Chris Molnar

‘An exploration of issues relevant to anyone interested in the practice of history’ George Bodie Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths, University of London I’d go for three books which, in very different ways, have made huge contributions to the discipline. The first is Ned Richardson-Little’s The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State (Bloomsbury). At a time of increasingly fractious debate around the legacy of the GDR, Richardson-Little provides a concise and authoritative account of its history, rising above the culture wars that have engulfed the topic. If Richardson-Little’s book demonstrates the historian’s ability to intervene calmly in divisive debates, my next choice does quite the opposite.

The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State made the History Today Books of the Year 2025 list! www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

Reinventing Protestant Germany — Harvard University Press A revealing account of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after WWII, while firmly and consequentially refusing to account for their earlier complicity with Nazism.Germany’s Prot...

I'm so pleased to share that my first book, "Reinventing Protestant Germany," appears today with @harvardpress.bsky.social. It offers a new take on West Germany's winding path toward postwar democracy, highlighting the ambivalent role of the Protestant Church. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990 Cambridge Core - European Studies - Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990

My book, Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990, is out this September!
Thanks to Devin Pendas, Quinn Slobodian, Lora Wildenthal, @historyned.bsky.social, @laurenstokes.bsky.social, and @willgray.bsky.social for their support!
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I’m excited to present this chapter at the European History Workshop at Indiana University today. It’s great to be back here!

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Now rolling out in early online access: a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History edited by Felix Jiménez Botta on Human Rights in Postwar Germany. Lora Wildenthal and I wrote an epilogue for this wonderful collection that you can read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Hi everyone. I’ve finally made it over here.