The role of children in history matters, including in knowledge formation and in migration. Simone Lässig introduces a miniseries about children and youth as go-betweens in migration contexts, whether people migrated or knowledge itself. Knowledge and the Agency of Children in Migration Contexts Aug 5, 2020 Simone Lässig
Compares two textbooks for schoolchildren in Baden in the late nineteenth century and presents the ideas they conveyed about the US. A Cautionary Tale: Baden’s Late Nineteenth-Century Textbooks and Their Portrayal of America Nov 7, 2022 Marie Nella Hoffmann
Describes Rudolf Holzmann's ethnomusicological work, cataloguing and orchestrating Indigenous music, in Peru after he fled there from Nazi Germany. Migrant Musical Knowledge in Latin America, 1935–1960 May 9, 2023 Andrea Orzoff
Explores the life and scientific work of Carl Sartorius (1796–1872), a German émigré who transformed his Veracruz plantation, Hacienda Mirador, into a center of nineteenth-century transatlantic scientific exchange. Between Mirador and Washington: Carl Sartorius and His Collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution Nov 28, 2025 Andreas Markus Schurr