This illustrated talk will focus on what a wide variety of women who lived during the Third Reich -- from righteous Gentiles to Nazi party members, from countesses to Hausfrauen, from farm women to anti-aircraft gunners -- disclosed about their personal experiences in recollections offered decades later. Their reactions -- both during the Third Reich […]

Meg Jacobs is the author of the prize-winning Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2005); Julian Zelizer's most recent book is On Capital Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948-2000 (2004). They are joint editors of The Democratic Experience: New Directions in American Political History (2003). Sponsored by the Program in […]

Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman archaeological research in Greece and Turkey has traditionally been overwhelmingly weighted toward the excavation of monumental structures in urban centers. This work has in turn been the focus of attempts to use archaeological evidence to describe the context of early Christianity. The result has been a tendency to raise the social […]