In the Path of War with David Borys
Canada’s military history in Northwest Europe has been told many times. On 6 June 1944, Canadian forces landed on Juno Beach as part of Operation Over...
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From LCMSDS Productions, The On War & Society podcast features interviews with the most prominent historians of war and society. Host Eric Story sits down with his guests to discuss their cutting-edge research, the challenges associated with doing history, and life 'behind the book.'
Broken Promises with Christopher Capozzola
The United States and the Philippines have been intimately bound by conflict. A US colony from 1898 to 1946, it remained an important US ally in the P...
A Curious Case of Shell Shock with Joy Porter
In April 1918, Canadian soldier Frank Toronto Prewett was buried alive on the Western Front. Managing to claw his way out of the earth, Prewett was re...
A War of Emotions with Lucy Noakes
The first half of Britain’s twentieth century was shaped by death. Between 1914 and 1918, over 700,000 men died in the First World War, followed by an...
The Great War at Home with Martha Hanna
For a long time historians studying the First World War had to rely on the memoirs of soldiers, but over the last several decades, more and more lette...
Biodefense and the War on Terror with Gwen D'Arcangelis
In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, five people were killed and another seventeen were injured from anthrax spores as part of a de...
Disaster in Halifax, 1917 with Roger Sarty
On the morning of 6 December 1917 two cargo vessells, the SS Mant Blanc and SS Imo collided in Halifax Harbour. The resulting catastrophic explosion o...
Reclaiming Canada's Second World War with Tim Cook
In his new book The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering and Remaking Canada’s Second World War, Tim Cook reminds us that "if we do ...
The Black Watch Snipers with David O'Keefe
David O’Keefe is the author of One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada’s Tragedy at Dieppe and his most recent book, Seven Days in Hell: Can...
Episode 35 - Writing Public History with Tim Cook
Tim Cook is a historian at the Canadian War Museum a two-time winner of the CP Stacey Award for the best book in the field of Canadian history, the 20...