Bullentin Issue 28: Spring 2001

PREFACE

FEATURES

Political Religion in Modern Germany: Reflections on Nationalism, Socialism, and National Socialism
Wolfgang Hardtwig

Politics, Religion, and Ideology: A Comment on Wolfgang Hardtwig
Jane Caplan

A Conversation with Fritz Stern

American Spiritualism and German Sectarianism: A Comparative Study of the Societal Construction of Ghost Beliefs
Johannes Dillinger

GHI RESEARCH

Africans in Early Modern German Society: Identity - Difference - Aesthetics - Anthropology
Vera Lind

Penal Reform in Modern Germany, 1880-1945
Richard F. Wetzell

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

The Claim to Social Resources: A Contested Issue in Transatlantic Perspective, 1776 to the Present

Doomed to Fail? East Germany's Collapse Revisited

Constructing Identity: Cold War Policies and the Promotion of Community in German-American Relations, 1950-1970

Business as Usual? Conceptions of German-American Economic Relations Under Hitler

German-Jewish Identities in America: From the Civil War to the Present

Magic Meets Enlightenment? New Types of Discourse in America and Germany in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Exhibiting the Other: Museums of Mankind and the Politics of Cultural Representation

GIs in Germany: The Social, Military, and Political History of the American Military Presence, 1945-2000

Learning from Diversity in Federal Systems: Social Assistance in the United States, Germany, and the European Union

Green Protest: Activism to Protect the Environment Around the Globe

First Ladies in the United States and Europe: Institution and Image in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

SEMINARS

Ninth Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI/Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize

The Protracted War: Returning POWs and the Making of East and West German Citizens, 1945-1955 Frank Biess

Cosmopolitan Visions and Municipal Displays: Museums, Markets, and the Ethnographic Project in Germany, 1868-1914
H. Glenn Penny III

NEWS

Members of the Bundestag Visit the GHI

Heideking Fellowships

Young Scholars Forum

Medieval History Seminar

Seventh Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History

Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies, June 17-30, 2001

Library Report

New publications

Staff Changes

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