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-- "Friedrich Karl Franz 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,

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.

"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"

VOL. 10 NO.4 Winter 2001
-- "Gilbert Speaks on German Word Atlases," by Thor Templin: Glenn Gilbert, "Atlases of the Language of the Descendants of German Immigrants in the United
States," "Linguistic Atlas of Texas German,"
-- "Brinkmann Explores the Term "German Jews," by Kevin Kurdylo: Dr. Tobias Brinkmann, "Jews, Germans or Americans? Jewish Immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe in Nineteenth-Century America," Chicago,
-- [Book Review] "Verpflanzt, aber nicht entwurzelt: Die Auswanderung aus Hessen-Darmstadt (Provinz Rheinhessen) nach Wisconsin im 19. Jahrhundert," reviewed by Antje Petty: Helmut Schmahl, Emigration from Hessen-Darmstadt (Province of Rheinhessen) to Wisconsin in the Nineteenth Century
-- "An Interview with Dr. Helmut Schmahl"
-- "Friend's Profile: Sue Stoddard," by Eric Platt: Jacob Sternberger
-- "Non-Deitsch 'Loan Words' in Pennsylvania German Powwowing," by Dennis Boyer: Powwow terminology in eastern Berks and southern Lehigh counties bears the most evidence of cross-cultural influence with words drawn from archaic Nordic, Celtic, Roma (Gypsy), Yiddish and American Indian languages
-- "Collection Feature: German-American Cookbooks," by Kevin Kurdylo: Henriette Davidis's Praktisches Kochbuch [Milwaukee: Brumder]

VOLUME 11 NUMBER 4
-- "Milwaukee part of Bach legacy," by Ann Reagan: Christoph Bach (1835-1927) / 19th century German-American music
-- "Freie Gemeinde celebrates 150 years in Sauk City," by Max Gaebler: Free thinkers / Free thought societies
-- "Kuenzi remembered for his love of music, genealogy, astronomy," by Nicole Saylor: Kuenzi, Ed (1916-2002)
-- "Friends profile: Jeanne Schueller: Milwaukee educator makes outreach a focus," by Nicole Saylor
-- "A brief history of Mennonite Low German," by Jack Thiessen: Plautdietsch, Plattdeutsch
-- "Jewish women in Upper Midwest exhibit opens": “Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest”
-- "Collection feature: Advice books," by Kevin Kurdylo: Self-help books, German language, for immigrants
-- "Visiting scholar ends her Low German research: Dat hew ick nie nich dacht!" by Alexandra Jacob: Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin / Alexandra Jacob interviews Platt speaker Bill Storm
-- "Milwaukee Liederkranz celebrates heritage with concert"

VOLUME 12 NUMBER 4
-- "German glass ornaments in America," by Robert Brenner: Christmas / Image: A family around a feather tree
-- "A look at Christmas in the German-American home," by Kevin Kurdylo: Die Deutsche Hausfrau, a monthly journal marketed to “die Frauenwelt Amerikas” / December 1914 and 1917 issues / Be your own dentist and cure your toothache with Dr. Feigenson's / First World War
-- "MKI part of a three-year project to digitize rare recordings of American dialects, languages," by Kevin Kurdylo: The Max Kade Institute (MKI), in partnership with the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures (CSUMC), The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), and the University of Wisconsin Libraries, has received funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to undertake a three-year project aimed at digitizing, interpreting, and making accessible important fieldwork audio collections capturing a variety of American languages and dialects
-- "Reliving the past: Notes on Sternberger project," by Kristen L. Reifsnyder: Jakob Sternberger, Franziska Sternberger, Kaaden, Bohemia, 1848 revolutions, letters, handwritten, immigrants, German, Wisconsin, Paul von Schwarzenfeld, Native Americans
-- [Speaking of Language] "Teaching German and English in Early America," by Mark L. Louden: Foreign languages, teaching methods / German-speaking Americans / Christian Becker / Der allgegenwärtige Deutsche Sprachlehrer des Wortes Gottes (1808) / Bilingualism and biliteracy / familiar dialogues, English and German
-- [Friends Profile] "A lifetime of involvement with German," by Nicole Saylor: Jo Ann Tiedemann / Concordia Language Villages / Peter Uiberall
-- "German migration was pursuit of happiness," by Kevin Kurdylo: Dr. Wolfgang Grams / immigrant letters / Johann Heinrich zur Oeveste, who left Osnabrück in 1834 and settled in Indiana / taverns often served as initial “travel agents” for those desiring to emigrate
-- "Martinson digitizing hours of dialect tapes," by Eric Platt: Kirk Martinson, North American German Dialect Archive
-- [Book Review] "On the trail of Pennsylvania German words," by Mark L. Louden: Prof. C. Richard Beam / Pennsylvania Dutch / Pennsylvania German / Des is wie mer’s saagt in Deitsch, (2002) / Pennsylvania German Words in Context
-- "Dr. Schmahl explores immigrant biographies," by Antje Petty: Dr. Helmut Schmahl / Mug books were commercially produced, glossy coffee table books that recounted the stories of mostly Midwestern communities / Mrs. Jacob Kessel in Portraits and Biographical Record of Sheboygan County (Chicago: Exelsior Publishing Co., 1894)

-- "German Settlers of Marathon County, Wisconsin," by Gary Gisselman.
-- "A Stranger in One's Own House," by Robert Reitzel; translated by Cora Lee Kluge.
-- "The Robin: Herald of Spring," by Henry Nehrling; translated by Kevin Kurdylo.
-- "A Walk in the Garden of Words," by Jack Thiessen.
-- "Lives and Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships," review by Tom Lutz
--"Jakob Otto Wyss (1846-1927): Postmaster in Klau: Letters from California," review by Cora Lee Kluge
--"Outrage Over German-Language Plays Divides Citizens of Milwaukee in February, 1919 -- Part I," by Cora Lee Kluge. World War I, anti-German sentiment, citizens protest, Franz Kirchner, German Theater Company, Hans Huckebein, Milwaukee Sonntagspost,

-- "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"

-- "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 Stulz Brothers, a German-American Business in Kansas City," by Kevin Kurdylo, Neuestes Deutsches Liederbuch, “von den Stulzen Brüdern” (by the Stulz brothers), folksongs, songbooks, German publishing, glassware, liqour business,
-- "The St. Nazianz Colony Struggles to Survive: 1873–1896," by Karyl Rommelfanger, utopian community, Father Ambros Oschwald, Anton Stoll,
-- Book Review: "The “German-ness” of the American Symphony: A Study of Musical Diplomacy," by Julia J. Chybowski, "Sound Diplomacy: Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850–1920," by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, nineteenth- and early-twentieth century transatlantic cultural exchange, symphony orchestra,
-- "University of Wisconsin Students Explore “Germanic Languages and Migration,” by Emily Heidrich, Professors Robert Howell and Joseph Salmons,
-- "Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present"