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In this guide, educators share how they teach war and peace in the classroom, including advice, online resources, books, and lesson plans.

How a First World War poem about poppies blossomed into an annual Remembrance Day campaign raising $14 million each year to assist veterans.

A distinctive people, a distinctive language. Is it any wonder the Métis also built distinctive homes?

Four timeless Canadian history films to put on your watch list (if you haven't seen them yet).

Book Review: This book is a compilation of the CBC-Massey lectures delivered in 2015, under the broad umbrella of the title History’s People, with sections headed Persuasion and the Art of Leadership, Hubris, Daring, Curiosity, and Observers. Margaret MacMillan draws effectively on several of her books to present a very varied group of historical subjects.

Book Review: Official commemoration without conflict is rare. Struggling over how best to know ourselves is not unique to the twenty-first century. Cecilia Morgan, a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, recounts in Commemorating Canada how Canadians have always grappled with making meaning of their shared and divisive history.

Katherine McIntyre explores the heritage and rugged beauty of “the land God gave Cain.”

There is more to Calgary than Stampede and cowboys.

Winnie the bear is only one of the many members of the ursine family who have found their place in the annals of Canadian history.

The things that kept the common fighting man from cracking in the trenches were sometimes very small.