German-American Resources at the Max Kade Institute — Creators A through D

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These pages contain information on pamphlets, journals and journal articles, book chapters, and more from the Library and Archives of the Max Kade Institute. They also includes additional online resources related to German Americana.

Abel, Mary Bilderback. “Massacre at Gnadenhutten.” American History Illustrated, vol. 16, no. 8, 1981, pp. 28-31.
Abstract: Backwoodsmen murdered ninety-six Christian Indians in 1782.
MKI P86-139 / SHS E 171 .A574
Ohio/ Native Americans/ History/ Moravians

Abigt, Marilyn. “Researching in Thueringen.” German-American Genealogy, Fall 2000, pp. 2-6.
Notes: “The following article was transcribed from a talk given to the Immigrant Genealogical Society on June 4, 1999 by Marilyn Abigt. Marilyn is a member of IGS and also a professional researcher who visits Germany one or two times each year.”
Abstract: This article is about genealogical research in Thueringen, Germany, including the headings: “Where is Thueringen?”; “Records for Thueringen”; “Communist Influence on Thinking”; “Effects on Research”; “Availability of Records”; “Some Do’s and Don’ts”; “Other Possible Record Sources”; and “Contact Local Persons.”
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Germany/ Research

Abrams, Bernard A. Fibel nach der reinen Schreiblese-Methode. Eclectic German Primer, Erstes und zweites Schuljahr. New York, N.Y.: American Book Co., ©1886. 112 pp.
MKI P85-99
PIA/ Textbooks/ Educational/ Teaching of German/ Fibeln/ Primers

Acker, Anton. The Painesville story = Die Painesville Geschichte. [Painesville, Wis.: Painesville Memorial Association], 1992. 64 pp.
Notes: Photocopy provided by Gretchen Rosing (June 16, 2000); a Corpus Callosum Project.
Abstract: Documents the early German settlers in southern Milwaukee County, describing “the beliefs these settlers brought to the area and the institutions they founded.” Of particular interest is the Freidenker (Freethinker) Movement.
MKI P2002-15
Freethinkers/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Painesville (Wis.)/ Forty-eighters/ Immigrants, German

Adams, Willi Paul. “Amerikanische Verfassungdiskussion in deutscher Sprache: Politische Begriffe in Texten der deutschamerikanischen Aufklaerung, 1761-88.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 32, 1997, pp. 1-20.
Abstract: The decision for American independence and the drafting of the first state constitutions and of the United States Constitution were accompanied by intense public debate which could be followed in German. During this process, the German press capably and nobly informed its readers and steered them through the straits of special rights for minorities, so that the German Americans did not become an isolated apolitical subgroup but a genuine American constituency enjoying equal rights with all citizens.
MKI periodicals
Politics / Law/ German-American press/ 18th century/ Political activity/ German Americans

Adams, Willi Paul. “The colonial German-language press and the American revolution: beginning of an immigrant press?” Gesellschaft und Diplomatie im transatlantischen Kontext: Festschrift für Reinhard R. Doerries zum 65. Geburtstag. Michael Wala, Hrsg. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999, pp. 1-8.
Abstract: This article attempts to fit German-language newspapers into the picture of a growing American national consciousness and preparedness for a war of independence in the colonial period. Includes many excerpts and examples from the newspapers.
MKI E183.7 G47 1999
German-American press/ Revolution, 1775-1783/ Newspapers, German-American/ Colonial period

Adams, Willi Paul. “Ethnic Leadership and the German-Americans.” In America and the Germans. Frank Trommler and Joseph McVeigh, eds Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1985, pp. 148-159.
Abstract: German Americans who took on leadership positions, in order to help influence their fellow immigrant’s opinions about their situation in America. They formed cohesive, organized groups, whose shared experience of migration mobilized them to attain the goals of their ethnic group. Ethnic leadership is defined according to nine elements.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 A39 1985
German Americans/ Ethnicity/ Cultural influence

Adams, Willi Paul. “Ethnic Politicians in Congress: German-American Congressmen between Ethnic Group and National Government circa 1880.” In German-American Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 243-272.
Notes: Paper originally presented at a conference at Texas A&M University, Apr. 1997.
Abstract: Focuses on two case studies: Lorenz Brentano, Republican from Chicago, 1877-1879; and Peter Victor Deuster, Democrat from Milwaukee, 1879-1885.
E 184 .G3 G295 2004
19th century/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Ethnic identity/ Political activity/ Politics/ Ethnic groups — Other groups/ Ethnic relations

Ahmad, C. Naseer. “William Tell Award and its Recipients.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 54, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 61-80 pp. : ill.
Notes: “[T]he Tell Award is presented by the Embassy of Switzerland to a personality demonstrating exceptional and outstanding support for Swiss-American relations. … [and] honoring acts of courage and achievements to serve the greater good.”–p. 62.
Abstract: A brief explanation of the historical legend of William [Wilhelm] Tell, is followed by a table and summaries of the recipients of the award 2010-2017.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans

Ahn, F. Franz, and J. C. Oehlschläger. Praktischer Lehrgang zur schnellen und leichten Erlernung der Englischen Sprache. Zweiter Cursus. St. Louis, Mo.: Herder, 1889. 122 pp.
On title page: Von Dr. F. Ahn. Nebst Angabe der Aussprache mit deutschen Buchstaben und deutschen Tönen. Von J. C. Oehlschläger. Verlag von B. Herder, 17. suedl. Fuenfte Strasse. — On t.p. verso: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year [1858?], by John Weik & Co., in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, in and [?] the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. — Date taken from cover.
Donated by David Flieger.

 

 

Ahrens, Adolph. “A Letter from a Turner Soldier to His Family During the Civil War.” American Turner Topics, Mar./Apr. 1993, pp. 10-11.
Notes: Photocopy donated by Gretchen Rosing, May 2004.
Abstract: Translation of a letter written by Adolph Ahrens from Camp Hunter’s Chapel, Virginia, Oct. 24, 1861, to his mother and sister in Hamburg. Ahrens writes about the difficulty finding work in Philadelphia, how the Philadelphia Turners volunteered to join a regiment from New York, and of his involvement in the Battle of Bull Run or Manassas Junction. The letter “reveals a feeling of family solidarity unshaken by separation and distance.” Submitted for publication by Forrest F. Steinlage and Professor C. Eugene Miller.
MKI P2004-38
Ahrens, Adolph/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Letters/ Turners

Albisetti, James C. “German Influence on the Higher Education of American Women, 1865-1914.” German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917. Henry Geitz, Juergen Heideking, and Jurgen Herbst, eds. Washington, D.C.; Cambridge; New York : German Historical Institute; Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 227-244.
Abstract: “This essay looks briefly at four subtopics of this general theme: the relation of the German immigrant community to female education, the impact of individual immigrants, the extent to which German institutions for female education served as models for the United States, and the effects in this country of German ideology about woman’s capacities and proper place. It then examines in more detail two other subtopics: the impact on women in the adoption of the German university model in the late nineteenth century and the lure that advanced study in Germany exercised on American women.”
MKI/MEM LA 216 G47 1995
Education/ United States/ History/ German influence/ 20th century/ 19th century/ Women/ Immigrants, German

Albrecht, August. August Albrecht’s englischer Dolmetscher oder gruendliche Belehrung, die englische Sprache nach einer leichtfasslichen und schnellen Methode ohne Lehre au erlernen. Nebst einem Anhang, enthaltend praktische Notizen fuer das Beduerfniss der Auswander. Ein Hilfsbuch fuer Auswanderer nach Amerika und Australien. 19th ed. Leipzig: Heinrich Matthes, 1880. 207 pp.
Notes: Mit neu revidirter Aussprache von James Dix aus London; Praktische Notizen für deutsch Auswanderer nach Amerika., pp. 189-207; donated by Richard Horn, 1985.
Abstract: Includes phonetic pronunciations of English phrases and Praktische Notizen für deutsch Auswanderer nach Amerika.
MKI P85-74
Immigrants/ Teaching of English

Albrecht, Erich A. “Deutsche Sprache, Deutsche Literatur und Deutsch-unterricht in New Orleans, Louisiana.” German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1971, pp. 18-21.
Abstract: Albrecht’s article includes a copy of a Lousiana House Bill, which makes the teaching of German illegal in the state between the years 1918 and 1921.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Language, German (US)/ German Americans — Louisiana/ History

Albrecht, Erich A. “Deutsche Sprache in Kansas.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, eds. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, vol. 4.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 161-169.
Abstract: This article deals with the history and the present state of the German language in Kansas. It includes a list and map of German placenames.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)/ Kansas

Albrecht, Erich A. “Ein deutschamerikanisches Regenlied.” German-American Studies, vol. 1, no. 1 , 1969, pp. 1-2.
Abstract: Albrecht uses the poem “Ein deutschamerikanisches Regenlied” as a springboard to confirm the existance of a German-American poetry, thereby renouncing “werkimmanente Interpretationen.”
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Literature, German-American/ Poetry/ Literary criticism

Albrecht, Erich A., and J. A. Burzle. “Bericht ueber die Gruendung und Taetigkeit des Max Kade German-American Document & Research Centers.” German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1971, pp. 4-6.
Abstract: Albrecht and Burzle’s report describes the holdings of the Max Kade Institute and lists the names of people who have contributed their support.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German-American Studies

Albrecht, Erich A., and J. Anthony Burzle. “German-American Literature and Culture 1976. Preservation of its Heritage. Where do we go from here?” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds 1977, pp. 127-129.
Abstract: Albrecht and Burzle’s article summarizes the suggestions made at the Symposium on German-American Literature and Culture re accumulating and using information to study German-American culture.
MKI P87-163
Literature, German-American/ Culture

Albrecht, Erich A., and J. Anthony Burzle. “Introduction.” Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, Editor Editors, Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle. Lawrence, KS: Max Kade Document and Research Center, 1977. 129 pp.
Abstract: Albrecht and Burzle’s 3 page introduction explains the history and goals of the German-American Document and Research Center at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. It also states that the Center’s symposium re German-American literature and culture contained papers given by “community historians,” i.e. by people “actively engaged in the preservation of family histories and customs” with the intention of bridging the gap between the German-American community and academia.
MKI P87-163
German Americana

Alderfer, Joel D. “Kommt liebe Kinder, Kommt herbei: Elementary Education in the Mennonite Communities of Southeastern Pennsylvania to 1840.” The ABCs of German American Education in Pennsylvania Prior to the Public School Movement of 1834: A Symposium, 10 pp.
Notes: June 30, 2007 at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, Pennsburg, PA.
Abstract: Examines the writings of Christopher Dock (d. 1771) in which he describes his own teaching methods and the management of early Mennonite schools in the 18th and early 19th centuries in southeastern Pennsylvania.
MKI P2007-47
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Education/ Mennonites/ 18th century.

Alexander, Benno. “Aus dem Leben der canadischen Wildgans.” Die Welt, vol. 10, no. 1, January 1910, pp. 83-88, 103-104, 108.
Notes: Eine illustrirte Vierteljahrsschrift für deutsche Familien. Druck und Verlag: Publ. “Die Welt” Press Bldg., Lincoln, Neb.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Fiction/ Animals/ Alaska/ Nature

Alexander, Benno. “Des grauen Luchses letzter Raubzug.” Die Welt, vol. 13, no. 1, January 1913, pp. 92-105.
Notes: Eine illustrirte Vierteljahrsschrift für deutsche Familien. Druck und Verlag: Publ. “Die Welt” Press Bldg., Lincoln, Neb.
Abstract: “Der dort wohnende Farmer war erst vor wenigen Jahren aus einem fernen, fernen, weit jenseits des grossen Weltmeeres gelegenen Lande, Deutschland geheissen, herüber gekommen. Er hatte sich in dieser nordwestlichen Waldeinöde eine Heimstätte geschaffen, weil anderswo kein freies Regierungsland mehr zu haben gewesen. Denn hier war er doch wenigstens sein eigener Herr und die Zukunft gehörte ihm, während er drüben sein liebes Leben lang wohl nur ein einfacher Arbeiter hätte bleiben müssen.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Fiction/ Animals/ Canada/ Nature/ German Canadians

Alexander, Benno. “Die Robbenschlaeger. Aus dem Lebensroman eines verlorenen Sohnes.” Die Welt, vol. 16, no. 4, October 1916, pp. 24-49.
Notes: Ein deutsches Magazin fuer deutsche Familien. Druck und Verlag: Publ. “Die Welt” Press Bldg., Lincoln, Neb. — Robbenschläger. Abenteurergeschichte von Benno Alexander.
Abstract: “Ich bin einer von Deutschlands verlorenen Söhnen. Mein eigentlicher Name thut nichts zur Sache, denn ich stehe ganz allein in der Welt. Seit nahezu vierzig Jahren bin ich nur noch als John Brown bekannt gewesen.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Animals/ Alaska/ Canada/ Nature

Alexander, Benno. “Geheimniss der Mitternacht.” Die Welt, vol. 12, no. 2, April 1912, pp. 87-95.
Notes: Eine illustrirte Vierteljahrsschrift für deutsche Familien. Druck und Verlag: Publ. “Die Welt” Press Bldg., Lincoln, Neb. — Erzählung von Benno Alexander. — Corner of last four pages missing.
Abstract: “Jimmy Jones war soeben im Begriff gewesen, zwei Dampferfahrkarten nach einem weltfernen, gottverlassenen Goldgräberneste an der canadischen Nordwestküste zu lösen, — wie ein Schwarm kleiner Teufel — eine Horde von Zeitungsjungen mit dem üblichen Gebrüll: ‘Extra! Extra!’ dahergerast kam.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Fiction/ Seattle (Wash.)

Alexander, Benno. “Im hohen Norden.” Die Welt, vol. 11, no. 1, Jan. 1911, pp. 9, 112-116, 118, 120, 122,124, 126, 128, ill.
Notes: Page 9 has brief biographical sketch and photograph of Benno Alexander; donated by Kathryn Odegaard, 2005.
Abstract: Hunting in Alaska. From p. 9: “Benno Alexander entstammt einer echt deutschen Familie. Er ist Ver. Staaten Landmesser und bereist im Auftrage unserer Bundesregierung die kanadisch-alaskanische Grenze. Benno Alexander ist sein Schriftstellername, sein Familienname ist einer der besten in Deutschland. Obwohl droben in der nordischen Wildniss seit Jahren unter fremden Voelkern lebend, hat er sich sein deutsches Gemueth treu bewahrt, wie seine Erzaehlungen, von denen wir auch diesmal wieder einige bringen, unsern Lesern beweisen.” Chapters are titled “Elenjagd” and “Mein Grizzly.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Personal narratives/ Travel/ Animals/ Alaska

Algin, Barbara, and Gerhard Clausing. “Zur Situation der deutschen Sprache in Kalifornien.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, ed. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, eds Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, vol. 10.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1985, pp. 99-107.
Abstract: This article deals with the history and present state of the German language in California. MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)/ History

Allard, William Albert. “The Hutterites, Plain People of the West.” National Geographic, vol. 138, no. 1, 1970, pp. 98-125.
MKI P87-74
Hutterites/ Social life and customs

Allen, Ann Taylor. “American and German Women in the Kindergarten Movement, 1850-1914.” German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917. Henry Geitz, Juergen Heideking, and Jurgen Herbst, eds. Washington, D.C.; Cambridge; New York : German Historical Institute; Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 85-101.
Abstract: From the final paragraph: “By encouraging some women to acquire and use the prestigious vocabulary of German philosophy and science, the kindergarten movement enabled them to discover their intellectual potential, to overcome some cultural barriers to women’s public self-expression and activity, and to gain a hearing from their male contemporaries.”
MKI/MEM LA 216 G47 1995
Education/ United States/ History/ German influence/ 20th century/ 19th century/ Women/ Kindergarten

Althoff, Karl. “The Shipwreck of the Powhattan: Tragedy for Emigrants from Budenthal in 1854.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 28, no. 3, June 2003, pp. 26-29.
Abstract: Translated by Herman A. Hartmann. “On April 5, 1854, the American ship Powhattan…had 315 emigrants as passengers destined for New York [sailing from the port of Le Havre]. They were within sight of the coast of New Jersey when the ship sank with all passengers on board….[A]mong that number were 45 Bavarian citizens…from the governmental region of the Pfalz.”
MKI Periodicals
Ships/ Atlantic crossing/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Le Havre, France/ Bavaria/ Budenthal/ Palatines

Alvarez-Halm, Diego. Die Blume der Miami. Eine Indianer-Erzählung. New York: Ernst Kaufmann, n.d. 96 pp., col. ill.
On title page: Reich illustriert. Ernst Kaufmann, 22 u. 24. North William Street, New-York. — On cover: No. 734. — On t.p. verso: “Druck am Gustav Kuehn in Neu-Ruppin.”— Diego Alvarez-Halm and Otto Bergmann may be the same person; most listings for a book titled “Old Knife der lange Trapper” are attributed to Otto Bergmann, but a few seem to be attributed to Alverez-Halm.
Donated by Karyl Rommelfanger.

 

 

Amato, Donna G. “German Springerle Cookies.” Cobblestone, vol. 22, no. 5, May 2001, pp. 40-41, ill.
Notes: German Americans issue; intended for readers ages 9-14.
Abstract: Includes recipe for making these traditional Christmas treats.
P2003-5
Food/ Christmas

Ambauen, Andreas Andrew, ed. Himmels-Rosen; oder: Darstellung der 15 heil. Rosenkranz-Geheimnisse nach der geheimnisvollen Stadt Gottes der gottseligen Klosterjungfrau Maria von Agreda mit prakt. Nutzanwendungen zum Gebrauche bei der Mai-Andacht, sowie auch während des Oktober- oder Rosenkranz-Monats. [Mount Angel, Ore.?]: the author, 1894. viii, 587 pp., ill.
On title page: Herausgegeben von Rev. Andreas Ambauen, Priester der Erzdiözese Milwaukee. Verfasser des “Geistlicher Jugendfreund,” u. s. w. Mit oberhirtlicher Genehmigung. Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers. 1894.
On t.p. verso: Imprimatur: F. X. Katzer, Erzbischof von Milwaukee. Wm. H. Gross, Erzbischof von Oregon. Buchdruckerei der Benediktiner Väter, Mount Angel, Ore. Copyright 1894 by Rev. Andrew Ambauen.
From Lamb’s Biographical Dictionary of the United States (1900):
AMBAUEN, Andrew Joseph, R.C. priest, was born at Beckenried, canton of Unterwalden, Switzerland, March 7, 1847; son of Michael and Barbara (Zimermann) Ambauen. He received his early education .in his native place and later in the Jesuit college at Feldkirch, Austrian Tyrol, and at the college at Brieg and Einsiedeln.
He studied theology at the seminary of Mentz, Hesse Darmstadt, and in 1872 came to the United States and completed his course of study at the Archi-Episcopal provincial seminary in Milwaukee,Wis. He was ordained priest in 1872, and served in various mission stations until 1886, when he became pastor of St. Joseph’s church at Dodgeville, Wis. He is the author of: “The Devout Companion ” (1887); “Our Christian Duties” (1887); “The Floral Apostles, or What the Flowers Say to Thinking Man ” (1892); and in German ” The Friend of Youth ” (1892); “Roses of Heaven ” (1894); and ” Guide to Our Celestial Home” (1885); and numerous articles contributed to Catholic magazines.
Ex libris: Salzmann Library, St. Francis Seminary, St. Francis, Wis. / Milwaukee, Wis. 53207.
Donated by John Manke, 2006

American Exchange Bank. A brief history of Madison and the American Exchange Bank of Madison, Wisconsin, on the occasion of the bank[‘s] 100th anniversary, 1871-1971. Madison, Wis.: American Exchange Bank of Madison, 1971. 53 pp.
Abstract: In 1871, after emigrating from Bremen, Germany, John J. Suhr established his own bank in Madison, Wisconsin, and named it the German Bank. It was later named the “German-American Bank” and later still the name was changed to the American Exchange Bank.
MKI P2001-33
Business & Industry/ Madison (Wis.)/ History

Ammann, Othmar, and Lilly Ammann. “Correspondence: O. H. Ammann’s return to Switzerland (Aug. 6-17, 1914); O.H. Ammann’s service in the Swiss army (Aug. 19 – Dec. 17, 1914); O. H. Ammann’s return to New York (Nov. 13 – Dec. 17, 1914); Letters from 1915 to the end of the war (May 10, 1915 – Nov. 28, 1918).” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 39, no. 3, 1993, pp. 4-63.
Abstract: Othmar Ammann (1879-1965) is rightfully viewed as one of the great bridge-builders of the 20th century whose five bridges of metropolitan New York are lasting monuments to his engineering genius. The correspondence between him, his family, and his spouse, Lilly Selma Ammann, born Wehrli, for the war years 1914 to 1918 reveal the experiential dimension to those years when Switzerland was spared the horrors of war and the United States entered the struggle only towards its end.
MKI periodicals
Letters/ World War, 1914-1918/ Swiss Americans/ Ammann, Othmar, 1879-1967

Amrein, Franz X. “Schweizer Kuenstler in Amerika.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 47, 1927, pp. 56-65, ill.
Notes: Author is from New York.
Abstract: Herman H. Genhart, Albert Gos, Walter Haefliger, Werner Kaufmann, Ernest A. Kubler, Joseph Meierhans, Cecille Staub, and Jacob Zollinger.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Artists

Amrein, Franz X. “Schweizer Kuenstler in Amerika.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 48, 1928, pp. 65-72, ill.
Abstract: Anna Duncan, Frau A. Huber-Bersen, Edward Hurlimann, Martha Karrer, Hedwig Kopp, Louis Petrini, and Marie Vulliemoz.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Artists/ Theater & Drama/ Music

Amrein, Franz X. “Schweizer Kuenstler in Amerika.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 50, 1930, pp. 71-80, ill.
Notes: Von Franz X. Amrein, New York.
Abstract: Eleonore Pfirstinger, Ernest Schelling, Frieda Hauswirth-Das, Carle Michel Boog, Frederick K. Detwiller, Arnold Geissbuehler, Karl Glockner, Charles Andreas Hafner, Billie Dove (Lillian Bohni), Marcian Thalberg, Madga Lavanchy, Paul Julien Meylan, and J. Otto Schweizer.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Artists/ Theater & Drama/ Music/ Arts/ Writing/ Painting/ Sculpture

Amrein, Franz X. “Schweizerkunst und Kuenstler in Amerika.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 51, 1931, pp. 45-51, ill.
Notes: Von Franz X. Amrein, New York.
Abstract: Hugo Gnam, Fridolin Blumer, Alphonse E. Bohrer, Louis Conne, J. Francois Kaufmann, Joseph Lotto, Elisabeth Rittmeyer, and Siegfried Tappolet.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Artists/ Theater & Drama/ Music/ Arts/ Painting/ Sculpture/ Dance

Amrein, Franz X. “Schweizerkunst und Kuenstler in Amerika.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 53, 1933, pp. 82-85, ill.
Abstract: Richard W. Albright, (painter and interior decorator), Hugo Frey (musician), Conrad Buff (paintings, murals, lithographs), Elsa Moegle (musician), Margaret Schoch (landscape architect), Hans Schwansee (wood carver), and William Wyler (film director).
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Artists/ Music/ Arts/ Painting/ Sculpture/ Architecture

Amrein, Franz X. “Siebzig Jahre Helvetia Maennerchor (Ein Gedenkblatt).” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 48, 1928, pp. 94-96, ill.
Notes: Photographs of Edward E. Bechtel and Fred Kuenzli.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Societies, etc./ Songs/ Music/ Helvetia Maennerchor

Amstutz, J. Bruce. “A Friedline Genealogy: From Immigrant Johann Ludwig Friedlein of Pennsylvania to Some Indiana Descendants.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 28, no. 1, Dec. 2002, pp. 13-26, ill.
Abstract: Follows the Friedline family for six generations from the arrival of Johann Ludwig Friedlein in Philadelphia in 1751 to the death of Susan (Friedline) Bloxsom in Pennville, Indiana, in 1922. Appendices include a discussion of possible place of origin for Johann Ludwig Friedlein (evidence suggests a Lutheran area, probably in the southwest area of Germany) and the probable maiden name of Johann Ludwig Friedlein’s wife, Anna Margaret, which was likely Lenhart.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Genealogy/ Friedlein/ Lenhart

Anderson, Harry H. “The Frank-Kerler families celebrate the holidays.” Historical Messenger of the Milwaukee County Historical Society, vol. 25, no. 4, 1969.
Abstract: Includes excerpts from diaries of August Frank and letters writing about Christmas celebration
MKI P91-24
Christmas/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Social life and customs

Anderson, Harry H. “Peter Engelmann: German-American pioneer and scholar.” Milwaukee History, vol. 14, no. 1, 1991, pp. 20-36.
Abstract: Peter Engelmann–educator, scientist, scholar and liberal thinker–was one of the towering figures to emerge from Milwaukee’s German-American community in the middle of the nineteenth century. The foundation for what became the German and English Academy of Milwaukee, or more popularly, the “Engelmann Schule,” grew out of a meeting of free-thinkers. The Schuleverein was first organized then the German and English Academy was established. Peter Englemann was hired as director and teacher at the school. Peter Engelmann’s contributions to the intellectual life of the Milwaukee community were both significant and lasting. He brought to the city the depth and strength of German educational training, preserving its traditions for his fellow countrymen and sharing its benefits with non-Germans as well.
MKI P99-8
Forty-eighters/ Education/ Biographies/ Engelmann, Peter, 1823-1874

Anderson, Jennifer. “Emigration Databases.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 22, no. 1, July/Aug./Sept. 2004, pp. 20-21.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
Abstract: Brief descriptions of twelve emigration Web sites: Ahnenstammkartei Index; Baden Emigration Index; Bremen to New York: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, with Places of Origin; Bremen Passenger Lists; Brandenburg Emigration Indexes; Deutsche Auswanderer-Datenbank; Germans to America; Hamburg Passenger Lists; Mecklenburg Emigration Index; Schleswig-Holstein: 26,000 Emigrants; Wuerttemberg and Baden Emigration File of Glatzle & Mueller; and Wuerttemberg Emigration Index. Some sites require membership subscriptions.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Genealogy/ Ships/ Passenger lists/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants/ Registers/ Sources/ Databases

Anderson, Jennifer. “Keywords for German Search Engines.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 22, no. 1, July/Aug./Sept. 2004, pp. 21.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
Abstract: Lists German words found in parish registers and those frequently associated with German search engines and online databases, especially emigration databases.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Genealogy/ Sources/ Databases/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Anderson, Jennifer A. “From Westphalia to Indiana: Johann E. Schmale, the Life of a German Immigrant.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 22, no. 3, Jan./Feb./Mar. 2005, pp. 125-131.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
Abstract: A well-documented history. Johann Ernst Schmale immigrated to America in the summer of 1844. By 1847 he had made his way to Bear Creek, Switzerland County, Indiana.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Genealogy/ Westphalia/ German Americans — Indiana/ Lutherans

Anderson, Keith O., and Willard M. Martin. “Language Loyalty among the Pennsylvania Germans: A Status Report on Old Order Mennonites in Pennsylvania and Ontario. Socio-Religious and Linguistic Aspects.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds 1977, pp. 73-80.
Abstract: Anderson and Willard’s article contains two sections: Part I–Socio-Religious Aspects and Part II–Linguistic Aspects.
MKI P87-163
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Mennonites/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Canada/ Linguistics

Anderson, Kristen L. “German Americans, African Americans, and the Republican Party in St. Louis, 1865-1872.” Journal of American Ethnic History, vol. 28, no. 1, (Special issue, Racial Divides) Fall 2008, pp. 34-51.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Examines how policy decisions made by the Missouri Republican Party in the years following the Civil War threatened to undermine support for the party among the state’s German population. These policies included a failure to address specific economic concerns, the inclusion of religious language and a loyalty oath for clergymen in the new Missouri constitution, and the issue of black suffrage.
MKI P2009-4
African Americans/ German Americans — Missouri/ Ethnic relations/ 19th century/ Slavery/ Political activity/ Politics/ St. Louis (Mo.)

Anderson, Timothy G. “On the Pre-Migration Social and Economic Experience of Nineteenth-Century German Immigrants.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 36, 2001, pp. 91-108.
Abstract: “This study employs individual-level socioeconomic data contained in Prussian tax rolls and local parish records to reconstruct the pre-migration experience in northwestern Germany of a sizeable group of immigrants who settled in Osage County, Missouri, in the mid-nineteenth century. Based on the analysis of these data, the study argues that rural German peasant society was not one dimensional in nature…but rather far more intricate and multi-faceted in terms of socioeconomic class and land ownership.”
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Social aspects/ Economic aspects/ Prussia/ German Americans — Missouri

Anderson, Timothy G. “Review of Deutsche Einwanderer im laendlichen Sued-Indiana (USA): Eine historische-geographische Analyse (Klause Dehne, Passau: Universitaet Passau, 2003. 108 pp.).” H-NET Book Review, June 2004, pp. 4 pp.
Notes: Published by H-GAGCS, an interdisciplinary discussion forum that focused on topics relevant to German-American and German-Canadian Studies from the 17th century to the present — http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~gagcs/
Abstract: “Dehne is…concerned with…the settlement, growth and development of the immigrant study communities in the United States”; he employs a “longitudinal, comparative analysis of two civil townships in neighboring counties in southern Indiana [Widner Township in Knox County, and Ferdinand Township in Dubois County], both settled in the mid-nineteenth century by groups of German immigrants, but with distinctive regional origins in Germany.”
MKI P2004-39
Book reviews/ German Americans — Indiana/ German Americans — Indiana/ Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Lippe-Detmold/ Catholics/ Protestants

Anderson, W. Cary. “Identifying the Mysterious Anna Kunigunda Mohr, Widow, and Her Two Sons: Johannes and Phillip Mohr, 1709 Palatines: The Trail from Oberhausen, Pfalz; to the South Branch of the Potomac River, Hampshire County, Virginia, now Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 29, no. 2, Mar. 2004, pp. 10-25.
Abstract: Names researched include: Katz/Catts/Catt, Dorn/Thorn, Ess/Eask, Harness/Herner/Horner/Hoerner, Mohr/Moor/Moore, Neff/Nave, Riedt/Rued/Reed, Stumpff/Stump, and Zehe/Zeh/Say.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Palatines/ German Americans — Virginia/ German Americans — West Virginia/ 18th century

Anderson, William T. “America’s Trapp Family.” American History Illustrated, vol. 21, no. 8, 1986, pp. 36-45.
Abstract: History of the von Trapp Family singers and how they immigrated to America
MKI P86-136 / SHS E 171 .A574
Music/ Songs

Andreae, F. Hundertfaeltig. Blumen und Sterne, Heft 39. Reutlingen: Ensslin & Laiblin, n.d. 16 pp.
MKI P2000-30
PIA/ Children’s literature

Andress, Reinhard. “The Altenheim: a German Old People’s Home in Forest Park through the Ages.” German-American Journal, vol. 66, no. 2, April/May 2018, pp. 10-13.
Abstract: First opened in May 1886, the Women’s Society of the Old People’s Home had as their mission to offer a home for old and desolate Germans in need. It has changed with the times and today offers independent living apartments.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)

Andress, Reinhard. “The Germania Club of Chicago: a History and Some Curiosities [2 parts].” German-American Journal, vol. 65, no. 2-3, April/May, June/July 2017 , pp. 10-11.
Abstract: Founded from the German men’s choir that performed at Lincoln’s casket while it was lying in state at the Chicago Court House, the Club hosted Prince Heinrich of Prussia (brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II) in 1902 and despite the anti-German sentiment of World War I, reached its peak membership in 1921. Social events including both German-American and other well-known Chicago names were regular occurrences.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ German American Clubs

Andressohn, John G. “Die Literarische Geschichte des Milwaukeer Deutschen Buehnenwesens, 1850-1911.” German American Annals, [1912?], pp. 1-45.
Notes: Reprinted from German American Annals, continuation of the quarterly Americana Germanica.
Abstract: Gives an overview of the history and especially the literary history of the Milwaukee German theater
MKI P97-13
Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Theater & Drama/ History

Andrews, J. N. Die dritte Engelsbotschaft in Offenbarung XIV. 30. n.d. pp.
Notes: Religion; fragment
MKI P88-112
PIA/ Theological/ Biblical

Anneke, Mathilde Franziska. “Das Weib im Conflict mit den socialen Verhaeltnissen. Deutsche Dichter der Neuzeit II. Louise Ashton (Im Winter vor der Revolution geschrieben) 1846-1847.” 17.
Anneke box
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884.

Anneke, Mathilde Franziska. “A woman’s memoirs of the campaign in Baden and the Palatinate (translated by Hildegard Blackwell).” 42 pp.
Anneke box
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/ Memoirs.

Appel, Susan K. “Building Milwaukee’s Breweries: Pre-Prohibition Brewery Architecture in the Cream City.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 78, no. 3, 1995, pp. 162-199, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Breweries — Wisconsin — Milwaukee — History/ Architecture, Industrial

Aregger, Manfred. “From Escholzmatt, Canton Lucerne, to Chicago, Illinois: The Emigration of the Family Marbacher.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 43, no. 2, June 2007, pp. 7-55, ill.
Notes: Originally published in the Blaetter fuer Heimatkund aus dem Entlebuch, vol. 68, 2003. Translated and edited by Leo Schelbert.
Abstract: Documents the emigration of the extended Marbacher family, living on the Schwaendlen farm of Escholzmatt in Canton Lucerne’s Entlebuch district. The core of the study is a transcription of letters written back home by Josef and Anton Marbacher. Josef was born in 1808 and immigrated around 1828 to the United States, first settling in Canajoharie on the Mohawk River in upstate New York, in 1831 moving west to Detroit, in 1836 to Chicago. In 1846 he was joined by his father Anton Marbacher. . . “Other family members followed to settle in Chicago. “The letters of Josef and Anton Marbacher describe conditions of travel, their surroundings and circumstances, and they reveal an intense sense of family loyalty, but deal only occasionally with major issues of the times. . . . The Marbacher family’s emigration highlights the dimension of the migratory phenomenon that has been called chain migration.”
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Genealogy/ 19th century/ Switzerland/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Marbacher

Arend, Angelika. “‘Der Linie folgend, schrieb entzueckt ich: Blau’: Tradition and Modernism in the Poetry of Walter Bauer.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 41, 2006 , pp. 117-129.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Examines the creative efforts of German-Canadian poet Walter Bauer (1904-1976), which were “firmly rooted in the German literary tradition. His continued use of German even after his emigration to Canada is the most obvious indicator of this unbroken connection. His choices of themes and poetic means, too, remained in large measure indebted to his German heritage. No wonder, then, that he availed himself repeatedly of the tradition-laden symbol ‘blue.'”
MKI Periodicals
Poetry/ German Canadians/ Bauer, Walter, 1904-1976

Arhardt, Jacob. “Review of “Oesterreichische Autoren in Amerika. Geschick und Leistung der oesterreichischen literarischen Emigration ab 1938 in den Vereinigten Staaten.” Mimi Grossberg and Viktor Suchy, eds.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 184-185.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Armentrout, Daryl R. “Selim Armentrout: His Mark during the Civil War, March 13, 1862–June 10, 1865.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 29, no. 4, Sept. 2004, pp. 12-17.
Abstract: The family, originally spelling their name as Ermentraudt, immigrated to America in 1739. Selim served in the Confederate Army, became ill or was wounded in 1863 during the Vicksburg siege, and was later arrested at his home in Greene County, Tennessee, by Union soldiers. Describes conditions experienced by prisoners of war at camps during the time Selim was being held. This biographical sketch was gleaned from army service records and other records from the Civil War.
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Palatines/ German Americans — Tennessee/ Prisoners of war

Arn, G. Gottfried. “Das un aeis.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 44, 1924, pp. 85-86.
Notes: Swiss-American/German-American author.
Abstract: Poems in the Swiss dialect.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Poetry/ Dialects

Arn, Gottfried. “Gunderbunti Sache.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 41, 1921, pp. 89-90, ill.
Notes: Includes a portrait of the poet; Swiss-American/German-American author.
Abstract: Poetry.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Poetry/ Dialects

Arn, Gottfried, Alfred Adrian Fischer, E. Weiss, Anthony Schmid, J. G. Probst, and Dominik Mueller. “Des Schweizers fuehlen in Amerika. Von Schweizern in Amerika.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 37, 1917, pp. 39-42.
Abstract: Poems. In one poem, Gottfried Arn uses the word “Fuul,” with a footnote explaining that Fool = Naerrin.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Poetry/ Dialects

Arndt, Edward J. “E. L. Arndt and the Early History of the Missouri Synod in Minnesota.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 1, Spring 1995, pp. 6-17, ill.
Abstract: “Dr. Arndt was the son of a shoemaker who came from Pomerania and settled on the prairie outside of Chicago. He was educated entirely in Missouri Synod schools, but was also self-taught. At Concordia Seminary in St. Louis he studied under Walther, Pieper, Lange, Stoeckhardt, and Guenther…. He collected biographies of pastors and teachers written in their own hand, largely in German.”
MKI Periodicals
Arndt, Eduard Louis/ Biographies/ Religious life/ Lutherans/ German Americans — Minnesota/ Minnesota

Arndt, Edward J. “Karl J. R. Arndt: Lutheran German-American Scholar. A Nachruf.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 2, Summer 1992, pp. 47-52, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ Arndt, Karl J. R.

Arndt, Edward J. “Rudolf Lange’s Letter Written One Year Before the Founding of the Missouri Synod.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 1, Spring 1997, pp. 21-37, ill.
Abstract: Lange’s letter provides a first-hand account of the hardships endured by immigrants coming to America in the 19th century.
MKI Periodicals
Lange, Carl Heinrich Rudolf/ Lutherans/ Lutheran Church/ Letters

Arndt, Karl J. R. “American Descendants of Hessians of the American Revolution.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13 pp. 72-76.
Abstract: Proposes the formation of an organization of Descendants of Hessians of the American Revolution (ADHAR)
MKI Periodicals /SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Hessians/ History/ Wars/ German Americans — Societies, etc.

Arndt, Karl J. R. “The First German Broadside and Newspaper Printing of the American Declaration of Independence.” Pennsylvania Folklife, vol. 35, no. 3, 1986, pp. 98-107.
MKI P86-95
Newspapers, German-American

Arndt, Karl J. R. “The First Translation and Printing in German of the American Declaration of Independence.” Monatshefte, vol. LXXVII, no. 2, 1985, pp. 138-143.
Abstract: The author compares the newly discovered undated Steiner and Cist broadside of a German translation of the American Declaration of Independence with H. Miller’s printing of the translation into German of the American declaration on 9 July 1776 as the printing date for the Steiner and Cist broadside.
MKI P90-16
German-American press

Arndt, Karl J. R. “George Rapp and His Pioneer Indiana Poets.” Contemporary Education, vol. 58, no. 2, 1987, pp. 94-99.
MKI P87-153
Economy (Pa.)/ Harmony Society/ New Harmony (Ind.)/ Rapp, George, 1757-1847/ Poetry/ Communities

Arndt, Karl J. R. “The German Occupation of Quebec in 1776.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, 1978, pp. 107-112.
Abstract: The role of the German mercenaries from Brunswick in helping preserve the French tradition in Quebec
MKI Periodicals
German Canadians/ History/ Wars

Arndt, Karl J. R. “Gustav Koerner, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, Honored Fugitive and Champion of German Unity: On the 150th Anniversary of the Frankfurt Drive of April 3, 1833.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 83-86.
Abstract: Arndt’s article provides a brief biography of Koerner and lauds his revolutionary action.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
19th century/ Illinois/ Prussia/ Biographies/ Germany/ History/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees/ Politics/ Diaries/ German Americans — Illinois

Arndt, Karl J. R. “The Importance of the Church in the Winning of the West.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds., 1977, pp. 81-88.
MKI P87-163
Amish/ Brethren Church/ Hymns/ Literary criticism/ Zion Gemeinde/ Catholic Church/ Harmony Society

Arndt, Karl J. R. “In Commemoration: The Bicentenial of the First Treaty between the United States and Prussia.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 153-154.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Prussia/ Wars

Arndt, Karl J. R. “Indiana’s Lost German Heritage: Providing Local Incentive for the Study of German.” Contemporary Education, vol. 58, no. 2, 1987, pp. 100-101.
MKI P87-153
German Americans — Indiana/ Language, German (US)/ Teaching

Arndt, Karl J. R. “The litigious Mr. Sealsfield.” Modern Language Notes, vol. 78, 1963, pp. 527-532.
Abstract: As further illustration of Sealsfield’s litigious nature, Arndt presents for first publication a document which he discovered in the Sealsfield collection of the Zentralbibliothek of Solothurn, Switzerland, the city in which Sealsfield spent the last years of his life and where he lies buried. The document is here published by courtesy of the Zentralbibliothek.
MKI P93-50
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Arndt, Karl J. R. “Luther’s Golden Rose at New Harmony.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 3, 1976, pp. 112-122.
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535

Arndt, Karl J. R. “Microfilm Preservation of the German Language Press of the Americas.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds., 1977, pp. 13-20.
Abstract: Arndt’s article discusses the need for microfilming German-American newspapers and provides a brief history of some of the larger papers.
MKI P87-163
Newspapers/ German-American press/ Periodicals

Arndt, Karl J. R. “New light on Sealsfield’s Cajuetenbuch and gesammelte Werke.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology , vol. 41, 1942, pp. 210-222.
Abstract: A recently discovered letter is presented which brings some new information about a period in the forties when Sealsfield quit publishing.
MKI P93-51
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Arndt, Karl J. R. “Plagiarism: Sealsfield or Simms?” Modern Language Notes, vol. 69, 1954, pp. 577-581.
Abstract: Article considering the accusation of plagiarism made by Simms: “By the way, whole pages of Guy Rivers have been stolen by Sealsfield.”
MKI P93-52
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Arndt, Karl J. R. “Review of “Carl Shurz. Revolutionary and Statesman. His Life in Personal and Official Documents with Illustrations.” (Heins Moos Verlag, Munich.).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1979, pp. 148-149.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Arndt, Karl J. R. “Review of “Johannes Schwalm, The Hessian” (Millville, Pa., 1976).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 3-4, 1976, pp. 92-94.
Abstract: Arndt’s review provides a brief history of Schwalm, a Hessian “who chose freedom rather than the ‘By-the-Grace-of-God’ corrupted honor of the Hessian princely code.”
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Arndt, Karl J. R. “Reviews of Group Captives: the Re-education of German Prisoners of War in Britain, by Henry Faulk; Stalag: USA: the Remarkable Story of German POWs in America, by Judith M. Gansberg; and The Faustball Tunnel: German POWs in America and Their Great Escape, by John Hammond Moore.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 1979, pp. 124-127.
Abstract: Arndt’s review discusses the contributions of the above titles to the scholarship of German POWs in the US.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1939-1945/ Prisoners of war/ Germans

Arndt, Karl J. R. “Schliemann’s Excavation of Troy and American Politics or Why the Smithsonian Institution Lost Schliemann’s Great Troy Collection to Berlin.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 16, 1981, pp. 1-8.
Abstract: Arndt’s article documents the friendship between Heinrich Schliemann and Kate Field, a German-American journalist. It includes several passages taken from their correspondence.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Journalism/ Letters

Arndt, Karl J. R. “Sealsfield and Strubberg at Vera Cruz.” Monatshefte, vol. 44, 1952, pp. 225-228.
Abstract: Article about Strubberg’s report of having met Sealsfield at Vera Cruz as a major in the U.S. army.
MKI P93-53
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism/ Strubberg, Friedrich Armand, 1806-1889

Arndt, Karl J. R. “Sealsfield-Postl als amerikanischer Dichter.” Schriftenreihe der Charles-Sealsfield-Gesellschaft , vol. 4, 1989, pp. 49-69.
Abstract: Arndt’s article claims that Sealsfield is a well-established member of the German literary canon and explores the reasons why Sealsfield has been forgotten by American readers and critics.
MKI PT 2516 S4 Z4586 / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Germany/ United States/ Literary criticism

Arndt, Karl J. R. “Sealsfield’s early reception in England and America.” Germanic Review, vol. 18, 1943, pp. 176-195.
Abstract: One of the very important but unexplored phases of research on Sealsfield is that of his early literary reception in England and the United States. This is addressed in Arndt’s essay.
MKI P93-60
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Arndt, Karl J. R. “Sealsfield’s Relation to Davis Warden, United States Consul in Paris, France.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 113-124.
Abstract: Arndt’s article includes several of Sealsfield’s letters to Davis Warden to illustrate Sealsfield’s interest in political life in the U.S.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315; P94-7
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Biographies/ Catholics/ Letters/ Politics/ Newspapers

Arndt, Karl J. R. “A Tour of America’s most Successful Utopia: Harmonie, Pennsylvania 1803-1815.” Pennsylvania Folklife, vol. 32, no. 3, 1983, pp. 139-140.
MKI P88-92
Harmony Society/ Pennsylvania/ Communities

Arndt-Schug, Rosalind. “‘Was nimmt der Auswanderer mit, der sich als Kolonist in Brasilien anzusiedeln gedenkt? Vor alles eine Frau.’ Deutsche Einwanderinnen als Kolonistinnen in Suedbrasilien im 19. Jahrhundert.” Frauen wandern aus: Deutsche Migrantinnen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Monika Blaschke and Christiane Harzig, eds. Bremen: Labor Migration Project, 1990, pp. 161-182.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
MKI HQ 1410 .F738 1990; SHS Pam 90-3693
Women/ Emigration and immigration/ Brazil/ 19th century

Arnold, Shelley. “The German Face of Maryland.” German Life, October/November 2015, pp. 44-47.
Notes: Website contains only first two paragraphs.
Abstract: Overview of the many German influences on the state of Maryland.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Maryland

Arpke, Jerome C. Das Lippe-Detmolder Settlement in Wisconsin. Eine historische Erzaehlung. Milwaukee, Wis.: Germania, 1895. 56 pp.
Notes: PIA. On t.p. verso: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1895 by Jerome C. Arpke, B. L., Franklin, Wis., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.
Abstract: N.B. for English translation, see P85-49. Also see: FH Nagel. SHS has 1975 translation, Pam 74- 6507.
MKI P84-1 / SHS F 590 .G3 A75 Rare Book Col.
PIA/ Wisconsin/ History/ Sheboygan (Wis.)/ Lippe-Detmold/ Westphalia

Ascher-Nash, Franzi. “Connecticut – Vignette (poem).” German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 2 , 1971, pp. 14-15.
Notes: German-American author, woman author.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Poetry

Ascher-Nash, Franzi. Die wahre Perspektive meines Lebens. Ein Essay. Cincinnati: Verband deutschsprachiger Autoren in Amerika, 1978. 20 pp.
Notes: German-American author, woman author.
Abstract: Rev.: NSGAS 3, No.3 (1982): 29.
MKI P84-3
PIA/ Women authors/ Prose/ Autobiography

Ascher-Nash, Franzi. “Millersville – and Vienna – and Leo Ascher.” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, ed. 1980.
Notes: German-American author, woman author.
Abstract: A report on the author’s personal relationships with Leo Ascher, Dr.Adolf and others.
MKI P85-83
Women authors/ Music

Ascher-Nash, Franzi. “Poems.” In Journal of German-American Studies. 1970-1980.
Notes: German-American author; various poems published in the Journal of German-American Studies between 1970 and 1980.
Abstract: “Suche” Vol. 1:2 (1970) p. 103; “Connecticut” Vol. 3:2 (1971) p. 14-15.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, German-American/ Women authors/ Poetry

Ascher-Nash, Franzi. “Suche! [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1970, pp. 103.
Notes: German-American author, woman author.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Asher, Richard. “Paul Tillich and New Harmony, Indiana.” In Studies in Indiana German-Americana. 1988, pp. 25-38.
Abstract: New Harmony is famous for its two utopian communities. The one religious founded by George Rapp and the other socialist founded by Robert Owen of Scotland. The combination of both a religous and socialist background is what drew Paul Tillich to this small, rural Indiana town. He is generally considered to have been one of this century’s most important theologians, best known for his argument that God could not be adequately defined as a person, but rather as the Ground of Being or Reality, the Spiritual Presence which animates the universe. This paper investigates the similarities among the philosophies of Rapp, Owen, and Tillich. Like Rapp, Tillich came from a German Lutheran family critical of Lutheran conservatism. Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965
MKI P92-9
New Harmony (Ind.)

