In Support of Difficult History
Anna Hájková, a historian of sexuality in the Holocaust, notes that investigating queer and other “deviant” sexuality requires a certain stamina. Probing the gaps in […]
Articles by Jennifer Evans
Folk Devils and Fear: QAnon Feeds into a Culture of Moral Panic
Using conspiracy theories that include child sex traffickers and restaurants serving human flesh, QAnon has unleashed a modern-day moral panic. It is now more than […]
The Nazis Next Door
“We ask ourselves this question each time we are confronted with an event as troubling as the one this past week in Virginia: What is […]
US History Is a Pandora’s Box
“In divided cold war-era Germany, the last thing that an eminent historian of fascism would have hoped to do was scandalize. But scandalize Ernst Nolte did. […]
Fascism Then and Now? Or Why History Matters
Everywhere we turn, people are talking about history. And not just any historical event, our eyes are trained on the rise of fascism in the […]
Jennifer Evans of the New Fascism Syllabus on Ottawa Morning
On February 1, 2017, Jennifer Evans spoke to Robyn Bresnahan on Ottowa Morning about the inspiration behind the New Fascism Syllabus. Click below to listen to […]
Historical Thinking about Trump: Authoritarianism, Populism, Fascism
As an interim resource (and aren’t all of our resources “interim”?), we’re making available a bibliography on “Historical thinking about Trump: Authoritarianism, Populism, Fascism.” The […]
The Dawn of a New Era
With the election of Donald Trump, everything changed. This research blog, devoted to the rise and appeal of populist movements in Europe and the US, […]
