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In December 2023, the journal Nanophotonics published a special issue in support of Ukrainian scientists. Prominent scientists contributed thirty-three papers to the special issue. Open access article fees, together with an additional donation from one of the authors, raised over €80,000.

Public history emerged in Russia in the 2010s as an attempt to resist the increasing monopolization of the past and its interpretations by Vladimir Putin’s regime. Despite public historians’ solid effort, the struggle was lost. What are the field’s pasts, presents – and potential futures?