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Marie Nejar died last month at the age of 95. As far as the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD) is ...

The Royal Museum of the Belgian Congo became the Royal Museum of Central Africa after Brussels choked back its fury ...

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Twenty years of writing, reading, thinking and travelling went into Memoirs of Hadrian. Several drafts were burned.

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How can we account for France’s historical wavering on race, between an extraordinary openness to assimilation ...

In Social Topography of a Rural Community Steve Hindle describes the lives of 780 inhabitants of 176 households in ...

I thought,’ White wrote in his autobiographical masterpiece The Farewell Symphony (1997), ‘that never had a ...

I wanted to understand the figure of Riefenstahl in her development,’ Andres Veiel says, ‘without exculpating ...

All autobiography is inherently mendacious, if only by omission and with the intent of protecting the innocent. In ...

There are no rules about what constitutes a crisis. Calls can be about an assault that took place days earlier or ...