Witnessing the Disaster examines how histories, films, stories and novels, memorials and museums, and survivor testimonies involve problems of witnessing: how d

In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics have shown a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Hillar

Provides first-person reports of those who've witnessed the violent rage of a volcanic eruption.

Describes the earthquake in Alaska in 1964 as told by eyewitness accounts of this disaster.

Examines the ethical and pedagogical stakes of representing the Holocaust in books, films, and museum exhibits.