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From Dixie to the Third Reich

Review of Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
… States … Germany … Racism & Racial Ideas … Jewish People … Genocide … From Dixie to the Third Reich …
graveyard at memorial to Srebrenica

Srebrenica

In July 1995, over 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica massacre.
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper Book cover.

Is It Only A Game?

Review of Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper (New York: Nation Books, 2012)
… Sports … Netherlands … World War II / WWII … Antisemitism … Genocide … Is It Only A Game? …
American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust, by Laura Levitt Book Cover

American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust

Review of American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust, by Laura Levitt (New York: New York University Press, 2007)
… 2007) … Laura Herron … Reviews … Religion … Jewish People … Genocide … Antisemitism … United States … American Jewish …
Protester opposing gay marriage in Boston, 2007. The sign compares gay rights in the U.S. to Nazi, Germany.

Gays, Nazis, and the GOP

… … Sexuality & Reproductive Rights … LGBTQ+ … Germany … Genocide … U.S. Politics … Gays, Nazis, and the GOP …
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, pictured in 2002

Apologizing for History

… Service … Global/Transnational … Economics/Business/Trade … Genocide … Apologizing for History …
Cover of Wounded Knee Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox Richardson

Where Our Hearts Are Still Buried

Review of Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre, by Heather Cox Richardson (New York: Basic Books, 2010)
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei (1945).

The Living Ghosts of the Second World War and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

… Ukraine and join Russia were experiencing “ humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime.” His mission, he … Patriotic War (1941-1945), protecting the world from Nazi genocide. Putin called the Ukrainians, whose territory … who, backed by their NATO allies, were committing “genocide” against Russians.  In justifying the timing of the …
a couple in a wedding dress and soldier dress uniform

Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust

… introduces us to the Jewish women who lived through genocide and went on to wed American, Canadian, and British … will introduce us to the Jewish women who lived through the genocide, and went on to wed American, Canadian and British … Governor Mike DeWine appointed her to Ohio's Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission in 2021. Robin is …
French demonstrators with purple signs that read "ras le viol"

Violence Against Women

… genitals and women's genitals. In particular, in cases of genocide, which have been common throughout history, but simply not labeled as specific cases of genocide, what you find is, genocide is now understood to be an attempt by one group to …
Nationalist poster depicting Pakistani atrocities during the war

The Bangladesh Liberation War

… of Pakistan committed war crimes that reached the level of genocide. What began as an internecine conflict soon became … futilely sounded the alarm over the ongoing “selective genocide,” the White House illegally transferred weapons to … debated whether the Pakistani army’s actions qualify as genocide and who should be held responsible. Exhibition at …

'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict

… crisis" and the United States government called it "genocide." The violence and destruction is often compared to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. These tragic events have riveted the … and prompted the U.S. government to describe it as "genocide." However, the rhetoric of the international …
Aurangzeb in a pavilion with courtiers below.

Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor

… of non-Islamic monuments and temples, and committing genocide.  To some South Asian Muslims, he was an exemplary … sectarian whole. He did not ban music, nor did he commit genocide. While he would not meet modern definitions of a …

Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story

… chapter in law enforcement in this country.” “We Charge Genocide” Following the end of  World War II , the U.S. … group with roots in organized labor—presented “We Charge Genocide” to the United Nations in Paris. The book-length … accountable for the deaths under the terms of the  UN’s Genocide Convention . Among these assertions, it drew a …
1943 poster for the Allies of World War II--two years before the founding of the United Nations.

The UN Follows the League’s Long Trail to Impotence

… Korea to flout international nuclear norms, permitting genocide in Darfur, and watching Iraq crumble into chaos, … thousand. Yet the UN refuses to declare these actions to be genocide. This is nothing new for such an organization. In …
A shopkeeper sits outside his store in the Cardo waiting for tourists and residents to stop in.

A Postcard from Jerusalem

… outside a restaurant to remind passersby of the Armenian genocide. Nestled in the southwest quarter of the Old City, … The quarter also acknowledges more recent history: the genocide of 1915-1917 . After the genocide , Jerusalem experienced an influx of Armenian …

Erasing Indigenous History, Then and Now

… criticized as being dismissive of a long history of genocide in the United States against Native peoples and … of “nothing,” there is also the story of dispossession and genocide. Indigenous nations dwelled in those territories …
Soldiers in Kosovo

Kosovo: The Lessons of History?

… were in Bosnia?” He added, “We have to take a stand against genocide.” Others brought up the American record during the … “While what is going on in Kosovo is terrible, is it really genocide? Is the Serbian policy in Kosovo a final solution …