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The Depression Comes to the South Side
Protest and Politics in the Black Metropolis, 1930-1933
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
In the 1920s, the South Side was looked on as the new Black Metropolis, but by the turn of the decade that vision was already in decline—a victim of the Depression. In this timely book, Christopher Robert Reed explores early Depression-era politics on Chicago's South Side. The economic crisis caused...
Letters from the Greatest Generation
Writing Home in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
A collection of personal letters from overseas that reveal in day-to-day detail what it was like to serve in World War II.
Recounting victory and defeat, love and loss, this is a remarkable and frank collection of World War II letters penned by American men and women serving overseas.
Here,...
Together and Apart in Brzezany
Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
... by reconstructing the history/experience of Brzezany in Jewish, Ukrainian, and Polish memories [Redlich] has produced a beautiful parallel narrative of a world that was lost three times over.... a truly wonderful achievement." —Jan T. Gross, author of Neighbors
Shimon Redlich draws on...
In the Shadow of the Shtetl
Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some 400 returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
In recent years, the mask of tolerant, secular, multicultural Europe has been shattered by new forms of antisemitic crime. Though many of the perpetrators do not profess Christianity, antisemitism has flourished in Christian Europe. In this book, thirteen scholars of European history, Jewish studies,...
The House at Ujazdowskie 16
Jewish Families in Warsaw After the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The compelling history of ten Jewish families rebuilding their lives in Warsaw after the Holocaust—“amply illustrated . . . the book reverberates with hope” (Jewish Book Council).
Warsaw, Poland, once described as the “Paris of the East,” had been transformed into a landscape of ruin...
Extraordinary Circumstances
The Seven Days Battles
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
The first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Seven Days Battles were fought southeast of the Confederate capital of Richmond in the summer of 1862. Lee and his fellow officers, including "Stonewall" Jackson, James Longstreet, A. P. Hill, and D....
Defeating Lee
A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
“Kreiser breathes new life into this most important of Union Army units. . . . A remarkably well-written and superbly researched account.” —David E. Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln’s Re-election and the End of Slavery
Fair Oaks, the Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg,...
America's War in Vietnam
A Short Narrative History
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2000
“If you want to read one book about Vietnam, read this one.” —New York Review of Books
Drawing on years of experience teaching about the war, Larry H. Addington presents a short, narrative history of the origins, course, and outcome of America’s military involvement in Vietnam. Not intended...
1915 Diary of S. An-sky
A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
S. An-sky was by the time of the First World War a well-known writer, a longtime revolutionary, and an ethnographer who pioneered the collection of Jewish folklore in Russia's Pale of Settlement. In 1915, An-sky took on the assignment of providing aid and relief to Jewish civilians trapped under Russian...
The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China
Siping, 1946
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
“A well-organized and excellently researched work” (H-War) on one of the crucial battles of China’s civil war.
In the spring of 1946, Communists and Nationalist Chinese were battled for control of Manchuria and supremacy in the civil war. The Nationalist attack on Siping ended with a Communist...
Tank Driver
With the 11th Armored from the Battle of the Bulge to VE Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2003
Tank Driver is the story of a young man’s combat initiation in World War II. Based on letters home, the sparse narrative has the immediacy of on-the-spot reporting. Ted Hartman was a teenager when he was sent overseas to drive a Sherman tank into combat to face the desperate German counterattack...
Keeping Faith with the Party
Communist Believers Return from the Gulag
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
How is it that some prisoners of the Soviet gulag—many of them falsely convicted—emerged from the camps maintaining their loyalty to the party that was responsible for their internment? In camp, they had struggled to survive. Afterward they struggled to reintegrate with society, reunite with their...
Mass Culture in Soviet Russia
Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917–1953
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1995
This anthology offers a rich array of documents, short fiction, poems, songs, plays, movie scripts, comic routines, and folklore to offer a close look at the mass culture that was consumed by millions in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1953. Both state-sponsored cultural forms and the unofficial culture...