Seven states seceded from the Union before James Buchanan left office in 1861, and within months of Lincoln’s inauguration, the forces of slavocracy directly threatened the capital with the ...

It was spring of 1920, and troops were marching on Berlin. Conservative officers, who had helped the Weimar Republic defeat communist insurgents, were now turning on the politicians who led the ...

Michael Winkler, professor emeritus of German Studies at Rice University, will present a lecture, Chaos Amid Continuities: Society and Politics in the Weimar Republic at the Museum of Printing History ...