Sylvia Paletschek has been Professor in Modern History at the University of Freiburg (Germany) since 2001 and was Visiting Fellow at St. Antony's College at Oxford University in 2006-2007. Her research interests include women's and gender history, history of universities, memory culture, and history of historiography. Her publications include Women's Emancipation Movements in the 19th Century: A European Perspective (with Bianka Pietrow-Ennker, Stanford University Press, 2004) and The Gender of Memory. Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe, (with Sylvia Schraut, Campus/Chicago University Press, 2008).

List of Figures

Introduction: Why Analyse Popular Historiographies?
Sylvia Paletschek

Part I: Popular and Academic Historiographies in the 19th Century

Chapter 1. Questioning the Canon: Popular Historiography by Women in Britain and Germany (1750-1850)
Angelika Epple

Chapter 2. Popular Presentations of History in the 19th Century: The Example of Die Gartenlaube
Sylvia Paletschek

Chapter 3. Understanding the World around 1900: Popular Universal Histories in Germany
Hartmut Bergenthum

Part II: Popular Presentations of History in Different Medias in the 20th Century

Chapter 4. History for Readers: Popular Historiography 20th Century Germany
Wolfgang Hardtwig

Chapter 5. Between Political Coercion and Popular Expectations: Contemporary History in the Radio of the German Democratic Republic
Christoph Classen

Chapter 6. Moving History: Fictional Films and the Nazi Past in Germany since the late 1970s
Frank Bösch

Part III: Memory Culture and Popular Historiographies: Case Studies

Chapter 7. Memory History and the Standardization of History
Dieter Langewiesche

Chapter 8. The Second World War in the Popular Culture of Memory in Norway
Claudia Lenz

Chapter 9. Sissi: Popular Representations of an Empress
Sylvia Schraut

Chapter 10. Scientists as Heroes? Einstein, Curie, and the Popular Historiography of Science
Beat Ceranski

Chapter 11. 'Das Wunder von Bern'. The Football World Cup 1954, the German Nation and Popular Histories
Franz-Josef Brüggemeier

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography