The Emotion Studies Network of the GSA invites papers that examine the methodologies, archives, and sources used to investigate emotions and affect. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

#CfP Transnational Approaches to the Long Nineteenth-Century History of East-Central Europe 📌 Conference in Vilnius | 16.–17.04.2026 | organised by the Nordost-Institut Lüneburg, GHI Warsaw & Lithuanian Institute of History 📝 Deadline: 30/11/2025 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung.de/aktuelles/au...

The book’s intro is ready to go… The final title might still change slightly, but for now it’s: “Uncertain Knowledge: The Science of Making Relevance between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe”

Winner of the RHS Early Career Article Prize (2025): Michaela Kalcher for 'The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary‘, published in History Workshop Journal (2024). bit.ly/4ljXySE 1/2 #Skystorians

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Society for the History of Children and Youth's biennial conference, which is being held on Zoom from June 26-28 2025. To register, click here: tinyurl.com/4ypduv4r

African prisoners made sound recordings in German camps in WW1: this is what they had to say theconversation.com/african-pris...

2 postdoc posts in in 19th Century Political History: (Public Opinion and the Crimean War): fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Kaffee und Kuchen in Berlin. A very nice spot.

Looking forward to this "Beyond Refuge: Legacies of Forced Migration and Transit in Post-1945 German-Jewish History" roundtable I organize with @rmgrossmann.bsky.social at @thegsa.bsky.social and supported by @ghiwashington.bsky.social

‘For the last 30 years there has been almost no new scholarship on the German Peasants’ War. After reunification the subject was simply too difficult, because the former East and the former West had diametrically opposed interpretations of it.’ Lyndal Roper on the blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Our New Voices blog continues with a post from Emma Flanagan. Drawn from her PhD research at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, Emma explores the links between the communist movement and women's anticolonial resistance in post-war French North Africa. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

I had loads of fun talking to history students at Warwick. Here’s me ( with way too much caffeine in) having a chat on their super Warwick History podcast. Curious, enthusiastic, fun. The future may be alright! open.spotify.com/episode/43BP...

Here is the latest fantastic interview in @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social's series 'New Directions in the History of the Body'. Here, Professor Karen Harvey, @kharveyhistory.bsky.social, discusses her portfolio of work on the body's material history sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Good Morning Historians! I am proposing a sponsored panel for the AHA on utopian hope, protest, and radical futures in German speaking Europe. I am on the lookout for a chair and moderator- if you are available, please reach out!

Congratulations to Dr. Nadine Klopfer, recipient of the 2025 Franz Steiner Prize for her book manuscript “Trade and Taste: French Things in the Making of the American Nation, 1780s–1820s”! We look forward to publishing her book in our Steiner Verlag series “Transatlantic Historical Studies.”

The AHA offers the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize annually for the best published journal article written by an undergraduate student. The article must be published between May 1, 2024, and April 30, 2025. Submit nominations by May 15. 🗃️

How Black Germans fight for recognition of Nazi-era crimes p.dw.com/p/4tsHB

Every season is soup season. My take on Potaje de Garbanzos y Espinacas (Spanish chickpea and spinach soup)

Next Saturday is the opening of "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," the new exhibition at the Met’s Costume Institute, inspired by Monica L. Miller’s book, "Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity." Learn more about the book here! buff.ly/lmuEywU

The #WeeklyRead is "Living and Dying in São Paulo" by Jeffrey Lesser, which focuses on São Paulo’s Bom Retiro neighborhood to examine the competing visions of wellbeing in Brazil among racialized immigrants and policymakers and health officials. Read it now for free! buff.ly/MN1gTw3

The International Society for First World War Studies' annual Awards in support of Early Career research excellence are currently open until 1st June 2025. The Society offers a range of awards to recognise emerging scholars in the field of FIrst World War studies from amongst our members.

New article in english : #interview with the US historian Terrence Peterson for its book ‘Revolutionary Warfare, How the Algerian war made modern counterinsurgency.’ #Algeria #France

Waking up to the news that my article has been officially published is an excellent way to start the final week of classes!

My article “Working for Utopia: Women's Gendered Labor, Activism, and the Kindergarten during the Revolutionary 1840s” with Central European History is now available online. I argue that the kindergarten was a space of protest during the revolution of 1848-49 on par with the barricades.

#Archive30: Our approx. 200,000 digitised Prussian teachers' files contain many #HiddenHistories, maybe even about your family history, but also about the lives of famous teachers like K. Duden: in 1880 he compiled the first & most renowned complete orthographic dictionary of the German language.

