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Sometimes history is a torpedo.
What we’ve lost to authoritarianism, and what we stand to lose if it comes back.
How the Fascist Spanish government leveraged memory to sustain its power.
Maybe it’s better to think of history not just a series of events, but as a cascade of decisions.
There should really be a plaque on the Ernst Thälmann statue in Berlin.
History through unintended objects.
What's a canon anyway?
Berlin’s history is thick.
Sideshadows and backalleys.
Svetlana Boym’s prescient warning about nostalgia.
The lost pictures of war-torn Berlin from 1945.
“There are an endless number of human truths.”
Whatever happened to the International Brigadiers?
The short-lived history of Albania’s monarchy
Vitas Luckus was too revolutionary a photographer to be accepted. But his is no ordinary rebel’s story.
Antarctica defies imagination.
In Berlin, a devilish chapter of history is buried under history itself.
Sleep has turned from a necessity into something worth fixing.
Are we just promoting a narrative here?