Tag: history

• 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 ›

• 30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020

  March 15, 2025

  It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/09/upshot/covid-lockdown-five-year-charts.html more ›

• The New Fascist International: Technocratic Oligarchy and the Threat to Democracy

  March 2, 2025

  The emergence of a transnational alliance between tech billionaires, authoritarian politicians, and far-right movements represents both a continuation of historical patterns and something unprecedented in human history. https://harmoniousdiscourse.substack.com/p/the-new-fascist-international-technocratic more ›

• Looking Ahead To The 19th Century

  February 23, 2025

  The rules-based liberal international order, underwritten and guaranteed for decades by American might, has been consigned to the ashcan of history by the summary defection of its founding architect from… more ›

• The Sound of Freedom – The Role of Music in Political Change

  February 22, 2025

  The project on Contested Histories primarily focuses on controversies over monuments, statues, street names, and other tangible representations of historical legacies. However, the project recognises that contested historical legacies can… more ›

• Grave Mistakes: The History and Future of Chile’s ‘Disappeared’

  February 21, 2025

  In August of 2023, as the 50th anniversary of Augusto Pinochet’s bloody 1973 coup d’état drew near, President Gabriel Boric of Chile stood before the presidential palace in downtown Santiago and… more ›

• The Secret Museum of Mankind · Front Cover

  February 9, 2025

  https://ian.macky.net/secretmuseum/front_cover.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email more ›