Journal Articles
“Old Myths, Turned on Their Heads: Settler Agency, Federal Authority, and the Colonization of Oregon,” Oregon Historical Quarterly 123, no. 4 (Winter 2022): 326–57. [Winner of the 2023 Joel Palmer Award.]
“‘The Indians must yield’: Antebellum Free Land, the Homestead Act, and the Displacement of Native Peoples,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 67 (Fall 2020): 17–39.
“Poor, White, and Useful: Settlers in Their Petitions to US Congress, 1817-1841,” Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 7, no. 2 (2017): 208–20.
“Die gewerkschaftlichen und politischen Aktivitäten des Engels-Neffen William Burns in Boston 1886–1895,” [The trade union and political activism of Friedrich Engels’s Nephew William Burns in Boston, 1886-1895] Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2012/13, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 46–59.
“Ikke bøn, men kamp! Organiseret, socialistisk religionskritik i Danmark 1925-34,” [Not prayers, but struggle! Organized socialist criticism of religion in Denmark, 1925-34] Arbejderhistorie, No. 1 (2009): 48–66.
Book Reviews
“Keyes, Sarah: American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023,” Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 93, No. 3, 2024.
“Blevins, Cameron: Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West, New York: Oxford University Press, 2021,” Comparativ, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2023
“Lahti, Janne. ed.: German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World: Entangled Empires. Palgrave, 2021,” Comparativ, Vol. 32, No. 6, 2022
“Ostler, Jeffrey: Surviving Genocide. Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas. Yale University Press, New Haven, CN 2019,” Journal of Southern History, Vol. 86, August 2020
“Clark Shire, Laurel: The Threshold of Manifest Destiny. Gender and National Expansion in Florida. Philadelphia 2016 / Edwards, Richard; Friefeld, Jacob K.; Wingo, Rebecca S.: Homesteading the Plains. Toward a New History. Lincoln 2017,” H-Soz-Kult, September 4, 2018
“Mattioli, Aram: Verlorene Welten. Eine Geschichte der Indianer Nordamerikas 1700–1910. Stuttgart 2017,” H-Soz-Kult, November 15, 2017
Other Publications
“Siedlerkolonialismus,” in Rassismus in den USA: Handbuch zu Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Politik, edited by Silvan Niedermeier, 317–324, Munich: UVK 2025.
“Donation Land Act of 1840 aided Arkansas settlers,” Arkansas Democrat Gazette, September 8, 2024.
“Arkansas Donation Land Act of 1840,” Encyclopedia of Arkansas, June 26, 2024.
“Layering in GIS as a Method of Historical Deconstruction and Source Criticism,” TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, April 13, 2023.
Julius Wilm, Robert K. Nelson, and Justin Madron, “Land Acquisition and Dispossession: Mapping the Homestead Act, 1863-1912,” interactive web map, in: American Panorama, ed. Robert K. Nelson and Edward L. Ayers, 2022.
“Jenseits der Legende vom guten Deutschen: Carl Schurz in den USA” [Beyond the Legend of the Good German: Carl Schurz in the United States”], Geschichte der Gegenwart, April 24, 2022.
Nation-State and Empire: Digital Explorations of a Combined Spatial Format in the U.S. West, 1863-1934, Working Paper Series SFB 1199, 25 (Leipzig, Germany: Leipzig University Press, 2022).
“Schrille Töne” [“Shill sounds.” – on President Trump’s uses of U.S. history], Aussenansicht, Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 14, 2018, 2
“Der Präsident, der verschwinden muss” [“The president who has to go” – on Andrew Jackson’s slated removal form the twenty-dollar bill], NZZ Geschichte, October 2016, no. 3, 86-94.
In the Media
“Schatten auf der Lichtgestalt” By Frauke Steffens [Review/Interview], Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 4, 2024.
“Carl Schurz: Vom 1848er-Revolutionär zum Lincoln-Vertrauten” By Michael Reinartz [Radio Interview], WDR Zeitzeichen, March 2, 2024.
“‘Eine Wissenschaft, an der viele partizipieren können’: Interview mit Julius Wilm, Levke Harders und Amir Theilhaber zur Wissenschaft in den USA” [“‘A scholarship in which many can participate’: Interview with Julius Wilm, Levke Harders and Amir Theilhaber on research in the United States“], L.I.S.A. Wissenschaftsportal der Gerda Henkel Stiftung, October 13, 2020
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