Django, Jazz, and the Nazis
The French jazz scene flourished during the Second World War. How did music deemed degenerate survive and thrive under occupation?
John Pelzer
Liverpool and the American Civil War
Sentiment, profit and commercial laissez-faire bound the merchants of England's busiest port ever closer to the rebel confederacy across the Atlantic after 1861. John D. Pelzer explains how and why.
The Coffee Houses of Augustan London
John D. Pelzer explains how the casual gathering of like-minded coffee-drinkers would influence British political and intellectual life for decades.