European History Online


European History Online is an academic website that publishes articles on the history of Europe between the period of 1450 and 1950 according to the principle of open access.

Organisation

EGO is issued by the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz in cooperation with the Center for Digital Humanities in Trier and the Bavarian State Library, Munich. The editorial board comprises the two directors of the Institute as well as 25 European scholars of history. The project is funded by the federal state of the Rhineland-Palatinate and by the German Research Foundation.

Conception

EGO investigates the history of modern Europe from a transcultural/transnational perspective, in interdisciplinary cooperation and across methodological boundaries. Articles are published in English and German and provide additional contextual materials. The articles are categorized and can be accessed via ten thematic threads: