Reading time: 11 minutes
From the moment it took power, the Nazis ruled over a German state possessed of two armies. One was the inheritor of the imperial lineage of the First World War, and the second was the Waffen-SS, which grew from a tiny band of Hitler’s most hardened antisemites to a force of nearly a million men from over two dozen nations before its demise.
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes The Russo-Japanese War resulted in one of Russia’s greatest...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes The battles between Britain and France following the French...
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GENS DU PAYS: A HISTORY OF QUEBEC’S STRUGGLE FOR SOVEREIGNTY Reading time: 13 minutes Vive le...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes On 29 December 1890, between 150-300 Sioux Lakota men, women,...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes The plight of Jewish refugees after the outbreak of World War II...
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Reading time: 10 minutes
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” President JFK’s inspiring words sparked the race to the moon.
In this lesson we will be learning about the rising corruption and also huge economic growth in the Americas in the 21st Century.
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Reading time: 46 minutes
The French historian Ernest Renan described forgetting as “an essential factor in the creation of a nation”, since patriots do not want to remember the “deeds of violence” at the origin of all political formations. In the Australian context, a strange contradiction contributes to the ongoing amnesia about slavery and its consequences. From the very beginning, enslavement shaped white settlement in Australia – and so, too, did abolitionism. That paradox, a peculiar entwinement of two ostensibly antagonistic impulses, makes for a complicated narrative, one that cannot be grasped simply as a local version of the better-known American story.
In this lesson we will be learning about the parliamentary monarchy in England and the power of the church during that time
Read MoreThis lesson will take us to medieval times as we learn about the medieval way of life, culture and the inevitable black death.
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Reading time: 5 minutes
Most history enthusiasts will eye the release of a new film on a historical topic somewhat sceptically, thinking ‘will they get it right?’ Here are some that did!
Reading time: 6 minutes
Thanks to their meticulous preservation, museums and their millions of historical artefacts usually stand the test of time. Sometimes, however, it’s not time that historians and archaeologists should worry about, but human action, or occasionally even natural disasters.
In this lesson we will be learning about the growing problems and conflicts plaguing Africa in the 21st century.
Read MoreThis lesson will take us to the industrial revolution as we learn about the new and innovative changes to transportation.
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Reading time: 7 minutes
In the breakthrough High Court case Love and Thoms vs Commonwealth in 2020, the court ruled that First Nations people could not be considered aliens in Australia. As Justice James Edelman noted in the decision, whatever the other manners in which they were treated […] Aboriginal people were not ‘considered as foreigners in a kingdom which is their own’.
This lesson will take us to pre-Islamic Arabia where Bedouin tribes inhabited the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam around 700 CE.
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Reading time: 6 minutes
Often people think about the Aboriginal Tent Embassy as something historic, dating back to the 1970s. But it should also be thought of as a site of the longest protest for Indigenous land rights, sovereignty and self-determination in the world.
Reading time: 6 minutes This year marks the 200th anniversary of the battle of Carabobo, a major...
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Madison Moulton. The causes of global inequalities between...
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