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History

Stories from the Bengal Famine

Kavita Puri

First-Person Narratives

  • Asia
  • India
  • History

The Girl With the Smile

Monique Maddy, Betelihem Melkamu Essa

The story of a mother from Liberia and her daughter from Ethiopia

  • Africa
  • Ethiopia
  • Liberia
  • Family
  • History

My Mother Tongues

Shougat Dasgupta

The complicated linguistic history and future of India

  • India
  • History

The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Adam Shatz

Author of "The Wretched of the Earth" offers a powerful framework for the anti-colonialist struggle

  • Global
  • History

Colonialist Comrades

Natalia Antelava

The struggle for post-colonial identity from West Africa to the Caucasus

  • Georgia
  • History
  • Protest

The Eagle Never Sleeps

Alex Hannaford

Why one tiny Kentucky newspaper still screams for press freedom

  • United States
  • History
  • Journalism

Haymarket Remembered

Colin Dickey

Visiting and revisiting an explosive moment in the history of the labor movement

  • Chicago
  • North America
  • United States
  • History
  • Labor

Chi Boy

Keenan Norris

A family's northern migration

  • Chicago
  • Global
  • History
  • Migration
  • Race

My Father Still Believed

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Looking to the past, a daughter sees her family in new ways

  • Asia
  • Vietnam
  • Family
  • History
  • Migration

Istanbul: History Unfolds in the Capital of a Long-Gone Empire

Cassim Shepard

Aesthetics, power and history in Turkey's most famous city.

  • Mediterranean
  • Turkey
  • Gentrification
  • History
  • Travel

At the Limits of Nationalism

David Klion

Confronting Ukraine's past to imagine its future

  • Europe
  • Ukraine
  • History
  • Politics
  • Ukraine

Learning from History

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

One journalist's view of the anti-apartheid struggle

  • Africa
  • Johannesburg
  • South Africa
  • History
  • Politics
  • Race
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