public opinion

Explores how the psychology of hatred and ethnic resentments is passed on from generation to generation, focusing on how children of both Holocaust victims and Nazis were impacted by the experiences of their ancestors.

The author discusses his visits to contemporary Dachau where he traveled in an attempt to discover how the people of the town live with the memories and the legacy of the death camp, and tells the story of Martin Zaidenstadt, an eighty-seven-year-old Holocaust survivor who, for years, has kept a daily vigil at the camp's crematorium.

Peter Eichstaedt shares conversations he had with everyday people of Afghanistan during his time spent in Kabul in 2010.

Explores the impact the Barbary Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, and the occupations of Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Philippines played in America's rise throughout the last two centuries.

Uses a collective biography approach to provide an account of the scalawags--white southerners who opposed secession in the Civil War era, and whose pro-Union stance led to their being appointed to political office in the federal government under the Reconstruction Acts.

The author discusses his visits to contemporary Dachau where he traveled in an attempt to discover how the people of the town live with the memories and the legacy of the death camp, and tells the story of Martin Zaidenstadt, an eighty-seven-year-old Holocaust survivor who, for years, has kept a daily vigil at the camp's crematorium.

An investigation into what motivated those who fought in the Civil War, based on the letters and diaries of nearly 1,000 Union and Confederate soldiers.

Provides excerpts from letters, books, newspaper articles, speeches, and diary entries which express various views of Southern Americans toward slavery and the Civil War.