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In the story of Manhattan’s Le Pavillon and its irascible manager, a food historian sees the rise and fall of French cuisine in America.
The Oujia board’s origins were anything but evil. It emerged, in part, out of a longing to communicate with loved ones who had died during the Civil War.
Compared to the male-dominated STEM disciplines and social sciences like philosophy and political science, Australian history has been remarkably feminised. Indeed there may be more women historians here than in the UK or US.
Once upon a time dead coral was something to be celebrated on the Great Barrier Reef.
A myth is doing serious injustice to the way historians have approached decolonisation.
Victorians revelled in images and descriptions of murder and mutilation which would today be regarded as shocking.
An adventurer who gave us the first account by an Englishman of early colonial Brazil.
The Pangsau Pass between Burma and India illustrates the complex issue of borders in the region.
Look back centuries ago and you’ll find the same obsessive secrecy, and the same justifications, as seen today.
British society takes monarchy far more seriously than they did two centuries ago. Far too seriously.
Why the 200 men who marched from the north-east to London in October 1936 must not be forgotten.
Historically, Australia’s broader policy approach to war crimes and war criminals has lacked a clear and coherent foundation.
There is a deep connection between past and present in Indigenous affairs in Australia.
Laying the first telegraphy cable under the Atlantic was the Victorians’ version of the Apollo mission – it caught the imagination of a generation.
In the 1960s, Britain shut the door on Commonwealth migration, before turing to Europe when it needed more workers.
Global audiences have heard of US election terms like the primaries, the conventions and the Electoral College. But the history and exact meaning of these terms remains a mystery to many.
The proliferation of mass media has helped to create a standardisation of beauty ideals, making them harder to cope with. But there are encouraging signs that things could change.
The canal was under US control for nearly a century and was only recognised as Panamanian on New Year’s Eve 1999.
The concept of ‘free speech’ is devilishly difficult, and depends greatly on a person’s political and philosophical viewpoint.
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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
