Resource #19: German Historical Institute
Site Name: German Historical Institute
URL: http://www.ghi-dc.org/
Owner: The German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington D.C.
Type of Resource: Academic Historical Information.
Description: The German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington DC is an internationally recognized center for advanced study. It serves as a transatlantic bridge connecting American and European scholars and seeks to make their research accessible to decision-makers in politics, society, and economy as well as the general public.The German Historical Institute's work is at the forefront of international historical and interdisciplinary research and covers a broad geographic, methodological, and thematic spectrum. Ranging well beyond German history, the GHI's research agenda is international and includes American history as well as comparative and transnational history. The Institute's research projects also represent the remarkable diversity of approaches that has come to characterize the field of history in recent decades - including political, economic, social, cultural, gender, environmental and legal history as well as the history of science.The GHI houses an outstanding research library. The library has a comprehensive collection of the German and English-language research literature on modern German history and German-American relations, including many titles not held at the Library of Congress. The library is open to the public and provides open-stack access but does not lend. Readers can search the library's holdings through the online catalog.
Uses: Teachers and Academics can read about different historical research papers.
Usefulness: Not sure this can be used in the high school classroom: it seems quite academic.
Quality: The quality of this website is good.
Authorship: different historians write the papers and give the presentations and lectures.
Point of View or Bias: none
Referral to Other Sources: to other institutes.
Currency: 2011.
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports no accessibility errors.
URL: http://www.ghi-dc.org/
Owner: The German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington D.C.
Type of Resource: Academic Historical Information.
Description: The German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington DC is an internationally recognized center for advanced study. It serves as a transatlantic bridge connecting American and European scholars and seeks to make their research accessible to decision-makers in politics, society, and economy as well as the general public.The German Historical Institute's work is at the forefront of international historical and interdisciplinary research and covers a broad geographic, methodological, and thematic spectrum. Ranging well beyond German history, the GHI's research agenda is international and includes American history as well as comparative and transnational history. The Institute's research projects also represent the remarkable diversity of approaches that has come to characterize the field of history in recent decades - including political, economic, social, cultural, gender, environmental and legal history as well as the history of science.The GHI houses an outstanding research library. The library has a comprehensive collection of the German and English-language research literature on modern German history and German-American relations, including many titles not held at the Library of Congress. The library is open to the public and provides open-stack access but does not lend. Readers can search the library's holdings through the online catalog.
Uses: Teachers and Academics can read about different historical research papers.
Usefulness: Not sure this can be used in the high school classroom: it seems quite academic.
Quality: The quality of this website is good.
Authorship: different historians write the papers and give the presentations and lectures.
Point of View or Bias: none
Referral to Other Sources: to other institutes.
Currency: 2011.
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports no accessibility errors.