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History · November, 2020

Stories about History from November, 2020

Newly-found vintage playing cards shine a light on post-war occupied Japan

The cards feature a prominent figure of daily life in early post-war Japan: the American soldier.

Written by Nevin Thompson

30 November 2020

From #BlackLivesMatter to #VidasNegrasImportam: Call to end colonial legacy of police brutality

From Africa to Brazil, systemic brutality against Black people must stop

Written by Zymora Davinchi

27 November 2020

Can secularism be compatible with Islam?

World of confusion between secularism, free speech, and civil liberties

Written by The Battleground

26 November 2020

During the Cold War, Latin American intellectuals found solace in communist Prague

Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Amado, and Pablo Neruda were among the illustrious visitors

Written by Filip Noubel

21 November 2020

Barbados removes statue of British naval officer Horatio Nelson for his role in the slave trade

'The struggle doesn't end with the moving of this statue'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

18 November 2020

The history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, the medieval Jewish book that survived the Inquisition, the Holocaust, and the Yugoslav Wars

'It has Bosnian nafaka (blind luck)'

Written by Balkan Diskurs

13 November 2020

In the heart of Europe, an endangered Turkic language lives on

Romuald Čaprockij is one of the few remaining native speakers of Karaim

Written by Filip Noubel

9 November 2020

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History · November, 2020

Stories about History from November, 2020

Newly-found vintage playing cards shine a light on post-war occupied Japan

From #BlackLivesMatter to #VidasNegrasImportam: Call to end colonial legacy of police brutality

Can secularism be compatible with Islam?

During the Cold War, Latin American intellectuals found solace in communist Prague

Barbados removes statue of British naval officer Horatio Nelson for his role in the slave trade

The history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, the medieval Jewish book that survived the Inquisition, the Holocaust, and the Yugoslav Wars

In the heart of Europe, an endangered Turkic language lives on

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