Project Type: Research
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This was the first project in which I brought together social history, cultural history, and war. It began as an investigation into why Bavarian soldiers earned a reputation for atrocities in 1870–71. The need to explain both their good and their terrible relations with French civilians led me to consider…
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My dissertation research into Wilhelm Groener was initially a social and cultural history of the Imperial German officer corps on the eve of World War One. The more I learned about Groener’s work, though, the more important military culture and expertise became in their own right. Thus, my dissertation deals…
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While pursuing my MA in Augsburg, Germany, I had the opportunity to participate in a political science seminar in which we examined a variety of texts known as “mirrors for princes,” texts that taught one how to rule or how to raise a future ruler. The occasion for the topic…
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History of Knowledge Cofounded with Kerstin von der Krone for the German Historical Institute (GHI), Washington, DC, in late 2016, History of Knowledge was the first blog in the institute’s scholarly publishing program. Besides setting up and maintaining the site, my work on the project ranged from commissioning and reviewing…
