Karl Marx as a Young Journalist

By Rolf Hosfeld Excerpted by Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography by Rolf Hosfeld, Translated from the German by Bernard Heise Karl Marx was born May 5, 1818. As a young man he was a journalist and an editor for Rheinische Zeitung, a liberal-socialist newspaper published in Germany. The paper was previously edited by Adolf Friedrich […]

Titles for May Day

May Day, also called International Workers’ Day, is observed in many countries on May 1. It commemorates the historic struggles and gains of worker and labor movements worldwide. In 1889, an international federation of socialist groups and trade unions designated May 1 as a day to support workers, falling on the anniversary of the 1886 […]

When They Came For Me: The Hidden Diary of An Apartheid Prisoner

When Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969, John Schlapobersky was a political prisoner in Pretoria and knew nothing about it – he was in solitary confinement. When he learnt about the landing, he looked for the moon without success from the window of his cell. Fifty years later he visited the NASA Space […]

Book Preview: THE MEANINGS OF A DISASTER (International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day)

The United Nations has proclaimed 26 April International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day. The day was first observed in 2016, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the 1986 nuclear disaster. Learn more about the history and persistent legacy of Chernobyl here. The Meanings of Disaster: Chernobyl and its Afterlives in Britain and France By […]

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

24 April marks the 106th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day is held annually to recognize and mourn more than 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide, the most tragic element of Armenian history. For more information on Armenian Genocide please visit armenian-genocide.org. In recognizing the significance of the occasion we would like to bring […]

Commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Read an excerpt from Marek Haltof’s POLISH FILM AND THE HOLOCAUST: Politics and Memory. On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Learn more about the history of this fierce act of resistance by reading the entry in the USHMM’s Holocaust […]

Fascism and Conservation

Excerpted from Sandra Cheney’s Nature of the Miracle Years: Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975 After 1945, those responsible for conservation in Germany resumed their work with a relatively high degree of continuity as far as laws and personnel were concerned. Yet conservationists soon found they had little choice but to modernize their views and practices […]

Ceri Houlbrook: Love in the Time of Covid

Love-locking, the attachment of a padlock to a public structure, is the forte of the traveler. Although not exclusively a tourist custom, it is a popular practice for people visiting a new place and wanting to leave their mark on it. The love-lock has become the inverted souvenir: left behind rather than taken away, but […]

Berghahn’s Best-selling Books in History

We are delighted to present a list of our History bestsellers in honor of the American Historical Association’s 2020 – 2021 Virtual Conference. Visit our Virtual AHA Booth for special opportunities for discounts and engagements. In celebration of this year’s AHA Virtual Conference, the following and all other History titles, both print and eBook, are 35% off […]

Editors’ Picks: Recommended reading from the Berghahn Editorial Team

Our editors have put together a list of recommendations per our updated subject categories. Bundle any of these eBooks together at a discounted price by using coupon code 2020EOY through our website. See details about this offer below. Sale Details Use coupon code 2020EOY at check out. The end-of-year sale provides a tiered discount based […]

Aspasia

The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History

ISSN Print: 1933-2882
ISSN Online: 1933-2890

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Contributions to the History of Concepts

Editors: Jani Marjanen, University of Helsinki; Jan Ifversen, University of Aahus; Margrit Pernau, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

ISSN Print: 1807-9326
ISSN Online: 1874-656X

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French Politics, Culture & Society

Editor: Herrick Chapman, New York University

ISSN Print: 1537-6370
ISSN Online: 1558-5271

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German Politics and Society

Editor: Jeffrey J. Anderson, Georgetown University
Managing Editor/Book Review Editor: Eric Langenbacher, Georgetown University

ISSN Print: 1045-0300
ISSN Online: 1558-5441

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Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques

Outgoing Senior Editor: Linda E. Mitchell, University of Missouri, Kansas City,
Incoming Editor: Elizabeth MacKnight, University of Aberdeen,
Co-editor: W. Brian Newsome, Elizabethtown College

ISSN Print: 0315-7997
ISSN Online: 1939-2419

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Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society

Editor: Eckhardt Fuchs, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research

ISSN Print: 2041-6938
ISSN Online: 2041-6946

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Mobility in History

The Yearbook of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility

Editors: Kyle Shelton, Rice University
Christiane Katz, Aachen University
Dhan Zunino Singh, University of Quilmes
Kate McDonald, University of California, Santa Barbara

ISSN Print: 2296-0503
ISSN Online: 2050-9197

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Sibirica

Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies

Editor: Matthew Romaniello, University of Hawaii

ISSN Print: 1361-7362
ISSN Online: 1476-6787

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Transfers

Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies

Editor: Dagmar Sch�fer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

ISSN Print: 2045-4813
ISSN Online: 2045-4821

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