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my name is Martin Klimke and I am a 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.
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 ARTICLES:
- "We are not going to defend ourselves before such a justice system! -
'1968' and the Courts," German Law Journal, March 2009 (full text)
- "Utopia in Practice: The Discovery of Performativity in Sixties' Protest, Arts and Sciences," with Joachim Scharloth, forthcoming in Historein: A Review of the Past & Other Stories, 2009 (full text)
- "The African American Civil Rights Struggle and Germany, 1945-1989"
GHI Bulletin (Fall 2008), 91-106 (full text)
- "The Word War: 'Yes, He Did' -
How Obama won the (rhetorical) battle for the White House"
International Relations and Security Network (ISN), December 2008 (full text)
- "1968 als transnationales Ereignis" (full text)
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 14-15, 2008, 22-27.
RECENT BOOKS:
- The Other Alliance -
Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 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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