Historical Topics, research

Franco and the Foreign Press in Post-WWII Spain

Gavin Dunsby For scholars of 20th-century Spain, newspapers are an important source of information on the country’s rapid developments from the Spanish Civil War to the political violence of terrorist organizations that rocked Spain during the latter part of the century. Newspapers covered all of these events, even when threats of censorship, expulsion, or criminal prosecutions loomed over them. During the Franco regime (1939 to … Continue reading Franco and the Foreign Press in Post-WWII Spain

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Historical Topics, History in Popular Culture

Miracle on Ice: International Hockey in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil

Madi Campbell Geopolitical tensions in international sporting events are not uncommon. From 1980 Lake Placid to 2025 Boston, geopolitics have historically boiled over in ice hockey, and this year’s Milan Olympics have been no exception.  Even casual hockey fans know the story of the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” between the United States and the Soviet Union—especially as it became part of the mythos in the … Continue reading Miracle on Ice: International Hockey in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil

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Historical Topics, History in Popular Culture

A Raciolinguistic Perspective? On the History of Spanish Speakers in the US in the Era of Bad Bunny

Patrick Grey Last week on Sunday, February 1, Bad Bunny became the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for his record sung entirely in Spanish. His sixth studio album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” discusses many themes such as Puerto Rican culture and diaspora, the island’s struggle with gentrification driving out locals, and a nostalgic call to keep our memories … Continue reading A Raciolinguistic Perspective? On the History of Spanish Speakers in the US in the Era of Bad Bunny

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Historical Topics, Op-ed

Why We Should Care About Southeast Asians’ Reactions to the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Part 2

Tim Esau Please be advised that this essay contains artistic depictions of sexual violence and atrocity. When I first conceived of this article, I believed that while the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have been justified by the lives they saved in Southeast Asia. Yet after the esteemed pProfessor Toshihiro Higuchi reviewed my equivocation-heavy first draft, he recommended a monograph titled Bombing Civilians that … Continue reading Why We Should Care About Southeast Asians’ Reactions to the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Part 2

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Historical Topics, Op-ed

Why We Should Care About Southeast Asians’ Reactions to the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Part 1

Tim Esau Historians have long shirked moral judgements in their studies, favoring epistemological conservatism. Many fear the unavoidable presentism of moral judgements, thereby appealing to moral subjectivism. Thus, historians dread the damage done to “objective history” by bias or personal preference. One does not need to be an academic to recognize the contemporary preference towards epistemological conservatism which arose after the existential debates over objectivism … Continue reading Why We Should Care About Southeast Asians’ Reactions to the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Part 1

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A Forgotten Greek–Turkish Textbook: Mukālemāt-ı Türkiye-i Rûmiye ve Rûmiye-i Türkiye by Ioannis P. Miliopoulos

Fatma Esen On Sunday, November 2, 2025, Mary Tezak and I wandered through the Feriköy Antique Bazaar in Istanbul, looking for anything connected to our research on Hatay and Trabzon. Deep inside the market, we stopped at one of the largest stalls, crowded with old photographs and press materials. Digging through a box of mixed papers, postcards, newspapers, a wedding card written in Armenian, a … Continue reading A Forgotten Greek–Turkish Textbook: Mukālemāt-ı Türkiye-i Rûmiye ve Rûmiye-i Türkiye by Ioannis P. Miliopoulos

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State of the Field: Latin American History

Ariel David Greenberg Just as Latin American history has been influenced by broader shifts in the field of history towards subjects such as the study of family, epidemics, and science, the field of Latin American history is increasingly being shaped by systems theory in analyzing the first genuinely global highways and institutions. It analyzes and interrogates the networks that operated as the highways of the … Continue reading State of the Field: Latin American History

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Historical Topics, History in Popular Culture

The Wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and its Legacy in the Great Lakes

Madi Campbell November 10, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, and its legacy undoubtedly continues to haunt Lake Superior. Once the largest Great Lakes freighter, the doomed ship was famously immortalized in Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” solidifying its status as a folk symbol. Each year, communities around the lake … Continue reading The Wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and its Legacy in the Great Lakes

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Historical Topics, Op-ed, State of the Field

A Local History of Hong Kong

Shawn Liu Central Asia has long been imagined less as a place and more as a passage. In travelogues, school maps, and even much scholarship, it appears as a corridor—the Silk Road that carried goods and ideas between “centers” like China, Persia, or Europe. Historian Adeeb Khalid warns against this flattening: to see Central Asia only as a “road between somewhere and somewhere else” erases … Continue reading A Local History of Hong Kong

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History in Popular Culture, State of the Field

Is it a good time to be a Normanist?

Luca Barison Today (October 14, 2025) is the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings (AD 1066), a turning point in Norman history. The question I pose in the title of this piece has been very important to me in the last few years. Since I am aware that it won’t be as equally pressing to the majority of readers, I am going to explain … Continue reading Is it a good time to be a Normanist?

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