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In 1979, David Duke told the media he had launched a wildly successful recruiting drive in Connecticut. A local reporter wanted to test Duke's claims – so he filled out an application to join the KKK.
It is 50 years since anthropologist WEH Stanner gave the Boyer Lectures in which he coined the phrase 'the great Australian silence'. How far have we come since?
A great movie that gets some of its history wrong is way better than an accurate film that puts people to sleep.
New prime minister Pedro Sánchez wants to move the remains from a national memorial site. But not everyone agrees.
A wood and glass case invented in the early 19th-century transformed the movement of plants around the world. In Melbourne, several thousand people greeted a primrose on its arrival from England.
Canada recently slapped a tariff on US exports of the tomato-based condiment, and the EU plans to do the same, perhaps on the notion that it's distinctly American. In fact, ketchup’s origins are global, as are its fans.
When the U.S. broke away from the "mother country," the dream was to let the common good overruled selfish and private interests. Yet the federal government is arranged so this can never occur.
Ontario's move to ignore the calls of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to add Indigenous content to its history and social studies curriculum is foolish and dangerous.
The British foreign secretary, Francis Osborne, tried to negotiate free trade deals with eight European rivals in the late 18th century. Guess how many bit the dust.
A monstrous worm that features in English mythology shares remarkable similarities with the watery serpents of Indigenous stories.
Yesterday's weather helps make sense of today's, but how will this change as the climate changes?
Some estimates say the World Cup will bring a £1.6 billion boost to the UK economy. Do they stack up?
Big technology firms are becoming known for mistreating workers, customers and society as a whole. Is an economic powerhouse about to collapse like Detroit did years go?
The Crusades have been stereotyped, creating a narrative that supports both Islamophobia and anti-immigrant sentiments in the West, as well as "Westophobia" and paranoia in the Muslim world.
The heatwave is unlikely to cause the price hikes of 1976 for a number of reasons.
On the golden jubilee of the discovery of Mungo Lady's 40,000-year-old remains, we can reflect on Aboriginal Australia's vast history, which predates the arrival of Homo sapiens in both Europe and America.
Real life attackers won't follow a carefully choreographed fight sequence – that's why training is essential.
Our work on the International Panel for Social Progress has led us to conclude that religion is neither inherently pro-democracy nor inherently anti-democracy.
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Professor of History, University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Fellow, Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
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Fellow in Historical Studies, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in History, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Roman History, Macquarie University
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Distinguished Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Pennsylvania State University
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Professor of History, University of the Pacific
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Chercheur au Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines – Université Paris-Saclay
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Lecturer in Classics, University of Roehampton
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Associate Professor in modern history, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in Australian History, Monash University
