Historicist: Socialite and Nazi Spy
Toronto's Grace Buchanan-Dineen's life of intrigue and espionage in Detroit.
Archive for 'Kevin Plummer' 
Historicist: Third World Books and Crafts
The story of Leonard and Gwendolyn Johnston's venerable Black-culture bookstore.
Historicist: “The World Will Little Note Nor Long Remember…”
William McDougall, Canadian witness to the Gettysburg Address.
Historicist: The People’s Champion
The impressive, inspiring, and possibly unsportsmanlike athletic exploits of Ned Hanlan.
The Rise and Fall of Toronto’s Postwar Urban Planning
A review of Richard White's Planning Toronto
Historicist: Public History and William Peyton Hubbard
Historicist: Fair Play for Sikh Pioneers?
Over the winter of 1911-12, Dr. Sunder Singh visits Toronto to agitate for immigration reform.
Historicist: Toronto Street
The evolution of the city's once most elegant streetscape.
Historicist: Getting Elected, 1870s Style
Robert Wilkes' pre-secret ballot federal election campaigns in Toronto Centre.
Historicist: “Ontario’s Public Enemy No. 1”
Part Two of a look at Toronto's late 1930s gambling kingpin, Manny Feder.
Historicist: Rise and Fall of the Brown Derby
Part One of a look at Toronto's Depression-era gambling kingpin, Manny Feder.
Historicist: Get Draper!
The scandal-plagued career of Toronto's "most incompetent and clownish" police chief.
Historicist: A Toronto Journalist Reports from the USSR in 1932
Frederick Griffin, the ace reporter of the Star, spends the summer of 1932 touring the USSR.
Historicist: Toronto’s Yiddish Playhouse
The Standard Theatre as a centre of Jewish cultural life in Toronto.
Historicist: Hometown Rivals
Historicist: History in Objects
The Canadian Historical Exhibition stirs nationalist sentiment in June 1899.
Historicist: The Credit Village
The Mississaugas' thriving agricultural village on the Credit River, 1826-1847.
Historicist: The Murder of Wabakinine
The repercussions of the 1796 killing of a Mississaugas chief.
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