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The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on the deeper ideas and laws that the Spanish used to take over the New World.
Life on Our Planet has some important messages about the nature of evolution, and what the future may hold for us.
There have been numerous efforts to limit students’ access to books and curricula about certain historical and societal topics. But history itself shows democracy suffers when people are uninformed.
The US and the Soviet Union never engaged in direct combat, but their influences were felt worldwide, including in armed conflicts involving other nations.
A scholar of multicultural education says the COVID-19 pandemic gives parents of color the chance to choose what their children learn at home.
To find out how the teaching of Captain Cook in Australian schools has changed, I examined textbooks used in the 1950s until today.
A scholar’s efforts to learn how textbooks in New Jersey were portraying the Holocaust leads her to testify against a history teacher who taught his students to question if the Holocaust took place.
This year marks 100 years since the fighting stopped in the first world war. The commemoration of the armistice, Remembrance Day, remains potent but is also changing with the times.
The Russian Revolution – an event that affected more than Russia and was more than a revolution.
Understanding the impact of Apartheid requires looking beyond Nelson Mandela’s achievements to the bloody struggles of the African National Congress and international forces prolonging the violence.
China is one of the world’s largest economies, and Deng Xiaoping was arguably the man who made that happen through his visions of economic reform.
Though more consequences are likely to develop in the post-9/11 era, the war on terror, heightened government surveillance and Islamophobia are notable legacies of this early 21st century tragedy.
Though the fall of the Berlin Wall did not bring along the utopia many had hoped for, it is a symbolic moment for the victors of the Cold War.
The Iranian Revolution was a hard-fought battle for those in favour of the Islamist model of governance, inspiring similar movements that have had varying degrees of success across the region.
6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. What happened then, and how we can keep to the promise – “never again”?
Forefather of contemporary neoliberalism or violent dictator – Pinochet’s complicated legacy in Chile and the world.
When the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, it unleashed one of the most devastating events in history, which still has implications today.
More than 16 million people lost their lives in world war one. Over a century later, we are still asking – for what?
North and South Korea explained in five questions and answers.
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Associate Professor of International Relations, American University School of International Service
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Associate Professor, School of History, ANU / Chercheur Associé at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Australian National University
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Professor of History, School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor of History, The University of Queensland
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (UTS:ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of US and International History, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Professor of History, Australian National University
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Professor of Islamic Studies, Head of School, The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation, Charles Sturt University
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Hansen Professor in History, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of History, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences Education, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Sociology, Rowan University
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Professor of International and Multicultural Education, University of San Francisco