Larry Hannant

Larry Hannant, PhD, is a history instructor and an award-winning author and website creator. He is the author of The Infernal Machine: Investigating the Loyalty of Canada's Citizens (University of Toronto Press, 1995) and the editor of The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art (University of Toronto Press, 1998), which won the Robert S. Kenny Prize in Left/Labour Studies in 1999. The Politics of Passion has been translated into Chinese and French. Hannant researched and co-wrote a feature-length documentary film on the Doukhobors, The Spirit Wrestlers, which was broadcast on History Television in 2002. He is the research director of "Explosion on the Kettle Valley Line: The Death of Peter Verigin" and "Death of a Diplomat: Herbert Norman and the Cold War," both of which are sections of The Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History website. The Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History won the 2008 Pierre Berton Prize for popularizing Canadian history.