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Book Review: In Beyond Brutal Passions, historian Mary Anne Poutanen traces the largely ignored lives of women in the sex trade in nineteenth-century Montreal, illustrating that these women were much more than the sum of their work.

Book Review: In Victorian society, women were seen as inherently passive, but author Claudie Massicotte shows how spiritualists used the role of medium to turn this fragility into a strength.

Book review: Lezlie Lowe, a Halifax-based journalist, tells the story of Halifax as it throbbed with tens of thousands of service personnel who brought both excitement and trouble in their wake.

Nellie McClung and a group of devoted suffragists stage their mock parliament to make a point about women’s equality.

Women embraced the abundance of colours of glass beads to create beautiful designs, like this elaborate and symmetrical floral pattern.

Kaur Collective builds community through prayers.

Book Review: Working for the Common Good highlights the work of eight Canadian women: Agnes Macphail, Thérèse Casgrain, Grace MacInnis, Pauline Jewett, Margaret Mitchell, Lynn McDonald, Audrey McLaughlin, and Alexa McDonough.

Book Review: In Boom & Bust, author Jennifer Butler asked mothers, daughters, and granddaughters to tell their families’ collective memories of living in an isolated community.

Combining two or more seemingly unrelated content topics in order to better include multiple and diverse historical perspectives.

Book Review: Illustrated with hundreds of photos, It’s Our Game explores three main periods: up to 1945, 1946 to 1983, and 1984 to the present. One hundred brief chapters are presented in chronological order. They cover topics ranging from hockey during the war years, to The Hockey Handbook — which changed how the sport was conceived and taught — to Canada’s women’s team at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.