An expert taxidermist, she was the first professional female employee at any Australian museum – and was paid as much as the men.
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A barbecue, a protest … or a good book? We asked some of our leading historians to choose an illuminating Australia Day read.
This late-medieval document is written in encoded text that has yet to be cracked. But its numerous illustrations provide clues about its content.
Davis practised microhistory – analysing an incident, life or location as a way into writing about wider society
A history scholar sees leeway and loopholes in a wave of new state laws that seek to control what teachers can say about racism in America’s past.
The whole world saw the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol. How will the textbooks read by America’s students describe what took place?
An analysis of Australian history narratives in secondary school textbooks shows many still repeat the myth that Aboriginal peoples were nomadic hunter-gatherers.
Despite improvements to their content over time, secondary school history textbooks still imply that ‘real’ Australians are white.
A global approach to African history complements the radical post-colonial histories, while also asserting the role of the continent in the world’s global pasts and present.
The teaching of Islam is often limited to its religious practice. How Christians, Jews and Muslims borrowed freely from each other in the realm of art, music, and literature is seldom discussed.
France’s colonial legacy remains an uncomfortable subject.
American textbooks confine the history of indigenous peoples to a distant past.
Should history textbooks be revised to include Native American voices?
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Professor in the History of Art Islamic Art and Architecture, Yale University
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Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of History, University of Warwick
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Professor of Higher Education and Director, Museum of Education, University of South Carolina
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Director of The History & Civics Project, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Emeritus Professor of History, Australian National University
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Professor of History and Politics, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of History, CQUniversity Australia