Truth and Reconciliation in Montreal
The Memorial Room at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre / Photograph by Pierre St.Jacques, courtesy of the MHMC montreal — Three years ago, on a day in October, Ann Ungar …
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A Ridiculously Brief History of Rwanda
Like all major events, there are both complex and over- simplified versions of the Rwanda genocide. While there were distinguishable groups called Hutu and Tutsi before the colonial era, these …
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Only Too Happy to Oblige
Sucking up: a brief history
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On the artistic consequence of Mussolini’s distaste for foreign languages
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The Ends of History
Histories of the entire universe, and of its minuscule parts—potatoes, coal, corsets—have captured our imagination. But what do they tell us about our past?
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Ich Bin Ein Indianer
Germany’s obsession with a past it never had
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