Julie Weise asks how migrants responded to state-driven mandates to control and shape labor migration in the middle decades of the twentieth century. In Sickness and in Health: Migrant Citizenships in the Postwar Years Feb 7, 2020 Julie M. Weise
"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
Introduces a 6-part miniseries analyzing 6 sources of knowledge of the US for prospective migrants in Baden in the late 19th century. What Did They Know?: An Introduction to the Miniseries Oct 28, 2022 Martin Bemmann
Looks at the ethnic, cultural, and economic factors that drove the development of Wurstfest, one of the biggest German ethnic festivals in the United States. Wurstfest: A Culinary, Cultural, and Economic Masterpiece May 30, 2024 Aiden Maliskas and Mark McShane