Dr. Clews examines the early months of World War II when Winston Churchill’s ability to lead Britain in the fight against the Nazis was being tested...

In pre-emancipation Europe, most Jews followed Jewish law most of the time, but by the turn of the twentieth century, a new secular Jewish identity had begun to take shape...

Simms argues that fears that Germany would lose the economic and demographic competition with Britain and especially the US sat at the heart of Hitler's world view...

For those of you aware of the distinguished philosophical career of Hermann Cohen (1859 - 1918) and the absence of an intellectual biography in English, Beiser’s scholarship is a long time coming...

During Europe’s 2015 refugee crisis, more than a hundred thousand asylum seekers from the western Balkans sought refuge in Germany. This was nothing new...

The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...

Eisman examines one of East Germany's most successful artists as a point of entry into the vibrant art world of the "other" Germany. In the 1980s..

Kühne writes an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars and during the Holocaust...

Subotić asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled―ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated―throughout Eastern Europe...

Van Duzer presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

The decades following the end of World War II witnessed the establishment of a large and diverse German-American scholarly community studying modern German history...

As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could be forgotten. It is up to each generation to commemorate the victims...

Nineteenth-century composer Fanny Hensel is the subject of more published research than any other woman of the period, with the possible exception of Clara Schumann...

Raul Hilberg was a giant in the field of Genocide and Holocaust Studies...

What was "Appeasement," and What Is It Today?

Millions of tourists visit Holocaust museums and memorials every year.,,

Where did ethnography come from?

Mendes-Flohr paints a detailed and compelling portrait of one of the twentieth century's most versatile and influential thinkers..,

There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall...

Bonomi tackles what has often remained hidden both in the historical writing about psychoanalysis and in Freud's explicit account of castration...

How did Germany deal with the Nazi past?

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...