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New Book Focuses on Multifaceted Changes and Experiences Following Collapse of State Socialism

Purdue University Press will be publishing Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn’t Travel in One Direction in September 2024. The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and…

Enabling Genocide: Everyday Experiences, “Ordinary” People, and “Forgotten” Camps

Purdue University Press spoke with author Susanne Barth about her new book From Schmelt Camp to “Little Auschwitz”: Blechhammer’s Role in the Holocaust, the first in-depth study of the second…

New Book on Environmental Injustice, Systemic Racism and Governmental Failure in East Chicago

Drawing on historic sources as well as present-day interviews, Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing: Environmental Injustice, Systemic Racism, and Governmental Failure, a story about systemic racism, environmental injustice, and the failure…