Winter 2013/2014 Newsletter

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-- "German Immigrant Paul Seifert and the Rural Landscape of Southwest Wisconsin," by Ron Nagel, Martin Lutscher farm in the town of Honey Creek, Wisconsin, art, Midwestern folk art, Watercolor, Free Mason Institute in Dresden, Royal Academy for Agriculture and Forestry in Tharand, Saxony, 19th century, Native American artifacts
-- "Annual Meeting in Janesville, Wisconsin"
-- Collection Feature: "Coming of Age in Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago: The Life and Writings of Elfrieda Hochbaum," by Kevin Kurdylo, Elfrieda Hochbaum, "Burning Arrows," German American girlhood in Chicago, Hilda Brandt, Great Fire, Paul R. Pope, College Equal Suffrage League,
-- Book Review: "The Franco-Prussian War and the Decline of American Liberalism," by Cora Lee Kluge, "German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era," by Alison Clark Efford, German Americans’ contributions to the political and social development, 19th century, Reconstruction, Liberal Republican movement, Germany's unification, Carl Schurz, Andrew Zimmerman, African American rights, black suffrage
-- "The Stiftskeller Murals at the UW–Madison Memorial Union Restored," by Kevin Kurdylo, Rathskeller, Leon Pescheret, Eugene Hausler, German mottos, German slogans, Kurt
Schaldach, “Battle between Beer and Wine," When Wine and Beer Make War On Each Other,” restoration, Conrad Schmitt Studios