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While people from many nations have chosen to make their home in France, the British were among the first and remain the most numerous.
Pickett’s Charge was one of the seminal battles of the U.S. Civil War, setting the stage for the ultimate Confederacy defeat. Could it have played out differently?
Very little is known about suicide and suicide attempts during modern genocides – but we do know there is an aftermath of suicide among victims.
What we buy has defined who we are since the Gold Rush. In the 1850s and 1860s, people communicated their social status by buying stuff - dinner sets, junk jewellery - and throwing their old things away.
Roman gladiators were unique and complex characters, and certainly not the sporting heroes they’re depicted as in culture today.
The story of African-American music is a story of eclipsing expectations and subverting norms.
Some have denounced the New York Public Theater for encouraging violence against President Trump. But the play does just the opposite, warning of the pitfalls of political assassination.
Despite a low voter turnout, the new French president has a solid majority in parliament. He will need it to push his reforms at home and in Europe.
Wandering the city by foot helps us look beneath ordinary conceptions of the face value of a place to the meanings built up and lost over time.
A new study of how frequently certain words were used between 1800 and 2000 shows that political power as a guiding principle is more important than money and religious belief.
The Booker Prize-winning novelist’s Reith lectures explore the complex relationship between historical fact and fiction.
Despite improvements to their content over time, secondary school history textbooks still imply that ‘real’ Australians are white.
We take it for granted, but it wasn’t always so easy to take part in the democratic functioning of the country.
Over the past 300 years, Western educated elites have debated, founded and expanded the right to vote.
The 1967 referendum was the culmination of a long struggle for both Aboriginal rights and respect, for social esteem as well as equality before the law.
The revival of the idea of Indigenous influence on the origins of Australian rules football diverts attention from another, much more uncomfortable story about Indigenous relationships to football.
The 19th century Irish crimewave that wasn’t: how a change of policing brought the English counterfeiters to book.
If the thought of undergoing surgery fills you with dread, spare a thought for your forebears.
Not every country prepares for global health threats in the same way.
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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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Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer, School of History, Australian National University
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of History, McGill University
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