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Education:
A.B. Ohio University, February 1958
A.M. University of Michigan, February 1959
Ph.D. University of Michigan, June 1962
Academic Affiliations:
Boston University, Professor, 1971-
Syracuse University, Associate Professor, 1967-71
College of William and Mary, Assistant Professor, 1963-67
College of William and Mary, Instructor, 1962-63
Visiting Professor, University of Hamburg, Germany, spring semester, 1975
Visiting Professor, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1986-87
Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, 1993-94
Publications:
BOOKS
The Nazis in the Balkans. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968.
The History of the Nazi Party: 1919-1933. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969.
The History of the Nazi Party: 1933-1945. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973.
Weimar Prussia, 1918-1925: The Unlikely Rock of Democracy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986.
A History of Modern Germany, 1870 to the Present. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1987. Fourth revised edition, 1999.
Weimar Prussia. 1925-1933: The Illusion of Strength. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991.
Common Destiny: A Comparative History of the Dutch, French, and German Social Democratic Parties, 1945-1969. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
"Die Adolf-Hitler-Schulen," Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 12 (July 1965), 272-284.
"The Organizational History and Structure of the NSDAP, 1919-1923," Journal of Modern History, 37 (June 1965), 208-226.
"The Conversion of Myths into Political Power: The Case of the Nazi Party, 1925-1926," American Historical Review, 72 (April 1967), 906-924.
"The Significance of Time and Place in Psychohistory," Journal of lnterdisciplinary History, 5 (Summer 1974), 131-138 (review article).
"Preussen und der Kapp-Putsch," Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 26 (April 1978), 191-236.
"Totalitarian Politics and Sexual Perversion: The Case of Adolf Hitler," Journal of lnterdisciplinary History, 9 (Winter 1979), 509-515 (review article).
"Preussen--Kritische Verpflichtung für die Zukunft," Preussenzeitung (Sondernummer 1979), 13-22.
"1918/19: A German Revolution," German Studies Review, 5 (May 1982), 187-203.
"Political Violence in Pre-Coup Turkey," Terrorism, 6 (No. 1, August 1982), 5-71.
"Helmut Krausnick and Hans-Heinrich Wilhelm, Die Truppe des Weltanschauungskrieges," American Historical Review (longer review), 87 (No. 7, April 1983), 422-424.
"Weisberg's 'Avoiding Central Realities' and Richards' 'Terror and the Law': Comment," Human Rights Quarterly, 5 (September 1983), 186-189.
"The Historiography of the Decline of Brüning and the Rise of the Nazis" (review article), Central European History, 37 (no. 1, March 1984), 63-71.
"West German Parties Since 1945: Continuity and Change," Central European History, 38 (no. 2, June 1985), 188-201.
"Der Nationalsozialismus als Export- und Marketing-Artikel: Beziehungen zwischen Nationalsozialisten, französischen und holländischen Faschisten, 1933-1939," in Ursula Büttner, ed. Das Unrechtsregime: Internationale Forschung über den Nationalsozialismus (Hamburg: Christians Verlag, 1986), pp. 427-468.
"Rudolf Hess," in: Führende Persönlichkeiten der NSDAP und des Dritten Reiches, ed. Ronald Smelser and Rainer Zitelmann (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1989), 84-97.
Entries for: "Egon Bahr" and "Oskar Lafontaine," in: Encyclopedia of World Biography .
"History of Post-1945 Germany," revised ed., in: Collier's Encyclopedia (forthcoming).
"Delayed Reaction: Democracy, Nationalism and the SPD, 1945- 1966," German Studies Review, 16 (No. 1, Feb., 1993), 77-102.
Entries for: "Hermann Müller," "Carl Severing," "Gottfried Treviranus," "Prussia," and "Weimar Republic," in: Encyclopedic History of Modern Germany (forthcoming).
"Ambivalence and Attraction: The German Social Democrats and the United States, 1945-1974," in: The American Impact on Post-war Germany, ed. by Reiner Pommerin (Providence, RI, 1995), pp. 35-51.
