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Transnationalism has helped expand horizons beyond the nation-state and exceptionalist narratives, and it has even been enlisted by the European Union to describe its project of European integration. Transnationalism has spread among the social sciences and humanities and has been particularly fruitful in abetting the seek-and-find function of historians, in this case helping to discover earlier links, borrowings, and adaptations in order better to emphasize the porousness of state and identity boundaries. The interconnectedness and interactions of the past have been (re-)found. Here, Green discusses the use of transnationalism in migration studies.

Lucassen and Lucassen aim to formulate a convincing answer to the timing and nature of the nativist turn in Dutch politics by taking a long-term perspective and looking at a broad political spectrum. They hope that this will enable them to put the Dutch case in a wider European perspective and to develop suggestions for further comparative research.

How does change happen in historiography? This article examines three scholars' writings on the Holocaust in order to shed light on this question. I argue that both internal (methodological) and external (sociopolitical) factors account for changes in the questions historians ask and the research agendas they pursue, as well for the different receptions that works with similar arguments enjoy at different points in time. But I stress that while much work in the theory of history examines methodological trends and problems, sociopolitical factors tend to be given short shrift. While noting the different emphases of each author's position, this article observes that their fundamentally similar argument has been received very differently over a space of thirty years. This reception history tells us something about the course of Holocaust historiography since the end of the Cold War, on the one hand, and something about how the changing world in which historians operate has altered the ways in which their works have been received, on the other.

One of the most striking features of the protests against gay marriage that escalated in France throughout the fall of 2012 and the spring of 2013 is how quickly the organizers stopped talking about gay marriage. The massive street demonstrations that surprised many inside and outside of France claimed, at first, to be reacting against a bill put forth in Nov 2012 by Christiane Taubira, the minister of justice of the recently elected government of Francois Hollande. Here, Robcis illustrates how the theory of gender had penetrated society.

Meng argues that economist Thilo Sarrazin's racism is difficult to notice partly because the prejudices against migrants that he repeats have increasingly become normalized in German society and partly because the issue he purports to raise--integration--is discursively framed as a sacrosanct matter of Germany's sovereignty as a liberal democracy; the seemingly innocuous and righteous idioms of sovereignty and democracy efface already obscured prejudices. Moreovei the postwar myth that race and racism have largely been purged from German democracy further hinders one from noticing certain forms of racism, as may also be the case in other countries with racist histories. With the collapse of racial states in Nazi Germany, Jim Crow America, and apartheid South Africa, the myth of \"postracialness\" seems to underscore triumphant narratives about the apotheosis of liberal democracy in certain parts of the world.

The topic of memory has risen to an extremely prominent position within the humanities and social sciences over the course of the last two decades. So influential has the study of memory become that scholars now routinely refer to the emergence of a memory boom and even to the rise of memory industry. Here, Rosenfeld determines which fate awaits the memory \"industry.\" She shows the factors that initially helped elevate memory to unprecedented prominence have begun to fade in the last several years and will likely continue to do so.

Challenges abound as contemporary museums engage the politics and culture of memory particularly colonial memory and ways of approaching histories of violence. The South Africa Johannesburg Museum represents one end of a spectrum, with a stark, evocative new building obliging visitors to experience the spaces of apartheid. Belgium's Royal Museum for Central Africa, however presents a different and unusual case. In 2005, the museum attempted to confront for the very first time a brutal colonial history in the center of a singular institution of official national denial: King Leopold II's palatial Congo Museum, opened in 1910 and never renovated. Silverman examines the museum's evasive commemoration of 2005 as a springboard to look back, and forward: back to the context of the museum's founding, exploring the architectural structures and imperial mentalities that shaped it, and forward to some of the ensuing controversies and initiatives as the museum undergoes a multiyear closure and major remodeling project.