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President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at Yokota Air Base | November 5, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

'Populism' revealed as 2017 Word of the Year by Cambridge University Press

30 Nov 2017

The word 'populism' has been announced as the Cambridge Dictionary 2017 Word of the Year.

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One of Sabelo Mlangeni's images going on display at MAA from today

The Longing of Belonging: African photography on show at MAA

13 Jun 2017

A photography exhibition capturing the black South African Zionist community – the most popular religious denomination in the country – opens at the...

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One Hundred Days of Trump

28 Apr 2017

Professor Andrew Preston examines the origins of the first hundred days as a measure of presidential success in American politics.

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#ICYMI - Trump’s First Hundred Days

28 Apr 2017

Dr Emily Charnock, Lecturer in American History, delivers her verdict as the Trump presidency reaches its first major milestone.

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Portrait of Margaret Thatcher

The lady is for turning (and reversing) – Thatcher archives for 1986 open to the public

23 Jan 2017

Margaret Thatcher’s isolation over Westland and the US bombing of Libya – as well as fears about the standards of her driving – are among the...

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Opinion: Racism in the US runs far deeper than Trump's white supremacist fanbase

23 Nov 2016

Racism in the US has always run deeper than the electoral cycle, writes Nicholas Guyatt, University Lecturer in American History. Solving it demands...

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The fall and rise of Native North America

26 Sep 2016

The story of Native North America – from its vast contribution to world culture, to the often taboo social problems of drinking, gambling and...

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California’s sudden oak death epidemic now ‘unstoppable’ and new epidemics must be managed earlier

02 May 2016

New research shows the sudden oak death epidemic in California cannot now be stopped, but that its tremendous ecological and economic impacts could...

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Donald Trump in Reno, Nevada

Opinion: Harsh Republican immigration rhetoric is invigorating Latino voters

22 Feb 2016

Carlos Adolfo Gonzalez Sierra (Centre of Latin American Studies) discusses how the anti-immigrant rhetoric of Republican candidates is forcing Latino...

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Skulls in print: scientific racism in the transatlantic world

19 Mar 2014

A PhD student’s research at Cambridge’s Department of History and Philosophy of Science has revealed how racist ideas and images circulated between...

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Co. E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, Ft. Lincoln, defences of Washington.”

Forgotten poems recovered by American Civil War research

04 Oct 2013

American Civil War poetry that sheds light on a neglected chapter of the era’s literary history has been recovered and made freely available online...

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After landing at San Carlos, a heavily laden paratrooper of 2 Parachute Regiment heads south for Sussex Mountain on 21 May 1982. From there the Battalion attacked Goose Green.

Thatcher Archive reveals deep divisions on the road to Falklands War

22 Mar 2013

The Falklands War – the conflict that defined much of Margaret Thatcher’s political career and legacy – dominates the release of her personal papers...

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