Tag: history

• Andy Beckett · An Efficient Man: A Nazi in Chile

  July 6, 2025

  Now that the war is so long ago, the subject of Nazi exiles in South America can seem a stale, even dubious… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n12/andy-beckett/an-efficient-man more ›

• The Maillet Daguerreotype Collection

  July 2, 2025

  This June, Christie’s offers one of the most important collections of daguerreotypes to come to market in the past 25 years. Announced to the world in 1839 and born of… more ›

• Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

  June 22, 2025

  Harvard’s motto, Veritas, inscribed on gates, doorways, and sculptures all over campus, demands of us truth. https://legacyofslaveryreport.harvard.edu/ more ›

• Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’

  June 22, 2025

  When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›

• History of carnatic artists

  June 19, 2025

  History of carnatic artists – Download as a PDF or view online for free https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/history-of-carnatic-artists/11932692 more ›

• ‘The very essence of figuration in African sculpture’: works from the collection of Hilde and Dieter Scharf

  June 14, 2025

  In the final decade of his life, Dieter Scharf – scion of one of Germany’s great collecting dynasties – filled his Hamburg villa with exceptional sub-Saharan sculpture. Fifty of these… more ›

• Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex

  June 6, 2025

  Years before the Weimar Republic’s well-chronicled freedoms, the 1904 non-fiction study Berlin’s Third Sex depicted an astonishingly diverse subculture of sexual outlaws in the German capital. James J. Conway introduces… more ›

• The Forgotten History of the World’s First Trans Clinic

  June 6, 2025

  The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology. These heartbreaking stories, Hirschfeld wrote in The Sexual History of… more ›

• The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism | Verso Books

  June 1, 2025

  An excerpt from Ellen Meiksins Wood’s The Origin of Capitalism, one of the clearest articulations of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Understanding this transition is important for distinguishing the… more ›

• Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa

  May 31, 2025

  Private security work can be a brutal world of short-term contracts, exploitation, and under-regulation, where the imperative of profit is expected to trump collective notions of military brotherhood. Why then… more ›