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onto History and Historians August 7, 2015 12:48 PM
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Prejudice against the medieval runs deep. It is an adjective applied to atrocity, severe punishment, out-of-date technology (this “medieval” typewriter), and all illiberal attitudes. For many, the Middle Ages are ineradicably reprehensible, as well as comic: knights immobilized in their armor, fat monks panting after licentious nuns, ladies locked into chastity belts.
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'He led a movement that rejected historiography’s traditional emphasis on great events and leaders in favor of mining the “mental universe” of peasants, merchants and clergymen.'
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'We remember the legendary historian, author, professor, playwright and activist Howard Zinn, who was born 100 years ago today. Zinn was a regular guest on Democracy Now! from the start of the program in 1996 up until his death in 2010 at age 87. After witnessing the horrors of World War II as a bombardier, Zinn became a peace and justice activist who picketed with his students at Spelman College during the civil rights movement and joined in actions such as opposing the Vietnam War. He later spoke out against the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. "I believe neutrality is impossible, because the world is already moving in certain directions. Wars are going on. Children are starving," Zinn said in a 2005 interview. "To be neutral … is to collaborate with whatever is going on, to allow it to happen." His classic book, "A People's History of the United States," retells the country's history from the perspective of everyday people who resisted oppression and exploitation by more powerful forces.'
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'In his book, Past and Prologue: Politics and Memory in the American Revolution (Yale University Press, 2020), Michael D. Hattem discusses the creation of an American historical memory that started at the founding of the nation. His book traces the shifting narratives that would become “American history” and how that history was created during the revolutionary period. As he explains in an interview with Max Pierce, the way that we think and talk about the past has a large effect on what we think and do in the present—in reshaping and reimagining the past, we reshape and reimagine our present.'
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'The discovery of a shipwrecked warship that sank while carrying a future King has been hailed the most important maritime find since the Mary Rose. The Gloucester ran aground off the coast of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, in 1682, nearly killing the Duke of York, who became King James II of England. The find, which was discovered by divers in 2007, has only just been revealed due to security reasons.'
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"Putin justifies invading Ukraine by claiming its lands have long been part of Russia.'
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'Jonathan D. Spence, an eminent scholar of China and its vast history who in books like “God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan” (1996) and “The Search for Modern China” (1990) excavated that country’s past and illuminated its present, died on Saturday at his home in West Haven, Conn. He was 85.'
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How does our definition of history evolve?
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Greg Jenner, What is History?
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'For thousands of years, mathematicians were calculating Pi the obvious but numerically inefficient way. Then Newton came along and changed the game.'
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'This mid-1980s video is still one of the best accounts of Picasso's painting. It was part of the original Open University's radical re-assessment of Modern Art & Modernism, which set the agenda for the coming years.'
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German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts, all of which are accompanied by new English translations, and a wide range of visual imagery. The materials are presented in ten sections, which have been compiled by leading scholars. All of the materials can be used free of charge for teaching, research, and related purposes; the site is strictly intended for individual, non-commercial use.
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'Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Germany had caused "immeasurable suffering" to the Herero and Nama people, in what is now Namibia, in the early part of the 20th century.'
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Thousands of black and Asian British Empire troops, who died in the First World War, were not remembered properly, a report says.
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'In this documentary, Anthony Wilks traces the connections between the events of Eric Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years in Germany and his communist membership, to the jazz clubs of 1950s Soho and the makings of New Labour, taking in Italian bandits, Peruvian peasant movements and the development of nationalism in the modern world, with help from the assiduous observations of MI5. The film features contributions from Frances Stonor Saunders, Richard J. Evans, John Foot, Stefan Collini, Marlene Hobsbawm and Donald Sassoon, as well as Hobsbawm himself in extensive archive footage.'
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Try our online currency converter and find out how many animals, stones of wool and quarters of wheat you can buy, and how much you could earn.
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'Welcome to the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War, the first museum dedicated to this central event of 20th century history. The conflict in Spain between 1936 and 1939 generated unprecedented global engagement, and more than 80 years after its conclusion, it remains the subject of both interest and controversy. The five galleries you can visit now are the first stage of an ongoing project that will grow over time.'
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'E.H. Carr’s belief that the histories we get depend on the questions we ask is more relevant than ever.'
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'Kyiv has a long and turbulent history. From the Mongols to the Nazis, Kyiv has witnessed many occupiers, and been the scene of many massive battles.'
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'The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece joined forces to take on the mighty Persian Empire. After the defeat and death of the Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, the Persians burned Athens, and the Greek alliance seemed close to collapse. But thanks to the foresight of Athenian general Themistocles and the heroism of the Greek fleet, the Persians would meet with disaster in the narrow straits of Salamis.'
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The bestselling historian argues we’re ignoring some incredibly important periods.
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Peter Frankopan, what history should be learnt in school?
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'A fuzzy newspaper image may be a record of the only time a union jack and a Nazi swastika flew together in Britain, experts have said. The recently discovered photograph was taken during a German boxing team's visit to Nottingham in October 1936. Despite tension rising between the countries, visits between groups and societies were common.'
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'Two new books, Margaret MacMillan’s War and Martin Sherwin’s Gambling with Armageddon, offer close studies of how we end up, or almost end up, marching into war.'
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'Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks about everything from the Aztecs to witches, Velázquez to Shakespeare, Mughal India to the Mayflower. Not, in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.Each episode Suzannah is joined by historians and experts to reveal incredible stories about one of the most fascinating periods in history. '
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"About 27% of 14th and 15th Century skeletons found in Cambridge digs had bunions."
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"As two UK universities cut their courses, historians fear others could follow."
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'John of Gaunt, third surviving son of King Edward III of England, was wealthy, powerful – and his lineage would go on to irrevocably shape the royal histories of England and Spain. Writing for HistoryExtra, historian Helen Carr shares a guide to the life of the medieval prince – a tale of war, unrest and betrayal…'
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'Prejudice against the medieval runs deep.' Eric Christiansen writing in the New York Review of Books.