Publications
When the State Trembled – How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens’ Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike, with Reinhold Kramer, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Short-listed, 2011 John W. Dafoe Book Prize
Excerpts in National Post, 19, 20, 21, 22 October 2010
Review in Winnipeg Free Press, 9 October 2010
Review in Canadian Journal of Political Science
Walk Towards The Gallows: The Tragedy of Emily Hilda Blake – Hanged 1899, with Reinhold Kramer, Oxford University Press, 2002 & University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Winner of the 2002 Margaret McWilliams Award
Review in English Studies in Canada (click on Full Text: PDF)
A Square Deal For All – Historical Essays on Labour in Brandon, with Errol Black, St. John’s: Canadian Committee on Labour History, 2000.
“‘Ultra Vires and Void’: An Executive Inquiry Takes on Manitoba’s Legislative Building Crisis (and Wins),” The Manitoba Law Journal, 44, 3, 2021.
“1846: Canada’s First Inquiries Act,” Journal Of Canadian Studies,” 55, 3, 2021.
Authorized Heritage – Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada (review) by Robert Coutts, Prairie History, 5, 2021.
“The Speech Bill Pritchard Never Gave,” with James Naylor, Labour/Le Travail, 84, 2019.
” Strike or Revolution? Hugh Robson’s Inquiry and the Winnipeg General Strike,” The Manitoba Law Journal, 42, 2, 2019.
“Let’s Not Romanticize the Opponents of the Winnipeg General Strike,” Active History, 12 July 2019.
“The Workers’ Revolt in Brandon,” Active History, 12 June 2019.
“The Winnipeg General Strike One Hundred Years Later, ” Witness to Yesterday (interview), Champlain Society Podcast, June 2019
Human Rights in Canada – A History (review), by Dominique Clément, Labour / Le Travail, 83, 2019.
“ Meeting Place and Crossroad: The Grand Rapids of the Assiniboine,” Manitoba History, 86, 2018.“‘
An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919-1936 (review), by Dennis G. Molinaro, Labour / Le Travail, 81, 2018.
Reform or Repression: Organizing America’s Anti-Union Movement (review), by Chad Pearson, Labour / Le Travail, 78, 2016.
“‘Daniel de Leon Drew Up the Diagram:’ Winnipeg’s Seditious Conspiracy Trials of 1919-1920,” with Reinhold Kramer, in Canadian State Trials Volume 4: Security and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-39. Susan Binnie, Eric Tucker & Barry Wright eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Canada the Good: A Short History of Vice Since 1500 (review), by Marcel Martel, Labour/le Travail 76, Fall 2015.
“Samuel James McKee,” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. 16. with T. H. McLeod. John English, ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press/Montreal: Laval University, 2015.
“Citizens’ Committees,” American Encyclopedia of Business, Labor and Economic History. Melvin Dubofsky, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
“`To Reach the Leadership of This Revolutionary Movement’: A.J. Andrews, the Canadian State and the Suppression of the Winnipeg General Strike,” Prairie Forum, [originally published Prairie Forum, 18, 2, 1993; republished in special final edition of the printed journal 38, Fall 2013.
“W. J. Waines, the IUN Crisis of 1978, and the Development of Post-Secondary Education in Northern Manitoba Manitoba,” (with Jennifer Marchant), Manitoba History, 68, 2012.
The Gospel of the Working Class – Labor’s Southern Prophets in New Deal America (review), by Erik S Gellman & Jarod Roll, Labour/Le Travail, 70, 2012.
When the State Trembled – How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens’ Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike, with Reinhold Kramer, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Who Killed Jackie Bates (review), by Bill Waiser, Canadian Historical Review, 90, 3, 2009.
“‘ The Proudest Boast of the Englishman ‘: The ideological Claims of the Winnipeg’s Citizens’ Committee of One Thousand,” in Silva Rerum: A Collection of Scholarly Papers to Honour Professor A. Pernal, L’viv: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2007.
“Brandon’s Quasquicentennial.” Manitoba History, 56, 2007.
“Brandon General Strike,” The Encyclopedia of Manitoba. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2007.
All Hell Can’t Stop Us: The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot (review), by Bill Waiser, Saskatchewan History, 57, 2, 2005.
