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“P.S. Burn After Reading” <\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Kellock-Taschereau Commission and Soviet Espionage in Canada,<\/em> with Reinhold Kramer, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming August 2026.<\/p>\n

An Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History 2026 Selection<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>When the State Trembled<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens\u2019 Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike, <\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span>with Reinhold Kramer,<\/em> <\/em><\/strong>Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

Short-listed, 2011 John W. Dafoe Book Prize<\/a><\/span><\/strong>
\nExcerpts in National Post<\/em>, 19, 20, 21, 22 October 2010<\/strong>
\nReview in Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 9 October 2010<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nReview in Canadian Journal of Political Science<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Walk Towards the Gallows<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899<\/em>, with Reinhold Kramer, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, republished University of Toronto Press, 2007.<\/p>\n

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Winner of the 2002 Margaret McWilliams Award<\/a><\/span>
\nReview in\u00a0<\/span> English Studies in Canada<\/em><\/span><\/a> <\/em><\/strong>(click on Full Text: PDF<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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A Square Deal For All And No Railroading<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Historical Essays on Labour in Brandon, <\/em><\/span>with Errol Black,<\/em> St. John\u2019s: Canadian Committee on Labour History, 2000.<\/p>\n

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Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMcClung\u2019s Guide to Canadian Moles: a K-Branch Commentary on Cold War Ideological Spies,\u201d with Reinhold Kramer, in Michel S. Beaulieu, David Ratz, Kari Alenius, & Tyler Wentzell, eds. Active Measures: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of Foreign Interference, Espionage, and National Security <\/em><\/strong>(working title) UBC Press. (forthcoming)<\/p>\n

“‘Daniel de Leon Drew Up the Diagram:\u2019 Winnipeg\u2019s Seditious Conspiracy Trials of 1919-1920,\u201d with Reinhold Kramer, in Canadian State Trials Volume 4:\u00a0Security and\u00a0the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-39.<\/em><\/a><\/strong> Susan Binnie, Eric Tucker & Barry Wright eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.<\/p>\n

“‘ The Proudest Boast of the Englishman’: The ideological Claims of Winnipeg\u2019s Citizens\u2019 Committee of One Thousand,” in Silva Rerum:\u00a0 A Collection of Scholarly Papers to Honour Professor Andrew Pernal<\/em><\/strong>, L\u2019viv: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2007.<\/p>\n

“The Prairies: In the Eye of the Storm,\u201d with James Naylor, in The Workers\u2019 Revolt in Canada 1917 \u2013 1925<\/strong>, <\/em><\/a><\/strong>Craig Heron ed. \u00a0Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n

“‘To Rouse the Workers From Apathy and Indifference’: Workers’ Political Education in Brandon 1900\u20111922,” with Rosa del Carmen Bruno\u2011Jofre, in Issues in the History of\u00a0 Education in Manitoba: The Construction of the Common School and the Politics of Voices.<\/em><\/strong> Rosa del Carmen Bruno\u2011Jofre ed., New York: Edwin Mellen & Sons, 1993.<\/p>\n

“`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 <\/em>Voices<\/strong>. Rosa del Carmen Bruno\u2011Jofre ed., New York: Edwin Mellen & Sons, 1993.<\/p>\n

“Forging a New Protestant Ontario on the Agricultural Frontier: Public Schools in Brandon and the Origins of the Manitoba School Question 1881\u20111890,” in Issues in the History of Education in Manitoba: The Construction of the Common School and the Politics of Voices. <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Rosa del Carmen Bruno\u2011Jofre ed., New York: Edwin Mellen & Sons, 1993.<\/p>\n

Refereed Journal Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

“‘Ultra Vires and Void’: An Executive Inquiry Takes on Manitoba’s Legislative Building Crisis (and Wins),” The Manitoba Law Journal<\/em><\/strong>,<\/a> 44, 3, 2021.<\/p>\n

“1846: Canada’s First Inquiries Act,” Journal Of Canadian Studies<\/strong><\/em>,” 55, 3, 2021.<\/p>\n

“The Speech Bill Pritchard Never Gave,” with James Naylor, Labour\/Le Travail,<\/em><\/strong> 84, 2019.<\/p>\n

” Strike or Revolution? Hugh Robson’s Inquiry and the Winnipeg General Strike,” The Manitoba Law Journal<\/a>,<\/em><\/strong> 42,\u00a0 2, 2019.<\/p>\n

“Meeting Place and Crossroad: The Grand rapids of the Assiniboine,” Manitoba History<\/a>, 86, 2018.<\/p>\n

