The 2018 VHD Resolution and the Pyrenees

The VHD resolution of 2018 has created a stir. So far, however, the danger that such resolutions, which positively affect specific national sensitivities, will be imitated, has been overlooked.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-12/vhd-resolution-2/

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“Reconquest” – Historical Narrative or Xenophobic View?

It's important to consider how human beings use historical contents like the "Reconquista": The past has been conceptually re-elaborated to maintain and to justify the present and to format the future.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-7/reconquista-populism/

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Post-Truth and Alethic Populism

Ever since its nomination as the word of the year 2016, the concept of “post-truth” continues to agitate public opinion. But what is the solution? About Alethic Populism.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-34/post-truth-alethic-populism/

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Historians and Politics. Quarrel Over a Current Resolution

A resolution adopted by venerable Association of German Historians (VHD) General Assembly with a large majority “on current threats to democracy” attracted considerable attention. On the much-debated VHD-resolution.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-31/vhd-resolution/

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The World of Yesterday is not the World of Today

The rise of right-wing populists and the brutalization of public space that they pursued recalls Stefan Zweig's narration of the years predating this year’s commemorative years 1918 and 1938.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-31/world-of-yesterday-not-today/

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Political Aberrations

When the politician Roman Haider of the party FPÖ (Freedom Party of Austria) caused the interruption of a lecture about political extremism in an Austrian school in spring 2017, a heated debate erupted over the place of politics in school education. The controversy raises important questions over the aims and principles of civic education.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-16/political-aberrations/

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History Educators in a New Era

This is a dangerous moment, globally, for the liberal arts, education and research, for democratic values generally, and for history and history education specifically.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/5-2017-20/history-educators-in-a-new-era/

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