[ACUNS] Review of Frank Chalk and Romeo Dallaire et al. ‘Mobilizing the Will...
This is the first installation of a new book review series launched by the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) in cooperation with LCMSDS. In addition to our regular book review...
View Article12-13 April 2013 – Great War Forum and Militaria Show, hosted by the General...
Having raised over $25,000 for the General Sir Arthur Currie Memorial Project, once again the Project committee are hosting a 3rd Great War Forum and Militaria Show which will take them ever closer to...
View Article[ACUNS] Review of Jonathan Paquin’s A Stability-Seeking Power: U.S. Foreign...
From our friends at ACUNS. Jonathan Paquin, A Stability-Seeking Power: U.S. Foreign Policy and Secessionist Conflicts (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010). 230 Pages. Reviewed...
View Article[ACUNS] Review of Jeff Stouffer & Stefan Seiler (eds.) Military Ethics:...
Lt. Col. Jeff Stouffer & Stefan Seiler, eds., Military Ethics: International Perspectives (Kingston, ON: Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2010). Reviewed by Davis Brown (Assistant Professor of...
View ArticleLimited Time Offer: Studies in Canadian Military History Series
For a limited time, receive 20% off all titles in the Canadian Military History series published by University of British Columbia (UBC) Press & the Canadian War Museum. This offer expires 31 July...
View ArticleNow Available from Frontline Books: John Laband, “Bringers of War”
Long before coal-fuelled ships and machine-tooled firearms, in the age of sail and black powder, the Portuguese were engaged all around the coasts of Africa in capturing trading towns, seizing slaves...
View Article2014 Juno Beach Centre Student Guide Program
Become a guide at the Juno Beach Centre, the only Canadian Second World War Museum in France. . Inaugurated on June 6th, 2003, the Juno Beach Centre in Normandy is a place of commemoration and...
View ArticleFunding Opportunity: Master’s Fellowships in War, Health, and Canadian Veterans
As part of a larger SSHRC funded project titled “Through Veteran’s Eyes: Digital Approaches to the Hidden Histories of Veterans, Families, and the State 1918 – 2000,” the Departments of History at...
View ArticleUWaterloo History Dept. presents Professor Valerie Deacon: “From Terrorism to...
Presented by the University of Waterloo History Department: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 – 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm “As part of our 2013-2014 History Speaker Series, Professor Valerie Deacon of New York...
View ArticleTim Cook Named to the Order of Canada
Tim Cook, a longtime friend of LCMSDS, was recently appointed to the Order of Canada. Tim was also recently nominated for the B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for his excellent book The...
View ArticleTim Cook’s “Vimy: the Battle and Legend” long listed for the BC National...
Tim Cook’s “Vimy: the Battle and Legend” long listed for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Congratulations to LCMSDS research associate Dr. Tim Cook whose book Vimy: the Battle and...
View ArticleNew Podcast: Great Battles in History by Darryl Dee
The LCMSDS is excited to share a new podcast hosted by Professor Darryl Dee, on the great battles of history: This podcast explores some of the most famous and most important battles in world history...
View ArticleWhy does Canada have a landmine foundation? Humanitarianism and the Movement...
For some, antipersonnel landmines (or AP mines) do not immediately invoke images of Canada. Fields scattered with hidden explosives, innocent civilians with missing limbs, and poverty stricken regions...
View ArticleAntipersonnel landmines: “A weapon of mass destruction in slow motion”
In my previous post I outlined the movement to ban antipersonnel mines in the 1990s. After the signing of the Ottawa Treaty, countries participating destroyed stockpiles of millions of AP mines. But...
View ArticleWartime Canada: A Visual Heritage of the Nation at War
LCMSDS is a partner in “Wartime Canada,” a digital database of written and printed matter from the First and Second World Wars. Caitlin McWilliams is a research associate with the project spearheaded...
View ArticleA Brief History of Landmines Part I—Pre-Modern Uses: Traps, Spikes and Caltrops
Article 2 of the Ottawa Treaty defined antipersonnel landmines as follows: 1. “Anti-personnel mine” means a mine designed to be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a person and that will...
View ArticleJacques Vico: Resistance Member and Humanist (1923-2012)
“D-day represents the happiness of being free. But it is also the day when they were so many SS killings.” – Jacques Vico Mr. Jacques Vico was a true hero of the Resistance and a great friend to...
View Article[ACUNS] Review of Frank Chalk and Romeo Dallaire et al. ‘Mobilizing the Will...
This is the first installation of a new book review series launched by the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) in cooperation with LCMSDS. In addition to our regular book review...
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