Tag: history
Will Trump victory make Angela Merkel leader of the free world?
Johanna Schuster-Craig, Michigan State University
After the election of Donald Trump, commentators have argued that German Chancellor Angela Merkel may become the leader of the...
Could razing Hitler’s first home backfire?
Despina Stratigakos, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
The Austrian government has announced that it will demolish or completely remake the house...
In a state wrought with racial tension, Jackie Robinson…
In a state wrought with racial tension, Jackie Robinson suited up for his first spring training game
Chris Lamb, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Seventy years ago,...
The twisted roots of U.S. land policy in the West
John Freemuth, Boise State University
The seizure of a Malheur National Wildlife Refuge building in southeastern Oregon by armed and self-styled “constitutionalists” was...
How the Nazis co-opted Christmas
Joe Perry, Georgia State University
In 1921, in a Munich beer hall, newly appointed Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler gave a Christmas speech to an...
How Moscow’s man in Westminster charmed Churchill…
How Moscow's man in Westminster charmed Churchill out of Britain's wartime secrets
Gabriel Gorodetsky, University of Oxford
The national press has been thrilling to revelations from...
Brutal beauty: the rich heritage that means these buildings must be...
Timothy Brittain-Catlin, University of Kent
Poplar, in the east of London, is home to two blocks of housing that are providing a symbolic battleground for...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
