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"Brief Vodka Honeymoons": Strategic Canadian Estimations from Moscow, 1943-1946

Canada often appears as little more than a footnote to studies of the shifting international order between world war and...

"No Annihilation Without Consultation": Canada and the New Look, 1954

"The Phenomena of Crime and All the Training Required:" Sixty Years at the Centre for Criminology

100 Years of Skule Nite

SkuleTM Nite is a musical revue / comedy / sketch show run entirely by Engineering students at the University of...

A Brief History of Toronto Encampments

This exhibit explores the history of informal settlements in Toronto, beginning with those on Toronto Island in the late nineteenth...

An Unexpected and Challenging Transition: Pierre Trudeau and the Ascent of the Reagan presidency, 1980-1981

The United States of America has been unquestionably Canada’s most important external relationship, especially post-1945.  Consequentially, relationships between Prime Ministers...

Black American Experience from the Perspective of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc

The material shared in this online exhibit was purchased as part of a successful proposal to add new titles and...

Canada and the Second Berlin Crisis, 1961-1962

Canada has long held an unusual position within NATO. At once strategically important due to its close proximity to the...

Canada, NATO, and Global Strategy, 1952-1953

Faced with a deteriorating economy and over-extended military obligations, the British Government released a paper outlining its new Global Strategy...

Canada’s Oldest Profession: Sex Work and Bawdy House Legislation

"Discrimination on the basis of class, race, ethnic origin and sex," writes legal historian Constance Backhouse, has been "a hallmark...

Canadian Law and Canadian Identity

This Exhibit explores the intersection between Canadian law and Canadian identity (understood broadly to include dimensions such as culture, language,...

Canadian music publishing and the war effort

The University of Toronto Music Library's Canadian Sheet Music Collection highlights the Toronto music publishers’ responses to the Great War....

Canadian Public Figures on Tape

During the early 1970s, Dr. Richard Alway conducted a series of interviews on tape in affiliation with the Ontario Institute...

Celebrating 125 Years of the Dentistry Library (1897-2022)

The Dentistry Library celebrates its 125th year in 2022. This exhibit was created in 2017 to celebrate the 120th year and...

Changemakers: Women at the University of Toronto and the Struggle for Equity

Many members of the public and students attending the University of Toronto today are not aware of how much the...

Concept of Operations in the Event of Unlimited Nuclear War, 1957-1963

In response to the growing threat of nuclear war, the Canadian government needed to prepare for a Soviet attack. Although...

Conquering Lion Pictures

Celebrating the Conquering Lion Pictures fonds at the University of Toronto’s Media Commons Archives.

Crime and Punishment at 150: Global Contexts

  The year 2016 marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Fyodor M. Dostoevsky’s seminal novel, Crime and Punishment (1866). A revelation when...

Discrimination Not Allowed: Human Rights in Ontario

Accessibility, equal rights, religious freedom, sexual harassment, an end to racial profiling and discrimination — discussion and advocacy for continued...

Disjecta membra: Medieval Manuscript Fragments at Massey College

This exhibit is an introduction to the collection of medieval manuscript fragments housed at the Robertson Davies Library at Massey...