In this collection Freda Hodge retrieves early voices of Holocaust survivors. Men, women and children relate experiences of deportation and ghettoi...

The study examines local debates about political order, collective identity, and relationships between ethnic and denominational groups in the pre-...

This is a study of some of the rank-and-file men, the foot soldiers, who carried out the "Final Solution." The Trawniki concentration camp in Polan...

In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627)--the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas--Jesuit priest Alonso d...

In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627)--the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas--Jesuit priest Alonso d...

Australia's inner cities experienced an upheaval in the 1960s and 70s which left them changed forever. People from all walks of life who valued the...

This is a forceful statement of what is right about America -- as well as a history of where we've gone wrong. Our principles are the best the worl...

Long before Civil Rights, the Tuskegee Airmen fought for equality. First they integrated the Armed Forces, then a whole nation and did it with comp...

The sports journalist Maximilian Reich was arrested on March 17, 1938 in Vienna and sent to the concentration camp in Dachau with the so-called Tra...

Natalya Ryabinska calls into question the commonly held opinion that the problems with media reform and press freedom in former Soviet states merel...

After Ukraine’s 2013–14 Revolution of Dignity, much Western attention to Ukrainian domestic policies has been focused on the country’s “Europeaniza...

This volume retraces Carl Lutz’s diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Togethe...

By the nineteenth century the ancient urban churchyards of Britain, burdened with gener­ations of dead, were unable to cope with rising numbers of ...

ISIS started as rebels under the US occupation of Iraq. They grew by ravaging Libya and Syria. Their backers are Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and they ...

This book gives voice to experiences by Austrian and Austrian Jewish women during World War II and the Holocaust through a social and historical re...

Why was it that a small mining community in Victoria on the margin of Australian coal mining, with a strong union organisation, was able to exert a...

The post-1945 migration to the cities by Māori transformed Aotearoa New Zealand forever. Before the Second World War 90% of Māori lived in rural tr...