On Thursday October 5 (6 PM - 8 PM) the Tamiment Library's Center for the Cold War and the United States, in cooperation with Casa Italiana and NYU's Center for Media, Culture, and History, will be sponsoring a screening of Peter Miller 's new film "Sacco and Vanzetti" (2006, 80 minutes). After the film there will be a panel discussion with Peter Miller, Professor Nunzio Pernicone (Drexel University), and Professor Pellegrino D'Acierno (Hofstra and NYU).

The screening will be held at Casa Italiana, 24 West 12 Street.

A program of lectures, discussions, interactive seminars and films in October and November in Brisbane, Australia, the purpose of which is to inform all Australians about the roots of fascism and to honour Greek fighters who fought for much more than the interests of British, American or Russian imperialism during WW2.

Eddy Tshidiso Maloka. Basotho and the Mines: A Social History of Labour Migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa, c.1890-1940. Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2004. 257 pp. Index. $47.95 (paper), ISBN 2-8697-8128-8.

Reviewed by: Scott Rosenberg, Department of History, Wittenberg University.
Published by: H-SAfrica (June, 2006)

Bernard Moitt, ed. Sugar, Slavery, and Society: Perspectives on the Caribbean, India, the Mascarenes, and the United States. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. x + 203 pp. Notes, tables, index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8130-2779-9.

Reviewed by: Christopher Ebert, Department of History, Brooklyn College.
Published by: H-LatAm (May, 2006)

The Cold War, which began sixty years ago next year with the announcement of the Truman Doctrine and the creation of the Cominform, shaped the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Its most intense phase came to an end in the early sixties, but, with the accompanying threat of nuclear barbarism, it continued to exercise a major influence until the "collapse of Communism" in 1989.

Lynn Viola, Sergei Vladimirovich Zhuravlev, Tracy MacDonald, Andrei Nikolaevich Mel'nik, eds. Riazanskaia derevnia v 1929-1930 gg Khronika golovokruzheniia: Dokumenty i materialy. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1998. xliv + 703 pp. Maps, notes. No price listed (cloth), ISBN 5-86004-175-6.

Reviewed by: Mark B. Tauger, Department of History, West Virginia University.
Published by: H-Russia (April, 2002)

Call for Papers

Seventh European Social Science History Conference
University of Lisbon, Portugal, 27 February - 1 March 2008

The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions.

The European Workshop of Communist Studies
New Issues - Call for Contributions:

The International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online
No 18 (2005) and No 19 (2006) (ISSN 1862-698X)

Der Internationale Newsletter der Kommunismusforschung Online
La newsletter internationale des recherches sur le communisme online

The Working Class Movement Library has supplied historical material for displays in Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre to accompany the current production of 'Mary Barton'. Set in Manchester the 1840s the play is based on the novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, one of Manchester's famous writers, which drew on her own experiences in the city as the wife of a Unitarian minister. The play tells the dramatic story of Mary and her father John and is set against the backdrop of poverty, strikes and the radical political agitation of the Chartists.

New publication on the anti-globalization movement

Francine Mestrum & Donald Weber (eds.), Inside Outside: Past and Future of the Anti-globalization Movement.
Ghent: IALHI / Amsab-ISH / Foundation Kreveld, 2006, 110 p. ISBN 90-77122-20-6.
Price: 10 euro (plus shipping fee) - order at [mailto]orders@amsab.be[/mailto]