EvanstonStaff_JeffG

"Berlin surely has the most turbulent history of any major European city of the 20th Century. These are both books and movies that help make sense of this amazing metropolis."

"A very broad topic, but in this selection we try to provide some interesting titles allowing readers to make connections between African history and African-American History--via the institution of slavery and slavery's afterlife in the modern world."

"They are all meaty, magisterial treatments of major historical figures!"

"Let's not forget that Adolf Hitler was _elected_ to power, after which of course he made sure that there would be no further elections. Here are some books about those crucial years between the late 1920s and 1933, when Hitler's takeover was virtu..."