Art Spiegelman's Maus is the story of an American cartoonist's efforts to uncover and record his father's story of survival of the Holocaust...

On November 9, 1938, the Nazis launched a pogrom against German Jews...Kristallnacht.

How does the world of book reviews work?

An interview with Simon Adams

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia bore some similarities to that in other places, but also differed in ways that lead to new questions and approaches...

Cazenave offers a fascinating analysis of the 220 hours of outtakes edited out of the final nine and a half-hour 1985 film with which listeners and readers might be familiar...

Gemeiner-Bihler compares the experiences of Jewish refugees who immigrated to London and New York City by analyzing letters, diaries, newspapers, organizational documents, and oral histories...

Rever and her sources tell a story far different from the one most people who are familiar with the Rwandan Genocide would recognize...

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...

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...

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

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...

How does violence against civilians become permissible in wartime?

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

Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide?

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

How did Germany deal with the Nazi past?

Can justice heal? Must there be justice in order to heal? Is there such a thing as justice, something to be striven for regardless of context?

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

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

Dzuro provides a first-hand look at the establishment of the International Crime Tribunal for Yugoslavia to prosecute Balkan war criminals...

Mauriello attempts to recreate the emotional and traumatic reactions these men had when confronted with the worst of Nazi Germany...

What makes some people aid the persecuted while others just stand by?