Makes a case for not prejudging people smugglers in history or the testimony they left behind in state police records, using the example of Eastern and Central Europe in the interwar period. Background Knowledge: Interrogating Perceptions of Smugglers with Joseph Roth Oct 30, 2019 Allison Schmidt
Looks at travelogues and guidebooks available in two Baden libraries in the 1890s to determine the knowledge of the USA, and particularly of American women, presented therein. ‘Plant-like Women and Luxury Wives’—American Women in Nineteenth-century German Travelogues and Guides Dec 23, 2022 Marie Nella Hoffmann
Analyzes the news items pertaining to America from all issues of the Freiburger Zeitung of 1876 in the context of the press of that era. The Latest News from the Other Side: ‘America’ in the Freiburger Zeitung of 1876 Nov 18, 2022 Martin Bemmann
Analyzes the content of a collection of letters from a Baden emigrant to America to determine the knowledge he shared back home. Rübelmann’s Letters: Knowledge Transfer through Emigrant Correspondence Nov 29, 2022 Hannah Laubrock