“`To Reach the Leadership of This Revolutionary Movement’: A.J. Andrews, the Canadian State and the Suppression of the Winnipeg General Strike,” Prairie Forum<\/em>,<\/strong> [originally published\u00a0Prairie Forum<\/strong>, <\/em>18, 2,\u00a0 1993; republished in special final edition of the printed journal 38, Fall 2013.<\/p>\n

“W. J. Waines, the IUN Crisis of 1978, and the Development of Post-Secondary Education in Northern Manitoba Manitoba,” with Jennifer Mitchell-Marchant,\u00a0 Manitoba History<\/strong>,\u00a0 68, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBrandon\u2019s Quasquicentennial.\u201d Manitoba History<\/strong>,\u00a0 56,\u00a0 2007.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

“‘Legal Gentlemen Appointed by the Federal Government\u2019: The Canadian State, the Citizens’ Committee of 1000, and\u00a0 Winnipeg’s\u00a0 Seditious Conspiracy Trials of 1919-1920,\u201d Labour\/Le Travail<\/strong>,\u00a0 53,\u00a0 2004.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

“`Laws Grind the Poor and Rich Men Rule the Law’: Louis St. George Stubbs, the Canadian State, and the Ignominy of Judicial Insurgency,\u201d\u00a0 Prairie Forum<\/em><\/strong>, 22, 2, 1997.<\/em><\/p>\n

“`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<\/strong>, 31, 4, 1996-97.<\/em><\/p>\n

“`Repressive Measures ‘: A.J. Andrews, the Committee of 1000 and the Campaign Against Radicalism After the Winnipeg General Strike,” left history<\/strong>, 3.2 & 4.1,<\/em> 1995 – 1996.<\/p>\n

“From the Social Gospel to the `Plain Bread of Leninism’: A. E. Smith’s Journey to the Left in the Epoch of Reaction After World War I,”Labour\/Le Travail,\u00a0 23,\u00a0 1994.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

“`Blood With the Taint of Cain’: Immigrant Labouring Children, Manitoba Politics, and the Execution of Emily Hilda Blake,” Journal of Canadian Studies<\/strong>, 28, 4,\u00a0 1993\u20111994.<\/em><\/p>\n

“`To Reach the Leadership of This Revolutionary Movement’: A.J. Andrews, the Canadian State and the Suppression of the Winnipeg General Strike,” Prairie Forum<\/strong>, 18,\u00a0 2, Fall 1993.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOnly Brandon Men Can and Will Save It\u201d: Boosterism, Brandon College, and the Crisis of the Great Depression, Manitoba History<\/em>, 24, 1992.<\/p>\n

“`We Must Stand Fast for the Sake of Our Profession’: Teachers, Collective Bargaining, and the Brandon Schools Controversy of 1922,” Journal of Canadian Studies<\/strong>, 26,\u00a0 1, 1991.<\/em><\/p>\n

“`A Square Deal for All and No Railroading’: Labour and Politics in Brandon 1900\u20111920,” Prairie Forum,<\/em>\u00a0 15, 1,\u00a0 1990.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBeatrice Brigden and Radicalism in the Methodist Church,\u201d Manitoba History<\/em><\/a>, 19 (1990).<\/p>\n

\u201cBrandon 1919: Labour and Industrial Relations in the Wheat City in the Year of the General Strike,\u201dManitoba History<\/em>,\u00a0 17,\u00a0 1989.<\/a><\/p>\n

“In the Image of Ontario: Public Schools in Brandon 1881\u20111890,” Manitoba History,<\/em> 12, 1986 .<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

“Forging a New Ontario on the Agricultural Frontier: Public Schools in Brandon and the Origins of the Manitoba School Question, 1881\u20111889,” Prairie Forum<\/em>, <\/em><\/strong>11, 1, 1986.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Book Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n

Authorized Heritage – Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada<\/em> (review) by Robert Coutts,\u00a0 Prairie History<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0 5, 2021.<\/p>\n

Human Rights in Canada – A History <\/em>(review),<\/em> by Dominique\u00a0Cl\u00e9ment,\u00a0\u00a0Labour \/ Le Travail<\/strong>, <\/em>83, 2019.<\/p>\n

An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919-1936 <\/em>(review), by Dennis G. Molinaro, Labour \/ Le Travail<\/strong>,<\/em> 81, 2018.<\/p>\n

Reform or Repression: Organizing America’s Anti-Union Movement<\/em> (review), by Chad Pearson, Labour \/ Le Travail<\/em><\/strong>, 78,\u00a0 2016.<\/p>\n

