In the summer of 1968, Mary Soderstrom and her husband loaded up their VW Beetle and immigrated to Canada from the United States. The contrast between their new home and their old led to a long-running ...

Born on the Idaho frontier, Florence James was a New York City suffragette. The first to put Jimmy Cagney on stage, she founded both the Negro Repertory Theatre and the Seattle Repertory Playhouse. She ...

Allan Blakeney believed in government as a force for good. As premier of Saskatchewan, he promoted social justice through government intervention in the economy and the welfare state. He created legal ...

Official stories say that violence in Latin America is a product of criminal activity and the drug trade. Organized Violence exposes how that narrative serves corporate and state interests and de-politicizes ...

Children of the Broken Treaty exposes a system of apartheid in Canada that led to the largest youth-driven human rights movement in the country’s history. The movement was inspired by Shannen Koostachin, ...

In Being Kurdish in a Hostile World, Ayub Nuri writes of growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, of Saddam Hussein's chemical attack that killed thousands in Nuri's home town of Halabja, of civil war, of ...

"Absorbing and smart. " Elisabeth M. Pr?gl, author of Transforming Masculine Rule

Manufacturing Urgency investigates anti-violence policies in international development, demonstrating that strategies intended ...

"Substantial and significant. ...engaging. "- James Naylor, author of The Fate of Labour Socialism

As one of the architects of Saskatchewan's socialist revolution, Joseph Lee Phelps earned both respect ...

In Memoirs of a Muhindi, Mansoor Ladha bears witness to what happens when nations turn against entire religious and ethnic groups.

When Ugandan president Idi Amin expelled Africans of Indian descent from ...

In Holy War, Mark Anderson shows how the U. S. response to the 9/11 attacks is part of a long standing pattern that uses images of the "outsider" to unite and revitalize the American nation.