Newsletter

--"MKI—Twenty-Five Years!," by Cora Lee Kluge
--"'Kein Land der Erde bietet den deutschen Auswanderern mehr an. . .': Duden in Missouri," by Kevin Kurdylo, MKI Library, guidebooks, immigration, Gottfried Duden, travel literature,
--"New from MKI: German Words—American Voices Deutsche Wörter—Amerikanische Stimmen"
--"German-American Women’s Organizations in Nineteenth-Century Milwaukee," by Kevin M. Kurdylo, Anke Ortlepp, German Historical Institute Washington, charity clubs, school and kindergarten associations, labor unions, political associations, social clubs, singing and musical societies, mutual support groups, church organizations, auxiliaries for Turner societies, Freethinkers,
--"Outrage Over German-Language Plays Divides Citizens of Milwaukee in February, 1919—Part II," by Cora Lee Kluge, citizens protest, Franz Kirchner, German Theater Company, Hans Huckebein, Milwaukee Sonntagspost,

-- "Gifts from the Past: Items Found between the Pages of German-American Books," by Kevin Kudylo, Max Kade Institute collections, Neue Illustrirte Familien Bibel, In der neuen Heimath. Geschichtliche Mittheilungen über die deutschen Einwanderer in allen Theilen der Union, Anton Eichhoff, family Bibles, photographs,
-- "The Friedrich Wilhelm Heine Diaries: Unlocking the Story of American Cyclorama Painting," by Antje Petty, Milwaukee, landscapes, historical, religious, or mythological events,
-- "Tracing the German Settlers of Missouri: Publications of the University of Missouri Press," by Antje Petty, Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanovarian Germans in Western Missouri, by Robert W. Frizzell (2007), The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri: A Survey of a Vanishing Culture, by Charles van Ravenswaay,

-- "Investigating an International Treasure: The Diaries of Panorama Painter F. W. Heine," by Kevin Kurdylo, Museum of Wisconsin Art, translation, transcription, diary, Friedrich Wilhelm Heine (1845–1921),
-- "F. W. Heine: The Story of a German Immigrant," by Antje Petty, immigration, labor movement, Milwaukee, Chicago, Wehner’s American panorama studio
-- "They Thought He Was a “Kraut”," by Mark Louden, Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Cpl. Gilbert J. Beamesderfer, Pennsylvania Dutch, military, prisoner of war,
-- "The Devilish Power of Advertising," by Kevin Kurdylo, Faust Brand Nudels, Frauenfleiß, periodical, Faust Spaghetti, Maull Brothers advertisements
-- "Frank Trommler Speaks on a Turning Point in German-American Relations," by Kevin Kurdylo, “The Lusitania Effect: German Propaganda and German-American Identity in World War I,"
-- "Bundesverdienstkreuz awarded to Cora Lee Kluge"

-- "Instruction in German in American Schools," by Antje Petty, Max Kade Institute archive, education, primers, study guides, German script, report cards, literacy, Margarete Schurz
-- "Mettwurst, Mineola, and Northwest Iowa," by Rachelle H. Saltzman, Iowa Arts Council, plattdeutsch community, Schoening family, Schleswig-Holstein, St. John’s Lutheran Church
Mineola, German-English schools, Pommersch, education, sausage making, Remsen Processing Center in Remsen, Iowa
-- "Teaching German in America Today," by Antje Petty, foreign language education, immersion programs, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Waldsee German Language Village, Gerhard Haukebo, Concordia Language Villages, Milwaukee German Immersion School

-- "Carl Schurz’s Contribution to the Lincoln Legend," by Cora Lee Kluge, Lincoln bicentennial year, Abraham Lincoln: A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay (1891),
-- "Dear Miss Lenora: The Letters of a German Soldier in the Confederate Army," by Karyl Enstad Rommelfanger, Civil War, Siegmund Carl (Charles) Liebermann, German-born Confederate soldiers, Frances Lenora Davis,
-- Book Review: "Citizens and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation," edited by Nancy L. Green and François Weil, reviewed by Antje Petty, reasons for immigration, passport laws, Auslandsdeutsche,
-- "German Americans and their Relations with African Americans during the Mid-nineteenth Century Racial Divides, Special Issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History," by James J. Lorence, Walter D. Kamphoefner, Unionism, Republicanism, racial egalitarianism, political social behavior, pre-Civil War, Reconstruction, Helmut Keil, Kristen L. Anderson, Jeffrey Strickland, “whiteness studies,"

-- "MKI Celebrates 25 Years with Banquet and Conference," by Kevin M. Kurdylo
-- "2009 MKI Friends Annual Meeting and Tour of German-American Architecture in Dodge County, Wisconsin," by Kevin M. Kurdylo, Langholff housebarn, Watertown, Manitoba’s
German-Russian Mennonites and by Wisconsin’s Pomeranian Germans, Schoenicke barn, Lebanon,
-- "Spotlight on Dodge County, Wisconsin," by Cora Lee Kluge, Swiss-American cheesemaker John Jossi, Watertown, Specialty Cheese Company, Lowell, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars of Theresa, Professor Lester W. J. (“Smoky”) Seifert, The Low German Dialect of Sauk County, Old Lutherans
-- "Carl Gerhard, Mayville’s German-American Poet," by Cora Lee Kluge, Blumen am Wege, Mayville, Wisconsin, Emil Ruedebusch, poetry,
-- "Summer Travel in 1912, German-American Style," by Antje Petty, German American press, advertisements, Die Hausfrau, vacation, Milwaukee Herald, travel reports, luggage, Hamburg-America Line, writing case, sewing kit,

-- "The America Line: A Route for Immigrants from Germany’s Eastern Areas to Bremerhaven or Hamburg," by Cora Lee Kluge, railroad, Uelzen railroad station, Berlin, East and West Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania, Galicia, Russia, Magdeburg-Halberstadt Railroad Company, Salzwedel,
-- "News Note: Interest in J. D. Salinger from the German Perspective," by Cora Lee Kluge, World War II, D-Day landing, Utah Beach, Battle of the Bulge, Dachau, Sylvia Welter
-- "Research Notes: Dialect Shift in Freistadt, Wisconsin," by Mark L. Louden, American Languages project, North American German Dialect Archive, the Dictionary of American Regional English, Mills Music Library, Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, Jürgen Eichhof, Low German dialects, “Wisconsin High German,”
-- "Language Matters for Wisconsin: A Community-Based Initiative," by Antje Petty, Tom Purnell, Eric Raimy, Joseph Salmons, linguistics,
-- "Online Bibliographical Resources for German-American Studies: Part I," by Sonja Mekel, “The Awful German Language” and Script, German History, German Studies and Fiction, Books and Periodicals,
-- "German and Polish Students Study Immigration and Ethnicity in the Upper Midwest," by Antje Petty,
-- Books: "American Passage: The History of Ellis Island," by Vincent J. Cannato, review: Antje Petty, immigration,

-- "A Tour of the Library," by Kevin Kurdylo, Natallia Janechek, Cora Lee Kluge, Caitlin Carlson, Shelby Eckenrod, library, archive collections, German-speaking immigrants, resources, North American German Dialect Archive, Published in America,
-- "Herta Müller, 2009 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, and the Story of Her Ancestors’ Migration," by Antje Petty, German speakers in Romania, Romanian German minority, Donauschwaben, oppression, displacement, totalitarianism
-- Book Review: "Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840–1940," by John Koegel, Review by Cora Lee Kluge, Low German dialect song from Adolf Philipp’s, Über’n großen Teich, Eastman Studies in Music series, German musical theater, German-language performances, Adolf Neuendorff (1843–1897), Adolf Philipp (1864-1936),Deutsch-Amerikanisches Theater, Adolf Philipp Film Company,
-- "Bill Hammer: Otto Ruppius’s Adventure Story from Civil War Missouri," by Cora Lee Kluge, Civil War, Otto Ruppius (1819–1864), Forty-eighters, Wilhelm Schäfer, Die Gartenlaube,
-- "Online Bibliographical Resources for German-American Studies: Part II," by Sonja Mekel, immigration, genealogy, German Jews, German Americans: A Family Heritage Resource, Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Battery Conservancy, Castle Garden project, Auswandererbriefesammlung (emigrant letter collection), German Volksliederarchiv, Pennsylvania German Society, Leo Baeck Institute, Isaac Mayer Wise Digital Archive,
-- "Home Away from Home: Volga Germans of Chicago’s Jefferson Park," by Daniel Pogorzelski, Gateway to Chicago, ethnic Germans in Russia, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR), Lorraine and Marlene Hinsch in Jefferson Park,

-- "The Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion: A Testament to America’s Gilded Age," by Peter Arvedson, Wisconsin Avenue, Grand Avenue, Milwaukee, Gilded Age, Milwaukee Sentinel, George Brumder, Patrick Cudahy, William Plankinton, Henry Wehr, Pabst Brewing Company,
-- "“We Throw Coins into Water Fountains”: The Bubbler and the Kohler Company," by Antje Petty, drinking fountain, John Michael Kohler,
-- "Friedrich Franz Karl Hecker, 1811–1881, Part I," by Kevin Kurdylo, Forty-Eighters, German revolution, Civil War, slavery, Carl Schurz,
-- "A. R. Hohlfeld’s Report Concerning German and German-American Influence at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1906," by Cora Lee Kluge, Die Glocke, German-American journal, A. R. Hohlfeld, faculty, Pabst Theater, Carl Schurz Memorial Professorship
-- "A Noteworthy German-American Journal: Die Glocke," by Cora Lee Kluge,

-- "Friedrich Franz Karl Hecker, 1811–1881, Part II," by Kevin Kurdylo, Civil War, German-born immigrants, 3rdMissouri Volunteer Regiment, Francis (Franz) Sigel, 1st Hecker Jäger [Hunter] Regiment, 24th Illinois Volunteers, Carl Schurz, Major General Joseph Hooker, Hecker monument Benton Park, St. Louis,
-- "Minnesota Center Digitizing Immigrant Letters," by Kevin Kurdylo, Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota
-- Book Review: "The Influence of the European Revolutions of 1848–1849 on Antebellum America," by Cora Lee Kluge, "Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism," by Timothy Mason Roberts, Civil War, European rebellions,
-- "“Where Is the War Ministry?”: Useful Phrases in German, 1917," by Cora Lee Kluge, MKI collection, International Conversation Book: English–French, English–German,
-- "Impressions of the 2010 Friends Annual Meeting in Milwaukee," by Antje Petty
-- "The Fate of Young Jewish Girls at a Secondary School in Nuremberg during the Nazi Period," by Carolin Tappe, Jewish students, Holocaust, Findelgasse School,
-- "From the MKI Library Archives: Pages from the Arkansas German-Language Press," by Cora Lee Kluge, advertisements, linguistics, German American vocabulary, translation,