Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of the great American historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating account of a remarkable life that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth century. Confronting History is guided in part by his belief that "what man is, only history tells” and, most of all, by the importance of finding one's self through the pursuit of truth and through an honest and unflinching analysis of one's place in the context of the times.