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Informationen zum Autor DANIEL GREENE is president and librarian at the Newberry Library and an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University. He curated Americans and the Holocaust , an exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. EDWARD J. PHILLIPS joined the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 and directed its exhibitions program from 2008 until his retirement in 2018. He contributed to nearly fifty exhibition projects, including Americans and the Holocaust , the basis for this reader. Klappentext This edited collection of more than one hundred primary sources from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s—including newspaper and magazine articles, popular culture materials, and government records—reveals how Americans debated their responsibility to respond to Nazism. It includes valuable resources for students and historians seeking to shed light on this dark era in world history. Zusammenfassung Gathers together more than one hundred primary sources that reveal how Americans debated their responsibility to respond to Nazism. Drawing on groundbreaking research, these carefully chosen sources help readers understand how Americans' responses to Nazism were shaped by the challenging circumstances in the US during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Note on Sources List of Abbreviations Timeline PrologueChapter 1: Fear Itself 1933-1938 Chapter 2: Desperate Times, Limited Measures 1938-1941 Chapter 3: Storm Clouds Gather 1939-1941 Chapter 4: America at War 1942-1945 Postscript AcknowledgmentsFurther Reading Credits Index
