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Compass Points: Navigating the 20th CenturyTable of Contents |
| Leisurely Review of a Fascinating Century by Robert Chodos |
| Opening a Window on Our Century by Michael Czerny The Janus Decade by George Woodcock Saskatoon: The Instant City by Don Kerr New, Fast and Big by Rosemary Donegan and Jamie Swift Kipling and Yeats: The Apologist and the Visionary by Stephanie Vincec Rethinking the Universe by John Honner The Crisis of Modernism by Roger Haight Bloody Dress Rehearsal for 1917 by Stanley B. Ryerson |
| A Decade of Suffering and Violence by Jacques Monet In 1910 Human Character Changed by Modris Eksteins Alarm Bells for Civilization by Gwynne Dyer The Social Gospel: Christianity for the Here and Now by Ramsay Cook Filling the Gap on the Homefront by Kori Street A Strike with an Elusive Meaning by Doug Smith Ontario's Bitter Language Fight by Robert Choquette Influenza: Disease of the Wind by Eileen Pettigrew T.E. Lawrence: Military Hero, Anguished Searcher by Dennis Duffy Russia: Power Was in the Streets by Mary McAuley Ireland: Destructive Adventure by John Francis Larkin |
| The Exuberance and Despair of the 1920s by Stephanie Vincec Prologue to Our Own Era by Jean Clair Literary Fistfight in Paris by Louis Dudek Rocky Road to Church Union by John Webster Grant No Heroes, No Defeats: A New Era in Canadian Politics by H. Blair Neatby Agnes Macphail in Parliament by Terry Crowley Fascism's Mystique of Power by Alkis Kontos Marcus Garvey: Black Moses by Robert Hill Ascendancy of the Chiangs by Mary Rose Donnelly Breath Came and They Lived: The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss The Public Health Offensive by Jutta Mason St. Miguel Pro and the Secret Kingdom by John Matheson |
| Why Do the 1930s Seem So Familiar? by Martin Royackers From Stock Market Crash to Phony War by Lukin Robinson Desperate Canadians Turned to Political Messiahs by Allan Levine On the Prairies, You Had to Learn to Peel a Nickel by Gail Burns Latin America's Response to the Depression by Liisa North Education and Economic Democracy: The Antigonish Movement by Greg MacLeod Emmanuel Mounier: Catalyst for a Generation by John Hellman Norman Bethune: Driven to Be an Actor on the World Stage by Andrée Lévesque Grey Owl's Masquerade for Conservation by Donald B. Smith The Soviet Union's Literary Underground by Ioan Davies Guernica: Icon of the Century by Peter Larisey |
| The Second World War's Long Shadow by Robert Chodos Are We Losing Sight of the Trees? by Gil Drolet The Lasting Trauma of the Holocaust by Michael Lerner The Atomic Bomb: Face to Face with Infinite Destruction by Robert Jay Lifton Connections to the War Still Vibrate by Brian McKenna Country Girl at Intelligence HQ by Imogen Ryan In the Movies, Even Lassie Went to War by Marc Gervais In Canada, a Legacy of Welfare and Political Division by Eric Kierans An Ambiguous International Role for Canada by Denis Smith Postwar Social Life Stressed Conformity by Mary Louise Adams Alfred Pellan and the Quebec Painters' Quiet Revolution by Malcolm Reid |
| A Sense of Time Standing Still by Curtis Fahey The Cold War Masked a Geopolitical Agenda by Anatol Rapoport Power, Confusion and Corporate Interests: McCarthy and Hoover by Peter Dale Scott The Fifties Look: Selling a Self-Image by Philip Street My Adventures in Darkest Suburbia by Miriam Blair Maire-Alain Couturier: The Priest Who Championed Modern Art by Peter Larisey A Peasant Pope Breathed New Life into the Church by Romeo Maione The Federal Institution that United Quebecers by Louis Balthazar TV Hard-Wired Canada into Two Solitudes by Mark Starowicz We Created an Elvis to Meet Our Need by Malcolm Reid Beckett's Poetic Rendering of Faith and Doubt by Craig Stewart Walker Tony Walsh: A Gentle Man Who Challenged Others by Stephen Hagarty |
| The Multi-Ring Sixties Brought Lasting Change by Peter Larisey A Generation that Said No to Plastics by Robert Chodos Vatican II: Outpouring of the Spirit and Human Shift by Janet Somerville Showing the Maple Leaf in Vietnam by Victor Levant From Hope to a Hole in the Park: The Columbia Revolt by Peter Larisey Expo 67: Theme Park for a Happy Future by David Eley Fit, Young and Casual Were the Trinity by Margaret Visser Hockey Had Not Yet Lost Its Soul by Curtis Fahey Three Sixties Stories Taking the Longer View by Judy MacDonald Georges and Pauline Vanier: The Vice-Regal Couple Who Inspired Canadians by Jacques Monet |
| Watching the 1970s Weave and Unravel by Mary Rose Donnelly From Boom to Economic Crisis by Mel Watkins Christians Made Justice a Vital Concern by Michael Czerny New Horizons for Canada by Doug Smith Canadians Listened to ""Ni-wha Judge" by Louisa Blair Nobel Moved Away from the Mainstream by Malcolm Reid Watergate: We Still Don't Know Why by Rae Murphy Woody's World: Beyond Sex and Death by Marc Gervais Finding Feminism, Rediscovering Faith by Denise Nadeau I Came Too Late for Sixties Magic by Charlie Angus Oscar Romero: El Salvador's Archbishop to the Poor by Frances Arbour |
| The Decade in Our Blind Spot by Louisa Blair The Rise of Neoconservatism by Rae Murphy The Church in Canada: A Golden Autumn and a Dark Night by Doug McCarthy Quebecers Were Asked a Question, and Gave their Answer by Daniel Latouche Revolution on the Desktop by Gail van Varseveld The Eighties' Environmental Legacy: Death (of Nature) by Natural Causes? by Moira Farr Jean Vanier: Community Builder by Carolyn Whitney-Brown |
| The Age of America by Judy MacDonald After the (Cold) War Is Over... by Rick Salutin A Gambler's Society: The End of Job Security by Jamie Swift Hannibal's Mirrors: Cyberintelligence and the Zapatista Revolution by Louisa Blair Canada in the Information Age by Ronald Deibert Spirituality in the Nineties: Rediscovering Sacred Spaces by Peter McIsaac Is Aboriginal Self-Government a Mirage? by Miles Morrisseau Rwanda: Alone with Its Deep Wounds by Augustin Karekezi South Africa's Election: Inspiring yet Sobering by Josephine C. Naidoo Mother Teresa: Champion of the Poor by Lucinda Vardey |
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