Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

Dominion high school chemistry / by Harold E. Bigelow and Fred G. Morehouse
A complete price list of the publications & importations of the Canadian Macmillans, 1919
McClelland & Stewart royalty statement for Pierre Berton's The National Dream
Delight / by Mazo De La Roche

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

Aldwinckle, Eric, Letter, 17 March 1944
League of Nations Society in Canada; Canadian Youth Council, Programme, 23-25 May 1936
Soviet Peace Committee, Leaflet, October 1983
Ogilby, Lt. Col. R. J. L., Military Document, 27 September 1916

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

postcard, From: Bernu, Auguste To: Madame Bernu, Auguste (his wife) - [field_prison_camp-formatted] Dec. 25 1941
envelope, From: Zemanova, Ruzena To: unknown - [field_prison_camp-formatted] May 1943
letter, From: Kozak, Jan To: Kazimiera, Janiec in Poland - Dachau 25 January 1941
postcard, From: Madame Bernu, Auguste (his wife) To: Bernu, Auguste - [field_prison_camp-formatted] Dec. 15 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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Werke : Vollständige Ausg. durch einen Verein von Freunden des Verewigten: D. Ph. Marheineke ... [et al.]
Critical and miscellaneous essays : collected and republished (First time, 1839 ; final, 1869) / by Thomas Carlyle.
Philosophischen Schriften / von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ; herausgegeben von C.J. Gerhardt.
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke.

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.