WorldHistory won’t be unkind to Trump—it will be cruelScott Gilmore: Even if Trump can outrun the law, he will still be remembered as the most ignorant and incompetent president ever
CanadaA not-so-happy 100th birthday to income tax in CanadaThis summer marks a century since Ottawa reluctantly imposed the first federal income tax on Canadians to pay for the war. Once entrenched, though, the tax never went away.
CanadaHow a smallpox epidemic forged modern British ColumbiaIn 1862, smallpox killed thousands of Indigenous people in B.C.—and what ensued sparked issues that the province still grapples with today
CanadaThe case for keeping ’Langevin Block’Peter Shawn Taylor on the danger of judging historical figures, from Langevin to Cornwallis, on individual acts
CanadaCanada’s oldest person: Living through 112 years of historyDolly Gibb is only 38 years younger than Canada. Tracking her life allows us to follow the growth of a nation.
CanadaHow a scuttled U.S. trade deal helped lead to modern CanadaAs trade with Canada falls under Trump’s angry, roving eye, a look back at a U.S. trade deal that helped lead to Confederation
WorldHow America’s memory of the First World War slipped awayThe Great War marked the true beginning of the American century. But 100 years later, “the war to end all wars” is largely forgotten in the U.S.
CanadaHow precision planning made Canada’s Vimy Ridge victory possibleIn the weeks leading up to the attack on Vimy, the Canadian Corps commanders and engineers meticulously drilled their minute-by-minute plan
CanadaWhat Canada’s ’Yellow Peril’ teaches us about this migrant momentHistory has plenty to tell us about this moment of fraught borders—and about the consequences of racist government policies
BooksThe modern world’s mass violence is almost entirely due to civil warsThe wounds of civil war are deeper and worse than the wounds in conventional, interstate wars