Jörg Nagler

Jörg Nagler (born November 24, 1950 in Kiel ) is a German historian with a focus on North America .

Life

Nagler studied history , English , American studies , philosophy and political science at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel and Indiana University in Bloomington , USA. This was followed by a doctorate with Hartmut Lehmann in 1984 and his habilitation at Christian Albrechts University in 1997 .

He worked as a cultural advisor at the American Embassy in Bonn, as a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC as director of the Kennedy House in Kiel, and as a visiting professor at the University of Maryland and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. In the winter seminar 2010/11 he was a Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford , and in March 2011 visiting professor at the Center D'Études Nord-Américaines (CENA) of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris .

Since the winter semester 1998/99 he has been Professor of North American History at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In 2009 he published his monograph Abraham Lincoln: America's Great President. A biography .

Memberships and functions

Nagler is, among other things, co-editor of the book series MOSAIC: Studies and Texts on American Culture and History (Tübingen), Fulbright - Liaison Lecturer and member of the Willi Paul Adams Award Committee of the Organization of American Historians .

Research priorities

• Global History of the American Civil War
• Social and political history of the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries
• War and Society in the USA
• Immigration history
• German-American culture transfer
• African American history

Publications (selection)

• Lincoln and Religion. The concept of the nation under God , Weimar: Wartburg Verlag, 2012 (Mithrsg. Michael Haspel).
• Abraham Lincoln. America's great president. A biography , Munich: Verlag CH Beck , 2009.
• The United States of America. History and Society , Bonn: Information on Political Education, 2005.
• National and International Perspectives on American History. A Festschrift for Peter Schäfer , Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002 (Ed.).
• National minorities at war: 'Enemy foreigners' and the American home front during the First World War , Hamburg: Hamburger Edition Institut für Sozialforschung, 2000.
• On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871 , New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997 (Mithrsg. Stig Förster ).
• People in Transit: German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820-1930 , New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995 (Mithrsg. Dirk Hoerder).
• Frémont contra Lincoln: The German-American opposition in the Republican Party during the American Civil War (= European University Theses . Series 3, History and its Auxiliary Sciences , Volume 246), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, New York, NY 1984, ISBN 3-8204- 5379-2 (Dissertation University of Kiel 1984).

Web links

• Homepage of the chair for modern history / focus on North America at the FSU Jena
• Short biography on www.perlentaucher.de