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According to Wikipedia, James J. Sheehan is an American historian of modern Germany and the former president of the American Historical Association . Biography Born in San Francisco in 1937, Sheehan earned a B.A. from Stanford University in 1958 and a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. He taught at Northwestern University between 1964 and 1979, then moved back to Stanford to succeed Gordon A. Craig as Stanford's historian of modern Germany. At Stanford, Sheehan is Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of History, and FSI senior fellow .

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German history, 1770-1866 (1989) (141)
German liberalism in the nineteenth century (1978) (121)
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe (2009) (98)
The Problem of Sovereignty in European History (2006) (95)
German Home Towns: Community, State, and General Estate, 1648–1871 (1971) (92)
What is German History? Reflections on the Role of the Nation in German History and Historiography (1981) (77)
The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines (1991) (61)
The racial state: Germany, 1933–1945 (1992) (46)
Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism (2000) (39)
The career of Lujo Brentano : a study of liberalism and social reform in imperial Germany (1967) (37)
Disjoined Partners: Austria and Germany since 1815 (1977) (32)
Democracy, History of (2001) (31)
LIBERALISM AND THE CITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY (1971) (25)
An Interrupted past : German-speaking refugee historians in the United States after 1933 (1991) (22)
Reactionary modernism: Technology, culture, and politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (1988) (16)
Modern European social history (1972) (14)
The Career of Lujo Brentano: A Study of Liberalism and Social Reform in Imperial Germany. (1968) (12)
Liberalism and Society in Germany, 1815-48 (1973) (10)
Introducing preservice teachers to issues surrounding evolution and creationism via a mock trial (2002) (10)
Political Leadership in the German Reichstag, 1871-1918 (1968) (10)
Justus Möser and the German enlightenment (1988) (7)
Presidential Address The Problem of Sovereignty in European History (2016) (7)
Follow-up of a twelve-month treatment program for chronic alcoholics. (1981) (6)
The Primacy of Domestic Politics: Eckart Kehr's Essays on Modern German History (1968) (6)
Germany, 1890–1918: A Survey of Recent Research (1968) (6)
Strategy and diplomacy, 1870–1945: Eight studies (1986) (6)
A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War, 1937–1945 by Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett (2000) (6)
History, Fiction, and Germany: Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation (2006) (5)
Reevaluating the Third Reich (1994) (5)
National History and National Identity in the New Germany (1992) (5)
Schicksalsgeschichte: Refugee Historians in the United States (1991) (5)
Paradigm Lost?: The “Sonderweg” Revisited (2010) (5)
Adapting Lessons for the Special Needs Student. (2005) (4)
The Politics of Technological Change in Prussia: Out of the Shadow of Antiquity, 1809–1848 . By Eric Dorn Brose. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press. 1993. Pp. 312. £39.50. ISBN 0-691-05685-4. (1993) (3)
German History, 1770-1866. (1991) (3)
What it Means to be a State: States and Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe (2003) (3)
German essays on history (1991) (3)
The American Presidency: Categorizing and Assessing Leadership Qualities. (2006) (3)
The Future of Conscription: Some Comparative Reflections (2011) (3)
Public Spheres, Public Mores, and Democracy: Hamburg and Stockholm, 1870-1914 (review) (2002) (2)
The Transformation of Europe and the End of the Cold War (2012) (2)
The last of his kind (1995) (2)
Barrington Moore on obedience and revolt (1980) (2)
The NCSS Presidential Addresses, 1936-1969: Perspectives on the Social Studies. (2001) (2)
Everyday Life and Emigration: The Role of Women (1991) (2)
An Interrupted Past: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933. Ed. by Hartmut Lehmann and James J. Sheehan. (Washington: German Historical Institute and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. x + 234 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-521-40326-X.) (1992) (1)
National socialism and German society (1984) (1)
Five Postwar Orders, 1763-1945 (2017) (1)
