Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht … YEHOR BRAILIAN … Lynn Meskell, "What's the Point of UNESCO?," History Today. Stephen Bush, "Dreams of Leaving and Remaining by James Meek; A Short History of Brexit by Kevin O'Rourke," The Guardian. Marcus Colla, "Condemned to Become:

JOSEPH SATISH … Nazimuddin Siddiqui, "The Discourse of Doubt: Understanding the Crisis of Citizenship in Assam," Economic & Political Weekly. Sagar Dhara, "Indian Environmental Movements: Why They Failed or Succeeded, and the Challenges Ahead," Ecologise.

MEGHNA CHAUDHURI … Daniel Immerwahr, "How the US Had Hidden its Empire," The Guardian. Greg Grandin, "What's at Stake in Venezuela?," London Review of Books. Alexander Williams, "The Treason Trial of Netaji That Never Happened," The Wire.

SEAN PHILLIPS … Christian Mueller, "The Invention of the Silk Road," Asia Dialogue. Eric Alterman, "The Decline of Historical Thinking," The New Yorker. Jill Lepore, "A New Americanism: Why a Nation Needs a National Story," Foreign Affairs.

JOSHUA MILSTEIN … Bart Zantvoort, "On Hartmut Rosa and the Acceleration of Social Change in Modernity," JHIBlog. Ahmed Elsayed, "The Battle over the Memory of Egypt's Revolution," OpenDemocracy.

MEGHNA CHAUDHURI … Alf Gunvald Nilsen, 'How Can We Understand India's Agrarian Struggle Beyond "Modi Sarkar Murdabad"?,' EPW. 'What Europeans Talk About When They Talk About Brexit,' London Review of Books. Peter Baker, '"We The People": The Battle to Define Populism,' The Guardian.

NATALIE BEHRENDS … Danielle Jackson, 'Memory and the Lost Cause,' Longreads. Peter Brown, 'Between Two Empires,' The New York Review of Books. Daniel Rodgers, 'The Uses and Abuses of "Neoliberalism",' Dissent. Daniel Stolz, 'The Lighthouse and the Observatory,' Jadaliyya.

For graduate student readers of the Global History Blog, this recent call for applications is for you.

Dominic Sachsenmaier, President of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, delivered the following laudation in awarding the 2019 Toynbee Prize to Lauren Benton, Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Professor of History and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University.

JOSEPH SATISH … Matan Rochlitz, "Liberation of the Soul Through Diet - How a Jain Ascetic Lives," Aeon. Rajan Krishnan, "Patel Statue and Pillage of History," Frontline. "Too Late in the Day? Dr MS Swaminathan Clarifies His Views on GMO," Swarajya.

COLLIN BERNARD … Alex Traub, "India's Dangerous New Curriculum," New York Review of Books. Helen Thompson, "The Unintended Euro and the Problem of Italy," Speri Comment. Matthew Lee and Mark Stevenson, "US and Mexico Face Stark Choice as New President Takes Over," AP.

NATALIE BEHRENDS … Andrew Arsan, "New Texts Out Now: Lebanon, a Country in Fragments," Jadaliyya. Andrew Bacevich, "Zbigniew Brzeinski's Cold War," The Nation. John Connelly, "The Polish Predicament," LA Review of Books.

JAMES PARKER … David Olusoga, "Black Soldiers Were Expendable - Then Forgettable," The Guardian. Gaby Del Valle, "When Environmentalism Meets Xenophobia," The Nation. Laura Cole, "Untold History: The WWI Battles That Levelled East Africa," Al Jazeera.

The next year will see the culmination of a half decade of events celebrating and commemorating the centenary of the First World War - a year in which the focus will be on the conflict's aftermaths and consequences.

TIGER ZHIFU LI … Denise Fisher, "Explainer: New Caledonia's Independence Referendum, and How It Could Impact the Region," The Conversation. Yogita Limaye, "Sri Lanka Crisis: Ousted PM 'Has Confidence of Parliament'," BBC News.