Richard J. Evans

Richard J. Evans is the provost of Gresham College, London. His many books include The Third Reich in History and Memory and, most recently, The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914.

HistoryDecember 17, 2019

The Deep Roots of Liberal Democracy’s Crisis

A new history of North Atlantic democracies argues that they were already undergoing a serious crisis more than four decades ago.

Richard J. Evans
October 4, 2018

The German Century

A new book documents the ordinary lives of Germans caught in a country and century marked by regime change, economic catastrophe, and war.

Richard J. Evans
HistoryApril 25, 2018

A History of 19th-Century Britain Without the People

David Cannadine’s Victorious Century focuses on high politics to the exclusion of nearly everything else.

Richard J. Evans
February 1, 2018

The Men Who Made the Third Reich

How Hitler and the Nazis came to power.

Richard J. Evans
The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Sign up
HistoryFebruary 28, 2017

The Ways to Destroy Democracy

A new biography of Hitler offers us a warning from history.

Richard J. Evans
Books and IdeasMarch 27, 2012

Food Fights

The use of food as a weapon during World War II.

Richard J. Evans
Non-fictionMay 17, 2007

Why It Happened the Way It Did

Ian Kershaw's latest work analyzes ten decisions that shaped the outcome of World War II.

Richard J. Evans
Non-fictionDecember 20, 2006

Parasites of Plunder?

Hitler's Beneficiaries advances a controversial, deeply flawed argument that Germans failed to revolt against the Nazis because Hitler established a welfare state built on plunder.

Richard J. Evans

Richard J. Evans

HistoryDecember 17, 2019

The Deep Roots of Liberal Democracy’s Crisis

A new history of North Atlantic democracies argues that they were already undergoing a serious crisis more than four decades ago.

Richard J. Evans

October 4, 2018

The German Century

A new book documents the ordinary lives of Germans caught in a country and century marked by regime change, economic catastrophe, and war.

Richard J. Evans

HistoryApril 25, 2018

A History of 19th-Century Britain Without the People

David Cannadine’s Victorious Century focuses on high politics to the exclusion of nearly everything else.

Richard J. Evans

February 1, 2018

The Men Who Made the Third Reich

How Hitler and the Nazis came to power.

Richard J. Evans

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

HistoryFebruary 28, 2017

The Ways to Destroy Democracy

A new biography of Hitler offers us a warning from history.

Richard J. Evans

Books and IdeasMarch 27, 2012

Food Fights

The use of food as a weapon during World War II.

Richard J. Evans

Non-fictionMay 17, 2007

Why It Happened the Way It Did

Ian Kershaw's latest work analyzes ten decisions that shaped the outcome of World War II.

Richard J. Evans

Non-fictionDecember 20, 2006

Parasites of Plunder?

Hitler's Beneficiaries advances a controversial, deeply flawed argument that Germans failed to revolt against the Nazis because Hitler established a welfare state built on plunder.

Richard J. Evans

Log In

Richard J. Evans

HistoryDecember 17, 2019

A new history of North Atlantic democracies argues that they were already undergoing a serious crisis more than four decades ago.

October 4, 2018

A new book documents the ordinary lives of Germans caught in a country and century marked by regime change, economic catastrophe, and war.

HistoryApril 25, 2018

David Cannadine’s Victorious Century focuses on high politics to the exclusion of nearly everything else.

February 1, 2018

How Hitler and the Nazis came to power.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

HistoryFebruary 28, 2017

A new biography of Hitler offers us a warning from history.

Books and IdeasMarch 27, 2012

The use of food as a weapon during World War II.

Non-fictionMay 17, 2007

Ian Kershaw's latest work analyzes ten decisions that shaped the outcome of World War II.

Non-fictionDecember 20, 2006

Hitler's Beneficiaries advances a controversial, deeply flawed argument that Germans failed to revolt against the Nazis because Hitler established a welfare state built on plunder.