One hundred years after the end of World War I, 40 historians from 10 countries are meeting to discuss its long-term consequences at the German…

John Eicher, the GHI's 2016-17 Visiting Fellow in the History of Migration, has won the University of Iowa's 2017 D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation…

The German Historical Institute Washington DC – in cooperation with the Franz Steiner Verlag - has concluded a conceptual revision of the Steiner…

On January 28, 2017, former GHI research fellow Dr. Raimund Lammersdorf died of cancer at the age of 56. Dr. Lammersdorf joined the GHI in 1997 and…

In an article in Tagesspiegel's Causa, Mischa Honeck considers the impact of Obama's presidency on racism in America. Although initially hailed as a…

For the last decade and more the GHI Washington has closely cooperated with the Joseph Horner Memorial Library in Philadelphia by granting fellowships…

In an article in Tagesspiegel's Causa, Mischa Honeck considers the current divisions in U.S. society and questions whether it is even possible for…

Washington, DC - Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture on Dec. 10, 2015 at the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington.