The “Storms and Turns of History”: Emigration Narratives in the 20th Century in Polish and Hungarian History Textbooks

History textbooks are special sources, reflecting on the era in which they were published. They play a role in formation of national identity and shape students’ perception of the past and their relation to the present. Central Europe’s recent media have given considerable attention to emigration. How do history textbooks narrate migration? This paper explores how the current history textbooks in Hungary and Poland narrate mass emigration. Findings reveal several reasons for the mass migration named by the textbooks, which include a desire for improved economic and living conditions. The treatment of emigrant groups as transnational populations in both Hungarian and Polish narratives suggests that they are separated from their home country’s national history and in a way ‘step out’ of its flow – however, the narratives appearing in the Polish textbooks deal with the overall neglected groups in greater depth. In addition, this research explores how these textbooks treat these transnational populations.

Current History: Exploring the Past of the Tasman Leakage

A new study sheds light on an important Pacific-to-Atlantic connecting current, including the global changes that led to its flowing that ushered in near-modern ocean circulation.

Ideas Matter

Excerpts from a Current History essay published two decades ago.

Histories of Technology and the Environment in Post/Colonial Africa: Reflections on the Field

Much has happened since Dipesh Chakrabarty, at the turn of the millennium, paradigmatically called for a “provincialization of Europe”. The paper connects with three major trends in current history of technology, exploring these threads with regards to the Global South in general and post/colonial Africa in particular: (1) exemplifying and (later) disentangling transnational connections; (2) rethinking (colonial) infrastructures; and (3) exploring technologies-in-use, everyday practices and perceptions. Unpacking established Science and Technology concepts such as Thomas P. Hughes “Large (Socio)Technical Systems” (LTS) approach for post/colonial contexts, the paper argues that we need to move beyond the much-invoked “key figures” and drivers of global technological (ex)change and scrutinize place- and time-specific landscapes of technology instead. In particular, we need to pay closer attention to seemingly peripheral actors and actants as well as to the manifold interrelations between the human and the “natural” world.

Will African Federalism Work?; African Unity Twelve Years Later

Excerpts from Current History essays published in the 1960s and 1970s.

AMELIORATION OF MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICAL MANAGEMENT (A CASE STUDY ON THE PANDEMIC OF COVID 19 CASES IN ASIA)

Machine learning is seeing increasingly utilized in medical management for different reasons: tremendous sums of information are being captured and made accessible carefully; handling of vast sums of information has gotten to be cost-effective due to the expanded computing control presently accessible at reasonable costs; and different open source systems, toolkits, and libraries are accessible that can be utilized to construct and execute ML applications. Particularly in healthcare, ML has driven to energizing modern improvements that may rethink COVID-19 treatment and vaccination within a long time to come. With modern occurrences of the brand modern coronavirus clutter, COVID-19, creating day through the day, it is common to compare the unused affliction to other flare-ups in current history. Machine learning can offer assistance to anticipate three sorts of restorative dangers - disease, seriousness, and result. Whereas it is still it is early for COVID-19 with machine learning, but early applications seem promising. Machine learning is utilized when a computer has been instructed to recognize designs by giving it with information and a calculation to assist get it that information. This method of learning from the information is called training and the yield that we accomplish is through testing. Machine learning-based robotic surgery is changing the way surgery is performed nowadays. Machine learning in healthcare is getting to be more broadly utilized and is making a difference in patients and clinicians in numerous diverse ways. Cybersecurity and protection are major concerns and open challenges in healthcare which are yet to be addressed.

Fort Huachuca history of development : existing reports and contexts

The Fort Huachuca Environmental and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) tasked ERDC-CERL to compile a history of the development of Fort Huachuca for use in evaluating existing facilities and how they fit within the larger, overarching history of the fort. Fort Huachuca desires a comprehensive history of the fort for use in better understanding how its various facilities integrate into the overall history and development of the fort and its existing National Historic Landmark (NHL) and proposed existing evaluated, eligible, and listed National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) properties and districts. This comprehensive history will help ENRD in making determinations on how to address future National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nominations and/or recommendations for adding new historic districts or expanding the existing historic district. ERDC-CERL compiled content from 18 existing historic contexts, building inventory and cultural re-sources reports, NRHP nomination and registration forms, and Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) forms previously completed for the ENRD, and used these resources to compile the current history.

Institutions of Culture in Contemporary Social and Cultural Dynamics

This paper is a kind of response to Prof. Irina S. Semenenko’s article “New Dimensions of Identity Politics: Contested Memories in History Museums of the 20th Century” (Mirovaya ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya (World Economy and International Relations), 2020, vol. 64, no. 5). The paper attempts to ground the notion of institutions of culture and their necessary, though sometimes ambiguous role in social, cultural as well as political dynamics of the current history. Studies of the present experience in economic, information and demographic globalization, digital technologies, pandemics, etc. offer new opportunities for rethinking the role of cultural institutions in the whole socio-historical process, including the current history. The complex of these problems is displayed not only on macro-historical or global level, but also on the levels of micro-histories and everyday history in different social and cross-cultural contexts. The field of cultural institutions seems to be responsible for the whole shifting of basic human values in history as well as for the “subtle customization” of interpersonal communications and “le phenomene humaine” itself.