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History LLMs: Giving the Past a Voice with Large Language Models

by Daniel Göttlich, Dominik Loibner and Hans-Joachim Voth

Dec 29, 2025 • Broadstreet

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Legacies of Repression: How Europe’s Violent 20th Century Still Shapes Its Politics

by Laia Balcells, Patricia Justino, and Andrea Ruggeri

Dec 22, 2025

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October 2025

Blood and Iron: Political Fragmentation in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

How new technology reshaped the political equilibrium of the early Iron Age through violence.

Oct 6, 2025 • Patrick Fitzsimmons

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September 2025

Identity Politics: Economic Incentives, Elite Capture, and Collective Memory

by Michele Rosenberg

Sep 30, 2025

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HPE candidates on the job market

Job market season is here.

Sep 22, 2025 • Broadstreet

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August 2025

Stalin's Famine

by Natalya Naumenko (GMU)

Aug 4, 2025 • Broadstreet

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June 2025

'Throwback Monday': The persistence of identity

Broadstreet is on summer break!

Jun 30, 2025 • Pavithra Suryanarayan

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The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison

by Erik Bengtsson and Felix Kersting

Jun 16, 2025 • Broadstreet

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Where have all the workers gone? War and technological progress during the Industrial Revolution

by Bruno Caprettini

Jun 4, 2025

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May 2025

The Democratic Institutions of the Roman Republic

by John G. Matsusaka (USC)

May 27, 2025 • Broadstreet

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The rise and reversal of bureaucratic capacity: lessons from Chinese history

In a previous post, I discussed ways in which recent historical political economy research has advanced the study of state capacity.

May 19, 2025 • Pavithra Suryanarayan

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The Future of Historical Political Economy in Europe

By Bastian Becker (Humboldt-University of Berlin), Lukas Haffert (University of Geneva), Cathrin Mohr (University of Bonn)

May 12, 2025 • Broadstreet

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