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  • 21 Nov 2024
    Lesley J. Gordon

    “Remember the Hero: Writing about Cowardice and War”

    Dread Danger: Combat and Courage in the American Civil War originated with my long-time interest in an anti-heroic, non-triumphant approach to war. Since graduate school, I have been drawn to trying to understand myths and the creation of historical narratives, especially how and why we collectively remember certain tales of the past yet forget others. […]

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  • 19 Sep 2024
    Edward Burke

    Ulster’s Lost Counties: A Warning from the Past?

    In the midst of the Anglo-Irish War, on 21 August 1920, fourteen IRA volunteers attacked a farm owned by the Corscadden family at Carricknahorna in the hills of South Donegal. This was later the family home of Hazel Corscadden, the mother of future British prime minister Tony Blair. James Corscadden, the owner of the farm, […]

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  • 19 Sep 2024
    Marie-Amélie George

    Finding Hope for the Future in Queer History

    LGBTQ+ rights are under attack around the country. In just the first six months of 2024, state legislators introduced 527 bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community. The situation is so dire that the Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans.             Although these legal attacks are painful and dispiriting, the LGBTQ+ movement’s […]

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  • 21 Aug 2024
    Emmanuel Destenay

    America’s French Orphans: Mobilization, Humanitarianism, and the Protection of France during World War

    Months before the United States entered the war, American men, women, and children mobilized to “adopt” France’s orphans. Through a binational humanitarian relief organization known as the Fatherless Children of France Society (FCFS), Americans provided for the material needs of some 300,000 orphans across France between 1915 and 1921. Founded in 1915 by Émile Deutsch […]

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  • 25 Apr 2024
    Eric Grynaviski, Miles M. Evers

    America’s First Pacific Empire

    Beginning in the 1850s, the United States took its first, incautious steps toward developing an overseas empire in the Pacific. In the end, the empire would help defeat Japan during World War II. The bloodiest and most infamous battles of the Pacific War were fought on possessions gained by American imperialists. The first American shots […]

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  • 24 Apr 2024
    Lucy Grig

    ‘‘Rainy, rainy rattle-stanes’: Ritual responses to extreme weather in Late Antiquity’

    As I write this, England has had the wettest twelve months since 1871 (although it has seemingly been drier in Scotland, where I live – even if it does not necessarily feel that way). Weather stories, including those dealing with extreme weather, are increasingly a feature of our news cycles, as part of the ever […]

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  • 4 Apr 2024
    David P. Fields

    Not Broke, but You Can See the Cracks

    “Not as bad as we might have feared; not as good as we might have hoped” is one way to think of the four years in which Donald Trump put his uniquely Trumpian spin on US-Korean relations. And lest we forget, there was reason to be afraid as President Trump taunted the young leader of […]

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  • 27 Mar 2024
    Corinne Bonnet

    Gods in a nutshell: divine names in the ancient Mediterranean world

    Thales of Miletus, in the 6th century BCE, asserted that “everything is full of gods”. In his view, even inanimate things were in fact animate. His vision of the world, taken up by Plato, implies the presence of an infinite number of divinities in the kosmos, which is also inhabited by human beings. The complexity […]

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