For the past two years, a ship in Hamburg has been seen as a symbol of Hamburg’s cosmopolitanism and as a sign of colonial oppression.
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Support and Censorship: Research on Minorities in the GDR
In dealing with the Sorbian minority, the GDR regime strived early on for interpretive sovereignty over collective memory and oblivion.
Konfliktlinien deutscher Demokratiegeschichtsschreibung
Hedwig Richters „Democracy“ has become a German affair – an affair as historians commonly understand it, that is: without romance.
Baedeker und die Erfindung der Landschaftsidentität
The perceived uniqueness of a place by its residents has been called “landscape identity”. History shows that mobility was its driving force.
Eine deutsche Affäre? Notizen zur öffentlichen Geschichte
Beim Streit um Hedwig Richters “Demokratie” geht es auch darum, wer wissenschaftliche Qualität bewertet und welche Maßstäbe dafür gelten.
Guerre, après-guerre et post-après-guerre
Could some of Sloterdijk’s disturbing interpretations of French-German relations since 1945 turn out to be right? And should they be worrying to us?
The Medieval Mediterranean: Inland Sea or Southern Border?
The medieval Mediterraneum is falsely constructed as the border between a ‘Christian Occident’ and an ‘Islamic Orient’. Historical research fails to implement its knowledge in public discourse.
Sound History and Public History
In the last few years, sound history has developed into a lively field of research within the science of history. Its relationship to public history, however, still seems to be undefined.