Keywords Used in the MKI Collections
organized by broad subject area

Religion

Genealogy

Biography

Personal Names

History

Ethnic groups

Folklore
Agriculture

Industry

Social history & Ethnicity

Social groups (family, etc.)


Labor, social conditions

Socialism, communism

Emigration & Immigration
Education

Arts

Language

Literature

Geography & Geographic locations

Other Sciences


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RELIGION
General Churches Special denominations Religious works
Bible
Churches
Hymns
Missions
Protestant
Reformation
Religion
Religious life
Religious works
Brethren Church
Catholic Church
Catholics
Lutheran Church
Lutherans
Methodist Church
Methodists
Moravian Church
Reformed Church
Amana
Amish
Bruderhof communities
Ephrata
Freethinkers
Free religion
Harmony Society
Hutterian Brethren
Hutterites
Jehovah's Witness
Mennonites
Moravians
Pietism
Quakers
Zion Gemeinde
Biblical
Catechism
Christian life
Educational, Christian
Epistles
Fiction, religious
Hymnals
Liturgy
Luther, Martin
Prayers
Prose, religious
Religious works
Sermons
Songs, religious

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GENEALOGY
Archives
Census
Family history
Genealogy
Heraldry
Passenger lists
Population
Societies, etc.
Sources

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BIOGRAPHY 
Biography
Soldiers
Statesmen

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GERMAN AMERICANS: Personal Names (Selected)
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884
Beissel, Conrad, 1690-1768
Berger, Victor L.
Gerstaecker, Friedrich, 1816-1872
Hecker, Friedrich, 1811-1881
Heinzen, Karl, 1809-1880
Krez, Konrad, 1828-1897
Leopold, Aldo, 1887-1948
Lieber, Francis, 1798-1872
Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, 1711-1787
Nies, Konrad, 1862-1921
Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719
Rapp, George, 1757-1847
Rattermann, Heinrich Armin, 1832-1923
Reitzel, Robert, 1849-1898
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm von, 1730-1794

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HISTORY

AMERICA & general

EUROPE:
Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Culture
Anti-German sentiment
Assimilation
Attitudes
Communities
Cultural differences
Cultural exchange
Cultural contribution
Cultural influence
Culture
Foreign public opinion
Frontier and pioneer life
Media
Politics
Political activity
Population
Rural life & conditions
Settlements
Social conditions
Social influence

 

LOCAL HISTORY. U.S.
Economy (Pa.)
Frontier and pioneer life
Hessians
Middle West
Rural life & conditions
Settlements

History 
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
America
Atlantic crossing
Civil war, 1861-1865
Civil war, 1861-1865--German Americans
Colonial period
Exile
Forty-eighters
Freethinkers
Haymarket Affair
History
Internment: see Prisoners of war
National Socialism
Prisoners of war
Refugees, Political (US)
Relations, Germany-US
Revolution, 1775-1783
Revolution, 1848-1849
Revolution, 1848-1849--Refugees
Schwenkfelders
Settlements
Ships
Slavery
Wars
World war, 1914-1918
World war, 1914-1918--German Americans
World war, 1939-1945
World war, 1939-1945--German Americans
Civilization, culture 
Attitudes
Communities
Cultural contribution
Cultural differences
Cultural exchange
Cultural influence
Culture
Foreign public opinion
Forty-eighters
German influence
Political activity
Political influence
Politics
Population
Rural life & conditions
Social conditions
Social influence

History
Exile
Forty-eighters
Internment: see Prisoners of war
National Socialism
Prisoners of war
Relations, Germany-US

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GERMAN AMERICANS and other ethnic groups
Danube Swabians
Ethnic groups--general
Ethnic groups--German-speaking
Ethnic groups--other groups
European Americans
German Americans
German Americans--Dakotas
German Americans--Genealogy
German Americans--Illinois
German Americans--Indiana
German Americans--Iowa
German Americans--Kansas
German Americans--Louisiana
German Americans--Maryland
German Americans--Michigan
German Americans--Minnesota
German Americans--Missouri
German Americans--New York (state)
German Americans--Ohio
German Americans--Other US states
German Americans--Pennsylvania
German Americans--Societies, etc.
German Americans--Texas
German Americans--Virginia
German Americans--Wisconsin
German Canadians
Germans
Jews
Jews, German
Minorities
Native Americans
Palatines
Pennsylvania Germans
Pennsylvania Gemans, see also German Americans--Pennsylvania
Russian Germans
Swiss Americans

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FOLKLORE, SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS, ASSOCIATIONS 
Christmas
Festivals
Folklore
Folks-medicine
Myths
Social life and customs
Superstitions
Turners
Associations 
Brumder
German-American Bund
German Americans--Societies, etc.
Societies, etc.

