NGHM reads | 17 | Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class (1963)
E.P. Thompson's 1963 masterwork didn't just study the working class — it argued that class *happens*, forged through shared experience. Our latest reading list entry explores why this founding text of "history from below" still matters. — Translated from…
NGHM reads | 16 | Ulrich Herbert: Das Dritte Reich. Geschichte einer Diktatur (2016)
Can a dictatorship spanning twelve years be distilled into 120 pages without losing its complexity? Ulrich Herbert's 2016 survey proves it can. Our latest NGHM reads explores how a leading historian of the field achieves this analytical feat. —…
NGHM reads | 15 | Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns (2010)
What moved six million people to leave the South? Isabel Wilkerson tells the story of the Great Migration in The Warmth of Other Suns (2010) through three life stories, reversing the perspective: from factors to agents. Episode 15 of #NGHMliest
NGHM reads | 14 | Jordan: Theories and Methods of Historical Scholarship (2021)
Stefan Jordan's *Theorien und Methoden der Geschichtswissenschaft* has reached its fifth edition in 2021 — a testament to foundations sturdy enough to absorb twelve years of disciplinary change. NGHM reads it closely. — Translated from…
NGHM reads | 11 | Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks (1980)
What does the racializing gaze do to those it falls upon? In "Black Skin, White Masks" (1952), Frantz Fanon interweaves psychiatry, philosophy, and anti-colonial critique – creating a foundational text of Postcolonial Studies. Episode 11 of #NGHMliest
NGHM reads | 10 | Detlev Peukert: Die Weimarer Republik (1987)
Detlev Peukert's 1987 study reframed Weimar not as democracy's failure, but as modernity's self-inflicted crisis. The tenth title on our reading list — and still essential reading. — Translated from nghm.hypotheses.org
NGHM reads | Eric J. Hobsbawm: The Age of Extremes (1994)
Can a century that one has lived through oneself be captured by the means of historiography, and if so, at what price? Eric J. Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991, the tenth title on the NGHM reading list from the…
NGHM reads | Carlo Ginzburg: The Cheese and the Worms (1976)
What can we learn from the words of a Friulian miller about the world of the late sixteenth century, and why from his words in particular? Carlo Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms, the next title on the NGHM reading list, is one of the classic texts of…
NGHM reads | Michel-Rolph Trouillot: Silencing the Past (1995)
What happens to a revolution that the dominant thinking of its time considered 'unthinkable'? Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past. Power and the Production of History, the eighth title on the NGHM reading list and this time assigned to the field…
NGHM reads | Mark Wyman: DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons, 1945–51 (1989/1998)
What happens to millions of people whose suffering under persecution and violence-induced mobility does not end with the conclusion of the war in 1945, but instead enters its own distinct, difficult-to-grasp next phase? Mark Wyman's DPs: Europe's…
NGHM reads | Michel Foucault: Surveiller et punir (1975)
How did the spectacle of torture become the silent routine of the cell? Michel Foucault's Surveiller et punir, the fifth title on the NGHM reading list and an example from the field of social-theoretical foundations, answers this question with a…