By attaching governance so completely to a single name, Mussolini created a regime that felt omnipresent, decisive,...
Fascism
Examine fascism as a form of authoritarian mass politics that promised national rebirth through hierarchy and exclusion. These histories trace its rise to power, destruction of democratic institutions, use of organized violence, and survival beyond 1945.
The history of the OVRA reveals how the Fascist state harnessed surveillance and bureaucracy to manage political...
Nacht und Nebel stands as one of the most revealing examples of how a modern state can...
The history of Nazi eugenics demonstrates how pseudoscientific ideas can be transformed into instruments of unprecedented violence...
Democracies die when fear legitimizes indefinite exception, when law is used to undo law, and when enough...
The Nazi assault on the press, publishing, and scholarship was more than censorship. It was an attempt...
The story of the Blackshirts and Brownshirts is not merely about uniforms and marches. It is about...
The Bund’s defeat came not through civic enlightenment alone, but through federal prosecution and the geopolitical rupture...
The widespread influence of the idea of ancient Rome on political rhetoric. By Dr. Cosimo CascioneProfessor of...
He was asked what is an American fascist, and what danger do they pose? By Henry A....
The advent of total war and the mass mobilization of society had broken down the distinction between...
The ability of Ancient Rome to inspire was exploited by Mussolini throughout his reconstruction of Rome. By...
At least one in seven volunteers were Jews, making up a force of 5,000 men and women....
What’s most alarming right now is that so many people aren’t alarmed. By Mark GreenAuthor While Republicans...
Hitler used the referendum to legitimize his move to take the title Führer und Reichskanzler (Führer and...
The fin-de-siècle generation condemned the rationalistic individualism of liberal society and the dissolution of social links in...
Mussolini and his Fascists effectively used violence and terror to gain control. Introduction In 1922, Benito Mussolini...
It’s final collapse was brought about by Allied military victories plus the open rebellion of the people....
On the cancelling of Charles Lindbergh. There is no modern equivalent to the level of fame Charles Lindbergh...
Power has forever been entwined with a symbolic apparatus in charge of representing it. Power has forever...
Hitler (left) and Nazi Propaganda Minister Göbbels (center) / National Archives and Records Administration, Wikimedia Commons Looking k...
Examining the rise of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 10.08.2018 Historian Brewminate...
The March on Rome: From left to right – unknown, Benito Mussolini, Cesare Maria de Vecchi and...
The Stadio dei Marmi, part of the Foro Mussolini, a sports complex in Rome built between 1928...
Click image to enlarge The years between the First and Second World Wars were politically and economically...
Seduction, propaganda, and ultimate power and control. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 08.05.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief...
Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini / German Federal Archives via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Richard Adewale Elewomawu...