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GHI 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.” “History of Knowledge” was established in 2016 as part of the GHI’s new research concentration in the history of knowledge; “href” was launched in 2018 and is is dedicated to the use of digitized primary source materials in studying, teaching, and researching German and global history; and “Migrant Knowledge” was created in 2019 to to foster and disseminate research at the nexus of migration and knowledge studies.

Latest Blogposts

Jun 16, 2026

Lukas Buchholz-Hein

Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst …mit Lukas Buchholz-Hein

Kannst Du in drei Sätzen Dein Projekt vorstellen und sagen, was speziell der digitale Anteil daran war? Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843) hatte sich als studierter Arzt gegen die damals vorherrschenden …

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Jun 09, 2026

Ben Miller

Gymnastics in Motion – Migrant Knowledge and the Circulation of Turnen in Texas

Explores the "Turner" school of physical culture among German migrants to the United States …

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Jul 01, 2026

Jan Markert

„Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst …mit Jan Markert“

Kannst Du in drei Sätzen Dein Projekt vorstellen und sagen, was speziell der digitale Anteil daran war? Der erste Deutsche Kaiser Wilhelm I. (1797–1888) und seine Ehefrau Kaiserin Augusta (1811–1…

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Feb 05, 2026

Helena Friedrich Schwinghammer

Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst …mit Helena Friedrich Schwinghammer

Kannst Du in drei Sätzen Dein Projekt vorstellen und sagen, was speziell der digitale Anteil daran war? Das Vogtland war bis zur Deindustrialisierung eine Region, die lange von weiblicher Arbeit in d…

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Feb 04, 2026

Nicolas Blumenthal

Nicolas Blumenthal

Nicolas Blumenthal University of Fribourg, Switzerland Research Focus: WebsiteEmail Related Blog Posts…

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Feb 04, 2026

Nicolas Blumenthal

Challenging “Racelessness:” Debates and Restrictions on Immigration in Postwar Switzerland 

Discusses deportation practices in Switzerland since World War II…

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Feb 03, 2026

Andreas Markus Schnurr

Andreas Markus Schurr

Andreas Markus Schurr University Institute Florence, Italy Research Focus: WebsiteEmail Related Blog Posts…

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Jan 28, 2026

Jana Dunz-Keck

Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst …mit Jana Dunz-Keck

Kannst Du in drei Sätzen Dein Projekt vorstellen und sagen, was speziell der digitale Anteil daran war? Im 19. Jahrhundert schrieben Zeitungen in großem Umfang voneinander ab; Texte wurden kopiert, …

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Sep 12, 2025

Anna Derksen

Inside “Vipeholmsanstalten”: Podcasting about Institutionalization and Memory in Sweden’s Welfare State

Analyzes the effects of podcasting both on the (his)storytelling and in redressing old abuses, here specifically about Vipeholmsanstalten, a Swedish institution that housed and treated people with int…

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Aug 18, 2025

Caroline Mezger

Rumors of the Holocaust: Expressing an Unspeakable Knowledge

A contribution exploring the role of rumor in the development and articulation of knowledge on the Holocaust as it was unfolding. …

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Jun 16, 2025

Editors

Knowledge Notes

Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention. Please email us your own items. Job Opening Lund University: Associate Senior Lecturer in Global History of Know…

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Apr 10, 2025

Barnabas Balint

Knowledge and Organization of Guard Dogs in the Nazi Concentration Camps: The Hundestaffeln

In March 1943, six Russian prisoners of war escaped from a factory in Neustadt where they had been forced to work. To recapture them, the German authorities dispatched SS-Untersturmführer Koermann …

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Migrant Knowledge Blog

The “Migrant Knowledge” blog fosters and disseminates research at the nexus of migration and knowledge studies.

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href

The "href" blog is dedicated to the use of digitized primary source materials for studying, teaching, and researching German and global history.

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