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Joshua Zimmerman, “The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939-1945” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Episode 315
Some books fly high above the field, making sweeping generalizations about big questions.
Other books circle over a specific problem, analyzing it in…
10 years, 7 months ago
Hillary Chute, “Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Episode 314
In her new book Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form (Harvard UP, 2016), Hillary Chute analyses the documentary power in th…
10 years, 7 months ago
Dan J. Puckett, “In the Shadow of Hitler: Alabama’s Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust” (U of Alabama Press, 2014)
Episode 313
In his book, In the Shadow of Hitler: Alabama’s Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust (University of Alabama Press, 2014), Dan J. Puckett, As…
10 years, 7 months ago
Timothy Snyder, “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning” (Tim Duggan Books, 2015)
Episode 312
It’s rare when an academic historian breaks through and becomes a central part of the contemporary cultural conversation.
Timothy Snyder does just th…
10 years, 9 months ago
Ron Grigor Suny, “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Episode 311
Anniversaries are funny things. Sometimes, as with the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, they are accompanied by a flood …
10 years, 9 months ago
Abram de Swaan, “The Killing Compartments: The Mentality of Mass Murder” (Yale UP, 2015)
Episode 310
For a couple of decades, scholars have moved toward a broad consensus that context, rather than ideology, is most important in pushing ordinary men a…
10 years, 9 months ago
Kim Wunschmann, “Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps” (Harvard University Press 2015)
Episode 309
In Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps (Harvard University Press, 2015), Kim Wunschmann, DAAD Lecturer in Modern Eur…
10 years, 10 months ago
Nicholas Stargardt, “The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945” (Basic Books, 2015)
Episode 308
In all of the thousands upon thousands of books written about Nazi Germany, it’s easy to lose track of some basic questions. What did Germans think t…
10 years, 11 months ago
Vicken Cheterian, "Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide" (Oxford UP, 2015)
Episode 12
The assassination of the Armenian-Turkish activist Hrant Dink in 2007 raised uncomfortable questions about a historical tragedy that the leaders of t…
11 years ago
Conference Report: Genocide In World History, Bryant University, 9-10 October 2015
Episode 307
Today’s podcast marks the beginning of what I hope might become a regular feature on the podcast. The session was recorded live on the campus of Brya…
11 years ago