William Glenn Gray
@willgray.bsky.social
Professor of history at Purdue: 20th-Century international history & the global economy. Author of TRADING POWER and GERMANY'S COLD WAR. Current book project follows German economic engagement in Brazil.
Summertime — when there are actually seats available in the best campus reading rooms!
June 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Summertime — when there are actually seats available in the best campus reading rooms!
When your letterhead carries an amazing font, every letter commands attention. (Admittedly, the drawing is kind of cheesy.)
June 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
When your letterhead carries an amazing font, every letter commands attention. (Admittedly, the drawing is kind of cheesy.)
This week's new archive was the Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis (Archive of Green Memory) in Berlin-Friedrichshain. They're only open a few days per week but they're very nice and have an enormous collection on the environmental movement, as one would expect!
May 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This week's new archive was the Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis (Archive of Green Memory) in Berlin-Friedrichshain. They're only open a few days per week but they're very nice and have an enormous collection on the environmental movement, as one would expect!
Second archive last week: the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich (built 1972 – was that peak brutalism?).
May 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Second archive last week: the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich (built 1972 – was that peak brutalism?).
Today’s archive visit took me to the Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt. The mother ship of German capitalism called me home.
May 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Today’s archive visit took me to the Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt. The mother ship of German capitalism called me home.
Sunday @ the St Louis Zoo
May 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Sunday @ the St Louis Zoo
Hearty congrats to Stefano Palermo, who successfully defended his Purdue dissertation prospectus – "Business Europe: A History of the European Round Table of Industrialists." Shaping up to be a landmark study on 🇪🇺 integration!
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March 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Hearty congrats to Stefano Palermo, who successfully defended his Purdue dissertation prospectus – "Business Europe: A History of the European Round Table of Industrialists." Shaping up to be a landmark study on 🇪🇺 integration!
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Forthcoming from @stanfordpress.bsky.social, a fascinating study on the Banat by Tim Olin! Proud of the great history scholarship coming out of Purdue's Ph. D. program. Discount code in the flyer.
January 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Forthcoming from @stanfordpress.bsky.social, a fascinating study on the Banat by Tim Olin! Proud of the great history scholarship coming out of Purdue's Ph. D. program. Discount code in the flyer.
New doorbell! But you need to click on the picture to see the design — I don’t know how to control the format otherwise.
November 22, 2024 at 11:06 PM
New doorbell! But you need to click on the picture to see the design — I don’t know how to control the format otherwise.
It's fun also to take note of the fantastic mid-mod embassy building the West Germans built in Rio at the exact same time. Amazing structure, but it was going up in the wrong city!
November 18, 2024 at 11:52 PM
It's fun also to take note of the fantastic mid-mod embassy building the West Germans built in Rio at the exact same time. Amazing structure, but it was going up in the wrong city!
My paper title was confusing – Germans didn't _build_ the new Brazilian capital – but they watched with acute fascination. Plans for Brasilia were featured at the famous 1957 Interbau exhibit in Berlin. And Brasilia's lead architect, Oscar Niemeyer, contributed a building to Interbau.
November 18, 2024 at 11:52 PM
My paper title was confusing – Germans didn't _build_ the new Brazilian capital – but they watched with acute fascination. Plans for Brasilia were featured at the famous 1957 Interbau exhibit in Berlin. And Brasilia's lead architect, Oscar Niemeyer, contributed a building to Interbau.
Thinking about images I encountered two years back while writing on "West Germans and the Building of Brasília." Mary Vieira, a sculptor active in 🇨🇭, designed a vivid trilogy of posters in the mid-1950s: "Brasilien baut," "Panair do Brasil," and "Brasilien baut Brasilia." Such colors!
November 18, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Thinking about images I encountered two years back while writing on "West Germans and the Building of Brasília." Mary Vieira, a sculptor active in 🇨🇭, designed a vivid trilogy of posters in the mid-1950s: "Brasilien baut," "Panair do Brasil," and "Brasilien baut Brasilia." Such colors!
Sébastian Leclerc, illustration of the machines used to build the Louvre Palace, 1677
November 18, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Sébastian Leclerc, illustration of the machines used to build the Louvre Palace, 1677
Nicolas Sanson, map of France, 1652-53
November 18, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Nicolas Sanson, map of France, 1652-53
Beginning Instruction in the Christian Religion for Children, ca. 1527 (written for the Queen of Navarre's wedding)
November 18, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Beginning Instruction in the Christian Religion for Children, ca. 1527 (written for the Queen of Navarre's wedding)
Guillaume Budé, The School of the Prince, ca. 1517-18 (made for Francis I)
November 18, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Guillaume Budé, The School of the Prince, ca. 1517-18 (made for Francis I)
Jean Bourdichon, illustration for Jean Marot's _The Voyage to Genoa_, ca. 1508. I think this is the first pictorial representation I've seen of France's Italian wars (here, the conquest of Genoa in 1507).
November 18, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Jean Bourdichon, illustration for Jean Marot's _The Voyage to Genoa_, ca. 1508. I think this is the first pictorial representation I've seen of France's Italian wars (here, the conquest of Genoa in 1507).
Printed volume of Arthuriana, 1494
November 18, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Printed volume of Arthuriana, 1494
Pierre Bersuire, Translation of Livy (mid-14th Cent.) – so this is supposed to be Carthage
November 18, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Pierre Bersuire, Translation of Livy (mid-14th Cent.) – so this is supposed to be Carthage
Jean Froissart, _Chronicles_ (ca. 1402-3)
November 18, 2024 at 12:35 AM
Jean Froissart, _Chronicles_ (ca. 1402-3)
The Chronicles of France (composed St.-Denis, ca. 1370)
November 18, 2024 at 12:34 AM
The Chronicles of France (composed St.-Denis, ca. 1370)
Aside from the introduction by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, I was delighted to find an essay by my former colleague John Contreni.
November 18, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Aside from the introduction by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, I was delighted to find an essay by my former colleague John Contreni.