Brian E. Crim

I wrote about Absolute Friends and A Most Wanted Man here. And I agree about A Delicate Truth.
“John le Carré is Mr. Angry now that Smiley’s day has gone”.: Spy Fiction and the Age of Anger | Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal serena.sharepress.it/index.php/an...

“All I See Is Damage” Homeland, the Covert Sphere, and the End of the War on Terror Homeland is a chronicle of a nation traumatized by the war on terror at a time when it has grown weary of fighting it. Airing shortly after the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and the raid on Osama bin Lad...

For all my intelligence studies and "war on terror" friends, I hope you like this take on Homeland.

“All I See Is Damage” Homeland, the Covert Sphere, and the End of the War on Terror - Crim - The Journal of Popular Culture - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What is a "legitimate business need"? Is research into the past now completely verboten?

I'm attending my first SHAFR conference in DC this week. Whatever will they talk about to fill the time? Our roundtable reunites some of us who met at the USHMM last summer to workshop projects on the US military and the Holocaust. Hope to see some of you there.

Thank you!

I'm excited to announce my new position as the Cohen Chair for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College. I've admired the unique HGS program at Keene and the affiliate Cohen Institute for a long time. Let's collaborate!

My favorite is Tom Hollander reading A Legacy of Spies.

His voice is weaker in Agent Running in the Field, but I like hearing him knowing it's his last narration.

Science and Espionage: Fort Hunt and Prince William Forest During the Second World War The state of Virginia has played an important role in the history of the United States. It was the location of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the...

I'm excited to participate in this event about Ft. Hunt's WWII history, specifically the role German and Austrian Jewish refugees played in interrogating prominent POWs and Project Paperclip scientists.
librarycalendar.fairfaxcounty.gov/event/14294542

Dude, read a book . . .

New addition

Book: Spies, Culture, and Society: Coming in from the Cold by Simon Willmetts, Constant Hijzen (published 01-02-2026)

http://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Spies-Culture-and-Society

Wait until he hears about the Ritchie Boys.

Cover design for "People without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust" in a rich burgundy color, with six faces on the cover, each corresponding with a chapter.

Cover reveal for People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, forthcoming in four months with @uoftpress.bsky.social
Beautiful design by Filip Kraus; the faces correspond with six of the chapters told in the book.

The true story of the secret program that brought Nazi scientists to the U.S. After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space programs—including some who had been active in the Third Reich.

I'm glad I helped with this piece written by a fellow historian.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

This amazing resource is now digital and searchable. Great work by some dedicated historians.
muse.jhu.edu/encyclopedia...

Keep standing up for yourself! It is inspiring. I'm tired of the constant labor expectations with zero compensation or accommodation.

McBride was my professor at JMU early in his career. He was why I wanted to be a historian. Good to know he's the same cantankerous, quality character guy I remember as an undergraduate.

I don't know how I underestimated Rubio's willingness to jettison even the pretense of humanity and decency, but never again.

Ok German Studies folks, I hope I'll see many of you in DC in the Crystal City Palace this Fall after some years away. I got my acceptance today for:

"Hamburg is a guilty city." John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man, and Germany’s War on Terror

Unfortunately not, but a longer book chapter will soon be available.

History professor presents ‘Return to the Reich: German Jewish Emigres and the Holocaust, 1945-1949’ at local library Dr. Brian Crim, history department chair and John Franklin East Distinguished Chair in the Humanities at the University of Lynchburg, will present a lecture on Wednesday, April 23, at Jones Memorial L...

Next week I'm speaking on the special role emigres played as interrogators and war crimes investigators during the occupation period. Many emigres returned to their hometowns, knew their captives, and learned about the fate of their families while "on the job."
www.lynchburg.edu/history-prof...

Umm....what?

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My feed is a torrent of these horrific letters gutting a generation of Humanities scholarship. And the personal toll on people whose livelihoods depend on this funding often gets overlooked. What do you do with schedules made, hiring freezes everywhere? The cruelty was always the point.

Ayer's script labels the scene with the German women "Things are going to a bad place." I wrote this: muse.jhu.edu/article/7014...

This is just so profoundly depressing.