William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861) was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician, and rebel. He became the leader of the radical Reformers, and the refusal of the authorities to institute certain reforms finally led him to open rebellion. William...

William Lyon Mackenzie King often said that he'd have made a good landscape architect (Hardy 1949, 344). No longer in power by October 15, 1949--his final term as Canada's prime minister had ended the preceding year--he happily graced an Ottawa gathering of the...

Whatever its actual location, any public monument stands in the slot where politics collides with cultural politics. Energies beyond the purely aesthetic are always at play. Consider for a moment the currents that bore the monument there in the first place. Power--the power...

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 7, the 219th day of 2007. There are 146 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 7, 1942, U.S. and allied forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World...

Today is Saturday, Aug. 18, the 230th day of 2007. There are 135 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 18, 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island,...