Coverage includes:
- Formation of a distinctive German language and culture during the Germanic migrations and the confrontation with Rome
- Consolidation of medieval principalities in the wake of the collapse of Carolingian authority and the construction of the Holy Roman Empire
- Tumultuous events of the Reformation and the devastation of the Thirty Years' War
- Unification of Germany
- Rise of Prussian imperialism in the 19th century
- The two world wars, the rise of Nazism, and the Holocaust
- Experience of a divided Germany during the cold war
- The country's eventual reunification as the Federal Republic of Germany
- Contemporary Germany.
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