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GHDI Project Successfully Completed Print E-mail

The German Historical Institute is proud to announce the completion of its most popular public history project, German History in Documents and Images (GHDI).

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GHDI is a unique web-based collection of sources documenting German history from 1500 to the present. The project, which is divided into ten chronological volumes, includes approximately 1,700 documents, 2,400 images, 60 maps, and hundreds of pages of secondary source texts. This unique collection sheds light on the political, cultural, social, and economic dimensions of German history. All of the textual sources appear in both the original German and English translation and are accompanied by short introductions. The documents and images were chosen by a team of leading historians and compiled by a GHI team coordinated and inspired by project manager Dr. Kelly McCullough. The grant marking the first beginnings of the project was awarded in 2002, work began right away in 2002, and the website has been available online since late 2003. Over the past years, GHDI has become an indispensable resource for German history in the United States, Germany, and throughout the world. On average, the website attracts from 8,000 to 10,000 unique visitors from around the world per day.

German History in Documents and Images was the recipient of the American Historical Association's 2010 James Harvey Robinson Prize for an outstanding teaching aid. Materials and translations from GHDI have been reprinted in numerous textbooks and course readers.

GHDI was an initiative of GHI's former director Christof Mauch. It was generously supported by the Max Kade Foundation, the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius, and the DGIA-Foundation. Cooperation with the Friends of the German Historical Institute, the Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, and IEG-MAPS at the Institute for European History in Mainz also contributed to the success of the project.

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Of course GHDI would not have enjoyed such continuance and success without the passionate and committed work of Kelly McCullough, who was the face and the heart of the project for nearly one decade. She has been supported by a large number of project associates, notably Insa Kummer and Fred Reuss. They have each dedicated their time for those hundreds of thousands interested in German history.

The German Historical Institute is very grateful to all who made GHDI possible over the last ten years. The institute will continue the maintenance of this unique website and provide updates for the benefit of future readers.