…consequences of its policies appear in a different light. The book should be of interest to scholars interested in the global transformation of food systems, genocide studies, and environmental history….

Thursday, March 30 | 1 p.m. ET Dr. Randolph Roth, a Professor of History and Sociology at Ohio State University, is the author of American Homicide. Scholars have been puzzled by the…

…declining or stable rates. In this report, Randolph Roth, professor of history and sociology at The Ohio State University, examines this trend in the context of homicide patterns throughout the…

My first book project is a history of the popular rebellion by the Palestinians in the 1930s against British rule and the Zionist settler project it fostered. The “Great Revolt”…

…to be an expert in terrorism?   Gary LaFree: It was kind of serendipitous. I have an undergraduate degree in history, and I’ve always been interested in archives and in longitudinal…

…and author in 2005 of Growing Up Guggenheim, A Personal History of a Family Enterprise. He served in the U.S. Army Infantry from 1945-1947 and graduated from the University of…

…book, which should be completed in mid-2004 and published in 2005, studies both the impact of severe climatic change on history and the ways in which specific political and economic…

The goal of the project is to analyze why kidnapping rates have been so high in Colombia. A brief history of kidnapping shows that it has two different roots. It…

The goal of this project was to write the history of the prewar Nazi concentration camps, from their uncertain beginnings in 1933 to their coordination under the SS and expansion…

…guise of national security, has stopped short of actually admitting to the practice. Nonetheless, torture in Madras remains an understudied and relatively unknown aspect of South Asian history. This thesis…