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We are delighted to announce that two longtime members of our Friends organization are offering a. $450 matching opportunity for the restoration of select books in the Max Kade Institute Library & Archives. With your donation …

Benjamin Bryce’s presentation on “Making English Canada: German and French Bilingual Schools in Ontario, 1880–1912,” recorded on March 8, 2022, can now be watched online.  Click HERE for an abstract, further information, and a link to …

Join us for an exciting symposium about German-speaking settlers and explorers in nineteenth-century South America, April 18-19, 2022, at the Pyle Center on the UW-Madison Campus. Free and open to the public. No registration required. …

Alison Clark Efford’s presentation on “The German-American Feminist and the Rape Trial of a Yankee Abolitionist: Insights from the Letters of Mathilde Franziska Anneke”  can now be watched online.  Click HERE for an abstract, further …

Can you read the Old German script/ Kurrent? Do you enjoy deciphering historic texts? Would you like to learn more about the German-American experience? Join the new Kurrent transcription group at the Max Kade Institute!   Modeled after a similar group at …

From the earliest days of the Republic, the U.S. government has translated many of its publications from English into other languages. A German-language example in the MKI Library is the Bericht des Commissionär des General-Landamtes, der …

Anja Hasse’s and Guido Seiler’s presentation from December 9, 2021, on one of America’s unique minority languages “Amish Shwitzer,” can now be watched online. Click HERE for an abstract, further information, and a link to …

We gratefully announce that the MKI received a donation of $257,000 from the estate of longtime MKI Friends Robert (Bob) and Dorothy Hodgskiss (Dottie) Luening. Bob, who passed away in 2019 at the age of …