Department of History

Professor Chickering joined the Center in 1993 from the University of Oregon. His publications have focused on Imperial Germany. His book titles include Imperial Germany and a World Without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914; We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886-1914; Karl Lamprecht: A German Academic Life (1856-1915); and Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. Along with Stig Förster, he is general coordinator of the international conference series, "The United States and Germany on the Road to Total War," the proceedings of which are appearing with the Cambridge University Press. He is currently working on a cultural history of the city of Freiburg i. Br. during the First World War. He has been a visiting research fellow in Germany at the Military History Research Office in Freiburg i. Br., the University of Munich, the Free University of Berlin, as well as at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. He has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. He has received awards and fellowships from the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, NATO, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1994, the American Philosophical Society awarded his biography of Karl Lamprecht the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History. From 1989-1997 he served as Executive Secretary of the Conference Group on Central European History in the American Historical Association.