The GHI’s print and digital publishing program serves the goals of advancing research, supporting scholars, and building networks.
The German Historical Institute publishes a twice-yearly journal, the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, along with three book series: Publications of the German Historical Institute, Transatlantische Historische Studien, and Studies in German History. In addition, the Institute also publishes three blogs: History of Knowledge, Migrant Knowledge, and href.
The Bulletin of the German Historical Institute spotlights GHI-supported research and reports on the GHI’s scholarly activities. The Bulletin also provides information on upcoming events and fellowship opportunities.
The GHI publishes three book series, each with its own focus and profile: Publications of the German Historical Institute (in collaboration with Cambridge University Press), Transatlantische Historische Studien(in collaboration with Franz Steiner Verlag); Studies in German History (in collaboration with Berghahn Books). All three series include works based on GHI-supported research or GHI-organized conferences. Reflecting its commitment to support the work of historians in the early stages of their careers, the GHI also publishes first books and Habilitationsschriften in its core research fields and thematic concentrations by scholars without prior GHI affiliation.
The GHI’s digital publications – the blogs History of Knowledge, href, and Migrant Knowledge – provide venues for scholarly exchange and are the cornerstones of rapidly expanding international research networks. History of Knowledge was established in 2016 in connection with the GHI’s thematic concentration in the history of knowledge. Href, launched in 2018, is dedicated to the use of digitized primary source materials in studying, teaching, and researching German and global history. Migrant Knowledge, created in 2019, is a platform for the interdisciplinary “Migrant Knowledge” research initiative spearheaded by the GHI’s Pacific Regional Office.
Latest Publications
Bulletin 75 (Spring 2025)
Forum: Concrete Dreams: The Built Environment and Human Behavior in Europe’s Twentieth Century
Read onChristina Brauner, Renate Dürr, Philip Hahn, Anne Sophie Overkamp, Simon Siemianowski, eds.
Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany: Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging
Studies in German History. Vol. 30. New York: Berghahn Books, 2025.
Read onBulletin 74 (Fall 2024)
Forum: European and Global Perspectives on Social Democracy and State Violence
Read onMichelle Lynn Kahn
Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History
Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
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Bulletin 75 (Spring 2025)
Forum: Concrete Dreams: The Built Environment and Human Behavior in Europe’s Twentieth Century
Read onBulletin 74 (Fall 2024)
Forum: European and Global Perspectives on Social Democracy and State Violence
Read onBulletin 72 (Fall 2023)
Forum: The German Treatment of Soviet Prisoners of War During The Second World War
Read onPublications of the German Historical Institute
Cambridge University Press
Michelle Lynn Kahn
Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History
Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Read onJan C. Jansen & Kirsten McKenzie, eds.
Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions
Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Read onAdam Bisno
Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy: Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875–1933
Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Read onMoritz Föllmer and Pamela E. Swett, eds.
Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Read onTransatlantische Historische Studien
Franz Steiner Verlag
Maximilian Klose
Why They Gave: CARE and American Aid for Germany after 1945
Transatlantische Historische Studien. Band 63. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024.
Read onAnna Corsten
Unbequeme Erinnerer: Emigrierte Historiker in der westdeutschen und US-amerikanischen NS- und Holocaust-Forschung, 1945–1998
Transatlantische Historische Studien. Band 62. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022.
Read onPatrick Gaul
Ideale und Interessen: Die mitteleuropäische Wirtschaft im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg
Transatlantische Historische Studien. Band 61. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021.
Read onElisabeth Piller
Selling Weimar: German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918–1933
Transatlantische Historische Studien. Band 60. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021.
Read onStudies in German History
Berghahn Books
Christina Brauner, Renate Dürr, Philip Hahn, Anne Sophie Overkamp, Simon Siemianowski, eds.
Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany: Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging
Studies in German History. Vol. 30. New York: Berghahn Books, 2025.
Read onMichael Weaver
Political Friendship: Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 1848-1866
Studies in German History. Vol. 29. New York: Berghahn Books, 2024.
Read onTimon de Groot
Citizens into Dishonored Felons: Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933
Studies in German History. Vol. 28. New York: Berghahn Books, 2023.
Read onIlko-Sascha Kowalczuk
End Game: The 1989 Revolution in East Germany
Studies in German History. Vol. 26. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022.
Read onGHI Blogs
The GHI publishes several blogs to provide a different forum for new academic research fields to connect with new audiences. The blogs take advantage of the GHI’s professional editing capacity to help disseminate “work-in-progress.”