European history

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• SOURCE: The Week
  6/16/2019
  

  How the world's monarchs are adapting to modern times

  Kings, queens, and emperors have ruled over nations for 5,000 years. How have they adapted to the 21st century?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/6/19
  

  Brexit? Danes Have Seen This Show, and It Doesn’t End Well

  In 1864, riding a wave of nationalism, another former colonial power, Denmark, became engulfed in a doomed military conflict against Prussian and Austrian forces, experiencing a crushing loss that led to the surrender of around a third of its territory.

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• 4/15/19
  

  The Sorrow of Watching Notre Dame Burn

  by Ed Simon

  "In this age of uncertainty, of rage, of horror, and of violence; of the decline of democracy and the heating of the planet; it can feel as if Notre-Dame’s fire is as if watching the very world itself be engulfed."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/16/19
  

  The accused New Zealand shooter and an all-white Europe that never existed

  Brenton Tarrant covered his arsenal with symbols and names that medieval historians say are being misused by white supremacists.

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• 3/3/19
  

  Genocide Denial In Bosnia: A Danger to Europe and to the World

  by Albinko Hasic

  The same de-humanizing philosophy which fed into ethnic and religious tropes leading to genocide is back, perhaps stronger than ever.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/11/19
  

  Ancient European Stone Monuments Said to Originate in Northwest France

  Research on Stone Age tombs throughout Europe offers a new answer to an old debate on where and when the iconic stone works were first built.

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• SOURCE: Visual Capitalist / YouTube channel Cottereau
  9-15-18
  

  Video of the Week: An Animated Map shows 2,400 years of European History

  Empires rise and fall, invasions sweep across the continent, and the borders of modern countries slowly begin to take shape.

• SOURCE: Der Spiegel
  7-26-13
  

  'An anxious continent': Walter Laqueur on Europe's decline

  British-American historian Walter Laqueur experienced the demise of the old Europe and the rise of the new. In a SPIEGEL interview, he shares his gloomy forecast for a European Union gripped by debt crisis. SPIEGEL: Mr. Laqueur, you experienced Europe and the Europeans in the best and the worst of times. Historical hot spots and the stations of your personal biography were closely and sometimes dramatically intertwined. Which conclusions have you reached today, at the advanced age of 92?Laqueur: I became a historian of the postwar era in Europe, but the Europe I knew no longer exists. My book "Out of the Ruins of Europe," published in 1970, ended with an optimistic assessment of the future. Later, in 2008, "The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent" was published. I returned to the subject in my latest book, "After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent." The sequence of titles probably says it all.SPIEGEL: The last two, at any rate, sound as if the demise of the Western world were imminent.