Conference on quantitative data in western european history: A report (1968) (1)
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-23 by Robert Gerwarth (2018) (1)
Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871–1990 . Edited by Dieter K. Buse and Juergen C. Doerr. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1998. Pp. lii + 1,159. $175,00. ISBN 0-8153-0503-6. (1999) (1)
Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century: Introduction: culture and power during the long eighteenth century (2007) (1)
Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1600-1987 (1998) (1)
THE FUTURE OF THE EUROPEAN STATE: SOME HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE GERMAN CASE* (2008) (1)
Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2003) (1)
The Future of Conscription (2013) (1)
Fatherlands: State‐Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth‐Century Germany (2003) (1)
Industrialization and industrial labor in nineteenth-century Europe (1973) (1)
What Does It Mean To Be Neutral? Postwar Austria from a Comparative Perspective (2013) (1)
Thinking about History by Sarah Maza (review) (2018) (0)
Thinking about History (2018) (0)
Book reviewsThe new Cambridge modern history. volume xiii: companion volume: ed. Peter Burke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1979). vi + 378 pp. P.B. £5.95 (1984) (0)
Under Western eyes (1999) (0)
Embracing Controversy: Developing Skills in Pre-service Elementary Social Studies Teachers (2001) (0)
Anarchism in Germany. Andrew R. Carlson (1973) (0)
Reviews : Jack Wertheimer, Unwelcome Strangers. East European Jews in Imperial Germany, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1987; ix + 275 pp.; US$29.95 (1991) (0)
Book Reviews (1997) (0)
Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany . By George Steinmetz. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1993. pp. xiii + 375. $45.00. ISBN 0-691-03240-8. (1993) (0)
Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany . By Lynn K. Nyhart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2009. Pp. xiv+423. Cloth $45.00. ISBN 13: 978-0-226-61089-4. (2010) (0)
The second generation (2016) (0)
Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History . By Joe Perry. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina University Press. 2010. Pp. xiii + 399. Cloth $49.95. ISBN 978-0-8078-3364-3. (2012) (0)
The Controversy Over German Industrialization 1890–1902. By Kenneth D. Barkin (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1970. x plus 307 pp. $11.50) (1971) (0)
Jonathan Sperber, Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany, 1820–1914 , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 287. $99.00 (ISBN 0-19-928475-X). (2008) (0)
German History--in the Grand Manner@@@Germany 1806-1945@@@German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century@@@Gold and Iron: Bismark, Bleichroder, and the Building of the German Empire@@@Das deutsche Kaiserreisch (1979) (0)
Book Review:Sociology and Estrangement: Three Sociologists of Imperial Germany Arthur Mitzman (1974) (0)
Gordon Alexander Craig (1913–2005) (2007) (0)
Book Review:The Outlawed Party: Social Democracy in Germany, 1878-1890 Vernon L. Lidtke (1968) (0)
[Part III Introduction] (2019) (0)
The Future of the German Past (2018) (0)
The Unmasterable past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (1989) (0)
Book Review:German Home Towns: Community, State, and General Estate, 1648-1871 Mack Walker (1973) (0)
The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany. By David Blackbourn. New York: W. W. Norton. 2006. Pp. xii+466. $29.95. ISBN 13: 978-0-393-06212-0. (2007) (0)
The Challenge of Modernity: German Social and Cultural Studies, 1890–1960 . By Adelheid von Saldern. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2002. Pp. xxii + 383. $64.50. ISBN 0-472-10986-3. (2004) (0)
Lujo Brentano, German intellectual, 1866-1918 (1964) (0)
Charles E. McClelland. State, Society, and University in Germany, 1700–1914. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1980. Pp. ix, 381. $29.95 (1980) (0)
The NCSS Presidential Addresses, 1970-2000: Perspectives on the Social Studies. (2002) (0)
Popular Entertainment, Class, and Politics in Munich, 1900–1923. By Robert Eben Sackett (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982. viii + 194 pp.) (1984) (0)
A figure in white (1994) (0)
PUBLICATIONS OF THE GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE, WASHING- TON, D.C. (WITH CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS). Currently edited by (2002) (0)
