The essays in An Interrupted Past describe the fate of those German-speaking historians who fled from Nazi Europe to the United States.

Preface Hartmut Lehmann; Introduction James J. Sheehan; Part I: 1. German and American historiography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Ernst Schulin; 2. German historiography during the Weimar Republic and the Emigre historians Wolfgang J. Mommsen; 3. The historical seminar of the University of Berlin in the 1920s Felix Gilbert; Part II: 4. Refugee historians in America: pre-emigration Germany to 1939 Michael H. Kater; 5. The German refugee historians and American institutions of higher learning Karen J. Greenberg; 6. Everyday life and emigration: the role of women Sibylle Quack; 7. The special case of Austrian refugee historians M. Fellner; 8. Refugee historians in the United States Catherine Epstein; 9. German historians in the Office of Strategic Services Barry Katz; 10. The refugee scholar as intellectual educator: a student's recollections Carl E. Schorske; Part III: 11. German emigre historians in America: the fifties, sixties, and seventies Kenneth Barkin; 12. The Americanisation of Hajo Holborn Otto Pflanze; 13. Explaining history: Hans Rosenberg Hanna Schissler; 14. Ernst Kantorowicz and Theodor E. Mommsen Ralph E. Lerner; 15. Refugee historians and the German historical profession between 1950 and 1970 Winfried Schulze.