Books by Past Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Over the past forty years, many of our former undergraduate and graduate students have written books on a wide variety of historical subjects. To celebrate the successs of our former students, below is a listing of these works organized by the year of their first publication (many have been reprinted with demand). If you are a former student and do not see your book(s) below, please email the department administrative office (hist.phil@lakeheadu.ca) and it will be included.
Books derived in part of in whole from work done while a student in our programs are indicated by an asterix (*) before the title.
Barr, Elinor
- Barr, Elinor. Swedes in Canada: Invisible Immigrants. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.
- Barr, Elinor. Thunder Bay to Gunflint: The Port Arthur, Duluth, & Western Railway. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1999.
Beaulieu, Michel S.
- Beaulieu, Michel S., David K. Ratz, Thorold J. Tronrud, and Jenna L. Kirker. Thunder Bay and the First World War, 1914-1919. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Museum Historical Society, 2018.
- Beaulieu, Michel S., David K. Ratz, and Ronald N. Harpelle, eds. Hard Work Conquers All: Building the Finnish Community in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018.
- Henriksson, Markku, Michel S. Beaulieu, Carmen Pekkarinen, and Mari-Anna Suurmunne, eds. Canada-Finland, Celebrating 2017: "A brave. hospitable, and altogether admirable people."Helsinki: Suomi-Kanada-seura/Finnish-Canadian Society and Embassy of Canada to Finland, 2017.
- Zimmermann, Ernest Robert. Completed and edited by Michel S. Beaulieu and David K. Ratz. The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2015.
- Beaulieu, Michel S. Celluloid Dreams: An Illustrated History of Early Film at the Lakehead, 1900-1931. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2012.
- Harpelle, Ronald N. and Michel S. Beaulieu, eds. Pulp Friction: Communities and the Forest Industry in a Globalized World. Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 2012.
- Beaulieu, Michel S. Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-1935. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011 (hardcover) and 2012 (trade paper and EPub).
- Beaulieu, Michel S., Ronald N. Harpelle, and Jaimi Penney, eds. Labouring Finns: Transnational Politics in Finland, Canada, and the United States. Turku, Finland: Siirtolaisuusinstituutti [Institute of Migration], 2011.
- Beaulieu, Michel S. and Chris Southcott. North of Superior: An Illustrated History of Northwestern Ontario. Toronto: James Lormier and Company, 2010.
- Blahuta, Jason P. and Michel S. Beaulieu, eds. Final Fantasy and Philosophy: The Ultimate Walkthrough. Oxford and New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2009.
- Beaulieu, Michel S., ed. Essays in Northwestern Ontario Working-Class History: Thunder Bay and Its Environs. Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 2008.
- Beaulieu, Michel S. and Ronald N. Harpelle, eds. The Lady Lumberjack: An Annotated Collection of Dorothea Mitchell’s Writings. Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 2005.
Hatton, C. Nathan
- Hatton, C. Nathan. Thrashing Seasons: Manitoba Culture and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling, 1700-1931. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2016.
- Hatton, C. Nathan. Rugged Game: Community, Culture, and Wrestling at the Lakehead. Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 2012.
Hay, Travis
- Burnett, Kristin, and Travis Hay. Plundering the North: A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2023.
- Hay, Travis. Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2021.
High, Steven
- High, Steven. Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
- High, Steven. One Job Town: Work, Memory and Betrayal in Northern Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018.
- High, Steven, Lachlan MacKinnon and Andrew Perchard, eds. The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017.
- Miller, Elizabeth, Edward Little, and Steven High, eds. Going Public: The Art of Participatory Practice. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017.
- High, Steven, ed. Beyond Testimony and Trauma: Oral History in the Aftermath of Mass Violence. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015.
- High, Steven. Oral History at the Crossroads: Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014.
- High, Steven, Edward Little, and Thi Ry Duong, eds. Remembering Violent: Oral History, New Media, and Performance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
- High, Steven, ed. Occupied St. John’s: A Social History of a City at War. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
- High, Steven. Base Colonies in the Western Hemisphere. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- High, Steven and David Lewis. Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization. Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007.
- High, Steven. Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Jobbitt, Steven
- Győri, Róbert and Steven Jobbitt, eds. Fodor Ferenc Önéletírásai [The Autobiographical Works of Ferenc Fodor]. Budapest: Eötvös József Collegium, 2016.
Kirker, Jenna L.
