In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb ~humanities.history Article 16 votes
A retrospective on the Baltic road to NATO ~humanities.history Article 2863 words, published Oct 4 2019 8 votes
Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage ~humanities.history Article 570 words 12 votes
Book review - A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein ~humanities.history Article 1848 words 4 votes
The Republican Revolution and how the party switch actually happened ~humanities.history Article 1390 words 13 votes
‘We put in air conditionin’, stayed year-round, and ruined America’ ~humanities.history Article 1251 words, published Sep 12 2023 13 votes
An effort to focus on long overlooked Roma suffering in the Holocaust ~humanities.history Article 1219 words, published Aug 29 2023 30 votes
Newly published transcripts show the work of early radio broadcaster Walter Benjamin and the details he observed about his time ~humanities.history Article 3382 words, published Aug 8 2023 7 votes
The post-WWI migrations that built Yugoslavia and Türkiye have left a painful legacy ~humanities.history Article 2399 words 13 votes
Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border ~humanities.history Article 1314 words 16 votes
Hold the line - The short history of women switchboard operators ~humanities.history Article 872 words 20 votes
Cold War British RMP video shown to travellers before driving from West Germany to West Berlin through the Soviet East German corridor ~humanities.history Video 16:09, published Oct 29 2019 8 votes
Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976 – between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised ~humanities.history Article 1004 words 12 votes
Inside the secret world of Russia's Cold War mapmakers ~humanities.history Article 4568 words, published Jul 18 2015 7 votes
Much of what you've heard about Carter and Reagan is wrong ~humanities.history Article 1424 words 11 votes
Much of what you've heard about Carter and Reagan is wrong ~humanities.history Article 1424 words 11 votes
The filing cabinet was critical to the information infrastructure of the 20th-century. Like most infrastructure, it was usually overlooked. ~humanities.history Article 3354 words 10 votes
The final days and dissolution of Austria-Hungary ~humanities.history Video 16:48, published Jun 4 2020 5 votes
The US has never taken responsibility for spraying Agent Orange over Laos during the Vietnam War. Generations of ethnic minorities have endured the consequences. ~humanities.history Article 12 votes
How socialists solved the housing crisis of Vienna after WW1 and how we can do it again ~humanities.history Video 9:00, published Jan 29 2021 10 votes
Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters ~humanities.history Article 552 words 7 votes
Life during wartime: How west Belfast became the frontline of the Troubles ~humanities.history Article 3820 words 5 votes
Being Finnish: A Guide For Soviet Spies – An archived booklet reveals how communist spooks were instructed to blend in with Finnish locals ~humanities.history Link 11 votes
20th-century slavery was hiding in plain sight: The El Monte sweatshop case exposed a web of corruption, and the enslavement of more than seventy Los Angeles area garment workers ~humanities.history Article 2059 words 6 votes
Decades-old photography from the U-2 spy program now offers a time machine to see traces of the historical and ancient past ~humanities.history Article 2192 words 11 votes
How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac ~humanities.history Article 2163 words, published Oct 18 2019 4 votes
Raoul Wallenberg is thought to have saved as many as 30,000 Jews but his descendants do not know how, when or why he died ~humanities.history Article 1349 words 7 votes
The ‘undesirable militants’ behind the Nineteenth Amendment ~humanities.history Article 553 words 6 votes
No Spanish allowed: Texas school museum revisits history of segregation ~humanities.history Article 1054 words 8 votes
Goodbye, show world: The last days of Times Square’s peep shows ~humanities.history Article 2135 words 5 votes
Becoming Anne Frank - Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim? ~humanities.history Article 3562 words 7 votes
Hidden for seventy years, a new invaluable contribution to Holocaust literature—the diary of Renia Spiegel—was rediscovered inside a desk in New York ~humanities.history Article 2975 words 13 votes
To heil, or not to heil, when traveling in the Third Reich ~humanities.history Article 4343 words 6 votes