Offering an alternative to encyclopedic textbooks that confirm Henry Ford’s complaint that the study of history is just “one damned thing after another,” it provides an informal and conversational narrative history of the American experience from the Colonial period to the present day. Above all, history is a story, and the story of America is a complicated and contested tale. Rather than simply the exceptionalism of a shining city upon a hill, ...
The U.S. has escalated military aid to Colombia, making human rights abuses there a topic of renewed concern here. Molano is widely recognized as the leading writer on the subject. The book includes a preface and appendix documenting the U.S role in supporting human rights violations through “Plan Colombia.” ...
A famous Soviet general who fought in the Battle of Moscow (1941/1942) and the siege of Leningrad (1941–1944), Andrey Vlasov (1901–1946) was captured by Nazi troops and then defected to the Third Reich. Supported by Nazi propaganda, he created a “Russian Liberation Committee” that later became the “Russian Liberation Army” (RLA). The RLA was a body of several hundred officers and several thousand troops who had defected from the USSR and served ...
A famous Soviet general who fought in the Battle of Moscow (1941/1942) and the siege of Leningrad (1941–1944), Andrey Vlasov (1901–1946) was captured by Nazi troops and then defected to the Third Reich. Supported by Nazi propaganda, he created a “Russian Liberation Committee” that later became the “Russian Liberation Army” (RLA). The RLA was a body of several hundred officers and several thousand troops who had defected from the USSR and served ...
Spatestens seit den Brexit-Verhandlungen erlangt die Frage der inneririschen Grenze neue Aktualitat. Dabei wird deutlich, dass der Nordirland-Konflikt gesellschaftlich noch lange nicht wirklich beendet ist – und nun mit dem Brexit moglicherweise neu aufflammt. Aileen Heid betrachtet die Rolle der Erinnerungspolitik innerhalb der erkalteten Konfliktstrukturen, untersucht, wie kollektives Erinnern unter solchen Bedingungen funktioniert und ...
