Conscription systems in the EU can be broadly classified into three models. Compulsory service, which is in place in Austria, ...
On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...
How do culture wars fuel new imperialism? This talk builds on a provocative thesis: the contemporary far-right takeover of cultural institutions cannot be understood without grasping the current ...
The Chicago Way by James Beard Award-winning reporter Michael Gebert brings readers into the kitchens of the restaurants that ...
As great powers abandon international law with impunity, Europe must unite or risk fragmentation and subordination.
"I'd say that many times, 'Why did you ever sign those papers?' But we survived somehow." All these years later, Chervak's ...
Leaving central Europe for America brought work and survival — but also separation, silence and enduring fractures in my family.
Many contemporary observers fail to appreciate the real nature of NATO as a force created to replace the United Nations when reality required action.
After more than a century of operation, Nelson St Synagogue is to be auctioned off on 12th February. Since part of the roof collapsed at the time of the pandemic in 2020 it has been disused. Click ...
Music making is a social achievement. Its technical skills are reproduced and disseminated through communities of musicians, ...
Gabor S. Boritt, renowned author, scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War, founder of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, and ...