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Interwar--World War II Era
Politicizing the Olympics:
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The Nazi Olympics, Berlin 1936
The History Place - Triumph of Hitler: The Berlin Olympics
Beijing's Olympics, China's politics | openDemocracy
BOCOG: Don't mix political issues with the Olympics - The Official ..
.Beijing Olympics Are Political - HUMAN EVENTS
Making Sense of Historical Patterns:
Former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke --"The lesson of each genocide is the same: The killing really takes off only after the murderers see that the world, and especially the United States, is not going to care or react."
Late twentieth, early twenty first century:
Rwanda
Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century
Human Rights Watch. Leave none to tell the story: Genocide in Rwanda
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Genocide in Bosnia: The Policy of Ethnic Cleansing
The Holocaust:
Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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| Victims of the Armenian genocide | Genocide in Rwanda |
Clothing of Srebrenica victims |
Darfur, Sudan |
Jewish women in the Holocaust |
From JSTOR:
William B. Wood, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2001), pp. 57-75
Ervin Staub, Political Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jun., 2000), pp. 367-382
Philip Verwimp, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Aug., 2003), pp. 423-442
Helen M. Hintjens, The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Jun., 1999), pp. 241-286
Mart Bax, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 11-19
Judith Hippler Bello, Peter H. F. Bekker, Paul C. Szasz, The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 91, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 121-126
Alisse Waterston, Antigona Kukaj, American Anthropologist, Vol. 109, No. 3 (Sep., 2007), pp. 509-518
John Hagan, Alberto Palloni, Science, New Series, Vol. 313, No. 5793 (Sep. 15, 2006), pp. 1578-1579
Scott Straus, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 2005), pp. 123-133
Hans V. Kaltenborn, Adolf Hitler, The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 50, No. 4, Unpublished Documents on Nazi Germany from the Mass Communications History Center (Summer, 1967), pp. 283-290
Claude R. Foster, Jr. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 450, Reflections on the Holocaust: Historical, Philosophical, and Educational Dimensions (Jul., 1980), pp. 1-19
Erika Bourguignon, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 78, No. 1 (Winter, 2005), pp. 63-88
William I. Brustein, Ryan D. King, International Political Science Review / Revue internationale de science politique, Vol. 25, No. 1, Religion and Politics. Religion et politique (Jan., 2004), pp. 35-53
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic"--Joseph Stalin
Art and Government:
Kostof, Spiro. A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. (720.9 K)
Includes material on the sponsorship of all great ages and styles.
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Mayan
Mayan Art: Vase Painting and Copan Sculpture
From Proquest:
Professor discovers oldest Mayan mural by accident; [FOREIGN Edition]
From JSTOR:
Political Themes on Mesoamerican Monuments: A Case Study (in Reports) Charles D. Cheek. American Antiquity, Vol. 40, No. 3. (Jul., 1975)
The Analysis of Chipped Stone Artifacts in Southern Mesoamerica: An Assessment (in Research Reports and Notes) Payson D. Sheets.Latin American Research Review, Vol. 12, No. 1. (1977).
Pyramids and Temple Mounds: Mesoamerican Ceremonial Architecture in Eastern North America Charles R. Wicke. American Antiquity, Vol. 30, No. 4. (Apr., 1965)

Classical Greece -Periclean Athens
Sculpture, Painting, and Other Arts
Conti, Flavio. The Grand Tour: the Focus on Democracy. Boston: HBJ Press, 1978. (720.9 C)
Italian Renaissance - Papal Patronage, Medici Patronage:
A Brief History of the Role of Patronage in the Renaissance
See also the book Hollingsworth, Mary. Patronage in Renaissance Italy, from 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. (707.9 H)
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Art and Culture in Stalin's USSR
Nazi Architecture in Munich - Examples only
Architecture and Design in Nazi Germany
Nazi Approved Art
During WWII, Germany, the USSR, and Italy began to take control of their art and culture by eliminating art forms that were not deemed pure or nationalistic. The effect of racial and religious prejudice on the "cultural revolution," and the dictators' requirements for acceptable art are discussed.
There are two excellent articles in History Today, available on ProQuest.
The battle for art in the 1930s
Elliott, David. History Today. London: Nov 1995. Vol. 45, Iss. 11; p. 14 (8 pages)
Culture under the great dictators, 1930-45
Anonymous. History Today. London: Nov 1995. Vol. 45, Iss. 11; p. 23
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Rebel without a pause: the tempestuous life of Diego Rivera ...
Revolution as Ritual: Diego Rivera's National Palace Mural
Annotated Bibliography:
Women in World War II
What Did You Do in the War, Grandma? Women and World War II
American Women's History: World War II
| 070.4 C | Colman, Penny. | Where the action was: women war correspondents in World War II. |
| 305.4 H | Hartmann, Susan M. | The home front and beyond: American women in the 1940s. |
| 331.4 C | Colman, Penny. | Rosie the riveter: women working on the home front in World War II. |
| 940.54 G | Granger, Byrd H. | On final approach: the women airforce service pilots of W.W. II. |
| 940.54 P | Pennington, Reina. | Wings, women, and war: Soviet airwomen in World War II combat |
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April, 2010