In the forty years before the Civil War, America was awash in political and social reform movements. Abolitionists stormed against the cruelties of slavery. Temperance zealots hounded producers and co
Were Americans the heroic liberators of Nazi concentration camp victims in 1945, or were they knowing and apathetic bystanders to unspeakable brutality and annihilation for a dozen years? Historians
Recounts the life and career of Theodore Dwight Weld, the abolitionist held most responsible for the success of the antislavery movement in the United States
Presents a selection of original documents, including letters from Germany, journalistic accounts, diary entries, and other documents that illustrate the varied reactions of Americans as they witnesse
Assembling more than 30 primary documents -- including proposals, memoranda, decrypted messages, and imperial conferences -- Iriye presents diplomatic exchanges from both American and Japanese perspec
Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the most important judicial proceeding of the twentieth century, this is the first book to examine historically the indictment of 22 Nazi leaders at the end o
