Preface

FEATURES

Reflecting on the Past, Envisioning the Future: Perspectives for German Jewish Studies
Liliane Weissberg

New Perspectives in German Jewish Studies: Toward a Diasporic and Global Perspective
Jeffrey Peck

German Catholics in America
Kathleen Conzen

Landscape and Landschaft
Denis Cosgrove

Emplacing Memory Through the City: The New Berlin
Karen Till

HELMUT SCHMIDT PRIZE

The Vulnerability of Globalization
Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture
Harold James

GHI RESEARCH

Competing Modernities: Germany and the United States, 1890 to the Present
Christof Mauch and Kiran Patel

Natural Disasters in Transatlantic Perspective: River Floods in German and U.S. History
Christof Mauch and Uwe Lübken

REPORTS ON CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, SEMINARS

Reconstituting Public Realms: Archivists, Librarians, and Journalists in Postwar Germany
Astrid M. Eckert

Hertie Roundtable: The Welfare State -- Past, Present, and Future in Transatlantic Perspective
Dirk Schumann

The Spatial Turn in History
Thomas Zeller

Natural Disasters and Cultural Strategies: Responses to Disasters in Global Perspective
Christof Mauch

Pietism in Two Worlds: Transmissions of Dissent in Germany and North America, 1680-1820
Jonathan Strom

Taxation, State, and Civil Society in Germany and the United States, 1750-1950
Alexander Nützenadel

Toward a Biographical Turn? Biography in Modern Historiography B Modern Historiography in Biography
Simone Lässig

Criminal Justice in Times of Political Crisis: Central Europe 1920-1950
Richard F. Wetzell

A New History of the German People
Frank Wagner

Civil Society, the Public Sphere, and Popular Politics in the Rhineland, 1800-1848: Mid-Atlantic German History Seminar
Marion Deshmukh

German History in the Short Nineteenth Century, 1790-1890: Tenth Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History
Richard F. Wetzell

War and the Environment: Contexts and Consequences of Military Destruction in the Modern Age
Charles Closmann and Christof Mauch

The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990
David Lazar

Beyond Anti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism: Searching for Normality in German-Jewish Relations
Simone Lässig

International Dialogue between Young Germans and Young American-Jewish Leaders
Anne Lümers

The Origins of Green Parties in Global Perspective
Frank Zelko

Environment, Culture, Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives. Young Scholars Forum
Charles Closmann

Summer Seminar in Germany
Astrid M. Eckert

Environmental History and the Oceans
Frank Zelko

Alexander von Humboldt and North America
Andreas Daum

In the Shadow of Power
Gerald Livingston

German Studies Abroad
Philipp Gassert

Fellows Seminars
Dirk Schumann

ANNOUNCEMENTS: PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS

Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize
Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar 2005
Summer Seminar 2005
Kade-Heideking Fellowship
Thyssen-Heideking Fellowship
Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Internships

NEWS

In memoriam
Carola Wessel (1964-2004)
Hermann-Josef Rupieper (1942-2004)
Wolfgang Mommsen (1930-2004)
GHI Email List
Research Fellows Win Historikerverband Prizes
Helmut Schmidt Prize
Bucerius Seminar
Competing Modernities
German Unification Event
Breuninger Fellowship
German History in Documents and Images
Library Report
New Publications
Fellowship Recipients
Internship Recipients
Staff Changes

UPCOMING EVENTS

GHI Events 2004-05

GHI Publications