Tag: history

• 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 ›

• Hidden for decades, the stolen Mauerbach works brought attention to Nazi-era art theft

  February 1, 2025

  A 3rd-century marble bust of Alexander the Great, Old Master paintings and drawings, 19th-century continental pictures, collections of antique coins and medals: they were the household treasures of Austria’s bourgeoisie,… more ›

• projeto Querino: Conheça o podcast do projeto Querino

  January 16, 2025

  https://ift.tt/ldfUuOX Um podcast para entender como a História explica o Brasil de hoje, sem medo de botar o dedo na ferida das elites e de apontar responsabilidades. Todos os oito… more ›

• Today in History – January 2

  January 2, 2025

  On January 2, 1933, the 5th Marine Regiment, United States Marines Corps, withdrew from Nicaragua. It trained and left behind a powerful National Guard in a country beset by struggle… more ›

• Screening Room with Jean Rouch – PREVIEW

  July 30, 2024

  Available at https://ift.tt/pE4Pc7S From the Screening Room series by Robert Gardner color, 64 min, 1980 Jean Rouch appeared on Screening Room in July 1980 and screened Les Maitres Fous as… more ›