- Why was Mommsen prosecuted over a speech criticizing Bismarck?
- What is controversial about Mommsen's portrayal of Julius Caesar as a democratic reformer?
Political Leaders and Biography
Notable political figures and their lives.
- Why was Roosevelt's prize historically significant for the United States?
- What did Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points propose for a new postwar international order?
- How did Wilson's national tour to build public support for the League end with his stroke and incapacitation?
- How long did it take for the letter to actually reach Roosevelt, and why the delay?
- What unusual perspective did Churchill bring to his history of the Second World War, having participated in the events he described?
- What did the Swedish Academy cite as the basis for awarding Churchill the Literature prize?
- How many volumes did Churchill's history of the English-speaking peoples span, and what time period did it cover?
- How did Shepard's flight lead directly to President Kennedy's announcement of the Moon landing goal before Congress?
- What role did Churchill play in advancing radar and the British atomic bomb programme?
- What did Churchill's 1939 essay on extraterrestrial life argue, and how was it rediscovered in 2016?
- How did Churchill support the use of operational research in military decision-making despite resistance from generals?
- How large was Churchill's funeral compared to other events in British history, and how was it broadcast?
- What role did Jimmy Carter play in brokering the Camp David Accords?
- What circumstances led the 14th Dalai Lama to flee over the Himalayas into India in 1959?
- What was the exact phrasing of the Ig Nobel committee's citation for Dan Quayle?
- What behaviors did Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew punish, and why did the Ig Nobel committee frame this as a psychology study?
- What persecution did Kim Dae-jung survive before becoming South Korea's president?
- What was the Sunshine Policy and how did it differ from prior approaches to North Korea?
- What happened at the June 2000 inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang?
- What international conflicts did Jimmy Carter help mediate after leaving the presidency?
- What was Jimmy Carter's role in the campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease?
- Why was the Nobel Committee's 2002 citation for Carter interpreted as an implicit rebuke of contemporary US foreign policy?
- What other nuclear disputes was the IAEA managing under ElBaradei in the years before the prize?
- What reasons did the Norwegian Nobel Committee give for awarding Obama the prize so early in his presidency?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee award nine heads of government a prize in medical education during the pandemic?