"Migration" is not a stable, preexisting category but rather a product of societal processes that shape what the term comprises. We must take these entanglements with the past into account in our present-day research. Not a Given Object: What Historians Can Learn from the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies Oct 27, 2020 Isabella Löhr and Christiane Reinecke
Examines the sources of knowledge about the Comanches available to John Meusebach when he sought to make a treaty with them. Gaining Knowledge about the Comanches: Meusebach’s Path Towards a Notable Treaty Apr 18, 2024 Abigail Escobedo and Simon Herbert
Many European émigrés escaping the Nazis helped shape consumer capitalism in the United States. After the war, they did business in Europe as well, circulating their transformed knowledge to shape marketing there. European Émigrés and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge: Examples from Mid-20th-Century Consumer Capitalism Apr 29, 2020 Jan Logemann
Glenn Penny highlights aspects of children's go-between role in Chile not visible in histories of European migration to the United States. German schools in Chile and teachers posted there from Germany are central to this multigenerational story. Routes of Knowledge: Growing up German in Chile, 1900–50 Aug 7, 2020 H. Glenn Penny