Book Review:Max Scheler 1874-1928: An Intellectual Portrait John Raphael Staude (1969) (0)
The NCSS Presidency: Perennial Themes of Leadership (2004) (0)
Hitler's Greatest Gamble (2022) (0)
The Art and Science of Diplomacy: A World War I Activity. (2005) (0)
Brent O. Peterson. History, Fiction, and Germany: Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation. (Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies.) Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press. 2005. Pp. vii, 360. $54.95 (2006) (0)
A Political Professor: A New Biography of J.G. Droysen (2009) (0)
The Generation of 1914. By Robert Wohl (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1979. ix + 307 pp. $17.50) (1980) (0)
Lebens Werk: Thomas Nipperdeys Deutsche Geschichte; Biographie eines Buches. By Paul Nolte.Munich: C. H. Beck, 2018. Pp. 368. €39.95 (cloth); €33.99 (e-book). (2019) (0)
The influence of progressivism on the development of the state normal college at Ohio University, 1902-1920 (1998) (0)
The Problem of Revolution in Germany, 1789–1989 (2002) (0)
Officers of the Conference Group for Central European History / Central European History Society of the American Historical Association (1959–present) (2018) (0)
Political History: History of Politics (2001) (0)
Echoes from the Far Side (2017) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
Great Power Diplomacy Since 1914 . By Norman Rich. New York: McGraw-Hill. 2003. Pp. xxiii + 565. $53.60. ISBN 0-07-052266-9 (2004) (0)
Art and Its Publics, c. 1800 (2006) (0)
European Landed Elites in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by David Spring (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. vii + 147 pp. $11.50) (1979) (0)
Army, Industry, and Labor in Germany 1914–1918. By Gerald D. Feldman (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1966. 572 pp. $12.50) (1968) (0)
Book Review: The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture. Old Regime Europe, 1660–1789 (2002) (0)
In Brief: Biography (1999) (0)
Book Reviews (1998) (0)
1 Introduction : culture and power during the long eighteenth century (2007) (0)
Volume Information (1978) (0)
11. Focus on German Studies, Volume 17 (2010), Remembering 1989: Thoughts on Modern History with Dr. James J. Sheehan (2010) (0)
The NCSS presidential addresses : perspectives on the social studies (2001) (0)
The Special Case of Austrian Refugee Historians (1991) (0)
Revisiting Napoleon's Continental System: Local, Regional and European Experiences. Edited by Katherine B. Aaslestad and Johan Joor. Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 290. Cloth $105.00 ISBN 978-1137345561. (2015) (0)
[PART II. Introduction] (2018) (0)
When the luck ran out (1993) (0)
9. Partei, Volk, and Staat Some Reflections on the Relationship between Liberal Thought and Action in Vormärz (1974) (0)
The European Administrative Elite. By John A. Armstrong (Princton: Princeton University Press, 1973. xii plus 406 pp. Cloth $ 20.00; Paper $ 9.75) (1975) (0)
The Global Transformation of Time, 1870–1950. By Vanessa Ogle.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. viii+280. $39.95. (2017) (0)
Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals. Edited by Niall Ferguson. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. x+548. $30.00. (2000) (0)
The German Idea of Freedom: History of a Political Tradition . By Leonard Krieger. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973. Pp. 540. $12.00, cloth; $3.75, paper.) (1976) (0)
Reparations and Weimar (1972) (0)
The "Brown v. Board of Education" Decision: Resources for Grades 4 and 5. (2004) (0)
Political Institutions and Social Change in Continental Europe in the Nineteenth Century. By Eugene N. Anderson and Pauline R. Anderson (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967. 451 pp. $10) (1969) (0)
THREE GENERATIONS OF GERMAN GELEHRTENPOLITIK (2006) (0)
Left Liberals, the State, and Popular Politics in Wilhelmine Germany . By Alastair P. Thompson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xiii + 425. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-820543-0. (2003) (0)
Reviews of Books:The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia Anke te Heesen, Ann M. Hentschel (2003) (0)
Waiting out communism (1997) (0)
German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century@@@Bismarck and His Times (1980) (0)

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