history
‘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
This 1933 profile of Agnes Macphail captures how the first woman MP was perceived
‘It had been rumoured erroneously that she believed in polygamy. It is now well established that she is sceptical of matrimony even in its simplest form.’
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
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
John A. Macdonald can wait
Stephen Maher: We are at the beginning, not the end, of a process of reassessing our history, and filling in the silences that are needed to get at the truth
Burying Sir John A. Macdonald
The first prime minister will no longer be put on a pedestal as the debate turns to what to put up in his place
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
The ‘annoyances and insults’ of blackface in Canada—in 1841
From the very beginning in the 1840s, black citizens in Toronto fought to shut down performances by blackface clowns, and their efforts are well documented
History lessons for Donald Trump after his Fourth of July speech
Maybe the U.S. president fell victim to a Teleprompter malfunction. Or maybe he didn’t know what he was talking about. Either way, we’ve got his back.
At a tense time, a bomb scare has gripped America—just as it did a century ago
Cesar Sayoc has been arrested for allegedly sending mail bombs to Democratic figures, drawing telling parallels to a 1919 spate of terror in the U.S.
What fights about ‘erasing’ history are really about
Canada’s debate about whom and what we remember requires shared sets of facts, ideas and stories—a canon on which we can all rely. It’s time for us to rethink that canon, writes Murad Hemmadi.
Monuments aren’t museums, and history suffers when we forget that
Opinion: Removing statues of controversial historical figures doesn’t erase them from history—because recording history simply isn’t the function of statues