Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

New books : for spring and summer publication 1927 / The Musson Book Company Ltd.

General catalogue : including late fall and early spring books, 1927 / J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.

Flint and feather : the complete poems of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) / with an introd. by Theodore Watts-Dunton

This site features nearly 100 case studies – short essays written by Canadian scholars – on topics relating to Canadian publishing. The case studies are augmented with letters, photographs, multimedia, and other materials from publishers’ and authors’ archives at McMaster University Library, Queen’s University Archives, and The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto).

Peace & War in the 20th Century

American League for Peace and Democracy, Youth Division, Leaflet, 6-8 January 1939

Molony, William O'Sullivan, Diary, 4 August 1914

Weston, R. P. and Lee, Bert, Sheet music, 1917

This interactive, thematic website on Peace and War in the 20th Century has been designed to be informative, educational and engaging. Its major themes have been organized into the opposing paths of Waging Peace and Waging War. Within the themes, case studies provide context and insights. International conflicts are represented by the images and official records available in McMaster University Library’s archives. We invite you to explore Peace and War in the 20th Century.

World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection

envelope, From: Lantier, Henri To: His wife in Lagnhet (Alpes-Maritimes) - [field_prison_camp-formatted] May 1940

card, From: Lamot, Julien To: His wife in Ghendt (Belgium) - Herzogenbusch 4 June 1944

letter, From: Wrobel, Stefania and Fryda To: Wrobel, Franz - Sachsenhausen 22 May 1944

letter, From: Minetti, Alexander To: Minetti, Josefine in Strassbourg (Westprussen) - Gusen March 1944

World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection. The collection has correspondences available from these camps: Arbeitsdorf, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dondanen, Dora, Fallersleben, Floßenürg, Groß-Rosen, Gusen, Herzogenbusch, Janowska, Jungfernhof, Kaiserwalk, Kauen, Klooga, Kurtenhof, Lemberg, Lublin, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Mittelbau, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Niederhagen, Plaszow, Ravenbrück, Riga, Sachsenhausen, Salapils, Sangerhausen, Struthof, Stuttof, Torgau, Vaivara, Vught, Warschau, and Wewelsberg.

Digital Russell

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica / auctore Isaaco Newtono.

Relation of Unitarian Christianity to the spirit of the age : two discourses, preached at the Annual Meeting of the Scottish Unitarian Association, held in Glasgow, on Sunday 18th November, 1866 [and pamphlets by various authors / compiled by John Russell

The uses of philosophy; an Irwin Edman reader, edited with an introd. by Charles Frankel.

Essai sur l'etablissement monarquique de Louis XIV : et sur les altérations qu'il éprouva pendant la vie de ce prince ; morceau servant d'introduction à une Histoire critique de la France, depuis la mort de Louis XIV / par Pierre-Édouard Lémontey ; précéd

McMaster University is home to the scholarly study of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, essayist, and renowned peace advocate. The Bertrand Russell Archives came to McMaster Library in 1968, where they are in the Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections. Russell's library is part of the Russell Archives, along with his correspondence, manuscripts, tapes, films, photographs, medals and permanently displayed writing desk.