History

• Challenging the Myth of British Decency: Caroline Elkins on Imperial Violence

  The world’s biggest colonial power prided itself on being a liberal democracy. Was this part of the problem?

• The Legacy of Hatshepsut and the Rise of Thutmose III

• Dia do Veterano do Exército Brasileiro: Homenagem aos Heróis da Força Expedicionária Brasileira

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• The Evolution of Human Rights: From Ancient Civilizations to the Global Movement

• The Battle of Teutoburg Forest and the Evolving Class Dynamics

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• The Four Crossing of the Chishui River: A Turning Point in the Chinese Civil War

  四渡赤水，战争史上的最大 BUG。 毛泽东做出了让红军上下，都十分不解的命令： 走回头路。 当时蒋介石的 …

• The Historical Existence of Jesus Christ: Myth or Reality?

  Most antiquities scholars think that the New Testament gospels are "mythologized history." In other words, based on the evidence available they think that around the start of the first century a controversial Jewish rabbi named Yeshua ben Yosef gathered a following and his life a…

• The Evolution of Work: From Stone Age to Industrialization

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• The Historical Significance of Salt in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

  Here’s a riddle. There was a product in the seventeenth century that was universally considered a necessity as important as grain and fuel. Controlling the source of this product was one of the first priorities for many a military campaign, and sometimes even a motivation for sta…

• 1,200-Year-Old Tomb Uncovered in Panama Filled with Golden Treasures and Human Sacrifices

  Panamanian archaeologists affiliated with the Ministry of Culture of Panama discovered a tomb from 750 to 800 AD that was filled with gold treasures and several bodies.

• The Status of Negroes in Negroland and America

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• Unveiling of 1807 Ship Cargo Reveals Well-Preserved Red Sweater and Letter

  Archivists opened parcels at the National Archives from the Anne-Marie cargo ship which was seized by the British Navy during the Second Battle of Copenhagen.

• The Historical Existence of Jesus: A Scholarly Debate

  How could a cult leader draw crowds, inspire devotion and die by crucifixion, yet leave no mark in contemporary records?

• The Tragic Story of Nikola Tesla: A Forgotten Genius

  Why one of the greatest inventors of all time died penniless. *Correction: @ 7:03 It's debated who "discovered" America. The 400th anniversary of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 marked Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas. Newsthink is produced and presented b…

• The Impact of Prohibition on Irish Whiskey and the Resurgence of Jameson

  Today, Jameson is the best-selling Irish whiskey in world, and has been a catalyst for the revival of the Irish whiskey industry’s fortunes. Prohibition almost spelled its death knell, however, and could well have been the end of this historic brand.

• The 1993 Coup in Russia: Yeltsin's Struggle and the Transition to a Bourgeois State

  2023 marked the 30 years since the shelling of the White House in Moscow, at the time of which the first bourgeois-democratic parliament of Russia, the Russian Supreme Council, was meeting. Hundreds of people died in a ‘mini civil war’ on the streets of Moscow. Indeed, this was a…