Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, a potential problem for the presidential candidate. A Cold War campaign to link American-ness and capitalism helped create popular distrust of socialism.
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Films of the battle for Iwo Jima, being digitized 75 years after they were made, offer connections and lessons for Americans of today.
During the Nazi era, roughly 300,000 additional Jewish refugees could have gained entry to the US. But the immigration law’s ‘likely to become a public charge’ clause kept them out.
As the last survivors die out, it is more important than ever to uncover physical evidence of Nazi atrocities.
Vital Hasson was born into the Jewish community of Salonica, Greece, a cultural capital of the Sephardic world. After World War II, he was executed for helping the Nazis destroy that community.
An Iranian general’s killing sparked fears of war and a draft in the US. Those are old fears, says a scholar who contends it’s a myth that during the two world wars, men signed up in droves to fight.
The country’s national interest and human rights remain the two topics bedevilling South Africa’s foreign policy.
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates its 70th anniversary with a leaders’ meeting in London, five US scholars shed light on NATO’s history and its potential future.
There is no weapon more visceral than the bayonet. It encourages an intimate form of killing, and during WW1, Australia troops plunged, parried and stabbed with great vigour.
Veterans of past wars have long been at the forefront of peace advocacy in the United States.
Americans say they love their veterans, but a sad fact has emerged that betrays that profession. Huge vacancies in VA medical centers means that veterans are not getting the health care they need.
In the past, governments have worked much more closely with scientists to respond to emergencies.
Why do TV news shows book interviews with people who lie or obfuscate? Dogged interviewer Mike Wallace was an example of how to do it right. But on live TV, it’s almost impossible to do what he did.
A former congressional staffer says withholding damning evidence from Congress and using civilians to carry out presidential or intelligence agency agendas links the Ukraine crisis to other scandals.
A new genre of video games lets players explore virtual environments that recreate actual places and real people’s lives and memories.
The Kindertransport saved thousands of Jewish children from the Nazis before World War II. But planned reforms to UK asylum policy are putting refugee children at risk.
Parliaments were and remain institutions of frustrating negotiation and very often unpalatable compromise. They also represent an imperfect but significant check on the abuse of power.
For the 80th anniversary, Poland has changed the site of the usual commemoration ceremony and, for the first time, has invited a U.S. president to speak.
During the Nazi era, roughly 300,000 additional Jewish refugees could have gained entry to the U.S. But the immigration law’s “likely to become a public charge” clause kept them out.
Adolf Hitler’s rise to power contains important lessons for us today when it comes to dealing with modern-day extremists.
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Principal of South College, Durham University
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Anthropologue, Maîtresse de conférences à l'Université de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg
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Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
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Research Fellow, King's College London
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Principal Lecturer in History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Public History, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor Emeritus in Contemporary German History, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Russian Culture and Film, Queen Mary University of London
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Associate Professor of History, UNSW Sydney
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor in Communication Studies, McMaster University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, University of Essex
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Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
