François-Xavier Garneau

In the summer of 2011, when I left the University of Kansas history department for Quebec, my dearest friends there gave me a leather bound, two-volume edition of François-Xavier Garneau’s Histoire du Canada. It had the inspiring, incomparable smell of dusty bookshelf. I was brought to tears, bowled over by their thoughtfulness. And I had […]

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