Lots could happen before the next one.
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Speculation is mounting about an impending October surprise in the 2020 race. What does that mean?
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My research shows that white trainee teachers are willing to learn and to bring black history into their teaching, but need support to do so.
Australia’s move to increase fees for some university humanities courses reflects global trends towards market-friendly education that overlook what’s needed for human flourishing. Here, the University of Sydney.
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Today’s urgent inequality and environmental crises mean that more, not fewer, students should be studying history.
A modern portrait of Jeanne Barret disguised as a man, based on the author’s interpretation.
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Fresh research casts new light on a boldly unconventional woman who cross-dressed as a man to join a French naval sea voyage.
Principled revolutionaries: the Pilgrim Monument at Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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Puritan leaders argued vehemently for a church to be free of any higher authority – which caused problems in England and the new world.
Bill Freund at his 70th birthday celebration.
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Economic historian and development scholar Bill Freund was impatient with theoretical fads.
President Donald Trump speaks during an event on judicial appointments at the White House on Sept. 9, 2020.
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Donald Trump’s attack on racial injustice is an attempt to replace historical consciousness with historical amnesia. It’s a racialized politics of organized forgetting.
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For a film that was destined to do so much wrong, this does a surprising amount right. And in an era of relentlessly ‘clever’ films and knowing reboots, Face the Music has a refreshingly light touch.
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Before pilot Charles Taylor and company mysteriously vanished in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945, Taylor had to be rescued from the Pacific Ocean twice.
Charlottesville city workers drape a tarp over the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in 2018. Debate over removing the statue continues today.
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Once stripped of their symbolic power, problem monuments offer what educators call ‘teachable moments,’ helping people assess society’s current values and compare them with what mattered in the past.
Shop workers wearing blouses in the Liverpool store at Marks and Spencer Ltd, 1909.
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In the 1910, the ready-made blouse market was booming and Leicester’s knit giants tried their hand at manufacturing easy to launder, practical blouses.
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Cocoa may not be the panacea it was once believed to be, but it’s more than just a guilty pleasure.
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Sound and its subtle, malleable possibilities for interpretation can be a valuable tool for those trying to capture pasts that have been erased, marginalised or forgotten.
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Slave traders transformed human lives into profit-bearing opportunities – just like modern finance.
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They might not really fly on broomsticks or cast spells, but the witches and wizards of books and films are based on real people.
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New scientific research reveals how Thomas Cromwell’s Machiavellian manoeuvring influenced his own depiction on the front of The Great Bible.
English physician and scientist, who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, Edward Jenner sees off the anti-vaccinators.
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From protests to anti-vaccination propaganda, eliminating smallpox in the UK was not easy.
A Czech-born goaltender for a Canadian hockey team wears a jersey recalling the 1864 burning of Atlanta, Georgia.
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A 21st-century hockey team is connected with Gen. Sherman’s Atlanta campaign and the destructive journey to Savannah.
David Fairchild (middle) drinks coconut water during a break from research work in West Java.
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In the history of science, the role of local people often disappears despite their contribution to the development of science.
Who are in the hoodies?
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The Russian cyberthreat, now targeting coronavirus vaccine research, goes back over three decades, extends into the country’s educational systems and criminal worlds, and shows no signs of letting up.