Books – Social History

For a Better World

The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers’ Revolt

James Naylor (Editor), Rhonda L. Hinther (Editor), Jim Mochoruk (Editor)

Re-examining our radical past.

Published September 2022 | History, Labour Studies, Political Studies, Social History, Urban Studies
Undressed Toronto

From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850-1935

Dale Barbour (Author)

Dressing for the beach.

Published October 2021 | Environmental Studies, Gender Studies, History, Social History, Sports & Recreation, Urban Studies
Grasslands Grown

Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies

Molly P. Rozum (Author)

Remembering place.

Published August 2021 | Environmental Studies, Geography, History, Identity Studies, Social History
Being German Canadian

History, Memory, Generations

Alexander Freund (Editor)

Shared memory shapes community.

Published April 2021 | Studies in Immigration and Culture, Ethnic Studies, History, Immigration, Social History
Authorized Heritage

Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada

Robert Coutts (Author)

What we commemorate and how.

Published March 2021 | Decolonization, History, Social History
The Politics of the Canoe

Bruce Erickson (Editor), Sarah Wylie Krotz (Editor)

A vessel of meaning.

Published March 2021 | Indigenous Studies, Social History, Sports & Recreation
Did You See Us?

Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School

Survivors of the Assiniboia Indian Residential School (Author), Andrew Woolford (Editor)

Remembering an urban residential school.

Published March 2021 | Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation, Autobiography & Memoir, Decolonization, History, Indigenous Studies, Social History
Compelled to Act

Histories of Women’s Activism in Western Canada

Sarah Carter (Editor), Nanci Langford (Editor)

Prairie women mobilize for change.

Published September 2020 | Gender Studies, History, Political Studies, Social History, Women’s Studies
Pathways of Reconciliation

Indigenous and Settler Approaches to Implementing the TRC’s Calls to Action

Aimée Craft (Editor), Paulette Regan (Author)

How can we participate in reconciliation?

Published August 2020 | Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation, History, Indigenous Studies, Social History
Civilian Internment in Canada

Histories and Legacies

Rhonda L. Hinther (Editor), Jim Mochoruk (Editor)

Whose security? Whose greater good?

Published March 2020 | History, Human Rights, Social History