An interrupted past : German-speaking refugee historians in the United States after 1933 / edited by Hartmut Lehmann and James J. Sheehan.

Papers presented at a conference held in Washington, D.C., in 1988.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I -- German and American historiography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Ernst Schulin -- German historiography during the Weimar Republic and the Emigre historians / Wolfgang J. Mommsen -- The historical seminar of the University of Berlin in the 1920s / Felix Gilbert -- -- Part II -- Refugee historians in America: pre-emigration Germany to 1939 / Michael H. Kater -- The German refugee historians and American institutions of higher learning / Karen J. Greenberg -- Everyday life and emigration: the role of women / Sibylle Quack -- The special case of Austrian refugee historians / M. Fellner -- Refugee historians in the United States / Catherine Epstein -- German historians in the Office of Strategic Services / Barry Katz -- The refugee scholar as intellectual educator: a student's recollections / Carl E. Schorske -- -- Part III -- German emigre historians in America: the fifties, sixties, and seventies / Kenneth Barkin -- The Americanisation of Hajo Holborn / Otto Pflanze -- Explaining history: Hans Rosenberg / Hanna Schissler -- Ernst Kantorowicz and Theodor E. Mommsen / Ralph E. Lerner -- Refugee historians and the German historical profession between 1950 and 1970 / Winfried Schulze