Bulletin of the German Historical Institute (Washington DC) (2007), 40

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List of Contributors

Preface

FEATURES

Europe: A Community of Memory?
Aleida Assmann

Comments on Aleida Assmann’s Lecture
Peter Novick

Response to Peter Novick
Aleida Assmann

Bridging the Oder: Reflections on Poland, Germany, and the Transformation of Europe: Part I
Gesine Schwan

Bridging the Oder: Part II
Janusz Reiter

Fact, Truth, and Fiction: An Interview with Novelist Frederick Reuss
David Lazar

STERN PRIZE

Cosmopolitan Conservatism: Transnational Elite Politics in the German-American Atlantic of the Nineteenth Century and the Dialectic of Commerce and Community
Lars Maischak

HELMUT SCHMIDT PRIZE

A Plea for a Rapprochement between History and Economic History
Volker Berghahn

GHI RESEARCH

Terror in the Nineteenth Century: Political Assassinations and Public Discourse in Europe and the United States, 1878-1901
Carola Dietze

Mass Migration and Local Politics in Chicago and Vienna, 1850-1938: Some Questions, Some Hypotheses
Marcus Gräser

Public Spirit in Suburbia? The Garden City as Civic Experiment
Gisela Mettele

Friendly Skies? A Cultural History of Air Travel in Postwar America
Anke Ortlepp

Coca-Cola History: A “Refreshing” Look at German-American Relations
Jeff R. Schutts

Modernization à la Mode: West German and American Development Plans for the Third World
Corinna R. Unger

CONFERENCE REPORTS

Historical Development of World Rivers
Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted

The Forgotten Generation: The First Generation of Spanish Immigrants in Hamburg
Anke Ortlepp

Bucerius Seminar 2006: American History and American Archives
Andreas Etges

Parsing Prussian Personality – Christian Thomasius and the Psychogram: Edmund Spevack Memorial Lecture
Richard F. Wetzell

Award of the Franz Steiner Prize
Ulrich Bachteler

A Resource Rediscovered: The Reopening of the German Society of Pennsylvania Library
Frank Trommler

Fifteenth Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI and Award of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize
Richard F. Wetzell

Five Germanies He Has Known: Symposium in Honor of Fritz Stern
Carolin Brinkmann and Thrine Kane

Arnold Brecht (1884-1977): Democratic Civil Servant and Political Scholar in Berlin and New York
Corinna R. Unger

Fellows Seminars, Fall 2006
Dirk Schumann

ANNOUNCEMENTS: FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES

Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize
Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Kade-Heideking Fellowship
Thyssen-Heideking Fellowship
Postdoc-Stipendium für Nordamerikanische Geschichte
GHI Körber Internships
GHI Internships

NEWS

GHI Reference Guides No Longer Available By Subscription
German Americana, 1956-2005
GHI Fellowship at the Horner Library
New Publications
Library Report
GHI Fellowship Recipients
GHI Internship Recipients
Staff Changes

EVENTS

Lecture Series, Spring 2007
Events Sponsored by the GHI

GHI PUBLICATIONS