Modern German history and the history of German-speaking Jewry have been core research fields at the GHI since the institute’s founding in 1987. German migrations to North America, relations between Germany and the United States, and the flight of German Jews from Nazi Germany have been major research topics since the GHI’s early years. More recently, the GHI has given increased attention to the transnational and global dimensions of German, Central European, and Jewish history.
Photo Credit: E. Zimmermann, Satirical Map of Europe, ca. 1914, Library of Congress.
Team
Anna-Carolin Augustin
Research Fellow
German Historical Institute Washington
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Kerstin von der Krone
Affiliated Scholar & Co-Editor, History of Knowledge blog
German Historical Institute Washington
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Simone Lässig
Director
German Historical Institute Washington
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Swen Steinberg
Affiliated Scholar
German Historical Institute Washington
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Richard F. Wetzell
Research Fellow & Editor
German Historical Institute
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Projects
Publications
Bulletin 71 (Spring 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 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 onAndrew Kloiber
Brewing Socialism: Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization
Studies in German History. Vol. 27. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022.
Read onBulletin 69 (Fall 2021 & Spring 2022)
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 onPaul Lerner, Uwe Spiekermann, Anne Schenderlein, eds.
Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America
Worlds of Consumption. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022.
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