GHI Blogs

Jan 31, 2023

Antonio Romero

The 2018 Central American Migrant Caravan: Migrant Knowledge Circulation in Digital Media Platforms

Examines ways migrants in this caravan utilized legacy and social media to coordinate and organize the journey, as well as how these media are changing migrant paradigms. The post The 2018 Central Ame…

Jan 17, 2023

Susanne Korbel

Migrant Artists on the Move between Central Europe and the United States around 1900

Introduces "Auf die Tour!," a book investigating networks of (Jewish) migrant performers and sites of popular entertainment. The post Migrant Artists on the Move between Central Europe and the United …

Jan 10, 2023

katharina hering

The World Wide Web of Internationalism: Evaluating Total Digital Access for the League of Nations Archive (LONTAD) and Its Potential for Historical Research

By Valentin Loos Editorial Note: Having gained his bachelor‘s degree in 2020, Valentin Loos is now a master‘s student of history and English and American studies at Osnabrück University. His inte…

Jan 09, 2023

Martin Bemmann

Between Fiction and Non-Fiction: ‘America’-related Literature in the Public Libraries of Southern Baden

Presents the image of America conveyed in literature available in the public libraries in southern Baden, esp. Lahr in late 19th c. The post Between Fiction and Non-Fiction: ‘America’-related Lite…

Jan 05, 2023

Migrant Knowledge at the #AHA23

Describes Migration- and Mobility-related events at #AHA23 The post Migrant Knowledge at the #AHA23 first appeared in Migrant Knowledge. …

Jan 04, 2023

Editors

History of Knowledge at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia #AHA23

The History of Knowledge will be featured in several panels at the 136th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia from January 5-8, 2023. If you’ll be attending, please …

Jan 01, 2023

katharina hering

Aufbau (Reconstruction) Nachrichtenblatt des German-Jewish Club Inc., New York – Ein digitaler Zugang zu Wissen und Exil

By Charlotte Lenger Editorial note: Charlotte Lenger completed her bachelor´s degree at the Technische Universität Dortmund where she studies German, Educational and Rehabilitation Science. Currentl…

Dec 30, 2022

katharina hering

Visiting PACSCL – Part 2: How to Organize a Consortium

By Tim Feind In part one of my series on PACSCL I visited the Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library in Philadelphia and talked to Bettina Hess from the German Society of Pennsylvania about challenges and …

Dec 20, 2022

Editors

Knowledge Notes

If you are going to the American Historical Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia from January 5-8, 2023, please look for Section 128, “Infrastructure, Knowledge, and US Imperialism in the Amer…

Dec 13, 2022

Charlie Knight

‘I beg you again from my heart to help me find my sister’: RELICO and the Need for Knowledge

Editor’s note: As has previously been mentioned on this blog, our sister blog, Migrant Knowledge, also always bears some relevance to the history of knowledge. This is not surprising since, as that …

Nov 05, 2022

Martina Schaefer

African American Lucumí Devotees’ Adoption and Adaptation of African Diasporic Religious Knowledge in the U.S.

This short piece traces how the Black Power era affected the unfolding of the transmission of African diasporic religious knowledge and how it contributed to the evolution of specifically African Amer…

Oct 27, 2022

katharina hering

Online access to historical German TV programs: Reflections on the research potential of unique audiovisual sources

By Christoph Eisele Editorial note: Christoph Eisele is in the final phase of completing his master’s degree in history (focusing on modern history) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, w…