I teach courses on Germany, on Britain, and on European intellectual and cultural history. I am currently working on a book, for which the tentative title is Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Germany, 1880s-1914 . I am also interested in the intellectual relationships between Europe and the United States. In this connection, I have regularly given a graduate colloquium on American liberalism and challenges to it, in which I attempt to relate developments in our country to developments across the Atlantic. In all of my teaching, I make considerable use of primary sources, mainly in the form of contemporary expressions of thought and feeling but also in the form of pictures that pertain to the period under discussion.
History is about people and what they believed and believed in.