"Un-American is Bill Mullen's revisionist account of renowned author and activist W.E.B. Du Bois's political thought toward the end of his life, a period largely dismissed and neglected by scholars. He describes Du Bois's support for what the Communist International called 'world revolution' as the primary objective of this aged radical's activism. Du Bois was a champion of the world's laboring millions and critic of the Cold War, a man dedicated...

"This exploration of the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg--Hitler's 'chief philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology--interweaves the story of its recent discovery with the revelation of its never-before-published contents, which are contextualized by the authors: The result is a unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia. A groundbreaking historical contribution,...

"Drawn from personal journals kept for more than fifty years and from a vast professional and family correspondence, the life story of William Barclay Napton offers an important perspective on the issues and events that turned this northerner into an avowed proslavery ideologue and finally into a full southerner"--Provided by publisher.

A dramatic Cold War narrative of two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunneling beneath the Berlin Wall also describes the financial contributions of two U.S. television networks who would document the stories and the efforts of the Kennedy administration to suppress both films.

Traces the legal, political, and moral campaign for equality that led to Harry Truman's 1948 desegregation of the U.S. military, documenting the contributions of black troops since the Revolutionary War and their efforts to counter racism on the fields and on military bases.