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WorldHistoryArchive

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Contributor at Book of World History, writing on topics in world history.

Articles by WorldHistoryArchive (3)

• Boer War: How Gold and Diamonds Started a War That Shocked the WorldThe Boer War ran from 1899 to 1902, and Britain won. But the victory came with burned farms, concentration camps, and tens of thousands of civilian deaths — most of them children. The Boers were Dutch-speaking settlers in southern Africa who had built their own republics and refused to give them up. They held out far longer than anyone in London expected. When it was over, the British Empire had spent £200 million and destroyed over 30,000 homes. This is the full story of what happened, and why it still matters.June 10, 2026
• Windsor Castle: A Thousand Years of Kings, Wars, and WeddingsWindsor Castle has been standing since William the Conqueror built it around 1070, and it is still in active use today. Over nearly a thousand years, it has survived civil wars, fires, and two world wars; hosted tournaments, trials, and televised royal weddings; and grown from an earth-and-timber fort into a 13-acre complex that holds the title of the largest inhabited castle in the world. Here is the full story of how it got there.June 10, 2026
• J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Man Who Built the Bomb and Then Said He Had Blood on His HandsJ. Robert Oppenheimer directed the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory, oversaw the development of the first atomic bombs, and then spent the rest of his public life reckoning with what that meant. Six weeks after Hiroshima, he told the President of the United States he felt he had blood on his hands. In 1954, his security clearance was revoked in a proceeding widely regarded as a political prosecution. He died in 1967, at 62. The revocation was vacated in 2022. This is the full account of a life that contained more contradiction and more consequence than almost any other in 20th-century science.June 9, 2026