In Japanese popular culture, new trends come and go. But the Japanese have toyed with gender norms for generations.
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From Chinese laborers to ‘bad hombres,’ the US settler mentality has perpetuated an immigration system that pushes out unwanted groups and bypasses the Constitution.
The BBC’s Taboo is a timely reminder of the violent origins of globalisation, but its villains allow the viewer to disassociate imperial misdeeds from mainstream British history.
How do we determine what is fact? An archaeologist explains how the answer has changed over time and why it matters so much now.
An adversarial international commission of inquiry, similar to one instituted to resolve a dispute between Britain and Russia in 1905, could break the deadlock over the downed flight.
Why do alternative histories of a Nazified world again have such commercial and cultural traction?
Decades of expansion for Whyalla were followed by decades of contraction. Whyalla has seen optimism and idealism but also, if not despair, then its close neighbours, alienation and apathy.
Would Abraham Lincoln ever have become president if he didn’t stumble into a dry goods store in Springfield, Illinois, and strike up a friendship with its owner, Joshua Speed?
Violence is on the rise in French Guiana. To understand this phenomenon, scholars delve into the often tragic history of the region.
In the 19th century, critics and audiences thought blacks were incapable of singing as well as their white, European counterparts. Greenfield forced them to reconcile their ears with their racism.
Snake bite treatments have changed remarkably over the past 200 years. But most, if not all, made sense in their historical context.
TV shows such as Versailles and Reign dwell on sex. But the French royals were preoccupied with life’s intimate moments, from bodily emissions to the crowds that gathered to watch the queen give birth.
For once in its life, under the premiership of Don Dunstan, South Australia felt like the very centre of the universe.
Thomas Browne is now better known for his literary work but in his own time was legendary as the greatest – and first – scientific populariser.
Set during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, the epic novel is a case study in the grassroots strength of ordinary people.
In celebration of academic books.
The fall of the Berlin wall was supposed to usher in ‘the end of history’, an eternal age of capitalist economics and liberal-democratic politics. It hasn’t turned out that way.
Roman decadence reached its peak with the vomitorium: a room where feasting elites threw up to make room for more food. Or so the story goes …
While hugely popular for a time, the advent of the three ring circus invited animal cruelty complaints and led to the demise of more skilled circus artistry.
Same-sex marriage is not a 20th-century phenomenon; couples have long claimed the right to marry.
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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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Historian, Australian Catholic University
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