The Forgotten Minority: Urban Germans of the Confederate States During the American Civil War

Speaker(s):

Andrea Mehrländer

Location:

University of Wisconsin–Madison, Memorial Union

Co-sponsor(s):

UW–Madison Lectures Committee, Department of German,Center for German and European Studies, Friends of the Max Kade Institute

Description:

Most German immigrants settled in America’s northern states, and most of the German Americans who took part in the American Civil War fought on the side of the Union. Focusing on three cities—Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans—this lecture examines the role of ethnic Germans in the nineteenth-century American South, particularly during the Civil War era. Dr. Andrea Mehrländer is the Executive Director of the Check Point Charlie Foundation in Berlin, Germany

Attachment:

Mehrlaender_poster_Nov21.pdf