The 5 latest articles on Long 19th Century (1789–1914) come from 4 sources, published between Oct 18 and Nov 9. Most come from Curaçao Chronicle (2).
People in these stories: Timur (2), Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (2)
Organizations: Curaçao Chronicle (2), Curaçao (2)
Places: United States (3), America (3), Iran (2), Tamerlane (2), Persia (2), Republic (2)
To understand contemporary Iran, one must grasp the potency of this neo-nationalist memory. Yet to understand Iran’s actual past, one must untangle this emotional countermyth from the messy realities of imperial violence, political pragmatism, and cultural assimilation. The dissident text…
WILLEMSTAD – Curaçao's secondary-school history examination requirements explicitly include the 1795 uprising led by Tula, the legacy of slavery, and the events of May 30, 1969, according to a research report examining how colonial history is taught across the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The…
WILLEMSTAD – Tula remains the most prominent anticolonial resistance figure taught in schools across the Dutch Caribbean, but a research report warns that the strong focus on the leader of Curaçao's 1795 uprising has left many other freedom fighters and acts of…
In this narrative, the seventh-century Arab conquest is not a distant chapter in antiquity, but the original sin of Persian history – an ongoing catastrophe linking the fall of the Sasanian capital of Ctesiphon in 637 A.D. directly to the prison yards…
In 1867, Russia sold a vast, thinly governed territory on the edge of North America to the United States for $7.2 million. Critics called it “Seward’s Folly”; within a century, Alaska had become central to American power in the North Pacific. The…
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