Steve Hochstadt is emeritus professor of history at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois, and author of Sources of the Holocaust (2004) and Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich (2012), both from Palgrave Macmillan. He also blogs for the History News Network. All of his columns can be seen at stevehochstadt.blogspot.com. Many have been collected in his forthcoming book, Freedom of the Press in Small-Town America: My Opinions.