Karen Hagemann is the James G. Kenan Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2005. The focus of her work has been German and European history, military history, and women’s and gender history. Her most recent books include: The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 (ed. with Stefan Dudink and Sonya O. Rose, 2020); Umkämpftes Gedächtnis: Die Antinapoleonischen Kriege in der deutschen Erinnerung (2019); and Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements (ed. with Donna Harsch and Friederike Brühöfener, 2019); Revisiting Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory (2015).

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsForewordIntroduction: German Historians and Central European History in North America after 1945Karen Hagemann and Konrad H. JarauschPart I: German (Migrant) Historians in North America Since 1945: Careers and Academic InstitutionsChapter 1. Labor Migrants, Explorers, and Academic Intermediaries: German Historians in North America since 1945Karen HagemannChapter 2. Transatlantic Mediators or Scholars Abroad?: The German Studies Professorship Program of the DAAD in North AmericaAndrea A. SinnChapter 3. German Politics on the Potomac: The Foundation of the German Historical Institute and Transatlantic ExchangeScott H. KrausePart II: Transatlantic Academic Migration: Individual NarrativesChapter 4. Generation of 1938: The Trials and Tribulations of Teaching and Researching Modern German History in Three Academic CulturesVolker BerghahnChapter 5. Inadvertent Intermediary: Becoming a German Historian in the USKonrad H. JarauschChapter 6. Recentering a German Academic Career: From Munich and Berlin to TorontoIrmgard SteinischChapter 7. My Transatlantic Life: The Mis/adventures of a Military HistorianMichael GeyerChapter 8. Gender Historian by Passion, Professor and Migrant by ChanceKaren HagemannChapter 9. German-American Identity and the Demise of National HistoriesThomas KühneChapter 10. From East Berlin to West Los Angeles: An Unexpected JourneyWolf GrunerChapter 11. Moving Transatlantic: Episodes, Encounters, and ExperiencesAndreas W. DaumChapter 12. Straight Outta Niederbayern: Writing Gender History on the US West CoastUlrike StrasserChapter 13. Professors, Post-Structuralism, and the “Postwar”: A Transnational Academic Career in the Age of GlobalizationFrank BiessChapter 14. Going East and Going West: A Central Europeanist in the USGregor ThumPart III: Transatlantic Scholarship: Key Themes and Debates in Twentieth-Century German HistoryChapter 15. A Transatlantic “Second Repression”? Postwar Migrant Historians and Writing about National Socialism and the HolocaustHelmut Walser SmithChapter 16. Reexamining the Transatlantic Scholarship on Modern German-Jewish History since the 1970sThomas Pegelow KaplanChapter 17. Writing the History of Post-1945 Germany from Across the Atlantic: Transatlantic Entangled Histories and Critical PerspecticesAnna Von Der GoltzAppendixList of German-born Migrant Historians in Canada and the United StatesSelected BibliographyIndex