my name is Martin Klimke and I am a historian and research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at the University of Heidelberg, Germany (on leave).
My research focuses on the intersection of political and cultural history, with a particular emphasis on diplomatic and transnational history.
I am currently co-authoring a history of the experience of African-American soldiers in Germany in the 20th century entitled "A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany" (forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan) and writing a biography of peace activists Petra Kelly and Randall Forsberg.
CURRENT PROJECTS:
The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany
 A research project and digital archive exploring between the military service of African-American GIs in Germany and the advancement of civil rights in the U.S. through a comprehensive database of documents, images, videos and oral history interviews.
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The Nuclear Crisis:
Transatlantic Peace Politics, Rearmament, and the Second Cold War
 A research project and digital archive devoted to the European and North American debates about nuclear armament during the 1970/80s, combining political history with a study of protest cultures as well as discussions of nuclear death in popular culture.
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SEMTRACKS Political Tracker
 A collaborative research project and blog providing regular analyses of political rhetoric in the U.S. and Germany based on semantic search and tracking technology.
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RECENT BOOKS:
- with Belinda Davis, Carla MacDougall and Wilfried Mausbach, eds.:
Changing the World, Changing the Self:
Political Protest and Collective Identities in 1960/70s West Germany and the United States
(New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2010)
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- The Other Alliance - Student Protest in West Germany and
the United States in the Global Sixties
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010)
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- with Philipp Gassert, eds.:
1968: Memories and Legacies of a Global Revolt
GHI Bulletin Supplement (Washington, 2009)
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- with Joachim Scharloth, eds.:
1968. Ein Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte
(Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2007 / Bonn: Bundeszentrale
für politische Bildung, Schriftenreihe Bd. 697, 2008)
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