Canada the Good: A Short History of Vice Since 1500 <\/em>(review),<\/em> by Marcel Martel, Labour\/le Travail<\/em> <\/strong>76, Fall 2015.<\/p>\n

The Gospel of the Working Class \u2013 Labor\u2019s Southern Prophets in New Deal America (review),\u00a0 by Erik S Gellman & Jarod Roll, Labour\/Le Travail<\/strong>, 70, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Who Killed Jackie Bates<\/em> (review), <\/em>by Bill Waiser,\u00a0 Canadian Historical Review<\/strong>, <\/em>90, <\/span>3, <\/span>2009.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Heiress vs The Establishment: Mrs. Campbell’s Campaign for Legal Justice<\/em> (review), by Constance Backhouse and Nancy L. Backhouse,<\/span> H-Canada, H-Net Review<\/strong>s<\/em>, January, 2005.<\/a><\/p>\n

All Hell Can’t Stop Us: The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot (review),<\/em> by Bill Waiser, Saskatchewan History<\/em><\/strong>, 57, 2,<\/em> 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n

Canadian Marxists of the Third Way<\/em> (review), by Peter Campbell, Labour\/ Le Travail,<\/em><\/strong> 47, 2001.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em><\/span><\/a>Prairie Fire Fizzles,<\/a>\u201d (with James Naylor), Labour\/Le Travail<\/strong>, 45, 2000).<\/em><\/p>\n

Profiles in Dissent: The Shaping of Radical Thought in the Canadian West\u00a0 (review), <\/em>by Harry Gutkin and Mildred Gutkin,<\/em> Manitoba History<\/strong>, <\/em>38, 1999-2000.<\/p>\n

“Wrestling With The Meaning of Citizenship (review essay),” Manitoba History<\/strong>,<\/em>\u00a0 36, 1998-99<\/p>\n

“Propaganda and Censorship During the Great War<\/em> (review), by Jeffrey A Keshen, Canadian Historical Review,<\/em><\/strong> 20, 1<\/em>, 1998.<\/p>\n

Miscellaneous<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Let’s Not Romanticize the Opponents of the Winnipeg General Strike,” Active History<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, 12 July 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Workers’ Revolt in Brandon,” Active History<\/a><\/strong>, 12 June 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Winnipeg General Strike One Hundred Years Later, ”\u00a0<\/span>Witness to Yesterday (interview),<\/em> Champlain Society Podcast<\/a><\/strong>, June 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Samuel James McKee,”<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 Dictionary of Canadian Biography,<\/strong> Vol. 16.<\/em> with T. H. McLeod.\u00a0 John English, ed.\u00a0 Toronto: University of Toronto Press\/Montreal: Laval University, 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cCitizens\u2019 Committees,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong> American Encyclopedia of Business, Labor and Economic\u00a0 History<\/a>. <\/em>Melvin Dubofsky, ed. <\/em>New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n

“Brandon General Strike,” The Encyclopedia of Manitoba.<\/strong> <\/em>Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWinnipeg General Strike,\u201d <\/strong>Encyclopedia of the Great Plains<\/em><\/a>,<\/strong> with James Naylor. Lincoln: Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n

Foreword<\/em>, in Letters from Section 17. <\/em><\/strong>Fred McGuinness, Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prologue in <\/em>Brandon: A Prospect of a City.<\/em> Mary Hume, <\/em>Brandon, 1982.<\/a><\/p>\n

Selected Journalism<\/strong><\/h4>\n

“Brandon Celebrates While Battling Flu Outbreak,” <\/span>Brandon Sun,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>November 10, 2018, A 13.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBrandon<\/em> Comes To The Assiniboine: October 16, 1793,\u201d Brandon Sun<\/em>, September 18, 2018<\/p>\n

\u201cWading Into the History of River Crossing Points,\u201d Brandon Sun<\/em>, Saturday March 5, 2017<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Battle for Winnipeg,\u201d [excerpt from, When the State Trembled<\/em>], National Post<\/em>, 19 October, 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalling the Shots,\u201d [excerpt from, When the State Trembled<\/em>], National Post<\/em>, 20 October, 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cRounding Up the Ringleaders,\u201d [excerpt from, When the State Trembled<\/em>], National Post<\/em>, 21 October, 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cStacking the Jury,\u201d [excerpt from, When the State Trembled<\/em>], National Post<\/em>, 22 October , 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cHistory From Below,\u201d <\/span>Times Literary Supplement<\/i>, 24 November 2006, 15.<\/span><\/p>\n

Documentaries<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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