Feature Articles

• What Crisis? Speculation, Corruption, and the State of Emergency during the Great Depression
  Martin H. Geyer

Forum: The Challenge of Biography

Edited by Atiba Pertilla and Uwe Spiekermann

• The Challenges of Biography: European-American Reflections
  Volker Depkat
• Legitimizing Biography: Critical Approaches to Biographical Research
  Levke Harders
• Counting Who Counts: Method and Findings of a Statistical Analysis of Economic Elites in the New York Region, 1947
  Clifton Hood
• Writing Biography as a History of Networks: Why the Story of J.P. Morgan Needs Jacob H. Schiff
  Susie J. Pak
• Living the American Dream? The Challenge of Writing Biographies of German-American Immigrant Entrepreneurs
  Atiba Pertilla and Uwe Spiekermann
• Biography in the History Classroom: Challenges and Applications
  Isabelle Schmitz

GHI Research

• The Challenge and Promise of Girl Scout Internationalism: From Progressive-Era Roots to Cold War Fruit
  Emily Swafford

Conference Reports

• Obesity, Health, and the Liberal Self: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Late Nineteenth and Late Twentieth Centuries
  Uwe Spiekermann
• Los Angeles as a Site of German-American Crossings
  Uwe Spiekermann
• Histories of Humanitarianism: Religious, Philanthropic, and Political Practices in the Modernizing World
  Sonya Michel and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson
• Migration during Economic Downturns: From the Great Depression to the Great Recession
  Elisa Minoff
• A Hands-on Approach: The Do-It-Yourself Culture and Economy in the Twentieth Century
  Reinhild Kreis
• Twentieth Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Nineteenth-Century German History
  Anna von der Goltz
• War and Childhood in the Age of the World Wars: Local and Global Perspectives
  Mischa Honeck, Susanne Quitmann, and Stina Barrenscheen
• Informal and Everyday Markets: Histories of Business and Entrepreneurship in India since the Nineteenth Century
  Christina Lubinski and Sebastian Schwecke