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David Brian and Stephen Punga’s students published an interactive map and database of headstones belonging primarily to settlers of African descent in Essex County, Ontario.

Facebook groups preserve rural history by photographing abandoned buildings.

Transcription of The Basques: Retracing History

The DCB/DBC is an extraordinary combination of scholarship and accessibility, making it our country's most reliable biographical source of information on the great names of our shared past. .

Canada’s reputation for tolerance owes much to one Canadian whose human rights legacy lives on today.  

The Toronto Book of the Dead by Adam Bunch is an engaging and fascinating look into some of the darker moments of Toronto’s past.

Book Review: An absquatulator, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a person who departs from a scene hurriedly and furtively, often to avoid arrest. Such a man was Alfred Thomas Wood, a nineteenth-century charlatan who bluffed his way across three continents, usually (but not always) one step ahead of both the law and his hoodwinked marks.

DNA testing may expose skeletons in your closet.

Creating opportunities and supports for learning, animated history a hit with kids, connecting French and English Canada.

Open Book: Richard Harrington: Arctic Photography 1948–53 presents more than one hundred black-and-white photographs recording Inuit art, hunting, and daily life.