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Political and Economic History

Cultural diversity – the making of Rome

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Richard Shrubb. The Roman Empire was arguably the most successful empire in history, eclipsing ...
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February 25, 2021

How the National Guard became the go-to military force for riots and civil disturbances

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Shannon M. Smith. The Pentagon has approved leaving 5,000 troops deployed indefinitely to protect the U.S ...
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February 25, 2021

The West and the Rest: Deconstructing the Great Divergence Debate

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Madison Moulton. The causes of global inequalities between the West and the East is ...
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February 23, 2021

Mapping the World: A Short History of Cartography

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes From the cave paintings of Montignac to the Mercator Projection and beyond, maps explain how ...
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February 16, 2021

The Cold War, Churchill’s Iron Curtain, and the Power of Imagery

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Michael Vecchio Many years of fighting and an estimated 85 million people dead; the ...
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February 15, 2021

After Caribbean Slavery – Indentured Labour

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Richard Shrubb. The abolition of slavery by the British Empire would cause an economic ...
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February 14, 2021

Long before GameStop, bucket shops challenged the legitimacy of Wall Street

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Robbie Moore, University of Tasmania. The gleeful manipulation of GameStop’s share price is not the first ...
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February 6, 2021

Australian government must negotiate a treaty with First Nations people

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Lidia Thorpe With 26 January looming, many Australians will be ashamed of the fact ...
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February 1, 2021

Quantity Becomes a Quality All of Its Own

Estimated reading time: 11 minutes In the history of warfare, there have been mismatched conflicts where skilled forces have been ...
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January 31, 2021

The Rise of Black Wall Street and the Race Massacre That Burned It Down

Estimated reading time: 11 minutes The Greenwood neighbourhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma was a hub for black business and wealth from ...
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January 29, 2021

The Battle of Kadesh and the World’s First Peace Treaty

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes For a shining example of ancient warfare and the cause of the world's first recorded ...
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January 24, 2021

Fake News, Misinformation and Propaganda Throughout History

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Madison Moulton Fake news has become a popular buzzword. However, the phenomenon is not ...
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January 17, 2021

Neutrality At All Costs: The Netherlands in WW1

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Fergus O'Sullivan World War 1 was a conflict that engulfed entire continents and swallowed ...
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January 17, 2021

Explainer: what is radiocarbon dating and how does it work?

Rachel Wood, Australian National University Radiocarbon dating has transformed our understanding of the past 50,000 years. Professor Willard Libby produced ...
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January 13, 2021
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The Changing Relationship Between the US Government and Native Americans

The Civilisation Program, the Indian Removal Act and the Cherokee Trail of Tears, 1776 - 1860. By Caitlan Hester The ...
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December 29, 2020

Best Historical Films 2010-2020

There may be many historically based films, but only a few can be rightfully called striking, emotional, and informative. As ...
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December 24, 2020

A Period of Change: Global Events in the Lead Up to WWI

By Madison Moulton. The history of the lead up to WWI is undoubtedly dominated by Europe. European powers understandably take ...
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December 14, 2020
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Decolonialising India’s Persianate Age

By Richard Shrubb. For the last 1,000 years and until very recently, scholars have held that the Indian sub-continent was ...
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December 14, 2020

Five Great Historically Accurate Films

By Michael Vecchio. Most history enthusiasts will eye the release of a new film on a historical topic somewhat sceptically, ...
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November 28, 2020

What Hamilton Got Wrong

By Carolyn Comeau. It’s important to take historically-based art, whether a painting that condenses a battle or the acclaimed Broadway ...
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November 11, 2020

Five of the Most Historically Accurate PC Games

By Fergus O'Sullivan. Plenty of video games are marketed as being historically accurate, but few truly are. In this article, ...
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November 8, 2020

Why Do We Have an 8-Hour Working Day?

By Anna McEvinney. The working day as we now know it was the result of international, cross-industry labour efforts from ...
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November 6, 2020

How Romania’s WW1 Gamble Paid Off Spectacularly

By Dan Teodorescu. The Great War was a major turning point for virtually all European countries, but not too many ...
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November 6, 2020

Interesting Stories of the Mound-Building Native American Civilizations of the Midwest

By Caitlan Hester. Native American Mound-Building Civilizations For over 5,000 years the Eastern, Southeastern, and the Midwestern U.S. were populated ...
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November 5, 2020

Slavery Compensation: Who Got Paid?

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes By Richard Shrubb. With the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834 the ...
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November 4, 2020

Battle of One Tree Hill, Australian Frontier Wars

The Battle of One Tree Hill in 1843 was one of the largest battles in the Australian frontier wars, taking ...
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August 25, 2020

Alexander Hamilton – Audiobook

Charles A. Conant Alexander Hamilton was a significant figure in the political and economic development of the early United States ...
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August 4, 2020

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