Society

The people of Colorado just voted to abolish slavery—here’s why

A 142-year-old passage in the state constitution allowed involuntary servitude for prisoners. It hasn’t been easy to get rid of

Perimeter Public Lecture: How supercomputers help us see the fibres of the universe

Watch Phiala Shanahan speak live about what science has learned about the origins of mass, and the nuclear reactions that power the sun, on Nov. 7 at 7pm ET

The First World War brought the end of cavalry and the advent of the tank

The British invented the tank: an armoured vehicle that could roll over both wire and trenches. The problems, however, were many.

With stained glass and service, a Toronto church remembers the fallen

The walls and windows of St. Paul’s record its dead. Still, mysteries remain.

We printed the names of Canadians killed in the Great War. You gave their stories life.

Here’s how Canadians embraced our project to honour the fallen from the First World War—and how, with each name, our readers imbued history with another soul

Conscription divided Canada. It also helped win the First World War.

Canada’s military couldn’t have carried on without the controversial policy

How lost Canadian First World War soldiers were identified after a century

In August 2018, families honour long-missing relatives at a burial ceremony in France

Ottawa is doing a lousy job of honouring Canada’s WWI fallen

From the editors: A small Ontario town is doing more to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War than the entire federal government