Their stories are not just an important reminder of the difficulties faced by women in science; they are illustrations of how prejudices and bias can force talented individuals out of research to the detriment of us all.
The field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion, despite its universalist claims.
A Zimbabwean archaeologist reimagines the story of a momentous African civilization. Great Zimbabwe should be a “symbol”, not just of Africa’s power and potential, but of how outsiders have too often told Africans’ stories—and got them wrong.
Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.
Spanish author Almudena Grandes, who died last week, was famed for her novels portraying ordinary Spaniards’ experience of civil war and dictatorship. She insisted that unearthing historical memory was fundamental to building a democratic Spain.
When the all-male supreme court ruled to protect abortion rights in 1973, activists didn’t foresee the fight that lay ahead
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Filmed over six years across the US, Civil War lays bare a nation in denial, haunted by an embittered past and the stories it refuses to tell.
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