The German Historical Institute Washington has received a generous grant from the Volkswagen Stiftung’s “Open Up – New Research Spaces for the…

Mykola Riabchuk discusses the recent GHI panel discussion "Resilience and Resistance in Fragile Democracies" amidst the rising threat of dictatorship.

On May 10, 2025, GHI Washington Deputy Director Axel Jansen together with Johannes Klemm of the Steiner Verlag awarded the biennial Franz Steiner…

If you were unable to watch our event "The Hour of the Archivists: Creating Southwest Germany’s Memory Culture, c. 1960" live, it is now available to…

If you were unable to watch our event "Credit's Histories: Debt, Loans, and Welfare in Twentieth-Century United States" live, it is now available to…

The series will explore the past and present of democracy through lively conversations with historians working around the world on questions related…

The new miniseries features GHI researchers Anna Carolin Augustin and Simone Lässig along with other MWS researchers to discuss the aftermath(s) of…

We recently caught up with Jonathan Schlunck, one of our Visiting Fellows, who will be leaving us at the end of April. We sat down with him to discuss…