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Step back into Wisconsin’s Low-German past! On March 24, 2020, the Max Kade Institute will showcase the life and work of Albert F. W. Grimm. Join us for a fun evening with short presentations, readings …

We have added a new “Focus on Communities” element to our webpage “Neighbors Past and Present: The Wisconsin German Experience.” This page features German-American history, traditions, culture, resources, and much more, in communities where our …

Explore the latest issue of the Max Kade Institute NEWSLETTER, sent to members of the Friends of the Max Kade Institute. If you are not a member, yet, consider joining the Friends: https://mkifriends.org/membership/ Read about: –The …

The Max Kade Institute is delighted to introduce a new community project, a traveling exhibit called“Neighbors Past and Present: the Wisconsin German Experience.” On fourteen panels that draw largely on images and resources from our …

         The Max Kade Institute is collaborating with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Digital Collections to bring some of our monographs to as many readers as possible. Check out the following four titles: …

The Max Kade Institute is delighted to co-host the 43rd Annual Symposiun of the Society for German-American Studies in Madison, April 11-13! We look forward to..  two days of over 50 presentations and panel discussions on a …

The latest Friends of Max Kade Institute Newsletter is here! Personal German-American stories and documents are the focus of this issue. Read more about… – “The Greatest Christmas Ever”: A German-American Pastor’s Service on December …

The Max Kade Institute’s German-American and American English Dialects page is new and improved and back online! Go to http://language.mki.wisc.edu/, click on the tabs and explore “The German Language in America,” listen to “German-American Dialect …

Just in time for spring, here comes the MKI Newsletter Winter 2017-2018 issue. Read about “German Immigrants, Silver Fox, and Ginseng: The Colorful History of Hamburg and Berlin, Wisconsin” (this is were the Friends of MKI …

This year the Friends of the Max Kade Institute will step back to the early days of the twentieth century by visiting the historic Fromm Brothers Fur and Ginseng Farm in the Town of Hamburg, …