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Please note that some links contain abstracts from our 1997 Fall Bulletins.

What Can Chancellor Kohl Learn from Bismarck? Monetary and Fiscal Aspects of Unification in Nineteenth-Century Germany
December 11, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Harold James, Princeton University

Two Dictatorships in Germany, 1933-1989: Problems and Possibilities of a Comparison
November 20, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Günther Heydemann, University of Leipzig

The Protestant Reformation in German History
November 13, 1997
11th Annual Lecture of the GHI
Speaker: Thomas A. Brady Jr., University of California at Berkeley

Women, Communists, and Abortion in the German Democratic Republic, 1950-1970
November 05, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Donna Harsch, Carnegie-Mellon University

The Political Philosophy of Nineteenth-Century German Radicalism
October 23, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Peter Wende, GHI London

How Wilhelmine Germans Became Citizens of Weimar: Toward an Alternative Political History of World War I Germany
October 16, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Belinda Davis, Rutgers University

Judging the Past: The Prosecution of GDR Border Guards and Officials
October 02, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Peter E. Quint, University of Maryland

Traumatized Citizenship: How the West Germans Came to Love the Nuclear Bomb, 1949-1964
June 05, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Michael Geyer, University of Chicago

Field Marshall and Beggar: The Artist Ernst Barlach in the First World War
May 28, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Peter Paret, Princeton University

Unexplored Questions About the German Military During World War II

May 15, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Religion, Americanization, and the Common Man [Bulletin 21, Fall 1997, pp. 41-42]
May 08, 1997
Alois Mertes memorial lecture
Speaker: Michael Zöller, University of Bayreuth

The Militarization of the Social Body in Germany during World War I
April 10, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Elisabeth Domansky, Indiana University at Bloomington

"Total War": Use and Abuse of a Concept
March 20, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University

The Military as a Theme in German History
March 13, 1997
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1997 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Gordon A. Craig, Stanford University