Assion, Peter. “The causes of the mass emigration to the United States – Objective pressures and their subjective perception.” In: Jetzt wohnst du in einem freien Land; Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch, vol. 39, no. 3, 1989, pp. 258-265.
Notes: The articles are in German.
MKI JV 8014 . J47 1989
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Auer, Wilhelm. Heiligen-Legende für Schule und Haus. Mit Bild, Leben eines Heiligen, Lehre und Gebet für jeden Tag des Jahres. Fünfte Auflage. Milwaukee, Wis.: Diederich-Schaefer Co., 1890. 751 pp., ill.
Diederich Schaefer was one of the pioneer church goods houses in America.
Donated by the St. Nazianz (Wis.) Historical Society.
Click here to view pages from this book.

Auerbach, Inge. “The Response of the Hessian Press to American Advice to the Immigrants from Kurhesse (1832-1866).” In The German-American Press. Henry Geitz, editor. Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 1992, pp. 11-25.
Abstract: This volume attempts to present a relatively broad spectrum of the broadly-defined German-American press’ activity.
MKI PN 4885 .G3 G467 1992
Newspapers, German-American/ German-American press

Augustin, S. “Der juengste Ausbruch des Goldfiebers. Amerikanische Skizze.” In Bibliothek der Unterhaltung und des Wissens. Vol. 11. Stuttgart: Hermann Schoenlein, 1885, pp. 204-214.
Abstract: Report on the gold-inspired “stampede” to Coeur d.Alene, Idaho, in 1884.
MKI P2002-38
America/ United States/ History

Aurand, A. Ammon Monroe Jr. Little Known Facts about Bundling in the New World. Illustrated ed. Harrisburg, Penn.: Aurand Press, 1938. 31 pp., ill.
Title taken from cover. A. Monroe Aurand, Jr. Member: Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, &c. Privately Printed.
“The Pennsylvania Germans invented all kinds of ways and means to get the courting couple together — and all kinds of knick-knacks to keep them apart when they got together! . . . . [T]he almost universal lack of knowledge regarding the widespread custom of clothed, or partly clothed persons bundling (or courting in bed) induces us to publish another of our historical accounts for real lovers of folklore. . . . These accounts have been obtained largely from original sources — from men and women who have bundled, and who were never sorry that they did.”
Donated by JoAnn Tiedemann. [See: http://www.threerivershms.com/bundling.htm]
MKI P2012-3
Pennsylvania Germans/ Folklore

Auslaender, Rose. “Abend [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1971, pp. 2.
Notes: German-American author, woman author.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Aust, Gerrit, and others. The Port of Hamburg and the Hanseatic League: A Tour through the History of Hamburg and the Hanse in the Company of the Guides of Hamburg. Holm bei Wedel: Edition Thomas Herms, 1994. 32 pp., ill.
Notes: Holm b. Hamburg on colophon; donated by Alexandra Jacob, Nov. 2003.
Abstract: History of this North Sea port, beginning in the 12th century. “With the commencement of German emigration around 1830 a new and profitable business started for the Hamburg shipping magnates…as over five million people emigrated from throughout central and eastern Europe.”
MKI P2003-33
Germany/ History

Autry, James. “A Researcher’s Quest for the Elusive Passenger List of the 1844 Johann Dethardt.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 34, no. 4, Winter 2012, pp. 213-220, ill.
Abstract: Presents information related to search for information on Johann and Fredericke (Offermann) Reinarz. Fredericke Offermann was born in Roetgen, Aachen, Nordheim-Westfalen, Prussia, in 1809. She and her husband Johnann Reinarz left for Texas in 1844. Johann’s sister, Eleanor, married Ferdinand Lindheimer, a well-known German-American naturalist and newspaper editor.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Genealogy/ Ships/ Passenger lists/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 19th century/ German Americans — Texas

Azinger, Gus. “Concordia University Wisconsin: Steeped in German Heritage.” Perspektiven, vol. 2, no. 1, Winter 2002-2003, pp. 6-7, ill.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Schools/ History/ Wisconsin

Baarck, Udo. “Plattsnacker-Treff in Wausau: In Wisconsin trafen sich Nachfahren nordeutscher Auswanderer.” Mecklenburg Magazin, Apr. 7, 2000, no. 14. p. 26.
Donated by Juergen Eichhoff.
Plattdeutsch.
MKI P2001-23.
Language, German (US)

Bab, Julius. “Goethe [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 203.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Bacharach, Hilde L. “The Puppeteer Family Weinkoetz From Wisconsin.” Third Annual Conference on German-Americana.
MKI FH Weinkoetz (P86-42).
Family History

Bachhuber, Claire Marie. “The German-Catholic Elite: Contributions of a Catholic Intellectual and Cultural Elite of German-American Background in early Twentieth-century Saint Louis. Dissertation.” St. Louis, 1984. 145 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: A significant aspect of American Catholicism has been the debate concerning Catholic intellectual life in the United States. This debate intensified with the publication in 1955 of “American Catholics and the Intellectual Life” in “Thought” by John Tracy Ellis, professor of American Catholic history at Catholic University of America. Ellis stated: “… the weakest aspect of the Church in this country lies in its failure to produce national leaders and to exercise commanding influence in intellectual circles.” This dissertation will focus on the cultural contributions of seven Saint Louisans whose activities seem to dispute the charge that the Catholic community made few contributions to the cultural life of the nation. It will discuss the contributions of the following German Americans: John Rothensteiner (1860-1936), Frederick Holweck (1856-1937), Arthur Preuss (1871-1934), Frederick Kenkel (1863-1952), Emil Frei, Sr. (1869-1942), Emil Frei, Jr. (1896-1967), and Martin Hellriegel (1860-1936). It will concentrate on their work and will investigate whether their achievements merely occurred at the same time or resulted from an interchange of ideas and a mutually rich background. This dissertation will not explore in depth the lives of these individuals. This has already been done. It will give only such biographical material as will be necessary to understand their cultural and mutual relationships. It will show that these individuals did make significant contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of Saint Louis. Author and poet, monsignor John Rothensteiner, a native Saint Louisan, was the historian of the archdiocese of Saint Louis. Rothensteiner’s friend and colleague, Monsignor Frederick Holweck, was born in Baden, Germany. Both men achieved success in their literary endeavors, Rothensteiner with his “History of the Archdiocese of St. Louis” and Holweck with his “Biographical Dictionary of the Saints” and over forty articles for the 1914 edition of the “Catholic Encyclopedia”. Rothsteiner and Holweck joined with other scholars to publish the “St. Louis Historical Review”. Saint Louisan Arthur Preuss served as literary editor for a nationally known book company, B. Herder; edited the newspaper “Die Amerika”; and founded a journal, the “Fortnightly Review”. Aside from a book on “Freemasonry” and his “Dictionary of Secret Societies”, his interests were mainly theological. The theological series which he edited–Pohle-Preuss on dogmatic theology; Kock-Preuss on moral theology; and Brunsmann-Preuss on fundamental theology–were standard seminary texts. Frederick Kenkel succeeded Preuss as editor of “Die Amerika”. Kenkel remained in that position until becoming director of the Central Bureau of the “Central-Verein” of America. He became the voice of progressive German-American Catholics on social issues. He also assisted in establishing the National Catholic Rural Life Conference. Emil Frei, Sr., born in Bavaria, and Emil Frei, Jr., born in San Francisco, were responsible for countless art glass windows, not only in Saint Louis but throughout the United States. They played a part in the development of the excellent mosaics in the Saint Louis Cathedral on Lindell Boulevard. The Freis has a definitie viewpoint concerning art and architecture, and were undoubtedly influenced by the liturgical movement. The Freis were aware of and interested in the work of German-born liturgical pioneer Monsignor Martin Hellriegel. These seven men were not all close personal friends but their great concern for the Catholic religion and common national background tied them closely together. In Monsignor Hellriegel’s liturgical work, all the areas came together: art, history, and sacred form. All seven men were aware of, appreciated and encouraged the accomplishments of each other. These men certainly disputed the accusation that the Catholic community made few contributions to the cultural life of the nation.
MKI/SHS BX 1418 S2 B32 1988; shelved with MKI dissertations / SHS microfilm
Catholics/ Cultural influence/ St. Louis (Mo.)/ German Americans — Missouri.

Backhaus-Lautenschlaeger, Christine. “Die stillen Verzichte der neuen Muetter Courage: Anmerkungen zur Geschichte der weiblichen Hitler-Fluechtlinge in den USA.” Frauen wandern aus: Deutsche Migrantinnen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Monika Blaschke and Christiane Harzig, eds. Bremen: Labor Migration Project, 1990, pp. 127-144.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
MKI HQ 1410 .F738 1990; SHS Pam 90-3693
Women/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 20th century/ Exile/ National Socialism

Bade, Klaus J. “‘Amt der verlorenen Worte’: Das Reichswanderungsamt 1918 bis 1924.” Jetzt wohnst du in einem freien Land; Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch, vol. 39, no. 3, 1989, pp. 312-325.
Abstract: Dissonanzen um Auswanderungsfragen sind in Deutschland so alt wie ihr Gegenstand. Seit dem Beginn der ueberseeischen Massenauswanderung in der ersten Haelfte des 19. Jahrhunderts wurden publizistische und amtliche Beschaeftigung mit Auswanderungsfragen bestimmt durch zwei Argumentations- und Entwicklungslinien: Unterschiedlichen Positionen im Streit um das Fuer und Wider der ueberseeischen Massenauswanderung entsprachen nicht minder unterschiedliche Vorschlaege, die Auswanderung bei freier Entfaltung lediglich gegen Uebervorteilung zu schuetzen oder aber, auf welche Weise auch immer, zu “organisieren” bzw. zu “lenken.” Bei der Gruendung des Reichswanderungsamts (RWA) verbanden sich diese Entwicklungslinien mit den besonderen Umstanden gegen Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs.
MKI JV 8014 .J47 1989
Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration / Politics/ 20th century/ Germany

Baensch, Emil. “The Americanizing Influence of the Foreign Press in America.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911, pp. 2-8.
Abstract: An address delivered at the 57th Annual Convention, Wisconsin Press Association, Milwaukee, July 8th, 1910
MKI Periodicals
Assimilation/ Newspapers

Baensch, Emil. “Die deutsche Presse in Wisconsin.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 7, 1907, pp. 136-138.
MKI Periodicals
German-American press/ Wisconsin

Baensch, Emil. “J. H. A. Lacher: November 27, 1856 — October 31, 1936.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 21, no. 3, Mar. 1938, pp. 251-255, ill.
Notes: “This eulogy was read by Judge Baensch at the annual meeting of the State Historical Society, October 21, 1937.”
Abstract: J. H. A. (John Henry A.) Lacher was the son of Martin and Catherine Lacher, who emigrated from the German Lorraine to America in 1848. His parents first spent two years in New Orleans before living on a farm near Cincinnati where J. H. A. was born. While Lacher made a living as a salesman, upon retirement he focused his energies on an interest in history. He was married to Louise Krumrey of Plymouth, Wisconsin; she was the daughter of German Forty-Eighter Karl Krumrey, a pioneer in Sheboygan County. They lived for many years in Waukesha.
Lacher developed a keen interest in the contributions of German-speaking immigrants to America, and authored The German Element in Wisconsin (Milwaukee: Steuben Society of America, 1925).
MKI P2010-4
Lacher, John Henry A., 1856-1938/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Biographies

Baensch, Emil. What Manitowocers Read 80 Years Ago. [Manitowoc, Wis.: s.n., 1933]. [8] pp.
Notes: Donated by Karyl Rommelfanger, 2006.
Abstract: During 1854 through 1856, Postmaster S. [Sylvester] A. Wood kept a record of subscriptions to newspapers and magazines held by Manitowoc residents. “From Mr. Wood’s record I have copied names of subscribers and the titles of publications. . . In 1855 the population of our village was 2185. The number of subscribers recorded is 453. The number of subscriptions is 1854, an average of over 4. The number of publications listed is 200 of which 33 were German, 34 Norwegian and the balance English. 32 were of a religious nature, 22 literary magazines and 23 commercial and professional journals. . . During the period covered by this list there were five local newspapers published in the village, two English and three German.”
MKI P2006-4
Newspapers, German-American/ Manitowoc (Wis.)/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Baer, B. A. “John Wanamaker ueber “Deutsches Blut”.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 755.
Notes: “Von Dr. B. A. Baer in ‘Die Glocke’.” In section “Nachtraege und Andere Artikel” ed. by Max Heinrici.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
German Americans/ Ethnic identity

Baer, Friederike. “Speaking American: An 1816 Church Election Threw Fuel on a Fiery National Debate about Immigrants, Patriotism and the English Language.” American History, vol. 42, no. 3, Aug. 2007, pp. 60-64.
Notes: Photocopy.
Abstract: “An 1816 church election threw fuel on a fiery national debate about immigrants, patriotism and the English language. In March 1816, Pennsylvania’s attorney general charged 59 German-American men with conspiring to harass and assault a group of fellow congregants who wished to introduce English services into their shared church. The accused belonged to the largest German congregation in the United States at that time, the Lutheran St. Michael’s and Zion Church in Philadelphia.” Article discusses the decision not to debate language at the Constitutional Convention, and also explores language-related experiences of immigrants to the U.S.
MKI P2007-32
United States — History/ Language, German (US)/ German Americans — Pennsylvania

Baerg, G. Krippenspiel: Weihnachtsspiel in sechs Bildern. Ithaca, N.Y.: Thrift Press, n.d. 16 pp.
MKI P88-24
PIA/ Theater & Drama/ Christmas

Baerg, Marjorie. “Gnadenau Low German: A Dialect of Marion County, Kansas. Dissertation.” Univ. of Chicago, 1960. 221 pp.
Notes: Photocopy of U of Chicago microfilm. ; book, in MadCat.
MKI PF5925 B34 1960; shelved with dissertations
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Kansas/ Low German dialect/ Dialects.

Bahlow, Henning. Von Namen und Buechern: das Lebenswerk des Universitaets-Bibliothekars und Lehrbeauftragten fuer Namenforschung, Buch- und Handschriftenkunde, Dr. Hans Bahlow im Spiegel seiner Buecher und Schriften. ([Of names and books: the life work of the university librarian and professor for name research, book and manuscript arts, Dr. Hans Bahlow as reflected in his books and writings]). [Hamburg: Selbstverl. d. Verf.], 1975. 14 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes: At head of author’s name on front cover (t.p.), “Zum 21. November 1975 gewidmet von seinem Sohne.”
Abstract: Bibliography of Hans Bahlow’s publications, as prepared by his son: Zur Namenkunde (Personen, Familien, Ortsnamen) — Zur Buchkunde — Sprache und Literatur, Theologie und Kirche.
MKI P2015-07
Bahlow, Hans (1900-1982) — / Names, Personal — German — Dictionaries

Bahr, Ehrhard. “Paul Tillich and the problem of a German exile government in the United States.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 21, 1986, pp. 1-12.
Abstract: Bahr’s article mentions two organizations that were viewed by some during World War II as German exile governments: the National Committee for a Free Germany (Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland) in the USSR and the Council for a Democratic Germany in the US. The author focuses on the American Council, of which Paul Tillich was the chairman. The involvement of Thomas Mann and Bert Brecht, as well as their disagreement re the “Free-Germany-Movement” is also discussed. Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Exile/ World War, 1939-1945

Bailyn, Bernard, and Heinrich August Winkler. From Protestant Peasants to Jewish Intellectuals: The Germans in the Peopling of America / Causes and Consequences of the German Catastrophe. German Historical Institute Annual Lecture Series, 1. Oxford; New York; Hamburg: Berg, 1988. 26 pp.
Notes: Donated by Fritz Albert.
MKI P2006-5
German Americans/ History/ Jews, German/ Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ National Socialism

Bake, Rita. Der Garten der Frauen. Ein Ort der Erinnerung mit historischen Grabsteinen von Graebern bedeutender Frauen und eine letzte Ruhestaette fuer Frauen . Hamburg: Verein Garten der Frauen e.V., 2009. 292 pp., ill.
Notes: On title page: Mit Beitraegen von Brita Reimers; Stephan Heinemann; Urte Meister; Bert Ullric Beppler; Ulrike Demmig; Helene Goetschel; Henning Hammond-Norden; Annette Hecker; Tania Kibermanis; Konrad Leonhardt; Kirsten Leppert; Christian Masuth; Werner Mueller; Angelika F. Pfalz; Gerd Stolz.
Donated by Gerd Stolz, 2009.
Abstract: “Margarethe Meyer Schurz (geb. Meyer). Wegbereiterin des Kindergartens in den USA,” by Gerd Stolz, pp. 200-202.
MKI P2009-13
Women/ Germany/ Cemeteries/ Garten der Frauen — Ohlsdorf Cemetery — Hamburg, Germany/ Schurz, Margaretha Meyer, 1833-1876

Baker, James. “Abraham Lincoln and the German-Americans.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 28, no. 2, Oct./Nov./Dec. 2010, pp. 58-59, ill.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
Abstract: Abraham Lincoln’s most significant political years coincided with a time when many Germans were immigrating to America, and made an effort to court this large ethnic bloc. “According to Carl Sandberg, one of Lincoln’s biographers, by the early 1850s Lincoln carried a German grammar book with him, took a night school class in German in Springfield, and made friends with important German immigrants.”
MKI Periodicals
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865/ German Americans/ Politics/ United States — History/ 19th century

Baldwin, Thomas P. “The Public Image of Germans in Louisville and in Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1840-1872.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994, pp. 83-90.
Abstract: Baldwin’s article discusses both the negative and positive receptions of German immigrants to Kentucky in the 19th century. It focuses on two aspects of Germans’ reception specific to the situation in Kentucky: the growth of nativism in the mid-1850’s as well as the immigration of the “most radical element of the forty-eighters” to the state.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americans — Other US states/ 19th century/ Ethnic identity/ Breweries/ Germany/ History/ Politics/ Forty-eighters

Balousek, Marv, and Andy Hall. “Less a Slice of Europe: Wisconsin’s Old World Flavor Fades as Fewer People Relate to Their Heritage and as Non-European Cultures Increase in the State.” Wisconsin State Journal, July 7, 2002. pp. A1, A5-A6.
Newspaper article reports on 2000 census data that shows “the portion of people of German heritage, [Wisconsin’s] predominant ethnic group for more than a century, dropped 11 percentage points during the 1990s.” Also includes detailed maps of Wisconsin ancestry showing concentrations of various ethnic groups.
MKI P2002-85
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Census/ Wisconsin/ Ethnic groups — Other groups/ Ethnicity/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Population/ Maps

Balz-Haehlke, Nancy. “Biography and History of Edward Haehlke.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 94, July 2017, pp. 9-10.
Notes: Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin. History Committee, DuWayne Zamzow, Chair.
Abstract: Biography of the German immigrant Edward Haehlke (born 1837 near Berlin, Prussia), who immigrated to Marathon County ca. 1868 and established himself as a pioneer farmer and later town clerk for the township of Hamburg. Written by four family members, no date; submitted by Nancy Balz-Haehlke.
MKI Periodicals
Haehlke, Edward/ Pomeranians/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Bangerter, Lowell A. “German Prisoners of War in Wyoming.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 1979, pp. 65-123.
Abstract: Bangerter’s 58 page study contains an introduction and the following chapters: The Establishment of Prisoner of War Camps in Wyoming; Life in the Major Camps; The Side Camps; Writings of German Prisoners of War in Wyoming; and Selected Poems and Essays by Other Prisoners.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1939-1945/ Personal narratives/ Prisoners of war/ Germans/ Internment (see Prisoners of war)

Bangerter, Lowell A. “Lebenszeichen [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 10, Fall 1975, pp. 34.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Bangerter, Lowell A. “Vier Gedichte.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974 , pp. 132-133.
Abstract: The four poems are entitled “Erfrischung,” “Eine Frau,” “Wegeszeichen,” and “Musiktempel.”
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Barba, Preston A. “Edward Hermany, 1832-1896, a Pennsylvania German Poet.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, Winter 1997, pp. 4-8.
Notes: Millersville University. Reprinted from Lehigh Co. Historical Society, Vol. 22, 1958, pp. 38-75. Indicates “the remainder of this article will be printed in the Spring 1997 issue,” which is not owned by MKI. See instead: MKI P93-54, which appears to contain the entire original article.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry/ Literature, Pennsylvania-German/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Literary criticism

Barba, Preston A. “Edward Hermany: A Pennsylvania German poet.” Lehigh CHS, vol. 12, 1959 , pp. 39-76.
Abstract: Biography and interpretation of his work. Examples of his poems and comments on them. Hermany Charles, 1830-1908
MKI P93-54
Poetry/ Literary criticism/ Literature, Pennsylvania-German

Barber, Charles. “The Nordamerikanische Saengerbund versus the U.S. Treasury Department, 1944-46.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 30, 1995, pp. 73-116.
Abstract: In outlining the strategies of the Nordamerikanischer Saengerbund which thwarted the renewed attack on German-American patriotism, this article will seek to answer two interesting questions raised by these documents concerning the history of German Americans from 1917-46. If German-American assimilation during and after World War I was as complete as many historians have indicated, how did the U.S. Treasury Department get the idea that German-American singing groups represented a pro-Nazi danger and how did the NASB gather the sufficient moral and political authority to stifle this attack on German Americans’ allegiance to the United States?
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Societies, etc./ World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans

Bareither, John. “Doris Day: The Wholesome American Girl.” German-American Journal, vol. 59, no. 5, Oct./Nov. 2011, pp. 16, ill.
Abstract: Singer and movie star Doris Day was born on April 4, 1924 in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Alma Sophia (Welz) and Wilhelm Kappelhoff. All of her grandparents were German-speaking immigrants.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Biographies/ Day, Doris (Mary Ann Kappelhoff)

Barnes, Kenneth C. “The Missouri Synod and Hitler’s Germany.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies. 1989, pp. 131-147.
Abstract: This article examines the response of 1930’s German-American Missouri Synod Lutherans to the Nazi regime. Most German Americans were opposed to Nazi policies and remained attached to American democratic values. Only a small minority was attracted to the Deutschamerikanischer Volksbund, a front for Nazi activities in the U.S. Leaders of the Missour Synod, like most other German Americans, did not join Nazi organizations and remained loyal to America. Although German Lutheran immigrants had largely entered the American cultural mainstream, they maintained a strong German identity. This, combined with their conservative political attitudes, resulted in some ambivalence and even support of Nazi politics in the 1930’s. Examined in this essay are the public statements and commentary about Nazi Germany made by Missouri Synod leaders in four journals published between 1933 and 1945: the Lutheran Witness, Der Lutheraner, the Concordia Theological Monthly, and the Walther League Messenger.
MKI Periodicals
Lutheran Church/ World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans/ National Socialism/ Churches/ Politics/ German-American Bund

Barney, Robert Knight. “America’s First Turnverein: Commentary in Favor of Louisville, Kentucky.” Journal of Sport History, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 1984, pp. 134-137.
Abstract: Contests the claim that the first Turnverein in the United States was the one established through the efforts of Friedrich Hecker in Cincinnati in November of 1848. The author refers to notices from the Louisville Anzeiger published in 1848 that suggests that the Turnverein in Louisville, Kentucky, was founded on July 25, 1848. Documents that would confirm this claim were unfortunately destroyed in a fire set by Know-Nothing arsonists on January 18, 1858.
MKI P2010-7
Turners/ Louisville (Ky.)

Barnitz, Laura. “The German-American Family Farm in Missouri: A Personal View.” In The German-American Experience in Missouri. Howard Wight Marshall and James W. Goodrich, eds. [Columbia, MO]: Missouri Cultural Heritage Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1986, pp. 177-192.
MKI F 475 .G3 G4 1986
German Americans — Missouri/ Farming

Barnouw, Dagmar. “‘Beute der Pragmatisierung’: Adorno und Amerika.” In Die USA und Deutschland. Wolfgang Paulsen, ed. 1976, pp. 61-83.
Abstract: Eine Darstellung der Schwierigkeiten, die Adorno durch seine intellektuelle Arbeitsweise in den USA hatte. Vom Snobismus zu einer unempirischen Arbeitsweise bis zum Jazz Aufsatz und zu den Grundthesen der “Dialektik der Aufklaerung,” die aus der Ablehnung Amerikas entstehen.
MKI PT 123 .U6 A4 1976 / MEM PT 123 .U6 A4 1975
America in German literature

Baron, Frank. “Abraham Lincoln and the German Immigrants: Turners and Forty-Eighters.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, vol. 4, 2012, pp. 1-254, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references and index of names.
Abstract: Examines “when, how, and why” the German immigrant vote became crucial in Abraham Lincoln’s political calculations. Baron focuses on “the movement of the Turners and the Forty-Eighters; New York, Kansas, Iowa, Maryland, Indiana, and Illinois receive special attention.” Contents: Introduction — The Radical Turners of New York — The Campaign against Slavery in Kansas — The Movement against Immigrants — Lincoln’s Gamble for the German Immigrant Vote — A Thwarted Movement and Lincoln’s Nomination — Lincoln’s Election — Conclusions. — Appendices: A. Felix Reifschneider, The New York Turner Society — B. Engelhardt and Feigel, An Appeal to the Germans — C. [Heinrich Metzner], Sigismund Kaufmann — D. [Wilhelm Pfaender], Correspondence from Kansas — E. [Hugo Tafel], The Turner Society of Leavenworth, Kansas — F. Hugo Tafel, The Turner Society of Leavenworth, Kansas — G. The Canisius Correspondence — H. Excerpt from Wilhelm Rapp’s Letter to His Father, June 30, 1861 — I. [Wilhelm Rapp], The Edward Bates Candidacy, April 10, 1896 — J. An Appeal to the Turner Societies of the United States — K. An Appeal to German Republicans — L. The Republican Convention in Chicago, May 24, 1860 — M. The Republican Convention in Chicago, May 31, 1860 — N. The German Republican Newspapers of the United States — O. [Henry Villard], Report on the Election — Bibliography — Index of Names.
MKI Periodicals
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865/ Forty-eighters/ Political activity/ Political influence/ Turners/ Slavery/ 19th century/ United States — History

Baron, Frank. “German Republicans and Radicals in the Struggle for a Slave-Free Kansas: Charles F. Kob and August Bondi.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 40, no. 3-26, 2005, pp. 1-26.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “Upon arrival in the United States, leading German revolutionaries, defeated and exiled in their fight for greater freedoms in 1848 and 1849, discovered a conflict with comparable implications. In the early 1850s these immigrants confronted a rapidly transforming political landscape. . . . The opening of the Kansas Territories to a vote on slavery in 1854, seen in the North as a blatant violation of the Missouri compromise of 1820, became a direct cause for the realignment of the existing party system. . . . The German revolutionaries quickly embraced the challenge and opportunity to revive their frustrated idealism. The fight for freedom in Europe became the struggle against slavery and slavery’s extension. Charles F. Kob and August Bondi were not prominent political figures, but through their associations and actions they demonstrate how the exiled “Forty-eighters” contributed to the new political conditions in their adopted country.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Kansas/ Slavery/ Kansas/ Kansas-Nebraska bill/ Forty-eighters/ Bondi, August, 1833-1907

Baron, Frank, and G. Scott Seeger. “Moritz Harttmann (1817-1900) in Kansas: A Forgotten German Pioneer of Lawrence and Humboldt.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 1-22, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Harttmann “was intensely involved in a significant phase of United State history. In Kansas, where he resided for thirty years, he, along with many other German settlers who had survived the failed 1848 revolution, advocated a state free of slavery. . . . A close examination of Harttmann’s life reveals more about historical events than do the lives of many famous personalities of his day.” Includes information on the Emigrant Aid Company, which “recognized that recent Germans of the revolutionary generation would be ideal allies for keeping the state of Kansas free of slavery. . . . The Germans formed a significant block of settlers and voters who helped to turn the tide against the established proslavery forces.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Kansas/ Slavery/ Kansas/ Harttmann, Moritz, 1817-1900/ Kansas-Nebraska bill/ Forty-eighters

Baroni, Werner. “Deutsche Sprache in Chicago.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, eds Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, vol. 4). Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 35-39.
Abstract: This article deals with the present state of the German language in Chicago.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)

Baroni, Werner. “Lincoln Avenue, Chicagos deutsche Strasse.” German-American Journal, vol. 54, no. 5, Nov./Dec. 2005, pp. 6, 14.
MKI Periodicals
Chicago (Ill.)/ German Americans — Illinois

Barrett, James R. “Immigrant Workers in Early Mass Production Industry: Work Rationalization and Job Control Conflicts in Chicago’s Packinghouses, 1900-1904.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983, pp. 104-124, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references; donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Abstract: Tables show: Proportions of native- and foreign-born among Chicago’s population, work force, and carpenters, 1870 and 1890; and Nativity among Chicago’s carpenters compared to the total employed, 1870 and 1890.
MKI/SHS HD8081 G4 G47 1983
German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Employment/ Labor and laboring classes/ 20th century

Barry, Coleman J. “Religious and Language Experiences of German-Catholic Americans.” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1981. 80-89
Abstract: Barry’s paper discusses the role of leading German Catholics in trying to preserve their German culture, their conflict with the “Vereins,” the impact of immigration on the shape of the Catholic Church in the U.S., conflict between Catholics of different nationalities, and the problem of funding.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981
German Americans — Minnesota/ Ethnic identity/ Catholics/ Schools/ Societies, etc./ Freethinkers/ Culture/ Missions/ Assimilation

Bartholdi, A. Albert. “Calvin Coolidge.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 44, 1924, pp. 43-45, ill.
Abstract: Profile of President Calvin Coolidge.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ History/ United States

Bartholdi, A. Albert. “Die Reisenbruecke ueber den Hudson bei New York.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 48, 1928, pp. 73-76.
Notes: Von A. Bartholdi, New York.
Abstract: Reports on the various methods for getting to New York City’s Manhattan Island. “Die phaenomenale Entwicklung New Yorks und die rasch zunehmende Bevoelkerungsanstauung auf der relativ kleinen Insel Manhattan, auf der unsere Metropole steht, draengte schon vor vielen Jahrzehnten den Gedanken auf, die Inselstadt mit dem Festland zu verbinden.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ New York (N.Y.)/ Architecture

Bartholdi, A. Albert. “Edward V. Rickenbacker.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 47, 1927 , pp. 70-72, ill.
Notes: Author is from New York.
Abstract: Biographical sketch of the “American Ace of Aces.” The son of Swiss immigrants, Rickenbacker was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1890.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Biographies/ World War, 1914-1918/ Rickenbacker, Edward, 1890-1973

Bartholdi, A. Albert. “Praesident Hoover schweizerischer Abstammung.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 50, 1930, pp. 17-21, ill.
Notes: Includes photograph of the author.
Abstract: “Zum erstenmal in der Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten ist ein Mann ins Weisse Haus in Washington eingezogen, der nicht aus den Reihen der urspruenglichen Ansiedlerfamilien dieses Landes stammt. Es erfuellt die Schweizer in Amerika mit grosser Genugtung, dass diese hohe Ehre einem ihrer Stammesgenossen zufiel. . . . Mit der Wahl Herbert Hoovers haben die amerikanischen Politiker eine hartnaeckig verfolgte Tradition aufgegeben und den Sprossen eines Schweizers auf den Praesidentenstuhl erhoben.” Includes photographs of the “Stammhaus des Praesidenten Hoover in Oberkulm,” the “Wappen der Familie Huber, der Ahnen des Praesidenten Hoover,” and of the “Familie Huber in Oberkulm.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Biographies/ Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964/ Genealogy

Bartholdi, A. Albert. “Warren Gamaliel Harding.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 44, 1924, pp. 38-42, ill.
Notes: Written in New York; includes illustration of the author.
Abstract: Profile of President Warren G. Harding.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ History/ United States

Bartholdi, Albert. “Admiral Edward Walter Eberle.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 48, 1928, pp. 56-59, ill.
Notes: Author is noted as being from New York.
Abstract: Biographical sketch of the Texas-born Swiss American who became admiral of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Biographies/ German Americans — Texas

Bartholdi, Albert. “Admiral Louis Rodolph de Steiguer. Gegenwaertiger Kommandant des Dritten Marinedistrikts und der Kriegswerfte von New York.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 50, 1930, pp. 22-24, ill.
Abstract: Born 1867 in Athens, Ohio, Admiral de Steiguer was the son of a Swiss immigrant who came to America in 1847 from Wallenstadt, Kanton St. Gallen.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Biographies/ Steiguer, Louis Rodolph de

Bartholdi, Albert. “Albert Gallatin.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 47, 1927, pp. 66-69, ill.
Notes: Author is from New York.
Abstract: Biography of Swiss-born Gallatin (1761-1849), who was elected to Congress in 1791 and appointed Secretary of the Treasury in 1801 by President Jefferson and continuing under President James Madison until 1814.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ History/ United States/ Biographies

Bartholdi, Albert. “Henri Marc Mouquin.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 53, 1933, pp. 26-28, ill.
Abstract: Born in 1837 in Aubonne, Kanton Waadt, Henri Mouquin came to America and became a restaurateur. He closed the doors of his restaurant to protest Prohibition.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Biographies/ Business & Industry/ New York (N.Y.)/ Prohibition

Bartholdi, Albert. “Louis Chevrolet. Mitgruender der Chevrolet Motor Company.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 51, 1931, pp. 52-53.
Abstract: “Louis Joseph Chevrolet wurde geboren am 25. Dezember 1878, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Kanton Neuenburg, Schweiz.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Biographies/ Business & Industry

Bartholdt, Richard. “Address Delivered at the Unveiling of the Steuben Statue, Washington D.C., December 7, 1910.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911, pp. 73-78.
MKI Periodicals
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm von, 1730-1794

Bartolosch, Thomas A. “Auswanderung aus dem Westerwald im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Ein Ueberblick.” In Die Auswanderung nach Nordamerika aus den Regionen des heutigen Rheinland-Pfalz. Werner Kremp and Roland Paul, eds. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2002, pp. 88-101.
MKI E 184 .P3 A87 2002
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Palatines/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ 18th century/ 19th century

Bartsch, Wilhelm. “Review of “Wege und Einkehr; Ausgewaehlte Gedichte” by Margarete Kollisch.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974, pp. 94-99.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Basler, Konrad. “The Dorlikon Emigrants. Swiss Settlers and Cultural Founders in the United States: A Personal Report.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 46, no. 3, Nov. 2010, pp. 1-90, ill.
Notes: Laura Villiger, translator. Max Hilfiker, editor of the expanded edition. Originally published in Switzerland with the title Dorliker Auswanderer.
Abstract: In the years 1738 through 1743 five families emigrated from the author’s village of Dorlikon (today Thalheim an der Thur) in northern Switzerland, heading for Carolina, as the records say. No news of their fate returned. This work describes the author’s search for the stories of these families (Nuessli, Basler, Weidmann, Muller, and Epprecht), who ended up in Pennsylvania, as well as for the story of Julia Beringer Huber, who had been sent to Milwaukee with her illegimate child around 1875.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans — Wisconsin/ Swiss Americans — Pennsylvania/ Basler/ Epprechts/ Weidmann/ 18th century/ Huber

Bassler, Gerhard P. “Canadian Postwar Immigration Policy and the Admission of German Enemy Aliens, 1945-50.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 22, 1987, pp. 183-197.
Abstract: Bassler’s article discusses anti-German sentiments in Canada during and after World War II as well as the discrepency between the prohibition of German immigration and the actual numbers of German immigrants at this time.
MKI–Periodicals
Canada/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)/ Germans/ World War, 1939-1945/ Anti-German sentiment

Bassler, Gerhard P. “German Culture and the Inuit: The Moravian Mission in Labrador.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 73-97.
Abstract: “Within half a century of their presence in Labrador, these Moravians had pacified the seemingly unpacifiable region, created a written language for the Inuit to facilitate their literacy, and introduced educational and other strategies to enable the Inuit and their cultural identity to survive in a rapidly changing modern world. . . . This article argues that, although operating within a framework of German culture and transplanting many aspects of German life into the rugged wilderness of northern Labrador, the Moravians left their mark as facilitators of Inuit survival in the broadest sense of the word.” Examines religious origins, mission stations and settlements, Moravian life at the mission stations, gardening, language and culture, education, music, German customs and traditions, scientific pursuits, Moravian trade, and Inuit-Moravian contact.
MKI Periodicals
Moravian Church/ Moravians/ 18th century/ Canada/ Ethnic relations/ Inuits/ Cultural influence/ Language, German/ Education/ Music/ Religion/ Horticulture & Gardening

Bassler, Gerhard P. “German Overseas Migration to North America in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Recent German research from the Canadian perspective.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. VII, 1983, pp. 8-21.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)

Bassler, Gerhard P. “The problem of German-Canadian identity.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 33, 1998, pp. 157-165.
Abstract: The notion of a German-Canadian identity has come under attack from various quarters recently. No doubt, the 2.8 million Canadians reporting German ethnic origin in 1991 appear to have a questionable identity. Many critiques of German-Canadian identity focus on the present and the seemingly irreconcilable diversity and heterogeneity of the German-speaking immigants’s origins–geographical, cultural, linguistic, political, and generational. However, as this essay submits, any study of the historical patterns of adaptation exhibited by German-speaking immigrants in Canada should reveal the existence of a German-Canadian identity, referring to the historically observable attributes and behavior patterns shared by immigrants of German-speaking background. German-Canadian identity in this sense may be observed in patterns of settlement, adaptation, socialization, and interaction among groups of the German-Canadian mosaic. The available evidence indicates that from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century German-speakers from different geographic and cultural backgrounds tended to experience a process of identity homogenization wherever and whenever settlement and/or external pressures were conducive to it.
MKI Periodicals
German Canadians/ Ethnic identity/ Culture/ History/ Social life and customs

Bassler, Gerhard P. “The United States as a Factor in German-Speaking Migrations to Canada in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994, pp. 143-172.
Abstract: Bassler’s article refutes the traditional interpretation of the factors determining German immigration to Canada: European push and Canadian pull, such as the Canadian immigration policy. He suggests instead that “the United States was a key factor in virtually every major wave, region, and type of German settlement to Canada since 1776.”
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)/ United States/ Germans/ 19th century/ 20th century

Bauer, Gudrun. “Amerikaner an der Universitaet Tuebingen 1829-1915.” In USA–Universitaet Tuebingen. Volker Schaeffer, and Uwe Jens Wandel, bearb. 1976, pp. 44-56.
MKI P85-216 / MEM LF 3132.5 .U17
Relations, Germany-US/ Cultural exchange

Baum, Andrea. “Weiche von mir [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 4, 1972, inside back cover.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Baum, Hans-Peter. “Max Mohr (1891-1937), an Almost Forgotten Dramatist and Novelist of the 1920s, in Exile in Shanghai 1934-37.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 48, 2013, pp. 33-58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references (pp. 52-58).
MKI Periodicals
Mohr, Max, 1891-1937/ Theater & Drama/ Germany/ Exiles’ writing, German/ China/ 20th century/ Jews, German

Baum, Jane A., and Hans-Peter Baum. “The Werther-Tracht and the American War of Independence.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 51, 2016, pp. 147-161, col. ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Examines the impact of Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werther worldwide, specifically as to the wearing of the “Werther-Tracht” by young European males. This Werther uniform comprised of a blue frock coat with brass buttons, yellow waistcoat and trousers, brown top-boots, and a round felt hat. Briefly touches upon the “unanswered” question as to whether the style of dress may have originated in the American colonies.
MKI Periodicals
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832/ Revolution, 1775-1783

Baum, Kurt. Eine alte Legende, die Himmelsschmiede als Festgabe. Milwaukee, Wis.: Gugler Lithographic Co., n.d. [4] pp., ill.
Author given at end of poem as Curt Baum. Found in a copy of Kurt Baum’s Das stille Buch (Milw.: Brumder, [1917?]). along with clippings of the following poems: “Jan Rainer, Ballade.” Von Curt Baum, Milwaukee (Die Neue Zeit); “Bitte.” Von Curt Baum, Milwaukee; “Das letzte Brot.” Ballade von Curt Baum, Milwaukee. Copyright 1920 (Die Neue Zeit); “Am Michigansee.” Kurt Baum, Milwaukee, aus “Zeitgedichte” (typed).
Click here for images of this 4-page poem.
[From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Baum, Kurt, b. 1876 in Silesia, d. 1-23-1962 in Milwaukee. Went to England shortly before World War I, where he was arrested as enemy alien. Fled in 1915 to USA. Was one of the founders and president of the Deutsche Literarische Gesellschaft von Milwaukee. Friendship with Rudolf Voigt.]
MKI P2007-29
PIA/ Poetry

Baum, Max, and others. “[Memorials to Otto Leopold Schmidt].” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 33, 1937, pp. 5-67, 147-157.
Abstract: Memorials by Max Baum, Henry Horner, Theodore C. Pease, Laurence M. Larson, Lessing Rosenthal, and others.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries

Bausenhart, Werner. “Review of “The German Language in Alberta: Maintenance and Teaching” by Manfred Prokop.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 303-304.
Abstract: Bausenhart’s review claims that Prokop’s book, despite being overladen with statistics, is quite readable.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Bawden, Timothy. “A Geographical Perspective on Nineteenth-Century German Immigration to Wisconsin.” Wisconsin German Land and Life. Heike Bungert, Cora Lee Kluge, and Robert C. Ostergren, eds. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2006, pp. 79-91.
Abstract: “Provides a broad background of German immigration to Wisconsin, identifying and discussing several regions where the general German-speaking population settled, and illustrating how the settlement of German immigrants from the Rhineland fits into the larger geography of German settlement.”
MKI F590 G3 W573 2006
Wisconsin/ Farm life/ Land ethic/ Agriculture/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Research/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Geography/ 19th century

Baylis, Thomas A. “Conflict and Collaboration: the Evolution of Inter-German Economic Relations.” In After Forty Contentious Years: The Two Germanys Since 1949. The Max Kade Institute for Austrian – German – Swiss Studies. Los Angeles, California: The Max Kade Institute, February 16-18, 1990.
Notes: Followed by an article by Volker Gransow (Freie Universitaet, West Berlin) and commentary by Volker Berghahn (Brown University) and Heinz Struewing (Neues Forum, DDR).
Abstract: Relations between East and West Germany
MKI P90-13
Germany/ Politics/ Economic aspects.

