European stereotypes: a Dutch satirical cartoon of Europe from 1870.
Humoristische Kaart van Europa via Wikimedia Commons
The battle between nationalism and a wider European identity in the 19th century has influenced philosophy to this day.
US marines walk through the rebuilt palace of King Nebuchadnezzar, in the ancient town of Babylon, in April 2003. The ruins suffered serious damage when American troops set up a military base amid the ruins during the Iraq War.
Reuters/Jerry Lampen
A scholar analyzed data about UNESCO World Heritage sites to explain why European cultural relics like Notre Dame are so beloved, while splendid monuments elsewhere remain relatively unknown.
‘American Progress’ by John Gast.
Wikipedia
Progress, in historical terms, has so often meant clearing places of their native inhabitants – both human and non-human.
Kaiser Wilhelm II and one of his generals in 1914.
PA Archive
A toxic mix of wishful thinking, brinksmanship, finger-pointing, and fatalism in July 1914 bear similarities to Brexit.
This undated score, written by Joseph Mohr and titled ‘Weynachts Lied’ (‘Christmas Carol’), is the earliest known surviving copy of ‘Silent Night.’
Salzburg Museum
Over 200 years ago, an Austrian priest teamed up with a schoolteacher to perform the first rendition of ‘Silent Night.’ Little did they know that it would one day be sung in over 300 languages.
Magnus Hirschfeld, on the right, sits with his partner, Tao Li, at the fourth conference of the World League for Sexual Reform in 1932.
Wellcome Images
Physician Magnus Hirschfeld advocated for those he called ‘sexual intermediaries.’ His activism began before World War I – and ended only when the Nazis came to power.
Jean-Baptiste Belley, Deputy of Saint-Domingue and French National Convention member (1793-97) with a bust of Abbé Raynal.
Some today declare that “Western civilisation” is something we should all be simply “for”. But the enlightenment, central to this civilisation, shows how things are rarely so simple.
Ugandan Asian family at Tonfanau Camp, April 1973.
Jim Arnould, Nova
Camps of the 20th century were focused on resettlement. Today, the focus is on confining movement and deportation. What changed?
Ukrainian protesters with the European Union flag in Maidan Square, Kiev, 2014.
EPA/Sergey Dolzhenko
After a century of debate, Europe still hasn’t figured out how to deal with its giant of a neighbour.
Nationalists demonstrate in support of the controversial new Holocaust law.
EPA/Jacek Turczyk
Criminalising suggestions that Poland was complicit in German atrocities during World War II denies history and will hinder scholarship.
Troublemakers both.
Wikimedia Commons
Two revolutions, 400 years apart, set in chain processes that claimed millions of lives.
Russian defense minister during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow.
REUTERS/Yuri Kochetkov
In the 19th century, Russian intellectuals launched a search for historical evidence of their moral and military superiority. What they found drives what today some call “Russian aggression.”
Agricultural Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1893.
University of Maryland Digital Collections
An anthropologist tells the story of how Columbus actually came close to falling into historical obscurity, until American hubris got in the way.
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All men must die, so the young women have grown up to take control.
Sky Atlantic
They are too well-behaved on Westeros – real-life queens often resorted to tears, temper tantrums and toilet humour.
German journalist and novelist Theodor Fontane.
Wikimedia Commons
Theodor Fontane was a German newspaper’s England correspondent – who reported ‘from’ London without leaving his Berlin desk.
The Treaty of Rome was signed at Campidoglio Palace on March 25, 1957.
Italy's News Photo/EPA
Sixty years since the Treaty of Rome was signed, the EU goal still remains clear: peace.
Donald Trump eats dinner with Mitt Romney (right) and Reince Priebus.
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Two Italian scholars who fled fascism in the 1920s urgently warned that American democracy was vulnerable to the same gradual erosion as in Italy. Their message still rings true today.
The building in Braunau Am Inn, Austria, where Hitler was born.
AP Photo
In the past, demolishing the dictator’s residences created a void exploited by Nazi sympathizers.
William Sadler II’s Battle of Waterloo.
British history is deeply connected to Europe and whatever the result of its referendum, this will continue.