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-- "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,"

-- "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,

-- " Schlaraffia Milwaukia," by Antje Petty, Vereinskultur (Verein = club, society), singing societies, gymnastic clubs, shooting societies, the Freemasons, non-political society, humor, entertainment
-- "D. C. Luening’s Colorful Career, or Coming of Age as an Immigrant," by Antje Petty, Dietrich C. Luening, Milwaukee Public School District, Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee Sentinal
-- "The Jacob Best Family Memorial," by Peter Arvedson, Pabst Brewing Company, Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Best Brewing Company
-- Book Review: "Now in English Translation: Civil War Letters from America’s German-Language Press," by Cora Lee Kluge, "August Willich’s Gallant Dutchmen:
Civil War Letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry," Translated and edited by Joseph R. Reinhart, "A German Hurrah! Civil War Letters of Friedrich Bertsch and Wilhelm Stängel, 9th Ohio Infantry," Translated and edited by Joseph R. Reinhart

-- "Traces in the Landscape: Immigration from Mecklenburg to Middleton, Wisconsin," by Antje Petty, Pope Farm Conservancy, agriculture, Civilian Conservation Corps, Joachim Goth, Carl and Sophia Goth
-- "The History of the First German Evangelical-Lutheran Congregation in the Town of Middleton, Dane County, Wisconsin," by Antje Petty, Pastor Scherbel, Mecklenburg immigration
-- Lecture Report: "The German Diaspora and Nationalism before World War I," by Kevin Kurdylo, Stefan Manz, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, German-speaking immigrants around the globe, Germanic culture, Protestant churches, German Navy Clubs (Flottenvereine), German schools abroad, German Protestant congregations
-- Lecture Report: "The American Civil War As a Transatlantic Event," by Kevin Kurdylo, Andrew Zimmerman, “FortyEighters,” revolutions, German American military history
-- Book Review: "Nourishing the Heritage: Immigrant Gardens in Wisconsin," by Marilyn Herman, "Putting Down Roots: Gardening Insights from Wisconsin’s Early Settlers, " by Marcia Carmichael, settlers' garden, German gardens, home gardens, homesteads
-- Book Review: "Spotlight on St. Louis in the Civil War Era," by Cora Lee Kluge, "The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War," by Adam Arenson, 19th century, immigrants

-- "German Prisoners of War and the Mississippi Basin Model," by Cora Lee Kluge, World War II, POW camps, lumber, agriculture, military, Mississippi River, flood control, Army Corps of Engineers, Camp Clinton
-- Book Review: "Striking a Utopian Chord: The Germania Musical Society," by Alan Lareau, "Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in Nineteenth-Century America," by Nancy Newman, musical ensemble, Henry Albrecht
-- "Man on a Mission: Reverend J. F. G. Harders," by Kevin Kurdylo, Jaalahn. Die Geschichte einer Indianerliebe, Wohin? Ein Geleitswort auf den Lebensweg für die konfirmierte
Jugend, German American literature, Johann Friedrich Gustav Harders,
-- "A Day in Eau Claire at the Friends Annual Meeting," by Antje Petty
-- "Karen Fowdy and Steven Geiger Join the Friends Board of Directors," by Antje Petty

-- "Buschbauer and Rechtsrath: Personal Advice from the Germania Publishing Company’s Haus und Bauernfreund," by Antje Petty, letters, Middleton, Wisconsin, Reverend Max End, Campbell Hill, Illinois, advice columns, correspondence, Georg Brumder, Francis (Franz) Arnold Hoffmann, Der Missionsbote, Illinois Staatszeitung, Prairie Farmer, Chicago Democrat, Cynthia Gilbert, “Kleiner Briefkasten” (little mailbox), German-language publications, Deutsches Volksblatt, Die Warte
-- In Memoriam: Robert L. Clodius (1921–2014)
-- "Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Max Kade Institute in Janesville, Wisconsin," by Antje Petty
-- Friends Profile: "Fran Luebke Rejoins the Friends Board of Directors," by Antje Petty
-- Book Review: "A German Immigrant in Anglo-American Missouri: 1834–1877," by Antje Petty, "Longer Than a Man’s Lifetime in Missouri," by Gert Goebel, Friedrich Muench, Paul Follenius, Gottfried Duden, Franklin County, Missouri,
Elsa Nagel,

--"The German Language in a Time of War: Die Abendschule Speaks Out in 1915," Translation by James Doing, introduction by Cora Lee Kluge, World War I, German American newspaper,
--"The First Customers at the Meeme House Inn," by Karyl Rommelfanger, Michael Herr, Andreas Herr, Karl Pflaume, Manitowoc
--"Eugene Field Plays a Prank on Carl Schurz," by Kevin Kurdylo,
--"Impressions from the Friends of the Max Kade Institute’s Annual Meeting in Madison," by Antje Petty
--"In the Right Place at the Right Time: Saving the Wisconsin–Hessen State Partnership Proclamation," by Sy Kreilein
--"Welcoming Bill Thiel and Don Zamzow on the Friends Board of Directors," by Antje Petty

--"Bringing Light to the Milwaukee German Theater," by Calla Buttke, German-language theater, Neues Stadt Theater, Ferdinand Welb, Julius Richard, Leon Wachsner, Frederick Pabst, Trostel Collection, Wilhelm Müller’s play Im gelobten Land Amerika, Hans Kissling, Greenhorns in Amerika
--"Spoken German in South Africa—A Lecture by Peter Wagener," by Antje Petty, “Of German Neighborhoods and Low German Villages: Spoken German in South Africa,” Peter Wagener, Sprachinsel, former German colony, South-West Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Deutsche Schule Kroondal
--"Undergraduate Academic Excellence: An Interview with Calla Buttke," by Cora Lee Kluge
--"Friends 2016 Annual Meeting in Racine, Wisconsin," by Antje Petty
--"The Meyers of Milwaukee," by Cora Lee Kluge, Georg (George) Meyer, Milwaukee Herold, German Socialist immigrants

--"Symposium Report: People of Faith, Voices of Tradition—Germanic Heritage Languages among Christians and Jews," by Mark Louden, North American minority languages, Amish Swiss German, Hutterite German, Mennonite Low German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Yiddish, Plautdietsch, Jürg Fleischer, Heinrich Siemens, Steve Hartman Keiser, Joshua Brown, Guido Seiler, Miriam Isaacs, Lynn Marcus Miller
--"Friends Annual Meeting 2017: An Exploration of Milwaukee’s German Art," by Antje Petty
--"Three New Members for the Friends Board of Directors," by Antje Petty
--"Mark Twain’s “Magnanimous-Incident” Hero and Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan," by Cora Lee Kluge

--"Carl Schurz and the University of Wisconsin," by William E. Petig, “America and Americanism,” German Amercian politics, education, Margarethe Schurz
--"Should You Change Your German Name?," by JoAnn Tiedemann, German American surnames, Ahn’s amerikanischer Dolmetscher für Deutsche, Ahn’s neuer amerikanischer Dolmetscher für Deutsche"
--"Annual Meeting 2018 in Hamburg and Berlin, Wisconsin," by Antje Petty
--"William E. Petig, New Member of the Friends Board of Directors," by Antje Petty
--"The Meaning of the Name 'Nachtrieb'," by Zita Ballinger Fletcher
--"Sauerkraut By Any Other Name," by Mark Louden, Associated Press, liberty cabbage, loan creations