Im September jährt sich das Ende des 2. Weltkriegs für die USA zum 80. Mal. Aus diesem Anlass haben mein Kollege Axel Jansen und ich die Podiumsdiskussion „The Legacy of World War II in American Society and Politics“ organisiert, die am 4. Sept. am @ghiwashington.bsky.social und auf Zoom stattfindet

Check out our newly relaunched web site! You’ll find information about our fellowship opportunities and upcoming events, research projects, book series, and more… ghi-dc.org

Exciting news to share! On October 1st, Ulrike von Hirschhausen, currently chair for European and Modern History at the University of Rostock, will become the 6th director of the GHI Washington: www.maxweberstiftung.de/presse/aktue...

Listening to a great panel of historians analyzing civil societies’ resilience and resistente in fragile democracies @ghiwashington.bsky.social

Listening to Helmut Walser Smith giving the 16th Gerald D. Feldman Lecture on „The Hour of the Archivists: Creating Southwest Germany‘s Memory Culture, c. 1960“ @ghiwashington.bsky.social on this May 8, 2025, marking 80 years of the end of World War II in Germany.

Wie war das mit der Geografie? www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

Dupont Circle mood this morning

#CfA Reminder: The deadline for the BAA-Fellowship Program 2025 is less than two weeks away! 🎓 Until mid-February, (post-)doctoral researchers at Bavarian universities can submit their applications for a BAA-Postgraduate Research Fellowship at the Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, or Duke U. 📑✍

The AHA & the @oah.org have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.” 🗃️

The CfP for the joint Bavarian America Academy and @ghiwashington.bsky.social 2025 summer school o "North American Narratives of Crisis and Repair, Past and Present" is out. Please join us in Berkeley from July 16-23!