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    The changes wrought in America during the First World War were so profound that one scholar has referred to “the Wilsonian Revolution in government.”[1] Like other revolutions, it was preceded by an intellectual transformation, as the philosophy of progressivism came to dominate political discourse.[2] Progressive notions – of the obsolescence of laissez-faire and of constitutionally…

  • From the Editor

    ““My goal in this war,”” thundered Winston Churchill in his widely-quoted speech of May 13, 1940, “is victory, victory at all costs.” As history records, the cost was very high indeed. As a consequence of his policies, Britain did not win the Second World War. It merely ended up on the same side as the…

  • Letters

    Young [German] Parents (email): Dear Mr. Smith, Please allow us to express our sincere gratitude and admiration for your courage! The information provided by you [on the Internet] through CODOH has greatly improved our understanding of our own (German) people’s past. It is good to know that our recently born son will have alternative sources…

  • Bibliography

    Monographs, Anthologies, and Collections quoted Academic American Encyclopedia, Grolier Inc., Danburry 1991 Hans G. Adler, Hermann Langbein, Ella Lingens-Reiner (eds.), Auschwitz – Zeugnisse und Berichte, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Cologne 1984 Hans G. Adler, Theresienstadt 1941-1945, Mohr, Tübingen 1955 Günter Agde, Sachsenhausen bei Berlin. Speziallager Nr. 7, 1945 – 1950; Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verl., Berlin 1994 Dietrich Aigner, Die Indizierung…

  • Arthur Ekirch on American Militarism

    In 1783 the treaty ending hostilities between Great Britain and its rebellious colonies along the eastern seaboard of North America was signed in Paris. For their part the English proclaimed that, “His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations …” – there followed the rest…