Family history as a resource of contemporary history

The publication of the project:

Rolf-Ulrich Kunze, Family history as a resource for contemporary history, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 2018, approx. 280 pp.

The history of the family is one of the well-researched cross-sectional areas of social and mental history. However, this applies to the early modern period and the most recent history from 1789 to 1914, not to that of the 20th century. The contemporary family history is a domain of family sociology, pedagogy and psychology. It will be presented as a resource to be developed in a dialogue between historians and laypeople interested in family history. A theoretical part deals with the motivation to deal with the family within and outside of science, epistemological perspectives and main lines of family development from the nuclear family to patchwork. The practical part deals with concrete source problems of family history project work.

Prof. Dr. Rolf-Ulrich Kunze teaches Modern and Recent History at KIT