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How You Can Change History with Just 10 Books
Dec 8, 2025
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Burning Archive Program in 2026
Learn to Love a Changing World with History
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India World History Tour Recap
The best books to discover South Asian history
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100 Books to Read Before it is Too Late
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Ivan the Terrible Wasn't: How the West Rewrote Russian History
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American Nihilism & NATO's Defeat
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1910: The Year Human Character Changed
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Books of Jacob | Slow read | Who's Who
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Putin's Quantum Leap at 2025 Valdai Club
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Your Personal History Curriculum for 2026: A Curated Reading List from Top Historians
World History Book Club Launches February 2026
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2026 Slow Reads. Poetry to Heal from War
Ezra Pound, Canto LXXXI "What thou lovest well will not be reft from thee"
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Beyond the Thucydides Trap: Understanding China's Unique Development Path
2025 World History Tour of China Recapped
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Three Dilemmas of the Venezuela Crisis and One Proposal to Found the United Nations Anew
The USA’s kidnapping of the President of Venezuela and his wife is a gross breach of international law and the United Nations charter.
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2026 Slow Reads. Poetry to Heal from War
Szymborska, The End and the Beginning
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How 2025 Put the American Golden Age On Hold
The American World History World Tour 2025 Recap
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Inciting Fears of Russian Invasion
How the Black Legend of Russian History Makes the World Insecure
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The Black Legend of Russia's "Lost Empire"
Why Catherine the Great Will Rise Again in Odessa
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Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity: My end was in my beginning
Mahabharata after modernity and the cyclical 'sense of possibility' in history
Dec 10, 2025
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Russia's Dance with Europe: Battle or Ballet?
Russia's Europe Question as Imagined Through Anna Pavlova
Dec 5, 2025
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Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity: The Villain
Week Seven: War, History and Wrong in the Mahabharata
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Anna Akhmatova, Requiem (Take Two)
One of One Hundred Poems to Read Aloud in Times of Wars
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Beyond the Thucydides Trap: Understanding China's Unique Development Path
2025 World History Tour of China Recapped
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Three Dilemmas of the Venezuela Crisis and One Proposal to Found the United Nations Anew
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How 2025 Put the American Golden Age On Hold
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🥇Nobel Archive (121 Literature Prizes)
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Oct 10, 2025
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100 Poems to Read Aloud in Times of War
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The Great Gatsby and the Modernist American Century
F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby in 1925, at the start of the American century. What does this loved novel of the ‘Roaring Twenties…
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China
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Beyond the Thucydides Trap: Understanding China's Unique Development Path
2025 World History Tour of China Recapped
Jan 10
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Michael Pembroke, Silk, Silver, Opium: the China trade that changed the world
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Over the last two months, Burning Archive readers have joined me on a world history tour of the rising power of the world, China.
Jun 25, 2025
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China, One-Child Policy & Population Ageing
Why you learn more about China from social history than economics
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USA's 28-Point Ukraine Peace Plan is D.O.A
I explain all 28 points and why Trump's Peace Plan fails the peace test
Nov 21, 2025
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1989: When Europe Chose Freedom & Truth
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Nov 7, 2025
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1968: This is the Dawn of the Age of Liquid Modernity
When Europe and Humanity was erased at the edge of the sea
Oct 31, 2025
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How 1936 & the Spanish Civil War made Europe
Modern Europe's birth in a low dishonest decade
Oct 24, 2025
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1910: The Year Human Character Changed
Europe's Modernist Rite of Spring and the Riddle of the Modern
Oct 17, 2025
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India World History Tour Recap
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Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity: My end was in my beginning
Mahabharata after modernity and the cyclical 'sense of possibility' in history
Dec 10, 2025
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Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity: The Villain
Week Seven: War, History and Wrong in the Mahabharata
Dec 3, 2025
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Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity. Kunti the Mother
Kunti vs Truschke on Caste and Ethos
Nov 19, 2025
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Mahabharata: Indian Statecraft and Arjuna
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Nov 12, 2025
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Why Catherine the Great Will Rise Again in Odessa
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Russia's Dance with Europe: Battle or Ballet?
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Anna Akhmatova, Requiem (Take Two)
One of One Hundred Poems to Read Aloud in Times of Wars
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Anna Akhmatova, Requiem
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USA and its Empire
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How 2025 Put the American Golden Age On Hold
The American World History World Tour 2025 Recap
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The Shortest History of the United States of America
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USA's 28-Point Ukraine Peace Plan is D.O.A
I explain all 28 points and why Trump's Peace Plan fails the peace test
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The Day The Nation Died, 11 November 1975.
Seven Asides on the Dismissal, Australia's 1970s Regime Change
Nov 11, 2025
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The American Raj is in a Box
In Tianjin at the SCO Leaders’ Summit the leaders of China, India and Russia clasped hands.
Sep 16, 2025
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📖Slow Reads 2025
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Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity: My end was in my beginning
Mahabharata after modernity and the cyclical 'sense of possibility' in history
Dec 10, 2025
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Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity: The Villain
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Dec 3, 2025
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Anna Akhmatova, Requiem (Take Two)
One of One Hundred Poems to Read Aloud in Times of Wars
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Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity. Kunti the Mother
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Mahabharata: Indian Statecraft and Arjuna
Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity: Week Four
Nov 12, 2025
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