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Christopher Browning, “Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp”  play >

Christopher Browning, “Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp”

6/18/2013 | Download File (28.61 MB) - right click to download

[Cross-posted from New Books in Genocide Studies] Christopher Browning is one of the giants in the field of Holocaust Studies.  He has contributed vitally to at least two of the basic debates in the field:  the intentionalist/functionalist discussion about when, why and how the Germans decided to annihilate the Jews of Europe, and the question of why individual [...]

Logan Beirne, “Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency”  play >

Logan Beirne, “Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency”

6/14/2013 | Download File (29.54 MB) - right click to download

You sometimes see bumper stickers that say “What would Jesus do?”  It’s a good question, at least for Christians. You don’t see bumper stickers that say “What would Washington do?”  But that, Logan Beirne says, is a question Americans should be asking. In Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency (Encounter Books, [...]

Michael Burlingame, “Abraham Lincoln: A Life”  play >

Michael Burlingame, “Abraham Lincoln: A Life”

6/12/2013 | Download File (35.08 MB) - right click to download

[Cross-posted from New Books in American Studies] What can be gained from another biography of Abraham Lincoln? A lot, it turns out. Michael Burlingame has been researching the life and times of Abraham Lincoln during his entire career as a historian. As he explains in this interview, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Paperback; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) is based on decades [...]

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