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Oluwole faced a double challenge: a woman in philosophy and an African, confronting both sexism and Eurocentric bias.
Students respond to history that feels local and personal. There are ways to do that even as Holocaust survivors pass away, one professor writes.
Oral history contributors were able to share their stories, and many felt a sense of healing.
While economic forces have streamlined many global dishes into uniform, predictable formats, pizza continues to thrive in all its messy and delicious variety.
Despite funding cuts, political scapegoating and internal tensions, thousands of volunteers came together in the 1980s to provide care to a stigmatized community.
‘The coal fire was where most of our participants let their minds linger.’
A look at Irish folklore surrounding women’s craft in time for Halloween, a time of the year when boundaries between worlds are said to be thin.
Oral histories serve as a challenge to the evidence in the colonial archive.
Although there is now a wide body of public information about residential schools, many people continue to have limited knowledge about them. That provides fertile ground for misinformation.
In the first wave to hit the beach, troops were met by withering German gunfire. But they kept pushing and established a small beachhead from which the invasion could continue.
50 years ago, the first shelter for women experiencing domestic violence was established in Sydney. It’s opening was far from a ribbon-cutting affair, but it’s legacy is long and powerful.
Many ‘myths’ are authentic memories of human pasts, told by people who passed down precise accounts of their history.
Ancient stories of the sea and the sky date back to the end of the last ice age.
Since 1937, this sociological project has sought to catalogue the nation’s feelings on everything from royal weddings and football matches to wars, dreams and elections.
Pore over family documents such as birth certificates and old passports, photographs and heirlooms, however trinket-like they might seem. Family history requires research in its broadest sense.
Windrush has turned out to be a defining moment in telling the story of Britain, with writing by Caribbean migrants fundamental to exposing the realities of the British empire.
The oral history showcases how the indie music scene became a way for many New Yorkers to channel their grief after 9/11.
The caves now serve as important safe spaces in an area designated ‘Firing Zone 918’ by Israel, as residents describe a growing wave of forced evictions and building demolitions.
The documentary, Tantura, has raised difficult questions about the foundation of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba.
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Research Fellow, adjunct, Flinders University
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Research Scientist in Archaeology, South Australian Museum
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Senior Researcher at the Archive & Public Culture, University of Cape Town
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PhD candidate, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences, University of New England
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Professor of History, UMass Amherst
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Professor of History, Monash University
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Lecturer, Durham University
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of Strathclyde
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Adjunct fellow, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre, Brown University
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Associate Professor of History, Clarkson University
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Research Fellow at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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Research Associate at Arctic institute of North America, University of Calgary