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For many centuries, Syrian society has included people of many faiths – Sunni and Shi'i Muslims, Christians and Druze. This past is important to know to understand the present.
The chaos that led to a disastrous attack in the final days of WWII.
In wartime, food and drink may be a weapon or embodiment of the enemy, but also ‘a token of hope, a soothing relief’. In East Timor, coffee has played a vital role.
Writings at the time of WWI aimed to construct a religiously diverse and conflicted America into a virtuous, Christian nation. This narrative continued in the cemeteries for the war heroes.
There were mixed reactions to refugees from the Spanish Civil War and the Nazis by the British press.
The Imperial War Museum was founded to do a very different task to that of today.
There has been little recognition of how western governments furthered separation of families with disabled children, through immigration policies that ignored postwar humanitarian ideals.
Trump’s travel ban is an echo of policies passed in the United States during World War II.
Why do alternative histories of a Nazified world again have such commercial and cultural traction?
Churchill allowed science to flourish. Without a similar attitude in today’s politics, we may hit a bottleneck for life that leaves a Universe without a single human soul to enjoy it.
The Trump administration may do well to make a friend of the federal bureaucracy it’s so intent on gutting, according to an expert who studies the role of civil servants in government.
When war broke out, Black Americans fought in segregated units to serve their country. The breath of freedom they experienced in Europe flamed the fight for equality when they returned home.
Post-WWII Britain welcomed child refugees with open arms. Now they are put in camps and treated with contempt.
This isn’t the first time the US has banned people based on nationality. History shows these exclusions have put our national security at risk and caused rifts with foreign allies.
Newly-discovered scripts reveal the public hopes, dreams and fears of prisoners in the World War II Jewish ghetto at Theresienstadt.
What’s the proper way to behave at a Holocaust memorial? Is that even the right question?
The Oscar-nominated film is pure Hollywood hokum and a lost opportunity.
When a search query is loaded with implicit false assumptions, Google’s results don’t always promote the truth.
The idea of an American Muslim registry has gained traction in some circles, but the historical precedents are shaky at best.
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