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Read MoreDrawing on the resources of the Max Kade Institute Library & Archives and other contemporary materials, this presentation looks at German-language documents published in the United States during the World War I Era. It offers a glimpse into...
Read MoreJoin us for this lively CD release party featuring the Grammy award-winning owners of Archeophone Records Meagan Hennessey and Richard Martin, accordionist Deb Krauss Smith, and folklorist and Professor Emeritus James P. Leary. In 1920 Ferdinand...
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Doors open at 5PM, music begins at 6PM
This early evening event with food and cash bar is free and open to the public.
Die Tanzgeiger is a traditional Austrian dance band with Upper Midwestern connections,...
Read MoreOne of the most fascinating phenomena in the animal kingdom is the migration of salmon. This photo presentation by Arthur Frederick Hasler tells the story of his father Arthur Davis Hasler (1908-2001), a former UW-Madison Limnology Professor, who...
Read MoreWhen immigrants from German-speaking Europe came to the Midwest in the nineteenth century, they brought with them their culture and traditions, especially culinary ways and recipes. Before long, cookbooks were printed in this country for the...
Read MoreThis year the Friends of the Max Kade Institute will step back to the early days of the twentieth century by visiting the historic Fromm Brothers Fur and Ginseng Farm in the Town of Hamburg, Marathon County. We will learn how five brothers, whose...
Read MoreFor more information go to https://www.oshkoshpubliclibrary.org/events/2018-04-16-230000-2018-04-17...
- Thursday, April 12, 6:00 p.m. at Prescott Public Library (...
This lecture is the keynote address at the opening of the exhibit “German Iowa and the Global Midwest." It is followed by a reception.
Glenn Ehrstine is Associate Professor of German a the University of Iowa. His research focuses on...
Read MoreThis exhibit, created by the University of Iowa, visualizes the story of German immigration to Iowa in the context of global migration to the American Midwest, and examines pro- and anti-immigration sentiment, the value and challenges of...
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