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Bernice Lerner is the author of All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen (Johns Hopkins University Press). Women survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, April 17-18, 1945 When I was a…
Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro are two world leaders who have linked their own rule to revisionist histories of their nations’ past dictatorships. Of these history producers who were killed for political reasons, three were…
There is no doubt that the Russian invasion of Ukraine constitutes a criminal act of aggression. What lay behind this, however, is a complicated set of competing geopolitical ambitions and threat perceptions, and beyond these, a fundamental weakness…
Jeff Schneider is a retired history teacher in the New York City public schools, predominantly at Midwood High School in Brooklyn. He has also taught in the New York City Colleges including Hunter College and City College. This essay is…
Elena Conis is a writer and historian of medicine, public health, and the environment. She teaches at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Media Studies Program, and directs the graduate program in Public Journalism. Her latest book is How…
Scott Huffard is an Associate Professor of History at Lees-McRae College. He is the author of Engines of Redemption: Railroads and the Reconstruction of Capitalism in the New South, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2019, and…
In 1774, the British Parliament passed the Coercive Acts, a group of measures primarily intended to punish Boston for rebellion against the British government—namely, the Boston Tea Party. However, the impact of these acts stretched far beyond Massachusetts. The four…
Just two months after becoming president and one month after pardoning Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal, President Gerald Ford turned to another challenge facing the country: high inflation. The Republican president’s solution, unveiled in an October…
In the summer of 1877, the United States experienced its first multi-state railroad strike. Starting in West Virginia, the strike quickly spread to other parts of the country, and even turned into a general strike in some cities. The protest…
When it comes to royal succession, ceremony is sacred. And for the British monarchy, a key element of ceremony are objects that have become imbued with symbolism over the centuries. During Queen Elizabeth II‘s funeral and King Charles III’s coronation…
