By Orel Beilinson, Bar-Ilan University. In 1897, the American writer Frank Norris published a story drawn from his own student days at the Académie Julian in Paris. Its hero, Buldy Jones, used to be Yale’s star varsity pitcher. Now an…
By Nathan Marcus, Ben-Gurion University. On 29 August 1945, Eleanor Lansing Dulles drove into Vienna on the backseat of Adolf Hitler’s requisitioned touring car and as part of a US convoy that further included a bullet-proof limousine formerly owned by…
This new series, in collaboration with the Central European University, is devoted to the study of the historical relationship between the United States and Austria, broadly conceived to include the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states from the early modern…
by Tres Lambert, Gettysburg College. Born in 1872 in Baden bei Wien, author, editor, and journalist Hugo Bettauer was no stranger to controversy. His knack for social critique and investigative journalism regularly placed him in direct conflict with powerful people…
With articles on the Vienna 1952 performance of “Porgy and Bess,” early Czech sound recordings in New York, Allied denazification in Austria, Otto Habsburg and Austrian socialists in American exile, and much more, the latest issue of the Journal of…
Consuls have long occupied an ambiguous place in the historiography of international relations. Ubiquitous in imperial infrastructures, yet largely overshadowed by ambassadors and high diplomacy, the historical role of a consular agent has often been derided as the manager of…
By Thomas Antonic The European Tours Between 1979 and 1983, Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), undoubtedly the most influential and famous American poet of the second half of the 20th century, who would celebrate his 100th birthday on June 3, 2026, toured…
by Henry Blood. In studying the development of railroads in the Habsburg Empire, I initially had no idea there would be any link between Europe and the United States of America. However, while doing archival research, I learned that in…
Within the field of the Tyrolean Photo Archive‘s activities, one recent focus is Sports History. Few individuals loom larger for these activities than the Austrian skier Josef “Pepi” Stiegler from Lienz in East Tyrol. (1) Stiegler became famous when he…
“Global Politics, Technology and Social Media Combine to Erode Trust and Interest” Results from a new survey focusing on Austria and the United States show changing attitudes about how the citizens of each country perceive the other. The survey is…
Consuls have long occupied an ambiguous place in the historiography of international relations. Ubiquitous in imperial infrastructures, yet largely overshadowed by ambassadors and high diplomacy, the historical role of a consular agent has often been derided as the manager of…
Among the many photographs of my experiences with Austria over the past two decades, the one that I treasure most is valuable to me precisely because I wasn’t there when it was taken: The picture–and my absence from it–speaks to…