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US President Donald Trump is not an accident of history. His re-election is in line with a profound structural change in American society that began at the end of the Cold War.
The objectification of women at the heart of 90s pop culture does not gel with what we think of as the sexually open, progressive politics of generation Z.
Gov. Tim Walz used geographic information systems as a schoolteacher. How will that experience come into play if he and Kamala Harris win the White House in November?
Edwina Preston approaches Nova Weetman’s ‘generous and open’ grief memoir from a place of shared loss.
Ontario almost joined Manitoba and Québec in eliminating the under-18 minimum wage 30 years ago. Then Bob Rae reneged on an election promise.
What did Australians do online in the 1990s? Shared bioinformatics data, made cyberfeminist zines, cruised the information superhighway …
Gen Z’s interest in flip phones is the latest in a series of obsessions young people have for the aesthetic of the 1990s and 2000s.
Launched in Brisbane in 1985, the final 9 stores will close this Sunday. Australia’s tastes have changed.
When Russia transitioned from a command economy to a market-based one, many thought it would lead to huge unemployment. It didn’t – but that’s because much of it was hidden.
Anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers love Y2K for all the wrong reasons.
Unlicensed music events are on the rise again – and the free parties of the 1980s and 90s show they’re not all bad.
Bill Clinton and Donald Trump share an awkward anniversary.
The radical right has a keen sense of its own history, and the violence of the 1990s is still fresh in its memory.
The 1990s was once the forgotten decade of the 20th century but no longer.
Twin Peaks has just hit our streaming services, again, alongside reboots of the X-Files, Gilmore Girls, and more. But, despite our nostalgia, they’ll never revive the specific time they were born in.
The 20th century saw battle lines drawn between music-driven youth movements and the state like none before.
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PhD Candidate, Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British and American History, Bath Spa University
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Professor of history, Queen's University Belfast
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Lecturer in American History, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, Griffith University
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Professor of History, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS), Concordia University
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Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, RMIT University
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Visiting Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Cultural Sociology, University of Groningen
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business, University of New Brunswick
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Head of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Management and Director, Institute for Social Responsibility, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies and Creative Writing, Monash University
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Professor of Practice & Director, Fletcher Maritime Studies Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Research professor of geospatial technology, The Fletcher School, Tufts University