The International Institute of Social History presents "A Very Short History of Secret Societies" ([url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/secretsocieties/[/url]). It consists of a general introduction and brief notes on the Freemasons, Jesuits, Illuminati, Carbonari, Burschenschaften, the mysterious Great Firmament, societies in France, Germany, Russia, the USA and Asia, and older precursors.

The texts are enriched by twelve illustrations from the IISH collections:

German Migrants and European Development: In-migration, acculturation and identity from the eighteenth century to the present day

Estimados amigos:

Os adjuntamos el dossier de las jornadas: "Trabajadores y movimiento obrero en la Extremadura contemporánea (III encuentro historiográfico del GEHCEx)".

Os pedimos disculpas por el retraso de este envío, pero ha sido fruto de un pequeño despiste.

Igualmente os agradecemos la publicidad que hicistéis de dicha Jornadas. Estamos trabajando para publicar las actas, os tendremos informados.

La Junta Directiva del GEHCEx
[url]http://www.gehcex.es[/url]

Nieuws van het Amsab-ISG

3e jaargang, nr. 4, april 2008

Klik [url]http://www.amsab.be/am2/nieu/3jaargnr4.htm[/url] om de nieuwsbrief direct in uw browser te bekijken

The Jewish Escape from Poland in 1968 - Nationalism and Communism within the People's Republic

Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur an der Universität Leipzig in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Polnischen Institut Leipzig
Leipzig, 5-6 May 2008
Goldschmidtstr. 28, 04103 Leipzig

Forskningsrådet vid Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek och Institutionen för Humaniora vid Växjö universitet inbjuder till heldagsseminarium om Sydafrika.

Mellan Pragmatism och Solidaritet - den svenska fackföreningsrörelsen och kampen mot apartheid

Onsdagen den 7 maj, ABF-huset Stockholm, Sveavägen 41. Anmälan kan göras till och med 30 april

Välkommen!

Program >>

Mauric Carrez, La fabrique d’un révolutionnaire, Otto Wilhelm Kuusinen (1881-1918). Réflexions sur l’engagement politique d’un dirigeant social-démocrate finlandais

(The Making of a Revolutionary, Otto Wilhelm Kuusinen, 1881-1918. Reflections on the Political Engagementof a Finish Social-Democrat Leader)

Università di Urbino
Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
Fondazione di studi storici Filippo Turati - Firenze

Gaetano Salvemini e la scuola
Seminario storico pedagogico
Urbino, 8 maggio 2008
Aula Magna, Palazzo Battiferri, Via Saffi 42

Programma

ore 15,00
Apertura dei lavori
Massimo Baldacci
Preside della Facoltà

ore 15,30
Presiede
Stefano Pivato (Università di Urbino)

Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize for Danielle van den Heuvel
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/thirsk-feinstein-prize.php[/url]

Mary Susannah Robbins, ed. Against the Vietnam War: Writings by Activists. Revised edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2007. 287 pp. Notes, index. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7425-5914-1.

Reviewed for H-1960s by Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut
Published by [mailto]H-1960s@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (March, 2008)