Bealle, Penny. “Postwar Economics and Animosity: Modern German Art in New York after World War I.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 27, 1992, pp. 99-125.
Notes: Graphs and Registration Forms; factors influencing the introduction of modern art from Germany to New York.
MKI Periodicals
United States/ History/ Economic Aspects/ Arts/ Germany

Beam, C. Richard. “Book Review.” vol. in: Yearbook of German-American Studies (1988), 1988, pp. 194-5.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Beam, C. Richard. “A century of Pennsylvania German plays, 1880-1986.” Historic Schaefferstown Record, vol. 20, no. 3, July 1986, pp. 47-70.
MKI P2002-25
Pennsylvania Germans/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Theater & Drama

Beam, C. Richard. “Der Ziegdaag: An Interview with Paul B. Horning.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 12, no. 4, Fall 2005, pp. 4-5.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Portion of a longer interview in Pennsylvania Dutch, originally published in two parts in the Ephrata Shopping News on May 18 and 22, 2002. The story involves details of “der Ziegdaag” (Moving Day), which traditionally took place on April 1st in the 19th century, and was when “those changing residences moved out of their homes and into another. . . The move was accomplished with all horse-drawn equipment, . . . [and] the first wagon to arrive at the new home was the “Offewaage,” so that the kitchen could be set up. . . [for] the noon meal.” Includes an English translation of 20 words that appear in the text.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ 19th century/ Interviews

Beam, C. Richard. “En Daag in der Nochberschaft vun Zuckergrick un Baltic.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, Winter 2015, pp. 14-16.
Notes: Millersville University. Der Parre Paul D. Yoder, D. D., Codorus, PA.
Abstract: Author’s account in Pennsylvania German, of life in the vicinity of Sugarcreek, Ohio,
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Ohio

Beam, C. Richard. “Ernest Waldo Bechtel (1923-88): The Leading Pennsylvania German Poet of His Generation.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 3-14.
Notes: The Language and Culture of the Pennsylvania Germans: A Festschrift for Earl C. Haag. Edited by William D. Keel and C. Richard Beam.
Abstract: “Ernie Bechtel, ‘Der Buschgnibbel,’ lived his entire life in the same house in Reinholds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. . . . [His] literary output consisted of approximately sixty-seven Pennsylvania German poems, twelve dialect plays and . . . eighteen years of weekly Pennsylvania German columns in the Ephrata Review.” Six poems are presented here.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialects/ Poetry/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Humor & Satire/ Bechtel, Ernest Waldo, 1923-1988

Beam, C. Richard. “History of ‘Die Alde Kummraade’ Radio Program.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 8-9.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Pennyslvania Dutch dialect radio program, hosted over time by John Binkley Brendel, C. Richard Beam, Ernest Waldo Bechtel, and Irene Bechtel.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Beam, C. Richard. “Muddy Creek Reformed Church in the Eighteenth Century.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, Winter 2013, pp. 3-21 + back cover, ill.
Abstract: Presents “five chapters on the earliest history of the Muddy Creek [Lancaster County, Pennsylvania] Reformed Church,” tracing its origins to the principalities of south Germany and the Swiss republic known as the Palatinate and detailing activities through the 1790s.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ Religion/ 19th century/ Palatinate/ Reformed Church

Beam, C. Richard. “Pennsylvania German Lexicography: Past and Present.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 255-292.
Abstract: A chronological history of Pennsylvania German dictionaries.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dictionaries/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Beam, C. Richard. “Preface to the Second Edition of A Simple Grammar of Pennsylvania Dutch.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring 2015, pp. 2-15.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: “When Beam succeeded in convincing [J. William] Frey to republish Frey’s A Simple Grammar of the Pennsylvania Dutch, then Beam conducted a thorough interview on Frey’s life in 1981, which became the Preface of the republication.” Includes “A Supplement to the 1981 Preface,” and Frey’s “Preface to the Third Edition.”
MKI Periodicals
Farm life/ Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania Germans/ Autobiography/ 20th century/ Frey, J. William

Beam, C. Richard. “Some Notes on the Oldest German-American Language.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 12, no. 4, Fall 2005, pp. 15-17.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Notes on Beam’s work compiling a Pennsylvania German dictionary, Pennsylvania German place names, newspaper columns, and radio broadcasts.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect

Beam, C. Richard. “The Terminology of Tobacco Farming in Pennsylvania German.” In Pfaelzer-Palatines: Beitraege zur pfaelzischen Ein-und Auswanderung sowie zur Volkskunde und Mundartforschung der Pfalz und der Ziellaender pfaelzischer Auswanderer im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Karl Scherer, ed. Kaiserleutern: Heimatstelle Pfalz, 1981, pp. 486-505, ill.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Pennsylvania-German dialect

Beam, C. Richard. “The Thomas Royce Brendle Collection of Pennsylvania German Folklore: An Introduction.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 163-172.
Abstract: Beam’s article discusses the career of Thomas Royce Brendle, folklorist, minister and botanist. It also provides an overview of the contents of the Brendle Collection, which consists of notes re “traditions, proverbs, expressions, etc.” which he heard from German Americans in Pennsylvania.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Folklore/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Reformed Church/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Biographies

Beam, C. Richard, and John R. Costello. “Pennsylvania German in the Media.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, ed. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, vol. 10.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1985, pp. 76-79.
Abstract: This article examines how Pennsylvania German is represented by the media, specifically newpapers, radio and TV.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)/ Pennsylvania

Beam, C. Richard, and Jennifer L. Trout. “A Brief History of St. John’s (Hain’s) United Church of Christ, Wernersville, PA.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, Spring 2011, pp. 3-16, 22-23 + back cover, ill.
Abstract: Presents a history of the church, “one of the earliest German Reformed congregations on this side of the Atlantic.”
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ Religion/ 19th century/ Palatinate/ Reformed Church

[Beardsley, Theodore S.] “German Language in Belleville, Illinois.” 1 p.
Notes: Donated by Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr. No sources cited. See also: “Belleville Dutch,” MKI P2002-8.
MKI P2007-33
Language, German (US)/ Illinois/ German Americans — Illinois

Beardsley, Theodore S. Jr. “Belleville Dutch.” Studies in Honor of Lloyd A. Kasten. [Madison, Wis.: s.l., 1975], pp. 19-32.
Notes: Hispanic Society of America, Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies.
Abstract: Examination of “South Side Dutch,” a rural German-speaking cluster in five Illinois counties to the southeast of the city of St. Louis, Missouri and all “within the commercial, cultural, and ethnic sphere of the city of Belleville, seat of St. Clair county, Illinois.” Includes history of the area; German immigration; German-language newspapers (1840-1929); “linguistic conflict, isolation, and disintegration”; and a selected glossary of Belleville Dutch.
MKI P2002-8
German Americans — Illinois/ History/ Illinois/ Newspapers, German-American/ Language loss/ Linguistics

Bechtel, Ernest Waldo. “Zeit.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, Winter 2002, pp. 9.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Poem by Pennsylvania Dutch playwright, originally written in 1973.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Poetry

Beck, Carl. “Die Auf Dem Boden des Deutschen Universitaetslebens sich Entwickelnde Freundschaft.” German American Annals, vol. 1, n.s., 1903, pp. 117-128.
MKI Periodicals
Relations, Germany-US/ Cultural exchange

Becker, Ernest J. “History of the English-German Schools in Baltimore.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 25th Report, 1942, pp. 13-17.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
German Americans — Maryland/ Schools/ History

Becker, Ernest J. “The Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland: A Chronicle.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 28th Report, 1953, pp. 9-20.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
German Americans — Maryland

Becker, Nicholas E. [Poems by and photographs of Nicholas E. Becker].
Notes: Donated by Kevin Wester; Becker was also known as Beckesch Klos.
Abstract: Poems are in Luxembourgish in the German-language “Port Washington Zeitung”; photocopied poems from a book (22 pages), under the title “Lidder a Gedichter”; photographs of N.E. Becker, his wife Ottilia (Schauer) Becker, and their children.
MKI P2002-61
Luxembourg/ Poetry/ Port Washington (Wis.)/ Becker, Nicholas E, 1842-1920

Behlendorff, Frederick. “Recollections of a Fortyeighter.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 15, 1915, pp. 310-351.
MKI Periodicals
Forty-eighters/ Refugees, political (US)/ 19th century/ Personal narratives

Beilke, Wallace. “Immigrants to Marathon/Lincoln Counties.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 41, June 2004, pp. 13, 17, ill.
Abstract: Brief description of how Pomeranian settlers came to Marathon and Lincoln counties in Wisconsin.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Wisconsin — Marathon County/ Settlements/ Pomerania/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Beiser, Marjorie. “Our Ancestors in 1858: The Arnoldi Family of Brown County, Minnesota.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, Summer 2008, pp. 13.
Abstract: Summary of a family history submitted to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the state of Minnesota. Michael Arnoldi and his wife, Anna Wetor Arnoldi both came from Prussia to Milford Township, Brown County, Minnesota, in 1857.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ German Americans — Minnesota/ 19th century

Bek, William Godfrey. “Bibliography of German Americana for the Year 1906.” German American Annals, vol. 5, n.s., 1907, pp. 124-128; 249-256; 314-320.
MKI Periodicals
German Americana/ Bibliographies

Bellingham, Mary. “Translators.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 23, 17.
Abstract: “The GGS members and others listed below will do translations from German to English. Contact them individually to discuss their availability, their experience, and the scope, schedule, and cost of your project.”
MKI Periodicals
Language, German/ Translations/ Genealogy

Bender, Gustav. “Die ersten Deutschen im District Columbia.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 187-189.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
German Americans — Other US states/ Settlements

Benediktiner Schwestern, eds. Various religious pamphlets. Clyde, Mo.: Benedictiner Schwestern, 1910-1912.
MKI P93-19
PIA/ Catholics

Benignus, Wilhelm. Gedichte und Aufsaetze. Syracuse, New York, N.Y.: Syracuse Union, 1903. 38 pp., ill.
Notes: On cover: Erschienen in der “Syracuse Union”; Copyright 1903 by William Benignus; stamped “Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, Inc., 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. — German-American author.
From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1980: BENIGNUS, WILHELM (Hermann Wilhelm Heinrich), born February 17, 1861 in Heilbronn am Neckar, died June 5, 1940. Emigrated to USA in 1882. Returned in 1898 to Germany, then USA in 1899. Manual laborer and newspaper correspondent. Prolific writer of poetry and prose in German and English. His writings appeared in several German-American newspapers, magazines, and collections. Worked for Best Brewing Co. (Milw.) under assumed name. Many of his poems have been set to music by well-known composers. Resided for several years in Atlantic city. Died of heart attack while riding on train. Buried in New York.
MKI P84-7
PIA/ Poetry/ Prose

Benjamin, Steven M. “The German-American Folksong: a Bibliographic Report.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1979, pp. 140-144.
MKI Periodicals
Folklore/ Folk songs, German/ Bibliographies/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Benjamin, Steven M. “The Ohio Germans: A Working Bibliography.” In Papers from the St. Olaf Symposium on German-Americana. La Vern J. Rippley, and Steven M. Benjamin, eds., 1980, pp. 144-165.
MKI P85-85
German Americans — Ohio/ Bibliographies

Benjamin, Steven M. “The Old Order Amish: Their History, Culture, and Languages.” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, ed., 1980, pp. 143-161.
MKI P85-83
History/ Culture / Language, German (US)/ Amish

Benjamin, Steven M. “Secondary Sources on Pennsylvania German Literature.” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, ed., 1980, pp. 21-37.
MKI P85-83
Literature, German-American/ Pennsylvania/ Sources

Benjamin, Steven M. “The Segmental Vocalic Phonemes of the Pennsylvania German Dialect as Spoken in Northumberland and Schuykill Counties, Pennsylvania. Dissertation.” Univ. of Wisconsin, 1981. 282 pp.
Notes: Book, in MadCat.
MKI dissertations / MEM AWB B467 S648
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Linguistics/ Dialectology/ Research.

Benjamin, Steven M. “The Society for German-American Studies: Its History and Present Activities.” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, ed., 1980, pp. 197-201.
MKI P85-83
German-American Studies/ German Americans — Societies, etc.

Benjamin, Steven M. “The Texas-Germans: A Working Bibliography.” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, ed., 1980, pp. 91-116.
MKI P85-83
German Americans — Texas/ Bibliographies

Benjamin Steven M., and Renate L. Benjamin. “Annual Bibliography of German-Americana: Articles, Books, and Dissertations.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 21, 1986 , pp. 215-245.
Notes: in collaboration with the Bibliographic Committee of the Society for German-American Studies.
Abstract: I. Supplements for 1984; II. Works Published in 1985
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americana/ Bibliographies

Benjamin, Steven M., and Renate L. Benjamin. “Annual Bibliography of German-Americana: Articles, Books, and Dissertations. I. Supplement for 1983, II. Works Published in 1984. Topical Index.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 173-198.
Notes: in collaboration with the Bibliographic committee of the Society for German-American Studies.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americana/ Bibliographies

Benjamin, Steven M., and Renate L. Benjamin. “Annual Bibliography of German-Americana: Articles, Books, and Dissertations. I. Supplements for 1982, II. Works Published in 1983.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 19, 1984, pp. 175-211.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americana/ Bibliographies

Benjamin, Steven M., and Renate L. Benjamin. “Annual Bibliography of German-Americana: Articles, Books, and Dissertations. I. Supplements for 1981, II. Works Published in 1982.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 269-295.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americana/ Bibliographies

Benjamin, Steven M., and Renate L. Benjamin. “Bibliography of German-Americana Published in 1979 and 1980: Articles, Books, and Dissertations.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 16, 1981, pp. 161-195.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americana/ Bibliographies

Benjamin, Steven M., and Renate L. Benjamin. “Bibliography of German-Americana Published in 1981: Articles, Books, and Dissertations.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 17, 1982, pp. 145-168.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americana/ Bibliographies

Benjamin, Steven M., Juergen Eichhoff, and Wolfgang Viereck. “Nachtraege zur ‘Bibliographie zur Erforschung der deutschen Mundarten und Sprachvarianten in den Vereinigten Staaten.'” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss and Heinz Rupp, eds. vol. 4.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979. pp. 307-324.
Abstract: Additions to the extensive bibliography on German dialects and language change in America.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)/ Bibliographies

Benndorf, Ella. “The Portrayal of German-Canadians in Selected Social Studies Textbooks and Supplementary Materials Used in British Columbia Schools.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. IX, 1986, pp. 1-14.
MKI Periodicals
German Canadians

Bennett, Ensila Eiserloh. “German Internees in America: The Eiserlohs’ Story.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 92-95, ill.
Notes: Edited by Karen Ebel. From www.traces.org; adapted from Arthur D. Jacobs’ research http://foitimes.com/internment/.
Abstract: Mathias and Johanna Eiserloh came from Idstein, Germany, to America in 1923. On December 9, 1941, Mathias was arrested by the FBI at his job and jailed in Cleveland. Johanna petitioned the government to be allowed to join Mathias at an internment camp in Crystal City, Texas, where he was being held. In 1945 they agreed to be repatriated to Germany. Back in Idstein, Mathias was arrested by the Gestapo and taken away. After the war, the family applied to be allowed to return to America, but their requests were denied until 1955.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans/ Prisoners of war/ Eiserloh/ Anti-German sentiment

Bente, C. W. “Der Deutsch-Amerikanische Zentral-Bund von West Virginien.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 871-872.
Notes: Included in section “Der Deutsch-Amerikanische National-Bund und seine Staats- und Staedte-Verbaende.”
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
German Americans — Societies, etc/ German Americans — Other US states

Bente, C. W. “Die Deutschen in West-Virginien.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 190-194.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
German Americans — Virginia

Benzel, Norbert G. “Cultural Exchange, Germany – Minnesota: A Case Study in Education.” A Special Relationship: Germany and Minnesota, 1945-1985. Clarence A. Glasrud, editorMoorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1983. 48-56.
MKI E183.8 G3 S64 1983.
German Americans — Minnesota/ Stereotypes/ Germany/ Ethnic identity/ Education.

Benzel, Norbert G. “German-Language Chapel Service at Concordia College October 12, 1979.” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editorMoorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1981. 134-39
Abstract: Benzel’s paper consists of a transcript of the service.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981
German Americans — Minnesota/ Religion/ Language, German (US)/ Ethnic identity

Benzel, Norbert G. “German Language Experience: Die Wandertour.” A Heritage Fulfilled: German-Americans: Die Erfuellte Herkunft. Clarence A. Glasrud, editorMoorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1984. 182-95
Abstract: Benzel’s paper discusses a bicycle tour through “German Minnesota,” which was created by members of Concordia college in 1977 and carried out in the summers of 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981.
MKI F615 G3 H48 1984
German Americans — Minnesota/ Assimilation/ Ethnic identity/ Physical education/ New Ulm (Minn.)/ Culture/ Songs

Berghoff, Martmut, and Uwe Spiekermann. “Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Business Biography, 1720 to the Present. A GHI Research Project.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 47, Fall 2010, pp. 69-82, ill.
Abstract: “The ‘Immigrant Entrepreneurship’ project will contribute to the ongoing effort to globalize American history or, more precisely, to situate the American past in a transnational framework. By analyzing the role of immigrant entrepreneurs in the formation–and continual reformation–of the American business elite from the early eighteenth century to the present day, the project will shed light on how a nation whose people claim a multitude of national and ethnic backgrounds grew together.” Focusing on German immigrants, the project will utilize a wide range of source materials to provide biographical sketches as well as company histories, and will present the information free of charge online. All entries will attempt to include information on the following: reasons for migration; social origins; entrepreneurial sources (and the impact of counteracting forces such as nativism, anti-German sentiments, boycotts, and anti-Semitism in the U.S.); regional identities (either in the home country or in the U.S.); religion; comparative advantages; ethnic networks; Americanization; business strategies; typologies of entrepreneurs (related to levels of innovation); and change over time.
MKI Periodicals
Business & Industry/ German American/ History/ 18th century/ 19th century/ 20th century/ Biographies/ Research/ United States — History

Bergholz, Harry. “Julius Bab.” Books Abroad, vol. 25, no. 1.
Notes: Short biographical note.
Abstract: Julius Bab was a leading critic of the German stage. He escaped Nazi persecution and became an American citizen.
MKI P93-56
Biographies

Bergquist, James M. “The Forty-Eighters: Catalysts of German-American politics.” The German-American encounter: Conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000. Frank and Shore Elliott Trommler, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001, pp. 22-36.
MKI/MEM E 183.8 G3 G472 2001
Forty-eighters/ German Americans/ History/ Social life and customs/ United States/ Immigrants, German/ Politics

Bergquist, James M. “The German-American Press.” in The ethnic press in the United States. Sally Miller, editor. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1987, pp. 131-159.
MKI P95-2
Newspapers, German-American/ German-American press

Bergquist, James M. “The Transformation of the German-American Newspaper Press 1848-1860.” In The German-American Press. Henry Geitz, editor Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 1992, pp. 215-225.
Abstract: This volume attempts to present a relatively broad spectrum of the broadly-defined German-American press’ activity.
MKI PN 4885 .G3 G467 1992
Newspapers, German-American

Bergquist, James M. “The Val J. Peter Newspapers: The Rise and Decline of a Twentieth-Century German-Language Newspaper Empire.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994, pp. 117-128.
Abstract: Bergquist’s article discusses the history of German-language newspapers during the two World Wars and focuses on the newspapers printed by Val Peter.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Newspapers, German-American/ Nebraska/ World War, 1914-1918/ World War, 1939-1945

Beringer, Walter. “Deutsche Pastoren aus Breklum und Kropp in Nordamerika.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. VII, 1983, pp. 22-27.
Abstract: Diesem Buechlein des ehemaligen Lehrstuhlinhabers fuer historische und systematische Theologie am Lutheran Seminary in Waterloo, Ont., kommt deshalb eine hoehere Bedeutung zu als der Titel andeutet, weil durch die lutherische Form christlicher Froemmigkeit und Lebensfuehrung mehr deutsches Gedankengut und deutsche religioese Empfindungsweise bewahrt und in der neuen Welt fruchtbar gemacht wurden als durch irgendeine andere Geisteskraft. Die Bemuehung um den rechten Glauben, die mehr als 350 in den beiden schleswig-holsteinischen Seminaren ausgebildete und dann in Nordamerika im Kirchendienst taetige Pfarrer sich zur Lebensaufgabe gemacht hatten, war immer auch die Bemuehung um die Erhaltung und Weiterwirkung der in Deutschland entstandenen lutherischen Tradition.
MKI Periodicals
Lutheran Church/ Lutherans/ Religion

Berkemeier, G. C. “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.” Illustrierter Jugendblaetter-Kalender fuer das christliche Haus auf das Jahr unseres Herrn 1896. Reading, Pa.; New York: Pilger Buchhhandlung, 1895, pp. 86-92, ill.
Notes: Illustrierter Jugendblätter-Kalender für das christliche Haus auf das Jahr unseres Herrn 1896. — Von P. G. C. Berkemeier.
[Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Gottlieb Konrad Cleophas Berkemeier was born in 1855 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died in 1924 in Fordham, New York. He was the son of German immigrants from Lippe-Detmold. His father was Pastor Wilhelm B. who advised and helped hundreds of thousands of German immigrants in America. G. K. C. Berkemeier studied at Thiel College and later at St. Matthew’s Academy in N.Y., then spent several years in Bavaria where he studied German, philosophy, and theology in Leipzig and Erlangen. After serving as vicar of a Lutheran church in Bavaria, he returned to America., serving as pastor of a German Lutheran congregation in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1878-1885. He also taught philology in institutions of higher learning, as was Commissioner of Education of the public schools of Poughkeepsie. Director of the Wartburg Orphan’s Farm School in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. in 1885.]
MKI PIA Reading, PA
Children’s literature/ Juvenile/ PIA/ Protestant/ Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

Berl-Lee, Marie. “Der Sucher [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974 , pp. 133.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Berl-Lee, Marie. “Kinderlied [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 10, Fall 1975, pp. 24.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Berlin, Irving, Edgar Leslie, George W. Meyer, and Everett J. Evans, composers. Let’s All Be Americans Now. New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, 1917.
Notes: Photocopy of musical score. Donated by Al Lareau.
MKI P2018-13
World War, 1914-1918/ Music

Berman, Russell A. “Tradition and criticism: German studies in the age of globalization.” The German-American encounter: Conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000. Frank and Shore Elliott Trommler, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001, pp. 292-304.
MKI/MEM E 183.8 G3 G472 2001
20th century/ United States/ Education/ Teaching

Bernd, Clifford Albrecht. “Founding Professional Organizations, 1870-1920: The Lehrerbund and the MLA.” German Studies in the United States: A Historical Handbook. Edited by Peter Uwe Hohendahl. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003 , pp. 325-331.
Notes: Donated by the author.
Abstract: The first part of the article examines the formation and eventual suspension of Der Nationale Deutschamerikanische Lehrerbund. The Lehrerbund was created in August 1870 “when one hundred teachers of German met…to promote…the best interests of German instruction in the United States.” “Exuburent German patriotism” led to the demise of the Lehrerbund when America declared war on Germany in 1917.
MKI P2004-10
Societies, etc./ Teaching/ Education/ German Americans/ Nationaler Deutschamerikanischer Lehrerbund

Bernert, Christopher John. “Die Wanderjahre: The Higher Education of American Students in German Universities, 1870 to 1914. Dissertation.” State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1984. 309 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: The discussion of 19th century American history demonstrates that the intellectual debt owed by the American Academy to Germany goes beyond the field of sociology. Process of diffusion
MKI LA 721.7 B4 1984a; shelved with MKI dissertations
Sociology/ Education.

Bernhardt, Walter. “Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen. 1976, pp. 28-31.
Abstract: Ueber das Leben von Steubens, dessen militaerische Leistungen fuer die Unabhaengigkeit der USA mit denen Washingtons gleichgesetzt werden.
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm von, 1730-1794

Berninger, Dieter. “Milwaukee’s German-American Community and the Nazi Challenge of the 1930’s.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 71, no. 2, 1987/1988, pp. 118-143.
Abstract: Decade of the 30’s. At a time when the German presence in Milwaukee was still significant, three rival organizations had engaged in a bid to dominate the German-American community: The Wisconsin Federation of German-American Societies (Zentralverband deutschstaemmige Vereine), the German-American Bund (Amerikadeutscher Volksbund) and the German-American Citizens Alliance. In many respects the Federation, the Bund, and the Citizens Alliance shared a concern for the status of German Americans and for the preservation of their cultural heritage. Despite these common aims and ideals, however, the memories of one war, the anticipation of another, and strongly held ideologies prevented the achievement of a desired unity.
MKI Periodicals/SHS
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ History/ German Americans — Societies, etc./ German-American Bund

Berninger, Peter. “Das Amerikabild in den Reiseberichten Samuel Gottlieb Ludvighs. Staatsexamenarbeit.” Johannes-Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz, 1983. 123 pp.
Abstract: Die folgende Arbeit moechte versuchen, Hintergruende und versteckte Ideologien des Amerikabildes eines Mannes aufzuzeigen, der ueber dreissig Jahre hinweg ununterbrochen die Geschehnisse in Amerika als Betroffener kommentierte und zu analysieren suchte. 19 Jahre lang liess er ohne Unterbrechung eine Zeitschrift als sein ganz persoenliches Sprachrohr erscheinen. Die Zeitschrift erschien woechentlich mit jeweils acht Seiten, ihre Name was DIE FACKEL, und ihr Herausgeber und Redakteur was Samuel Gottlieb v. Ludvigh.Ludvigh, Samuel G., 1801-1869
MKI P87-161
America/ Travel/ United States in literature/ 19th century.

Bernt, Josef. “Deutsche Katholiken in Amerika.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 249-259.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
Catholics

Bernthal, George A. “Letters from San Francisco, 1906-1931.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 3, Fall 1993, pp. 100-119, ill.
Abstract: Letters written by Bernthal, pastor of St. Paulus Evangelical Lutheran Church in San Francisco, California, to his older brother in Michigan. Some letters were typewritten in German, others were handwritten in the old German script; the first letter includes a first-hand account of the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906. A sample of the German script is included to accompany one of the letters.
MKI Periodicals
Bernthal, George A./ Letters/ German Americans — California/ Lutherans

Best, Martha S. “I Remember Alfred Shoemaker.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, Winter 1999, pp. 16-17, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Describes the early life of folklorist Alfred L. Shoemaker, who founded the Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival at Kutztown in 1950.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ Social life and customs/ Folk art/ Folklore/ Festivals

Betzer, Roy J. “An Example of Early Settlement in the Texas Hill Country.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 24, no. 2, Summer 2002, pp. 118-121.
Abstract: Details the difficulties faced by the “Adelsverein” (organized by a group of German noblemen) as they sought to populate and cultivate the Hill Country of central Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Pioneers/ Letters/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Beyer, J. P. Warum kein Christenmensch mit gutem Gewissen sein Leben versichern kann: Predigt gehalten in der Kirche der ersten deutschen ev.-luth. Gemeinde zu Pittsbutg, Pa. von J. P. Beyer, Pastor, und auf Verfangen dem Druck uebergeben. Pittsburg, Pa.: Ernst Luft, 1878. 15 pp.
Notes: religion.
MKI P89-17
PIA/ Sermons/ Protestant/ Lutherans

Bickelmann, Hartmut. “Private care for emigrants in Germany and the United States.” In: Jetzt wohnst du in einem freien Land; Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch, vol. 39, no. 3, 1989, pp. 250-257.
Abstract: Die Uebersiedlung in die Neue Welt war bekanntlich bis weit ins 19. Jahrhundert hinein ein oft recht waghalsiges, mit mancherlei Risiken, Strapazen und Unannehmlichkeiten verbundenes Unterfangen. In der Fruehzeit des transatlantischen Wanderungsverkehrs fehlte es vielfach an zuverlaessigen Informationen ueber die Verhaeltnisse in den ueberseeischen Einwanderungslaendern, ueber Reisewege und Befoerderungsmodalitaeten sowie ueber Arbeits- und Siedlungsmoeglichkeiten. Vor allem aber hatten Auswanderer unter unerfreulichen Reisebedingungen zu leiden. Zustand und Ausruestung der fuer den massenhaften Personentransport ueberhaupt nicht ausgelegten Segelschiffe waren oft ungenuegend, die Lebensbedingungen an Bord generell sehr hart, Todesfaelle und der Ausbruch ansteckender Krankheiten sowie Schiffskatastrophen infolge von Sturm oder Kollision nicht selten. Fuer die Passagiere nachteilige Befoerderungsvertraege waren anfaenglich durchaus die Regel, und in den europaeischen Einschiffungshaefen, den ueberseeischen Landungshaefen, aber auch schon bei der Anreise vom Heimatort und schliesslich bei der Weiterreise ins Landesinnere sahen sich Auswanderer dem haeufigen Zugriff von Geschaeftemachern (Gastwirten, Geldwechslern, Befoerdereungsunternehmern, Landverkaeufern usw.) ausgesetzt, also dem, was man in Deutschland als Litzer-, in den Vereinigten Staaten als Runner-Unwesen bezeichnete.
MKI JV 8014 .J47 1989
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ Atlantic crossing/ Social conditions/ 19th century

Biedenkapp, Georg. Sankta Libertas. Gedichte. New York, N.Y.: Selbstverlag, 1893. 124 pp.
Notes: German-American author. From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: BIEDENKAPP, GEORG, born June 11, 1843 in Germany, died April 8, 1925. Emigrated 1885. Socialist writer. Wrote numerous stories, occasional poems, prologues, plays, and songs which were chiefly published in New York newspapers. Several unpublished collections of poems. Edited Der Tramp with W. L. Rosenberg in New York in 1888.
MKI P84-10
PIA/ Poetry/ Socialism

Biegener, E. “Karl Georg Stoeckhardt, D. Theol., 1842-1913.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, 1949, pp. 154-166.
Abstract: Stoeckhardt, Karl Georg, 1842-1913
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535
Biographies

Biegener, E. “The Rev. C. L. Janzow, 1847-1911.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 1, 1948, pp. 30-35.
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535
Biographies

Bier, Justus. “Carl C. Brenner: A German American Landscapist.” American-German Review, vol. XVII,  no. 4, 1951, pp. 20-25, 33.
Notes: Biography of artist Carl C. Brenner; illustrations.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ Arts/ Artists/ German Americans

Biesele, Rudolph L. “Industry: The First German Settlement in Texas.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 32, 1932, pp. 523-528.
Notes: Reprinted from the “Southwest Historical Quarterly,” April 1931.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Frontier and pioneer life

Binnie, Lester H. “Migration of Early German Baptists Brethren within the United States.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 38, no. 3, June 2013, pp. 9-14, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Brethren Church/ 18th century/ Immigrants, German/ German Americans/ Religion

Bird, Michael S. “Beauty and simplicity: Germanic folk art in Canada.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. VII, 1983, pp. 63-81.
MKI Periodicals
Arts/ Germany/ Canada/ Folk art

Birmele, Jutta. “[Review of] Urs Hammer, ed. Vom Alpenidyll zum modernen Musterstaat. Der Mythos der Schweiz als ‘Alpine Sister Republic’ in den USA des 19. Jahrhunderts.” (Basler Beitraege zur Geschichtswissenschaft, 165). Basel and Frankfurt am Main: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1995, pp. xiii, 358. German Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 2, May 1996, pp. 346-7.
Notes: Photocopy. MKI does not own reviewed book, ISBN 3719013669.
Abstract: Reviewed book constitutes author’s 1993 doctoral thesis at University of Basle. It aims at making a contribution to a critical reflection of Swiss national history by analyzing Switzerland’s image in nineteenth-century journalism and fiction in the U.S. The book also addresses the question as to what purpose an idealized Swiss picture served in the history of the U.S.
P2000-23
Book reviews/ Switzerland/ Foreign public opinion

Birmelin, John. “Es Heisel im Hof.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 2000 , pp. 13-14.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Poem in Pennsylvania German, with glossary of terms used.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Poetry/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Birmelin, John. Mammi Gans: The Dialect Nursery Rhymes of John Birmelin. P. A. Preston Albert Barba, comp. Allentown, Pa.: Schlechter’s, n.d. [28] pp.
Title taken from cover. Also on cover: Selected by Dr. P. A. Barba from a group of 278 children’s poems. Schlechter’s, Publishers for the Pennsylvania Germans Since 1810.
“John Birmelin, the beloved poet of the Pennsylvania Germans, did not write many of his poems until the latter part of his life, which was devoted, for half a century, to music. The creative genius of his poetry developed from a life long hobby of putting into verse the many phases of his every day life. As a boy he rhymed vehement indignation against the owner of a dam in Longswamp who prohibited fishing. Later he kept writing for his own amusement, until one day he showed Dr. Harry Hess Reichard some of his poems. Dr. Reichard taught him the mechanical details of poetry and this combined with his musical training made writing poetry with the skill of genius just come natural. His Mother Goose Rhymes in the dialect are so entertaining that we were proud to obtain his manuscripts and publish them in this booklet. — E. W. S.”
Donated by Dale McIntyre.

Bischoff, Oskar. “Mundart und Mundartdichtung.” In Pfaelzer-Palatines: Beitraege zur pfaelzischen Ein-und Auswanderung sowie zur Volkskunde und Mundartforschung der Pfalz und der Ziellaender pfaelzischer Auswanderer im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Karl Scherer, ed. Kaiserleutern: Heimatstelle Pfalz, 1981, pp. 475-480.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Palatines/ Dialects/ Poetry

Bishoff, Robert. “German-American literature.” In: Ethnic perspectives in American literature: Selected essays on the European contribution: A Source book. Robert J. Di Pietro, and Edward Ifkovic, editors. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1983, pp. 43-64.
MKI PN 843 .E8 1983
Literature, German-American/ Literary criticism

Bittlingmayer, George, and Alexander Waldenrath. “The German in Early Pennsylvania Agriculture.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 10, Fall 1975, pp. 45-60.
Notes: Pages 45 and 48 are missing due to being blank pages in the original.
MKI Periodicals
Farm life/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Philadelphia (Pa.)/ Mennonites/ Schwenkfelders/ Quakers/ Lutherans/ Reformed Church/ Catholic Church/ Farming/ Agriculture

Bittner, Paul Phaon. “Pennsylvania German Radio on WGPA, Sunny 1100 AM; a History.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn 2001, pp. 16.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Radio broadcasting

Blackwell, Hildegard W. “Mathilde Franziska Anneke: An early feminist (1817-1884).” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 1, 1995, pp. 2-4.
Abstract: Sketch of her life.
MKI Periodicals; P98-16
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/ Biographies/ Feminists

Blackwell, Hildegard W. “My mother’s great-aunt Mathilde (1817-1884): An early feminist.”198? 15 pp.
Notes: Summary in English of various biographies, incl. Wagner’s.
Anneke box
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/ Biographies.

Blackwell, Jeannine. “Domesticating the Revolution: The Kindergarten Movement in Germany and America.” In Teaching German in America: Prolegomena to a History. David P. Benseler, Walter F. W. Lohnes, and Valters Nollendorfs, Editors. Monatshefte occasional volumes, 7. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988, pp. 99-119.
Abstract: Papers from a conference sponsored by the Dept. of German and the Max Kade Institute for German American Studies of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, held at the University April 1983. MKI PF 3068 .U6 T4 1988
Kindergarten

Blanke, Gustav H. “Book Review of Dan Vogel, Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon: Religious Solutions from Columbus to Joseph Smith.”, no. 4, 1986, pp. 474-476.
Abstract: Jahrgang 33
MKI P91-5
Book reviews

Blanke, Johannes, ed. Fuer’s Kinderherz. Ein Bilderbuch fuer die lieben Kleinen. No. 1. Chicago, Ill.: Wartburg, n.d. 16 pp., ill.
Notes: Printed in Germany.
MKI P84-14
PIA/ Children/ Poetry/ Illustrated/ Religious

Blanke, Johannes, ed. Fuer’s Kinderherz. Ein neues Bilderbuch fuer unserer Kleinein. Konstanz: Carl Hirsch, n.d. 16 pp., ill.
Notes: MKI owns issues IV and VII
MKI P97-39
PIA/ Children/ Poetry/ Illustrated/ Religious

Blanke, Johannes, ed. Fuers Kinderherz. Ein neues Bilderbuch fuer unsere Kleinen. No. 5. Konstanz: Buch- und Kunstverlag Carl Hirsch A.-G., n.d. 16 pp., ill.
Notes: On cover: Fuer’s Kinderherz.
MKI P84-16
PIA/ Children/ Poetry/ Illustrated/ Religious

Blanke, Johannes, ed. Gott schuetze dich! Eine Gabe fuer Christenkinder mit Erzaehlungen, Gedichten und vielen Bildern. No. 7. Konstanz: Buch- und Kunstverlag Carl Hirsch A.-G., n.d. 64 pp., ill.
Notes: Inscribed “Marshal Freitag” on back cover.
MKI P84-12
PIA/ Juvenile literature/ Fiction, religious

Blanke, Johannes, Hrsg. Kinder-Gebetbuechlein. St. Louis, Mo.: Eden, n.d. 32 pp., ill.
Notes: Religion
MKI PIA P90-8
PIA/ Children/ Prayers

Blanke, Johannes. Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein reines Herz: Kinder-Gebete, Lieder und Sprueche. Konstanz: Carl Hirsch, n.d. 32 pp.
Notes: Religion; L:GER
MKI P89-58
PIA/ Children/ Prayers/ Songs

Blanke, Lore. “Franz Arnold Hoffmann: Ein Herforder an der Seite Abraham Lincolns.” Aufbruch in die Neue Welt: Auswanderer aus Bad Oeynhausen und Umgebung. Bad Oeynhausen: Volkshochschule der Stadt Bad Oeynhausen, 1993, pp. 81-95, ill.

Notes: Photocopy; Hoffmann published several books in America under the name Hans Buschbauer.
Abstract: Biography of Hoffmann, who emigrated from Herford, Kreis Minden, Westphalia in 1840. He became a Lutheran pastor, was elected the first Republican lieutenant governor of Illinois during the Civil War, and published many books filled with practical advice under the name Hans Buschbauer.
MKI P2004-48
Hoffmann, Franz Arnold, 1822-1903/ Biographies/ Political activity/ German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Slavery

Blankemeier, L. “Die Katholiken von St. Louis als Geschaeftsleute.” In 62te General-Versammlung des deutschen roemisch-katholischen Central-Vereins, 1917, pp. 149-154.
Notes: Volume includes illustrations, portraits, maps, plates. Cover title, “62 General Versammlung des D. R. K. Central-Vereins” In UWLibyCat BX 1418 .S3 Z8 1917.
MKI PIA MO
German Americans — Missouri/ Catholics/ St. Louis (Mo.)

Blaschke, Monika. “Die deutschamerikanische Presse fuer Frauen: Bestand, Prognosen und Probleme.” Frauen wandern aus: Deutsche Migrantinnen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Monika Blaschke and Christiane Harzig, eds. Bremen: Labor Migration Project, 1990, pp. 97-112.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Mentions: die Deutsche Frauenzeitung (Milwaukee, New York, Jersey City, 1852-1854); Fortschritt (New York, 1875-1889); Die Neue Zeit (1872); Heiraths-Anzeiger (New York, 1874-1885); die Hochzeits-Glocken (1883-1884); New Yorker Staatzeitung; Chicagoer Freie Presse (later the Chicagoer Frauenzeitung); Milwaukee Herold; Philadelphia Sonntagsblatt; Germania (Milwaukee); Haus- und Bauernfreund (Milwaukee); Milwaukee Seebote; Baltimore Correspondent; New Yorker Volkszeitung; Die Gleichheit; Socialist Woman; Wisconsin Vorwaerts; Chicagoer Arbeiterzeitung; Cleveland Echos; Die Hausfrau (Milwaukee); and Acker- und Gartenbauzeitung.
MKI HQ 1410 .F738 1990; SHS Pam 90-3693
Women/ German-American press/ Periodicals, German-American/ Social conditions

Blesi, Wayne C. “The Family Blesi: Swiss Pioneers of Old Minnesota.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 44, no. 1, Feb. 2008, pp. 60-74, ill.
Abstract: “Some of the early settlers of New Schwanden, Minnesota left Schwanden, Switzerland on August 25th, 1853 to come to America.” Family names of the first settlers include: Aubart, Blesi, Hefti, Hoesli, Kisch, Knobel, Paul, Schmid, Scott, Tschudi, Zimmermann, and Zopfi. Among the family names of those arriving later are: Ebert, Gigli, Maag, Ruegg, Schmidt, Weber, Wild, Wilmes, and VanDake.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ 19th century/ Switzerland/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Swiss Americans — Minnesota/ Native Americans

Blessin, Gustav Eduard. “A German missionary in Iowa: Part 2 — A German American experience.” Infoblatt, vol. 6, no. 1, Winter 2001 , pp. 12-14.
Abstract: Ed. note: “This is Part 2 of “How I Came to America…” published in the Autumn-2000 issue of Infoblatt. Pastor Blessin, of the American Lutheran Church, came as a missionary to Iowa, sent by the Neuendettelsau Missions School.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Personal narratives/ Religious life

Blessin, Gustav Eduard. “How I came to America, and what it did for me.” Infoblatt, vol. 5, no. 4, Autumn 2000, pp. 12-15.
Abstract: Ed. note: “This is taken from a series of essays, written by the late Pastor Blessin of the American Lutheran Church, during the years 1927-1931. They were originally published in German for the Neuendettelsau, Germany, Missions School, that sent Pastor Blessin to Iowa.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Personal narratives/ Religious life

Blied, Benjamin J. “Francis Xavier Weninger, 1805-1888.” American-German Review, vol. XV , no. 4, 1949, pp. 25-27.
Notes: Biography of the forty-eighter Father Fancis Xavier Weninger.
MKI Periodicals
Forty-eighters/ Biographies/ History/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees

Blodgett, Steven W. “Great-Grandfather Was in the Imperial Cavalry: Using Austrian Military Records As an Aid to Writing Family History.” In World Conference on Records: Preserving Our Heritage; August 12-15, 1980.[Salt Lake City]: Corporation of the President of the Church of Latter-day Saints, 1980. Series 504
Abstract: A summary of military archives in Vienna that contain documents relating to the Austrian military from the sixteenth century until the end of World War I.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 7.
Genealogy.