- Beaulieu, Michel S., David K. Ratz, Thorold J. Tronrud, and Jenna L. Kirker. Thunder Bay and the First World War, 1914-1919. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Museum Historical Society, 2018.
Morrison, Jean
- Morrison, Jean. Labour Pains. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2009.
- Morrison, Jean, ed. Lake Superior to Rainy Lake: Three Centuries of Fur Trade History. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2003.
- Morrison, Jean. Superior Rendezvous-Place: Fort William in the Canadian Fur Trade. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2001.
Piovesana, Roy
- Piovesana, Roy. Italians of Fort William's East End. Thunder Bay: Institute for Italian Studies - Lakehead University, 2011.
- Piovesana, Roy. Hope and Charity, Diocese of Thunder Bay: An Illustrated History. Thunder Bay: Roman Catholic Diocese of Thunder Bay, 2002.
Potestio, John
- Potestio, John. R.F. Welch (Veltri) Company. Thunder Bay: Institute for Italian Studies - Lakehead University, 2012.
- Potestio, John. The Italians of Thunder Bay. Thunder Bay: Institute for Italian Studies - Lakehead University, 2005.
- Potestio, John. In Their Footsteps: Reflections on the Legacy of Italian Immigrants to Thunder Bay. Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 2002.
- Potestio, John. In Search of a Better Life: Emigration to Thunder Bay from a Small Town in Calabria. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2001.
Ratz, David
- Beaulieu, Michel S., David K. Ratz, Thorold J. Tronrud, and Jenna L. Kirker. Thunder Bay and the First World War, 1914-1919. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Museum Historical Society, 2018.
- Beaulieu, Michel S., David K. Ratz, and Ronald N. Harpelle, eds. Hard Work Conquers All: Building the Finnish Community in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018.
- Zimmermann, Ernest Robert. Completed and edited by Michel S. Beaulieu and David Ratz.The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2015.
- Private W.C. Millar, From Thunder Bay Through Ypres with the Fighting 52nd. Edited by Thorold J. Tronrud and annotated by David Ratz. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2010.
Saramo, Samira
- Saramo, Samira. Building that Bright Future: Soviet Karelia in the Life Writing of Finnish North Americans. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Stortz, Paul
- Stortz, Paul, and E. Lisa Panayotidis, eds. Cultures, Communities, and Conflicts: Histories of Canadian Universities and War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Wiseman, Matthew S.
- Souchen, Alex, and Matthew S. Wiseman, eds. Silent Partners: The Origins and Influence of Canada's Military Industrial Complex. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2023.
- Wiseman, Matthew S., ed. The Selected Works of George R. Lindsey: Operational Research, Strategic Studies, and Canadian Defence in the Cold War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.
Various
- A Century of Sport in the Finnish Community. Thunder Bay: Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame and Thunder Bay Finnish-Canadian Historical Society, 2012.
- A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Finnish-Canadian Historical Society, 1976.
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Thunder Bay to Gunflint: The Port Arthur, Duluth & Western Railway (1999) | Paper & People: An Illustrated History of Great Lakes Papers and Its Successors, 1919-1999 (1999) Roy Piovesana, Beth Boegh, and Thorold Tronrud | The Scandinavian Home Society, 1923-1993: A Place to Meet, A Place to Eat (1996) | *The Frontier As Experienced on the Precambrian Shield: A Study of Ignace from 1883-1908 (1991) |
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The Status of Wildlife Habitat in Canada (1991) Steven High, David Neane, and Amada Jones. | Robert J. Manion: Member of Parliament for Fort William, 1917-1935 (1990) Roy H. Piovesana | *Project Bay Street: Activities of Finnish-Canadians in Thunder Bay Before 1915 (1989) Marc Metsaranta, editor | Silver Islet: Striking it Rich in Lake Superior (1988) Elinor Barr |
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The Northwest Company in Rebellion: Simon McGillivray's Fort William Notebook, 1815 (1988) Jean Morrison, editor | The Italian Immigrant Experience (1988) John Potestio and Antonio Pucci, editors | The Memoirs of Giovanni Veltri (1987) John Potestio, editor | *Thunder Bay's People (1987) John Potestio and Antonio Pucci, editors |
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*The History of the Italian Mutual Benefit Society, 1929-1984 (1985) John Potestio | White Otter Castle: The Legacy of Jimmy McOuat (1984) | Ignace: A Saga of the Shield (1979) | *A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay (1976) Various |