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 (gail.fikis@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.

 *Currently being rebuilt and updated January 2018* 
Will be organized alphabetically by last name and year of publication.

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, 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.

High, Steven

• 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.

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, 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.

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.