We have launched an English-language version of the ZZF Podcast and I'm featured in the second episode talking to Lee Holt about East Germany, global history and illiberalism in East Central Europe. Check it out at the link!

Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF)@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social · last mo.

New Podcast: @historyned.bsky.social and host Lee Holt discuss the history of the GDR, its global context, and the rise of illiberal constitutionalism in Central Europe. You can find the full episode on our website: buff.ly/f8umz5N Picture: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-66326-0003 /Biscan /CC-BY-SA 3.0

I'm on the advisory board of German History and just out of our annual meeting. It is perhaps good for colleagues, VAP, and senior graduate students to know that the journal is VERY KEEN on special issue submissions, especially in new and emergent areas of interest.

Look what arrived in my mailbox yesterday! What a great collection put together by @michellelkahn.bsky.social and @laurenstokes.bsky.social.

Team #SkyStorians, Stellar news: "Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany" is now shipping! Head to the @cornellupress.bsky.social book page to confirm the pre-order that you definitely made and then send some more to your history-loving friends. I'll wait. cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn@michellelkahn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excited to share the cover of "Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany," a forthcoming book I co-edited with Lauren Stokes. A history of racism and antiracist activism in East, West, and unified Germany—and why it matters today. 30% off from Cornell UP with code 09BCARD: tinyurl.com/RADGcornell

Excited to share the cover of "Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany," a forthcoming book I co-edited with Lauren Stokes. A history of racism and antiracist activism in East, West, and unified Germany—and why it matters today. 30% off from Cornell UP with code 09BCARD: tinyurl.com/RADGcornell

Really excited to be part of this book by @michellelkahn.bsky.social and @laurenstokes.bsky.social. So many great contributors! I wrote a chapter on Volkstod (great replacement fears in Germany). Pre-order @cornellupress.bsky.social website with 30% off code: 09BCARD.

“Weimar Germany, 1918/19–1933,” the final volume of our relaunched “German History in Documents and Images” primary source project, is now published and available! You can find the expanded edition, edited and with a new introduction by Erik Jensen, here: germanhistorydocs.org/en/weimar-ge...

The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State made the History Today Books of the Year 2025 list! www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

I'm so pleased to share that my first book, "Reinventing Protestant Germany," appears today with @harvardpress.bsky.social. It offers a new take on West Germany's winding path toward postwar democracy, highlighting the ambivalent role of the Protestant Church. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Reinventing Protestant Germany — Harvard University Press

A revealing account of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after WWII, while firmly and consequentially refusing to account for their earlier complicity with Nazism.Germany’s Prot...

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My book, Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990, is out this September! Thanks to Devin Pendas, Quinn Slobodian, Lora Wildenthal, @historyned.bsky.social, @laurenstokes.bsky.social, and @willgray.bsky.social for their support! www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990

Cambridge Core - European Studies - Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990

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I’m excited to present this chapter at the European History Workshop at Indiana University today. It’s great to be back here!

Now rolling out in early online access: a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History edited by Felix Jiménez Botta on Human Rights in Postwar Germany. Lora Wildenthal and I wrote an epilogue for this wonderful collection that you can read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Hi everyone. I’ve finally made it over here.