On War & Society

The First World War was a literary conflict producing some of the most memorable poems, novels and plays of the twentiet... Read more

In 1965, in the coastal province of Phú Yên, US Armed Forces embarked on an effort to pacify one of the least-secured re... Read more

Canada’s military history in Northwest Europe has been told many times. On 6 June 1944, Canadian forces landed on Juno B... Read more

The United States and the Philippines have been intimately bound by conflict. A US colony from 1898 to 1946, it remained... Read more

In April 1918, Canadian soldier Frank Toronto Prewett was buried alive on the Western Front. Managing to claw his way ou... Read more

The first half of Britain’s twentieth century was shaped by death. Between 1914 and 1918, over 700,000 men died in the F... Read more

For a long time historians studying the First World War had to rely on the memoirs of soldiers, but over the last severa... Read more

In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, five people were killed and another seventeen were injured from ... Read more

On the morning of 6 December 1917 two cargo vessells, the SS Mant Blanc and SS Imo collided in Halifax Harbour. The resu... Read more

In his new book The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering and Remaking Canada’s Second World War, Tim C... Read more