John reflects on the people who have taught him, in all the different ways teaching can happen, and the lessons that he’s learned over decades of thinking and writing about the Holocaust...

Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...

Eisler argues that modern humans are descended from primates who imitated the hunting practices and pack hierarchies of wolves during the scarcity of the ice age...

Lee tells the story of the events leading up to the little-known revolt of Georgian Wehrmacht recruits against the Germans on the island of Texel, which was part of the Atlantic Wall fortifications off the Dutch coast...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Crim explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing on notable contributions from the last fifty years...

In recent decades, scholarship has turned to the role of gender in the Holocaust, but rarely has it critically investigated the experiences of men as gendered beings..

Miller explores the literary evolution of the modern epic in postwar German literature...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Kettler and Wheatland pays special attention to Neumann's efforts to break down the conventional divide between political theory and the empirical discipline of political science...

Rosenfeld shows how postwar German history might have been very different without the fear of the Fourth Reich as a mobilizing idea to combat the right-wing forces that genuinely threatened the country's democratic order...

By the late 1960s, West Germany and Israel were moving in almost opposite diplomatic directions in a political environment dominated by the Cold War...

Fritzsche offers an extraordinary examination of how, in just a few months, Germans got used to living around, among, and, mostly, in unity with, Nazis...

Almost unknown in the West, this siege of Przemysl was one of the great turning points of the First World War...

Latvia's elegant capital, Riga, is one of Europe's best-kept secrets...

Paul Celan's poetry marks the end of European modernism..

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Germany’s winter campaign of 1941–1942 is commonly seen as the Wehrmacht's first defeat. Stahel argues that it was in fact their first strategic success in the east.

Seegel offers an insightful contribution to the history of map making which is written through and by individual geographers/cartographers/map men...

The former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt grew up as a devout Anglophile, yet he clashed heavily and repeatedly with his British counterparts Wilson, Callaghan, and Thatcher during his time in office between 1974 and 1982..

Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods,..

Hanebrink shows how Fascists, Conservatives and Nazis imagined Jewish Bolsheviks as enemies who crossed borders to subvert order from within and bring destructive ideas from abroad...

How did Catholic mysticism shape politics and religion in 20th-century Germany?

Who or what originated and/or caused the Great War from breaking out in July 1914?

Vogel tells the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it...