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History of North America and the United States
Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism
John Burt discusses whether a liberal political system can be used to mediate moral disputes. And if not, is violence inevitable?
The Imperial Irish
Mark McGowan discusses the development and fraying of interfaith and intercultural relationships between Irish Catholics, French Canadian Catholics,…
James and His Striped Velvet Pantaloons
The striped velvet pantaloons of James, an enslaved man in the South Carolina upcountry, might not seem like…
Powering Up Canada
Ruth Sandwell discusses how various sources of power, fuel, and energy have sustained Canadians over time and played…
Re-creation, Fragmentation, and Resilience
Re-Creation, Fragmentation, and Resilience tells the story of post Second World War Canada by exploring ten themes key…
Understanding the imaginary war
Benjamin Ziemann offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had…
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Richard White is a Pulitzer-Prize nominated historian and Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University, a…
A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History
Thomas Bender, NYU.
Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts
For more than 300 years Massachusetts executed men and women convicted of murder, but with a sharp eye…
The history of American school reform
The history of American school reform helps us see what has made reform so ineffective. Reformers have continually…
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