Dr. Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson Deputy Director German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Ave NW Washington DC 20009 U.S.A. Phone +1.202.387.3355 
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Courses Taught
- Undergraduate Survey Courses of US History from Colonial Times to the Present
- Independent Study Seminars for M.A. and Ph.D. Candidates
Seminars
- Agrargeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
- Bürgerrechte und soziale Lage schwarzer Amerikaner seit dem zweiten Weltkrieg (WiSe 1992/93)
- Martin and Malcolm: Unversöhnliche Gegner oder potentielle Verbündete im afro-amerikanischen Emanzipationsprozeß (WiSe 1993/94)
- "This Troublesome Property": Die Kontroverse um die Darstellung der Sklaverei im Spiegel zeitgenössischer und moderner Medien (WiSe 1994/95)
- From Protest to Participation: The Role of Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement and Modern Politics Since 1954 (SoSe 1995)
- Beyond Eldorado: History of California 1849-1915 (WiSe 1995/96)
- The Federalist Papers: The Making of the Constitution and of the Republic (SoSe 1997)
- "The Closest of Enemies": US-Cuban Relations from 1898 to 1998 (WiSe1998/99)
- Having Dreams and Seeing Nightmares: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the Black Struggle for Freedom and Equality in America (WiSe 1999/2000)
- Glory and Honor: History of the Old South (SoSe 2002)
- E Pluribus Unum: The Creation of the American Nation, 1765-1791 (WiSe 2002/03)
- "Up You Mighty Race": Black Nationalism in the United States (SoSe 2003)
- In God We Trust: The Varieties of Religious Experiences in America (SoSe 2004)
- HerStory: Major Issues in American Women's History (WiSe 2004/05)
- The 1960s (intensive seminar, University of Torino, April 2005)
- Prophets and Faith-Healers Made in the USA: The History and Cultural Impact of Indigenous American Religions (SoSe 2005)
- Social Reform in Jacksonian America (WiSe 2006/07)
- Bearing Witness: African American Autobiography from the 1890s to the 1960s (WiSe 2006/07)
- From Slavery to Freedom (I): African American History from 1619 until 1954 (SoSe 2007)
- Transformations of Land and Life: America's Environmental History and Modern Challenges (SoSe 2007)
- Eyes on the Prize: The African American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s (SoSe 2007 & SoSe 2009)
- Facts or Fiction: Amerikabilder in der deutschsprachigen Literatur von der Romantik bis zur Moderne und ihr historischer Kontext (SoSe 2007)
- From Slavery to Freedom (II): African American History from 1954 to the Present (WiSe 2007/08)
- Having Dreams and Seeing Nightmares: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the Black Struggle for Freedom and Equality in America (SoSe 2008)
- New Orleans: Rise and Fall of an American City (mit Berndt Ostendorf, SoSe 2008)
- Blowin' in the Wind: American Culture and Politics in the 1960s (WiSe 2008/09)
- This Troublesome Property: The Depiction of Slavery in Historic and Modern Media (WiSe 2008/09)
- In God We Trust: The Varieties of Religious Experiences in America (SoSe 2009)
- "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible": Black Women's Autobiographies (SoSe 2009)
- "From Protest to Politics: African American Women and the Struggle for Black Freedom and Equality (WiSe 2009/10)
- Slavery in the Americas (with Ursula Prutsch, WiSe 2009/10)
- The American Presidents (SoSe 2010)
- Beyond Eldorado: Americans and the California Dream (SoSe 2010)
- Demons and Deities in American Popular Culture since the 1970s (with Michael Hochgeschwender, SoSe 2011)
- Coming Together or Coming Apart? Europe and the United States in the 1960s (SoSe 2011)
Lectures
- Hard Road to Freedom: The Struggle for Black Equality from the 17th to the 21st Century, (WiSe 2007/08)
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