Deanna Bowen

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‘It matters to the world because we are the only people who can tell our stories. And, man, our stories. They deserve to be told,’ says journalist Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

Monthly, 1917-Oct. 1918 Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 1912)-v. 2, no. 17 (Dec. 1913); n.s., vol. 1, no. 1 (Mar. 1914)-v. 6. (Oct. 1918). Title from cover. Daniel Murray Collection: Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 1912)--v. 2, no. 17-18 (Nov.-Dec. 1913). New ser., v. 2-3 not published. SERBIB/SERLOC merged record

The International Justice Resource Center (IJRC) provides technical assistance to Indigenous rights lawyers working to stop the forced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada and to secure redr…

A timeline highlighting key moments in the development of eugenics, with a focus on the American eugenics movement.

To confront colonialism, universities must open their archives and let communities see their pasts, eugenics and all.

Featuring rare books, archival materials, photographs, and maps from the University of Missouri Libraries.

The bust of Kaiser Wilhelm I was stolen by a mob of soldiers one night in 1916 and paraded around Kitchener. Then it disappeared. What happened to the bust after that night is a mystery that still intrigues region residents decades later.

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1 print : wood engraving. | African men crowded onto a lower deck; African women crowded on an upper deck.

Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections Online: The branded hand of Captain Jonathan Walker

Sophia Pooley was born a slave in Fishkill, New York, the daughter of slaves Oliver and Dinah Burthen. At a young age, Sophia and her sister were taken to Niagara, where they were sold to Mohawk chieftain Joseph Brant. Brant brought the two Black girls to his home on the Mohawk reserve in Upper Canada.

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Children in front of the Marble Village School

From the early 1900s to the late 1960s, the East Side neighborhood of Strathcona was home to Vancouver’s first and only black community.

- CU15127885 War memorial at Six Nations to honour the 114th Battalion, Brock's Rangers and the 4th Battalion, Haldimand Rifles.

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National Archives of Canada, MG 26 J Series 13. Berlin Tuesday, June 29, 1937 Interview with Hermann Göring At 10:30, made the first of the day’s call on General Göring who received me in a s…

King remembered absolutely everything about their meeting, including how Hitler held his hands and the smoothness of his skin

The No. 2 Construction Battalion was made up of 605 men who volunteered to serve in the Canadian military.

The Coloured Corps (also known as Runchey's Company of Coloured Men, or Black Corps) was a militia company of Black men raised during the War of 1812....

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This documentary tells the story of the No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) — also known as the Black Battalion. The battalion was authorized on 5 July 1916, during the First World War. It was a segregated non-combatant unit, the first and only all-Black battalion in Canadian military history. To learn more, visit: http://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/no-2-construction-battalion/

On 5 July 1916, the Department of Defence and Militia authorized the formation of No. 2 Construction Battalion. It was the largest Black unit in Canadian histor...

On Thursday, December 2nd at 2pm Amherstburg Freedom Museum hosted its next Facebook Live Presenter, Sean Smith, the Senior Archivist at Archives of Ontario....