Review: Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars
Zimmerer, Jürgen. Germany’s History Wars: Contesting Memory and Identity Today. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025. On November 12, 2025, the German parliament accepted a new […]
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An Open Letter in Defense of Academic Freedom and the Historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe
We, the undersigned, protest against the state-sponsored defamatory attacks on the German-Polish Holocaust historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe and the ongoing campaign of intimidation against scholars and […]
A Century Later: A Renewed Open Letter Against the Return of Fascism
On May 1st 1925, with Mussolini already in power, a group of Italian intellectuals publicly denounced Mussolini’s fascist regime in an open letter. The signatories […]
I Shall Bear Witness – Victor Klemperer in His Time, and Ours
Victor Klemperer’s diary is a remarkable testimony on life in Nazi Germany told from the perspective of someone whom the state sought to eradicate from the population—and it makes for chilling reading today.
Review: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen
Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021. The United States’ recently-held presidential election in November 2024 has thrown […]
Review: Sarah Phillips Casteel, Black Lives Under Nazism
Casteel, Sarah Phillips. Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. Black Lives Under Nazism by […]
Queer History that Surprises, Frustrates, Embarrasses, and Delights
“Queer history has a problem with memory,” Jennifer Evans contends in her rich and bold monograph that encourages its readers to think, and to think […]
Seeing, Hearing, and Writing History Differently: Queer Kinship after Fascism
It is a pleasure and privilege to read and reflect on such a rich, urgent, and ambitious book. Jennifer Evans’ The Queer Art of History: […]
Do Wash Your Dirty Linen in Public! On the Potential of Conflict in Queer German History
French women used to gather at the communal laundry to wash clothes. While doing so, they exchanged precious information, shared the latest news, and created […]
What is the Direction of Queer Kinship? On Jennifer Evans’s The Queer Art of History
I was reading Jennifer V. Evans’ magnificent The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism in the summer of 2023. As books have a […]
