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Roger Chickering

Roger Chickering is an American historian of the German Empire and World War I. He was a professor at Georgetown University, retiring in 2010.

Roger Chickering

Historian, author

The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918

Education[edit]

Chickering received his doctorate in 1968 at Stanford University, where he studied with Gordon A. Craig. Imperial Germany and a World Without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914, published in 1975, was based on his dissertation.

Professor of History, BMW Center for German and European Studies (Joint Appointment in the Department of History), Georgetown University, 1993-2010

Research Fellow, , 2008-2009

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Research Fellow, , Research Triangle Park, NC

National Humanities Center

Research Fellow, , Washington, DC, 1996–97

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Professor of History, , 1981–94

University of Oregon

Visiting Research Fellow, , Freiburg i. Br., 1991–92

Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt

Member, School of Historical Studies, , Princeton, New Jersey, Spring Semester 1991

Institute for Advanced Study

Visiting Research Fellow, Institut für neuere Geschichte, , Munich, 1984–85

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Visiting Research Fellow, Friedrich-Meinecke Institut, , 1976–77

Free University of Berlin

Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon, 1974–81

Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon, 1968–74

Instructor of History, Stanford University, 1967–68

Chickering retired from Georgetown University in 2010. While he began his career as a historian focusing on the German Empire, his interests increasingly migrated to the First World War. During his career, he published multiple monographs, edited volumes, and articles.[1]

War in an age of revolution, 1775-1815. . 2010. OCLC 429025603.

German Historical Institute

Freiburg im Ersten Weltkrieg: Totaler Krieg und städtischer Alltag 1914-1918. Schoeningh Verlag, 2009.

The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918. Cambridge UP, 2007.

A world at total war: global conflict and the politics of destruction, 1937-1945. German Historical Institute. 2005.  54852979.

OCLC

Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. 2d ed. Cambridge UP, 2004

: A German Academic Life (1856-1915). New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1993.

Karl Lamprecht

Karl Lamprecht. Leben eines deutschen Historikers 1856-1915] Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021.

[1]

We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886-1914. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1984.

Imperial Germany and a World Without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1975.

"The Reichsbanner and the Weimar Republic, 1924-26," Vol. 40, No. 4, December 1968.

The Journal of Modern History