Narrative spin China wages war on ‘historical nihilism’ Alternative interpretations of history are treated by the CCP not as matters to debate but as threats to its power and control explainer Liam Scott
The Nazi concentration camps on British soil the UK government tried to forget The Channel Island of Alderney was the only piece of territory Hitler ever managed to occupy. Now, a fight is underway about what really happened there. feature Isobel Cockerell
Identity Medieval history powers a crisis of identity in Lithuania and Belarus Lithuania and Belarus were once part of a single, sprawling state. Now each neighbor resents the other for staking a claim to a shared history feature Daiva Repečkaitė
Memory Unsolved murders and unexamined atrocities threaten Northern Ireland’s precarious social peace Everybody in Northern Ireland lived with their own version of what happened during the Troubles. Then the British government tried to close the book on the conflict feature Caitlin Thompson
Memory Poland's ministry of memory spins the Holocaust Poland's National Institute of Remembrance is at the center of the right-wing government's efforts to re-shape history feature Katia Patin
Memory Invasion of Ukraine pushes Georgia to reexamine its fraught history with Moscow Russian involvement in Georgia’s 1990s wars in a breakaway region triggers a reassessment of buried trauma essay Natalia Antelava
Identity Pro-Russian rallies sputter, but still rattle a nervous Germany Fringe groups in Germany spreading Kremlin narratives are failing to catch on, but they underscore how the country’s extremism is changing as ideological divisions blur feature Sally McGrane
Memory The Russian May 9 holiday points to the toxicity of the country’s politics of memory Under Putin, the Second World War victory day commemoration has been shaped by a carefully choreographing of an invented tradition essay Robert Dale
Memory Banned, burned and critically acclaimed: Global reactions to a Holocaust survival story Art Spiegelman’s Maus has long been a lightning rod for its provocative design and depiction of history. feature Erica Hellerstein
Memory Germany's historical reckoning is a warning for the US Germany is held up as the model for historical reconciliation. But as America grapples with the legacy of racial violence, the real lesson lies in the conversations Germans still can't have feature Erica Hellerstein
Identity Ukraine’s music reveals the past and points to the country’s future Maria Sonevytsky, an ethnomusicology researcher, discusses how Ukraine’s rich musical traditions are bound to sovereignty and national identity q&a Mariam Kiparoidze
Identity How Ukrainian writers have experienced the war in Ukraine Kate Tsurkan, a Ukraine-based writer and translator, recommends Ukrainian-language authors who are influenced by their first-hand experience with conflict and war in Ukraine roundup Mariam Kiparoidze
Identity Exploring the everyday lives of the people in eastern Ukraine Ukrainian photographer Yevgenia Belorusets, writes fictional stories of people living under constant danger q&a Mariam Kiparoidze
Narrative spin Politics hijack history at the movies Movies have long taken liberties with historical truth. But these films cross into polemical nonsense roundup Mariam Kiparoidze
Identity A historian of the Soviet Union locates a rich and complicated Black experience Slavic Studies scholar Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon tracks Soviet anti-racism to today q&a Glenn Kates
