It was Solomon's fortune, during his captivity, to be owned by several masters. The treatment he received while at the "Pine Woods" shows that amon...

Twilight on the Bay: The Excursion Boat Empire of B. B. Wills tells the story of one man's effort to sail against the tide. In 1934 when Benjamin B...

History generally has not been kind to Ulysses Grant. For the longest time, even his military reputation had been sullied by the stinging indictmen...

At 31 years old, Major Cyrus Inches resolved to survive the Great War, and did so without losing his sense of humour, in spite of the tragedies he ...

In modern and post-modern times, biography is one of the most popular genres of the day. All around the Western world, we are engaged in the lives ...

A Globe and Mail Best BookA CBC New Brunswick Book List SelectionAs tech investors the world over search for elusive unicorns (start-ups valued at ...

Dennis Altman’s long obsession with the United States began when he went there as a graduate student during Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency. His early ...

There may be plenty of books on guitar players, but there are very few, if any, that delve into the guitar players who have been somewhat "under th...

Being on the migrational flyway for ducks and geese, the upper Chesapeake Bay has long been a center for waterfowl hunting. Where there is hunting,...

Veronica Brady (1929-2015) was a nun, academic and activist. Her intellectual life, rmly rooted in Australian culture, was focussed on stripping th...

Veronica Brady (1929-2015) was a nun, academic and activist. Her intellectual life, rmly rooted in Australian culture, was focussed on stripping th...

When that good old horse took me away from Borroloola on the long journey to Darwin, it changed my life forever ... I stopped being an Aboriginal g...

Of all the personalities associated with Anne Frank, the most important figure, without whom Anne Frank would never have been able to write her dia...

The Viet Cong have long remained a mystery even to those who fought against them during America's longest and most divisive war. They have been giv...

Told in anecdotal form, Vulture\s Row tells a fascinating story about an important period covering nearly one half of the entire history of U.S. na...

The units of the Waffen-SS were some of the most successful and influental combat formations produced by any country in this century. Their abiliti...

The units of the Waffen-SS were some of the most successful and influental combat formations produced by any country in this century. Their abiliti...

Waiting For Eli: A Father's Journey from Fear to Faith is a 176-page hardcover book about a Lafayette, La., couple and their infant son Eli who was...

In his second book, Sterling Haynes begins by telling us that at the age of seventy a left hemisphere stroke rearranged his brain. "My right creati...

In 1929 Albert Londres, a non-Jew and renowned journalist, set out to document the lives of Jews at this time. His travels to England, Eastern Euro...