The International Geography festival puts Saint-Dié on the map, but its map-making history dates back to the early 16th century, when the French town in the Vosges was a hotspot for scholarly geographical research.
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The State Department views a 1960s-era internationalist movement based in Havana as a Cuban communist plot to destroy America. The truth was far more nuanced.
After the colonists declared their independence, designing a government was next. Three of the founding generation said the new government needed to account for the flaws in human nature.
During and after WWI, thousands of American women acted as mothers for displaced French children. A war studies research fellow weighs in with considerations for teaching this vital, often overlooked part of transatlantic wartime history.
A study provides new insights into how magic mushrooms evolved and may have travelled the world.
Citizenship as reparation must not translate into citizenship as entitlement.
The tools that feminist science studies have developed are critical to the sciences because they ask new questions, and develop new methodologies.
There is no evidence whatsoever that Afrikaners or white people more generally are subject to genocide.
Good resistance fighters aren’t scared to take risks.
Widely regarded as being created by a Canadian in America, the history of basketball often overlooks the role played by the strong Scots heritage and influences that informed James Naismith’s identity, character and values.
The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to claim a meaningful victory.
Trump and the movement behind him is both new and old. Times are unprecedented but also, to historians of America, frighteningly familiar. Nick Bryant’s book excavates that history.
A world where the US has fewer allies would be an even more dangerous place.
The early settlement of the Americas is hugely contested area of archaeology.
Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel in 13 years blurs fact and fiction, mining his youth for material. The result is Joan Didion meets Brian De Palma.
Nona Willis Aronowitz, daughter of a second-wave feminist, ranges across the contemporary sexual landscape – and looks back at the history of feminism – in a ‘zig zag pursuit of sexual liberation’.
The comic offers important ways of criticising those in power. Trevor Noah is superb at it.
Lawmakers are seeking to downplay the role that slavery played in the development of the United States, but history tells a different story.
The assassination of the leader of al-Qaida in Kabul raises some important questions about divisions among the Taliban leadership.
The US president was hoping that the gathering of Latin American leaders would present a united front of migrants. But several key players were absent.
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