History
The search for Anne Frank’s betrayer
Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan’s new book describes the six-year investigation into how the Nazis learned about the Amsterdam annex where the Frank family hid during WWII
‘If I had known what it meant for a woman to invade a man’s world I wouldn’t have been able to face it’
Agnes Macphail, the first woman to be elected to the House of Commons, on sexism in politics and daily life
How Canada earned the world’s respect
The Canadian Army was created from almost nothing. Training, leadership and grit made it indispensable to the effort to win the First World War.
Canadians paid the price for British mistakes in Dieppe, says British historian
In his book Operation Jubilee, military historian Patrick Bishop offers a retelling of the raid during the war in 1942 and its cost to Canadian lives
How an RCAF airman’s watch solved a 50-year mystery
The discovery of F.O. William Joseph Kyle’s watch led Veterans Affairs Canada—and his family—to where his plane went down during the Second World War
Our ancient ancestors may have been more civilized than we are
A new book offers a version of history in which we lived for thousands of years in large and complex societies without kings or cops
A look back at the never-ending nature of epidemics
The more we learn about pathogens, the clearer it becomes that we’ll never escape them
A doorway to a hidden past in Calgary
A building on Ogden Road in Calgary has a rare link to the history of the city’s Chinese community. But its future hangs in the balance as it finds itself in the path of the proposed Green Line transit system.
We are now in the ‘Hundred Days’ we hope will end the pandemic
Canadians have gone through something akin to war, and the end is in sight. But history tells us the last months can be the cruelest.
The Mi’kmaq artisan who had a hand in building Lunenburg’s famous Bluenose
Mi’kmaq Elder Todd Labrador’s great-grandfather constructed the schooner’s mast hoops, an effort only now being recognized
Margaret MacMillan in conversation with Paul Wells: Maclean’s Live
Canada’s most distinguished historian joins Maclean’s senior writer Paul Wells for a talk about momentous times—including the year 2020
Human remains found on Vancouver Island have opened a door into a lost world
The discovery has resurfaced the tragic story of the Pentlatch people