Written in Bone
by Sally M. Walker |
Curse of The Narrows
by Laura M. Mac Donald | 
The Great Halifax Explosion
by John U. Bacon |
Shattered City
by Janet F. Kitz | 
Miracles and Massacres
by Glenn Beck |
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
by Daniel Pool | 
Persian Fire
by Tom Holland | 
Under a Flaming Sky
by Daniel James Brown | 
SPQR
by Mary Beard | 
The Wars of the Roses
by Dan Jones | 
The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed
by Judith Flanders | 
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
by James L. Swanson | 
Under the Black Flag
by David Cordingly | 
Triangle
by David Von Drehle | 
Only Yesterday
by Frederick Lewis Allen | 
The Course of Human Events
by David McCullough |
Eyewitness to History
by John Carey | 
Red Land, Black Land
by Elizabeth Peters | 
Titanic
by Deborah Hopkinson | 
Thermopylae
by Ernle Bradford |
On December 6, 1917 two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. As if that wasn't devastating enough, a blizzard hit the next day, dumping more than a foot of snow on the area and paralyzing much-needed relief efforts.