Bulletin Issue 36: Spring 2005

Contents

PREFACE

FEATURES

Europeanizing German History
Ute Frevert

Europeanizing German History: Comment
David Blackbourn

The Closest of Strangers: German-American Relations in Historical Perspective
W. Michael Blumenthal

Dramatizing German History: Michael Frayn on Democracy

STERN PRIZE

Alsace to the Alsatians? Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1890–1930
Christopher Fischer

Images of the Ideal: Sports, Gender, and the Emergence of the Modern Body in Weimar Germany
Erik Jensen

GHI RESEARCH

How Parasites Make History: On Pork and People in Nineteenth-Century Germany and the United States
Dorothee Brantz

Guns, Gun Culture, and the Roots of the Second Amendment
Michael Lenz

“The North Begins Inside”: Imagining Iceland as Wilderness and Homeland
Karen Oslund

REPORTS

Bucerius Seminar 2004: American Archives and American History
Andreas Etges

Access – Presentation – Memory: The American Presidential Libraries and the Memorial Foundations of German Politicians
Astrid M. Eckert

The Atlantic Community Unravelling? States, Protest Movements, and the Transformation of US-European Relations, 1969–1983
Bernd Schaefer

Competing Modernities: The United States of America and Germany since 1890
Christof Mauch and Kiran Klaus Patel

Adolph Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America
Alan Lessoff

The Role of Germany and Europe in the World: 15 Years After the End of the East-West Conflict
German Unification Symposium
Jonathan Skolnik

Citizen Activism and the Quest for the Sustainable City: Berlin, 1900 to the Present
Keith Alexander

Science and Technology in the Twentieth Century: Cultures of Innovation in Germany and the United States
Michael Eckert and Helmuth Trischler

Happening with a Royal Touch: John F. Kennedy and the Germans
Edmund Spevack Memorial Lecture
Richard F. Wetzell

Thirteenth Annual Symposium of the Friends of the German Historical Institute
Birgit Zischke

The Measure of Atrocity: The German War Against the Hereros Revisited
Meredith McKittrick

GHI Fellows Seminars, Fall 2004
Dirk Schumann

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Internships

NEWS

German Americana Reference Guide
Antoinette Exhibition
Hertie Foundation Sponsors GHI Lecture Series
John Weitz Library Donation
Library Report
New Publications
GHI-ESEH Prize in European Environmental History
Fellowship Recipients
Internship Recipients
Staff Changes

UPCOMING EVENTS

Spring 2005 Lecture Series
Events Sponsored by the GHI, 2005–06

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