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 […]
Memory
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 […]
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 […]
Between Legacy and Revisionism: Lech Wałęsa’s Iconic Journey in the Shifting Landscape of Polish History
To mark the 70th birthday of Lech Wałęsa in 2013, the Polish Post issued a commemorative stamp. This year’s 80th birthday of the Solidarity leader, […]
How Frodo Baggins Resurrected Italy’s Far-Right Movement
This weblog article was originally written for Dr. Jennifer Evans’ upper-division seminar, “Populism and Authoritarianism in Contemporary Europe,” at Carleton University. To view more entries […]
With October in Our Memory, We Will Change History
The result of the plebiscite and the clear rejection of the new constitution in Chile says a lot about its historical development since the end […]
