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History of the Americas & Transatlantic History

From an initial focus on North American history and the history of the transatlantic relations, the GHI has broadened the scope of its core research agenda to encompass the Americas as a whole. Its long engagement with the histories of the United States, Canada, and North American-European ties is the point of departure for its new initiatives in the history of the Americas. GHI-supported projects are exploring the myriad entanglements linking the societies of North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean to each other and societies across the globe. The interconnections of the Atlantic and Pacific worlds are focal point of the research program of the GHI’s Pacific Regional Office in Berkeley.

Photo Credit: Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, 1995. © Nam June Paik Estate, SAAM. 

Team

Albert Manke

Research Fellow, GHI PRO

Albert Manke

Research Fellow, GHI PRO
Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington
Institute of European Studies | University of California, Berkeley | 249 Moses Hall | Berkeley, CA 94720-2316
Phone +1.510.643-4558

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Projects

German Heritage in Letters

German Heritage in Letters is a project to create a digital collection of German-language correspondence currently held in private hands, by archives, by special collection libraries, museums, and other institutions.

Politicizing Science: The Stem Cell Debates

Axel Jansen

Libertarian Welfare: The Concept of an Unconditional Basic Income in U.S. Public Debate and Policy, 1945-75

Axel Jansen

Coping with Exclusion: Chinese Migrant Networks in the Americas and across the Pacific in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century

Albert Manke

Land of Dollars: Money in the Minds of American Immigrants, 1870-1935

Atiba Pertilla

Panamericana: Transcontinental Mobility Infrastructures and the Cooperation AmongExperts in the Americas, c. 1870-1970

Mario Peters

Children by Choice? A Transnational History of Family Planning in West Germany and the U.S.

Claudia Roesch

Events & Conferences

Dec 16, 2021

Research Seminar

Speaker: Barbara Hahn (Texas Tech University)

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Sep 25, 2022

Environments of Inequality: Crises, Conflicts, Comparisons

International Summer School at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), Guadalajara, Mexico | Organizing Committee: Cornelia Aust (Bielefeld University, SFB 1288), Sarah Beringer (GHI Washington), Olaf Kaltmeier (CALAS), Albert Manke (GHI PRO Berkeley), Mario Peters (GHI Washington), Ann-Kathrin Volmer (CALAS)

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Nov 03, 2022

German Migrants and Migrating Knowledge in Latin American History

Conference at GHI Washington | Conveners: Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), Mario Peters (GHI Washington), H. Glenn Penny (University of Iowa), Stefan Rinke (Freie Universität Berlin)

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Publications

Patrick Gaul

Ideale und Interessen: Die mitteleuropäische Wirtschaft im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg

Transatlantische Historische Studien. Band 61. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021.

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Elisabeth Piller

Selling Weimar: German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918–1933

Transatlantische Historische Studien. Band 60. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021.

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Bulletin 67 (Fall 2020)

Forum: New Research in Transatlantic History

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Sophia Dafinger

Die Lehren des Luftkriegs: Sozialwissenschaftliche Expertise in den USA vom Zweiten Weltkrieg bis Vietnam

Transatlantische Historische Studien. Band 59. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020.

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Andrea Westermann & Onur Erdur, eds.

Histories of Migrant Knowledge: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

Bulletin Supplement 15 (2020)

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John P.R. Eicher

Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age

Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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Latest News

Fellowship

Visiting Fellowships at the GHI

Deadline: December 1, 2021 | The GHI is now accepting applications for its 2022-2023 visiting fellow program for European and North American scholars…

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Opportunities

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (w/m/d) mit einem Schwerpunkt in „Lateinamerikanischer Geschichte“

Deadline: Nov. 14, 2021 (EXTENDED) | The GHI's Pacific Regional Office is hiring a research fellow in Latin American History (w/m/d).

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Call for Papers

Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th‐21st centuries

Deadline: November 21, 2021 (EXTENDED) | Second Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies

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New Publication

Spring 2021 Bulletin (68) published and available for download

The latest issue of the Bulletin is now available for download.

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Fellowship

2022 Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants

Deadline: October 8, 2021 | The Max Weber Stiftung's Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants provide funding up to 3 months travel funding for junior scholars…

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