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The German Historical Institute Washington is a center for advanced historical research. Working with junior and senior scholars around the world, the GHI facilitates dialogue and collaboration across national and disciplinary boundaries.
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GHI Research Seminar

Jul 18, 1994

The Significance of German Social Thought and Reform in American Progressivism: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Origins of the Social Welfare State, 1870-1914
Axel Schäfer (University of Washington)
The Transformation of Activism: The Participation of Black Women in the Civil and Human Rights Movement and their Rise in the Social and Political Institutions of American Society since the 1950s
Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (University of Munich)

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