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The Mechanics of Internationalization: Culture, Society, and Politics from the 1840s to World War I
December 12-15, 1996
Conference in London
Conveners: Martin H. Geyer, GHI; Johannes Paulmann, GHI London.

The Weimar Analogy: The History and Political Myth of the Weimar Republic
December 05, 1996
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1996 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Carole Fink, Ohio State University

Constructions of Deviant Sexualities: Toward a Conceptualization of the Moral Order in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
November 02, 1996
Event at the GHI

Prussia and Austria, 1780-1848: Episode or Model?
November 21, 1996
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1996 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Paul W. Schroeder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Fifth Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI
November 15, 1996
Symposium at the GHI
Conveners: Geoffrey Giles, Friends of the GHI; Detlef Junker, GHI

Was Hitler's Seizure of Power on January 30, 1933 Inevitable?
November 14, 1996
10th Annual Lecture of the GHI
Speaker: Eberhard Kolb, University of Cologne

German Artists between Dictatorship and Democracy, 1918-1990

November 07, 1996
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1996 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Alan Steinweis, University of Nebraska

The Soviet Occupation Administration in Germany, 1945-1949
October 24, 1996
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1996 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University

Psyche and Swastika: The Göring Institute In and Out of History
October 15, 1996
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1996 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Geoffrey C. Cocks, Albion College

How Total Was the Great War? Germany, France, Great Britain, and the United States, 1914-1918
October 09-12, 1996
Conference in Münchenwiler
Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Stig Förster, University of Bern.

Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850
October 03-06, 1996
Conference in Madison, Wisconsin
Conveners: Peter Becker, GHI; Jürgen Heideking, University of Cologne; James A. Henretta, University of Maryland at College Park; John Kaminski, University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Citizens in Uniform: The Politics of West German Rearmament
September 26, 1996
Lecture at the GHI (Fall 1996 Lecture Series)
Speaker: David Clay Large, Montana State University

Imagination, Ritual, Memory, Historiography: Conceptions of the Past in the Middle Ages
September 05-07, 1996
Conference in Heidelberg
Conveners: Gerd Althoff, University of Bonn; Johannes Fried, University of Frankfurt; Patrick J. Geary, University of California at Los Angeles.

Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: Issues in Writing Contemporary History
June 12, 1996
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1996 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Philip Zelikow, Harvard University

The Struggle for Germany and the Origins of the Cold War
June 04, 1996
Alois Mertes Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia

Workers’ Resistance against the ‘Third Reich’
June 03, 1996
Event at the GHI

A Tale of Two Crises: Berlin and the United States during the Cold War
May 30, 1996
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1996 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University

1968: The World Transformed
May 23-25, 1996
Conference in Berlin
Conveners: Carole Fink, Ohio State University; Philipp Gassert, GHI; Detlef Junker, GHI.

"Damage Control": An Ambivalent German-American Disclosure about the Holocaust
May 09, 1996
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1996 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Sybil Milton, U.S. Holocaust Research Institute, Washington D.C.

Fritz Stern: An Appreciation
April 26, 1996
Event at the GHI

Two Americans Confront Germany, 1918-1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry R. Luce
April 24, 1996
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1996 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Robert E. Herzstein, University of South Carolina

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar 1996: Germany in the Age of Two World Wars, 1914-1945
April 17-20, 1996
Conference in Bochum
Conveners: Roger Chickering, Georgetown University; Martin H. Geyer, GHI.

Americanism and Anti-Americanism in the Weimar Republic
April 17, 1996
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1996 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Mary Nolan, New York University

World War I, German-Americans, and the Perils of Pluralism
March 21, 1996
Lecture at the GHI (Spring 1996 Lecture Series)
Speaker: Kathleen Neils Conzen, University of Chicago