Spring 2012 Newsletter

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-- "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