The surprise attack on Hawaii brought unimaginable suffering and led to further horror. Eight decades later, we must never forget.
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The Communist Party draws most of the members from South Africa’s mainly young, unemployed people, a group that keeps growing.
Australia has sent help to its nearest neighbour to deal with its COVID crisis. But to really forge the next chapter in that relationship, we need to understand the history between the two countries.
Some of our coastal defences are in desperate need of preservation and could be transformed into tourist attractions.
Comparisons with the second world war are usually unhelpful – but the crisis changed UK nursing for the better. The pandemic offers a similar chance to rethink nursing is provided.
In the 1980s, CSIRO and its university collaborators set into motion a chain of events that would lead to the production of relenza, the first drug to successfully treat the flu.
The second world war offers a possible blueprint for confronting the ventilator challenge.
The Never Again Education Act is meant to make Holocaust education more prominent in America’s schools. A scholar of Holocaust studies explains why that’s necessary.
A Disney Hitler comedy by the director of Hunt for the Wilderpeople tests the line between funny and Führer.
New research suggests people from Germany, Russia, the UK and US all think their own country was the most important in World War II.
It’s one of the largest prison escapes in world history and it’s through fiction we can understand the tragedy, from both an Australian and Japanese perspective.
Finding the wreck of SS Iron Crown, lost underwater for more than 70 years, was the (relatively) easy part. It’s what we can learn from now on that’s the challenge.
Army ration biscuits known as ‘Anzac tiles’ were durable but bland - as Australian war archives show, they served as stationery, Christmas cards and as the basis of art.
Though the fall of the Berlin Wall did not bring along the utopia many had hoped for, it is a symbolic moment for the victors of the Cold War.
6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. What happened then, and how we can keep to the promise – “never again”?
More than 16 million people lost their lives in world war one. Over a century later, we are still asking – for what?
More than 48 shipwrecks have been illicitly salvaged - and the figure may be much higher. Museums can play a key role in the protection of these wrecks, alongside strategic recovery and legislative steps.
What WWII-era African-American protests reveal about the historical relationship between Nazism and white supremacy in the United States.
The 1920s and early ‘30’s looked like the beginning of the end for centuries of gay intolerance. Then came fascism and the Nazis.
… and why their treatment angered human rights campaigners at the time.
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Patricia A. O'Brien is a Friend of The Conversation.Visiting Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University; Adjunct Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC; Adjunct Professor, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University
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Lecturer, Art & Design, UNSW
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Professor of Innovation Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Emeritus professor, University of Warwick
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Professor of History, Western Michigan University
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Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor in Journalism, Penn State
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Research Fellow, University of Warwick
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Lecturer in German history, University of Leeds
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Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Curriculum Coordinator, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University
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Lecturer in Military History, Bishop Grosseteste University
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Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, Dartmouth College
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Senior Lecturer, History, Flinders University
