Seven states seceded from the Union before James Buchanan left office in 1861, and within months of Lincoln’s inauguration, ...

The Weimar Republic was a hotbed of cultural experimentation. A new history argues that its demise was not inevitable. By Thomas Meaney Thomas Meaney is the editor of Granta. When you purchase an ...

In the 1930s, Harvard was joined to Washington, D.C. as it had never been before. It pioneered graduate education in public and foreign policy, offering a tangible credential to political ambition. It ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Germany at its best — ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You could almost suppose that Germany has no past before 1933, so massively does the Third Reich overwhelm popular thought and historical writing about the ...

Germany's far-right populists are on the rise, as are random, violent street killings. People are dizzy with the potential – and danger – of new mass media. And, all over Berlin, posters have gone up ...

While commentators have increasingly likened Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler as a convenient condemnation—others assure us that we (Americans) are better than that. So far there are, in fact, some ...

What happens when a nation that was once an economic powerhouse turns its back on democracy and on its middle class, as wealthy right-wingers wage austerity campaigns and enable extremist politics? It ...

In Weimar Berlin, the stars seemed to align for German Jewish photographer Marianne Breslauer. Born into a family of art lovers, Breslauer was encouraged to pursue photography. She had been a pupil at ...

What accounts for the intermittent but enduring appeal of the Comedian Harmonists, a male sextet that thrived in Weimar Germany? Largely forgotten until the 1970s, the group has spawned tribute bands, ...

Berlin Alexanderplatz. By Alfred Döblin. Translated by Michael Hofmann. NYRB Classics; 480 pages; $18.95. Penguin Classics; £14.99. EARLY in “Babylon Berlin”, a lavish new television series, Gereon ...