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Global Challenges, c. 1900-Today
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- The Atlantic - Hong Kong’s Protests Have Cemented Its Identity
- Vintage Everyday - Postal Operation During World War I – 19 Rare Lantern Slides Show the Postmen from 1914-18
- The Guardian - Beyond Uncle Sam: the US poster art inspired by the first world war
- So Today I Learned that France built a Replica of Paris in WWI
- BBC News - Why was the Zimmermann Telegram so important?
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- Al Jazeera - The need for a museum on British colonisation of India
- Washington Post - ‘African Kaiser’: A sweeping military history that reads like a novel
- The News Lens - Airbrushing Taiwan’s History: Can Japanese Colonialism Ever Be Justified?
- The Telegraph - World War One in colour: Graphic artist Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict
- NPR - From Wristwatches To Radio, How World War I Ushered In The Modern World
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- i09 - These photographs capture the terror, joy and weirdness of the USSR's final days
- Watch Mojo - The Rise of Hitler
- Vox - 42 Maps That Explain World War II
- BBC - When Russian Artists Dreamed of a Utopian Future
- Salon - Trump and Mussolini: The same, only different? Eleven key lessons from historical fascism
- The Guardian - Death of truth: when propaganda and 'alternative facts' first gripped the world
- Public Radio International - In communist Poland, the punk thing to do was to sing in English
- Russia Beyond the Headlines - Putting history to rest: Will Lenin soon be buried?
- BBC News - Richard Nixon’s historic visit to Communist China
- Newsweek - WORST LEADERS IN HISTORY? WINSTON CHURCHILL AS ‘EVIL’ AS HITLER, MAO AND STALIN, INDIAN LAWMAKER SAYS
- New York Times - How Moscow Lost Its Luster as the School of Revolution
- Mother Jones - 5 Terrifying Nuke Videos That Were Kept Secret for Decades—With Good Reason
- Washington Post - Science in the service of the Soviet regime
- Timeline - This Russian photo magazine published groundbreaking art under 70 years of Soviet rule
- Huffington Post - A New Dark Age?
- Global Issues - Many Conflicts Throughout Africa
- Public Radio International - It's Time to Stop Blaming the Maps
- New York Times - Analyzing Maps to Better Understand Global Current Events and History
- NPR - Romeo Dallaire, Meeting the 'Devil' in Rwanda
- Huffington Post - Romeo Dallaire: Senator Slams 'Hotel Rwanda' Film As Revisionist 'Junk'
- Huffington Post - The Geopolitics of American Global Decline
- Slate - People Don’t Hate Millennials. They hate 21st-century technology.
- Reuters - China says 'no such thing' as man-made islands in South China Sea
- The Guardian - Buried for 50 years: Britain’s shameful role in the Biafran war
- New York Times - Not Just Propaganda: A New View of Soviet Artists
- WWII Board Game Rules More Complicated Than Actual Reasons For WWII
- Live Science - Famous World War I Battleship Discovered at the Bottom of the Atlantic