Article discussing the rhetoric of democracy on the war on terror. It offers a brief analysis of United States (U.S.) policy toward Pakistan during the last days of General Pervez Husharraf's unconstitutional regime.

Paper discussing the detection of invisible and crucial events.

Book chapter discussing the works German writer Günter Kunert.

Book chapter discussing research on the issues involved in the secession of Virginia around the Civil War, including slavery and politics.

This article based on new archival documents introduces a new episode of mass operations, which took place in June and July of 1927 and was directed against the broad group of “anti-Soviet” forces. It preceded many practices of mass terror of the 1930s with judicial and extra-legal mechanisms. The goal of this article is to explain motivations, justifications, and mechanisms of this repressive campaign and to put this episode in the wider context of Soviet terror. Facing the combination of a perceived danger of war and real internal social hostility expressed in broad defeatism, both threatening the perpetuation of their governmental powers, authorities resorted to repressions. The 1927 episode highlights the factor of a perceived threat of war as a crucial motivating element in Soviet repressive tactics.

This work discusses Soviet mass perception from the 1920s to the 1930s. This work was supported by the Research Support Scheme of the Open Society Support Foundation, grant No. 805/1998, and by the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. The work has also greatly benefitted from the discussion at the workshops held by the Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project at CREES, University of Toronto.

Article on official and unofficial censorship procedures in the German Democratic Republic and the case of Günter Kunert.

This article examines conflict proneness of authoritarian states and tests whether the monadic democratic peace argument can be extended to explain the conflict behavior of authoritarian states.

Article on overcoming the silence and narrative strategies in Günter Grass's "Beim Häuten der Zwiebel."

Article discussing "Zur Sache Deutschland" and Volker Braun taking stock of his life.

This book discusses Volker Braun's dramatic re-vision of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) society.

Paper on mapping texts and combining text-mining and geo-visualization to unlock the research potential of historical newspapers.

Book chapter discussing images of the Berlin Wall in German Democratic Republic short prose.

This article discusses the image of the future in Russian communism.

Article describing the career of Henry Moseley and his findings regarding atomic numbers. Tourist information is included for areas relevant to Moseley.

Encyclopedia article discussing writer Peter Huchel.

This book chapter discusses Berlin, Germany and images of the city in short fiction.

Article discussing neoliberal dispositif and the rise of fundamentalism.

This article discusses keeping the public sphere public and problematizing censorship in the former German Democratic Republic for American University students.

This book chapter discusses media and communication. As core features of humanity, communication and media clearly predate academic disciplines. They are in this sense non-disciplinary. Yet, they have for centuries been the subject of inquiry by those concerned to understand and improve human correspondence. This chapter surveys the historical development and present form of multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary studies of media and communication.

This article discusses the use of DNA typing, likelihood ratios, and prior odds for missing persons identifications.

Encyclopedia article on "exile literature," a collective term that describes all literature produced by writers during a period of voluntary or forced exile from their homeland.

Article discussing Peter Schneider's "Eduards Heimkehr" and the image of the "New Berlin."

This appendix contains an alphabetized and annotated list of burials identified in Jones Cemetery, with available birth and death rates. This study represents the findings of research done on the Jones and Johnson farms, "situated in Johnson Branch Park in the north-central portion of the Ray Roberts Lake area." The purpose of the study was to offset future disturbances and damages to these farmsteads, and it includes "archival investigations, architectural documentation, oral-history interviews of long-time area residents and family members, farm equipment and artifact analyses, archaeological excavations, stabilization measures, and the development of interpretative exhibits for area schools, museums, and the general public" (p. i).