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Silence Was Salvation: Child Survivors of Stalin's Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union. By Cathy A. Frierson. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. Pp. XVI, 267. [...]

Lessons must be learnt from the past history of New Orleans while rebuilding it and improved production processes that reduce the amount and toxicity of waste must be implemented along with proponents of green chemistry developing new materials whose by-products are nonhazardous. New Orleans can weather future storms better if it is rebuilt on sustainable environmental principles rather than merely by reinforcing old technologies and their power structures.

Oral history can help researchers by providing them with specific information about certain topics. The way in which oral history is told also helps researchers in addressing larger historical issues. One form of oral history is the story, which allows historians to interpret how narrators perceive certain historical events. A thorough understanding of the past requires historians to recognize the importance of storytelling as a way of communicating historical experiences.

Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War. By Alan Kramer. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 434. $34.00.) Using a thematic approach to synthesize [...]

Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's 'Iron Fist'. By J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xxv, 283. $35.00.) Nikolai Yezhov [1895-1940] was [...]

Discusses several approaches to evidence and interpretation in museum exhibits. Ways historian and museum professionals use their positions to subvert dominant paradigms for understanding culture and history; Use of digitized photographs to enhance public understanding and appreciation; Actions that should be taken to fully represent the complicated history of relatively dispossessed or historically silent groups.