Bruna Frascolla

Brazil's slavery was uniquely Portuguese - shaped by centuries of African contact, Arab loanwords, and a legal system where manumission was common. 

This month, while discussing my article "Transatlantic Slavery and Africa's Influence on Europe" with Spanish speakers, I discovered that the Portuguese word alforria (manumission) is not used in Spanish. I swapped this word of Arabic origin for manumisión, derived from Latin, and was understood.

By Boyd Cathey  

July 22, 2026

July 21 of 2026 is the ninth anniversary of the release of one of the finer films about World War II. On that day the Christopher Nolan-directed epic, "Dunkirk," was released in theaters in the US and UK, to rave reviews by audiences and critics alike.

That anniversary re-entered my thoughts a few days ago. As a former Archivist for the state of North Carolina, my habit is to save almost everything that comes my way: bills, letters, receipts, notes, interesting articles.

par Patrice Gibertie

Le diptyque "La Bataille de Gaulle" d'Antonin Baudry (sorti en 2026, avec "L'Âge de fer" en juin et "J'écris ton nom" fin juin) est un blockbuster historique français ambitieux. Il retrace le parcours de Charles de Gaulle de 1940 à 1944, adapté du livre de l'historien Julian T. Jackson De Gaulle : une certaine idée de la France. Au-delà de l'épopée de la Résistance, le film met en lumière les tensions profondes entre de Gaulle et les Alliés, en particulier les États-Unis de Franklin D.