European history

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  9/8/2020
  

  Centrists Are Pining for a Golden Age that Never Was (Review)

  A review of Anne Applebaum's "Twilight of Democracy" argues that the author focuses on the role of nostalgia and personality in driving authoritarianism and breaking up the center-right coalition, but ignores the fact that that the center failed to deliver an improved standard of living to the broad public. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/6/2020
  

  Coronavirus Depletes the Keepers of Europe’s Memory

  The pandemic has hastened the departure of witnesses to the wrenching conflicts of the last century, allowing rising political forces to recast history.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/7/2020
  

  What Were the Origins of the Holocaust?

  A review of German historian Gotz Aly's new book "Europe Against the Jews: 1880-1945."

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  3/2/2020
  

  Experience 1930s Europe Through the Words of Two African American Women

  by Ethelene Whitmire

  In the pages of the “Chicago Defender,” the cousins detailed their adventures traversing the continent while also observing signs of the changing tides.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/1/2019
  

  Michael Howard, Eminent British Military Historian, Dies at 97

  A decorated soldier in World War II, he helped reshape the study of war and was knighted in 1986 for his academic work.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  November 30, 2019
  

  The Narwhal Tusk Has a Mystical History. A New Chapter was added on London Bridge.

  by Miriam Berger

  For centuries Europeans sought out the “unicorn horn” of the arctic-dwelling narwhal whale. 

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• 10/13/19
  

  International Resistance in World War 2 Europe

  by Olivier Wieviorka

  While national histories of wartime resistance are plentiful, the European dimension of the shadow army has rarely been taken into account.

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• 9/22/19
  

  The Separation of Church and State is About Freedom For Religion not Freedom From Religion

  by Christopher Binetti

  History shows that the State is more of a threat to the Church than vice-versa.

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• 9/8/19
  

  Sir Ian Kershaw on His Latest Book, Brexit, and the Future of Europe

  by David O’Connor

  "The EU has come a long way and, as Brexit shows, the networks built up over previous decades are extremely complex."

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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.