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The fall of Napoleon
Starts with Napoleon at Longwood House
Move from Longwood exile through Josephine and back into Revolutionary Paris.
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Step Inside A Moment
1820 / Longwood House, Saint Helena
Napoleon Bonaparte waits at Longwood House.
Saint Helena, 1820. The empire is gone. What remains is a man in enforced distance, trying to shape the story that will outlive him.
The room is small enough for weakness to show. Illness, surveillance, boredom, and memory now press in around a man once used to commanding Europe.
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Mediterranean30 BCE
Alexandria, Egypt
Alexandria is a city where world-scale politics narrows into one final room.
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Britain And Ireland1797-1928
London, England
London is one of the archive's clearest demonstrations that a city can hold many.
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South Asia1605
Agra, India
Agra holds imperial power at domestic range.
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Sub Saharan Africa1961
Accra
Accra gives decolonization a lived address.
Enter through W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Connections
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DirectPerson
Alexander the Great
From Julius Caesar•44 BCE - Rome
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DiscoveryPlace
Tower of London
From Anne Boleyn•1536 - Tower of London
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War and mass politics
From W.E.B. Du Bois•1961 - Accra
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