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‘Colonial goods’ – that sounds like small shops selling fine coffee and exquisite chocolate, like the ‘good old days’. These ‘good old days’, the colonial goods shops, the coffee, tea and cocoa they sell, are inextricably linked to the exploitation of other people, the violent seizure of land outside Europe and the suppression of resistance to the process of colonisation. This history is often repressed.

Family research with the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek – discover how historical sources in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, the Archivportal-D and the Deutsches Zeitungsportall can be used for family research at the Genealogists' Day in Frankfurt am Main.

What sounds like the Germanised word for basketball is actually a separate sport that is only played in Germany, and even here only in certain regions.

On 23 December 1866, the young sailor Tjark Evers gets a lift from boatmen to pay a surprise visit to his parents and siblings. His family lives on the East Frisian island of Baltrum and Tjark is doing his apprenticeship on the mainland in Timmel when he decides to make a spontaneous trip home for Christmas. On this day there is dense sea fog, nevertheless the boat sets off...

What do you give the German women's national team for their European Championship victory? Household items, of course. What sounds like a bad joke actually happened in 1989. A look at the history of women's football shows: The 1989 tableware is both expected continuity and absurd progress.

Ein 90-minütiger Workshop, konzipiert für einen Grundkurs Geschichte (11. Klasse).

Gemeinsam mit der 11. Klasse des Walther-Rathenau-Gymnasiums in Berlin-Grunewald hat die Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek in Kooperation mit dem Alten Museum den dreiteiligen Workshop „Göttinnen und Gattinnen neu gedacht: Von der Antike in die Gegenwart“ durchgeführt.

The Stonewall Inn is still located on Christopher Street in New York City today. Violent clashes between police and queer people broke out there on the night of 28 June 1969, which remains a milestone in the LGBTQIA+ movement to this day. In Germany, the annual Pride Parade is named after Christopher Street: Christopher Street Day.

Für Schüler*innen ab der 11. Klasse.

Für Schüler*innen ab der 7. Klasse.