Their Wins Are Their Own, Not Ours
In July of 2021, Zalia Avant-garde, an eighth grader from Harvey, Louisiana, became the first Black student to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the organization’s ninety-six-year history.
In July of 2021, Zalia Avant-garde, an eighth grader from Harvey, Louisiana, became the first Black student to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the organization’s ninety-six-year history.
The American Civil War’s impact upon Sino-American commerce – a topic explored more thoroughly in my recent article with the Historical Journal – is more fascinating still given the parallel unfolding of China’s own Taiping Civil War.
All I hoped as I embarked on my doctorate devoted to cross-cultural encounters between the International Brigades and the Spaniards who hosted them in the course of the Spanish Civil War was that those cross-cultural encounters had actually taken place.
‘Human sacrifice’ isn’t a practice that we tend to associate early modern Europe. Nor would we expect it to be defended in a court of law. Yet this is exactly what happened in 1783 in a case concerning a British slaving ship, the Zong.
In a special session of parliament held on 27 February 2022, German Minister of Finance Christian Lindner discussed how the Russian invasion of Ukraine affected his country’s energy strategy. “We will build-up reserves of gas and coal, in order to increase our perseverance,” he said.
Critical Pakistan Studies will be the first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its peopleJournal will be interdisciplinary and open accessAims to give the widest possible understanding of Pakistan, past, and present Cambridge University Press is to publish the world’s first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its people.…
Carl Schmitt, “the famous professor of constitutional and international law who later became a Nazi” (as Hannah Arendt once put it), continues to shock and intrigue, to convince and exasperate.…
At times during the past few years, evidence sessions of the UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee have made headline news, for example Dominic Cummings’ account of his time advising the Prime Minister during the COVID-19 pandemic, or controversial witness statements about diversity and inclusion in STEM careers.…
Nobody knows when and why did the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) begin its nuclear weapon program. Our current state of knowledge regarding these simple questions is at best partial; scholars point to different periods as its origin such as 1950 (when the Korean War broke out), 1958 (when the United Stated brought nuclear weapons to South Korea), 1964 (when the People’s Republic of China tested its first bomb), or 1979 (when South Korea started its undeclared enrichment activities that were revealed only in 2014).…
In 2020, the city of Rijeka, which is located in the Kvarner gulf in present-day Croatia, was awarded the title of European Capital of Culture. Although the Covid surge heavily affected the cultural programmes, Rijeka’s multi-layered history has still proved able to stir up historical controversies.
The European Union (EU) has been hit by a series of crises in the past two decades testing its sense of solidarity and institutional design, namely the 2008 financial crisis, the migration crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and now most recently, the Russia-Ukraine War.…
After the Second World War, the Soviet Union established the Central and Western Europe as its sphere of domination. In the states which found themselves within it, absolute power was assumed by communist parties, which followed instructions coming from Moscow.…
A new analysis of ancient faeces found at the site of a prehistoric village near Stonehenge has uncovered evidence of the eggs of parasitic worms, suggesting the inhabitants feasted on the internal organs of cattle and fed leftovers to their dogs.…
This reflection was prompted by my research into Poland's display at the International Labour Exhibition Turin in 1961 which is the subject of my current article. An unassuming symbol of a stick figure placed within parentheses was designed by a creative duo Wojciech Zamecznik and Jan Lenica.
After over two years of living in a pandemic, most everyone is familiar with COVID-19’s periods of incubation, progression and contagion. Similar issues were of great concern to physicians in early modern Europe.
The times they are a-changing, Bob Dylan once noted, and so are the concepts we use to make sense of the world.…
There can be little doubt that the Anglo-Norman (or English) invasion of the twelfth century was one of the most important events of Irish history. By the time it took place it had been considered for some years by the English king, Henry II, and some modern commentators have been disposed to regard it as an inevitability.
My article analyses the entanglement of neutrality and displacement in two European colonial territories in South China – British-ruled Hong Kong and Portuguese-ruled Macau – during the Second World War in East Asia (1937-1945).
My aim in this piece, however, is to suggest that there is much to be gained from turning to Hobbes’s immediate Parisian surroundings—for, France had its own share of intellectual and political turmoil during the decade of 1640s.
The Chinese political thinker Liu Xiaofeng is widely considered a key figure in the formation of the “Chinese Straussian School,” a loose intellectual faction that preached anti-liberal doctrines and advocated a quasi-theological form of authoritarian leadership in contemporary China.
Since the demise of Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), known as the “Mahatma” or the Great Soul, numerous studies have unsurprisingly been published about him, particularly concerning his concept of “non-violence,” a central virtue of his anti-colonial satyagraha campaign. It is tempting to think that nothing new can be offered on the subject. However, by reading his writings in Gujarati, his native tongue, it is possible to reveal important and original insights.
The article contributes, instead, to new writings about ‘popular individualism’ in this period, showing how large scale political movements around ‘the individual’ reshaped cultural and social life.
My article argues that various segments of Dutch society, at one time or another, preferred fleeting acts of solidarity to open protests and active resistance against the Nazis.
In 1978, an internal report by the Securitate, the Romanian political police, openly blamed the National Office for Tourism-Carpathians (ONT-Carpathians), the state agency in charge of running tourism, of ‘commercialism’.
It’s sometimes assumed that colonial war crimes were the product of fascism, but I discuss some atrocities of the Liberal era and the military culture that helped to produce them.
Myers’s work excavates how the subjective shock of the end of a long-standing model of the organized industrial workplace in Italy manifested as a disruption of people’s sense of temporal continuity.
Fighting the enemies of Fascist Italy was a major concern for Benito Mussolini’s regime not only within the peninsular borders but also within the colonial administration. This was especially true in the colonial territories that constitute present-day Libya at the time of Fascist rule, where the Duce government established a branch of the Special Tribunal for the Defence of the State based in Rome, having an analogous composition and goal.
For more than a year now, on every weekday at noon, academics at Boğaziçi University gather in the main courtyard for a silent vigil turning their backs against the Rector’s Building carrying posters demanding the removal of the appointed rector and his appointees, the reinstitution of rectorate elections and the annulment of arbitrary decisions such as the opening of new programs.…
Since the beginning of 2022, Turkey has witnessed an unexpected strike wave. The strike by couriers at Trendyol, an e-commerce platform bought by Alibaba in 2018, has attracted the most public attention.…
How did a Scottish Catholic bishop who as a young man was imprisoned for participating in the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion help his community enter mainstream political culture? By holding fast to the very principles that formed the religious basis of Jacobitism.
In the first half of the twentieth century, locust plagues were managed by imperial governments, advised by their scientific institutions.
Guzmán’s article can be used to teach about and discuss the ways race, racism, and inequality have been—and continue to be—artificially constructed via extra-legal means and motives.
This article explores the career of Iosif Lavrent’evich Mordovets who was the chief of the Soviet political police in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) for more than a decade (1944-1955). His long career as a chekist started in Ukraine in the early 1930s continuing through the Great Terror in 1937-38 into 1940-41 Romanian Bessarabia occupied by the Soviet Union.
The history I tell in [my article] exemplifies how indispensable quotations can become... They invoke tradition, generating a sense of belonging and inspiring the young, and are involved in innovation, too.
Despite the fact that the leaders of the current governing alliance (Cumhur İttifakı– People’s Alliance) deny the possibility of a snap election, my short answer to the question in the title is “yes.”…
By focusing on the example of William Harvey and his travels, my article explores the difficulties encountered by those involved in collecting, preserving and transporting natural history specimens from the field to the museum or laboratory in the nineteenth century.
I wrote this article to take this past more seriously on its own terms, and to understand how the political, religious, and economic context of Ireland and its diaspora shaped a culture that, for historians of sexuality, will be familiar yet distinctive.
Between 1945 and 1953, scores of former fascists flocked to the Spanish capital; initially, they were just looking for a safe lay-over in their escape from Allied justice.