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History

A collection of 23 Posts

Trump’s Greenland ambitions could wreck 20th-century alliances that helped build the modern world order post image
Analysis US Foreign Policy Trump 2.0

Trump’s Greenland ambitions could wreck 20th-century alliances that helped build the modern world order

by Donald Heflin
US military has a long history in Greenland, from mining during WWII to a nuclear-powered Army base built into the ice post image
Greenland Trump's Greenland Threat Climate Change

US military has a long history in Greenland, from mining during WWII to a nuclear-powered Army base built into the ice

by Paul Bierman
Ukraine is under pressure to trade land for peace − if it does, history shows it might not ever get it back post image
Analysis War in Ukraine History

Ukraine is under pressure to trade land for peace − if it does, history shows it might not ever get it back

by Peter Harris
Why we used to sleep in two segments – and how the modern shift changed our sense of time post image
Sleep Analysis Health

Why we used to sleep in two segments – and how the modern shift changed our sense of time

by Darren Rhodes
Celebration or campaigning? Trump rebrands history for the U.S. post image
Donald Trump TODAY+ United States

Celebration or campaigning? Trump rebrands history for the U.S.

by TODAY
Italy’s areas of wartime fascist resistance remain less susceptible to the far-right today post image
Far-Right Italy WW2

Italy’s areas of wartime fascist resistance remain less susceptible to the far-right today

by Juan Masullo
American liberators of Nazi camps got ‘a lifelong vaccine against extremism’ − their wartime experiences are a warning for today post image
Far-Right Trump 2.0 Donald Trump

American liberators of Nazi camps got ‘a lifelong vaccine against extremism’ − their wartime experiences are a warning for today

by Sara J. Brenneis
How to fix democracy? post image
Democracy Philosophy Political Philosophy

How to fix democracy?

by Matthew Duncombe
What happens when leaders have loyalists in charge of men with guns: Lessons for the US from Nicaragua, Syria and other authoritarian countries post image
Trump 2.0 Analysis Long-Read

What happens when leaders have loyalists in charge of men with guns: Lessons for the US from Nicaragua, Syria and other authoritarian countries

by Joe Wright
The Holocaust: How ‘rescue archaeology’ is tackling the impending loss of surviving witnesses post image
Holocaust Analysis History

The Holocaust: How ‘rescue archaeology’ is tackling the impending loss of surviving witnesses

by Tony Kushner
Elon Musk and the history of the ‘Roman salute’ post image
Analysis History Elon Musk

Elon Musk and the history of the ‘Roman salute’

by Samuel Agbamu
Fall of Khrushchev: 60 years since the ‘most democratic coup’ in Soviet history, how Comrade Nikita was toppled post image
History Communism History of the Soviet Union

Fall of Khrushchev: 60 years since the ‘most democratic coup’ in Soviet history, how Comrade Nikita was toppled

by Tomas Sniegon