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One of the first sweeping and detailed histories of African-Canadians, Blacks in Canada journeys from the introduction of slavery in 1628 to the first wave of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s and 1960s. Heralded in the Literary Review of Canada...
Baker & TaylorA profile of the leading spymaster for Queen Elizabeth I explores his role in uncovering information that helped preserve England in the face of a network of powerful English Catholic families and the efforts of Catholic Spain to...
Myth America
Book - 2022
"You might expect to see the debunking of myths about the founding of the Republic, about the war of 1812... but the "myths" that are covered are mostly those that have received widespread publicity (and often that first arose) under the administra..."
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Myth America
Book - 2022
The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold...
"I share the views of heinrichpenner but this book is a mite too extreme: according to Plamondon, everything Trudeau did in his entire career was a blunder and/or detrimental to Canada. Much of what he did merits that description but not everything..."
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