Volume 30 No 2 • Spring 2021
--- "Port Washington, Wisconsin: German-American History on the Shore of Lake Michigan," by Antje Petty: Ozaukee County (Wis.) / Immigration, Luxembourg / German Catholics / Civil War, 1861-1865
--- "Sunday Dancing in Milwaukee 1870: Two Cultures Collide," by John W. Krueger: Turners / Ethnic identity / Court cases / Cultural differences
--- “'Five Men and a Boat': The Wisconsin Maritime Family of Johann Lutz," by Thomas J. Lutz: Grünmettstetten, Württemberg / Family history / Sheboygan, Wisconsin / Boats / Shipping / Great Lakes / Lake Michigan / Chicago, Illinois
--- "Restoration and Conservation of MKI Library and Archival Materials," by Kevin Kurdylo: Friends of the Max Kade Institute / Grants / Books -- Conservation and restoration
File: MKI_Spring-2021_Newsletter-1.pdf
Volume 30 No 3 • Summer 2021
--- "African Americans and the German Language in America," by Mark Louden: African Americans / Afro Germans / German speakers in America of African ancestry / Court cases / 19th century
--- "Relations between African and German Americans and Black German Speakers in Texas," by David Hünlich: African Americans / German speakers in America of African ancestry / 19th century / German-Texan Schützen (marksmen) / Ethnic identity / Assimilation
--- "Dr. S. W. Staads, Homeopathy, and Der Amerikanische Hausarzt," by James R. Dow: Medicine & Health / Folks-medicine / Homeopathy / Staads, Soeren Wilhelm, 1897-1971 / German Americans -- Iowa
--- Book Review, "German-Americans on the Middle Border: From Antislavery to Reconciliation, 1830–1877." Author: Zachary Stuart Garrison. Reviewer: Pamela Tesch.
File: MKI_Summer-2021_Newsletter.pdf
--"German Immigration to South America," by Mark Louden; Map distribution of German speakers around world, German-speaking immigrants, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Walter Kamphoefner, Hunsrik language, Hunsrückisch, Hunsrück region in modern Germany, Te kleene Prins, translation into Hunsrik of Le petit prince, Georg Anton Schäffer, Pomerano, Brazilian Pomeranian
--"A Life in Clippings: The Scrapbooks of John Eiselmeier," by Kevin Kurdylo, MKI library collection, John Eiselmeier scrapbooks, Milwaukee Herold, Jonesboro [Illinois] Gazette, Monatshefte für deutsche Sprache und Pädagogik, Professor Dr. Tristan Coignard of Bordeaux Montaigne University, World War II, 1941 cartoon promoting a US isolationalist position, German American identity, Germania Sonntagspost, Amana Colonies, The Free American and Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter, Chicago Daily Tribune,
--"Excerpts from John Eiselmeier’s Autobiography"
--Book Review: "Das Arkansas Echo: A Deep Dive into a German-American Newspaper’s Inaugural Year, 1892," by Chris Stohs, Kathleen Condray, Arkansas Echo, German-language newspaper, Little Rock, Arkansas, Die Arkansas Staatzeitung, Turner movement, labor history
--"Report on the Friends Annual Meeting 2021 and a Welcome to New Members on the Board of Directors," by Antje Petty
File: MKI_Fall-2021_Newsletter.pdf
-- "The Luxembourg Presence in Wisconsin," by Mark Louden: Luxembourg Fest Parade, Belgium, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin / Gottlieb Biedermann, 1850–1928 / Nicholas E. Becker, 1840–1920 / Luxembourgish language in America
-- "A Young German-Jewish Immigrant in Civil War America: The Memoirs of David Lepman," by Antje Petty: David [Liebmann] Lepman, 1841-1932
-- "Randi Ramsden Joins the Max Kade Institute."
-- "Book Review: Kamphoefner’s Germans in America," by Cora Lee Kluge.
File: MKI_Spring-2022_Newsletter.pdf
"From Rags to Archives’ Riches: Historic Newspaper Resources" by Randi Ramsden: Chronicling America, German American newspapers, Illinois Staats-Zeitung, Der Deutsche Correspondent, Der Vaterfreund [Vaterlandsfreund]
"The Germans of Landskron (Lanškroun): From Franconia to Bohemia and Bohemia to America" by James Kleinschmidt and Edward Langer: Waterloo-Wisconsin, emigration from Bohemia, "robota" labor system, St. Wenceslaus Roman Catholic Church in Waterloo-Wisconsin, Island Church, Sudeten
"“I Write About the Beauty of Death So You May Enjoy More Beauty in Life”: Dr. Berthold A. Baer, 1857–1924" by Kevin Kurdylo: German American immigrant, Charles Sessler publishing house, Anna Katherine Green, German American poetry, Baltimorer Blumenspiegel
"Friends of the Max Kade Institute Annual Meeting" in Port Washington, Wisconsin"
"Julie Larson-Guenette Joins the Board of Directors"
File: MKI_Summer-2022_Newsletter-final.pdf
"Letters in German from a Wisconsin Farm Woman: Anna (Jagow) Seifert’s Letters to Her Son Lester, 1932–1942" by Antje Petty: Lester "Smoky" Seifert, linguistics, German heritage language, Oderbruch dialect, German American schools, Gerhardt Balg, Northwestern Lutheran College, "The Black and Red," Pennsylvania Dutch,
"German-Language Press in South Dakota and the Potential of Data Analytics " by Randi Ramsden: Süd Dakota Nachrichten, Germans from Russia, South Dakota, Dakota Freie Presse, Deutscher Herold
"Santa is an Aeronaut" Advertisements in the German American Press: Eureka Pharmacy, Eureka Post, South Dakota, Der Deutsche Correspondent
Book review "Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier: The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus" by Daniel J. Gelo and
Christopher J. Wickham, by David Hünlich: German-Comanche contact, German immigration to Texas, Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, Native American languages, Penateka chief Santa Anna, Adelsverein, John Meusebach, Emil Kriewitz, Ferdinand Herff,
File: MKI_Fall-2022_Newsletter-FINAL.pdf
"Swiss American History of Monroe, Green County, Wisconsin" by Hans Bernet: National Historic Cheesemaking Center, Turner Hall, Green County Courthouse, New Glarus, settlement history
Friends of the MKI Annual Meeting in Monroe, Wisconsin
"From Rags to Archives’ Riches: Exploring Utopian Ambitions in Ohio’s Early German-Language Newspapers" by Randi Ramsden: Free Society of Teutonia, German Utopian Community in Ohio, Peter Kaufmann, Betrachtung über den Menschen, Georg Rapp, Rappist societies, Der Vaterlandsfreund
"Sängerfests – The Festivals of German-American Singing Societies" by Antje Petty: Nordöstlicher Sängerbund, Männerchor, Baltimore Liederkranz, Milwaukee Musikverein, Arion New York, Nordamerikanischer Sängerbund,
"Building MKI’s Published in America Collection: The Process from Acquisition and Catalog Entry to a Place on the Shelf" by JoAnn Tiedemann: Fürsten Bismarck by Paul Hermann, Paul Haedicke
"Books Repaired by Grimm Bindery" by Kevin Kurdylo: Gustaf Zimmermann’s Deutsch in Amerika, Das Weisse Haus Kochbuch
File: MKI_Spring-2023_Newsletter.pdf