Adolf Hitler

Bruce Kuklick traces the meaning of the term “fascist” from its origins to the present day and how it has, over the years, gradually lost its coherence.

Rethinking the twentieth century.

Franklin D. Roosevelt called the Evian Conference in France in 1938, as the Holocaust loomed. It remains “an indelible stain on American and world history.”

The recent documentary "The US and the Holocaust" is a scathing, even bombastic indictment of US immigration policy over the past 160 years.

Past and present celebrities influence on the maintaining of antisemitism.

For nearly a century, Americans have been throwing the term around—without agreeing what that means.

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.

The concept of geopolitics comes from German and Russian attempts to explain defeat and reverse loss of influence.

Several years before the United States officially entered World War II, Black Americans were tracking the international spread of fascism.

To what extent did newspapers influence public opinion in the US and Britain before and during World War II?

How David O. Russell’s movie messes around with the story of the Business Plot.

Watching the Ken Burns series on the U.S. and the Holocaust and thinking about American folk music.

The twentieth century promised prosperity and leisure for all. What went wrong?

A new book argues that the conflict was a battle for empire.

Ukraine’s wartime communications strategies have roots in World War II.

A new book tells the stories of four interwar writers who laid the groundwork for modern journalism.

Hal Brands urges the U.S. to make China and Russia “pay exorbitantly” for their policies. History shows that has never worked.

During World War II, movie studios went to pains not to alienate the Nazis.

John Gunther’s “Death Be Not Proud” defied a nation’s reluctance to describe personal loss.

A review of “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War."