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European History
The nation in chapel: Catholic citizenship and religious question in Spain, 1793-1874
Gregorio Alonso discusses the role of Catholic clergy in the creation and development of what has been called a…
Youth in the Fatherless Land: War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany
Andrew Donson discusses history of German youth in the First World War, the great era of mobilizing teenagers…
Liburnians and Illyrian Lembs: Iron Age Ships of the Eastern Adriatic
Danijel Dzino discusses an overview of archaeological evidence on the eastern Adriatic shipbuilding tradition. Image courtesy of Danijel…
The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure
On October 1771, a merchant ship out of Amsterdam, Vrouw Maria, crashed off the stormy Finnish coast, taking her historic…
Tourist footfall, tyre dust and leaded petrol
A helium‐enabled Niton X‐ray analyser (HHpXRF) study of 296 lava stepping stones from ancient Pompeii showed that their…
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
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
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…
The Renaissance in Italy
Kenneth Bartlett discusses the lives and works of the artists, patrons, and intellectuals who created some of the most enduring ideas and artefacts of Western civilization
Tocqueville on Democracy and Revolution
Daniel Gordon discusses Tocqueville’s major writings on democracy and revolution as well as his lesser- known writings on colonies, prisons and minorities
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