Books & arts
12 May 2023
Writer Kapka Kassabova continues her beguiling exploration of the Balkans
Essays & reportage
24 April 2023
Newly opened and unexpectedly vulnerable, the Australian War Memorial faced its first onslaught in January 1936
Correspondents
15 April 2023
Did the American president’s deeply personal sense of Irish history meet the moment?
Essays & reportage
29 March 2023
What constitutes “evidence” of a queer life?
Books & arts
23 March 2023
A historian tries to hear the voices of lost children
Books & arts
21 March 2023
A distinguished historian uses one family’s story to illuminate the borderland between Europe and Russia
Books & arts
21 February 2023
The real-world backdrop of Frank Moorhouse’s celebrated trilogy was alive with idealistic characters
Essays & reportage
7 February 2023
On Netflix and in print, the couple’s story has been informed by a historical perspective with implications for Australia
From the archive
1 February 2023
Why did this shy Sydneysider dot his city with a one-word poem?
Books & arts
1 February 2023
For a remarkable quarter-century, Tony Eggleton was the power behind the Liberal throne
Books & arts
27 January 2023
The dire state of the Republican Party has decades-old roots
Books & arts
25 January 2023
How anthropology flourished as colonialism began its decline
Books & arts
14 December 2022
A historian rescues a former leader from the party’s airbrushers
Books & arts
13 December 2022
Have a determined anthropologist and a gifted writer come to terms with how differently Yolngu do things?
Essays & reportage
6 December 2022
Behind the hardline policy is a quest for perfection that dates back to the Communist Party’s founding
Essays & reportage
2 December 2022
A young Western Australian catches a glimpse of Gough in 1969
Essays & reportage
2 December 2022
Beer and scuffles open The Making of an Australian Prime Minister, the classic account of the 1972 election
Essays & reportage
2 December 2022
Doomed to defeat in 1972, did prime minister William McMahon show more initiative than he’s given credit for?
Books & arts
30 November 2022
How three extraordinary Tasmanian Aboriginal women fought for their people
Books & arts
17 November 2022
Eighty years apart, a private diary from the Tatura internment camp and dispatches from the Manus detention centre recount the experiences of refugees held prisoner by Australia
Books & arts
15 November 2022
It depends, says historian Ian Kershaw
Books & arts
12 November 2022
Two new books show what Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam war left in its wake
National affairs
11 November 2022
While the Australian War Memorial lavishes $500 million on its controversial extension, wartime service records go undigitised
Books & arts
9 November 2022
Harmony and hostility exist side by side in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network
Books & arts
8 November 2022
Alan Atkinson wants to rescue John and Elizabeth Macarthur from the judgements of history
Books & arts
4 November 2022
Frank Bongiorno’s new political history of Australia is as much about the spectators as the players
Books & arts
1 November 2022
Hired young by Keith Murdoch, Michael Cannon made his name as a journalistic roustabout and gifted historian
Essays & reportage
24 October 2022
What does history tell us about Anthony Albanese’s prospects?
From the archive
18 October 2022
With rigorous science and inspired humanism, archaeologist Mike Smith — who died this week — imagined the other side of the frontier
Essays & reportage
10 October 2022
A former foreign correspondent watches Bali 2002