Charley Pride knocked down country music’s racial barriers
Audiences took a while to warm up to a black country musician. He wasn’t promoted in this fashion and photos didn’t accompany his early singles…
Atwood’s childhood works reveals early glimmers of creativity
Compilation of juvenilia hints at the famed author’s first influences – and a characteristic sense of humour, say U of A experts…
Father Brown is G.K. Chesterton’s most durable creation
He was an early and vocal critic of Nazism. He was also an unapologetic opponent of eugenics and derisive towards the concept of racial purity…
A guide to looking beyond the COVID-19 crisis
A small shift in mindset can get us to realize that what we’re going through really will one day simply be a memory…
Three political dramas worth watching
Think of them as a form of therapy, a way of easing back to everyday life while still experiencing the atmospherics of the political arena…
What did Germans really think of Hitler?
The Nazi approach was a blend of carrots and sticks, resting on three pillars: popularity, tradition and coercion…
Schitt’s Creek star spikes enrolment in U of A online Indigenous course
Tens of thousands of new students from nearly every country in the world have joined Dan Levy in relearning history from Indigenous perspectives…
Margaret Thatcher and the end of apartheid
The Thatcher-Nelson Mandela relationship is a reflection of how very different people can evolve a respectful, albeit wary, understanding…
A KGB guide to subverting the press to your agenda
The methods of a former KGB operative remain applicable in the modern era, leading to disinformation and outright lies…
Graduation opens new chapter for Cree poet and Rhodes scholar
Billy-Ray Belcourt earns PhD from U of A while winning acclaim for his accounts of life as a gay Indigenous person in Western Canada…