Vladimir Putin needs a history lesson if he thinks his tactics against Ukraine will automatically result in victory.
IS HISTORY SET TO REPEAT?
SHOCKS
From the Black Death to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, major outbreaks have changed society’s power dynamics. What those changes will lead to will only be made clear to us in hindsight.
WHAT’S IN A NAME
Medieval scholars are duking it out over the term “Anglo-Saxon” and its historical links to insidious ideas about white superiority.
WEAPONIZING HISTORY
Viking Age Scandinavians were immigrants who traded with the Muslim world and embraced gender fluidity—everything the alt-right despises.
THE RISE OF FASCISM
One hundred years ago this summer, an event at the end of WWI fueled Hitler’s grievances—and fired his bellicose political philosophy.
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REBUILD
Medieval Europe was a crossroads of global influence, not a mythical all-white past. The new Notre Dame should reflect that.