Brian T. Allen offers new insights into Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms paintings. In National Review.
Young people can’t study AP history in China. It doesn’t conform to the Chinese Communist Party’s view of history. In Inside Higher Ed.
“Juneteenth” commemorates June 19, 1865, when Texas slaves learned they had been freed and began celebrating “the “other American Independence day.” By Zuri Davis in Reason.
University of Cambridge will investigate its ties to slavery. In History Extra.
“Rosie the Riveter” in Ireland, in the Napoleonic Wars. From JStor Daily.
“Africa’s Lost Kingdoms”: Howard W. French reviews five books about stunning African civilizations. In the New York Review of Books.“Africa has never lacked civilizations,” he writes.
Enjoy a pithy interview with Niall Ferguson by History Today.
The tide turned against Hitler in 1941, not 1944, says Andrew Nagorski, in the Daily Beast.
Rebuilding Notre Dame “will reopen the theological-political problem people believe to have been settled by the laicization of 1905 and will thus renew a great political quarrel in France,” warns Titus Techera on Law & Liberty.
The Russians also launched a major campaign in June 1944. Howard Tanzman describes it (with a map). on his website.
Mackubin Owens explains the complexity of D-Day. “All military operations are complicated but none more than an amphibious assault against a defended beach,” especially when Clausewitz’s “friction” sets in. On Law & Liberty.
Tony Williams reviews three new books about D-Day. On Law & Liberty.
