Looking For a Few Good Muslims
Jenkins reflects on the Lancaster House conference on “Islam and Muslims in the World Today.”
A Few Questions for Peter Heather
Peter Heather tells OUP that he is a sucker for Sherlock Holmes.
Guilt-edged Insecurity
Paul Collier looks at our guilty decisions.
The Battle of Hadrianople
Peter Heather, a leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, looks at the Battle of Hadrianople.
Oxford, England
Ben’s Place of the Week is Oxford, England.
Sharm e- Shekh, Again…
Shlomo Ben-Ami looks forward and backwards at the peace process.
Fleeing Hitler: Searching For Memories
Hanna Diamond talks about research for her book.
Tudor Roses,
Or Happy Birthday King Henry VIII
Today’s celeb gossip has nothing on Henry the VII and his six wives…
The Unknown Gulag
Part V: Another Source: The Survivors’ Testimony
Lynne Viola’s final post about her research for her book.
The Unknown Gulag
Part IV: Why did the Soviets Document their Crimes?
Everyday this week we are posting part of a series from author Lynne Viola, The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements. Check out part one and part two and part three. Luck and serendipity combined to provide unique and rich sources for the book. I was continually amazed at the degree of […]
The Unknown Gulag
Part III: The Provincial Archives
I read of the Regional Party Committee’s plans to feed the exiles’ families (including some 88,000 children) according to “starvation norms.”
The Unknown Gulag
Part II: The Central Archives
Yesterday we presented part 1 in a 5 part series about The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements by Lynn Viola. Today Viola takes us inside the archives in Moscow.
The Unknown Gulag
Part I: Looking for the Kulaks
Stalin’s reign over the Soviet Union has left many unanswered questions but in The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements Lynne Viola answers one: what happened to millions of peasants in the 1930’s.
The Martians of Science: An Excerpt
Hargittai’s book tells the story of five brilliant men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Kármán, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller.
God’s Continent: An Excerpt
An excerpt from the first chapter of Philip Jenkins’s God’s Continent.
A Few Questions For Philip Jenkins
Philip Jenkins author of God’s Continent answers some questions for OUP.