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GHI Washington researchers and staff are also available for comment and interviews to provide historical background to a range of topics. For media inquiries, please contact:

Dr. Sarah Beringer 
Head of Strategy & Communications
email beringer@ghi-dc.org
tel. (202) 387-3355

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Event Report

Maritime Missions: Religion, Ethnography and Empires in the Long Eighteenth Century

Conference report by Jenna M. Gibbs (GHI / Florida International University) and Sünne Juterczenka (GHI / University of Göttingen)

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Press Release

ERC Starting Grant for German Historical Institute Researcher

Dr. Jan C. Jansen, research fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) was awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council,…

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Global & Transregional History

Sarah Beringer talks with TRAFO blog about the recent GHI Conference "Entangling the Pacific & Atlantic Worlds: Past & Present"

The blog spotlighted the recent symposium “Entangling the Pacific & Atlantic Worlds: Past & Present” that took place March 25-27th 2019 at the GHI…

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German/European & Jewish History

GHI's new project "German Heritage in Letters" featured in Die Welt

GHI's new project "German Heritage in Letters" was featured in Die Welt. The project will create a digital collection of German-language…

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History of Migration & Mobilities

GHI Director Simone Lässig invited to join the academic board of the Deutsches Schiffahrts Museum

GHI Director Simone Lässig is honored to join the academic board of the Deutsches Schiffahrts Museum/Leibniz-Institut für Maritime Geschichte (DSM) in…

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History of Migration & Mobilities

David Miliband, President and CEO of the IRC, gives Bucerius Lecture at German Historical Institute


German/European & Jewish History

German Heritage in Letters: Recovering the Hidden Stories of German Migration

The German Historical Institute is pleased to announce it has received funding from the “Deutschlandjahr USA” campaign of the German Federal Foreign…

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German/European & Jewish History

Henry H. Arnhold, transatlantic bride-builder and friend of the GHI, passes away at the age 96

The GHI is saddened to learn about the recent death of Henry H. Arnhold, banker, philanthropist and friend of the GHI. Born in 1921 in Dresden/Germany…

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