My Lecture Outline
- Neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire: “300 Germanies”
- Impact of the Congress of Vienna on Germany and Prussia
- “Siamese Twins”: Zollverien and Railroads
- Struggles for Nationalism, Liberalism and Democracy in Vormaerz:
- Wartburg Festival (1817)
- Carlsbad Decrees (1819)
- Hambach Festival (1832)
- Gottingen Seven (1837)
- The Spirit of ‘48
- Frankfurt Parliament
- Constitution of St. Paul’s Church
- Erfurt Union & Punctuation/Humiliation of Olmutz
- Germany: Born of War?
- Von Roon, von Moltke, and the Prussian military machine
- Schleswig-Holstein Wars (1848-52, 1864)
- Austro-Prussian War (1866)
- Franco-Prussian War (1870-71)
- Proclamation of German Empire (18 January 1871)
- More Than Iron & Blood: Karl Baedeker, Brothers Grimm, von Fallersleben, and von Humboldt