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AGRICULTURE 
Agriculture
Ecology
Farm life
Farming
Horticulture & Gardening
Land ethic
Land tenure
Rural life & conditions
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY 
Book trade
Breweries
Brumder
Business & Industry
Medicine & Health
Medicine & Health see also Folks-Medicine

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SOCIAL HISTORY

General
Frontier and pioneer life
Pioneers
Political activity
Political influence
Politics
Settlements
Social conditions
Social influence
Sociology
World politics

Social Groups (family, marriage, women)
Children
Cookbooks
Feminists
Home
Juvenile
Letter-writing
Medicine & Health
Life skills guides
Women

Ethnicity 
Assimilation
Attitudes
Communities
Cultural influence
Culture
Ethnic groups--general
Ethnic groups--German-speaking
Ethnic groups--other groups
Ethnic identity
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity

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LABOR, SOCIAL CONDITIONS, etc. 
Business & Industry
Employment
Labor movement
Labor and laboring classes
Social conditions
Social influence
Trade-Unions

SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM, ANARCHISM
Socialism
Utopian socialism


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EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION
Assimilation
Atlantic crossing
Communities
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)
Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)
Emigration in literature
Immigrants
Immigrants, German
Immigrants in literature
Minorities
Population
Settlements

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EDUCATION 
Education
German language school
Kindergarten
Letter-writing
Museums
Physical education
Readers
Schools
Teaching
Teaching of English
Teaching of German
Textbooks
ARTS 
Antiques
Architecture
Artists
Arts
Crafts
Folk art
Folk songs, German
Music
Paintings
Poetry
Songs
Theater & Drama

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LANGUAGE
Bilingualism
Dialectology
Dialects
Dialects see also Low German dialect; Pennsylvania German dialect
Foreign elements (Language)
Germanists (US)
Language, English
Language, German
Language, German (Canada)--Dialects
Language, German (US)
Language, German (US)--Dialects
Language, German (US)--Foreign elements
Language, German (US)--Social aspects
Language, German--Foreign elements
Language influence
Language loss
Language maintenance
Language shift
Languages in contact
Linguistics
Low German dialect
Philology, German (US)
Pennsylvania-German dialect
Sociolinguistics
Teaching of German

Press
Book trade
German-American press
Journalism
Media
Newspapers
Newspapers, German-American
Periodicals
Periodicals, German-American
PIA
Textbooks

 LITERATURE
America in German literature
Autobiography
Biography
Book trade
Children's literature
Collected works
Commentaries
Diaries
Emigration in literature
Exiles' writing, German
Fiction
Fiction, Historical
Germany in literature
Humor & Satire
Immigrants in literature
Juvenile literature
Letters
Literary collections
Literary criticism
Literature, American
Literature, comparative
Literature, German
Literature, German (Canada)
Literature, German (US)
Literature, German-American
Literature, Pennsylvania-German
Memoirs
Myths
Personal narratives
Poems
Poetry
Prose
Theater & Drama
Travel in literature
United States in literature
Women authors

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GEOGRAPHY 
Discovery & exploration
Geography
Travel
Geographic locations
America
Austria
Banat
Canada
Chicago (Ill.)
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Cleveland (Ohio)
Dakotas
Davenport (Iowa)
Europe
Germantown (Pa.)
Germany
Hesse
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Lancaster County (Pa.)
Madison (Wis.)
Maryland
Michigan
Midwest
Milwaukee (Wis.)
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
New Glarus (Wis.)
New Harmony (Ind.)
New Holstein (Wis.)
New Orleans (La.)
New Ulm (Minn.)
New York (N.Y.)
New York (State)
North Carolina
North Rhine-Westphalia
Ohio
Palatinate
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Poland
Pomerania
Prussia
Russia
Schleswig-Holstein
St. Louis (Mo.)
Switzerland
Texas
United States
Virginia
Watertown (Wis.)
Wisconsin

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SCIENCES, ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES & PROFESSIONS
German-American Studies
German-Americana
Law
Lawyers
Mathematics
Medicine & Health
Philosophy
Science

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 DESCRIPTION OF ITEM
Other Descriptive Terms
Atlases
Bibliography
Book review
Calendars & Almanacs
Catalogs
Cookbooks
Diaries
Dictionaries
Directories
Exercise books
Exhibitions
Guides
Illustrated
Image
Indexes
Letters
Lists
Maps
Media
Miscell. documents
Museums
Passenger lists
Periodicals
PIA
Reference
Registers
Research
Sources
Speeches
Textbooks
Attitudes
Economic aspects
Educational
Freemasons
Ideology
Intellectual life
Population
Science
Social aspects
Social conditions
Social influence
Social life and customs
Societies, etc.
Stereotypes
Superstitions
Theological

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