Bulletin Issue 38: Spring 2006

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

FEATURES

Transnational Borderlands: Metropolitan Growth in the United States, Germany, and Japan since World War II
Kenneth T. Jackson

The Suburbanization of German and American Cities
Adelheid von Saldern

Historical Upheavals, Fractured Identities
Monika Maron

German Institutes of Contemporary History: Interviews with the Directors Gerhard Besier, Konrad Jarausch, Horst Möller, Jan Philipp Reemtsma, and Axel Schildt
interviewed by Christof Mauch and Richard F. Wetzell

STERN PRIZE

Strangers and Neighbors: The Tactics of Toleration in the Dutch Exile Community of Wesel, 1550–1590
Jesse Spohnholz

Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic: Toward an Economic, Consumer, Design, and Cultural History
Eli Rubin

GHI RESEARCH

In Pursuit of “Freedom”: African-, Anglo-, and German-American Alliances in the Abolition Movement
Mischa Honeck

Migration, Citizenship, and Polish Integration in the Ruhr Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1870–1924
Brian McCook

CONFERENCE REPORTS

Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Environmental History
Uwe Lübken and Karen Oslund

Bucerius Seminar 2005: American History and American Archives
Andreas Etges

U.S. Intelligence and the Gehlen Organization, 1945–1956
James C. Van Hook

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

Translation, the History of Political Thought, and the History of Concepts (Begriffsgeschichte)
Martin J. Burke

American Occupations: Germany 1945–1949, Iraq 2003–2005
Rebecca Boehling

Medieval History Seminar 2005
Patrick J. Geary

American Presidents and the Germans, 1945–2005
Robert Gerald Livingston

Fritz Stern Dissertation Award and Symposium of the Friends of the GHI
Richard F. Wetzell

The Place of Nature in the City in Twentieth-Century Europe and North America
Dorothee Brantz and Sonja Dümpelmann

Fellows Seminars, Fall 2005
Dirk Schumann

ANNOUNCEMENTS: FELLOWSHIPS AND INTERNSHIPS

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Kade-Heideking Fellowship
Thyssen-Heideking Fellowship
Postdoc-Stipendium für Nordamerikanische Geschichte
NEH Program
GHI Körber Internship
Internships

NEWS

New Publications
Library Report
Recipients of GHI Fellowships for 2006
Internship Recipients
Staff Changes

EVENTS

Spring 2006 Lecture Series
Events Sponsored by the GHI, 2006–07

GHI PUBLICATIONS

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