General Overview of Research Activity William Glenn Gray / Purdue University My first book, Germany's Cold War, appeared with the University of North Carolina Press in 2003. My current book project is running under the title After Adenauer : German Ambitions in a Globalizing Era, 1963-1975. I have finished most of the archival research for it and hope to complete the manuscript by the end of 2009. Most of my conference presentations and article publications over the past several years relate to various aspects of this project. Work on this second book has been somewhat slowed by my participation in an international research project on the history of the German foreign service. Specifically, the project seeks to understand the extent to which the foreign ministry participated in the crimes of National Socialism, and how postwar German diplomats cooperated in obscuring this dark history of complicity. I am part of the team run by Prof. Peter Hayes (Northwestern University). Within the realm of professional service, I have the great privilege of serving as an editor of H-German, the internet's most comprehensive English-language forum on German history. Aside from serving as rotating editor on duty (and for the second half of 2006 as managing editor), I assist in preparing discussion forums and a direct a service known as JournalWatch. In addition, I'm one of five editors to publish an Encyclopedia of the Cold War. This two-volume work, featuring some 450 articles, appeared with Routledge in May 2008. My fellow editors include Ruud van Dijk (Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Svetlana Savranskaya (National Security Archive), Jeremi Suri (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), and Qiang Zhai (Auburn University). Thanks to MTM Publishing in New York for facilitating this project.