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Many gun rights advocates claim that the right to carry guns is a universal right that has spanned centuries and nations. History tells a different story.
Deepfakes could strengthen our engagement with history. But there are dangers to the practice, some obvious, others more subtle.
From devil to potion to miracle drug, chocolate’s arrival in Europe was a wild ride.
Western methods of preserving history have excluded Indigenous stories. How can we include Indigenous narratives and their methods of maintaining history?
Education Minister Alan Tudge has rejected the draft history curriculum. He wants students to learn that ‘we live in the greatest country on Earth’. That’s not history. It’s jingoistic nationalism.
A better understanding of what most genocide scholars believe can help people understand how Canada’s Indian Residential School system fits with the definition of genocide.
Did ancient technological advancements drive social innovation, or vice versa? Studying cause and effect in the ancient world may seem like a fool’s errand, but researchers built a database to do just that.
Scent and magic have been entwined in our imaginations for centuries – right up to today’s witch-inspired perfumes.
The game that launched today’s massive video game industry was not a roaring success when it debuted 52 years ago. The oft-told story of why turns out to be off the mark.
Movements that challenge former national icons demonstrate the importance of history-making in an age of racial reconciliation. But ‘history wars’ won’t get us anywhere.
Afrofuturist’s work is rooted in the desire to transform the present for Black people. To do so, they imagine a reality in which Black people are the agents of their own story, countering histories that discount and dismiss them.
When preened and powdered aristocrats starting losing their heads, politicians learned to start dressing like ordinary people.
Abolition in the UK tends to focus on the work of Yorkshireman William Wilberforce but there were many Black abolitionists whose tireless work has been forgotten.
The US has learned that it cannot suppress its way to a healthy relationship with fire in the West. That strategy failed, even before climate change proved it to be no strategy at all.
The perception in France of a reversal of strategy is in fact a coherent move for Australia, in line with 200 years of Australian diplomatic tradition – for better or worse.
Royal satire has softened over the last 300 years, but audiences are more sensitive to barbs against the institution.
Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others all had their own cures for the Spanish flu. But some of these may have made things worse.
People have always wanted others to know they’re smart, and what better way to do that than with clothes?
Historians, archivists and other researchers got in touch with tales of their archival finds and bizarre research moments. These ranged from the quirky to the disturbing to the profound.
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of History, Australian National University
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Professor of History, McGill University
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Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Research assistant, Deakin University
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Historian, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