Here comes the conference report for our conference on "Dark Networks". Thanks to everyone who contributed to making it such a great event!

Join us Thursday, May 8th, when Professor Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt University) will deliver our 16th annual Gerald D. Feldman Memorial Lecture, titled “The Hour of the Archivists: Creating Southwest Germany’s Memory Culture, c. 1960.” Register to attend here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

#Archive30 #ArchivePlan: The photo depicts the building commission and the head librarian, A. Rehbuhn, (centre left) examining the plans for the Berlin Teachers' Association building on Alexanderplatz, which included rooms designated for the library & archive. The building was inaugurated in 1908.

William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics and the Making of Citizens - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, May 2024 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh newbooksnetwork.com/enlightenmen...

Listen tomorrow, April 8, to part 1 of "Historians on Democracy: A Transatlantic Conversation Series," the new @maxweberstiftung.de podcast exploring the past and present of democracy www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/ma...

Join Professor Osamu James Nakagawa as he shares his artistic exploration of the legacy of Japanese American incarceration during World War 2. Join on Wednesday, April 9th, 7:00 pm Online (register for link):

#Archive30: #ArchivesToday are places of teaching & learning, also in relation to digital historical data, so we have set up a Digital History of Education Lab where we work with and provide information on digital research methods, e.g. in online lectures: bbf.dipf.de/de/dhelab #DHELab #histed #dh

#Archive30 #ColourfulArchives One of our most colourful collections is our collection of student drawings. The more than 14,000 sketches provide an insight into art education in German schools with their variety of techniques, materials and themes: bbf.dipf.de/en/student-d... #histed

#Archive30 #ArchiveBeginnings We started as the German School Museum in 1876, primarily as an exhibition of the latest teaching aids & books, to give teachers the opportunity to see and test these items before recommending them for purchase. Next year we will be celebrating our 150th anniversary. 🤩

We’re now accepting applications for our next round of doctoral and postdoctoral research fellowships! Applications are due April 15; learn more here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/doc...

A late repost! For those interested in empathy, emotion, and education check out the newest volume of the Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung! I am very happy to have my article "Discipling Love and Care in the Nineteenth-Century German Kindergarten" published with this great group scholars.

@ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social is now accepting nominations for its annual Hans Rosenberg Book Prize, awarded to the best book on Central European history published in 2024. Deadline is June 2. More info on eligibility and procedure at: www.centraleuropeanhistory.org?page_id=123

@ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social is now accepting nominations for its biennial Annelise Thimme Article Prize, awarded to the best article on Central European history published in 2023 or 2024. Deadline is June 15. More info on eligibility and procedure at: www.centraleuropeanhistory.org?page_id=123

"Giovanna Montenegro's book, divided into three parts and seven chapters, is a timely and welcome contribution to the early history of German involvement in colonialism." ~Sixteenth Century Journal GERMAN CONQUISTADORS IN VENEZUELA is available now: new in paperback! #ndpress #latinamerica #history

Today on In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Lyndal Roper, about her new book, Summer of Fire and Blood, on the political, religious, and intellectual worlds of thousands of peasants who rose up in Germany in mid-16th cen., one of the most decisive moments in the history of the Reformation.

Robert Morrison’s new book is out! “Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe”

I assigned The Sorrows of Young Werther for my Germany pre-1871 class session this Tuesday. Poor Werther was so lost in the sauce. I’m super excited for students to unpack the book!

Today is the deadline to submit an abstract to participate in the emotion studies panels at the GSA! This is an excellent spot to share your research on the entanglements of emotions, politics, and power across the German speaking world.

In a review article Michael Sonenscher (@camhistory.bsky.social) analyses two recent books: "The End of Enlightenment" ( @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 2023) by Richard Whatmore & "The Holy Alliance" (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2024) by @nakhimov.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Absolutely delighted about the publication of GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY (Cambridge University Press): www.cambridge.org/.../globaliz... via @cambridgeup.bsky.social

Would you like to research the exceptional library and archive holdings on the history of education at BBF in #Berlin? Until March 31, you can apply for a research #fellowship in 2025 for up to 3 month: ➡️ bbf.dipf.de/en/scholarsh... #histed #scholarship #history #PhDSky #skystorinans #AcademicSky

#ISCHE46 Registration Now Open! A huge thank you to our amazing reviewers for their hard work! With 619 accepted contributions, programme planning is kicking off soon. ISCHE members enjoy reduced fees. Early bird fees until 30 April. Join #ISCHE2025 #HistEd Fees and details: www.ische.org/f9ct