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Hermann Budzislawski and the Twentieth Century
Daniel Siemens discusses one of Germany’s most ostracized public intellectuals of the twentieth century: Hermann Budzislawski, a German-born Jewish publicist, politician and later professor of journalism
On Australia in War and Peace
Carl Bridge discusses the collaborative research project between the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies (MCAS), King’s College London and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in Canberra, Australia.
Our Corner of the Somme: Australia at Villers-Bretonneux
Romain Fathi discusses the memorialisation of Australia's role on the Western Front and the Anzac mythology that so heavily contributes to Australians' understanding of themselves
Radical Chic? How Culture Countered Wesker in the 1960s
Lawrence Black discusses Arnold Wesker’s place within theatre culture and questions the canonical boundaries associated with his work.…
Sidelining Selma’s Segregationists
George Lewis discusses the idea of segregationists being “sidelined” in US history, and the role that public memory…
Korea Between Empires
Andre Schmid discusses the development of a Korean national consciousness. Focusing on two critical periods in Korean history,…
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
Paul Cartledge discusses the differences and the interconnections between the Thebes of myth and the Thebes of history
Statistical Approaches to the Diplomatics of Institutional Topography
Michael Gervers and Gelila Tilahun discuss the application of statistical methods for applying chronology to undated English medieval documents
Harry Clark Bentley
Clifford Putney discusses the life story of Harry Clark Bentley, a prominent accountant and educator in Massachusetts. Bentley founded…
At Wit’s End: The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke
Louis Kaplan discusses the Jewish joke as a rhetorical figure in larger cultural debates in Germany and how…
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