“`Legal Gentlemen Appointed by the Federal Government’: The Canadian State, the Citizens’ Committee of 1000, and Winnipeg’s Seditious Conspiracy Trials of 1919-1920,” Labour/Le Travail, 53, 2004.
“Winnipeg General Strike,” Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, with James Naylor. Lincoln: Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2004.
Walk Towards The Gallows: The Tragedy of Emily Hilda Blake – Hanged 1899, with Reinhold Kramer, Oxford University Press, 2002 & University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Canadian Marxists of the Third Way (review), by Peter Campbell, Labour/ Le Travail, 47, 2001.
“Prairie Fire Fizzles,” (with James Naylor), Labour/Le Travail, 45, 2000).
Profiles in Dissent: The Shaping of Radical Thought in the Canadian West (review), by Harry Gutkin and Mildred Gutkin, Manitoba History, 38, 1999-2000.
Foreword, in Letters from Section 17. Fred McGuinness, Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 1999.
“Wrestling With The Meaning of Citizenship (review essay),” Manitoba History, 36, 1998-99″
“The Prairies: In the Eye of the Storm,” with James Naylor, in The Workers’ Revolt in Canada 1917 – 1925. Craig Heron ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.
Propaganda and Censorship During the Great War (review), by Jeffrey A Keshen, Canadian Historical Review, 20, 1, 1998.
“`Laws Grind the Poor and Rich Men Rule the Law’: Louis St. George Stubbs, the Canadian State, and the Ignominy of Judicial Insurgency,” Prairie Forum, 22, 2, 1997.
“`The Manufacture of Souls of Good Quality’: Reconstruction, the 1919 Winnipeg Conference on Citizenship, and the New Order After the Great War, “Journal of Canadian Studies, 31, 4, 1996-97.
“`Repressive Measures ‘: A.J. Andrews, the Committee of 1000 and the Campaign Against Radicalism After the Winnipeg General Strike,” left history, 3.2 & 4.1, 1995 – 1996.
“`Blood With the Taint of Cain’: Immigrant Labouring Children, Manitoba Politics, and the Execution of Emily Hilda Blake,” Journal of Canadian Studies, 28, 4, 1993‑1994.
“‘To Rouse the Workers From Apathy and Indifference’: Workers’ Political Education in Brandon 1900‑1922,” in Issues in the History of Education in Manitoba: The Construction of the Common School and the Politics of Voices. with Rosa del Carmen Bruno‑Jofre. Rosa del Carmen Bruno‑Jofre ed., New York: Edwin Mellen & Sons, 1993.
“`We Must Stand Fast for the Sake of Our Profession’: The Status and Salaries of Teachers and the Brandon Schools Crisis of 1922,” in Issues in the History of Education in Manitoba: The Construction of the Common School and the Politics of Voices. In Rosa del Carmen Bruno‑Jofre ed. New York: Edwin Mellen & Sons, 1993.
“Forging a New Protestant Ontario on the Agricultural Frontier: Public Schools in Brandon and the Origins of the Manitoba School Question 1881‑1890,” in Issues in the History of Education in Manitoba: The Construction of the Common School and the Politics of Voices. Rosa del Carmen Bruno‑Jofre ed. New York: Edwin Mellen & Sons, 1993.
“`We Must Stand Fast for the Sake of Our Profession’: Teachers, Collective Bargaining, and the Brandon Schools Controversy of 1922,” Journal of Canadian Studies, 26, 1, 1991.
“In the Image of Ontario: Public Schools in Brandon 1881‑1890,” Manitoba History, 12, 1986 .
Prologue in Brandon: A Prospect of a City. Mary Hume, Brandon, 1982.
Selected Journalism
“Brandon Celebrates While Battling Flu Outbreak,” Brandon Sun, November 10, 2018, A 13.
“Brandon Comes To The Assiniboine: October 16, 1793,” Brandon Sun, September 18, 2018
“Wading Into the History of River Crossing Points,” Brandon Sun, Saturday March 5, 2017
“The Battle for Winnipeg,” [excerpt from, When the State trembled], National Post, 19 October, 2010.
“Calling the Shots,” [excerpt from, When the State trembled], National Post, 20 October, 2010.
“Rounding Up the Ringleaders,” [excerpt from, When the State trembled], National Post, 21 October, 2010.
“Stacking the Jury,” [excerpt from, When the State trembled], National Post, 22 October , 2010.
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