Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History Tapa blanda - 2009

Jackson Spielvogel is associate professor emeritus of history at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, where he specialized in Reformation history under Harold J. Grimm. His articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as "Moreana," "Journal of General Education, Catholic Historical Review, Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte," and "American Historical Review." He has also contributed chapters or articles to "The Social History of the Reformation, The Holy Roman Empire: A Dictionary Handbook, Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual of Holocaust Studies, "and" Utopian Studies." His work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation for study and research in Nurnberg, Germany, and the Foundation for Reformation Research. At Penn State, he helped inaugurate the Western civilization courses as well as a popular course on Nazi Germany. He is the author of "Western Civilization," published in 1991 (seventh edition, 2009). He is the coauthor (with William Duiker) of "World History," first published in 1998 (sixth edition, 2010), and "The Essential World History" (third edition, 2008). Professor Spielvogel has won five major university-wide teaching awards. He held the Penn State Teaching Fellowship, the university's most prestigious teaching award in 1988-1989. In 1996 he won the Dean Arthur Ray Warnock Award for Outstanding Faculty Member and in 2000 the Schreyer Honors College Excellence in Teaching Award. David Redles received his Ph.D. in history from Pennsylvania State University and is currently associate professor of history at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio. He is author of "Hitler's Millennial Reich: Apocalyptic Belief and the Search for Salvation" (hardcover: 2005, paperback: 2008). He also contributed essays to the following publications: "The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Perspectives on Religion, Violence, and History, " Charles B. Strozier and David M. Terman, and James W. Jones, eds. (2010); "End of Days: Essays on the Apocalypse from Antiquity to Modernity," Karolyn Kinane and Michael A. Ryan, eds. (2009); and "War in Heaven/Heaven on Earth: Theories of the Apocalyptic," Glen McGhee and Stephen O'Leary, eds. (2005).