as his disagreements with both sides. In particular he shows why both multiculturalists and many of their critics (particularly their rightwing critics) buy into the same set of myths about the history of immigration into Europe.
  241. The Throes of Democracy
    Brazil since 1989

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  242. The Time Before History
    5 Million Years of Human Impact

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  243. Towards a New Past
    Dissenting Essays in American History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A critical look at established views of American history.
  244. The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960
    The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of the American national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents.
  245. An Unauthorized Biography of the World
    Oral History on the Front Lines

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
  246. Université de Moncton
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  247. University of Waterloo
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  248. University of Winnipeg
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  249. The Unknown Dimension
    European Marxism Since Lenin

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
  250. Review: The Uses and Abuses of History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Review of "The Uses and Abuses of History" by Margaret Macmillan.
  251. Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    A look at kingdoms that no longer exist and how their presence and disappearance affects history.
  252. Visioning a World Without Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    As leftists we have something infinitely more precious to win from our rich history than sentimentality and sectarianism, as we struggle to renovate the revolutionary tradition in the twenty-first century.
  253. Voyages
    Canada's Heritage Rivers

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  254. A Walk in the Forest
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
  255. Die Welt der Photographie
    von ihren Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
  256. Western Sexuality
    Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times

    Resource Type: Book
    Examines homosexuality, sex and the Church, prostitution, and notions of love and marriage.
  257. What is History?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  258. Whatever Happened to High School History?
    Burying the Political Memory of Youth, Ontario: 1945-1995

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    A look at how high school history was taught between the 1940's and 1990's, and subsequent decline iof the discipline that used to be a core subject in Canadian secondary education.
  259. Who owns knowledge?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded.
  260. Why History Makes Us Important
    Back to Bachima

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    History has been important to me for as long as I can remember. As a child I loved hearing my relatives tell stories about the past. However, it was not until I was older that I realized that the stories meant something; they were key to understanding the present; and why we are what we are. As my awareness increased, I became serious about the past so serious that it often got me into trouble.
  261. Wobblies & Zapatistas
    Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
  262. The World Without Us
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
  263. The Worst Journey in the World
    Antarctica 1910-1913

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1922
    Apsley Cherry-Garrard's memoir of his experiences in Antartica, his 'winter journey' across the Ross Ice Shelf to Cape Crozier, and his two southward trips - first in aid to Robert Scott's South Pole expedition, and second in search of that lost party.
  264. Year 501
    The Conquest Continues

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
  265. "You Can't Kill a Revolution"
    Book Review of Bloom and Martin's "Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party"

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A book review of Bloom and Martin's "Black Against Empire" and a look at the interpersonal relationships between the members of the Black Panther Party that allowed the group to gain support.
  266. You Can't Read This
    Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    Written for children ages ten and up, You Can't Read This explores the development of alphabets, the decoding of ancient languages, and censorship in Ancient Rome and modern America.
  267. You, You and You!
    The People Out of Step with World War II

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    First hand accounts of men, women and children living through World War II.

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