North America local history
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Y Al Polvo Regresaremos / And to Dust We Will ReturnTeresa, la abuela, creció aislada en un orfanato en medio de la Sierra Gorda queretana, y desde pequeña ha visto con vergüenza su facilidad para servir como médium a las almas en pena. A través de ellas recibe la ubicación de un tesoro escondido...
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Cancer, Research, and Educational Film at Midcentury: The Making of the Movie Challenge: Science Against CancerThe story of a forgotten health education film, Challenge: Science Against Cancer (1950), and what it tells us about mid-twentieth century North American cancer research, medical filmmaking, and health education campaigns. In 1949 the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Canadian Department of...
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The Grammar of Civil War: A Mexican Case Study, 1857-61Unlike wars between nations, wherein the population generally comes together to defend its borders and is united by a common national goal, civil wars tear countries apart, divide families, and turn neighbors against each other. Civil wars are a form of self-harm in which...
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French Visitors to Newfoundland: An Anthology of Nineteenth Century Travel WritingsFrom the early 1800s on, we encounter the first French writers to become interested in life in Newfoundland. This anthology provides an image of Newfoundland that was shaped over many years of writings by countless French voyagers--sailors and naval officers, diplomats, scientists, journalists, artists,...
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What Spring Will BringEaston Bear and his friends have mixed feelings about hibernating for the winter in Northern Ontario. Join them on their journey through the wilderness as they find their way to Spring. This story highlights the challenges we face when presented with change, goodbyes, as...
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Père Marquette: Priest, Pioneer and AdventurerThe early French colonies in North America were a harsh and inhospitable place. Visitors to these settlements often remarked that these early colonialists, when compared with their European relations, seemed forged of a different metal: bold and brash, like the environment surrounding them. Yet,...
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Eeny, Meeny, Miny, and Moe the Fighting Armadillos from Old el Paso/Nico, Rico, Tico y Kiko Los Armadillos Luchadores de el Paso: Bilingual Edition inThere was once a peculiar family of armadillos that lived just outside of El Paso near the Rio Grande River, on the border with Mexico. Unlike any other mammals, armadillos have four identical babies at a time-identical quadruplets. One year, Old Mother Dillo had...
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Radicales Libres / Free Radicals«Es muy raro ver que las manos de tu madre acaricien la cara de su amante. Que le peinen la barba. Es raro también que los ojos que antes vigilaban todo hayan renunciado al mundo como si le dijeran: puedes seguir sin mí. Un...
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A Maya Universe in StoneThe first study devoted to a single sculptor in ancient America, as understood through four unprovenanced masterworks traced to a small sector of Guatemala. In 1950, Dana Lamb, an explorer of some notoriety, stumbled on a Maya ruin in the tropical forests of northern...
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Radical Trust: Basic Income for Complicated LivesThe myth of meritocracy creates distinctions between those who deserve assistance - the victims of bad luck - and those who would be better served to suffer the consequences of their own poor choices. This distinction is the basis on which Canada's entire income...
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Drug Wars and Covert Netherworlds: The Transformations of Mexico's Narco CartelsThe popular history of narco-Mexico has long been narrowly framed by the U.S. "War on Drugs." Stereotypes overemphasize the criminal agency of celebrity drug lords. Common understanding of the narco world is rooted in mythology and misunderstanding, and the public narrative has consistently downplayed...
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El Divino NarcisoSor Juana In s de la Cruz, a seventeenth-century colonial Mexican nun known for her intellect and writings, wrote El Divino Narciso around 1688. It is a type of theatrical work known as an auto sacramental, peculiar to Spain and its colonies. Autos sacramentales...
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A Runner's JourneyIn the 1960s, Bruce Kidd was one of Canada's most celebrated athletes. As a teenager, Kidd won races all over the globe, participated in the Olympics, and started a revolution in distance running and a revival in Canadian track and field. He quickly became...
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Kilmeny of the OrchardA single young man is visiting Prince Edward Island on a teaching assignment, and becomes captivated by a sweet, endearing mute woman called Kilmeny Gordon. The teacher becomes enchanted by her natural beauty and musical talent, leading him to fall hopelessly in love. Eric...
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A Violent Peace: Canada from the Cold War to the PresentIn the post-war world, families live under nuclear threat, civil liberties are curtailed in the name of security, and Canada steps in to help advance peace abroad.After six long years of the Second World War, more than a million men and women in uniform...
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Searching for the Republic of the Rio Grande: Northern Mexico and Texas, 1838-1840In 1838, a rebellion began in northern Mexico. A loose collective sought to establish a "Republic of the Rio Grande" the rebellion lasted two years, failed, and was then forgotten by history. This regional effort to establish an independent republic achieved some fleeting victories,...
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Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning, and Researching While BlackThe essays in Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy make visible the submerged stories of Black life in academia. They offer fresh historical, social, and cultural insights into what it means to teach, learn, research, and work while Black. In daring to shift...
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Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology: Revised EditionA revised and greatly expanded eition of this important and long out of print reference book on Upper Canada to 1841. Similar in format to A Handbook of British Chronology, this work is a listing of all legislative councillors, and assemblymen, all officials, dates...
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The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!Stories of the hopeful, brave people who fled slavery and made Toronto their home."An engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s." -- Lawrence Hill, bestselling author of The IllegalThe Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! explores...
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The Log Driver's WaltzA beautiful, contemporary picture book adaptation of a beloved Canadian classic. If you ask any girl from the parish around What pleases her most from her head to her toes She'll say I'm not sure that it's business of yours But I do like...
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