Report

27.May 2026. Nemanja Kalezić

Kota 2525: Battle of Kajmakchalan

The intensity of the fighting on September 18 at Kajmakcalan is best expressed by the use of ammunition on the Serbian side. "9.310 artillery shells of all calibers, 200.000 rifle and 250.000 machine gun rounds, 400 hand grenades, 450 Hazen bombs, 380 illumination rockets, 250 signal rockets and 800 signal bullets were fired"

The Founding Fathers of America (VI)

25.march 2026 Dr. Dragan R. Simić

James Monroe, time and work

Although Quincy Adams had an influence, it was Monroe who put the final stamp on the principle of non-intervention, non-interference in the affairs of countries in the Western Hemisphere, as well as positions against colonization and recolonization, and taking the fate of both Americas into the hands of Americans.

Traditions in American foreign policy (IV)

05.march 2026 Dr. Milan Krstić

How the "founding fathers" saw the role of the USA in the world

American intellectual Walter Russell Mead, in his book Special providence, presented the thesis that in the history of the USA there are four schools of American foreign policy that can be paradigmatically linked to some of the key statesmen. This text focuses on the traditions established by Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, important figures of the American Revolution, while the next issue will discuss the legacies of Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson, who acted during periods of revolutionary change in the regional or world order.

About the book

26.February 2026. Aleksandra Vuletic

How kidnapping a girl became a crime

Marriage regulations were among the first legal acts passed with the intention of eradicating backwardness and establishing an order that would bring Serbia closer to the ideal of a "Christian and civilized Europe", which the book tells about Marriage in modern Serbia

In memoriam

13.February 2026. Milan Milošević

The deceased historian and Soviet dissident Roy Medvedev: Judge of the Great Terror and Stalinism

He considered his life's work to be the book "On the Court of History: The Genesis and Consequences of Stalinism", about the Great Terror in the USSR. Together with the physicists and dissidents Andrei Sakharov and Valentin Turchin, he published an open letter to the Soviet leaders in 1970 about the need to democratize the Soviet system. He criticized the coup against Gorbachev in 1991, but also the President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin

The Founding Fathers of America

12.February 2026. Dragan Simic

John Quincy Adams - the man, the time, the work

The return of the Western Hemisphere to the focus of US foreign and security policy and the existence of what is called the "Donroe Doctrine" requires an understanding of the roots of this policy. The intellectual, state and political legacy of the greatest American strategist in the 19th century and the creator of the Monroe Doctrine, John Quincy Adams, is certainly the first and most important step in the whole process.

History as a science

12.December 2025 S. Ć.

Historian's jubilee: Museum object - witness of time

The section of historians of the Museum Society of Serbia marked 20 years of work with the first professional conference, where history was discussed on the basis of objects from museum collections.

Alcohol

14.August 2025 Jelena Janic Ljubisavljevic

To drink or not to drink, that's the question now

In the second half of the 19th century, Serbs were divided into those who are "against" and those who are "for" alcohol. The latter recommended the former to have a nice argument in a pub like the rest of the drunken world and resolve their misunderstandings right away, rather than going to court and newspapers.

Culture of Memory: “The Seagull”

31.July 2025 Nemanja Kalezić

The turbulent life of a famous ship

When was the future "ship of peace" built? How did he change names and purpose? What and who did he serve in the years of the Second World War? How was the fire put out on it while the airstrikes were still going on? And then extracted from the bottom of the sea, in the post-war years, in an incredible multi-month undertaking? Who did he host among the world's statesmen? And how, in the 1990s, did it deteriorate, was sent away from Tivat with sadness, and then (was it) saved again? What is happening with him today?

Felton: Kosovo Ideology (I)

11.June 2025 Ivan Colovic

Lazar Hrebeljanović - from military leader to saint

In the Kosovar myth, mutually incompatible values ​​of heroic virtue and the ideal of martyrdom were found, due to the fact that echoes of real events penetrated into the church discourse, imposed themselves there, and undisclosed historical facts were found there. The mundane feat of a fearless military leader who went into battle against a superior enemy is overshadowed by religious martyrdom

History teaches us

21.May 2025. Nebojsa Jovanovic

Mr. King, you are not in charge!

When King Petar Ovlaš, in a private conversation, told Ljuba Stojanović that he expected Stepa Stepanović in the new government, the latter explained to him that even the ruler's wish expressed in this way contradicts the principles of the parliamentary monarchy. Because of this, the king had to apologize to him in the Assembly

Agreement on the meter

21.May 2025. Marija Vidic

Relativity of one kilogram

Exactly 150 years ago, the meter and the kilogram were accepted as official units of measurement. The question is whether the kilogram today is the same as it was 150 years ago - but for now we have no reliable method to find out

A cheerful humorist

15.May 2025. Nebojsa Brocic

How we hurt ourselves

A short, sometimes darkly humorous account of historical events and moments when we invariably made mistakes in judgment, chose the wrong side or did things to ourselves, unjustifiably and unprovoked, that brought us here

A culture of memory: Youth societies in the 19th century

23.April 2025. Nemanja Kalezić

The lifeblood of every society

The article "Overview of the State" by Jevrem Grujić was printed in Zemun in 1849 because censorship banned it in Serbia. The words dedicated to "inner liberation" are still very relevant today, and it is not at all in favor of today's "mature" generations that today's youth have to repeat them as if we are not 170 years away from the time of their origin. In short: "For internal liberation, our people must be presented: What is it as a nation, what rights should it have? - What is the government, why and by whom, and what are its limits? Tell it precisely: What does it mean for a people to live in a state and invite them to live like that too"

The culture of memory

23.April 2025. Sanja Pavlovic

Some new and some old kids and dealing with the past

In a society in which for more than thirty years there has been a deafening silence compared to the nineties, in which we are surrounded by men who carry unprocessed traumas from the battlefield, every honest word that contributes to coping, especially said in a moment of deep crisis and the search for justice, is healing

History teaches us

10.April 2025. Nebojsa Jovanovic

How democracy was created

Pisistratus had his staff and distributed money from the state budget for better cultivation of olives, development of trade and export, construction of roads, repair of the city's water supply. And then the learned aristocrat Cleisthenes returned from political emigration

Inner voice

26.march 2025 Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

Love of freedom

It is an additional problem when you need to get rid of an autocrat or a dictator whose last name rhymes with yours. Many people then do not realize that various freedoms can be denied to them despite the fact that there is no external invader, that, for example, freedom of speech almost completely disappears, which, as we have seen in Serbia in recent decades, we recognize above all through the suppression of media freedoms

History teaches us

20.march 2025 Nebojsa Jovanovic

How the consuls shaped the Principality

The Austrian consul was a welcome guest in Jevrem's house, where the opponents of Prince Mihailo came, the British Hodges influenced Serbia to get the Constitution, and the Russian Vashchenko helped overthrow Prince Milos

Archeology and politics

11.September 2024 Nemanja Bojić

Turning the past into an armed force

Not only examples from the territories of Kosovo and Serbia, but all over the world, prove that archeology is day by day ceasing to be only a scientific discipline about the human past, but also a weapon used to appropriate territories

A Brief History of Hawaii's Music and More

26.December 2018 Dragan Ambrozic

Hula blues – the music of the lost paradise

Volcanic lava may be engulfing Hawaii, but the music doesn't stop playing! Hawaiian music represented a quarter of the first gramophone records released in the early 20th century, directly influenced the creation of country music, and was highly regarded by non-Nazi Germans during World War II. Moreover, a Prussian concertmaster of the military orchestra first recorded it and then modernized it, allowing the whole world to enjoy the music of the lost paradise