Join us next week on 28 May at 5:30pm for the English Goethe Society's Ida Herz Lecture given by Susan Bernofsky (Columbia University) entitled 'On Magicking a Mountain: World-Making in Literary Translation'. 📅 1/5

What is the value of an introductory college course in history? What are the most effective ways to train students in core elements of historical thinking? Find out with the AHA’s new “Designing Introductory History Courses for Student Success” booklet.

The AHA leads or participates in several initiatives to provide resources and support for history educators facing intensifying controversies about the teaching of the American past. Learn more about our Teaching History with Integrity initiatives:

🎤 In our latest interview, we spoke with Visiting Fellow Sara Halpern about researching the history of statelessness, migration, and refugee policy in the context of Jewish history during and after the Holocaust. Read on: www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/in...

📑New publication, available now: Research Fellow Andreas Greiner's article "Claiming the Skies: The Politics and Practices of Diplomacy in Early Global Aviation," forthcoming in @conteurohistory.bsky.social

Our congratulations as well to Adam Bisno, whose book "Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy: Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875–1933," also published in our @universitypress.cambridge.org series, was a finalist for the Waterloo Centre Book Prize! uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-g...

Congratulations to @michellelkahn.bsky.social on receiving the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize for her 2024 book "Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History," published in our @universitypress.cambridge.org book series! uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-g...

Both Michelle Lynn Kahn and Adam Bisno are past winners of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, awarded by the Friends of the German Historical Institute, and next week we look forward to honoring the 2026 winner, Dr. Lane B. Baker, at our annual Stern Prize Symposium: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Die neue Ausgabe #WeltweitVorOrt zum Schwerpunkt „Jenseits der #Archive“ ist da! 🌍 Wie verändert sich Forschung, wenn Quellenzugänge, Materialien und politische Rahmenbedingungen neu gedacht werden müssen? 📰Zum E-Paper: publish.flyeralarm.d...#WeltweitVorOrt

Dorothee Wierling's 2026 Henkel Stiftung Lecture Tour talk, "The German Blues," can now be watched on our Vimeo channel: vimeo.com/1172718549

We interviewed Sarah Weicksel, Executive Director of @historians.org, for the latest issue of #WeltweitVorOrt, the @maxweberstiftung.de magazine, about the current status & future of archives in the U.S. The interview is now available here! gab.hypotheses.org/23186

18 May 1982: stamps issued in the GDR depicting protected birds (1/3)

We’re excited to welcome Dr. Lyndal Roper to give the 2026 Feldman Memorial Lecture this week in Washington. Last spring, she spoke on @draftingthepast.bsky.social about her writing and research process; listen to more here: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

🏅 Nominations are now being accepted for the David Barclay Book Prize, to be awarded by @thegsa.bsky.social to the best monograph on German or Central European history written in English or German and published in 2025. Nominations are due May 30; for further info: www.thegsa.org/grants-prize...

NYC is returning 600+ looted antiquities to India. A century ago, Robert Wiene’s 1917 silent horror film *Furcht* [Fear] explored anxieties over cultural theft and colonial plunder. Watch a rare clip in the GHDI collection. #GermanHistory #FilmHistory #India germanhistorydocs.org/en/wilhelmin...

Very excited to see that the interactive map of Reichstag Elections in Weimar Germany that I developed for @ghiwashington.bsky.social is now up on GHDI! germanhistorydocs.org/en/weimar-ge...

📚 Out now: Our colleague Raphael Rössel has co-authored a chapter examining the history of (post-) colonial street naming and renaming practices in the new edited volume “Kolonialismus dezentriert” (Metropol, 2026). Learn more: metropol-verlag.de/produkt/kolo...

Join us on 19 May at 5:30pm for the first lecture in our Summer Series on 'Environments of Knowledge: Climate, Risk, and Governance from the Middle Ages to the Anthropocene'. 📅 John Morgan (History at Bristol) will talk about the 'The Politics of Flooding in Early Modern England'. 🌊 1/5

We’re excited to take part in #DCHistCon next week! Find us in the History Network session on Friday, May 1st from 1 to 3:30 pm!