"The Paradoxes of Success: Dutch Social Democracy and its Historiography," in: Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffend de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 110 (no. 1, 1995), 40-51.
"Between Nationalism and Internationalism: French and German Socialists and the Question of Boundary Changes After World Wars I and II," in: Christian Baechler and Carole Fink, eds., L'Établissement des Frontières en Europe après les Deux Guerres Mondiales (Bern: Peter Lang, 1996), pp. 99-114.
German Social Democracy and European Unification, 1945-1955," in: David E. Barclay and Eric D. Weitz, eds., Between Reform and Revolution: Studies in the History of German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to 1990 (Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1998), pp. 467-88.
"A Difficult Relationship of Unequal Relatives: The Dutch NSB and Nazi Germany, 1933-1940," European History Quarterly, 29 (no. 3, 1999), 349-80.
Shorter reviews have appeared in the following:
The American Historical Review
The Australian Journal of Politics and History
The Boston Globe
The Journal of Modern History
Central European History
History: Review of New Books
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Societas
Journal of International History
German Studies Review
American Political Science Review
Australian Journal of History and Politics
Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis
German Politics and Society
Strategic Review
Major Papers and Lectures:
"The System of Administration and Organization in the NSDAP,1925-1933" (read at the November 1967 meetings of the Southern Historical Association).
"Nationalist China, 1927-1949: Comparison from the German Perspective" (comment read at the 1975 AHA Convention).
"The Bismarck Paradox" (lecture before the meeting of young legislators from the NATO countries, Hamburg, September 21, 1978).
"Preussen als parlamentarische Demokratie" (lecture before the Ranke Gesellschaft of Hamburg, November 30, 1978).
"Preussen--Kritische Verpflichtung für die Zukunft" (keynote address to the inaugural meeting of the Landsmannschaft Preussen, Berlin, January 6, 1979).
"Preussen und die Auflösung der Weimarer Republik" (lecture at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, April 30, 1979)
"Möglichkeiten vergleichender Faschismusforschung" (lecture at the Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, May 18, 1979).
"The New Search for Old Continuities" (paper delivered at the Conference on Contemporary Germany, Ogunquit, Maine, June 7, 1980).
"Weimar Prussia: The Missing Link in Germany's Democratic Tradition" (Brandeis University, April 1981).
"The German Political Parties: How much have they learned from the past?" (Second Annual New England Workshop on German Affairs, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1981).
"November 1918: Political Aspects of a German Revolution" (Western Association for German Studies Convention, Seattle, Washington, October 1981).
"The German Judicial System and Nazi War Crimes" (commentary, American Historical Association Convention,
Los Angeles, December 1981).
"The Growth of Political Violence in Pre-Coup Turkey" (paper, Conference of Europeanists--Cycles and Periods in Europe, May 1982).
"Prussia and the German Identity Crisis" (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, DAAD Weekends, November 1982 and October 1984).
"The Historical Aspects of Terrorism" (Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, March 1983 and April 1984).
"West German Parties Since 1945: Continuity and Change" (Western Association for German Studies, Madison, Wisconsin, October 1983).
"Bismarck, Bitburg and Bergen-Belsen: History and National Identity in East and West Germany Since 1945" (Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of German, November 1985).
"The Nazis and International Fascism, 1933-1939: Illusions and Disillusions" (invited lecture, The University of Amterdam, October 6, 1986).
"Recent Interpretations of Fascism" (invited lecture, The University of Amsterdam, May 14, 1987).
"Neuere Forschungen zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus im englischen Sprachraum: Eine Übersicht" (paper delivered at the Symposium "Faschismus in Deutschland (1920-1945)," Humboldt University, Berlin, November 1987).
"Historikerstreit: Do the Battles Among West German Historians Really Matter?" (invited lecture, Syracuse University, April 1988).
"40 Jahre erfolgreiche Demokratie in der Bundesrepublik: Zufall, Importware oder Selbstbesinnung?" (invited lecture, Syracuse University, April 1988).
