Compiled here are the recollections of some remarkable men and women who experienced frontier life in the American Southwest during the latter part...

In this, the author's twelfth book, Faitelson tells the exhaustive and authentic story of the escape from the Ninth Fort at Kovno. Faitelson's orig...

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 Warsaw ghetto uprising was planned and accomplished by two organisations, the ZOB (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa -- Jewish Fighting Organization)...

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...

Ukraine’s 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity also became known as ‘The Euromaidan,’ which literally means ‘European Square’ and refers to the country’...

This book puts Hong Kong on the world map and elevated this docile, money-minded Asian island to a model for pro-democracy campaigns across the glo...

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 ...

Calhoun's most important constitutional and political writings are now available as complete, unabridged texts and in a single volume, many for the...

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...

For some time the Commission Internationale pour l’Histoire des Villes has been working actively on the comprehensive topic of urban space which is...

The story of the USS Missouri, one of America's most famous warships of the twentieth century, and the world's last battleship, is told from her in...

As lead ship of America’s first “fast battleship” class, and the US Navy’s newest battleship when America entered WWII, the construction of the USS...

In recent years, much has been written on how the moral meaning and significance of the Holocaust has been appropriated in popular and political di...

Of all the personalities associated with Anne Frank, the most important figure, without whom Anne Frank would never have been able to write her dia...

Every one of us has a story to tell, yet writing is often such a daunting task that most people never get around to starting their memoirs -- let a...

A recent series of terrorist attacks, the uncovering of a large terrorist network, and a string of continuing regional conflicts have raised an awa...

This is a collection of articles about some of the great Jewish heroes of modern times. The book is a collage of role-models and inspiring makers o...

There is a special place on the south-eastern shores of Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It is a magnificent landscape of rock...