#Internships at @ghiwashington.bsky.social 📌 for #Students of #History, #PoliticalScience, #PublicRelations and #PublicAdministration at German and US #Universities | three-month stay in #Washington 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 🔗 www.ghi-dc.org/progr...

We’re excited to welcome Professor Lyndal Roper on Thursday, May 21, to give our 2026 Feldman Memorial Lecture, titled “Telling Stories: History, Narrative, and the German Peasants' War, 1524–1526.” Register to attend here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Come see us at the DC History Conference on May 1st!

📚Our colleague Viola Alianov-Rautenberg's book "No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen: Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine" (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2023) has been reviewed this month in @hsozkult.bsky.social: www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

Out now in print and #OpenAccess! 🔓 Textrecycling: Nachdrucke und Debattentransfer in England (1640–1660) by Marianne Taatz-Jacobi (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) 📕 1/3

Looking for materials you can use in your teaching or research? The AHA Resource Library includes syllabi, primary sources, teaching tools, and disciplinary guidelines—all developed or vetted by historians. Whether you’re building a course, revising a lecture, or exploring new topics, start here:

We are excited to announce that our updated volume on Weimar Germany, edited by Erik Jensen, has just been published: germanhistorydocs.org/en/weimar-ge... We are grateful to @dfg.de and Zeit Stiftung Bucerius for their generous support of our project! #GermanHistory #primarysources #EdResources

Calling all historians, we might have a purposeful skill for the folks over at the @newberrylibrary.bsky.social - transcribing handwritten texts in their collection. It could make for an excellent assignment I should think. www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

I wrote a China in 1989 unit for an ambitious, classroom-oriented @historians.org project on authoritarianism www.historians.org/news-publica... --the case studies are open access & intended to have relevance to varied times & places, other contributors include Louise Young & Barbara Weinstein

We need historians because evidence doesn’t explain itself. Context does not simply exist. It is built through research, interpretation, and critical analysis. What stories have you uncovered in the historical record? #TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️

Growing up in Germany, Katharina Matro “was confronted with my country’s history without mercy. It’s made me a more informed citizen, a more politically aware citizen, a more critical thinker.” 🗃️

#CfA #Masterclass with Bryan Ward-Perkins: “The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity database" 📌 8 May 2026 | in #Yerevan, Georgia | organised by #MWSGeorgiaBranchOffice | for students from #Armenia and #SouthCaucasus 📅 Deadline: 17 April 2026 🔗 mwsgeorgien.hypotheses.org/files/2026/0...

"Soccer: The Beautiful Game," our 2026 Spring Lecture Series, kicks off this week! Check out the poster for our events on March 26, May 13, and June 4, and learn more about registering to attend by visiting www.ghi-dc.org/2026-spring-...

#CfA Summer School "Diversity and Marginality in the Black Sea Region" 📌 July 12-19 2026 | at Labour Institute Moldova | for postgraduate students, early-career scholars and practitioners | organised by @rcu-mws-ukraine.bsky.social, @unisg.ch and more 📅 1 April 2026 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

Check out Now & Here, a website featuring nearly 100 projects created by @usaconservation.bsky.social Mellon #Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows and their partners. You’ll find stories of our collective past and user-friendly resources at https://nowandhere.org/#Humanities

NEWS: The Library of Congress, The Better Angels Society, Ken Burns and the Crimson Lion/Lavine Family Foundation are accepting entries for the eighth annual Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film through May 3. newsroom.loc.gov/news/submiss...

Submit nominations for the AHA’s awards and prizes by May 15. The AHA recognizes outstanding historical work of many types, including exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring, film, and digital projects and resources.