"Political History: The Historikerstreit and West German Politics" (invited lecture, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, January 1989).
"Historians Between Politics and Metaphysics: Instrumentalization and Historicization in the Historikerstreit" (invited paper, New England Historical
Association, October 1989).
"Political Pluralism and the West German Parties" (invited lecture, University of Hartford, October 1989).
"Nationalism, Democracy and the SPD: Past Dilemmas, Present Problems, and Future Prospects" (Conference of the German Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, September 1991).
"Strategies of Dealing with the National Socialist Past in the Two Germanies" (commentary, Conference of the German Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, September 1991).
"Politics and Memory in the Two Germanies, 1945-1955" (commentary, Workshop of the Volkswagen Program on Post-War German History, Washington, D.C., May 13-15, 1992).
"Ambivalence and Attraction: The SPD and the United States, 1945-1965" (paper delivered at the Conference "The United States, 'Americanization' and the Shaping of West Germany, 1945-1965," Dartmouth College, Oct. 15, 1993).
"How to Fail by Really Trying: West European Socialism and the Nation After World War II" (invited lecture, University of Amsterdam, Jan. 20, 1994.
"The Explosive Mix: Populism, Anti-Semitism, Authoritarianism" (paper delivered at the Conference "Weimar: Germans, Jews, and the völkisch Idea," Boston College, April 3, 1995).
"Between Internationalism and Nationalism: The Attitudes of
West European Socialists Toward Boundary Changes in Europe After World Wars I and II" (paper delivered at the 18th International Congress of the Historical Sciences, Montreal, Canada, September 2, 1995).
"The SPD's Road to a Staatspartei: The Role of Fritz Erler"
(paper delivered at the Annual Conference of the German
Studies Association, September 23, 1995).
"Gerhard Weinberg's Role in Making Documentation Available
to Post-War German Scholars" (paper delivered at the
1996 meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Little Rock, AR, Nov. 1, 1996).
"Demokratie und Parteien in Deutschland 1919 und 1945," invited paper at the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung meeting, "Umbrüche in Deutschland," March 1999, Bamberg, Germany.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships and Grants:
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, 1993-94.
American Philosophical Society Research Grant, Summer 1966, 1967, 1991.
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, Summer 1991.
Boston University Seed Research Grant, Summer 1989.
Fulbright European Regional Research Fellowship, Summers 1985, 1986, 1993.
Historische Kommission zu Berlin, research grants, Summers 1982, 1983.
American Council of Learned Societies, grant-in-aid, Summer 1981.
Boston University, travel grant, Summer 1981.
Historische Kommission zu Berlin, supplemental grant-in-aid,
1981-82 (offered but turned down in favor of ACLS grant-in-aid).
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Senior Research Fellowship, 1974-75 (renewed for the summers of 1976 and 1977, and the period July 1, 1978-August 31, 1979).
Boston University Graduate School Research Grant, Summers 1971, 1973.
National Endowment for the Humanities Stipend for Younger Scholars, Summer 1972.
Social Science Research Council, Summer 1968, Summer 1969, Spring 1970.
Syracuse University Research Grant, Summer 1968.
Duke University-University of North Carolina Cooperative Program in the Humanities Fellowship,1966-67.
College of William and Mary Research Grants, Summers 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966.
Professional Honors and Memberships:
Chairman, Department of History, Boston University, 1980-1984; Chairman ad interim, 2000-01.
Vice President, Conference Group on Central European History, 1994.
President, Conference Group on Central European History, 1995.
Senior Fellow, Boston University Humanities Society, 1987-1989, 1994-95, 1999-2000.
Member, Board of Editors, Central European History, 1974-78.
Member, American Historical Association, Conference Group on Central European History, German Studies Association, Arbeitskreis German Nachkriegsgeschichte, Association Internationale d'Histoire Contemporaine d'Europe.
Current Research Projects:
"Nazi Germany and the Fate of Fascism in France and Holland,
1933-1939"
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