Volume 51 Issue 8 August 2001

Penelope Johnston explores a new museum of Canadian military history.

Keith Randell, founder of the inspiring textbook series Access to History, explains how he found his own way in.

The French mathematician was born on August 17th, 1601.

August 31st, 1751

Isaac Merritt Singer did not invent the sewing maching, but he patented the first practical and efficient one, on August 12th, 1851.