In August 2017, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) awarded the GHI a generous grant in support of the relaunch of the German History and…

The GHI is pleased to announce a new program for GHI West in cooperation with the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, one of Germany’s most important non-profit…

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…

GHI research fellow Kerstin von der Krone was awarded the The Joseph and Eva R. Dave Fellowship at the The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American…

The GHI is currently laying the groundwork for an ambitious relaunch of the German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) website. The relaunch will…

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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…