Correspondents
18 November 2020
Black Lives Matter, a princess from Zanzibar and Germany’s “memorial hygiene”
National Affairs
12 November 2020
With the federal government appointing a special war crimes prosecutor, it’s time to confront broader questions about armed interventions
From the archive
11 November 2020
A flimsy piece of paper carried grave news for a family in wartime Balmain
Books & Arts
9 November 2020
Books | China is reshaping how its citizens view the second world war
Books & Arts
30 September 2020
Books | The second volume of Dunera Lives profiles eighteen of the “Dunera boys,” each remarkable in his own way
Essays & Reportage
18 September 2020
Eighty years after helping defend New Caledonia against Japan, Australia is mobilising to counter another rising Asian power
Books & Arts
4 August 2020
Books | The influential New Yorker article changed the way we think about nuclear weapons
Books & Arts
15 July 2020
Books | Katrina Kittel illuminates a little-discussed chapter in Australia’s second world war
Essays & Reportage
23 June 2020
Recipients of the Victoria Cross are expected to lead exemplary lives. What happens when one of them doesn’t?
International
9 June 2020
How the reputation of a “good Confederate” was made and unmade
Books & Arts
28 April 2020
Books | The Hacker and the State vividly describes the growing importance of cyber operations in nation armouries
Books & Arts
27 April 2020
Books | Two new books about frontier conflict bring fresh evidence that Aboriginal communities waged well-planned warfare on the settlers
From the archive
24 April 2020
Bestselling historian Paul Ham stands by allegations that anti–Vietnam war activists confronted veterans at airports and in the streets. But where’s the evidence?
Essays & Reportage
24 April 2020
Australia has reshaped its understanding of what we mark on 25 April
From the archive
24 April 2020
The Gallipoli campaign wasn’t the pointless disaster of Anzac mythology
Books & Arts
9 April 2020
Books | A shoebox in Miami opens up a story of migration and memory
Essays & Reportage
1 April 2020
Laws made during a crisis don’t always receive the scrutiny they deserve
International
13 March 2020
Did a fifty-year-old treaty really increase the possibility of nuclear war?
Books & Arts
15 December 2019
Books | A new collection of essays brings further proof that Great War history is unavoidably political
Essays & Reportage
12 December 2019
Keynes’s book on the Versailles Treaty not only predicted dire results, but also provided guidance for those planning the global economic system following the second world war
International
4 December 2019
Tightly controlled and generously funded, the PLA hasn’t seen battle overseas since 1979
Essays & Reportage
25 April 2019
A chance reference leads to a bloody battlefield and a different Australia
Essays & Reportage
22 April 2019
In different countries at different times, two prisoners used poetry to communicate their experiences
Books & Arts
17 April 2019
Books | Was the Vietnam war a failed but noble bid to save a free nation, or a stubborn attempt to thwart self-determination?
Books & Arts
14 March 2019
Books | What makes political leaders take their country to war?
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Nell Malone (1881–1963), hospital orderly and governess
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Kathleen Ussher (1891–1983), illustrator, writer, public servant
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Roma Craze (1915–95), intelligence analyst
National Affairs
15 January 2019
It’s time for the AWM to rethink its attitude to the frontier wars. But that means its critics, and the Labor Party, need to change tack too
Books & Arts
3 December 2018
Books | A new biography paints a nuanced picture of the man widely seen as Australia’s greatest prime minister