History

Interpreting the past to serve political agendas

An anti-Soviet protest in Kazakhstan haunts the country's current unrest

A deadly 1986 street protest in Almaty precipitated the Soviet collapse. Suddenly talk of the "December Demonstration" is all over social media, despite decades of officially enforced forgetting. Historians, sociologists and journalists weigh in on the importance of reckoning with the past to interpret the present

Alexandra Tyan and Caitlin Thompson

The Capitol insurrection in the classroom

We talked to social studies experts on how students should learn about January 6th

Mariam Kiparoidze

Fury and grief for Spaniards in fight to remove Franco's murdered victims from the Valley of the Fallen

Relatives are denied dignity for the human remains of Franco's victims

Isobel Cockerell

Kashmir’s vanishing newspaper archives

In a long-troubled region of India, articles critical of the national government are being erased from the websites of local news outlets. Journalists believe that pressure from New Delhi is to blame

Letter from Germany: A strange and enduring love affair with the antebellum South

Tucked away in a leafy area of Berlin, the Uncle Tom’s Cabin subway station may look like the last vestige of a national obsession with the darkest period of American history, but these ideas live on in other ways

Erica Hellerstein

Memory in the age of impunity

There were once ‘grand narratives’ that explained everything from the behavior of states to literature. The collapse of connected storylines calls for new thinking on what binds us, from Manila to Silicon Valley to Moscow

Peter Pomerantsev

Refugee crossings and anti-immigrant sentiment spark a historical reckoning in an English seaside town

Folkestone has become a frontline for the far-right — but some residents are fighting back by recalling its long tradition of welcoming refugees

Isobel Cockerell

Mexican newsrooms fire opening salvo in fight against political disinformation

Disinformation flooded Mexico’s 2018 presidential election. As the country’s midterms loom, journalists are teaming up to weed out fake news

Erica Hellerstein

Capitol insurrection captured, and then erased on social media

Now that every aspect of life is uploaded to the internet, tech companies get to choose which parts of the past are fit to preserve

Isobel Cockerell

Georgia's parliamentary elections plagued by rekindled dispute about the border with Azerbaijan

Drawing borders on a map leads to charges of treason

A 30-year-old tug of war over a sliver of territory has led to a flood of disinformation ahead of a fiercely contested parliamentary vote in Georgia

Giorgi Lomsadze

Hindu nationalists rewrite history in India's classrooms

Revisions to school textbooks and curriculums reinforce Hindu nationalist perspectives

Turkish journalist arrested for tweet making fun of a 13th-century sultan

Pop stars, sex and communism: the story behind an East German youth magazine

Run by the state, Neues Leben sought to inspire a new generation of socialists

Josephine Hüetlin

Russia's historian of the Gulag labor camps is facing 15 years in prison

Russian prosecutors demand 15-year prison sentence for Gulags historian

Putin’s liberal foes reject Black Lives Matter

Racial reckoning is bypassing Russia, where liberal elites have long ignored discrimination within their own borders

Previous page 1 2 3 456 7 Next page