Versatile, adaptable, and ready to step into many roles. In #AHAPerspectives, AHA director of teaching and learning Brendan Gillis argues that history majors are the utility infielders of the workforce baseball team. 🗃️

Global #EnvHist community, don't miss our Verena Winiwarter Prize for the best article that contributes to global environmental history, focusing on comparisons and connections between different parts of the world or on areas outside mainstream scholarship in the field. Deadline: 15 August 2026

Explore the AHA’s Resource Library, with hundreds of resources developed or vetted by the AHA and our partners. Our resources range from classroom syllabi, to archival documents from the Civil War, to standards and guidelines for the discipline, and more. 🗃️

A British historian has uncovered a Europe-wide programme in the 1930s and 1940s in which restorers repaired and cleaned historic church and civil records, making them legible so that the Nazis could detect anyone with Jewish ancestry. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... via @theguardian.com

Interested in learning about the Freedman’s Bank, the 26th Amendment, or the foundations of the Supreme Court? If so, apply for NHD’s Revolutionary Ideals webinar series! 2 teachers will be selected to participate & can earn graduate credits or professional development hours. Apps close on 2/27. 🗃️

Now available in paperback: “Citizens into Dishonored Felons” by Timon de Groot, part of our @berghahnbooks.bsky.social Studies in German History book series!

National Jewish Book Award Winner! @ankahajkova.bsky.social 's impressive book (and excellent translation from the German by Will Jones) is deeply researched, eminently readable, and perfect for teaching. I was honoured to write the foreward. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Unser Programm für die Tagung "Mehr #Demokratie wagen! #Museen und #Gedenkstätten als historisch-politische Begegnungsorte" ist draußen. Wir freuen uns über Anmeldungen! www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Am 16.2., 18.00 Uhr, spricht Martin Clemens Winter im DÖW über die Hugo Schneider AG (HASAG), in der NS-Zeit einer der größten Rüstungsproduzenten und radikaler Profiteur von Zwangsarbeit im Deutschen Reich und im besetzten Polen. Die Teilnahme ist auch online möglich. events.ceu.edu/2026-02-16/n...

The Call for Posters for our 2026 joint conference with @aaslh.org this September in Providence, Rhode Island is now open! Submit a poster for consideration by Monday, March 30. #WorkOfRevolution https://ncph.org/conference/2026-annual-meeting/call-for-proposals/

Careers for History Majors, revamped and updated for 2026, conveys the value of the undergraduate study of history through clear graphs and informal prose. Readers will find hard data, practical advice, and answers to common questions from students and their parents. 🗃️

Der nächste Divan historique : Norbert Frei über seine #Adenauer Biographie, Westbindung, deutsch-französische Aussöhnung, aber auch fehlende Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Deutschland. Eine Podiumsdiskussion mit Corine Defrance & Ulrich Pfeil. 16.02. | 18:30 | DHIP | DT-FR www.dhi-paris.fr/de/...

📣 #Praktikum | Ab Mitte August bis zum Jahresende vergibt das @dhiroma.bsky.social sechswöchige Praktika im Bereich #Geschichte, #Musikwissenschaft und #DigitalHumanities 📅 Bewerbungsfrist: 15.03.2026 🔗 Link: www.maxweberstiftung... #Praktikum#Geschichte,#Musikwissenschaft#DigitalHumanities#Auslandspraktikum #Italien #WeltweitForschen #MWS

📣 #Stipendium | Das @dhiroma.bsky.social vergibt ab Herbst 2026 #Stipendien im Bereich #Musikwissenschaft und #Geschichte sowie für #Reisen und #Forschungsaufenthalte 📅 Bewerbungsfrist: 19.04.2026 🔗 Link zur Ausschreibung: www.maxweberstiftung... #Stipendium#Stipendien#Musikwissenschaft#Geschichte#Reisen#Forschungsaufenthalte#DHIRom #Italien #Rom #WeltweitForschen #MWS