Spring 2009 Newsletter

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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,"