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History of Migration & Mobilities

GHI Research Fellow Mischa Honeck published an op-ed in the Süddeutsche Zeitung comparing the current refugee crisis to the asylum-seekers of 1848

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History of the Americas & Transatlantic History

250th anniversary of the Germany Society of Pennsylvania celebrated in Philadelphia on November 22, 2014

In 1774, the German Society of Pennsylvania was founded as a means to deal with the challenges and hardships German immigrants to the British colonies…

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History of the Americas & Transatlantic History

Congressional Briefing on “Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Historical Perspective”

GHI Director Hartmut Berghoff presented some of the results of the GHI's research project Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business…

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History of the Americas & Transatlantic History

Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project Featured in Journal of American Ethnic History Summer 2014 Issue

The German Historical Institute's Immigrant Entrepreneurship project is featured prominently in the Summer 2014 issue of the Journal of American…

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German/European & Jewish History

Transatlantic Perspectives project completed

On Thursday, June 9, 2014, the GHI said good-bye to the last two members of the "Transatlantic Perspectives" Project, Corinna Ludwig and Andreas Joch,…

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German/European & Jewish History

GHI's Exhibit on Arnold Genthe featured in the Washington Post

The upcoming exhibition at the GHI, "Visions of Beauty. Arnold Genthe and the Art of Photography," was featured in a Washington Post article by…

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German/European & Jewish History

German immigrants in the Civil War: A talk by GHI Research Fellow Mischa Honeck is now available at the C-SPAN video library

German immigrants in the Civil War: A talk by GHI Research Fellow Mischa Honeck is now available at the C-SPAN video library.

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History of Migration & Mobilities

Immigrant Entrepreneurship website featured on Max Weber Stiftung blog

The GHI project Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present was recently profiled in "Wenn Einwanderer zu…

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