Blong, Clair K., Jeanette Hlubek Dietzenbach, Lorraine Bodensteiner Kuennen, Carl Most, and Rosemary Kuennen Most. “The German-American Village of St. Lucas, Iowa.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 37-60, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “This paper tells the story of how St. Lucas came to be, and it surveys this German-American community over the past 150 years. . . . Topics include: the German Town and its Families, the Spiritual Center, Key Clergy and Community Benefactor, Land and Livelihood, and the Importance of Education. It concludes with short essays by three of the authors, each with a unique perspective on Preserving the German Language and Heritage.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Catholics/ Education/ Iowa

Blumenthal, Bernhardt G. “Liebeserklaerung (poem).” German-American Studies, vol. 9, Spring 1975, pp. 74.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Poetry

Boas, Hans C. “The Texas German Endowment.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 26, no. 7, Winter 2004, pp. 404-405.
Abstract: Details of the Texas German Dialect Project at the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Germanic Studies.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Linguistics/ Texas/ Language, German (US)/ Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Bock, Eve. “Contribution of the German Reformed Church to American Culture.” German-American Studies, vol. 6, Fall 1973, pp. 57-67.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Immigrants, German/ Reformed Church

Bockstahler, Oscar L. “Contributions to American Literature by Hoosiers of German Ancestry.” Indiana Magazine of History, vol. 38, no. 3, 1942, pp. 231-250.
MKI P84-11
Literature, German-American/ Indiana

Bode, Carl. “Henry Louis Mencken.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 29th Report, 1956, pp. 70-73.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956/ Biographies

Bode, Dan. “St. Paul’s United Church of Christ — Gerald, McLennan County, Texas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 33, no. 1, Spring 2011, pp. 23-31, ill.
Abstract: Provides a history of the church, which was constructed and dedicated in 1903. Includes a listing of pastors and information on the founding families.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ History/ Churches/ 20th century

Bode, Daniel. “The Descendants of Wilhelm Bode.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 29, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 412-434, ill.
Abstract: Heinrich Konrad Wilhelm Bode was born 20 December 1830 in Rosenthal, Hannover, Germany. He emigrated in 1860 on the ship Fortuna, and settled in Washington County, Texas. He died in the community of Zionsville on 6 December 1891. During his life he married twice, first to Catherine Albertine Marie Dorothea Jahnke (b. 1839 in Solenthin, Germany) and later to Marie Charlotte Henriette Spreen (b. 1845 in Wehdem, Westphalia, Germany).
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Bode/ Hannover (Germany)/ Jahnke/ Spreen

Bode, Daniel. “The Family of Christian and Margarethe Gaskamp.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 80-90, ill.
Abstract: Christian Gaskamp and his wife, Margarethe nee Schmedthorst, were both natives of Haldem, Westphalia, Germany. They settled in the Washington County community of Zionsville in Texas in 1871.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Gaskamp/ Westphalia

Bode, Daniel. “The Family of Daniel & Louise (Spreen) Imhoff.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 32, no. 2, Summer 2010, pp. 133-144, ill.
Abstract: The Spreen family emigrated from Wehdem, Westphalia for Washington, County, Texas, in 1866. Daniel Imhoff left Germany with his sister Elisabeth in 1860. Louise Spreen married Daniel Imhoff in January 1874.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Spreen/ Imhoff/ Westphalia

Bode, Daniel. “The Family of Friedrich Heinrich Gaskamp.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 3, Fall 2009, pp. 264-271, ill.
Abstract: Friedrich Heinrich David (Henry) Gaskamp was born in 1849 in Arrenkamp, Westphalia, Germany. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1867, settling in St. Louis, Missouri. His brother, Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Gaskamp was born in 1853 in Arrenkamp. Friedrich immigrated to the U.S. in 1882, settling in the Zionsville community in Washington County, Texas. Along with his wife, Margarethe Louise Sophie Wendt, and his children, Friedrich brought his sisters, Louise Agnes Elisabeth Gaskamp and Sophie Margarethe Louise Gaskamp.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Gaskamp/ Westphalia

Bode, Daniel. “The Family of Fritz and Friedericke (Bode) Leverkuhn.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 32, no. 3, Fall 2010, pp. 221-213, ill.
Abstract: Friedericke Bode was born in 1836 in Rosenthal (near Peine), Hannover. She left Germany for Texas in 1851. She married Friedrich Conrad “Fritz” Leverkuhn in 1858 in Galveston, Texas. Fritz Leverkuhn was born in 1834 in Scheweigel, Germany, and had come to Texas in 1849.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Bode/ Leverkuhn/ Gehring

Bode, Daniel. “The Family of Gottfried and Dorothea (Herbst) Blankenstein.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 29, no. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 252-273, ill.
Abstract: Gottfried Conrad Blankenstein was born 14 April 1822 in Barby, [Saxony-Anhalt], Prussia, Germany. His wife, Dorothea Sophia Freiderike Herbst, was born 15 January 1826, in Badeleben, [Saxony-Anhalt], Prussia, Germany. In 1870, Gottfried, Dorothea, and their children left Germany for America. They departed from the port of Hamburg on the sailboat Eugenie, and arrived in New York on 15 August 1870. The family lived in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, a short time before moving to Defiance, Ohio, where they lived until 1878. They then moved to Texas, settling at Cleburne in Johnson County.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Blankenstein/ Herbst/ Saxony-Anhalt

Bode, Daniel. “The Family of Heinrich and Sophie Gaskamp Winkelmann.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 4, Winter 2009, pp. 326-339, ill.
Abstract: Margarethe Louise Sophie Gaskamp was born in 1845 in Haldem, Westphalia, Germany. She left Germany from Bremen on the Bark Isis in 1867, arriving in Galveston, Texas, in November of 1867. She married Heinrich Winkelmann (born in Oppendorf, Westphalia) in 1869 in Washington County, Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Gaskamp/ Westphalia/ Winkelmann/ Wiethorn/ Schmedthorst/ Tiemann/ Haferkamp/ Loesch

Bode, Daniel. “The Family of Henry and Agnes (Gaskamp) Haferkamp.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 52-62, ill.
Abstract: Wilhelm Heinrich David “Henry” Haferkamp was born 7 Dec. 1838, in Haldem, Westphalia. His wife, Margarethe Engel Agnes Gaskamp, was born 11 Nov. 1840, also in Haldem, Westphalia.” In October 1871, Henry, Agnes, and their three children left Germany for America. Coming with the Haferkamps to Texas was another brother of Agnes’s, Christian Gaskamp, his wife, Margarethe, and their sons.” They lived in the community of Zionsville, in Washington County, and later in the Moody-McGregor area of McLennan County and in Riesel, on the McLennan-Falls County line.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Haferkamp/ Gaskamp/ Westphalia

Bode, Daniel. “The Family of Johann Heinrich Gaskamp.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 2, Summer 2009, pp. 169-177, ill.
Abstract: Johann Heinrich Gaskamp was born in 1830 in Haldem, Westphalia, Germany. He married Anna Marie Louise Meier in 1852 in Haldem; Anna died in 1856 and Johann Heinrich married Marie Sophie Engel Wiethorn in 1857, also in Haldem. The family arrived in Washington County, Texas, in 1871.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Gaskamp/ Westphalia/ Grochoske/ Bluhm

Bode, Daniel. “The Family of John & Ella (Wernecke) Spreen.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 32, no. 4, Winter 2010, pp. 271-274, ill.
Abstract: The Spreen family emigrated from Wehdem, Westphalia for Washington, County, Texas, in 1866. The Wernecke family came from Boberow, Prussia.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Spreen/ Wernecke/ Westphalia

Bode, Daniel. “The Family of Wilhelm and Henriette (Schramme) Spreen.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 69-81, ill.
Abstract: The Spreen family emigrated from Wehdem, Westphalia for Washington, County, Texas, in 1866. The Schramme family, also from Wehdem, arrived in Texas in 1868. Marie Henriette Caroline Henriette Schramme married Wilhelm Spreen in the Wiedeville Community of Washington County, Texas, on 29 January 1875.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Spreen/ Schramme/ Westphalia

Bode, Daniel. “The Family of Wilhelmine Haferkamp Meyer and Heinrich Meyer.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 30, no. 3, Fall 2008, pp. 247-259, ill.
Abstract: Genealogical information on the Haferkamp and Meyer families, originating in Haldem, Westphalia. Most family members settled in Washington County, Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Haferkamp/ Westphalia/ Gaskamp

Bode, Daniel. “A German-Texan Family’s Story: The Fred and Marie Blankenstein Family.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 33, no. 2, Summer 2011, pp. 97-112, ill.
Abstract: Gottfried Friedrich August ‘Fred’ Blankenstein was born in Barby, Saxony-Anhalt, in 1855. His father was a saddlemaker, and the family lived in rooms above the shop. In 1870 they left for America, arriving first in New York City, and living in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and Defiance, Ohio, before moving to Texas in 1878. Marie Dorothea Elisabeth Friedrichs was born in Ummendorf, Saxony-Anhalt, in 1861. Around 1880, Fred began writing to friends and relatives in Germany, seeking a bride. After more than a year of corresponding with Marie, Fred proposed, and she accepted. She left for America on the Donnau and arrived in New York City in 1882, traveling then by ship to Galveston and by train to Temple, Texas, where she met Fred for the first time. After various attempts to make a living, Marie convinced Fred to try farming, and in 1905 they purchased more than 80 acres of land in the Gerald community, McLennan County. Life continued to be hard, and Marie longed for her home in Germany until the day she died. Other family surnames mentioned in this history: Wustoff, Fink, Ulrich, Lehmann, Hultch, Drews, Leuschner, Krenz, Vahrenkamp, Rodenbeck, Wedeking, Wiese, Damm, Klumm, Kreder, Hessel, Dozier, Forkel, Nietzold, Schlatter, Schmidt, Banik, Haferkamp, and Bode.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Blankenstein/ Saxony-Anhalt/ Friedrichs

Bode, Daniel. “Ludwig Lehmann Family Cemetery Receives Official Texas State Historical Marker.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 30, no. 4, Winter 2008, pp. 327-334, ill.
Abstract: Includes a brief history of the Ludwig Lehmann Family. Ludwig Lehmann was born in 1794 in Wien, Hannover, Germany. Ludwig and his wife, Caroline Zeye, along with their four sons and Ludwig’s 73-year-old mother, left Germany from the Port of Hamburg and sailed for Galveston, Texas, in 1849. The mother died during the Atlantic crossing. The Lehmanns settled in Washington County, Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Family history/ Lehmann/ Cemeteries/ Texas — Washington County

Bode, Daniel. “My Great-Grandmother Marie Blankenstein nee Friedrichs.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 29, no. 2, Summer 2007, pp. 184-195, ill.
Abstract: Marie Dororthea Elisabeth Friedrichs was born in the village of Ummendorf, Germany, on 10 May 1861. “About 1880, Marie began corresponding with Gottfried Friedrich August ‘Fred’ Blankenstein in Texas. Fred was born 18 June 1855 in Barby, Germany. . . The Blankenstein family had left Germany in 1870 and settled in Defiance, Ohio. In 1878, they moved to Texas in a covered wagon train. Fred’s mother had a sister who lived in Ummendorf, Germany, and Fred wrote to friends and family in Germany to find him a bride. . . . Marie left her family in Germany in 1882 and set sail for America [having accepted Fred’s marriage proposal]. . . . Fred took Marie back to Marlin, Falls Co., Texas, where they were married on 14 December 1882.” Includes information on Marie’s family in Germany and the children of Fred and Marie Blankenstein.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Blankenstein/ Baden-Wuerttemberg/ Friedrichs

Bode, Daniel R. “The Family of August and Wilhelmine (Bode) Rosentreter.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 34, no. 3, Fall 2012, pp. 172-191, ill.
Abstract: Wilhelmine Albertine Louise Bode was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1861; she was the oldest child of Heinrich Konrad Wilhelm Bode (born in Rosenthal, Hannover, in 1830) and Catherine Albertine Marie Dorothea Jahnke (born in Solenthin, Prussia, in 1839). Wilhelmine married August Benjamin Rosentreter in 1880 at Zion Lutheran Church in Zionsville, Texas; August was born in Langebenicke, Posen, in 1848, and came to America in 1877. Other family surnames mentioned in this history: Spreen, Kalbow, Schmidt, Haferkamp, Herweg, Schawe, Thefs, Eickenhorst, Werney, Luedke, Kopp, Zettler, Feldmann, Schrank, Limmer, Riewe, Jeschke, and Unnasch.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Bode/ Rosentreter/ Genealogy/ Rosentreter

Bode, Daniel R. “The Family of Christoph and Caroline (Wehmeyer) Lehrmann.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 34, no. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 54-70, ill.
Abstract: Johann Christoph Lehrmann was born in Oppenwehe, Westphalia, in 1836. Christoph immigrated to Texas in 1859, settling in Washington County. Henriette Wilhelmine Caroline Wehmeyer was born in Wehdem, Westphalia, in 1842. The two were married in the Salem Lutheran Church, Washington County, Texas, in 1861. Other family surnames mentioned in this history: Holle, Kuretsch, Kruska, Helm, Meyer, Haferkamp, Gaskamp, and Lauter.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Lehrmann/ Westphalia/ Wehmeyer/ Holle/ Genealogy

Bode, Daniel R. “The Family of Fritz and Karoline (Westerfeld) Lehde.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 2, 1934, pp. 124-139, ill.
Abstract: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm “Fritz” Lehde was born in Westrup, Westphalia, in 1843. Fritz immigrated to Texas in 1860, settling in Washington County. He enrolled in the Texas Infantry of the Confederate States Army in 1862, was captured in Louisiana and held as a prisoner of war in New Orleans until 1864. Fritz Lehde married Karoline Westerfeld in 1869 at Eben Ezer Lutheran Church in Berlin, Washington County. Other family surnames mentioned in this history: Haferkamp, Hole, Lehrmann, Wolske, Kuretsch, Mascheg, Knuppel, Graeber, Imhoff, Balke, Gaskamp, Wendt, Fischer, Boortz, Lange, Spreen, Schwartz, and Slagle.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Westphalia/ Lehde/ Westerfeld/ Genealogy/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Bode, Daniel R. “A German-Texan Family’s Story: The Family of Fritz and Anna (Haferkamp) Bode.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 33, no. 3, Fall 2011, pp. 166-180, ill.
Abstract: Friedrich Carl Daniel “Fritz” Bode was born in 1874 in Zionsville, Washington County, Texas. He was the son of Heinrich Konrad Wilhelm Bode, born in 1830 in Rosenthal, Hannover, Germany, and Marie Charlotte Henriette Spreen, born 1845 in Wehdem, Westphalia, Germany. Wilhelm and Henriette were married in Texas in 1874. Fritz married Anna Margaretha Louise Haferkamp in 1896; she was born in 1876 in Welcome, Austin County, Texas, the daughter of Wilhelm Heinrich David “Henry” Haferkamp (born in 1838 in Haldem, Westphalia, Germany) and Margarethe Engel Agnes Gaskamp (born 1840 in Haldem, Westphalia, Germany). Henry and Agnes had been married in Haldem, and emigrated to America in 1872.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Haferkamp/ Westphalia/ Bode/ Hannover (Germany)

Bode, Daniel R. “The Relatives and Descendants of Henry and Agnes (Gaskamp) Haferkamp.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 35, no. 1, Spring 2013, pp. 53-74, ill.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Haferkamp/ Gaskamp/ Westphalia

Boeck, Brian J. “Review of Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections.” H-NET Book Review, April 2003, pp. 6 pp.
Notes: Published by H-GAGCS@h-net.msu.edu.
MKI P2003-13
Book reviews/ Native Americans/ German Americans/ Germans

Boeckh, Richard. “Die Ermittelung des Volksthums der Einwanderer in die Vereinigten Staaten. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss des Antheils der Deutschen.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter. (Schluss), vol. 7, 1907, pp. 17-27.
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Boehlke, Leroy. “‘…dass wir unserm Settlement den Namen Freystatt geben.'” Globus, vol. 21, no. 1, Jan./Feb. 1989, pp. 9-11.
Abstract: “Eine Name fuer ihre Ansiedlung scheint das letzte gewesen zu sein, um das sich die gut zwanzig Familien aus Pommern Gedanken machten. Sie hatten mehr als alle Haende voll damit zu tun, hier, dreissig Kilometer noerdlich von Milwaukee, eine offene Stelle in den Urwald zu schlagen, sich ein Haus zu bauen, zwischen den Stubben Getreide zu saeen und es gegen die Waldtiere zu verteidigen.”
MKI P92-5
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Wisconsin

Boeker, Uwe. “Oberammergau: A Minor American Myth.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 19, 1984, pp. 33-42.
Abstract: Boeker’s article discusses American Protestants’ reception of the Passion Play in Oberammergau. The author focuses on three English authors responsible for evoking Americans’ interest in the play: Anna Mary Howitt, the Baroness Tautphoeus, and Arthur Penrhyn Stanley.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Myths/ Theater & Drama/ Religion/ Germany

Boettcher, J. L. Ist der Mensch unsterblich? Brookfield, Ill.: Pacific Press, n.d.
Notes: Religion; Hand-bound into a book with Ochs, W. B. Christi Kreuzesopfer und die Messe.
MKI P88-17
PIA/ Religious works/ Philosophy

Boette, Gerd-J., and Werner R. Tannhof. “Germanica-Americana 1729-1830 in den Bibliotheken der Vereinigten Staaten und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Ein Ueberblick ueber die wichtigsten Sammlungen zur fruehen deutschsprachigen Druckkultur in Amerika.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 23, 1988, pp. 173-192.
MKI Periodicals
German Americana/ Bibliographies/ Catalogs

Boettner, Thomas. “Deutsche Weihnacht im brasilianischen Urwald: Ein Bericht aus dem Jahre 1916.” Globus, vol. 17, no. 6, 1985, pp. 21-23.
Abstract: A German Christmas in Brazil among pioneers
MKI P87-110
Christmas/ German Americans/ Brazil

Bohlman, Philip V. “Ernest Bloch’s ‘America’ (1926): Aesthetic Dimensions of a Swiss-American ‘Auswandererbericht.'” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 25, 1990, pp. 35-56.
Abstract: Bohlman’s article discusses Bloch’s compositions as reflecting his being Swiss, Jewish, and American. It concludes, however, that his works resist reducing the Swiss-American experience to a single-facited one. It includes epigraphs, verbal texts, and selections from his score “America.”
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Music/ Ethnic identity

Bohlman, Philip V. “Hymnody in the Rural German-American Community of the Upper Midwest.” The Hymn, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 158-164.
Abstract: Hymnody was a vital element in the transition from immigrant German to German-American musical traditions and served as a cornerstone that strengthened and standardized these traditions in the United States
MKI P85-77
Music/ Hymns

Bohlman, Philip V. “Music in the Culture of German-Americans in North-Central Wisconsin. MA Thesis.” Univ. of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), 1979. 493 pp.
Notes: Book, in MadCat.
MKI ML200.7 W5 B5; shelved with MKI Dissertations/ Music ML200.7 W5 B5
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Music/ Cultural influence.

Bohlman, Philip V. “Prolegomena to the Classification of German-American Music.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 33-48.
Abstract: Bohlman’s article is organized into the following sections: concepts of music and musical life in German-American ethnicity; the continuum of musical change in German-American music; cultural change and the music itself; cultural change and musical behavior; cultural change and the conceptualization of music. It also includes and discusses several scores.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Music/ Folk songs, German/ Societies, etc./ Amish/ Ethnic identity/ Assimilation/ Wisconsin

Bohlman, Philip V. “Religious Music/Secular Music: The Press of the German-American Church and Aesthetic Mediation.” In The German-American Press. Henry Geitz, editor Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 1992, pp. 69-90.
Abstract: This volume attempts to present a relatively broad spectrum of the broadly-defined German-American press’ activity.
MKI PN 4885 .G3 G467 1992
German-American press/ Religion

Bohning, Elizabeth E. “Deutsch als Muttersprache im Staate Delaware.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, ed. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, vol. 10.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1985, pp. 9-11.
Abstract: This article examines the history and present state of the German language in Delaware.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)

Bohstedt, Carl H. F. Letter to his parents toward the end of the Civil War. 1865?.
Abstract: The letter, translated from the German by Gustav Bohstedt, was written to his parents in Germany by Carl H. F. Bohstedt during the Civil War while on the march south with General Sherman. There is no mention of place, date, salutation or introduction; a copy of original handwritten letter in German script is included.
MKI P2000-10
Letters/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Personal narratives

Bole, John A. “The Harmony Society; a Chapter in German-American Culture History.” German American Annals, vol. 2, n.s., 1904, pp. 273-308; 339-366; 403-434; 467-491; 571-581; 597-628; 665-677.
MKI Periodicals
Harmony Society/ History/ Communities

Bollanden, Conrad von. Der Gefangene von Kuestrin / Judas Makkabaeus. New York, N.Y.: Pustet, 1885. 259 pp., ill.
Notes: Copyright date: 1872.
Abstract: Historische Novellen ueber Friedrich II. von Preussen und seine Zeit. Praemienbuch zum Deutschen Hausschatz, XI. Jahrgang
MKI P89-52
PIA/ Fiction, historical

Bondi, August. “Excerpts from the Autobiography of August Bondi (1833-1907).” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 40, 2005, pp. 87-159.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and index.
Abstract: Selected sections of the text originally published in 1910. Includes: Origin of the Name, Ancestors, Change of Name, My Father’s Early History, Children of Herz Emanuel Mendel Bondy, My Mother’s Early History, Early Personal History, Geburtszeugnisz, St. Louis Politics, The Journey to Southeastern Kansas, Roughing It, First Meeting with John Brown Sr., [Theo.] Wiener’s Story, Biography Continued, and Border War.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Kansas/ Slavery/ Kansas/ Kansas-Nebraska bill/ Forty-eighters/ Bondi, August, 1833-1907/ Genealogy/ German Americans — Missouri/ St. Louis (Mo.)/ History/ United States

Bonebrake, Veronica. “A Sociolinguistic and Phonological Survey of Low German Spoken in Kansas.” University of Texas at Austin, 1969. 62 pp.
Notes: Thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts; donated by Mark Louden, 2005.
Abstract: From the introduction: The Low-German settlement of northern Washington and Marshall Counties in the state of Kansas is a source which provides information concerning the introduction of English as a trade language and the subsequent less frequency with which the immigrant German language was used. The transition to English usage is determined historically and socially. . . . The actual stage in the transistion to English reached in various communities was determined by compiling and correlating information elicited by means of a sociolgical questionnaire. . . . In addition to the primary purpose of describing the factors and stages of this process as exemplified in these communities, a description of the phonology of their Low-German dialect is presented.
MKI dissertations
Language, English/ Language influence / Language, German/ Dialectology/ United States/ Dialects/ Kansas/ German Americans — Kansas/ Language, German (US) — Foreign elements/ Linguistics/ Sociolinguistics/ Low German dialect/ Language loss.

Bonner, Thomas N. “German Influences on American Clinical Medicine, 1870-1914.” German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917. Henry Geitz, Juergen Heideking, and Jurgen Herbst, eds. Washington, D.C.; Cambridge; New York : German Historical Institute; Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 275-287.
MKI/MEM LA 216 G47 1995
Medicine & Health/ Science/ Education/ United States/ History/ German influence/ 20th century

Bonney, Rachel A. “Was There a Single German-American Experience?” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editorMoorhead, Minn: Concordia College, 1981. 20-31
Abstract: Bonney’s article outlines 6 phases of German immigration to America: colonial, post-revolutionary, forty-eighters, pre-WW I, post-WW I and WW II, and the present. She argues against the generalization “German-American,” describing regional, linguistic, and religious variations among immigrants.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981.
German Americans — Minnesota/ Assimilation/ Ethnic identity/ Folklore/ Stereotypes/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ History/ Religion.

Boock, Darcy. “Early Families of Trinity Lutheran Church, Spencer, Marathon County, Wisconsin.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, Summer 2003, pp. 14-15.
Abstract: Lists the surnames of some Lutherans who settled in the area of Spencer, Marathon County, Wisconsin, in the 1880s, along with the villages of their birth. The majority of the villages are in Kreis Saatzig and Kreis Naugard, Germany.
MKI Periodicals
Pomerania/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Lutherans/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Wisconsin — Marathon County

Boock, Darcy. “Early German Settlement: Colfax Colony, Colorado, Located in Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado Territory — Settled by the German Colonization Company of Chicago in 1870.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 13, no. 4, Winter 2010, pp. 5-10, ill.
Abstract: In searching for a lost member of the Oelrich family–traced back to Elpersbuettel, Holstein–the author discovered that Paul Christian Oelrich was part of a group of Germans led from Chicago by Carl Wulstein / Wulsten who had settled in Fremont County (now Custer County), Colorado, in 1870. This article describes Wulsten’s efforts to found the German Colonization Company, the migration of the members (numbering between 228 and 337 individuals, according to various reports), and the failure of the colony ten months after its founding. Also provides a listing of possible settlers of Colfax Colony, derived from several sources, along with place of birth, where known.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration/ German Americans — Colorado/ Settlements/ 19th century/ Societies, etc./ German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)

Boock, Darcy. “The Emergence of the Surname Aufderheide from the Westphalian Surname Johann auf der Heide: A Case Study.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, Fall 2009, pp. 17-23, 28, ill.
Notes: Includes listing of sources.
Abstract: “According to a church record, Friedrich Wilhelm Aufderheide immigrated to America in 1870. . . . He first settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his older brother, Adolph, lived, as well as his sisters, Catharine Sophie Friederike, who was married to Bernhard Heinrich Rosenfled, and Sophia Bernhardine, who married Wilhelm Wiethoff later that year. Fred learned the brick-making trade. . .[and] in 1875, he brought this trade with him as he settled in New Ulm, Minnesota.” This article describes the search to find the birthplace of Friedrich Aufderheide in Westphalia.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Research/ German Americans — Ohio/ Aufderheide/ Westphalia/ New Ulm (Minn.)/ German Americans — Minnesota

Boock, Darcy. “Johann Gottlieb Hottmann, Blacksmith, Farmer, Civil War Veteran.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 16-17, ill.
Notes: By Darcy Boock (nee Kleemann).
Abstract: Johann Gottlieb Hottmann was born in Grunbach, Jagstkreis, Wuerttemberg, Germany in 1823. He and Barbara Stierli, from Switzerland, immigrated to America in 1855, where they were married in Sauk City, Sauk County, Wisconsin in 1856. After Barbara died in 1857, Johann married Mary Kumigunda Knell/Knerl/Kall in 1860. Johann served in Company K, 2nd Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Wisconsin — Sauk County/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Boot, Christine. “Home and farm remedies and charms in a German manuscript from a Texas ranch.” Paisanos, pp. 111-130.
Abstract: The prescriptions in this manuscript are divided into groups according to the manner of treatment offered: either conventional means, e.g., herbs and minerals are used, or natural magic is employed. Comparisons are made with the German herbals by Leonart Fuchs (1543) Schoeffer (1485) Bock (1539) and the Texas text.
MKI P97-45
Medicine & Health/ Texas/ Folks-medicine

Boppe, C. Hermann. Der Staat und seine Widersacher. Milwaukee, Wis.: Druck und Verlag der Freidenker Publishing Co., n.d. [189?]. 19 pp.
Notes: On cover: Preis 10 Cents. — Label: Library of the University of Wisconsin, bequest of George B. Wild, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1870-1941, in memory of his brother Robert Wild ’97, 1875-1928. — Donated by Prof. Lester Seifert.
Abstract: Anarchist essay.
MKI P84-17
PIA/ Communism/ Anarchism/ Politics/ Socialism

Bornmann, Heinrich. “August Busse, Quincy [Nachruf].” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 7, 1907, pp. 131.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies

Bornmann, Heinrich. “Die Deutschen im Mormonenkriege.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 10, 1910, pp. 147-156.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Wars

Bornmann, Heinrich. “Geschichte der Deutschen Quincy’s.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 1-11, 1901-1911.
Notes: Printed in 40 parts between April 1901 and April 1911. MKI has #s 4-7; 23-40. See index cards for issue and page numbers.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies

Bornmann, Heinrich. “Geschichte der Deutschen Quincy’s: XXXIX.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, no. 1, Jan. 1911, pp. 21-24.
Notes: Deutsch-Amerikanische Historische Gesellschaft von Illinois; Staiger Printing Co., Chicago.
Abstract: Begins: “Welch’ eine Stellung die Deutschen vor 65 Jahren im oeffentlichen und Geschaeftsleben der Stadt Quincy einnahmen, davon erhaelt man ein annaeherndes Bild, wenn man den ersten Jahrgang des ‘Stern des Westens’ durchblaettert, der ersten deutschen Zeitung in Quincy, die von Bartholomaeus Hauck gegruendet wurde, und deren erste Nummer am 10. April 1846 erschien.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Newspapers, German-American/ United States/ History/ History/ Quincy (Ill.)

Bornmann, Heinrich. “Heinrich Anton Oenning, Quincy [Nachruf].” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 8, 1908, pp. 57.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries

Bornmann, Heinrich. “Heinrich Carl Pfeiffer, Quincy [Nachruf].” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 10, 1910, pp. 255-256.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries

Bornmann, Heinrich. “Hermann Heidbreder, Quincy [Nachruf].” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 7, 1907, pp. 167.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries

Bornmann, Heinrich. “Johann B. Schott, Quincy [Nachruf].” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 10, 1910, pp. 176-177.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries

Bornmann, Heinrich. “Joseph Buerkin, Quincy [Nachruf].” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 10, 1910, pp. 23-24.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries

Bornmann, Heinrich. “Joseph M. Gumbell.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 4 , 1902, pp. 33-35.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies

Bornmann, Heinrich. “Julius Kespohl, Quincy [Nachruf].” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 10, 1910, pp. 24.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries

Bornmann, Heinrich. “Quincy’s Deutsche im Kriege fuer die Union.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911, pp. 275-287.
Abstract: German-Americans of Quincy, Illinois who fought in the Civil War. Lists specific regiments and soldiers’ names.
MKI Periodicals
Soldiers/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ German Americans — Illinois/ Illinois/ Wars

Bornmann, Heinrich. “Quincy’s Gruendung und das deutsche Element in der Entwickelung der Stadt.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 12, 1912, pp. 536-544.
Abstract: John Wood war der erste Ansiedler und Gruender von Quincy (Adams County).
MKI Periodicals
Settlements/ German Americans/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Communities

Bornmann, Heinrich. “Rev. Joseph Still, Quincy [Nachruf].” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 7, 1907, pp. 105.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries

Bornmann, Heinrich. “Wilhelm Eber, Quincy [Nachruf].” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 10, 1910, pp. 176.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries

Boss, Pauline Grossenbacher. “Cross-Cultural and Cross-Generational Sex Role Perceptions of Swiss-American and Amish Females. M.S. Thesis (Home Economics Education).” Univ. of Wisconsin, 1971. 102 pp.
MKI Dissertations / MEM AWO B745 P385
Swiss Americans/ Amish/ Women.

Bosse, Georg von. “Die deutsche Kirche und Gemeindeschule.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 233-247.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
German Americans/ Religion

Bosshard-Kaelin, Susann. “Exploring Life Paths: On Becoming an Interview Journalist.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 50, no. 1, Feb. 2014, pp. 9-22, ill.
Abstract: The author, a native of Switzerland, has worked on such books as Westwaerts. Begegnungen mit Amerika-Schweizerinnen and Emigrant Paths: Encounters with 20th Century Swiss Americans.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Interviews

Bottigheimer, Ruth B. “One Hundred and Fifty Years of German at Princeton: A Descriptive Account.” In Teaching German in America: Prolegomena to a History. David P. Benseler, Walter F. W. Lohnes, and Valters Nollendorfs, Editors Monatshefte occasional volumes, 7. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988, pp. 83-98.
Abstract: Papers from a conference sponsored by the Dept. of German and the Max Kade Institute for German American Studies of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, held at the University April 1983. MKI PF 3068 .U6 T4 1988
Language, German (US)/ Teaching

Boudelier, Nomie, and Harvey L. Prinz. “When a Child Led the Way to the New Country: An Unusual Immigrant Story.” Infoblatt, vol. 9, no. 3, Summer 2004, pp. 10-11, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa; also appears in Hessischer Verein, vol. 1, no. 4, June 2006, p. 7.
Abstract: Christina Stapp emigrated from Goetzenhain, Hesse Darmstadt, at the age of twelve in 1854. “For six years, from 1854 to 1860, no record of Christina has been found in America, except for a letter she wrote to her father, Philip,…brothers, and sisters from Rock Island, Illinois.” The letter, written in early 1860, is presented here translated into English. Her father and most of the rest of the family joined Christina in Rock Island in June of 1860. A letter from Philip to a son still in Germany is also presented in translation. That son came to Rock Island in 1864.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Rock Island (Ill.)/ Goetzenhain, Hesse, Darmstadt/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Letters/ Children/ Stapp

Boyd, Jack. “Among the Pennsylvania Dutch.” Pennsylvania Folklife, vol. 32, no. 3, 1983, pp. 141-144.
MKI P88-92
Pennsylvania Germans

Boyd, James D. ed. “Fleeing Europe, Finding Philadelphia: Integration, Crisis, and the Migration of 1816-17.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, vol. 5, 2019, pp. 83 pp. : ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Contents: Introduction: Philadelphia, 2017 / James D. Boyd — Weighing the Risks of Relocation in the Face of Crises / Marianne S. Wokeck — Sailing souls: Colonial Philadelphia’s German Merchants and the Development of the Transatlantic Passenger Trade / Andrew Zonderman — Soul-Sellers, Herring Boxes, and Desperate Emigrants: A Recipe for Ship Fever… / David Barnes — The Crisis of 1816/17, Replacing Redemptioners with Passengers on the Atlantic / James D. Boyd — Serial Sources in Excess: “Inventuren und Teilungen” and “Pflegerechnungen” in the Wuerttemberg Cimmunal Archives and their Significance for Emigration Research / Konstantin Huber.
MKI Periodicals
Philadelphia (Pa.)/ Pennsylvania — History/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Boyd, Virginia T., and Lawrence J. Jacobsen. “Gustav Stickley: The creation of art through machine production.” Wisconsin Academy Review, vol. 39, no. 4, 1993, pp. 4-9.
Abstract: Gustav Stickley was of German immigrant background. He was among the most successful in applying the new American industrialism through the manufacture of products for the home which were well crafted, modestly priced, and thus available to the middle class. In Stickley’s mind, household art was indeed “a national art, a universal art, adapted to the needs of the country. This was to be an art developed by the people, for the people, as a reciprocal joy for the artist and layman.”
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ Crafts/ Business & Industry

Boyle, Kelvin. “To River Grove with Love: Chicago-Area German Immigrants Build a Community.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 6, no. 4, Winter 2003, pp. 19-20.
Abstract: Provides a brief history of River Grove in Leyden Township, Illinois. Names include Gierz (Giertz), Rhueder, Harder, Kolze, Lippman, Semf, Boeldt (Boldt), Wiemerslage, Struckman, and others.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)

Bradish, Joseph A. von. Amerikaner deutschen Blutes. 2nd Auflage. Vortragsreihe , Heft 1. Berlin; New York: B. Westermann Co., 1932, 20 pp.
Notes: Joseph Arno von Bradish; 2nd copy shelved under New York: Westermann; also on title page: Vortragsreihe herausgegeben im Auftrage des Verbandes deutscher Schriftsteller und Literaturfreunde in New York von Joseph A. von Bradish (gemeinverstaendliche Folge) Heft 1.
MKI P84-18
PIA/ German Americans

Bradunas, Elena. “Some General Questions Concerning the Maintenance of Ethnicity.” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editorMoorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1981. 40-47
Abstract: Bradunas’ article is divided into the following sections: An Ethnic Reawakening, Components of Ethnic Identity, The Chicago Experience, Ethnic Festivals, and Family and Local Histories. It includes several photographs.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981.
German Americans — Minnesota/ Assimilation/ Ethnic identity/ Folklore.

Brady, Robert. The Missouri Rhineland. Hermann, Mo.: Brush and Palette Club, 25 pp.
Notes: Copyrighted by the Missouri Committee for the Humanities; no slides nor tape.
Abstract: Program for a slide-tape presentation on the heritage of German-speaking immigrants in Missouri.
MKI P2004-23
German Americans — Missouri/ Hermann (Mo.)

Brancaforte, Charlotte Lang. The ’48ers of Watertown, Wisconsin. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, UW-Madison, [1986]. 5 pp.
MKI P2002-32
Forty-eighters/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Watertown (Wis.)

[Brancaforte, Charlotte Lang. The German Press in America. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, [1987]. [13] pp.
Abstract: Describes an exhibition that examines the history of the German press in America, focusing on the themes of immigration, religious and political freedom, and the struggle to maintain an ethnic identity in an adopted society.
MKI P2004-32
Newspapers, German-American/ Periodicals, German-American/ German-American press

Brandt, Edward. “Book review: Katholische Kirchenbuecher in Ost- und Westpreussen [by Marianne Stanke].” Der Blumenbaum, Sacramento German Genealogy Society, vol. 19, no. 1, July/Aug./Sept. 2001, pp. 18.
Abstract: Review of inventory of Catholic parish registers for the dioceses of Danzig-Gdansk, Warmia (Ermland), and Kulm/Chelmno in West and East Prussia.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Brandt, Edward R. “Geography & History Corner: Prussia from Belgium to Russian Lithuania.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, Fall 2003, pp. 20-22, ill.
Abstract: Examines the acquisition of territories by Prussia during three major periods: before 1815, 1815, and 1866.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Prussia/ History

Brandt, Edward R. “Research in Prussian Eastern Provinces: 100 Kinds of Records?” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. Vol. 5, no. 2, Summer 2002, pp. 20-23.
Abstract: Examines the newly-published Genealogical Guide to East and West Prussia.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Prussia

Brantley, Ruth Goos. “Emigration from Hohenwettersbach (Baden) in the 18th and 19th Century.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 29, no. 1, Dec. 2003, pp. 3-20.
Abstract: Provides “some historical background and personal data for emigrants from Hohenwettersbach, formerly a small community subject to the grand Ducal District Office of Durlach (Baden) and since 1972 a part of Karlsruhe.” Describes some of the details of life on the Colonie (noble estate) of Hohenwettersbach, noting that a Colonist is a person who lives on a noble estabe and own his own house, but not the land on which it stands.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 18th century/ 19th century/ Baden-Wuerttemberg

Brantley, Ruth Goos. “Researching an Emigrant’s Gift of a Church Bell.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 30, no. 1, Dec. 2004, pp. 10-14, ill.
Abstract: Dr. Brantley provides the results of her research into the Josef Rimmelspacher family, donors of a bell to St. Martin’s Catholic Church in Forchheim, one of three villages now forming the town of Rheinstetten in Baden, Germany. She describes the 1881 journey of Josef Rimmelspacher and his wife Euphrosina to America, including first-hand impressions as noted by Josef in his passport. Josef and his wife traveled to Ottumwa, Iowa, where he worked in a brewery until 1887, when Josef took his family west to Peola, Washington. In 1921 Josef gave his farm to his son and moved with his wife to Lewiston, Idaho, at which time he made his gift of a church bell to his former hometown of Forchheim. The importance of church bells in rural German culture is also discussed.
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ German Americans — Iowa/ German Americans — Washington/ Churches

Braswell, David M. “Philipp H. Postel–Immigrant, Pioneer, Miller.” In Pfaelzer-Palatines: Beitraege zur pfaelzischen Ein-und Auswanderung sowie zur Volkskunde und Mundartforschung der Pfalz und der Ziellaender pfaelzischer Auswanderer im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Karl Scherer, ed. Kaiserleutern: Heimatstelle Pfalz, 1981, pp. 273-289, ill.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Immigrants, German/ Pioneers

Braunsdorf, Lynn. “Gerstaecker at the California Gold Rush: Fact, fiction, and a translation.” Schatzkammer, vol. 21, no. Nos. 1 & 2, 1995, pp. 21-30.
Notes: Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte.
Abstract: Notes on J. Tyrwhitt Brooks’ diary, Four Months Among the Goldfinders in Alta California, and its translation by Friedrich Gerstaecker.
P2001-36
Gerstaecker, Friedrich, 1816-1872/ Literary criticism/ United States/ History

Brause, Herman F. “Bin Kein Goethe (poem).” German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1971, pp. 16.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Poetry

Brause, Herman F. “Der Greis [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 11.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Brause, Herman F. “Deutschamerika [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 7.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Brause, Herman F. “Die Brunsbuettelkooger Schleusen [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 1970, pp. 33.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Brause, Herman F. “”Erinnerung” and “An Meinen Geliebten Grossvater” [poems].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 6, Fall 1973, pp. 72.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Brause, Herman F. “Farbenlehre [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974 , pp. 136.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Brause, Herman F. “Maria Plain (Wallfahrtskirche bei Salzburg) [poem].” German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1971, pp. 16.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Poetry

Brause, Herman F. “Review of “A Yankee in German America Texas Hill Country” by Vera Flach.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974, pp. 103-106.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Brause, Herman F. “Review of “The Legal and Military Aspects of German Money, Banking, and Finance 1938-1948″ by Richard A. Banyai.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974, pp. 102-103.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Brause, Herman F. “Und Jahre Entfliehen [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 180.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Brause, Herman F. “Verfallenes Deutsches Wirtshaus im Mohawktal [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974, pp. 13.
MKI Periodicals / SHS E .G3 G315
Poetry

Brause, Herman F. “Verletzter Baum [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974, pp. 136.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Brause, Herman F. “Winterabend am Ontariosee [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 4, 1972, pp. back of first page.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Brede, Charles F. “Schiller on the Philadelphia Stage. To the Year 1830.” German American Annals, vol. 3, n.s., 1905, pp. 254-275.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Philadelphia (Pa.)/ Theater & Drama

Brentjes, Burchard. “The August Hermann Francke Foundation and the Emergence of National Education in Germany and the USA.”1990. [21] pp.
Notes: Paper from a conference: German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917, Madison, Wisconsin, Sep. 12-15, 1990.. See also the book of the same title: MKI/MEM LA 216 G47 1995.
MKI P2007-30
Education/ German influence.

Brereton III, Lewis Hyde. “American Indians of the Southeast and Southwest in the Works of Charles Sealsfield, Karl May, and Friedrich Armand Strubberg. MA Thesis.” University of Texas at Austin, 1969. 85 pp.
Notes: Thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts; donated by Prof. Glenn G. Gilbert, 2005.
MKI dissertations
Native Americans/ America in German literature/ Literary criticism/ Literature, German/ United States in literature/ Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Strubberg, Friedrich Armand, 1806-1889/ May, Karl Friedrich, 1842-1912.

Bressler, Leo A. “The Pennsylvania-German.” American-German Review, vol. XVIII , no. 4, 1952, pp. 11-14.
Notes: Review of the periodical The Pennsylvania-German, which was first published in 1900.
MKI Periodicals
Periodicals, German-American

Bretting, Agnes. “Deutsche Einwandererfrauen im ‘Land der unbegrenzten Moeglichkeiten’ — Wunsch und Wirklichkeit. Autobiographische Quellen in der Frauenforschung.” Frauen wandern aus: Deutsche Migrantinnen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Monika Blaschke and Christiane Harzig, eds. Bremen: Labor Migration Project, 1990, pp. 9-28.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: “Die Autorinnen seien zunaechst kurz charakterisiert: Henriette Bruns, ein junge Frau, folgte 1836 mit ihrem ersten Kind ihrem Ehemann, der etwa ein Jahr zuvor nach Missouri gegangen war und dort Farmland erworben hatte. Sie war eine gebildete Frau, kam aus dem Mittelstand — ihre Familie zaehlte in ihrer Heimatstadt Oelde in Westfalen durchaus zu den Honoratioren — und ihr Mann, Bernhard Bruns, war Arzt. Ihr Schicksal in Amerika hat Adolph E. Schroeder aus Briefen an Eltern und Brueder in Deutschland und aus einer nicht veroeffentlichten Autobiographie rekonstruiert. Ebenfalls als junge Frau, aber ledig und auf sich selbst gestellt, wanderte 1880 Louisa Christina Hansen-Rollfing aus Neiblum auf Foehr aus. Das Ziel der zu der Zeit 21jaehrigen war Lake Charles in Louisiana, wo Verwandte von ihr lebten. Ein Onkel hatte ihr die Fahrkarte vorfinanziert und besorget ihr auch Anstellung als Dienstmaedchen in einer deutschen Familie. Nach fuenf Jahren Aufenthalt heiratete sie in Galveston August Rollfing, seines Zeichens Maler, Dekorateur und Anstreicher; die beiden hatten drei Kinder. Im Alter von 72 Jahren — sie starb 17 Jahre spaeter — schreib sie auf Wunsch ihrer Kinder ihre Memoiren, bezeichnenderweise in englischer Sprache. Ebenfalls in hohem Alter und auf Wunsch der Kinder diktierte eine andere Auswanderin ihre Erinnerungen, Helen Violet von Zehmen. Sie war als 24jaehrige 1882 mit ihrem Mann, einem Offizier aus alter, aber verarmter Adelsfamilie nach Nord-Dakota gezogen. . . . Sie selbst kam aus einem wohlhabenden Bankiershaushalt, ihr Vater hatte sich gegen ihre Heirat gestellt. Mit ihrem mann baute sie am Rande der Praerie eine Farm auf. . . . 1880 ging die Familie nach Deutschland zurueck, Helen nennt fuer ihren Rueckkehrentschluss jedoch keine Gruende. Louisa Ritter war eine Schweizer Baeuerein, die 30jaehrig im Jahr 1893 mit ihrem Mann und drei kleinen Soehnen nach Nebraska ging, wo sich bereits etliche Verwandte erfolgreich angesiedelt hatten. Eine ihrer Enkelinnen hat ihre Briefe in die Heimat gesammelt und publiziert. Als letzte Quelle schliesslich wurden einige unveroeffentlichte Briefe einer Frau herangezogen, die nach New York City ausgewandert war: Frieda Bruehns hatte als verheiratete Frau im Alter von 23 Jahren eine Affaere mit dem Verwalter des vaeterlichen Gutes. Ohne die Scheidung von ihrem Mann abzuwarten, setzten sich die beiden 1884 nach Amerika ab, wo ihr Sohn Freddy geboren wurde.”
MKI HQ 1410 .F738 1990; SHS Pam 90-3693
Women/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Social conditions/ Autobiography

Breuer, Robert. “Hermann Broch–Poet and philosopher.” American German Review, vol. 23, no. 3, 1957, pp. 12-14.
Abstract: Short biographical note. Hermann Broch was a novelist and poet, a mathematician and philosopher, a psychologist and economist. Broch, Hermann, 1886-1951
MKI P93-57
Biographies

Brichford, Maynard. “German influence on American archival development.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 30, 1995, pp. 117-126.
Abstract: The major German influence on American archival development has been through German immigrants. Between 1880 and 1885 more than a million Germans migrated to the United States. They brought German record keeping, archival traditions and linguistic skills to America. Overview of the history of German archives in America and of the contributions of Germans and German-Americans to American archival theory and practice
MKI–Journals
German influence/ Archives/ History/ United States

Bricker, Mary. “Singing Bernadette’s Song to the World: Exile Literature as World Literature.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 51, 2016, pp. 177-188.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Argues that Franz Werfel’s The Song of Bernadette (Das Lied von Bernadette) is world literature, offering an “alternative German voice at the height of Nazi German rule that espouses universally shared values, such as freedom of the individual, that found intersections within its global readership.”
MKI Periodicals
Werfel, Franz, 1890-1945/ Jews, German/ Literature, German/ Exiles’ writing, German

Brightenburg, Cindy. “Return of the Native Swiss-American Missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Nineteenth Century.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 55, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 1-12 : ill.
Abstract: Describes experiences of Swiss-American Mormons returning to Switzerland to proselytize and recruit converts to emigrate to Utah.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Missions

Briner, Andres. “Conrad Beissel and Thomas Mann.” American German Review, vol. 26, no. 2, 1959, pp. 24-25,38.
Abstract: Beissel’s episode in Mann’s novel. Comparison of the accounts of Beissel’s life in Ephrata with Mann’s narration in the eighth chapter of his novel Dr. Faustus
MKI P93-58
Beissel, Conrad, 1690-1768/ Literary criticism

Brinker-Gabler, Gisela. “Die Schriftstellerin in der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft: Aspekte ihrer Rezeption von 1835-1910.” Die Unterrichtspraxis, vol. IX, no. 1, 1976, pp. 5-15.
Anneke box
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/ Literary criticism/ Women

Brinkmann, Tobias. “The Dialectics of Ethnic Identity: German Jews in Chicago, 1850-1870.” in German-American Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 44-68.
Notes: Paper originally presented at a conference at Texas A&M University, Apr. 1997.
Abstract: From the conclusion: “The case of Jewish immigrants in Chicago illustrates that for Jewish immigrants in mid-nineteenth-century America the concept of Germanness must be analyzed on several different levels. . . . The term ‘German Jews’ should, therefore, be used cautiously. The case studies indicate that ‘Germanness’,’ ‘Jewishness,’ and ‘Americanness’ were closely related.”
E 184 .G3 G295 2004
Jews, German/ Cultural influence/ Cultural contribution/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Ethnic identity/ Communities/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Societies, etc.

Brinkmann, Tobias. “‘We Are Brothers! Let Us Separate’: Jewish Immigrants in Chicago between Gemeinde and Network Community before 1880.” German-Jewish Identities in America. Edited by Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2003, pp. 40-63.
Abstract: Analyzes “both the centrifugal and centripetal forces that influenced Jewish community building in the city of Chicago” during the period of intense immigration after the 1840s. The author contends that “in the American context the forces of assimilation often led to the transformation of Jewish community rather than its disintegration.”
MKI/MEM E184 J5 G37 2003
Jews, German/ Cultural influence/ Cultural contribution/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Ethnic identity/ Communities/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Societies, etc.

Broadbent, T. L. “Hans Besenstiel: Immigrant satirist.” Western Humanities Review, vol. 12, 1958, pp. 151-157.
Abstract: Hans Besenstiel wrote in the “Beobachter,” a German language newspaper in Utah. His vehicle was the “letter to the editor” and whose medium was satire, broad and earthy. He submits his observations on the religious, social and political scene, purportedly as a naive and uninformed non-Mormon goldminer.
MKI P93-59
Literature, German-American/ Humor & Satire/ Literary criticism

Brockman, Paul. “Guide to the German Ethnic History Collection of the Indiana Historical Society.” In Studies in Indiana German-Americana, 1988, pp. 72-83.
MKI P92-9
German Americans — Indiana/ History/ Catalogs/ Ethnicity

Brohm, Theodor Julius. “Theodor Julius Brohm’s Journal during Saxon Lutheran Emigration, November 18, 1838, to February 14, 1839.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 2, Summer 2002, pp. 101-121, ill.
Notes: Translated by Robert M. Sandfort.
Abstract: Describes the sea journey to New Orleans, and of the further journey from New Orleans to St. Louis.
MKI Periodicals
Lutherans/ Lutheran Church/ Religious life/ Ships/ Diaries

Broline, Duane M., and Robert A. Selig. “Emigration and the “Safety-Valve” theory in the eighteenth century: Some mathematical evidence from the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 31, 1996, pp. 137-156.
Abstract: The purpose of this study is twofold. First the authors want to investigate the long-term consequences of emigration from the prince-Bishopric of Wuerzburg on the demographic development of this ecclesiatical state. Secondly the authors want to investigate whether emigration could serve as a “safety-valve” to ease tension within this agrarian society by opening up land and employment opportunities for those left behind.
MKI periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Bromme, Traugott. Traugott Bromme’s Hand- und Reisebuch für Auswanderer und Reisende nach Nord-, Mittel- und Süd Amerika (den gesammten Vereinigten Staaten, Texas, Canada, Brasilien, Mejiko, u.s.w.). Mit einem Rathgeber in Amerikanischen Rechtsangelegenheiten und einer Spezial-Karte der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika in Stahlstich. Achte, sehr vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage von Gustav Struve. Bamberg: Buchner; New York: B. Westermann u. Co., 1866. xii, 740 pp.
Verlag der Buchner’schen Buchhandlung. (New-York bei W. Westermann u. Co. 440 Broadway).
Advice for those wishing to emigrate from Germany.
MKI copy lacks map of the United States published with edition.

Bronner, Simon J. “Eulogy for Pennsylvania Folklife (1957-1997).” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, Winter 1999, pp. 4-7 .
Notes: Millersville University. Simon J. Bronner, Harvard University, Barker Center for the Humanities, Visiting Professor of Folklore and American Civilization.
Abstract: Discusses the origins and demise of the journal Pennsylvania Folklife.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ Folklore/ Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Pennsylvania

Bronner, Simon J. “‘Heile, Heile, Hinkel Dreck’: On the Earthiness of Pennsylvania German Folk Narrative.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. Supplemental Issue, vol. 2, 2006, 2006, pp. 77-99.
Notes: Preserving Heritage: A Festschrift for C. Richard Beam. Edited by Joshua R. Brown and Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. Includes bibliographical notes.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialects/ Linguistics/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Humor & Satire

Brosius, George. Fifty Years Devoted to the Cause of Physical Culture, 1864-1914. [Milwaukee, Wis.: s.n., 1914]. 129 pp., ill.
Notes: Donated by Juergen Eichhoff; in German and English; from cover: “Brosius, 1864-1914, Goldenes-Jubilaeum.”
Abstract: Biographical souvenir of George Brosius, a teacher at the Milwaukee Turnverein and later at the New York Central Turnverein.
MKI P2001-13
Physical education/ Turners

Brossman, Schuyler. “Life on a Pennsylvania German Farm, 1920-1940.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, 1995-1996.
Notes: Part I Winter 1995 p. 18-19; part II Winter 1996 p. 11; part III Spring 1996 pp. 8-9.
Abstract: Stories on the farm.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania/ Social life and customs/ Personal narratives/ Farm life/ Rural life & conditions

Brown, Donald. “Pennsylvania’s State Library as a Resource for German-American Research.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 4, Fall 1999, pp. 14-16.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Research/ Libraries/ Pennsylvania/ Pennsylvania Germans

Brown, Joshua R. “An Amish Mortuary Ritual at the Intersection of Cultural Anthropology and Lexicography.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 85-100.
Notes: The Language and Culture of the Pennsylvania Germans: A Festschrift for Earl C. Haag. Edited by William D. Keel and C. Richard Beam.
Includes bibliographical notes and references.
MKI Periodicals
Amish/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Brown, Joshua R. “Dedication: For ‘Herr Beam’.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. Supplemental Issue, vol. 2, 2006, 2006, pp. 1-4, ill.
Notes: Preserving Heritage: A Festschrift for C. Richard Beam. Edited by Joshua R. Brown and Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr.
MKI Periodicals
Beam, C. Richard, 1925-/ Biographies/ German-American Studies/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania

Brown, Joshua R. “Language Maintenance among the Hutterites.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 52, 2017, pp. 151-167; ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: A current study presents the results of a language use questionnaire following adoption of the verticalization model for the analysis of Hutterite language maintenance. Hutterisch has rarely been studied, but the majority of participants in the study felt it has important cultural and social values that provide for its continued use.
MKI Periodicals
Hutterites/ Language/ Research

Brown, Joshua R. “Pennsylvania Dutch Street and Place Names.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, Winter 2002, pp. 14-15, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect

Browne, Joseph L. “Adolf Cluss, from Communist Leader to Washington, D. C., Architect, 1848-68.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 46, 2011, pp. 95-128, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
MKI Periodicals
Cluss, Adolph, 1825-1905/ Architecture/ Washington (D.C.)/ German Americans/ Forty-eighters

Brownell, Ludlow. “Germans that helped to make the Great West.” American-German Review, vol. 1, no. 2, 1899, pp. 126-133.
Notes: Portraits and illustrations.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ German Americans/ Cultural contribution

Brubaker, Howard. “Der Schtiefdaadi, der Maerder = The Stepfather, the Murderer.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 5, Winter 1999 (II), pp. 16.
Notes: Millersville University. “Collected in December of 1950 by the late, revered John Binkley Brendel, from Howard Brubaker of Denver, Lancaster Co., PA.”
Abstract: Story in both Pennsylvania German and English, set in Labanon County, Pennsylvania, around 1830.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Germans/ Dialects/ Folklore/ 19th century

Brubaker, Jack. “More Amish Migrate While Established Settlements Continue to Grow .” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 12, no. 4, Fall 2005, pp. 17.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Article originally appeared in “The Scribbler,” Lancaster New Era, Feb. 4, 2003.
MKI Periodicals
Amish/ Migration, Internal — United States/ 20th century

Brueckner, Georg. Amerikas wichtigste Charakteristik nach Land und Leuten. St. Louis, Mo.: Witter, n.d. various pagings, ill.
Notes: Many pages missing, MKI has only title page, Prospectus (2 pages), 3 illustrations (Panorama of San Francisco, The Alameda Public Walk, View of the Coast on the Road from Veracruz to Ialapa), and pages 53-60; on title page: Congress-Ausgabe, Drittes Heft, Mit zahlreichen Holzschnitten, 2 Karten und 36 Stahlstichen von den ersten Künstlern unserer Zeit.
Abstract: Many pages missing. Also contains a four-page political document titled, “Ein Wort an die deutschen Stimmgeber! Seid auf der Hut! Euer ganzer politischer Einfluss steht auf dem Spiel!” and attributed to “Ein liberaler Bürger.”
MKI P89-88
PIA/ Politics/ Geography/ America/ German Americans

Bruhin, Herbert. “Theology His Profession, Botany His Passion: Thomas A. Bruhin, 1835-1895.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. Vol. 38, no. 2, June 2002, pp. 5-48, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliography of Bruhin’s publications.
Abstract: Biography of Joseph Gottfried Anton Bruhin (later Pastor Thomas Aquinas Bruhin), who came to the Milwaukee area in 1869 and compiled a catalogue of Wisconsin’s flora
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Wisconsin/ Science/ Botany/ Milwaukee (Wis.)

Brumbaugh, Thomas B. “A Pennsylvania-German Diary (1847-1868).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 10, Fall 1975, pp. 2-11.
Abstract: Brumbaugh’s 10 page article discusses Charles Hartman’s diary as a revealing source of information about religious and political life in Greencastle, Franklin County, Pennsylvania in the 19th century.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ History/ Diaries/ 19th century/ Social life and customs/ Reformed Church/ Politics/ Schools/ Lutheran Church/ Farming/ Civil War, 1861-1865

Bruncken, Ernest. “Die amerikanischen Staatslegislaturen.” In Jahrbuch fuer Gesetzgebung, Verwaltung und Volkswirtschaft im Deutschen Reiche (Sonderabzug). G ustav Schmoller, ed. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 77-95.
MKI P2002-60
Politics/ America

Bruncken, Ernest. “Die Amerikanisierung der Deutschen in den Vereinigten Staaten.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 8, 1908, pp. 37-41.
Notes: “von Ernest Bruncken in Sacramento, Kalifornische Staatsbibliothek. (Aus “Deutsche Erde,” Heft 5, 1907)”.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Ethnic identity/ Assimilation

Bruncken, Ernest. “Francis Lieber. A Study of a Man and an Ideal.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 15, 1915, pp. 7-61.
MKI Periodicals
Lieber, Francis, 1798-1872

Bruncken, Ernest. “The Germans in Wisconsin Politics. I: Until the Rise of the Republican Party.” Parkman Club Papers, vol. No.9, 1896, pp. 225-238.
Abstract: Brief outline of the history and characteristics of the Forty-Eighters
MKI P85-60 / SHS F9021 P24 v.1 Cutter
German Americans — Wisconsin/ History/ 19th century/ Forty-Eighters/ Politics

Bubser, Reinhold K. “”Speaking and Teaching German in Iowa during World War I: A Historical Perspective.” In Teaching German in America: Prolegomena to a History. David P. Benseler, Walter F. W. Lohnes, and Valters Nollendorfs, Editors Monatshefte occasional volumes, 7. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988, pp. 206-214.
Abstract: Papers from a conference sponsored by the Dept. of German and the Max Kade Institute for German American Studies of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, held at the University April 1983. MKI PF 3068 .U6 T4 1988 Language, German (US)/ teaching/ Iowa

Buchheit, Robert H. “German Language Shift in the Nebraska District of the Missouri Synod from 1918 to 1950.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 141-152.
Abstract: Buchheit’s article discusses the history and difficulties of the Missouri Synod’s conscious attempt to maintain the German language. It then goes on to examine the process of language shift from German to English in that district between 1918 and 1950.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Missouri/ 20th century/ Lutherans/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Schools/ Languages in contact/ Language shift/ Dialects

Buchheit, Robert H. “Language Maintenance and Shift among Mennonites in South-Central Kansas.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 17, 1982, pp. 111-122.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Mennonites/ German Americans — Kansas/ Low German dialect/ Amish/ Russian Germans/ Kansas/ Dialects

Buchloh, Paul G. “300 Jahre Deutsche in Amerika? Die Einwanderung aus Schleswig-Holstein in Neuamsterdam/New York.” Nordfriesisches Jahrbuch, vol. 20, 1984, pp. 43-59.
MKI P91-31
Schleswig-Holstein/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ German Americans — New York (state)

Buchmann, Bruno. “Ein Schweizertag in Monroe, Wisc.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 44, 1924, pp. 80-82, ill.
Notes: Author is noted as being from Chicago, Ill.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Monroe (Wis.)/ Wisconsin — Green County/ Festivals

Buchmann, Bruno. “Eine philosophische Geburtstagfeier in Chicago oder die Loesung der Weltraetsel.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 37, 1917, pp. 49-51.
Notes: “In Reime gedrechselt von Bruno Buchmann.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Poetry

Buchmann, Bruno. “Elftes Schweizer-Amerik. Verbands-Turnfest in Chicago.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 41, 1921, pp. 81-82, ill.
Abstract: Brief report on the eleventh Schweizer-Amerikanische Verbandsturnfest, which took place on June 25-27 in Chicago. Turnvereine from Hudson County, N. J.; Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Detroit participated.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Turners/ Societies, etc.

Buchmann, Bruno. “Jakob Manz.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 37, 1917, pp. 56-58, ill.
Abstract: Wenn in die “Geschichte von Chicago” die verdienstvollsten Pioniere der verschiedenen industriellen und kommerziellen Unternehmungen ehrend erwaehnt werden, finden wir an einer der ersten Stellen den Namen von Herrn Jakob Manz, Gruender und langjaehriger Praesident der Manz Engraving Company, eines der leistungsfaehigsten Kunstinstitute dieser Branche in den Ver. Staaten” Manz was born in Marthalen, Canton Zuerich.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Manz, Jakob, 1837-1916/ Biographies/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Business & Industry

Budelier, Nomie. “Capt. John Peetz: A Rock Island Pioneer 150 Years Ago.” Infoblatt, vol. 8, no. 1, Winter 2003, pp. 4, ill.
Abstract: Brief profile of Peetz, who came from Bavaria in 1848 and served in Company A, 43rd Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Peetz, John/ Rock Island (Ill.)

Buel, Elizabeth C. Barney. D. A. R. Handbuch für den Erwerb des Amerikanischen Bürgerrechts. German ed. Washington, D.C.: Nationalverein der Töchter der Amerikansichen Revolution, 1953. 119 pp., ill. (some col.).
German edition of the D. A. R. [Daughters of the American Revolution] Manual for Citizenship.
“Zusammengestellt von Frau John Laidlaw Buel, 1920. Verbessert von Frau E. Thomas Boyd, 1945. Verbessert von dem Nationalverein der Töchter der Amerikanischen Revolution, 1951.” Press of Judd & Detweiler, Inc. Washington, D. C.

Buel, Elizabeth C. Barney, comp. Taschenbuch ueber die Vereinigten Staaten fuer Einwanderer und Auslaender. Durchgesehene und erweiterte Ausgabe. [Washington, D.C.]: National-Gesellschaft der Toechter der Amerikanischen Revolution, 1924. 101 pp., ill.
Notes: Inside front cover: Copyrighted by the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1921, 1923 and 1925. All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages. Translated into the German language from the third English edition. Press of Judd & Detweiler, Inc., Washington, D.C.; on title page: Zusammengestellt von Elizabeth C. Barney Buel, Stellvertretende und für das Taschenbuch verantwortliche Vorsitzende des Ausschusses für patriotische Erziehung der N.S.D.A.R.; über, für, Ausländer, Töchter.
Abstract: Includes chapters on “Wie man Stellung finden kann, wie man Englisch lernen kann, Hilfe in der Vorbereitung zum Bürgertum, wie man Bürger der Vereinigten Staaten werden kann, kurze Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten, Unterstützung der Landwirtschaft, Über den Ankauf eines Landgutes, die Industrie der Vereinigten Staaten, [and] praktisches Ratschläge für Männer und Frauen.”
MKI P85-2
PIA/ Immigrants, German/ Life skills guides/ America/ United States/ Government

Buffington, Albert F. “The Pennsylvania German Dialect and Folklore of Somerset County.” Ebbes fer Alle-Ebber, Ebbes fer Dich / Something for Everyone, Something for You.1980, pp. 3-33.
MKI/SHS GR 110 .P4 A372 v.14 and MKI P2007-7
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Folklore/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Buffington, Albert Franklin. “The Relation of Pennsylvania German to Other German Dialects.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring 2015, pp. 18-21.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Reprinted from 1965.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Linguistics/ Dialects/ German language — Dialects

Buhle, Paul. “German Socialists and the Roots of American Working-Class Radicalism .” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983 , pp. 224-235, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references; donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Abstract: “In addressing the nature of radical German-American culture here, we are describing. . .the subjectivity of the social movement–not the formal, essentially ideological expression of Marxism as the belief in scientific social analysis but rather the means available when ordinary Socialists expressed their own perceived position in society and their hopes for the future. . . . we are describing [a group] in dynamic and swift-changing relation to the dominant society and culture at historical points where those entities might literally go one way or the other. . . . [and] we are considering a form of mass culture, a mass aesthetic, which has never been properly appreciated. . . . Immigrant workers provided the audience for and the participants in sports, theater, music halls, moving pictures, and the commercial press.”
MKI/SHS HD8081 G4 G47 1983
German Americans/ Labor and laboring classes/ Politics/ Socialism/ Societies, etc./ German-American press

Bungert, Heike. “Demonstrating the Values of ‘Gemuethlichkeit’ and ‘Cultur’: The Festivals of German Americans in Milwaukee, 1870-1910.” Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early Twentieth Century. Genevieve Fabre, Juergen Heideking, and Kai Dreisbach, eds. New York, N.Y.: Berghahn, 2001, pp. 175-193.
Notes: European Studies in American History. Michael Wala, General Editor.
MKI P2002-86
German American/ Festivals/ Social life and customs

Bungert, Heike. “Der Deutsch-Franzoesische Krieg im Spiegel der Wohltaetigkeitsbazare und Feiern deutscher und franzoesischer Migranten in den USA, 1870/71.” Deutschland — Frankreich — Nordamerika: Transfers, Imaginationen, Beziehungen. Chantal Metzger Metzger and Hartmut Kaelble, eds. [Stuttgart]: F. Steiner, 2006, pp. 152-170.
Notes: Photocopy. Donated by Heike Bungert. Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Der Artikel beschaeftigt sich mit den Dreiecksbeziehungen zwischen den circa hunderttausend Frankoamerikanern, den 1,7 Millionen Deutschamerikanern und der Bevoelkerungsmehrheit der Angloamerikaner waehrend des Deutsch-Franzoesischen Krieges 1870/1871. Fuer die deutschen Migranten war der Deutsch-Franzoesische Krieg mit der anschliessenden Gruendung des Deutschen Reiches der wichtigste Wendepunkt in der Geschichte der Schaffung einer deutschamerikanischen Identitaet. Sie sammelten Geld fuer ihre Landsleute in Europa, organisierten Wohltaetigkeitsveranstaltungen und feierten grosse Friedensfeste, in denen sie sich ihrer gemeinsamen Herkunft bewusst wurden. Auch die Frankoamerikaner organisierten Benefizfeste, Sammlungen und Proteste gegen den Frankfurter Frieden. Beide ethnischen Gruppen hatten Werte, Sympathien und gegenseitige Vorurteile in die USA transferiert, mussten in ihren Sympathiebekundungen fuer ihre Ursprungslaender jedoch Ruecksicht aufeinander und auf ihr Gastland nehmen. Somit ergab sich ein kompliziertes Beziehungsdreieck, in dem mit Ausnahme der Belagerung von Paris die Deutschamerikaner die amerikanischen Sympathien auf ihre Seite ziehen konnten.
MKI P2011-15
Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ 19th century/ Ethnic identity/ Festivals/ Wars

Bungert, Heike. “Deutschamerikanische Ethnizitaetsbildungsprozesse in San Antonio und San Francisco, 1848-1914.” Die deutsche Praesenz in den USA = The German Presence in the U.S.A. Josef Raab and Jan Wirrer, eds. Berlin: Lit, 2008, pp. 57-94.
Notes: Photocopy. Donated by Heike Bungert. Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Nicht nur in den “typischen” deutsch besiedelten Staedten wie New York oder Milwaukee versuchten deutsche Migranten, eine deutschamerikanische Ethnizitaet zu schaffen. Auch in weniger bekannten deutschen Siedlungsorten wie San Antonio und San Francisco trugen Feste als Grundform des kollektiven kulturellen Gedaechtnisses und als “invented traditions” zur Konstruktion und Bewahrung einer deutschamerikanischen Identitaet bei. Der Vortrag wird nach einer kurzen theoretischen Einfuehrung die Ethnizitaetsbildungsprozesse in der kalifornischen und der texanischen Stadt schildern. Hierbei wird zuerst die jeweilige Ausgangssituation beschrieben, bevor die wichtigsten Festarten analysiert werden. Dabei liegt der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung auf der Rolle der Feste bei der deutschamerikanischen Ethnizitaetsbildung und auf ihrer flexiblen Adaptierung zur Erhaltung der deutschamerikanischen Identitaet.
MKI P2011-15
Ethnic identity/ German Americans — Texas/ German Americans — California/ San Francisco/ San Antonio (Tex.)/ Festivals/ Societies, etc./ Social life and customs

Bungert, Heike. “Deutschamerikanische Saengerfeste und Lieder als Medium der Ethnizitaetsbildung, 1849-1914.” Lied und Populaere Kultur / Song and Popular Culture, vol. 55, 2010 , pp. 41-76.
Notes: Jahrbuch des Deutschen Volksliedarchiv Freiburg. Photocopy. Donated by Heike Bungert. Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Describes the origins, evolution, and purposes of German-American singing festivals; their musical repertoires and increasing focus on Volkslieder; and German, German-American, and Anglo-American aspects of these singing festivals.
MKI P2011-15
Songs/ German Americans/ Ethnic identity/ Festivals/ Societies, etc.

Bungert, Heike. “‘Feast of Fools’: German-American Carnival as a Medium of Identity Formation, 1854-1914.” Amerikastudien / American Studies, vol. 48, no. 3, Winter 2003, pp. 325-344.
Notes: Sonderdruck. Includes bibliographical notes. Donated by Heike Bungert.
Abstract: German-American clubs and socities introduced distinctly German forms of Karneval in the mid-nineteenth century. These festivals were marked by masking, dancing, the joint singing of songs, promenades, and the presentation of satirical speeches or plays, and they helped to foster a sense of community and ethnic identity. Themes of carnival events increasingly revolved around life in the United States and often alluded to political or economic situations, either in a humorous or patriotic vein. Bungert provides a theoretical introduction on the concepts of festivals and carnival, describes various masked balls and carnival sessions, examines the role of money and prestige, describes how German-American carnival grew in attendance and complexity beginning in the 1880s, and reveals how the German-American press viewed the events.
MKI P2011-15
German Americans/ 19th century/ 20th century/ Ethnic identity/ Festivals/ Societies, etc./ German-American press/ Social life and customs

Bungert, Heike. “From Celebrating the Old to Celebrating the New: The Formation of a German-American Identity, 1859-1914.” Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures. Udo J. Hebel, ed. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2003, pp. 193-212, ill.
Notes: Sonderdruck. Includes bibliographical notes and references. Donated by Heike Bungert.
Abstract: “In early nationwide German-American festivals, the site of memory was Germany. During the course of the nineteenth century, the German immigrants shifted this site to the other side of the Atlantic. They changed the focus from building their identity on German peculiarities to basing their ethnicity on concrete events in the history of German America. At the same time, they increasingly participated in indigenous U.S. festivities emphasizing the American aspect of their identity.”
MKI P2011-15
German Americans/ 19th century/ 20th century/ Ethnic identity/ Festivals/ Societies, etc./ Social life and customs

Bungert, Heike. “Memory and Migration Studies.” The Merits of Memory: Concepts, Contexts, Debates. Hans-Juergen Grabbe and Sabine Schindler, eds. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2008, pp. 197-219, ill.
Notes: Sonderdruck. Includes bibliographical notes. Donated by Heike Bungert.
Abstract: The festivals of German immigrants and their descendants provide insights into ethnic memory. “German migrants shaped a common memory of their country of origin and later of their history in the country of migration via their festivals. . . which they adapted according to the needs of the second and third generations. Their cultural memory remained alive until at least 1914 because of continuing migration and because of increased travels back to Germany, which created a transnational space and which allowed a dialogue not only with Anglo-American festivals but also with festivals and traditions in Germany.”
MKI P2011-15
German Americans/ 19th century/ 20th century/ Ethnic identity/ Festivals/ Societies, etc./ Social life and customs

Bungert, Heike. “Regional Diversity in Celebrating Regional Origin: German-American Volksfeste, 1870-1920.” Regionalism in the Age of Globalism, Volume 2: Forms of Regionalism. Madison, Wis.: Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005, pp. 93-115, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: “During the 1870s German Americans began celebrations reflecting their regional origins, the so-called Volksfeste or popular festivals. Volksfeste were adopted from Germany and Switzerland where they were celebrated as manifestations of the spirit of the common people and were designed to maintain rural traditions and to strengthen national feelings. . . . Volksfest organizers equally blended regional, German, American, and German-American themes in a by-and-large successful attempt to create a genuine, regionally colored but still completely German-American ethnicity. . . . Volksfeste and the memories experienced in them helped German Americans face life in a modern, industrialized, American environment. . . ; created identity and were used at the same time to establish distinction. . . ; offered an opportunity to depict the regional varieties of the German nation. . . ; serve[d] as a model for the establishment of a composite, strong American nation. . . ; [allowed] the immigrants to relax and rejuvenate. . . ; [injected] German values like honesty and hard work. . .into American life to counterbalance what was considered excessive American materialsism and bigoted Puritanism. . . ; served charitable goals. . . ; [and] offered Germans the opportunity to meet and organize.” While Volksfeste allowed Germans from the same regions with shared dialects to gather and share memories, they also attracted different regional groups and fostered intermingling and the sharing of traditions.
MKI JF197 R438 2005 and P2011-15
German Americans/ 19th century/ 20th century/ Ethnic identity/ Festivals/ Societies, etc./ Social life and customs

Bunnelle, Phyllis. “Beginning a typical 1853 voyage to America (part I).” Der Blumenbaum, Sacramento German Genealogy Society, vol. 16, no. 2, Oct./Nov./Dec. 1998, pp. 76-79.
Abstract: Article addresses what a German emigrant’s experience may have been in the mid-nineteenth century to prepare for and conduct a trip to the United States. Covers transportation to the sea (the port at Le Havre, France), the experience at the port, preparatory measures taken, and the day of departure.
MKI P2000-17 and MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Atlantic crossing

Bunnelle, Phyllis, ed. English Translation of the German Book Sersheim, Ein Jahrundert in Bildern. Ellen Kaubisch, trans. Santa Clara, Calif.: Phil and Phyllis Bunnelle, 2006. [54] pp., ill. (some col.).
Notes: See also: FH Lutz, MKI P2003-1, MKI P2007-36, and MKI P2007-37.
Abstract: Selected images and translated text from Sersheim, Ein Jahrhundert in Bildern, published in 2005. “This translation contains copies of the front and back covers, translations of the title page, all text pages, plus copies of the three pages with Lutz pictures. There are untranslated copies of the information appearing on the back of the title page and lists of clergy from the three local churches. Also included are lists of fire chiefs, and of mayors and sheriffs going back to 1347.” The Lutz pictures show the “Alte Schumacherwerkstatt Lutz, Sedanstrasse,” (Old Lutz Shoemakers Shop, Sedan Street); “Neue Schumacherwerkstatt Lutz, Talstrasse” (New Lutz Shoemakers Shop, Tal Street); and “Haus Lutz 1931.”
MKI P2007-35
Sersheim, Germany/ Germany/ History/ Baden-Wuerttemberg

Bunnelle, Phyllis. “The Long Voyage across a Treacherous Sea. Part II of a Series on Our Ancestors’ Emigration to America.” Der Blumenbaum, Sacramento German Genealogy Society, vol. 16, no. 3, Jan./Feb./Mar. 1999, pp. 102-112, ill.
Abstract: Covers route and length of voyage, life aboard ship, concerns of the journey, deaths and burials at sea, the ship’s captain and crew.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Atlantic crossing/ Ships

Bunnelle, Phyllis, ed. Views from Sersheim: Picture Postcard Greetings–Once and Today. (Sersheimer Ansichten. Postkartengruesse–einst und heute) Ellen Kaubisch, trans. [Santa Clara, Calif: Phil and Phyllis Bunnelle, 2007]. 35 pp., ill (mostly col.).
Notes: See also: FH Lutz, MKI P2003-1, MKI P2007-35, and MKI P2007-36
MKI P2007-37
Sersheim, Germany/ Germany/ History/ Baden-Wuerttemberg

Bunnelle, Phyllis, and Phil Bunnelle, eds. Sersheim: History and Stories, 792-1992. (Sersheim. Geschichte und Geschichten, 792-1992) Ellen Kaubisch, trans. [Santa Clara, Calif: Phil and Phyllis Bunnelle, 2007]. 105 pp., iil (some col.).
Notes: See also: FH Lutz, MKI P2003-1, MKI P2007-35, and MKI P2007-37.
Abstract: Provides a picture of life in a small German village in Baden-Wuerttemberg over time. The family of the editor’s father, surname Lutz, immigrated to the U.S. from Sersheim, a village northwest of Stuttgart in 1853. This translation of a book originally published in German in 1992, contains many references to four family lines: Lutz, Mueller, Glueck, and Kurfiss.
MKI P2007-36
Sersheim, Germany/ Germany/ History/ Baden-Wuerttemberg

Bunsen, Geo. C., and Gustav Koerner. “Das Frankfurter Attentat.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 1, 1902, pp. 1-15.
Abstract: “Das Frankfurter Attentat vom 3. April 1833 spielt in der Geschichte Amerika’s und besonders auch in der von Illinois eine grosse Rolle. Denn es gab, wie man weiss, den unmittelbaren Anstoss zu einer Einwanderung hochgebildeter deutscher Elemente, welche fuer den Staat Illinois und die Ver. Staaten von hohem Nutzen gewesen ist.”
MKI Periodicals
Illinois/ History/ United States/ Political activity

Burdette, Alan R. “A German-American Singing Society in the Early Twenty-First Century.” 2002. [14] pp.
Notes: Paper presented at a September 2002 conference, “Sounds of Two Worlds: Music as a Mirror of Migration to and from Germany,” held in Madison, Wisconsin.
Abstract: An examination of the Germania Männerchor in Evansville, Indiana.
MKI P2003-29
Music/ German Americans/ Societies, etc./ Songs/ Germania Maennerchor/ German Americans — Indiana/ Cultural influence.

Burgdoerfer, F. “Migration across the frontiers of Germany.” International migrations. Vol. 2. Walter F. Wilcox. New York: Nat’l Bureau of Economic Research, 1931.
Abstract: Includes sections on migration overseas: motives for emigration, German emigration foci, money value of German emigration; Migration across the land frontiers .
MKI P96-4
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Burger, Simone. “Nonsectarian Pennsylvania German Songs: Past and Present.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, Summer 1999, pp. 16-17.
Notes: Millersville University. Includes bibliographical references.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Songs

Burgess, John W. “Deutschland und Amerika in der Weltpolitik.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 769-777.
Abstract: In section “Nachtraege und Andere Artikel” ed. by Max Heinrici.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
Relations, Germany-US/ World politics

Burkhard, Marianne. “Ferdinand Sperl, 1918-2006: The International Life of a Swiss Hotelkeeper.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 45, no. 1, Feb. 2009, pp. 3-29, ill.
Abstract: “Franz Peter Ferdinand Sperl was born on June 6, 1918 in the Hotel Bristol in Bern which was owned by his father Johann Baptist Sperl (1874-February 1969) who was a citizen of Bollingen, Canton Bern. His mother, Martha Barbara Helfer (1882-June 1969), came from Murten. The couple also had a daughter Gertrude (born 1909).” Ferdinand Sperl arrived in the United States in 1939; during the Second World War he served in military intelligence, and afterwards returned to his career as a hotelier in Peoria, Illinois. This account includes excerpts from Sperl’s memoirs. Sperl died in 2006.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ 20th century/ Switzerland/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Sperl/ Illinois/ Business & Industry/ World War, 1939-1945/ Memoirs

Burkhard, Marianne. “The Imeschs from the Upper Valais: Glimpses of a Swiss and North-American Family.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 42, no. 1, Feb. 2006, pp. 43-59, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Genealogy/ 20th century/ Imesch

Burzle, J. Anthony. “Index to the “Yearbook for German-American Studies”, Volumes 16-20 (1981-1985).” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 199-203.
Notes: assisted by Helmut Huelsbergen and William Keel.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Indexes

Burzle, J. Anthony. “Max Kade. Vermittler zwischen Deutschland und Amerika.” German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1971, p. 3.
Abstract: Burzle’s 1 page piece discusses KU’s relationship to the Max Kade Foundation.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Relations, Germany-US

Burzle, J. Anthony, and La Vern J. Rippley . “Organisierte deutschamerikanische Forschung nach 1945.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, ed. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, vol. 10.) Steiner: Wiesbaden, 1985, pp. 249-255.
Abstract: This article examines the situation of German-American Studies since 1945.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)/ Education

Buschbauer, Hans. “Aus dem Leben eines alten Settlers.” Germania Kalender [fuer das Jahr 1884], vol. [4], [1883], pp. 87-99, ill.
Notes: On title page: Verlag von Geo. Brumder, Milwaukee, Wis. On t.p. verso: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1883, by Geo. Brumder. In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. — Francis A. Hoffman (1822-1903), was born in Herford, Kreis Minden, Westphalia, and fled the Prussian draft in 1840. He settled in Illinois where he was a teacher and Lutheran minister. In 1851 he moved to Chicago and became an attorney and banker on behalf of German immigrants. He was instrumental in leading German-American voters away from the Democrats and helping to found the Illinois Republican Party in 1854, over the issue of slavery. Elected Lt. Governor in 1860, he largely ran the state in the governor’s absence through the Civil War, opposing the Copperhead movement that sympathized with the South. In 1875 he retired to a farm outside Jefferson, in the Wisconsin county of the same name, and devoted his time to writing articles on farming and horticulture for the German language press under the name Hans Buschbauer.
Abstract: Describes the experiences of an early German settler coming to the Midwest. “Der Einwanderer unserer Tage erreicht mit Windesschnelle das Ziel seiner Reise. Das schnaubende Dampfross bringt ihn in kuerzester Frist in die entferntest gelegene Gegend, in der er sein neues Heim gruenden will. Eisenbahnen, Dampfschiffe, Telegraphendraehte, Posten u. s. w. halten ihn in ununterbrochener Verbindung mit der Aussenwelt. Ganz anders lagen die Dinge zur Zeit unserer alten Settler. Nicht selten nahm die Reise von ‘vorn im Lande,’ (so nannte man damals des Osten) nach der zur neuen Heimath auserkorenen Gegend des fernen Westens fast eben so viel Zeit in Anspruch als die Fahrt ueber den Ozean. Oft brauchte man eine ganze Reihe von Wochen zur Reise von New York nach Chicago oder Milwaukee, die damals wohl schon aus purer ‘Dickthuerei’ auf den Namen von Staedten Anspruch machten, ihrem ganzen Wesen nach aber vielmehr zur Classe der Doerfer gehoerten.”
PIA [Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder]
PIA/ Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ 19th century

Buschbauer, Hans. “Beeinflusst der Mond das Pflanzenwachstum?” Germania Kalender [fuer das Jahr 1918], vol. 38, [1917], pp. 205-208, ill.
Notes: 38. Jahrg. Verlag von Geo. Brumder, Milwaukee, Wis. — Francis A. Hoffman (1822-1903), was born in Herford, Kreis Minden, Westphalia, and fled the Prussian draft in 1840. He settled in Illinois where he was a teacher and Lutheran minister. In 1851 he moved to Chicago and became an attorney and banker on behalf of German immigrants. He was instrumental in leading German-American voters away from the Democrats and helping to found the Illinois Republican Party in 1854, over the issue of slavery. Elected Lt. Governor in 1860, he largely ran the state in the governor’s absence through the Civil War, opposing the Copperhead movement that sympathized with the South. In 1875 he retired to a farm outside Jefferson, in the Wisconsin county of the same name, and devoted his time to writing articles on farming and horticulture for the German language press under the name Hans Buschbauer.
Abstract: “Unser Kulturpflanzen wuerden keinen merkbaren Schaden, aber auch keinen Nutzen davon haben, wenn die sanfte leuchte der Nacht im Weltenraum fuer immer verschwinden wuerde. Bekehren wir uns also zu dem Glauben, dass ein guenstiger Zustand des Bodens wichtiger ist als der des Mondes, und wir einer sorgfaeltigen Bearbeitung des Landes und verstaendigen Beruecksichtigung der Witterungsverhaeltnisse mehr Wert beilegen als der eingebildeten Gnade des Mondlichtes.”
MKI P2012-6
PIA/ Farming/ Horticulture & Gardening/ Agriculture/ Folklore/ Science

Buschbauer, Hans. “Das Heimstaette-Gesetz und andere Gesetze zur Erlangung eines Theils der oeffentlichen Laendereien.” Germania Kalender [fuer das Jahr 1886], vol. [6], [1885], pp. 203-208.
Notes: On title page: Verlag von Geo. Brumder, Milwaukee, Wis. — Francis A. Hoffman (1822-1903), was born in Herford, Kreis Minden, Westphalia, and fled the Prussian draft in 1840. He settled in Illinois where he was a teacher and Lutheran minister. In 1851 he moved to Chicago and became an attorney and banker on behalf of German immigrants. He was instrumental in leading German-American voters away from the Democrats and helping to found the Illinois Republican Party in 1854, over the issue of slavery. Elected Lt. Governor in 1860, he largely ran the state in the governor’s absence through the Civil War, opposing the Copperhead movement that sympathized with the South. In 1875 he retired to a farm outside Jefferson, in the Wisconsin county of the same name, and devoted his time to writing articles on farming and horticulture for the German language press under the name Hans Buschbauer.
Abstract: Describes the laws concerning the allocation of public lands. “Da wir hier weder Kaiser, noch Koenige, noch Herzoege oder sonstige allerhoechste Herrschaften haben, nicht einmal die Sehnsucht danach, doch aber auch nicht so ganz verwahrlost in den Tag hineinleben moechten, so haben wir uns einen Ohm oder, wie man gewoehnlich sagt, einen Onkel zugelegt. Es ist der besagt Samuel. So nennen wir naemlich unsere Regierung. Weil die Sprache der Amerikaner, das Englische, etwas kauderwelsch ist, indem sie oft eine Buchstaben ganz anders anreden, wie er eigentlich heisst — (das tituliren sie z. B. das lateinische W mit ‘dobbelju’) — : so ist denn auch bei ihnen aus unserem deutschen Ohm oder halbfranzoesischen Onkel ein richtiger englischer Uncle geworden, und as dem Samuel ein Sam, nur dass das a ausgesprochen wird, als staende da ein ae. Will man’s ganz kurz abmachen, so schreibt man U. S., was eigentlich United States, auf Deutsch Vereinigte Staaten, heissen soll. Dieser Ohm hat nun ein Herz, so gross wie das Scheunenthor beim Dorfschulzen. Er moechte gern alle Neffen und Nichten, die bei ihm ihr Quartier aufschlagen, so gluecklich sehen, wie das in diesem mangelhaften Erdenleben nur moeglich ist. Wohlverstanden! ich rede hier vom Zeitlichen. In Religions- und Glaubenssachen mischt er sich nicht, die ueberlaesst er dem Gewissen seiner Neffen und Baeschen. . . . Zuerst schauen wir uns das Heimstaette-Gesetz (homestead law) an. Unter diesem Gesetze giebt unser Ohm jeder Person (auch einer Wittwe oder Jungfer) die Buerger dieses Landes, wenigstens 21 Jahre alt, oder das Haupt einer Familie ist, 160 Acres Land; wenn die betreffende Person will, auch weniger. . . .”
PIA [Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder]
PIA/ Frontier and pioneer life — United States/ National characteristics, American — Public opinion, German/ Territorial expansion/ Law

Buschbauer, Hans. “Das Ver. Staaten Buergerrecht.” Germania Kalender [fuer das Jahr 1888], vol. [8], [1887], pp. 99-105.
Notes: Francis A. Hoffman (1822-1903), was born in Herford, Kreis Minden, Westphalia, and fled the Prussian draft in 1840. He settled in Illinois where he was a teacher and Lutheran minister. In 1851 he moved to Chicago and became an attorney and banker on behalf of German immigrants. He was instrumental in leading German-American voters away from the Democrats and helping to found the Illinois Republican Party in 1854, over the issue of slavery. Elected Lt. Governor in 1860, he largely ran the state in the governor’s absence through the Civil War, opposing the Copperhead movement that sympathized with the South. In 1875 he retired to a farm outside Jefferson, in the Wisconsin county of the same name, and devoted his time to writing articles on farming and horticulture for the German language press under the name Hans Buschbauer.
Abstract: “Wir gehen nun zu den Bedingungen ueber, unter denen nach augenblicklich bestehenden Bundesgesetzen das Buergerrecht in den Ver. Staaten von eingewanderten Auslaendern erworben werden kann.” Concludes: “Gott erhalte unser theueres, neues, amerikanisches Vaterland! Gott schuetze die liebe, alte, deutsche Heimath!”
PIA [Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder]
PIA/ Citizenship/ German Americans/ United States

Buschbauer, Hans. “Das Wassersuchen mit der Wuenschelruthe.” Germania Kalender [fuer das Jahr 1887], vol. [7], [1886], pp. 225-230, ill.
Notes: Francis A. Hoffman (1822-1903), was born in Herford, Kreis Minden, Westphalia, and fled the Prussian draft in 1840. He settled in Illinois where he was a teacher and Lutheran minister. In 1851 he moved to Chicago and became an attorney and banker on behalf of German immigrants. He was instrumental in leading German-American voters away from the Democrats and helping to found the Illinois Republican Party in 1854, over the issue of slavery. Elected Lt. Governor in 1860, he largely ran the state in the governor’s absence through the Civil War, opposing the Copperhead movement that sympathized with the South. In 1875 he retired to a farm outside Jefferson, in the Wisconsin county of the same name, and devoted his time to writing articles on farming and horticulture for the German language press under the name Hans Buschbauer.
Abstract: Buschbauer believes water can be discovered through dowsing. “Eine wissenschaftliche Erklaerung der Ruthenschlaegerei erwartet man selbstverstaendlich vom Buschbauer nicht. Als einen Erklaerungsversuch moege man die Vermuthung gelten lassen, dass ein unterirdischer Wasserlauf als Leiter der Electricitaet wirkt, die einen Einfluss auf das Nervensystem des Ruthengaengers ausuebt, der die Drehung der Ruthe zur Folge hat.”
PIA [Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder]
PIA/ Farm life/ Folklore

Buschbauer, Hans. “Der Lohmeier. Erzaehlung.” Germania Kalender [fuer das Jahr 1887], vol. [7], [1886], pp. 59-109.
Notes: On title page: Verlag von Geo. Brumder, Milwaukee, Wis. — Francis A. Hoffman (1822-1903), was born in Herford, Kreis Minden, Westphalia, and fled the Prussian draft in 1840. He settled in Illinois where he was a teacher and Lutheran minister. In 1851 he moved to Chicago and became an attorney and banker on behalf of German immigrants. He was instrumental in leading German-American voters away from the Democrats and helping to found the Illinois Republican Party in 1854, over the issue of slavery. Elected Lt. Governor in 1860, he largely ran the state in the governor’s absence through the Civil War, opposing the Copperhead movement that sympathized with the South. In 1875 he retired to a farm outside Jefferson, in the Wisconsin county of the same name, and devoted his time to writing articles on farming and horticulture for the German language press under the name Hans Buschbauer.
Abstract: “Jost, Heinrich, Christian Ebert [genannt Lohmeier]. So heisst jener Mann, den wir dort auf dem Verdecke eines Auswanderungsschiffes, tief in Gedanken versunken, stehen sehen. . . . Die klugen, hellblauen Augen sind nach Osten gerichtet. Dort liegt die Heimath. Dort liegen die Graeber eines alten Geschlechtes, dessen letzter maennlicher Sprosse sich eine neue Heimath gruenden will in der neuen Welt.”
PIA [Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder]
PIA/ Fiction/ Immigrants, German

Buschbauer, Hans. “Die Eintheilung der Regierungslaendereien.” Germania Kalender [fuer das Jahr 1886], vol. [6], [1885], pp. 137-145, ill.
Notes: On title page: Verlag von Geo. Brumder, Milwaukee, Wis. — Francis A. Hoffman (1822-1903), was born in Herford, Kreis Minden, Westphalia, and fled the Prussian draft in 1840. He settled in Illinois where he was a teacher and Lutheran minister. In 1851 he moved to Chicago and became an attorney and banker on behalf of German immigrants. He was instrumental in leading German-American voters away from the Democrats and helping to found the Illinois Republican Party in 1854, over the issue of slavery. Elected Lt. Governor in 1860, he largely ran the state in the governor’s absence through the Civil War, opposing the Copperhead movement that sympathized with the South. In 1875 he retired to a farm outside Jefferson, in the Wisconsin county of the same name, and devoted his time to writing articles on farming and horticulture for the German language press under the name Hans Buschbauer.
Abstract: Describes the allocation of government lands. “Der Herr Kalendermann hat geglaubt, er koenne einer grossen Anzahl der Leser seines Sechsundachtzigers eine besondere Freude machen, wenn er eine gruendliche Belehrung ueber die Eintheilung der oeffentlichen Laendereien lieferte. Der Hans meint, der Gedanke sei nicht uebel. In unserem lieben, schoenen, grossen Amerika giebt es ja — Gott sei Dank! — der Leute, die auf eigenem Grund und Boden wohnen, sehr viele. Unter den Lesern des Germania-Kalenders zaehlen sie nach Tausenden. Da sieht sich unser Freund Kunz seinen Kaufbrief oder, um amerikanisch-deutsch zu reden, seinen Deed an, und findet da seine 80 Acres in so krauser Weise beschrieben, dass selbst der hochbegabte Herr Hoffmusiker Wagener, wenn er noch lebte, die richtige Melodie dazu nicht spielen koennte. Und doch ist die Sache sehr einfach fuer Den, der’s versteht. So einfach, dass der alte Hans sich wohl getraute, auf einer grossen Karte vom ganzen Lande, wie sie die Vermessungsbehoerden in Washington liefern, ohne besondere Anstrengung seine Finger auf das genaue Fleckchen zu legen, auf welchem besagter Herr Kunz mit seiner Maria und dem Baby haust.”
PIA [Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder]
PIA/ Frontier and pioneer life — United States/ National characteristics, American — Public opinion, German/ Territorial expansion

Butts, Porter. Der Rathskeller + der Stiftskeller, 1928-1978. Reprint. [Madison, WI]: Wisconsin Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982. 24 pp., ill.
Notes: Photos by Gary Saffitz, sketches by Kurt Schaldach, text by Porter Butts.
See: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/UW.Rathskeller
Abstract: A history of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Rathskeller–a gathering place for students that is reminiscent of the cellar of a German Rathaus, or village hall–and the Stiftskeller, or “cellar of the founders.” Both rooms are decorated with murals that have legends in German; those in the Rathskeller were painted by Eugene Hausler, and those in the Stiftskeller were executed by Kurt Schaldach. One mural contains a slogan and images associated with the Schlaraffia fraternity.
MKI P2002-114
Memorial Union (University of Wisconsin — Madison)/ Wisconsin Union/ Paintings/ Artists/ Hausler, Eugene/ Schaldach, Kurt

Butz, Caspar. “Dr. Albert F. Borcherdt.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 9, 1909, pp. 94-97.
Notes: Reprinted from “Illinois Staatszeitung,” 25 Oktober 1862.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies

Byler, Andy. “Building and Filling the Ice House.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, Winter 2002, pp. 18-19, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs

Byler, Joe A. Fond memories of the ‘good old days’. Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania: [Self-published], 104 pp.
Notes: Pamphlet; “Compliments of C. Richard Beam, Dir, Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Mill. Univ., 406 Spring Drive, Millersville, PA 17551.”
Abstract: Compilation of more than 100 letters from people born “mostly before 1925” in which they “write of things they could recall [from] their younger years.”
MKI P2001-2
Personal narratives/ Pennsylvania Germans/ United States/ History/ 20th century

Byler, Joe A. Sr. “Das Eis Haus.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, Winter 2002, pp. 18.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Describes the process of putting up ice.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs

Byrum, E. E. Verordnungen der Bibel; zeigend, welche Verordnungen noch in Kraft sind, und welche aufgehoben sind. Anderson, Ind.: Gospel Trumpet, 1905.
MKI P85-138
PIA

Cable, Raymond M. “Caspar Goebell, A Hessian in Appalachia.” Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, vol. 2, no. 4, 1984, pp. 14-27.
MKI Periodicals
Hessians

Cahn, Geoffrey S. “The American Reception of Weimar Culture 1918-1933.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 17, 1982, pp. 47-62.
Abstract: Cahn’s article discusses the “stormy reception” of Weimar culture in the United States.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Literature, German/ Arts/ Intellectual life/ History/ Foreign public opinion/ National characteristics, German — Public opinion, American

Calder, William H. III. “Classical Philology in America: A German Discipline.”1990. 13 pp.
Notes: Paper from a conference: German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917, Madison, Wisconsin, Sep. 12-15, 1990.. See also the book of the same title: MKI/MEM LA 216 G47 1995.
MKI P2007-30
Education/ German influence.

Calder, William M. III. “Werner Jaeger.” In Sonderdruck aus: Berlinische Lebensbilder Geisteswissenschaftler. Michael Erbe, Herausgeber. Berlin: Colloquium Verlag, 1989.
Notes: Presented to Prof. Henry Geitz by William M. Calder III.
Abstract: Werner Jaeger war Inhaber der Lehrstuehle von Friedrich Nietzsche, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff und Paul Shorey. Eigens fuer ihn wurde an der Harvard-Universitaet eine Professur ohne Institutsbindung und mit geringer Lehrverpflichtung sowie ohne Verwaltungsobliegenheiten eingerichtet. Er hatte die beste Ausbildung in Klassischer Altertumswissenschaft erhalten, die man sich denken kann ….
MKI P90-15
Biographies

Calnin, Mechtild. “The memoirs of Melchior Schauer (1845-1908) from the collections of the Neville Public Museum as translated from the original German manuscripts.” NewMonth, Feb. 1986, pp. 11-18.
Notes: The article was sent by Colleen Terlicker. Melchior Schauer was her great-grandfather.
Abstract: Account of emigration from Germany and settling in Green Bay (1845). Schauer, Melchior, 1845-1908
MKI P93-36
Memoirs/ Immigrants, German/ Frontier and pioneer life

Camann, Eugene. “Prussian Immigration to the Buffalo, New York Area, 1844-1847.” Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Rundschreiben, Sept. 2006 , pp. 3-4.
Notes: Germantown, WI.
Abstract: Listing names (family, given, and maiden), ages, place of origin, and year of emigration. Places of origin include Alt-Glietzen, Alt Rudnitz, Bergholz, Boock, Bruessow, Cremzow, Eickstedt, Fahrenwalde, Fitze, Frauenhagen, Gramzow, Greifenberg, Grimme, Gross-Wubiser, Lietze-Goericke, Loecknitz, Meichow, Menkin, Mewegen, Neuenhagen, Ploewen, Prenzlau, Retzin, Rossow, Schwaneberg, Schwedt, Strasburg, Wallmow, and Wollin.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ Lists/ Genealogy/ Pomerania/ Buffalo (N.Y.)/ German Americans — New York (state)

Campbell, James. “George Stuart Fulleton and The Truth about the German Nation.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 41, 2006, pp. 63-75.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: “These assorted, and themselves unrelated, pieces of evidence from numerous archival sources in Munich lead me to believe that Fullerton . . . was not interned or mistreated in Germany during the War.”
MKI Periodicals
National characteristics, German — Public opinion, American/ World War, 1914-1918/ Anti-German sentiment

Carberry, Sonja. “Sausage King Oscar F. Mayer: His commitment to quality led him to the top.” [Investor’s Business Daily], Aug. 3, 1999 [L]eaders & Success.
11 x 17 photocopy. “Investor’s Business Daily” is under author’s name in byline; actual newspaper source is unknown.
An account of the methods and success of Oscar F. Mayer, the founder of the Oscar Mayer Foods company, who immigrated to the United States from Germany at age 14 in 1873.
MKI P2000-15.
German Americans — Illinois/ Business & Industry/ Mayer, Oscar.

Carlson, Harold G. “Loan-Words from German.” American Speech, vol. 12, no. 3, Oct. 1937, pp. 232-233.
Notes: Photocopy donated by Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr.
MKI P2007-33
Language influence/ Language, English/ Language, German

Carlson, Harold G. “Recent American Loan Words from German.” American Speech, vol. 15, no. 2, Apr. 1940, pp. 205-208.
Notes: Photocopy donated by Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr.
MKI P2007-33
Language influence/ Language, English/ Language, German

Carne, Eva-Maria. “America, the Other World: A Comparison of Three Travelogues by East and West Germans.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 21, 1986, pp. 51-60.
Abstract: Carne’s article discusses the works of Peter Scuett and Walter Dietze in which he sees characteristics of “German chauvinism” in general. The author compares them to the works of Guenter Kunert, which he declares, show “a surprisingly objective approach.”
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Travel in Literature/ United States in literature

Carney, Ellen. From Here . . . To There . . . : An Illustrated Memoir of a Swiss Childhood. [S.l.]: E. Carney, 2006. 96 pp., col. ill.
Notes: Printed at Masthof Press, Morgantown, PA. 2nd printing 2011. Donated by Fred Gillespie, Swiss American Historical Society.
Abstract: Childhood memories and recollections with accompanying hand-drawn illustrations of life in Switzerland in the 1930s and 1940s.
MKI P2012-1
Switzerland/ Christmas/ Social life and customs/ Childhood/ Biographies/ Swiss Americans/ Illustrated

Carney, Ellen. “From Here to There: Memoirs of a Swiss Childhood.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 41, no. 3, Nov. 2005, pp. 7-34, ill.
Notes: About the author: Ellen Carney was born in Zurich to an Aargauer mother and a Zurich-reared German father. She finished gymnasium, arrived in the United States after World War II, married and spent 30 years in an intentional (utopian) community started by Quaker pacifists. . . . She now lives near the tip of Long Island, New York.
Abstract: Describes first of August festivities (Ruetlischwur, the oath on the meadow Ruetli), Sunntigsjass (Sunday’s card game), Milchma (the milkman), spring in Zurich, Santa Claus, Woesch (laundry), Schuelsylveschter (last day of school prior to the Christmas break), school in the ’30s, buying shoes before World War II, Fahrt ins Gruene (overland excursion), winter and winter activities, and Wienacht (Christmas celebration starting December 24).
MKI Periodicals
Switzerland/ Christmas/ Social life and customs

Carpenter, Ingeborg. “Three Years and a Day: In the Days of the Guilds, and Even to This Day, the Gesellen Set Out to Prove Their Mettle, Their Skills, and Their Endurance.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 26, no. 3, Jan./Feb./Mar. 2009, pp. 104-109, ill.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
Abstract: Examines the experiences, past and present, of the journeyman. After completing an apprenticeship, those learning a craft embark on a journey as part of their training before they can become a master. Includes German words associated with the Wanderschaft (journey) and images of Wanderbuecher; the Wanderbuch was a booklet carried by the journeyman to record the places and dates of his work during his travels.
MKI Periodicals
History/ Germany/ Journeymen/ Guilds

Carpenter, Ingeborg. “A True Story of St. Nikolaus Eve in East Frisia.” Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Rundschreiben, Dec. 2006, pp. 4-5, ill.
Notes: Germantown, WI. Reprinted from the Ostfrisien “Neues Blatt” with permission from the editor, Lilian Marks.
Abstract: Remembrance of a visit by Saint Nikolaus and Knecht Ruprecht.
MKI Periodicals
Christmas/ Frisians/ Germany/ Children

Carpenter, William H. “‘So Many Languages, So Many Times A Man.'” American-German Review, vol. 1 , no. 3, 1899, pp. 250-251.
Notes: Short essay advocating the learning of German in America; portrait.
MKI Periodicals
Language, German (US)/ Education/ Teaching of German

Carr, Charles T. The German Influence on the English Vocabulary. London: Clarendon Press, 1934. 95 pp.
Notes: S.P.E. Tract No. XLII.
Abstract: A study of loan-words in the English language from High German, with an attempt to relate the linguistic influence of German on English to the cultural relations between the two peoples. Arranged chronologically through 1933. Includes index of words pp. 90-95.
MKI P2000-1
Language, English/ Language influence / Language, German/ German influence

Carstensen, Richard. “Zum 300-Jahr-Jubilaeum Nordamerikas.” Schleswig-Holstein, 1983, pp. 6-9.
MKI P86-43
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Carter, John Paul. “German Influences on the American Common School Movement. Dissertation.” University of Virginia, 1979. 354 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: Presently there exists a vacuum in our scholarship in the history of American education. It relates to the influences of German ideas–in pedagogical theory, curriculum formation, systems of administration and supervision, training and qualification of teachers, provision for universal and compulsory education, and the principle of public support. In standard histories, credit is given to German influence for the kindergarten and the university, but with respect to the normal school, the education of the handicapped, technical education, and especially the common school–the public school system of the United States–there is typically little indication that German institutions and German ideas had decisive influence. Contemporary historians, both cultural and radical revisionists, generally minimize or deprecate the German influence. For the last two generations, they have been preoccupied with new insights from the social sciences–from sociology, anthropology, social psychology, economics, popular history, and political science–and so do not expend much attention to the matter. This is a marked contrast to the scholars who wrote before World War I. The present study reviews the development of the German education system from the time of the Franks under Clovis, through Charlemagne to Luther, on the Great Elector and from Frederick the Great and his successors to the Battle of Jena in 1806, and its aftermath. Particular attention is paid to the intensification and crystallization of the German system after Jena into a series of salient points which were later adopted here. The American acquaintance with the German culture and education, which was very extensive, indeed, is examined from early colonial times until 1820. From then on the intentional American focus upon the German example is studied through the major reports of Madame de Stael and Victor Cousin, and through the American observers–John Griscom, Calvin Ellis Stowe, Alexander Dallas Bache, Benjamin Mosby Smith, Horace Mann, and Henry Barnard. The role of these observers and of the early state superintendents of schools and their allies is carefully chronicled. The process by which the German ideas were assimilated is exposited through the work of the leaders mentioned above, the new educational societies that were formed, the periodicals of the day, and then the institutionalization that took place with the creation of the normal schools and the passage of laws in the several states. The German influence was larger and more comprehensive than that of any other country. To support that claim, this dissertation makes three major contributions: 1) It gathers the necessary documentation into one place. 2) It exposits the salient points of the German system that were utilized in America. 3) It demonstrates the process by which the German system of education was adopted and assimilated in the United States. Finally, a series of conjectures are advanced as the reasons why modern American educational historians have been so deficient in crediting the German contribution and influence.
MKI LA 205 C26 1979a; shelved with MKI dissertations
Schools/ German influence/ Kindergarten/ Education.

Carter, Kathy. “Grasmeyer Hoped for Colorado River Business.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 2, 1934, pp. 116.
Notes: Originally appeared in the Fayette County Record, May 4, 2012.
Abstract: “Frederick William Grasmeyer was born on Christmas Day 1800 in Hamburg, Germany. He was one of the first German citizens to immigrate to Texas and the first to acquire land in present day Fayette County. . . . He established a trading post, cotton gin and mill on his homestead [along the Colorado River] and built a river landing for his ferry boat.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Texas — Fayette County/ Grasmeyer, Frederick William, 1800-1887

Carus, Paul. Der Buddha. Ein Drama in fuenf Akten und vier Zwischenspielen. Martin Drescher, trans. Chicago, Ill.: Open Court Publishing, 1913. 100 pp.
Notes: German-American author and translator. On title page: Unter Mitwirkung des Verfassers aus dem englischen uebersetzt von Martin Drescher. — Inscribed A. R. Hohlfeld. — From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: CARUS, PAUL (Alethes, Ein Heimathloser), born July 18, 1852 in Ilsenburg am Harz, died Feb. 11, 1919 in La Salle, Illinois. Studied philosophy, natural science, and classical philology in Tuebingen, Greifswald, Strassburg. Ph.D. Tuebingen, 1875. Taught at military school in Dresden until 1881. Went to England then 1884 to America. Editor and teacher in New York. 1887 to La Salle where he edited “The Open Court” and the “Monist” (1890-). Carus married Edward C. Hegeler’s daughter Mary (Marie) and the couple later moved into the Hegeler Carus Mansion, built by her father. They had six children. —- From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: DRESCHER, MARTIN (Flamingo), born May 8, 1863 in Thueringen in der Mark, died July 11, 1918(?) 1920(?) in Maspeth, N.Y. Studied history, philosophy, law in Breslau, Berlin, Goettingen. Emigrated 1891 to America. Outstanding translator of American poetry. Spent several years wandering from city to city, working at odd jobs. Edited Arbeiter Zeitung in Chicago, later . . . Der arme Teufel in Detroit.
MKI P84-22
PIA/ Theater & Drama

Caruso, Clelia, and others. “Immigration and Entrepreneurship: An Interdisciplinary Conference.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 52, Spring 2013, pp. 163-168.
Notes: Conference at the GHI Washington and the University of Maryland, College Park, Sept. 13-14, 2012.
MKI Periodicals
Business & Industry/ German American/ History/ 18th century/ 19th century/ 20th century/ Biographies/ Research/ United States — History/ Conferences

Carvajal, Christa. “Fanny Janauschek: Bohemian on a New World Stage.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 22, 1987, pp. 127-136.
Abstract: Carvajal’s article discusses the career of Fanny Janauschek, “one of Europe’s great tragediennes” of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies

Carvajal, Christa, and Annelise M. Duncan. “The German-English School in San Antonio: Transplanting German Humanistic Education to the Texas Frontier.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 16, 1981, pp. 89-102.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Schools/ German Americans — Texas/ 19th century/ German language school/ Newspapers/ Frontier and pioneer life

Cassara, Ernest. “Carl Schurz and the Writing of American History.” Amerikastudien / American Studies, vol. Jahrgang 33, no. Heft 4, 1988, pp. 399-414.
Abstract: At the end of his service as Secretary of the Interior in 1881, Carl Schurz was invited to undertake a biography of the distinguished American politician Henry Clay. This article analyzes the extensive research involved in the project and the resulting two-volume work which appeared in 1887. Because of Schurz’s thoroughness in providing background on the many issues in which the long-lived politician was involved, in reality the book was a history of the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. Schurz was praised for his keen insight and for the balance he displayed in the book, as well as for his excellent writing style. His work holds up well, in comparison with the treatments of Clay that have appeared in the hundred years since its publication. This article also analyzes Schurz’s masterful essay on Abraham Lincoln, whom he knew intimately and in whose administration he had served. After sketching the development of Lincoln in the rustic setting in which he grew to manhood, Schurz attempted to demonstrate that the very combination of the “uncouth” and the “lofty”–qualities considered by some to be disadvantageous in political life–led the people to place their faith in Lincoln and to fight with him to save the Union. The article also deals briefly with Schurz’s other historical writings, especially his notable autobiography. In achieving recognition as a historian late in life, Schurz reached the goal which he had set for himself in his university years at Bonn.
MKI P91-5
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906

Cazden, Robert E. “The “American Liberal” (1854-55): Radical Forty-Eighters Attempt to Breach the Language Barrier.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 22, 1987, pp. 91-100.
Abstract: Cazden’s article discusses the attempts of Forty-Eighters to extend their spheres of influence from only German-speaking newspapers to ones printed in the English language. “The inability to speak English effectively was the bane of many aspiring prophets, politicians, and social reformers. As Carl Wittke has pointed out, Karl Heinzen’s ‘command of English was so limited that it deprived him of all opportunity to reach larger American audiences.’”
MKI Periodicals
Forty-eighters/ Germany/ History/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees/ Language, German (US)/ Heinzen, Karl, 1809-1880/ Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Journalism/ Newspapers/ Politics/ Freethinkers/ Turners/ Ohio/ Catholics

Cazden, Robert E. “Der Nachdruck deutschsprachiger Literatur in den Vereinigten Staaten 1850-1918.” pp. 193-202.
Abstract: This article provides a brief history of the publishing of German books in the United States in the nineteenth century.
MKI P94-25
German-American press

Cazden, Robert E. “The German Book Trade in America to World War I.” In The German-American Press. Henry Geitz, editor Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 1992. pp. 243-256. 270 pp. Abstract: This volume attempts to present a relatively broad spectrum of the broadly-defined German-American press’ activity. MKI PN 4885 .G3 G467 1992 German-American press

Cazden, Robert E. “Karl Christoph Reiche (1740-1790) and America.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 56-67.
Abstract: Cazden’s article discusses the career of Reiche, a self-proclaimed “reformer” of the German book trade.
MKI Periodicals
Book trade

Cazden, Robert E. “Party politics and the Germans of New York City, 1834-40.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 1-32.
Abstract: Cazden’s article is divided into three sections: an introduction into the politics of New York City in 1834; a profile of the German community and a description of the founding of the Deutsche Demokratische-Republikanische Association; and finally a description of the initial steps taken toward starting the “New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung,” a German Democratic newspaper.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — New York (state)/ Political activity/ New York (N.Y.)/ 19th century/ Newspapers/ Catholics/ Census/ German Americans — Societies, etc.

Cazden, Robert E. “Review of “Cincinnati German Imprints: A Checklist” by Franziska C. Ott.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994, pp. 163-166.
Abstract: Cazden’s review discusses Ott’s bibliographic record of the German book trade in the United States since 1830
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Cazden, Robert E. “Review of “The German Jew in America.” by Rudolf Glanz.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 181-183.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Chambers, Robin L. “Chicago’s Turners: Inspired Leadership in the Promotion of Public Physical Education, 1860-90.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies. 1989. pp. 105-114. MKI Periodicals Turners/ Physical education/ Chicago (Ill.)

Chambers, Robin L. “The German-American Turners: Their Efforts to Promote, Develop, and Initiate Physical Culture in Chicago’s Public Schools and Parks, 1860-1914.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 22, 1987, pp. 101-110.
Abstract: Chambers’ article examines the German ethnic community’s contribution to the development of physical education and supervised recreation in Chicago.
MKI Periodicals
Turners/ Physical education/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Schools/ Ethnic Identity/ German Americans — Societies, etc.

Charles, Heinrich F. “The Chicago German-American Movement.” American-German Review, vol. 1, no. 3, 1899, pp. 299-302.
Notes: The promoters of peace and good will between Germany and America: Wilhelm Vocke, Wilhelm Rapp, Rev. Rudolph R. John, Richard Michaelis, Rev. George D. Heldmann, and Fritz Glogauer; portraits.
MKI Periocicals
German Americans/ History/ Relations, Germany-US/ Education/ Politics

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Cherney, Edna. “Immigrants from Kreis Greifenberg, Pomerania. Conclusion.” Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Rundschreiben, Sept. 2005 , pp. 3-4.
Notes: Germantown, WI.
Abstract: Listing of names (surnames from T to Z) of individuals who left Kreis Greifenberg to go to America, compiled from various databases. Includes date of birth, village of origin, location of death, and spouse’s name.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ Lists/ Genealogy/ Pomerania

Cherney, Edna. “Immigrants from Kreis Regenwalde, Pomerania.” Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Rundschreiben, Mar. 2005, pp. 4-5.
Notes: Germantown, WI.
Abstract: Listing of names (surnames from B to J) of individuals who left Kreis Regenwalde to go to America, compiled from various databases. Includes date of birth, village of origin, and location of death.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ Lists/ Genealogy/ Pomerania

Cherney, Edna. “Immigrants from Kreis Regenwalde, Pomerania — Continued.” Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Rundschreiben, June 2005, pp. 3.
Notes: Germantown, WI.
Abstract: Listing of names (surnames from Juedes to Moeser) of individuals who left Kreis Regenwalde to go to America, compiled from various databases. Includes date of birth, village of origin, and location of death.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ Lists/ Genealogy/ Pomerania

Cherney, Edna. “Immigrants from Kreis Regenwalde, Pomerania — Continued.” Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Rundschreiben, Sept. 2005 , pp. 3.
Notes: Germantown, WI.
Abstract: Listing of names (surnames from Neudahl to Sauer) of individuals who left Kreis Regenwalde to go to America, compiled from various databases. Includes date of birth, village of origin, and location of death.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ Lists/ Genealogy/ Pomerania

Cherney, Edna. “Immigrants from Kreis Regenwalde, Pomerania — Continued.” Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Rundschreiben, Dec. 2005, pp. 4.
Notes: Germantown, WI.
Abstract: Listing of names (surnames from Schimmelpfenig to Zimdars) of individuals who left Kreis Regenwalde to go to America, compiled from various databases. Includes date of birth, village of origin, and location of death.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ Lists/ Genealogy/ Pomerania

Chiat, Marilyn J., and Chester Proshan. “German Jews in Minnesota: 1845-1910.” A Heritage Fulfilled: German-Americans: Die Erfuellte Herkunft. Clarence A. Glasrud, editorMoorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1984. 168-81
Abstract: Chiat and Proschan’s paper is divided into three categories: Jews in Germany 1800-1900, German Jews in America 1800-1910, German Jews in Minnesota 1845-1910. Photographs are included.
MKI F615 G3 H48 1984.
German Americans — Minnesota/ Ethnic identity/ Religion/ Jews, German/ Germany.

Chicago Singverein. Chicago Singverein, Third Season, 1912-1913: Second Concert: Aus Deutschland’s grosser Zeit. (Chicago Singing Society, Third Season, 1912-1913: Second Concert: “From Germany’s Great Days”). [Chicago, IL: The Society: printed by Fred. Klein Co., 1913]. 40 pp. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes: Concert performance: Auditorium Theatre, Sunday, April 20th [1913], 8:00 P. M.
Abstract: Program booklet for the first performance in Chicago of “Aus Deutschland’s grosser Zeit: Concert-Cantata by Ernst H. Seyffardt”. Includes photos of composer, conductor William Boeppler, and four soloists; extensive notes on the work in English, text of the work in German. Lists names of: Officers and Board of Directors, “Boxholders,” chorus members by voice part including Boys’ Choir, as well as “Associate Members,” i.e. non-singing supporters. Half of booklet is display ads, overwhelmingly, but not exclusively in English.
MKI P2015-02
Chicago (Ill.)/ Singverein/ German Americans — Music/ Seyffardt, Ernst H. (1859-1942)/ Boeppler, William

 

Chrislock, Carl H. “The German-American Role in Minnesota Politics.” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editorMoorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1981. 104-17
Abstract: Chrislock’s paper is divided into the following subjects: the national campaign of 1860, the school question (re English as the cumpulsory language of instruction), Populism and Progressivism, prohibition and the “plunderbund charge,” World War I and German-Americans, Woodrow Wilson’s 1916 campaign, Radicalism, Germans and Nonpartisans, the emergence of the Farmer-Labor Party, and German-Americans’ voting behavior regarding Franklin D. Roosevelt.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981
German Americans — Minnesota/ Politics/ Schools/ Catholics/ Lutherans/ Wisconsin/ Turners/ World War, 1914-1918/ World War, 1939-1945.

Citzler, Annette. “Johann ‘Emil’ and Clara J. Citzler.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 30-31, ill.
Abstract: “Emil and Clara Citzler came to Texas from Glatz in Schlesien (Silesia) in 1884. . . . The family had been in the landscape gardening and florist business in Germany. . . . Emil and Clara and family came to Fayette County, to a farm property just northwest of Rutersville and north of La Grange, where they grew cotton, kept cows and chickens and hogs, and tended an abundant vegetable garden and fruit trees. Clara died in 1927 and Emil in 1940.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Citzler

Clark, Erin. “Using the Internet to Find Parish Offices: An Answer to the ‘Where to Write’ Problem.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 24, no. 1, Jul./Aug./Sept. 2006, pp. 16-23.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society .
Abstract: Provides an annotated listing of provincial Websites for Evangelical Lutheran and Catholic churches in Germany.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Research/ Churches

Clark, Susan Canedy. “America’s Nazis.” American History Illustrated, vol. 21, no. 2, 1986, pp. 40-49.
Notes: Photocopy.
Abstract: The German-American Bund had roots dating from the early 1930s, when pro-Nazis took over German-American societies in New York and Michigan. In 1936 Fritz Kuhn gained power and began fashioning the organization into his own version of Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP). Under Kuhn, the German-American Bund grew rapidly, with units formed in nearly every state of the Union. A key part of the Bund’s membership and indoctrination program was the creation of a chain of recreational and youth camps.
MKI P86-97
National Socialism/ United States/ German Americans — Societies, etc./ German-American Bund

Classen, Albrecht. “German Jesuits in Sonora as Contributors to the History of German Literature.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 33, 1998, pp. 41-54.
Abstract: Many Jesuit missionaries who came to the New World, and in particular to Mexico and the Sonoran Desert were from German speaking countries. They left extensive accounts in Latin, Spanish and German. Those with a broader appeal, supposed to serve as informative but also entertaining literature were written in German. In this essay, the author focuses on their contribution to the history of German literature, more specifically, to German-American literature.
MKI Periodicals
Missions/ Literature, German-American/ History/ Literary criticism/ Jesuits

Classen, Albrecht. “Ignaz Pfefferkorn, ein jesuitischer Missionar in der Neuen Welt: Ein Beitrag zur deutschamerikanischen Reiseliteratur der Fruehneuzeit.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 32, 1997, pp. 21-45.
Abstract: Although German and Swiss Jesuit missionaries made important contributions to early exploration and development of Sonora (Northern Mexico and Southern Arizona)and left many significant accounts in German and Spanish, these texts have attracted very little attention among scholars. Ignaz Pfefferkorn’s Beschreibung der Landschaft Sonora is for the first time critically examined from the point of view of early German-American literature, travel literature, and xenology. His work is an excellent report on the landscape as well as containing outstanding anthropological observations. Pfefferkorn’s attitude toward the various Indian tribes and their relationship with the Europeans is analyzed.
MKI periodicals
Missions/ Travel in literature/ 18th century/ Native Americans/ Literature, German-American

Classen, Albrecht. “Joseph Ochs–Ein Jesuit des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts im Suedwesten von Nordamerika: Literarhistorische, imagologische und mentalitaetsgeschichtliche Studien.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 35, 2000, pp. 153-166.
Notes: English summary, p. 164.
Abstract: “Heretofore entirely disregarded by literary scholarship, Och’s account proves to be an important contribution to eighteenth-century travel literature, but it must also be appreciated as a significant document of German-American literature because of its focus on the Southwest [Mexico and Sonoroa] and the Jesuit experience there. Och’s account is remarkable in several respects. Not only did he describe his travel experiences in great and highly vivid detail, but he also freely commented on them from a personal perspecitve, and at times even achieved a poetic level in his account of natural phenomena, his encounter with the Indians, and his personal refelctions upon his missionary ideals.”
MKI Periodicals
Travel in literature/ The United States in literature/ Religion/ Jesuits

Classen, Albrecht. “[Review of] John A. McCarthy and Katrin Schneider, eds. “The future of Germanistik in the USA. Changing our prospects.” Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 177. Paper $14.00.” German Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 2, May 1996, pp. 401-403.
Notes: Photocopy. MEM owns reviewed book: PF3068 U6 F88 1996.
Abstract: Reviewed book contains the proceedings of a DAAD conference at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in October 1994.
P2000-23
Book reviews/ Germanists (US)/ Teaching of German

Clausing, Stephen D. “English influence on the American German dialects with a comparison to American Icelandic. Dissertation.” University of Wisconsin, 1981. viii, 221 pp.
Abstract: The dissertation deals with English influence on the American German dialects, a term which includes Canadian German, as well as English influence on American Icelandic, also including Canadian Icelandic, with comparisons drawn between the two where applicable. The intent of the dissertation is to collate the results of previous studies, elicit theoretical conclusions, and serve as a research tool for future bilingual studies. The emphasis of the dissertation is on borrowing of English elements and the adaptation problems that arise from these elements. A central theme is that all borrowing proceeds through lexical borrowing. Furthermore, the adaptation of borrowed elements follows rules which are largely consistent and predictable.
MKI Dissertations/ MEM AWB C615 S646
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Linguistics/ Bilingualism/ Language influence .

Claypoole, Eric. Johnny Claypoole: “Hexologist.” Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Artist. Lenhartsville, PA: John P. Claypoole, 1979. 13 pp., ill.
Notes: Donated by Dennis Boyer.
Abstract: “Hex signs are apparently an extension of the old German style of ‘fractur art.’ . . . Historically speaking, ‘fracturing’ was a short lived process in Europe. But the German immigrants who brought it to this country kept it central to their new culture, using it to decorate all sorts of their possessions, from trivets to tombstones, and finally expanding it to hex signs. In fact, so central did it become, that today hex signs and the Pennsylvania Dutch are almost synonymous. . . . Johnny Claypoole represents an epoch in the origins of our folk art and craft. He has bridged generations with intense beauty and artistry through a small segment of our folk art. His outstanding ability is demonstrated by his folk art now displayed throughout the United States and many countries of the world.”
MKI P2019-08
Folk art/ Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs

Clewell, John H. “The First year in Wachovia: November 1753 to November 1754.” In Salem’s Remembrancers. Edwin L. Jr. Stockton, ed.1976, pp. 6-21.
Abstract: A paper delivered to the Wachovia Historical Society of Salem, North Carolina in 1900.
This article chronicles the account of the journey of the fifteen Brethren from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to North Carolina. The account is supported by excerpts from the original German manuscript that details the journey of five weeks and five days. After describing the Brethren’s arrival in North Carolina, the following topics are addressed: Farming, Industries, Buildings, Domestic Matters, Table Fare, Hunting, Journeys, Professional, Visitors, Weather, Relations to Others and Religious Matters.
MKI F264.W8 W2 1976
North Carolina/ Moravians/ 18th century/ Settlements

Clinger, Charles E. “‘Aunt’ Cora Clinger: Texas School for the Deaf, Austin, Travis Co., TX, 1890-1979.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 32, no. 3, Fall 2010, pp. 207-208, ill.
Abstract: Cora’s paternal grandfather, Georg Henrich K. Klinger/Clinger was born in Steinau, Odenwald, Hessen, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1830, living for nearly ten years in Paris, Edgar Co., IL, before settling in Bexar, Travis and Llano Cos., TX.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ History

Clyne, Michael G. “Some (German-English) Language Contact Phenomena at the Discourse Level.” [Studies for Einar Haugen. The Hague: Mouton, 1972], pp. 132-143.
Notes: Photocopy donated by Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr.
Abstract: Research based upon taped interviews with 330 1st to 4th generation German-English bilingual Australians.
MKI P2007-33
Language influence/ Language, German/ Language, English

Cofeil, William L. “The Motives of German Immigration.” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editorMoorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1981. 118-21.
Notes: Cofell’s paper briefly discusses economic and religious factors leading to German immigration to the U.S. He calls for a psychological study of “the problem of all immigrants to this country,” as opposed to a strictly political one.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981.
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ Social aspects.

Coggeshall, John Michael. “Ethnic Persistence with Modification: The German-Americans of Southwestern Illinois. Dissertation.” Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1984. 431 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: The research investigates the ethnic persistence despite socio-cultural modification of the German-Americans of southwestern Illinois. The study presents a novel approach to ethnic identity, one which suggests that ethnic groups may persist without always consciously manipulating their identity. This is accomplished by mutual recognition by individuals of cognitive models of ethnic identity. Through social interaction between groups, real and stereotypical ethnic differences are perceived as definitive of group identity, and these characteristics form the cognitive models. Socio-historical and cultural modifications to these criteria occur, but as long as interacting groups continue to perceive certain cultural differences as ethnically distinctive, then groups persist. This process explains the continuity of the German-American ethnic group. Diachronic social interaction between groups has formed emic and etic cognitive models of “German” ethnic identity. The models persist despite modification, and thus the groups based on those models persist as well.
MKI F547 S2 C63 1984a; shelved with MKI dissertations
Ethnic identity/ German Americans — Illinois/ Stereotypes/ Assimilation/ Cultural differences.

Coldewey, Lars. ‘Nudelverse’: Ueber makkaronische Dichtung. [Oldenburg: the author, 2004]. [23] pp.
Notes: Über, Universität, schönste.
Abstract: Hausarbeit for a Hauptseminar on “mehrsprachige Gesellschaften” at the Universitaet Oldenburg. Examines the concept and history of “macaroni” verse (poetry in which two or more languages are mixed together) and then focuses upon the poem, “Die schoenste Lengevitch” by Kurt M. Stein.
MKI P2004-37
Poetry/ Literature, German-American/ Dialects/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Stein, Kurt M.

Coley, Robert E. “The Pennsylvania German Materials in the Ganser Library, Millersville State College.” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, ed. 1980. pp. 61-67.
Abstract: The resources of the Ganser Library.
MKI P85-83
Pennsylvania Germans/ Bibliographies

Coley, Robert E., and others. “A Select Bibliography of Genealogical Materials in Special Collections, Ganser Library, Millersville State College.” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, ed. 1980. pp. 162-181.
Abstract: By Robert E. Coley, Marjorie Markoff, Scott Miller, and Tamson Holbert
MKI P85-83
Genealogy/ Bibliographies

Coley, Robert E., and others. “A Select Bibliography of Pennsylvania German Materials in the Ganser Library, Millersville State College.” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, ed. 1980. pp. 76-81.
Abstract: By Robert E. Coley, Marjorie Markoff, and Scott Miller
MKI P85-83
Pennsylvania Germans/ Bibliographies

Colias, Christopher. “Carol Williams, “By Wonders and By War.” A Novel. Chicago: Swiss-American Historical Society, 1999. vi, 508 pp.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 36, no. 2, June 2000, pp. 42-43.
Notes: MKI owns reviewed book: PS 3573 I4478 B9 1999.
Abstract: Book review of a novel involving the experience of three Swiss families in South Carolina during the American Revolution.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Columbia Kranken-Unterstuetzungs-Verein. Constitution und Neben-Gesetze des Columbia Kranken-Unterstuetzungs-Vereins. Angenommen am 1. Mai 1906. Davenport, IA: H. Lischer Printing Company, [1906]. 14 pp.
Abstract: Artikel 1. Sect. 3: Die Verhandlungen des Vereins sollen in deutscher Sprache gefuehrt werden.
MKI P84-70
German Americans — Societies, etc./ Health insurance

Condoyannis, George E. “German American Prose Fiction before 1914.” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, ed. 1980. pp. 38-54.
Abstract: Developments in style and content in German-American literature before World War I.
MKI P85-83
Literature, German-American/ Fiction/ Literary criticism/ Prose

Condoyannis, George E. “German American Prose Fiction From 1850 to 1914. Dissertation.” Columbia University, 1954. 641 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: Due to hardships and toil in the new land, many German-Americans wrote poetry in order to praise the lost homeland. The dissertation provides research on German-American writers who wrote prose in contradiction to the common belief that prose is not worthy literature. Condoyannis touches on early political prose by Klauprecht, Hassaurek, Douai, Solger, Winckler, Ludvigh, relatively nontendentious literature by Dilthey, Lexow, Giesler-Anneke, Leonhart, Leyh, Asmus, Sutro-Schucking, Kenkel, humourous sketches, religious writings and prose with light critical content by Otto-Walster, Arlberg, Rosenberg, Minuth, Drescher.
MKI PT3920 C65 1954a; shelved with MKI dissertations
Literature, German-American/ Fiction/ Prose.

Condoyannis, George E. “German-American Prose Fiction: Synopses of 38 Works.” German-American Studies, vol. 4, 1972, pp. 1-126.
Abstract: The works covered include those by the following authors: Boernstein, Henry, 1805-1892/Ludvigh, Samuel G., 1801-1869/Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/Kenkel, Friedrich Albert Philip, 1863-1954/Arlsberg, Max, ?/Klauprecht, Emil, 1815-1896/Hassaurek, Friedrich, 1832-1885/Dilthey, Karl, 1837-?/Douai, Adolf, 1819-1888/Solger, Reinhold, 1817-1866/Winckler, Willibald, 1838-1871/Leser, Lotta, 1864-?/Lexow, Rudolf, 1823-1909/Griesinger, Theodor, 1809-1884/Leyh, Eduard F., 1840-1901/Leonhart, Rudolf, 1832-1901/Sutro-Schuecking, Kathinka, 1835-?/Rohe, Carl, 1846-?/Berens, Clara, 1851-?/Grether, Frank, 1891-?/Messmer, J.J., ?/Otto-Walster, A., ?/Minuth, Fred, 1854-1930/Bertsch, Hugo, 1851-1935/Schaffmeyer, Adolf, 1912-?/Lexow, Friedrich, 1827-1872
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Literature, German-American/ Fiction/ Prose

Conk, Margo A. “Archives: Recovering our past: Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884).” Feminist Collections, vol. 7, no. 3, 1986, pp. 3-6.
Anneke box
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/ Feminists

Conner, Cora, and Maurice W. Conner. “A German Dialect Spoken in South Dakota: Swiss-Volhynian.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974, pp. 31-37.
MKI Periodicals / SHS E .G3 G315
Swiss Americans/ Mennonites/ Languages in contact/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Dialects

Conner, Maurice W. “German-American reminiscences of early life in Austin County, Texas.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 28, 1993, pp. 77-92.
Abstract: Austin County, which lies about sixty miles west of Houston, Texas, is the home of the oldest German settlements in the state. In an attempt to record some of the memories that had been passed down from the early pioneers, the author interviewed fourteen residents or former residents of the area in late 1992 and early 1993. Several of the informants had heard stories related firsthand by their immigrant ancestors. Portrayal of the life as it was in the oldest German settlements of Texas. Sections on: the voyage, social and intellectual life, use of the German language, anti-German sentiment, native American indians, gypsies and drummers, folk healing
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Pioneers/ Personal narratives / Social life and customs/ Native Americans/ Folks-medicine/ Medicine & Health/ Anti-German sentiment

Conway, Craig. “Soldier, philospher, and champion of the human spirit: A portrait of August Willich.”.
Abstract: Short essay on August Willich. Willich, August, 1810-1878
MKI P97-23
Biographies

Conzen, Kathleen N. “”The German Athens”: Milwaukee and the Accommodation of Its Immigrants 1836-1860. Dissertation.” Univ. of Wisconsin, 1972. 584 pp.
Notes: Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: Using Milwaukee as an example, Conzen discusses the living conditions of early German emigrants. Milwaukee is seen as a special case and role model – built during the times of emigration, in 1836 at least half of Milwaukee’s population was of foreign birth or parentage. The special circumstances of Milwaukee allowed a third way between ghetto and melting pot.
MKI dissertations / MEM AWB C7669 K375
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Social conditions.

Conzen, Kathleen N. “The Paradox of German-American Assimilation.” In Papers from the St. Olaf Symposium on German-Americana. La Vern J. Rippley, and Steven M. Benjamin, eds. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University, Dept. of Foreign Languages, 1980. pp. 1-18.
Abstract: How did so highly structured and sophisticated an ethnic culture as the German-Americans disappear so completely? This paper will briefly consider the historiography of this issue and its implication for current conceptual models of immigrant assimilation
MKI P85-85
Assimilation/ Immigrants/ German Americans/ Ethnic identity/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Societies, etc.

Conzen, Kathleen N. “The Paradox of German American Assimilation.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 16, 1981, pp. 153-160.
Abstract: The experience of German immigrants in America has been a paradoxical one. Despite contemporary census reports and public opinion surveys which record the survival of some distinctive ethnic traits among persons of German ancestry, despite scattered rural areas and urban pockets where traces of German roots remain evident, most Americans would agree with Andrew Greeley that “if ever an American ethnic group vanished, it is the Germans.” Yet German-Americans once possessed one of the most visible, complex, and vital of American ethnic cultures, and nourished a strong ethos of separatism. How did so highly structured and sophisticated an ethnic culture disappear so completely? This article will briefly consider the historiography of this issue and its implications for current conceptual models of immigrant assimilation.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americans/ Ethnic identity/ Assimilation

Conzen, Kathleen N. “Political Myths and the Realities of Assimilation.” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editorMoorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1981. 127-29
Abstract: Conzen’s paper discusses the myth that German-Americans were politically apathetic. It also discusses the difficulties in defining the immigrant experience in America.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981.
German Americans — Minnesota/ Politics/ Ethnic identity/ Assimilation.

Conzen, Kathleen Neils. “Immigrant Religion and the Public Sphere: The German Catholic Milieu in America.” in German-American Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 69-114.
Notes: Papers originally presented at a conference at Texas A&M University, Apr. 1997.
Abstract: “What role did Catholicism play in shaping this significant segment of the German immigration, and what role die Germans play in shaping American Catholicism?” Examines “Klautches Mechel and the Haymarket Martyrs,” “The Problems of German Catholicism in America,” “The German Catholic Migration and Settlement System,” “Institutional Immigration,” “Mentality and Pious Practice,” “The Institutional Mileu,”and “Politics and the Public Sphere.”
E 184 .G3 G295 2004
German Americans/ Catholics/ 19th century/ Religion/ 20th century/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Political activity/ Politics

Conzen, Kathleen Neils. “Immigrant Religion and the Republic: German Catholics in Nineteenth-Century America.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 35, Fall 2004, pp. 43-56.
Notes: Edmund Spevack Memorial Lecture, Harvard University, November 7, 2003; includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Conzen suggests that America’s German Catholic immigrants, while certainly a minority within a minority, can be studied to provide insight into “the pervasiveness of nineteenth-century confessionalism”; raise questions about the relationship between Catholic revival and emigration; and to “help clarify the logic of the emergent American state’s concern with Catholic religion.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Catholics/ 19th century/ Religion/ 20th century/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Conzen, Kathleen Neils. “Phantom landscapes of colonization: Germans in the making of a pluralist America.” The German-American encounter: Conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000 . Frank and Shore Elliott Trommler, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001, pp. 7-21.
MKI/MEM E 183.8 G3 G472 2001
German Americans/ History/ Social life and customs/ United States/ Immigrants, German

Cooper, Berenice. “The Contribution of die Freien Gemeinden to sciences, arts and letters in Wisconsin.” Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, vol. 54, 1965, pp. 63-69.
Notes: photocopy; donated by Juergen Eichhoff.
MKI P2001-24
Freethinkers/ Forty-eighters/ Wisconsin

Cooper, Berenice. “Die Freien Gemeinden in Wisconsin.” Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy, vol. Vol. 53, 1964, pp. 53-65.
Abstract: Includes information on Free Congregations in Painesville (south of Milwaukee), Sauk City, Bostwick Valley, and Mayville.
MKI P2002-89
Freethinkers/ Forty-eighters/ Wisconsin/ Sauk City (Wis.)/ Milwaukee (Wis.)

Cooper, Berenice. “Die Freien Gemeinden in Wisconsin.”unpublished. 28 pp.
Notes: Printed from microfilm from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (#P71-1833); no date; donated by Juergen Eichhoff; “Berenice Cooper, Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota” at top left of first page.
MKI P2001-24
Freethinkers/ Forty-eighters/ Wisconsin.

Cordes, Günter. “Die amerikanische Hilfe nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg.” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen. 1976. pp. 114-120.
Abstract: Ueber die amerikanische Hilfe, besonders in den Jahren 1945 bis 1948.
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
World War, 1939-1945/ America/ Relations, Germany-US/ World politics

Corry, Mary Jane. “The Role of the German Singing Societies in the Music of Philadelphia in the Nineteenth Century.” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, ed 1980. pp. 82-90.
Abstract: German Emigrants and their influence on the musical development in Philadelphia.
MKI P85-83
Arts/ German Americans/ Music/ Philadelphia (Pa.)

Costello, John R. “Ephrata: Ein deutsches Kulturzentrum in Kolonial-Pennsylvanien.” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, ed. 1980, pp. 68-75.
Abstract: Amerkungen zur Geschichte der Siedlung.
MKI P85-83
Ephrata/ Pennsylvania

Costello, John R. “Pennsylvania German and English: Languages in Contact.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, editor Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, editors. (Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, vol. 10.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1985, pp. 111-121.
Abstract: The author examines the effects of language change that English has on Pennsylvania German. He comes to the conclusion that the lexicon is affected the most, followed by the syntax, while morphology and phonology are affected considerably less.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)/ History/ Pennsylvania

Costello, John R. “Pennsylvania German brauche ‘to charm’; and Hebrew berakhah ‘benediction’: a new etymology.” Pennsylvania Folklife, vol. 32, no. 3, 1983, pp. 123-127.
MKI P88-92
Pennsylvania-German dialect

Costello, John R. “Pennsylvania German Orthography.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, editor. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, editors Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, vol. 10.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1985. pp. 121-127.
Abstract: The author discusses and evaluates four approaches that have been taken in spelling Pennsylvania German. (a) Derivational Dialect Orthography; (b) Phonemic Orthography; (b) English-PG Orthography; (d) Autonomous PG Orthography.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)/ Linguistics

Costello, John R. “Pennsylvania German: Social and Linguistic Aspects.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, editor. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, editors Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, vol. 10.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1985. pp. 66-76.
Abstract: This article deals with the status of Pennsylvania German in schools and universities, both as a means of instruction as well as a subject of study. The author also examines the role of Pennsylvania German in social activities.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)/ Linguistics

Costello, John R. “Pennsylvania German, Standard German, and the Reconstruction of Meaning.” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin , ed. 1980. pp. 131-142.
Abstract: Linguistical research on German dialects.
MKI P85-83
Pennsylvania/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Cotter, Amelia. “Stories from Camp Frederick: German World War II POWs in Frederick, Maryland. Part 1 of 5.” German-American Journal, vol. 57, no. 1, Feb./Mar. 2009, pp. 4, ill.
Notes: “Many of the primary sources in this work come directly from the archives at The Frederick County Historical Society in Frederick, Maryland.”.
Abstract: “This paper will focus primarily on the lives and experiences of the men at Camp Frederick, and although the information available is mostly one-sided, and most of the viewpoints are American, the idea that Camp Frederick was not an unpleasant place for a POW to be, and ran relatively smoothly with little unrest or injustice, is accepted here.” This installment examines Fort George G. Meade and the Maryland POW Camp system.
MKI Periodicals
Prisoners of war/ Germans/ World War, 1939-1945/ Maryland

Cotter, Amelia. “Stories from Camp Frederick: German World War II POWs in Frederick, Maryland. Part 2 of 5.” German-American Journal, vol. 57, no. 2, Apr./May 2009, pp. 4, ill.
Notes: “Many of the primary sources in this work come directly from the archives at The Frederick County Historical Society in Frederick, Maryland.”.
Abstract: This installment examines life in the POW camp.
MKI Periodicals
Prisoners of war/ Germans/ World War, 1939-1945/ Maryland

Cotter, Amelia. “Stories from Camp Frederick: German World War II POWs in Frederick, Maryland. Part 3 of 5.” German-American Journal, vol. 57, no. 3, June/July 2009, pp. 4, ill.
Notes: “Many of the primary sources in this work come directly from the archives at The Frederick County Historical Society in Frederick, Maryland.”.
Abstract: This installment discusses the low profile maintained by Camp Frederick during its operations, and the interest in German POWs that arose some twenty years after the war ended.
MKI Periodicals
Prisoners of war/ Germans/ World War, 1939-1945/ Maryland

Cotter, Amelia. “Stories from Camp Frederick: German World War II POWs in Frederick, Maryland. Part 4 of 5.” German-American Journal, vol. 57, no. 4, Aug./Sept. 2009, pp. 4, ill.
Notes: “Many of the primary sources in this work come directly from the archives at The Frederick County Historical Society in Frederick, Maryland.”.
Abstract: This installment provides excerpts from personal letters, interviews, and articles that reveal how U.S. citizens in Frederick felt about the nearby German prisoners of war.
MKI Periodicals
Prisoners of war/ Germans/ World War, 1939-1945/ Maryland

Cotter, Amelia. “Stories from Camp Frederick: German World War II POWs in Frederick, Maryland. Part 5 of 5.” German-American Journal, vol. 57, no. 5, Oct./Nov. 2009, pp. 4, ill.
Notes: “Many of the primary sources in this work come directly from the archives at The Frederick County Historical Society in Frederick, Maryland.”.
Abstract: This installment tells the story of Erich Pahlow, a POW from Berlin, who built lifelong relationships with some of the people he met while serving in Frederick. Article concludes that the camp had been closed by May 1946, when an auction was held to sell the camp’s buildings and other materials, and plans were underway to restore the site to its original farm field conditions.
MKI Periodicals
Prisoners of war/ Germans/ World War, 1939-1945/ Maryland

Craig, Terrence. “Frederick Philip Grove und der “fremde” Einwanderer im kanadischen Westen.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. IX, 1986, pp. 141-151.
Abstract: While contemporary Anglo-Canadian authors either ignored or deprecated “alien” immigrants and championed the persistent hegemony of their own ethnic group, Frederick Philip Grove in his prose writing advocated a more favorable image of other European newcomers to Canada. Himself an immigrant of German descent, he can be considered an early proponent of certain aspects of multiculturalism.
MKI Periodicals
German Canadians/ Literature, German (Canada)/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)

Cramer, Anna. “German Schools Abroad.” German Life, August/September 2015, pp. 44-46.
Notes: Website contains only first three paragraphs.
Abstract: Overview of German educational opportunities in non-German-speaking countries, usually receiving German pedagogcal and financial support.
MKI Periodicals
Education/ Schools

Croan, Melvin. “Political science and German-American Studies.” Monatshefte, vol. 86, no. 3, 1994, pp. 378-382.
Abstract: Drawing up of a political science agenda for German-American Studies
MKI P99-9
German-American Studies/ Politics

Cronau, Rudolf. “Der Deutsche in den Kriegen der Kolonial-Zeit und der Union.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 85-121.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
Wars/ Colonial period/ German Americans

Cronau, Rudolf. “Deutschamerikanische Maler, Bildhauer und Architekten.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 341-354.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
Artists/ German Americans/ Architecture/ Paintings/ Arts

Croner, Vera F. The Odyssey of a German Jew: Growing Up During the Dark Days. Madison, Wis.: The Estate of Vera F. Croner, 2010. 11 pp., ill.
Notes: “The correspondence, documents, photographs and other materials of Vera Croner and her family (c. 1860-2009) are being preserved at the Wisconsin Historical Society.”
Abstract: Vera Fannie Croner was born November 8, 1920 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany to Max Marcus and Hedwig Griep Croner. This account covers her early life in Germany, from 1920 to 1947, with a summary of her subsequent years in Norway and Madison, Wisconsin.
MKI P2011-10
Personal narratives/ Biographies/ Croner, Vera F./ 20th century/ National Socialism/ Jews, German

Cunz, Dieter. “Albert Bernhardt Faust.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 28th Report, 1953, pp. 86-88.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Biographies

Cunz, Dieter. “The Baltimore Germans and the Oath of Allegiance in 1778.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 25th Report, 1942, pp. 31-33.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
German Americans — Maryland

Cunz, Dieter. “Contributions of the German Element to the Growth of the University of Maryland.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 26th Report, 1945, pp. 7-15.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
German Americans — Maryland/ Cultural contribution

Cunz, Dieter. “DeKalb and Maryland.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 25th Report, 1942, pp. 18-22.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Maryland/ History/ Biographies

Cunz, Dieter. “Die Deutsch-Amerikaner: Zu dem Buch von John Hawgood ‘The Tragedy of German-Americana.'” Monatshefte für Deutschen Unterricht, vol. 33, no. 8, 1941, pp. 243-348.
Abstract: Short article about the book, a kind of long book review
MKI shelf
Book reviews/ German Americans

Cunz, Dieter. “Egg Harbor City: New Germany in New Jersey.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 29th Report, 1956, pp. 9-30.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
German Americans — Other US states

[Cunz, Dieter.] “Genealogical Notes on Charles Frederick Wiesenthal.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 28th Report, 1953, pp. 82-85.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Genealogy/ Biographies

Cunz, Dieter. “The German Americans: Immigration and Integration.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland , vol. 28th Report, 1953, pp. 29-43.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
German Americans/ Immigrants, German/ Assimilation

Cunz, Dieter. “The German-Americans in Cumberland, Md.” American-German Review, vol. Vol. XIII, no. No.. 2, 1946, pp. 15-16, 35.
Notes: The German-American colony in Cumberland, Md.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Maryland/ Immigrants, German/ History

Cunz, Dieter. “The Germans in Maryland: A Story of Useful Citizens.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 31st Report, 1963, pp. 11-18.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
German Americans — Maryland

Cunz, Dieter. “God’s Plain People in Maryland.” American-German Review, vol. XIV , no. 4, 1948, pp. 12-16.
Notes: The Amish colony in New Market, Md.; illustrations.
MKI Periodicals
Amish/ Social Life and customs/ German Americans — Maryland

Cunz, Dieter. “John Gruber and his Almanac.” Maryland Historical Magazine, vol. 47, no. 2, 1952, pp. 89-102.
Abstract: Gruber, Johann Adam, 1693-1763
MKI P84-25
Biographies

Cunz, Dieter. “The Maryland Germans in the Civil War.” Maryland Historical Magazine, vol. 36, no. 4, 1941, pp. 394-419.
Notes: Reprint. — From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Cunz, Dieter, born August 4, 1910 in Hoechstenbach, Hessia, died 1969 in Columbus, Ohio. Came to America in 1938. Ph.D. in German. Professor of German and Chairman, Department of German at Ohio State University. Literary historian, critic, short story writer. His book, The Maryland Germans (1948) , is a standard reference work on the German-American element in that state.
MKI P84-26
German Americans — Maryland/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Cunz, Dieter. “Twenty Years of German-American Studies.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 30th Report, 1959, pp. 9-28.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
German-American Studies

Currer-Briggs, Noel. “German Migration to America.” Chapter from Worldwide Family History. Noel Currer-Briggs. London, etc.: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. pp146-151.
MKI P86-41
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Custer, Frank. “Madison’s Early Germans Loved Parks, Beer, and Song.” Madison Magazine, Nov. 1985, pp. 78-82.
Abstract: History of Schuetzen Park (on the edge of Lake Monona) which had been established in 1871 and was an excellent retreat from the heat and bustle of downtown Madison. There on Sundays the Germans could enjoy life, quaffing cool lager beer, talking in their native tongue with one another, target shooting, playing ten pins, listening to concert music played by local bands, and, in later years, dancing. An incident is narrated of evangelists trying to proselytize and being evicted from the Park. Later, the Turner Society took over the park. Following financial difficulties part of the park had to be sold and the rest became Lake Park.
MKI P85-123/SHS
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Madison (Wis.)/ Folklore/ Social life and customs

Cutcomp, Kent, Lois Edwards, and Paul Sternberg. “Internet sites for Germanic genealogy.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, Summer 2001, pp. 23-26.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy

Cutkamp, Ken, Donna Turbes, and et al. “Spotlight on Alsace-Lorraine.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring 2015, pp. 5-13, ill., maps.
Abstract: The complex history of Alsace, belonging to Germany or France at different times, presents additional challenges for the genealogical researcher.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Alsace/ History

Cutkomp, Kent. “Reisepass: Reading an 1850 German Passport.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 16, no. 4, Winter 2013, pp. 17-21, ill.
Abstract: Describes the information to be found on a 19th-century German passport, and tips on using this information in further research.
MKI Periodicals
Germany, Emigration and immigration/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Passports/ 19th century

Cutkomp, Kent. “Translating a German Language Obituary.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 13, no. 4, Winter 2010, pp. 14-17, ill.
Abstract: Using an obituary for Carolina Frederich from the August 2, 1924, issue of Watertown, Wisconsin’s Weltbuerger [World Citizen] newspaper, this article illustrates the wealth of information a researcher may discover. Includes advice for transliterating and translating the text, provides cautions regarding automated translation programs, and discusses steps for further research based on information that may be found in an obituary.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Obituaries/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Watertown (Wis.)/ Newspapers, German-American/ Translations

Cwirla, William M. “Grabau and the Saxon Pastors: The Doctrine of the Holy Ministry, 1840-1845.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 2, Summer 1995, pp. 84-99, ill.
Abstract: Includes an examination of Prussian emigration history.
MKI Periodicals
Grabau, Johannes A. A./ Lutherans/ Lutheran Church

Dahlmann, Friedrich Wilhelm. Das Joch des Elends: Erzaehlung eines Arztes. The German-American Series, n. 23. Chicago, Ill.: Laird & Lee, 1889. 187 pp.
Notes: German-American author
MKI P88-53
PIA/ Fiction, religious

Dahms, Steven V. “World War II Prisoners of War and the Missouri Synod.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 3, Fall 1995, pp. 120-132, ill.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1939-1945/ Prisoners of war/ Lutherans/ Lutheran Church/ Religion

Dalbello, Marija. “Franz Josef’s Time Machine: Images of Modernity in the Era of Mechanical Photoreproduction.” Book History, vol. 5, 2002, pp. 67-103, ill.
Notes: Downloaded from the Internet, Feb. 2005.
Abstract: “This essay is a historical case study focusing on the formation of modernity as expressed in print and from the point of view of the central European book trade. It focuses on a publishing house [J. Steinbrener in Winterberg] in an industrial region of the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.” Steinbrener “supplied a market ranging from Manila to New York.”
MKI P2005-2
Publishing/ Calendars & Almanacs/ Austria

Damm, John Silber. “The Growth and Decline of Lutheran Parochial Schools in the United States, 1638-1962. Dissertation.” Columbia University, 1963. 363 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: This project is concerned with the growth and decline of the two major parochial school movements within the Lutheran church in the United Sates. The first movement began in the earliest colonial days and was carried on in the eastern colonies and states by several regional Lutheran synods and reached the high point of development in 1830, after which it declined steadily and ceased altogether by 1890. The second movement began with the arrival of the Saxon Lutherans in Missouri in 1839 and the formation of the Missouri Synod in 1847. The Missouri Synod school system flourished and continues to this present day. This project attempts to ascertain just why the schools of the older Lutheran bodies declined during those very decades of the nineteenth century when the Missouri Synod was active in establishing schools. The various factors which contributed to the schools growth and decline are discussed and viewed against the larger background of the doctrinal issues at stake in these two Lutheran groups. Comparatively little has been published about the Lutheran parochial school system. Most available accounts are of a general or incomplete nature. To gather together the pertinent material required research into primary sources such as the minutes and proceedings of the various Lutheran bodies, correspondence of church leaders, official periodicals and journals for lay and professional reading, and local congregational histories. To a large extent the material was written in the German language and, on that account, has not been readily available. Various factors contributed to the decline of the first Lutheran parochial school movement: lack of teachers and training institutions, meager financial support, immigration and language difficulties, and the rise of the common school. It is the thesis of this project that to be properly evaluated they must be viewed against the larger background of the doctrinal struggle that was taking place within the older Lutheran bodies in the United States, a struggle between the forces that sought to “Americanize” it and divest it of its unique confessional emphasis. The rapid decline of the parochial schools during this controversy indicates that there is a correlation between Lutheran confessional orthodoxy and maintenance of a parochial school system. The history of the early movement demonstrates that when the insistence upon purity of teaching and doctrine is not strong in a synodical organization, then parochial schools are not considered necessary. The development of the Missouri Synod parochial school system shows a direct correlation between a synod’s insistence on the cultivation of its distinct identity and the conservation of its confessional position, and the expression of belief in and support for a parochial school system.
MKI LC574 D16 1963a; shelved with MKI dissertations
Lutheran Church/ Lutherans/ Schools/ Education/ Colonial period

Daniel, Cary S. “Deutsch-Amerikanisches Magazin: A German-American Historical and Literary Journal in Cincinnati, Ohio.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 27, 1992 , pp. 75-89.
Notes: Review of the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Magazin published from 1886-1887 in Cincinnati and its editor Heinrich A. Rattermann.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, German-American/ Literary criticism/ Biographies

Daniel, Cary S. “The image of America and Germany in Friedrich Grill’s poetry collection Amerika.” Schatzkammer, vol. 20, no. 1, 1994, pp. 1-12.
MKI Shelf–Periodicals
Poetry/ Literary criticism/ America in German literature

Daniel, Cary S. “Review of “Catalog of the German-Americana Collection: University of Cincinnati,” by Don Heinrich Tolzmann. 2 vols. Muenchen, New York, London, Paris: K. G. Saur, 1990.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies. 1990. pp. 239-40.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Danielsen, Marie. “The Diary of Marie Danielsen: A Story of One German Girl’s Journey to Clinton, IA from Hattstedt, in Schleswig Holstein.” Infoblatt, vol. 14, no. 1, Winter 2009, pp. 12-15, 20, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa. “From Lynne Johnson, a descendant of Marie Danielsen.”
Abstract: Danielsen describes her trip across the Atlantic aboard the Deutschland in 1904. She is 17 years of age during her journey. The ship arrived at Hoboken, after which the author describes travels to Ellis Island, Buffalo, Chicago, Olin (Iowa), and then Clinton.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Ships/ Atlantic crossing/ 20th century/ Clinton (Iowa)/ Schleswig-Holstein/ Diaries

Danner, Karl H. “Friedrich Karl Franz Hecker.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 31, no. 3, June 2006, pp. 35-36, ill.
Abstract: Biographical sketch of Hecker, who participated in the 1848/1849 revolution in southwestern Germany and eventually settled in Belleville, Illinois. Like other prominent 1848ers, he supported the Northern States against the Confederation, serving as an officer of a regiment. There are monuments to Hecker in St. Louis and in Cincinnati.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Hecker, Friedrich, 1811-1881/ Forty-eighters

Daum, Andreas W. “Constructing identity: Cold War policies and the promotion of community in German-American relations, 1950-1979.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 28, Spring 2001, pp. 97-104.
Notes: German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Report on panel at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association, October 2000.
MKI P2002-28 and MKI Periodicals
Social life and customs/ Germany/ United States/ America/ 20th century/ Politics

Davis, Garry W. “German in contact with Native American languages: The Moravians, 1742-1782.” in The German language in America, 1683-1991. Joseph C. Salmons, editor. Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, General editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wisconsin: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, UW-Madison, 1993, pp. 1-15.
Abstract: German-speaking Moravian missionaries carried on an intensive mission among several Native American tribes. The most tangible linguistic benefits of their activities are evident in the early grammars, spelling books, and dictionaries of these native languages left behind by the great Moravian missionaries. The present paper surveys some of the ways that the German language was used by Moravians and Native Americans at various Moravian mission towns on the frontier and seeks to underscore that the German language, through the efforts of the Moravian missionaries and other German-speaking colonists, played a significant part in communication on the colonial frontier. This survey is based on published accounts of the Moravian mission on the frontier, as well as on unpublished manuscripts in the Moravian archive in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
MKI PF 5925 G47 1993
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Moravians/ Native Americans/ Frontier and pioneer life/ Missions/ History/ Pennsylvania/ Dialects

Davis, Gerald H. “”Orgelsdorf”: A World War I Internment Camp in America.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 249-266.
Abstract: Davis’ article discusses life in an internment camp in Georgia for German nationals during World War I. It concludes by giving a brief description of the lives of the following prisoners after their release: Karl Muck, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Jonathan Zenneck, Karl Oscar Bertling, Albrecht Montgelas, E. Karl Vietor and Richard Goldschmidt.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Prisoners of war/ Anti-German sentiment

Davis, Julie Sliva. “‘For The Homeland’: Die Deutsche Hausfrau and Reader Responses to World War I.” Old Dominion University, 2018. vi, 126 pp.
Notes: M.A. Thesis.
Abstract: When the Great War broke out in the summer of 1914, many German Americans living in the United States expressed renewed support and loyalty for Germany in the German-language press. While scholars have thoroughly examined the collective experiences and sentiments of German Americans in the U.S. during World War I, particularly in their press, German-American women and their press have remained largely underrepresented. Notably, however, as evidenced by the largest nationally circulated monthly women’s journal of the time, Die Deutsche Hausfrau (The German Housewife), German-American women did indeed use their press as well to convey increasingly pro-German rhetoric in support of their “old homeland” through their letters to the editor. Readers’ letters reveal that they expressed their support for Germany in two distinct ways: by embracing and sharing in the politics of the war and by advocating for the importance of the multiple facets of their German heritage, such as language, homeland, relatives, and culture. Through this use of the press to express themselves, readers strengthened their role as active members of their local and international communities, merged their private and public spheres, and reinforced ties to their German cultural and political identity. Although the legislative restrictions placed on the press after the U.S. joined the war shifted the pro-German and transnational tone of the magazine to focus more on American interests in the war, Die Deutsche Hausfrau continued to emphasize the role of German-American women in society and their contributions to their communities.
Available as PDF online at ODU Digital Commons: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/history_etds/9/
Women/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Periodicals

de Leeuw, Esther. “New Research: What Happens to German Language After Emigration? ” German-Canadian Studies Newsletter , vol. 15, no. 1, Nov. 2010, pp. 2.
Notes: de Leeuw, Esther (2008) “When your native language sounds foreign: A phonetic investigation into first language attrition.” PhD thesis, Queen Margaret University. See: https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7436.
Abstract: The author’s research involved two experiments which investigated whether the domain of phonetics can undergo first language (L1) attrition, or be lost, when a second language (L2) is acquired in adulthood in a migrant context. Experiment I investigated the native speech of 57 German migrants to Anglophone Canada and the Dutch Netherlands. The bilingual migrants had grown up in a monolingual German environment and moved abroad in adolescence or adulthood. Their semispontaneous German speech was globally assessed for foreign accent by native German speakers in Germany. It was revealed that 14 bilingual migrants were perceived to be non-native speakers of German. Age of arrival to Canada or the Netherlands and contact with one’s native language played the most significant roles in determining whether the German speech of the migrants was assessed to be foreign accented. Crucially, it was not only the amount of contact, but also the type of contact which influenced foreign accented native speech. Monolingual settings, in which little language mixing was assumed to occur, were most conducive to maintaining non-foreign accented native German speech. These findings prompted Experiment II, in which the speech of 10 German migrants to Anglophone Canada was examined in fine phonetic detail. The participants in this experiment had similarly grown up in a German speaking environment and migrated to Canada in late adolescence or adulthood. Segmental and prosodic elements of speech, which generally differ between German and English, were selected for acoustic analyses. Taken together, these findings challenge the traditional concept of native speech by revealing that indeed native speakers diverge from the norms of native (monolingual) speech.
MKI Periodicals
German Canadians/ Language, German (Canada) — Dialects/ Research/ Linguistics/ Bilingualism

De Steiguer, J. Edward. “Exploring Swiss-American Deep Ancestry: A Personal Venture into Genetic Genealogy.” Swiss American Historical Society, vol. 50, no. 1, Feb. 2014, pp. 23-31, ill.
Abstract: Describes the author’s experience using DNA analysis (in this case Y-DNA analysis) to trace the ancestry of his Swiss-American male line. Based on the tests, it appears the Steiger family line, before arriving in Switzerland, were of Scandinavian origin and possibly of Saxon ancestry residing in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Genealogy/ Switzerland

De Vos, Julius, and James E. Feuge. “Hilda United Methodist Church Sesquicentennial Celebration.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 202.
Abstract: “In 1856 the Reverend C. A. Grote organized sixty-three men and women [all German immigrants or children of German immigrants] into the Llano River Valley Circuit, Rio Grande Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South. . . . The congregations were located in Pleuweville (now Castell), Lower Willow Creek, Upper Willow Creek (now Art), Beaver Creek (now Hilda), Simonsville (now Grossville), Little Saline and New Canaan.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ 19th century/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Settlements/ Churches

De Vries, Herman J. “Review of ‘Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans in Colonial British America’ by A. G. Roeber.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994, pp. 168-170.
Abstract: De Vries’ review claims that Roeber’s book includes too many anecdotes and minor facts but that it “Does justice to the complexities of German immigration.”
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Dearden, Fay S. “The Challenges of German Genealogical Research.” A Heritage Fulfilled: German-Americans: Die Erfuellte Herkunft. Clarence A. Glasrud, editorMoorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1984. 211-24
Abstract: Dearden’s paper discusses the places most likely to provide extensive information for genealogical research; the use of photographs in research; the reasons for German migration to the U.S.; and migration patterns within Germany. It includes excerpts from the Hamburg Passenger List and Meyers Ort Gazetteer, photographs, and a table of German Empire States and their present-day names. In addition it gives concrete tips for conducting research.
MKI F615 G3 H48 1984
German Americans — Minnesota/ Genealogy/ Ships/ Germany/ Passenger lists

DeBats, Donald A. “German and Irish Political Engagement: The Politics of Cultural Diversity in an Industrial Age.” in German-American Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 171-220, ill.
Notes: Paper originally presented at a conference at Texas A&M University, Apr. 1997.
Abstract: From the conclusion: “The individual political worlds of German and Irish voters as recorded in the poll books shed considerable new light on past political life. The poll books tell us that there were more similarities than differences in the political engagement of members of these largest of immigrant groups. The three case studies explored here provide little support for the notion that the Germans and the Irish represented dramatically different accommodations to nineteenth century mass politics in the New World. In all three cases the Germans and the Irish participated in politics at about the same level and exhibited in their voting behavior about the same degree of partisan unity.”
E 184 .G3 G295 2004
19th century/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Ethnic identity/ Political activity/ Politics/ Ethnic groups — Other groups/ Ethnic relations

DeHaven, Michael R. “Pennsylvania German in Lyndon, Kansas: Variation, Change, and Decline.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 113-121.
Notes: The Language and Culture of the Pennsylvania Germans: A Festschrift for Earl C. Haag. Edited by William D. Keel and C. Richard Beam.
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “The Lyndon Amish-Mennonite community presents an interesting linguistic situation, where the interaction of Pennsylvania German variants in close contact with each other, changes due to this contact, and overall decline of Pennsylvania German can be seen in one place.”
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Kansas/ German Americans — Kansas/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Linguistics

Dehne, Klaus. “German Immigrants in Rural Southern Indiana: A Geographical View.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 36, 2001, pp. 109-128.
Abstract: Examines German immigration and its influence upon rural Knox County in southern Indiana.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ German Americans — Indiana/ Economic aspects/ Language maintenance

Deiler, J. Hanno. Die europaeische Einwanderung nach den Vereinigten Staaten von 1820 bis 1896. New Orleans, La.: Selbstverlag, 1897. 30 pp.
Notes: Also on cover: “Ursachen der Auswanderung aus Europa. Statistik der Einwanderung. Verbreitung der Eingewanderten ueber die verschiedenen Staaten der Union. Die Gesetze zur Beschraenkung der Einwanderung.” — Stamped: “Deutsch-Amerikanische Historische Gesellschaft von Illinois.” —- Deiler was born August 8, 1849 in Altoetting, Upper Bavaria, where he received his musical training. In 1871 he accepted a position in New Orleans as principal of St. Boniface German Catholic School, arriving early in 1872 and later that year married Wilhelmina Saganowski. In 1879 he became professor of German at the University of Louisiana, which later became Tulane University. He was elected president of the North American Singers’ Union, first in 1896 and then again in 1903. He was president of the New Orleans German Gazette Publishing Company, and contributed to numerous German and American periodicals. His research interests focused on the history of Germans in the United States, especially in Louisiana, publishing numerous articles on the subject, as well as one book, The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent (Philadelphia, 1909). In 1898 the German Emperor recognized Deiler’s literary achievements and his services to the German people in the U.S. by conferring upon him knighthood in the Order of the Crown. Deiler died at his summer home in Covington, Louisiana on July 20, 1909.
MKI P84-29 / SHS JS/.DE (Cutter)
PIA/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ 19th century

Deiler, J. Hanno. “Germany’s Contribution to the Present Population of New Orleans with a Census of the German Schools. (Read Before Section C of the New Orleans Academy of Science on April 27th, 1886).” Louisiana Journal of Education, May 1886, pp. 3-7.
Notes: Reprint from the Louisiana Journal of Education, May, 1886.
Abstract: Deiler was born August 8, 1849 in Altoetting, Upper Bavaria, where he received his musical training. In 1871 he accepted a position in New Orleans as principal of St. Boniface German Catholic School, arriving early in 1872 and later that year married Wilhelmina Saganowski. In 1879 he became professor of German at the University of Louisiana, which later became Tulane University. He was elected president of the North American Singers’ Union, first in 1896 and then again in 1903. He was president of the New Orleans German Gazette Publishing Company, and contributed to numerous German and American periodicals. His research interests focused on the history of Germans in the United States, especially in Louisiana, publishing numerous articles on the subject, as well as one book, The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent (Philadelphia, 1909). In 1898 the German Emperor recognized Deiler’s literary achievements and his services to the German people in the U.S. by conferring upon him knighthood in the Order of the Crown. Deiler died at his summer home in Covington, Louisiana on July 20, 1909.
MKI P84-28
German Americans — Louisiana/ New Orleans (La.)/ census/ German language school

Deiler, J. Hanno. Geschichte der New Orleanser Deutschen Presse. Nebst anderen Denkwuerdigkeiten der New Orleanser Deutschen. New Orleans, La.: Selbstverlag, 1901. 40 pp.
Notes: PIA — Also on cover and title page: Von J. Hanno Deiler, Professor an der Tulane Universitaet von Louisiana. Sonderabdruck aus der “New Orleanser Deutschen Zeitung.” New Orleans, La., U. S. A. Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers.” —- On t.p. verso: Druck der Paul J. Sendker Printing Co., Ltd., 335 Carondelet Str., New Orleans, La. —- Deiler was born August 8, 1849 in Altoetting, Upper Bavaria, where he received his musical training. In 1871 he accepted a position in New Orleans as principal of St. Boniface German Catholic School, arriving early in 1872 and later that year married Wilhelmina Saganowski. In 1879 he became professor of German at the University of Louisiana, which later became Tulane University. He was elected president of the North American Singers’ Union, first in 1896 and then again in 1903. He was president of the New Orleans German Gazette Publishing Company, and contributed to numerous German and American periodicals. His research interests focused on the history of Germans in the United States, especially in Louisiana, publishing numerous articles on the subject, as well as one book, The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent (Philadelphia, 1909). In 1898 the German Emperor recognized Deiler’s literary achievements and his services to the German people in the U.S. by conferring upon him knighthood in the Order of the Crown. Deiler died at his summer home in Covington, Louisiana on July 20, 1909.
MKI P84-30 / SHS F876N/.DE Cutter
PIA/ German-American press/ New Orleans (La.)/ History

Deiler, J. Hanno. Rede gegen den McKinley Tarif und das Zwangsgesetz. Behalten am 3. Nov. 1892 in der demokratischen Ratifikations-Massenversammlung am Markt in Carrollton (7. Dist. von New Orleans, La.). 8 pp.
MKI P84-28
PIA/ Politics/ New Orleans (La.)/ 19th century

Deiler, J. Hanno. Zur Geschichte der Deutschen am unteren Mississippi. Das Redemptionsystem in Staate Louisiana. 2. Auflage. New Orleans, La. : Selbstverlag, 1901. 36 pp.
Notes: PIA. — On title page: Von J. Hanno Deiler, Professor an der Tulane Universitaet von Louisiana. New Orleans, La., Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers. 1901. Zu beziehen durch alle buchhandlungen und vom Verfasser, 2229 Bienville Avenue, New Orleans, La., U. S. —- Deiler was born August 8, 1849 in Altoetting, Upper Bavaria, where he received his musical training. In 1871 he accepted a position in New Orleans as principal of St. Boniface German Catholic School, arriving early in 1872 and later that year married Wilhelmina Saganowski. In 1879 he became professor of German at the University of Louisiana, which later became Tulane University. He was elected president of the North American Singers’ Union, first in 1896 and then again in 1903. He was president of the New Orleans German Gazette Publishing Company, and contributed to numerous German and American periodicals. His research interests focused on the history of Germans in the United States, especially in Louisiana, publishing numerous articles on the subject, as well as one book, The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent (Philadelphia, 1909). In 1898 the German Emperor recognized Deiler’s literary achievements and his services to the German people in the U.S. by conferring upon him knighthood in the Order of the Crown. Deiler died at his summer home in Covington, Louisiana on July 20, 1909.
MKI P84-31 / F8399G/.DE Cutter (1889 ed.)
PIA/ German Americans — Louisiana/ History/ Immigrants, German

Deiler, J. Hanno. Zur Geschichte der Deutschen Kirchengemeinden im Staate Louisiana. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Deutschen am unteren Mississippi. Mit einem Census der New Orleanser deutschen Schulen und der fremdgeborenen Bevoelkerung von 1850 bis 1890. New Orleans, La.: Selbstverlag, 1894. 168 pp.
Notes: PIA. — Advertisements, pp. 145-168. — Deiler was born August 8, 1849 in Altoetting, Upper Bavaria, where he received his musical training. In 1871 he accepted a position in New Orleans as principal of St. Boniface German Catholic School, arriving early in 1872 and later that year married Wilhelmina Saganowski. In 1879 he became professor of German at the University of Louisiana, which later became Tulane University. He was elected president of the North American Singers’ Union, first in 1896 and then again in 1903. He was president of the New Orleans German Gazette Publishing Company, and contributed to numerous German and American periodicals. His research interests focused on the history of Germans in the United States, especially in Louisiana, publishing numerous articles on the subject, as well as one book, The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent (Philadelphia, 1909). In 1898 the German Emperor recognized Deiler’s literary achievements and his services to the German people in the U.S. by conferring upon him knighthood in the Order of the Crown. Deiler died at his summer home in Covington, Louisiana on July 20, 1909.
MKI P84-34 / SHS F876 .D32Z Cutter; and Microforms Room
PIA/ German Americans — Louisiana/ Religion/ Churches

Deiss, Kathy. “Eighteenth Century German Immigration: Effectively Using the Published Passenger Lists.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. Vol. 5, no. 3, Fall 2002, pp. 5-6.
Abstract: A summary of a presentation given by Annette Burgert at the German Genealogy Society’s 2002 Spring Conference: “Only the colony of Pennsylvania maintained passenger lists. These began in 1727. Other colonies had ship arrival lists, but did not include the passenger names….the Pennsylvania passenger lists include immigrants who settled in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.”
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Emigration and immigration / Pennsylvania Germans/ 18th century

DeKay, Drake. “German Republicans.” n.d. [9 pp.]
Notes: Copy of archival material, original held at Brown University Library, Providence, RI.
Abstract: Handwritten thoughts on German immigrants and the song by Hermann Reffelt, “Hoch die Republik!” (“A Carol for German Adoptive citizens of the Union in the year 1876”), including a translation of a few stanzas.
MKI P2020-07
Reffelt, Hermann, 1811-1889/ Politics/ Songs

Delahanty, Jennifer. “Changes in Wisconsin English over 110 Years: A Real-Time Acoustic Account. Dissertation.” University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011. ix, 151 pp., ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-135).
Abstract: The growing set of studies on American regional dialects have to date focused heavily on vowels while few examine consonant features and none provide acoustic analysis of both vowel and consonant features. This dissertation uses real-time data on both vowels and consonants to show how Wisconsin English has changed over time. Together, the recordings (from the Dictionary of Regional American English and the author’s fieldwork) represent 110 years of speaker data from which tokens are extracted to compare four phonetic features commonly attributed to Wisconsin English: specifically /o/, /u/, stopping in interdental fricatives, and final fortition. Results of the analysis showed phonetic changes over time in each of the features presented. These changes suggest that a process of koineization has taken place, fueled by speakers of phonologically similar European immigrant languages that came into contact with one another. Although immigrants came from many countries that influenced the dialect that developed, the focus here is on the example of German immigrants. Contact between immigrant groups (German, Norwegian, and Polish for example) strengthened the likelihood that grammatical features would not be subject to leveling and would persist long after immigration to the state diminished. The oldest speakers generally showed evidence of remnants of the immigrant language declined as communities moved to English. The younger speakers generally showed evidence that the features are again coming to the forefront although produced in different ways. The data also showed that consonant features play a very strong role in defining Wisconsin English as a regional dialect. Both stopping and final fortition are features that Wisconsinites often use to describe regional speech characteristics. Both features have at one time marked a speaker’s ethnic background but have over time moved instead toward defining Wisconsin English as a regional dialect.
MKI dissertations / MEM AWB D3375 J455
Linguistics/ English language/ Wisconsin/ Dialectology/ Regionalism/ Language, English/ Language influence/ Immigrants, German.

Delhotal, Barbara L. “The Amish and Compulsory Education.” Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People, vol. 8, no. 11, Nov. 1987, pp. 28-29, ill.
Abstract: On May 15, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, agreeing that “the Amish should be exempt from attending school beyond the eighth grade because of their religion.”
P2003-6
Amish/ Education

Demerath III, N. J., and Victor Thiessen. “On Spitting against the Wind: Organizational Precariousness and American Irreligion.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 71, no. 6, May 1966, pp. 674-687.
Abstract: From the abstract: This is an analysis of a small-town Wisconsin free-thought movement [Freie Gemeinde of Sauk City] and its response to organizational dilemmas arising out of its irreligion. More particularly, it is an analysis of organizational demise. The study isolates a number of variables which help to account for the movement’s history. Several relate to the community context such as vertical and horizontal differentiation. Others concern characteristics of the organization itself, including the social status of the membership, problems of leadership and charisma, the difficulties posed by negative values and goallessness, and the irreconcilability of commitment and recruitment. In each of these respects, the freethinkers offer a distinctive perspective and new propositions for both the sociology of religion and the wider study of organizational dynamics.
MKI P2006-20
Freethinkers/ Sauk City (Wis.)/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Social aspects/ Societies, etc./ Schroeter, Eduard, 1811-1888/ Sociology

Deshmukh, Marion. “‘Vom alten Vaterland zum Neuen’: German-Americans, Letters from the ‘Old Homeland,’ and the Great War: Mid-Atlantic German History Seminar.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 33, Fall 2003, pp. 105-106.
Notes: Seminar at the GHI, May 10, 2003.
Abstract: Summarizes a seminar presentation of a paper by Joseph Neville, program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, in which he described two weekly newspapers in Wilmington, Delaware that primarily served German-Americans and which regularly printed wartime letters or excerpts of letters from Germany written to relatives in Wilmington: the English-language Sunday Morning Star and the German-language Wilmington Lokal-Anzeiger und Freie Presse. Neville’s paper examined “a German and German-American perspective on both the personal and larger dimensions of the Great War” and sought to provide a perspective on the loyalties of German-Americans in Wilmington to their former homeland before and after the United States entered the war in 1917.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Delaware/ Newspapers, German-American/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans

Dessemontet, Olivier. “The Role of the Family in Swiss Rural and Urban Life.” In World Conference on Records: Preserving Our Heritage; August 12-15, 1980.[Salt Lake City]: Corporation of the President of the Church of Latter-day Saints, 1980. Series 523
Abstract: The recent definition of the Swiss family seems to be rather sketchy. The author provides therefore a history of the Swiss family begining at the end of the sixteenth century.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 7
Genealogy/ Social life and customs/ Family history/ Rural life & conditions/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Europe.

Dessemontet, Olivier. “The Swiss Who Left: Tracing American Origins in Switzerland.” In World Conference on Records: Preserving Our Heritage; August 12-15, 1980.[Salt Lake City]: Corporation of the President of the Church of Latter-day Saints, 1980. Series 510.
Notes: With “Selected Bibliography” by Hugh T. Law.
Abstract: On how the economic and demographic transformations and emigration changed nineteenth century Switzerland. A helpful guide for American descendants of Swiss emigrants to find their roots.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 7
Genealogy/ Switzerland/ 19th century/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)

Deuss, Edmund. “Anton Caspar Hesing. Ein Charakterbild aus der Sturm- und Drangzeit der Deutschen in Amerika.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911, pp. 241-250.
Abstract: Biographical sketch of Anton Caspar Hesing, politically active German-American in Chicago.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Political activity/ Biographies

Deutsch-amerikanisches Lehrerseminar Milwaukee. Das Jahrbuch des Nationalen Deutsch-amerikanischen Lehrerseminars in Milwaukee. 1915. 86 pp., ill.
Notes: L:GER; herausgegeben von den Studenten des Seminars; donated by Helga Epstein; “Den deutschen volkserziehern im Kriegsjahre 1914-1915 gewidmet.”
Abstract: Includes a list of students attending the seminary in 1914-1915. Also includes advertisements.
MKI P89-78
PIA/ Educational/ Miscell. documents/ National German-American Teachers’ Seminary

Deutsch-amerikanisches Lehrerseminar Milwaukee. Das Jahrbuch des Nationalen Deutsch-amerikanischen Lehrerseminars in Milwaukee. [Milwaukee, Wis.]: 1916. 83 pp., ill.
Notes: L:GER; donated by Helga Epstein; “Dem grossen Germanen William Shakspere gewidmet von den Studenten des Seminars, Dritter Jahrgang, 1916.”
Abstract: Hrsg.: Die Studenten des Deutsch-amerikanischen Lehrerseminars Milwaukee. Includes a list of students who attended the seminary from 1915-1916. Also includes advertisements
MKI P89-77
PIA/ Educational/ Miscell. documents/ National German-American Teachers’ Seminary

Deutsche Evangelische Synode von Nord-Amerika, editor. Deutsch-Amerikanischer Jugendfreund. St. Louis, Mo.: Eden Publishing House.
Address of publisher: 1716-1718 Chouteau Ave., St. Louis; donated by Prof. Philip E. Webber, Pella, Iowa Holdings: 25. Jahrgang, 1914 (No. 1, Januar; No. 6, Juni; No. 7, Juli); 26. Jahrgang, 1915 (No. 3, Maerz; No. 9, September); 27. Jahrgang, 1916 (No. 6, Juni); 28. Jahrgang, 1917 (No. 3, Maerz); 29. Jahrgang, 1918 (No. 5, Mai)
MKI Periodicals
Juvenile literature/ Religious works

Deutsche Evangelische Synode von Nord-Amerika, Herausgeber. Schriftliche Aufgaben für den deutschen Sprachunterricht. Im Anschluss an die Lesebücher der Evang. Synode von N.=A. [i.e. der Evangelischen Synode von Nord=Amerika].  1. Teil: Unterstufe. (Written exercises: for German language instruction: in conjunction with the readers [published] by the Evangelical Synod of North America). St. Louis, Mo.: Deutsche Ev. Synode von Nord-Amerika : Eden Publishing House, [1894]. 60 pp.
Combination teacher’s handbook and workbook with both text to present material and exercises to be practiced with students. A table indicates which reading selection is associated with which exercise(s).”
Donated by Georgiana Kramer, April 2015.
PIA MO

Deutsche Gesellschaft von New Orleans. Louisiana. Ein Heim fuer deutsche Ansiedler. Ein wahrheitsgetreuer und ausfuerhlicher Bericht ueber den Staat Louisiana und die dortigen deutschen Ansiedlungen. New Orleans, La.: New Orleans Deutsche Zeitung, 1895. 63 pp., map.
Abstract: Contents: Direktorium der Deutschen Gesellschaft von New Orleans fuer das Geschaeftsjahr 1895-96 — Die Deutsche Gesellschaft von New Orleans — Einleitung — Die Lage im Nordwesten — Aussichten fuer Colonisten in Louisiana — Das Clima und die Gesundheits-Verhaeltnisse im Staate Louisiana — Der Staat Louisiana — Der oestlich vom Mississippi gelegene Theil von Louisiana — East Baton Rouge, West Feliciana und Livingston — East Feliciana und die deutsche Colonie bei Clilnton — St. Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington und St. Tammany — Die deutsche Colonie Talisheek im Parish St. Tammany — Der westlich vom Mississippi gelegene Theil des Staates Louisiana — Das Alluvialland — Das Levee-System des Staates Louisiana — Die deutsche Colonie auf dem Alluviallande bei Frenier — Das hohe Land (UPLANDS) von Nord-Louisiana — Die Parishes Union, Claiborne, Webster, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Sabine, Red River, Bienville, Lincoln und Jackson — Die Parishes Winn, Caldwell, Catalhoula, Grant, Rapides, Vernon und Natchitoches — Die Parishes Lafayeete, Vermilion, Acadia, St. Landry und Calcasieu, die Prairie-Region — Die deutsche Colonie St. Leo im Parish Acadia — Das Staedtchen Crowley — Die deutsche Colonie Fabacher im Parish Acadia — Das Staedtchen Jennings — Die Stadt Lake Charles — Der Reisfieber in Louisiana — Das Tabakbau in Louisiana — Wie hoch ueber dem Meeresspiegel liegt das Land von Louisiana? — Die Vertheilung der Rassen im Staate Louisiana — Wo lebt die Mehrzahl der Weissen? — Die Reise nach Louisiana.
MKI P84-111
PIA/ German Americans — Louisiana/ History/ Geography/ Deiler, John Hanno

DeVries, Kim. “The Prussian Union.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 3, 1976, pp. 131-140.
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535
Prussia

DeWitt, Petra. “Der Staat Missouri: Friedrich Muench’s German-American Perception of and Guides to Missouri, 1859-1875.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 45, 2010, pp. 17-31.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: In a comparison of Muench’s three guidebooks that encouraged Germans to settle in Missouri, the author reveals how Muench, though an opponent of slavery and an advocate for legal equality, did not view African Americans as social equals.
MKI Periodicals
Muench, Friedrich, 1799-1881/ German Americans — Missouri Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Guides/ 19th century/ African Americans/ Slavery

DeWitt, Petra. “Der Staat Missouri: Friedrich Muench’s German-American Perception of Missouri, 1859-1875.” Der Maibaum (Deutschheim Association Journal), vol. 27, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2018, pp. 8-13.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Summary of an article and a conference presentation about a comparison of three editions of Münch’s book, Der Staat Missouri, from before (1859), immediately following (1866), and longer after (1875) the Civil War. It reveals that he continued to find Missouri one of the best places for German immigrants to settle. It also reveals that Münch, despite being an opponent of slavery and advocate for legal equality, did not perceive African Americans as socially equal.
MKI Periodicals (Miscellaneous)
German Americans — Missouri/ Muench, Friedrich, 1799-1881/ Immigrants, German

DeWitt, Petra. “Keeping the Cause Alive: Gottlieb A. Hoehn and the Socialist Party of St. Louis.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 50, 2015, pp. 75-103.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Biography of the influential labor movement leader and co-founder of the Socialist Party of America.
MKI Periodicals
Hoehn, Gottlieb A., 1865-1951/ Socialism/ German Americans — Missouri

DeWitt, Petra. “Searching for the Meaning of Loyalty: A Study of the German-American Experience During World War I in Osage County, Missouri.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 77-92.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Examines an episode that occurred on July 7, 1918, in which “several young men in Chamois, Osage County, Missouri, forced Erwin Walz, the son of a German preacher, to salute and kiss the American flag. Walz received this public punishment for having made derogatory remarks about the local home guard unit and for having [cursed the American flag.]”
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ German Americans — Missouri/ Anti-German sentiment

DeWuske, Chris. “In Search if [i.e. of] a Nazi in the Family.” Die Pommerschen Leute, vol. 40, no. 3, Fall 2017, pp. 8-10.
Notes: Family trees were required of enlisted men and officers in the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel) as well as members of the Sturmabteilung (SA). The United States’ National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, Maryland holds on microfilm perhaps the largest collection of seized records from Germany, including the SS, SA and party census records and others. This article gives a very brief overview of holdings and how to access (requires on-site searching.).
MKI Periodicals
National Socialism/ World War, 1939-1945/ Archives/ Genealogy

DeWuske, Chris. “Uncovering your Communist Ancestors.” Die Pommerschen Leute, vol. 39, no. 4, Winter 2016, pp. 8-9.
Notes: An introduction to the records of members of the KPD (Kommunistische partei Deutschlands = Communist Party of Germany) held in the Russian State Archives in Moscow. The US Library of Congress has digitized some of the documents and personal records from the Russian State Archives for social and Political History (RGASPI) as part of the INCOMKA project, fond 495, opisi 205. Most of what could be considered helpful to genealogical research, however, was not digitized and must be accessed in person or via a private researcher in Moscow. Indexes are available online, URLs provided in the article.
MKI Periodicals
Communist Party of Germany — Membership.

Di Maio, Irene S. “Borders of culture: The native American in Friedrich Gerstaecker’s North American narratives.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 28, 1993, pp. 53-75.
Abstract: Many of the issues Gerstaecker discusses, recurrent themes of the European’s or white American’s portrayal of the Native American, are controversial insofar as they have hardened into stereotypes. Although his sympathies lay with the Indians, he was convinced that American greed, the inevitability of progress, and/or the inability of the Indians to adapt to new ways of life would wipe them from the face of the earth. Today, native American critics consider the image of “the vanishing American” to be a stereotype with political implications. In his fictions Gerstaecker often points the way out of the dilemma by creating Indian figures who resist, rebell, and reaffirm their cultural identity.
MKI Periodicals
Gerstaecker, Friedrich, 1816-1872/ Literary criticism/ Native Americans/ Ethnic identity/ National characteristics, American — Public opinion, German/ America in German literature

Diebenow, Nathan. “UT Researchers Record Dying Dialect from Central Texans.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 26, no. 7, Winter 2004, pp. 400-403.
Notes: From the Clifton Record (online).
Abstract: Reports on efforts by researchers from the University of Texas Germanic Studies Department to record speakers of Texas-German dialects. Since the project’s inception in late 2001, more than eighty hours of interviews have been conducted.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Linguistics/ Texas/ Language, German (US)/ Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Diefendorf, Jeffry M. “From Germany to America: Walter Gropius and Martin Wagner on Skyscrapers and the Planning of Healthy Cities.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement, no. 2, 2005, pp. 29-50, ill.
Notes: Papers originally presented at the 2003 conference: “From Manhattan to Mainhattan: Architecture and Style as Transatlantic Dialogue, 1920-1970”; includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “In order to explore the complex conjuncture of the themes of transatlantic exchanges between Germany and America, urban planning, and the design of skyscrapers, I have chosen to look at two emigre architects and planners, Walter Gropius and Martin Wagner, both part of the generation that created the modernist movement.”
MKI Periodicals
Architecture/ Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969/ Wagner, Martin, 1885-1957/ 20th century/ German Americans

Dietrich, Anne. “Deutsche Frauen in der Tuerkei. Leben im tuerkischen Exil. Auf Spurensuche.” Frauen wandern aus: Deutsche Migrantinnen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Monika Blaschke and Christiane Harzig, eds. Bremen: Labor Migration Project, 1990, pp. 199-213.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
MKI HQ 1410 .F738 1990; SHS Pam 90-3693
Women/ Emigration and immigration/ Turkey/ Exile/ Germans

Dietz, Johann W. Herbstblätter. Gedichte. Chicago, Ill.: Selbstverlag, 1888-1904. 2 vols (88, 103) pp., ill.
On title page of 1888 volume: “Illustrirt von Max. Friederang.” II. Thiel (1904) has frontipiece portrait.
German-American author. Inscribed in 1888 volume, “Compliments of John W. Dietz, Chicago, March 14/91.”
[From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Dietz, Johann W., b. 6-27-1835 in Cologne, d. after 1912. Son of newspaper and book publisher, J. W. Dietz, for whose paper, Rheinische Zeitung, Freiligrath, Kinkel, Becker, and other radical writers wrote. Attended Gymnasium in Cologne and learned typesetting. Studied pharmacy in Munich. Fled to N. Y. in 1853, went to Burlington, Iowa in 1867, Chicago in 1869 where he established a print shop which he ran as late as 1913. Was honorary member of Verein der deutschen Patrioten von 1848-49 in Chicago. Became partner in large drug firm in Chicago, but lost all his property in Chicago fire. Was coroner and deputy sheriff there.]
Second copy, two volumes bound as one, on shelves under Chicago, Selbstverlag.
Partial contents: “Altenheim” (Asyl für alterschwache Deutsche zu Harlem, in der Nähe von Chicago) — Frühlingsgruss an die Achtundvierziger (Am 18. März 1888) — Mathilde Franciska Annecke. Elegie (Mathilde Franciska Annecke ist allen älteren Deutschen durch ihre freisinnige literarische Thätigkeit und Betheilungung am badischen Ausstande bekannt; sie starb in Milwaukee, Wis., als Leiterin eines Instituts für junge Mädchen) — Zur Erinnerung an Frau Louise Hesing (Frau Louise Hesing war die durch ihre Mildthätigkeit bekannte Gattin des Herrn A. [Anton] C. Hesing, des Präsidenten der “Illinois-Staatzeitungs-Co.”) — Ein Blümlein auf das Grab Hermann De Vry’s (Hermann De Vry, Superintendent des Lincoln Park, war ein beliebter deutscher Bürger Chicagos) — Prolog zur Einweihung der Lincoln-Turnhalle am 18ten September 1886, zu Lake View, Illinois (Gesprochen von Frl. Lina Stüdli) — Der Chicago Turngemeinde vom Turnverein “Lincoln” gewidmet, zur Erinnerung an den 21. April 1861, als das Turnerregiment in’s Feld zog — Toast bei der Feier zu Ehren der vom Bezirks-Turnfest zu La Salle, Ills., 1888, heimkehrenden aktiven Mitglieder des Turnverein “Lincoln” — Am Grabe Lincoln’s — Den Manen Grant’s — Prolog zum Wohlthätigkeits-Concert, veranstaltet vom Lake View Männerchor und dem Turnverein “Lincoln,” am 4. März 1887, zu Lake View, Ills. (Gesprochen von Frl. Lina Stüdli) — Columbia — Elihu B. Washburne — Am Schillerdenkmal (Lincoln Park, Chicago) — Einer Californierin — An die Prohibitionisten — Humoristischer Gruss zum dritten Kriegerfest des deutschen Kriegerbundes von Nordamerika, abgehalten am 3. September 1887, zu Chicago, Ills. — Rheinischer Humor. Vortrag zur ersten Abendunterhaltung des humoristischen Vereins der Rheinländer, abgehalten am 28. September 1884, zu Chicago, Ills. — Yellowstone Nationalpark (I. John Colter. II. Im Park. III. Ein Traumbild. IV. Des Indianers Klage. V. Die Wacht am Yellowstone.) — Chicago — In Graceland [Cemetery in Chicago] — In der Heimath — Lernt Deutsch! — Die Deutschen Amerika’s an die Daheimgebliebenen. Bei der Nachricht vom Tode Molike’s, im September 1891 — Bismarck. Bei der Nachricht vom Tode Bismarck’s, im August 1898 — Den Achtundvierzigern am 21. Juni 1899, dem Jahrestag der Schlacht vom Waghäusel, gewidmet — Prolog zum fünfundzwanzigjährigen Stiftungsfest des Orpheus Männerchor, abgehalten am 10. August 1894 — Prolog zur fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier der Chicago Turngemeinde, abgehalten am 3. und 4. Oktober 1902 — Prolog. Gesprochen beim Commers, zu Ehren der deutschen Veteranen des Bürgerkriegs, gelegentlich des Heerlagers, G. A. R., am 28. August 1900 — Willkommengruss zur 19. Jahresversammlung des Nationalen Deutsch-Amerikanischen Lehrerbundes, am 9. Juli 1889 — Zum Deutschen Tag der Weltausstellung, am 15. Juni 1893 — Dem Rheinischen Verein [Chicago] (20. Januar 1896) — An meine Tochter. (Bei Ueberreichung der “Herbstblätter” an ihrem Geburtstage.) — Einem Freunde in Californien — Gratulation. Herrn Wilhelm Rapp am 29. Januar 1897, zur Erinnerung an seinen Eintritt in die Redaktion der “Illinois Staatszeitung” vor 25 Jahren, von seinen Freunden gewidmet. — Im Silberkranze. Meiner Frau am 30. Oktober 1889, unserem silbernen Hochzeitstage, gewidmet. — In Memoriam. Louis Nettelhorst (Im März 1893.) — Washington Hesing — Welcome to the 48ers (English by James Taft Hatfield) — At the Tomb of Lincoln (English by E. F. L. Gates) — Chicago (Fri öfversättning frän tyskan af / Swedish by Joh. A. Enander).

Dietz-Lenssen, Matthias. “Narrhalla-Marsch in der Neuen Welt.” Aufbruch nach Amerika 1709-2009. 300 Jahre Massenauswanderung aus Rheinland-Pfalz. Marlene Jochem and Jens Stoecker, eds. Kaiserslautern: Theodor-Zink-Museum; Referat Kultur der Stadt Kaiserslautern, 2009, pp. 73-79, ill.
Abstract: History of the Mainzer Carneval-Verein in New York.
MKI E 184 P3 A94 2009
German Americans — New York (state)/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Palatines/ New York (N.Y.)/ Societies, etc.

Dillinger, Johannes. “American Spiritualism and German sectarianism: A comparative study of societal construction of ghost beliefs.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 28, Spring 2001, pp. 55-73.
Notes: German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Examines the American Spiritualist movement (originating with the German-American Fox (originally named Voss) sisters, Margaret, Kate and Leah) and the Wuerttemberg ghost sect.
MKI P2002-28 and MKI Periodicals
Social life and customs/ Germany/ United States/ America

Dillinger, Johannes. “Magic meets enlightenment? New types of discourse in America and Germany in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 28, Spring 2001, pp. 113-120.
Notes: German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Report on October 2000 workshop.
MKI P2002-28 and MKI Periodicals
Social life and customs/ Germany/ United States/ America/ 18th century/ 19th century

Dillinger, Johannes. “Town Meeting Republics: Early Modern Communities in New England and Germany.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 37, 2002, pp. 25-39.
Abstract: Outlines and compares the “political representation of rural communities in early modern New England and Germany,” introduces “a new definition of communalism,” and describes “elements of rural political thought that informed both colonial New England and pre-revolutionary Germany.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ New England/ Rural life & conditions/ Political activity/ Colonial period/ Germany

Dirksen, Theresa. “GGS Fall 2003 Program Highlights: Lois Glewwe, How to Write a Family History.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 10-11.
Abstract: Describes tips and ideas for writing a family history.
MKI Periodicals
Family History/ Genealogy/ Writing

Dirksen, Theresa. “The Importance of German Farm Names: A Case Study.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 12-14, ill.
Abstract: Farm names in Germany were often retained unchanged; “the farm and its name were so important that if a man married the heiress to a farm, he dropped his surname in favor of his wife’s surname, that is, the farm’s name.” This article brings this custom to light by examining the search for an immigrant ancestor’s village of origin, as well as the location of settlement in the U.S. the immigrant’s name was George Eganhouse [Eggenhaus/Eggenhues]. The author discovered the town of origin to be Ennigeloh, in Westphalia. One of the ancestors there had, upon marrying an heiress to a farm, taken her name: Osthockelmann. Searching passenger indexes for this surname revealed the immigrant Gerhard Osthockelmann, who had arrived in New Orleans in 1847 and had purchased land in Bellevue, Jackson County, Iowa.
MKI Periodicals
Family History/ Genealogy/ Eganhouse/ Westphalia/ Osthockelmann

Dirksen, Theresa. “The Long Journey to Gross Dohren.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 9, no. 2 , Summer 2006, pp. 16-18, ill.
Abstract: Recounts the author’s search for the name of an ancestral village. “Barney (Bernhard Lucas) Dirksen arrived in Baltimore in November 1859 on the ship “Ernestine” from Bremen. . . . [H]e was accompanied by his father, brother, and sister. . . . My attempts at researching Barney’s brother, sister and father had turned up little information about them and nothing about the emigrants’ ancestral village.” After researching the family of Dirksen’s wife, Christine Josephine Kleine, the author discovered the Kleines came from Herzlake, and later was able to learn that the Dirksens came from nearby village of Gross Dohren, all in the Emsland region of Hannover.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Family history/ Dirksen/ Klein/ Hannover (Germany)/ Emsland/ Herzlake/ Gross Dohren

Dittmar, Gunter. “German Rationalism in Modern American Architecture.” A Special Relationship: Germany and Minnesota, 1945-1985. Clarence A. Glasrud, editorMoorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1983, pp. 80-92.
MKI E183.8 G3 S64 1983
Germany/ Architecture/ United States/ Minnesota

Dockter, Shona A. “The Feather tick: Memories of a German-Russian grandmother.” Heritage Review (Germans from Russia Heritage Society), vol. 21, no. 1, 1991, pp. 13-16.
Abstract: Memories of her grandmother born in 1897. The ancestors had emigrated from Germany to Russia, then the parents had immigrated to the United States in 1889
MKI Shelf–Periodicals
Russian Germans/ Memoirs

Doerflinger, Chas. H. “Familiar history of the twenty sixth regiment, Wisconsin volunteers infantry. I. Personal reminiscences of the battle of Chancellorsville; particularly on Hawkins’ field.” 10 pp.
Notes: By Chas. H. Doerflinger. First Lt. Co. B and K. — Act. Capt. in command of Co. K on Hawkins’ Field. Original source located in Wisconsin History Commission Correspondence of Charles E. Estrabrook, 1863-1864, 1884-1918 (Wis Mss EI Box 1).
From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Doerflinger, Karl (Charles H. Doerflinger). Writer, ed., publ. Contrib. in great measure to the stimulation of lit., art and educ. in Milwaukee. Bought the Sonntagsblatt (Milw.) from the radical priest, Michael Brion, and radical freethinker, Joseph Brucker. Organized the Doerflinger Book & Publ. Co. Ed. Amerikanischer Schulzeitung from July 1874 to Sept. 1879. Works: Onkel Karl (Milw., 1881), Herzblaettchen Spielwinkel (Milw., 1881), Me-le-o-ki. Novelle aus dem Urwald (Milw. 1894), Amerika. Aus dem Amerikanischen (trans. of Smith’s patriotic anthem) (Milw., 1897).
Abstract: Description of the battle.
MKI P95-15
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ History/ Wisconsin/ Genealogy/ Personal narratives/ Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906

Doerflinger, Jon A. Kenosha County, Wisconsin, Study: An Overview of the Social Effects of Population Change. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin, 1961. 28 pp.
Notes: “Report Number One” — cover.
Abstract: This study is from a series of reports on a field study in Kenosha County, Wisconsin conducted by the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. Covers different aspects of population change and growth, and how they affect various institutions in society, such as health and religion. Includes maps.
MKI P2000-4
Population/ Wisconsin/ Sociology

Doernenburg, Emil. “Allerlei deutsch-voelkische Gedanken.” Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger, vol. 1, 1913, pp. 104-108.
Abstract: A celebratory essay on the state of the German people, in America and in general. “Der Germane wurde der Herr der Welt und ist es bis heute geblieben.”
MKI Periodicals
Ethnic identity/ German Americans/ Attitudes

Doerrer, Elisabeth. “Siedlerfamilien in Wisconsin des 19. Jahrhunderts in der Darstellung regionaler Autoren. Diplomarbeit.” Univ. of Mainz, 1983.
Abstract: Elisabeth Doerrer’s Diplomarbeit (written in German) provides an inside into the history of Wisconsin and the development of early European families in the U.S.. She gives a description of every day life, work, exchange with native Americans. Life and work of the early emigrants is shown as being reflected in some samples of early German-American literature.
MKI P87-34
Wisconsin/ History/ Immigrants/ Social life and customs/ Literature, German-American/ Social aspects

Doerries, Reinhard R. “Immigrants and the Church: German Americans in Comparative Perspective.” in German-American Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 3-17.
Notes: Paper originally presented at a conference at Texas A&M University, Apr. 1997.
Abstract: “The linkage of immigration and religion would appear to be an almost natural consequence of the meaning of faith and worship for most men and women. . . . Surely, German immigrants . . . came to America to escape their past, but they carried with them a specific German culture and with it specific religious persuasions.”
E 184 .G3 G295 2004
German Americans/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Ethnic identity/ Religion

Doerry, Karl W. “Nature in the New World: Sealsfield’s civilized wilderness.” In The life and works of Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl) 1793-1864. Charlotte L. Brancaforte, editor Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, General editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wisconsin: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, UW-Madison, 1993, pp. 208-220.
MKI PT 2516 S4 L3 1993
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Doerry, Karl W. “Three Versions of America: Sealsfield, Gerstaecker, and May.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 16, 1981, pp. 39-50.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Gerstaecker, Friedrich, 1816-1872/ United States in literature/ Travel in literature/ National characteristics, American — Public opinion, German

Doig, Jameson W. “Politics and the Engineering Mind: O. H. Ammann and the Hidden Story of the George Washington Bridge.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 25, 1990, pp. 151-200.
Abstract: Doig’s essay provides a brief summary of Ammann’s life and work, identifies and explains gaps in the literature on his life, discusses his approach to building a Hudson River bridge and the hostility he faced in carrying out this project. It includes facsimiles of letters by Ammann. Ammann, Othmar, 1879-1967
MKI Periodicals
Architecture/ Swiss Americans/ Biographies

Dolce, Anne Johnston. “Johann ‘Jean’ Schneider: A Fisher-Miller Colonist, 1813-1862.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 29, no. 2, Summer 2007, pp. 149-160, ill.
Abstract: “Johann ‘Jean’ Schneider was born on 26 Nov 1813 in Welgesheim, Hessen Darmstadt, southwest of Mainz, Germany. . . . At the age of 33 Jean, a brewer by trade, emigrated from Germany to New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas through the port of Galveston, Texas. . . . Between June 1849 and May 1850, Jean married Margaretha Groben. . . . According to recollections from his children and grandchildren, Jean was a member of the Confederate army. . . . Jean was killed in a wagon accident on 18 Jan 1862.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ New Braunfels (Tex.)

Dolmetsch, Christopher L. “Early German Printing in America’s Southeast: Possible Sites and Probable Causes.” In The German-American Press. Henry Geitz, editor Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 1992, pp. 1-9.
Abstract: This volume attempts to present a relatively broad spectrum of the broadly-defined German-American press’ activity.
MKI PN 4885 .G3 G467 1992
German-American press

Dolmetsch, Christopher L. “German as a Mother Tongue in Southern Appalachia: Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, editor. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, editors Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, vol. 10.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1985, pp. 26-33.
Abstract: This article deals with the history and present state of the German language in Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)

Dolmetsch, Christopher L. “The German Literature of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, 1789-1854: A Historical, Linguistic and Literary Study. Dissertation.” Univ. of Wisconsin, 1979. vii, 293 leaves ; 30 cm.
Notes: DAI 40/9: 5067A (March 1980). Book, in MadCat. Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in German under the supervision of Professors Klaus Berghahn and Juergen Eichhoff, committee included Lester Seifert.
Abstract: Dolmetsch’s work contains the first history of German printing and publishing activities in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. The dissertation is divided into three parts: an overview of German literature in the Shenandoah Valley, German journalism in the S. Valley and a study on style, spelling and English influence on German writings. Includes Vita and Bibliography.
MKI dissertations/ MEM AWB D664 C465
Journalism/ Virginia/ Linguistics/ Literature, German-American/ Language, German (US)/ German-American press/ Language, English/ United States/ Language influence

Dolmetsch, Christopher L. “Review: “Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America…Edited by Samuel Urlsperger” edited and annotated by George Fenwixk Jones; translated by David Noble and George Fenwick Jones. 1993.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994, pp. 157-159.
Abstract: Dolmetsch’s article gives a positive review of “Detailed Reports.”
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Dolmetsch, Christopher L. “Review of ‘A Hessian Diary of the American Revolution’ by Johann Conrad Doehla. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Bruce E. Burgoyne.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 295-296.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Dolmetsch, Christopher L. “Review of Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America …. Edited by Samuel Urlsperger. Edited by George Fenwick Jones. Volume XI (1747), translated by Eva Pulgram; Volume XII (1748), translated by Irmgard Neumann. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1989. Volume XIII (1749), translated by David Roth and George Fenwick Jones; Volume XIV (1750), translated by Eva Pulgram, Magdalene Hoffman-Loerzer and George Fenwick Jones. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1989. Volume XV (1751-1752), translated by George Fenwick Jones. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1990.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies. 1990, pp. 232-33.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Dolmetsch, Christopher L. “Studies in Shenandoah Valley German: A Critical Survey.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, 1977, pp. 25-33.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Virginia/ Genealogy/ History/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US)/ Language influence/ Dialects

Dolmetsch, Christopher L. “The Three Lives of Solomon Henkel: Doctor, Printer and Postmaster.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1979, pp. 129-139.
Abstract: Dolmetsch’ 11 page article summarizes the life of Solomon Henkel, a Virginian born in 1777, and focusses primarily on Henkel’s ability to combine the three professions mentioned above. Henkel published the New Market Press, which was a center for official Lutheran printing well into the 20th century. Dolmetsch explains that the Press published articles in both English and German to assist German-speaking people in Virginia to make the linguistic and cultural transition to living in the U.S. The article also gives a brief account of the breadth of German-American printing occurring in the East at the time.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Virginia/ Genealogy/ Archives/ Newspapers, German-American/ Lutheran Church/ German-American press/ Relations, Germany-US/ Biographies

Dols, Betty. “Our Ancestors in 1858: Peter and Margaretha Schmitt of Trier.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, Summer 2008, pp. 19.
Abstract: Summary of a family history submitted to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the state of Minnesota. Peter Schmitt was born in 1818 near Trier and in 1843 he married Margaretha Wagner. The family immigrated to America and lived in Sand Creek Township, Scott County, Minnesota.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ German Americans — Minnesota/ 19th century

Donahue, John J., composer. Don’t Blame the Germans. Lawrence, Mass.: J. J. Donahue, 1915.
Notes: Photocopy of musical score. Donated by Al Lareau. “Little is known about songwriter John J. Donahue. He wrote at least one other ‘national war song’ of WWI, ‘Just For the Sake of Gold,’ which was also published by his own firm, Donahue Music, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1915. It was apparently a song condemning the profiteers of the munitions industry and warning against American military involvement. In 1918, he changed his tune with the patriotic song ‘The Call of the U. S. A.’ calling on all Americans to join in the war effort regardless of their ethnic backgrounds.” — Al Lareau.
MKI P2018-13
World War, 1914-1918/ Music

Donaldson, Randall P. “Genealogy versus History: Generating Synergy.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 45, 2010, pp. 177-192.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: “The present discussion seeks a middle ground between a narrow family chronicle and a broader study of German-speaking immigrants to North America. The focus here is on three different individuals, unrelated to one another, who are connected only by the fact that they left a German-speaking area of Europe and emigrated to a relatively similar geographical area (Maryland). They enter the United States or the American colonies, as the case may be, in three different centuries and follow very different paths as they settle in. . . . The goal is to allow the lives of three individuals to illuminate the narrow historical and geographical circumstances of the period in which they lived and to let those circumstances in turn deepen our understanding” of their lives. The immigrants are: Moritz Woerschler (1719-ca. 1795), Vincent Potthast (1866-1911), and Kurt Moeller (1896-1980).
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ German Americans/ United States — History/ Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ German Americans — Maryland

Donaldson, Randall P. “German-American social organizations in Baltimore: part I.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 42nd Report, 1993, pp. 23-29.
Abstract: Brief accounts of the following organizations in Baltimore (with founding dates): Die Zionskirche (1755); Old Otterbein Church (1771); The German Society of Maryland (1783); Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church (1849); Arion Maennerchor (1850); Die Vereinigten Saenger von Baltimore (1885); The Arion Ladies Society (1891); Der deutschamerikanische Buergerverein von Maryland, Inc. (1900); Deutscher Damenchor von Baltimore (1933); Baltimore Kickers, Inc. (1953); Club Fidelitas, Inc. (1955); The Edelweiss Club, Inc. (1966); Maryland Oktoberfest (1968); The German Heritage Society of Greater Washington, D.C. (1983).
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Maryland/ Societies, etc.

Donaldson, Randall P. “Robert Reitzel (1849-1898) and his German American Periodical ‘Der arme Teufel.'” Dissertation. The John Hopkins University, 1976. 352 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: Robert Reitzel published a weekly journal known as “Der arme Teufel” in Detroit from 6 December 1884 until his death on 31 March 1898. During thirteen years and four months as editor, Reitzel used “Der arme Teufel” as a forum for his frequently unorthodox, occasionally radical views. His outspokenness soon earned him both a reputation as a liberal and some degree of notoriety in the German-American community. Despite his controversial nature, however, Reitzel attracted a devoted circle of readers who enjoyed “Der arme Teufel” not so much for the radical theories it propounded as for its considerable attention to literary matters. Indeed, Reitzel commented extensively on numerous German and world authors and reprinted recent stories and poems in almost every issue. In addition, he frequently contributed his own original prose sketches. Moreover, all he wrote was marked by a highly personal and vivacious style which charmed many readers and brought Reitzel the reputation of the best prose stylist in nineteenth-century German-America. There have been three previous scholarly investigations of Reitzel. Two attempt a description of the man and his journal, devoting approximately equal attention to his radical social tendencies, his reviews of literature, and his original composition. The third summarizes Reitzel’s opinion of every author he mentioned in the course of 696 issues of “Der arme Teufel.” Each of the three studies places particular emphasis on the charm of Reitzel’s personality and the highly individualistic nature of his opinions. All give some attention to his discussions of literature, but none advances beyond a very basic assessment of Reitzel’s writings. The present study aims to broaden the scholarly view of Robert Reitzel by examining his comments on literature as well as his original prose and evaluating them specifically in the context of German-American literature.
In order to understand Reitzel in terms of his German-American environment, the character of German-American society as it existed in the last quarter of the nineteenth century must first be determined. Knowledge of the history of the German element in America is, however, incomplete. The first chapter of this study examines the literature on the history of the Germans in America in an attempt to ascertain what is presently known and to correlate the factual data of older works with the insights of more recent investigations into the history of immigration. The second chapter undertakes to describe German-American society as it existed in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and to place Robert Reitzel and “Der arme Teufel” in the environment thus defined. The remaining two chapters scrutinize Reitzel’s literary activities more specifically. The third chapter examines the literary reviews which appeared in the “Arme Teufel” in order to determine the character of Reitzel’s remarks as well as the depth of his perception, and the fourth chapter is devoted to the broader questions of Reitzel’s artistic purpose and the stylistic means he employs to achieve his aims.
The results of the entire study indicate that Robert Reitzel was probably unique in his generation, for in the columns of “Der arme Teufel” he developed a highly individualistic style which enabled him to introduce a basically conservative German-American audience to some of the finest examples of literary art, including works so new or controversial that they were available practically nowhere else. Moreover, he drew upon his experience as a German living in America in all that he wrote. Thus Reitzel’s contributions to his journal did not exhibit the generally provincial, largely imitative character which frequently was the hall mark of German-American literature, and through his efforts “Der arme Teufel” became a truly original cultural product of the society created by the German immigrants to the United States.
MKI PT3919 R35 Z526 1976a; shelved with MKI dissertations
Reitzel, Robert, 1849-1898/ Literary criticism/ Periodicals, German-American

Donaldson, Randall P. “Robert Reitzel and His German-American Journal ‘Der arme Teufel.'” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, ed. 1980. pp. 1-11.
Abstract: Kurze Lebensbeschreibung des Autoren sowie Beschreibung des Blattes.
MKI P85-83
Reitzel, Robert, 1849-1898/ Literary criticism

Donaldson, Randall P. “The role of German-American social groups in the assimilation of German immigrants.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 41st Report, 1990, pp. 33-41.
Abstract: This article addresses how social groups, such as Turners and Freethinkers, mutual aid societies and glee clubs, helped German immigrants to assimilate to life in the United States, providing a sense of identity and source of companionship.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Assimilation/ Societies, etc./ Turners/ Freethinkers

Donmoyer, Patrick. “Blumme-Schterne: Flower Stars.” Hollerbeier Haven: Newsletter for the Herbal and Healing Arts, vol. 2, no. 2, Fall 2008, pp. 17, ill.
Abstract: Examines the significance of Pennsylvania German Hex signs.
MKI P2008-1
Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Folk art/ Folklore

Donmoyer, Patrick. “Die Bauerei: altaardiche Blantze, alte deitsche Lieblinge; Schwetz yo mol net so grackich dumm: Pennsylvanisch Deitsch ‘Tongue Twisters.'” Hiwwe wie Driwwe, vol. 19, no. 1, 2015.
Notes: In “Pennsylvaanisch-Deitsch.”
Abstract: Two articles from the Summer 2015 issue describe German “heirloom” farm products collected by Dr. William Woys Weaver in Pennsylvania, and tongue twisters in Pennsylvania Dutch.
MKI Periodicals
Agriculture (see also Farming)/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Germans/ Periodicals

Donnelly, Dale J. “The Low German Dialect of Sauk County, Wisconsin: Phonology and Morphology. Dissertation.” Univ. of Wisconsin, 1969. 158 pp.
Notes: DA 31: 754-A. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: Sauk County, Wisconsin was primarily settled by Germans, Americans, English and Irish in the middle of the 19th century. The settlers in the southern townships of the county mostly spoke High German dialects, while the central and northcentral areas were Low German speakers. Both dialect groups were bound together by a common church, the Roman Catholic in the case of the High German speakers, and the Evangelical Lutheran for the Low German speakers. The Low German speakers refer to their language as “Hannoveranisch,” as their parents or grandparents were born in the German province of Hannover. This study examines the phonology and morphology of this Sauk County Low German, including analysis of the vowels, diphthongs and consonants in the phonological study and the nouns, adjectives, articles, pronouns, numerals, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and verbs in the morphological study.
MKI dissertations / MEM AWB D6852 D139
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Dialects/ Low German dialect/ German Americans — Wisconsin.

Donnelly, Jared. “Questioned Loyalties: Big Cypress German-Americans during World War I.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 45, 2010, pp. 129-146, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Study examines “what kinds of issues German-Americans in the predominantly German communities of Klein, Spring, and Cypress about 25 miles northwest of Houston in Harris County, Texas, faced during World War I.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Anti-German sentiment

Donner, William W. “The First College Course in Pennsylvania German.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 15-26, ill.
Notes: The Language and Culture of the Pennsylvania Germans: A Festschrift for Earl C. Haag. Edited by William D. Keel and C. Richard Beam.
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “In 1876, twenty-three students from Keystone State Normal School (now Kutztown University) took an examination in Pennsylvania German. Their answers, written in long hand, can be found in a musty old copybook in the archives at Rohrbach Library at Kutztown University. This copybook must surely be the earliest example of Pennsylvania German being taught as a subject in a college and probably in any school at any level.” The teacher who administered the exam is likely Abraham Reeser Horne, “a Pennsylvania German who advocated bilingual instruction and strongly supported the interests and heritage of the Pennsylvania Germans.” The examination questions reflect Horne’s interests, as four of the five statements are Pennsylvania German proverbs.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Education/ Bilingualism/ 19th century/ Horne, Abraham Reeser, 1834-1902

Dorner, Peter. “Our State Roots: A Cultural Mix.” Capital Times, 1 November 1989.
Dorner writes about growing up on a farm near Luxemburg, Wisconsin, and the cultural diversity he experienced living among immigrants from Germany, Denmark, Poland, and French-speaking Belgium.
MKI P2004-14
Ethnic groups — General/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Language influence/ Languages in contact/ Wisconsin/ Wisconsin — Kewaunee County/ Personal narratives

Dorpalen, Andreas. “The German Element and the Issues of the Civil War.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review, vol. 29, no. 1, June 1942, pp. 55-76.
Notes: Offprint.
Abstract: “. . . [F]aced with an issue [slavery] that divided the American nation into two bitterly hostile factions, the Germans in America are said to have overcome all other considerations and suddenly to have found themselves solidly united. Where they really?” Examines the attitudes of German Americans in various states to abolition, secession, the Republican Party, and the Presidential election of 1860.
MKI P84-37
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Slavery

Dow, James R. “Amana Folk Art: Tradition and Creativity among the True Inspirationists of Iowa.” In Papers from the St. Olaf Symposium on German-Americana. La Vern J. Rippley, and Steven M. Benjamin, eds. 1980, pp. 19-30.
Abstract: The starting point for this essay is that “folk art” is representative of a large corpus of creative expression. It is artistic, creative, expression which is identifiable within a social group and includes interactions with other groups and individuals, in this case the Amana Society of Iowa.
MKI P85-85
Folk art/ Amana/ Iowa

Dow, James R. “Deutsch als Muttersprache in Iowa.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 91-117.
Abstract: This article deals with the history and the present state of the German language in Iowa. This is illustrated with several statistics and a map. There are special sections about the German language within the Amana-Society and of the Amish and Mennonite groups.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US) / Iowa

Dow, James R. “Zur deutschamerikanischen Presse in Iowa.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 119-124.
Abstract: This article deals with the history, form, content, and language of the German-American press in Iowa.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)/ German-American press/ Iowa

Dozler, Lydia. “The German Lutheran church in Texas 1851-2000.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 23, no. 1, Spring 2001, pp. 14-16.
Notes: “This is an abridged version of an article that appeared in the Texas German Society’s Reporter, Vol. IX, No. 3, Fall 2000.”
Abstract: Includes much early history of German and Swiss settlers in Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Lutheran Church

Draehn, Marjorie Meyer. “Friedrich Ernst and tobacco production in Industry, Texas – 1831.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 22, no. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 38.
Notes: “This article was published in the Brenham, Texas, “Banner Press,” November 8, 1999.”
Abstract: Brief article on a German-American credited with having established the first permanent German settlement in Texas in the 1830s, focusing on his tobacco business. Written by his great-great-great-granddaughter.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Agriculture

Drake, Derek, and Alexander Kramer. “Northwestern Dane County German: A ‘Speech Mixture Problem?’.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 49, 2014, pp. 167-193, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Addresses the Bavarian heritage of many residents of Roxbury, Wisconsin and ways in which this affected the dialectal development of heritage German and koine formation in the area.
MKI Periodicals
Wisconsin — Dane County/ German language — Dialects

Drechsler, Wolfgang J. M. “The Church of the Brethren.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 7, no. 2, 1986, pp. 12-13, 15-16.
Abstract: Short background history
MKI Periodicals
Brethren Church/ History

Drechsler, Wolfgang J. M. “Review of “Witness to History: A Refugee from the Third Reich Remembers,” by Joachim von Elbe. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 1988.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies. 1989, pp. 162-163.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Drescher, Martin. “Emerenz Meier, eine Dichterin des Waldes.” Die Glocke, vol. 2, no. 12, 15 Feb. 1908, pp. 552-553.
Abstract: Brief biographical sketch of the German-American author.
MKI P2009-18
Meier, Emerenz, 1874-1928/ German Americans — Illinois/ Writing/ Women/ Biographies

Drescher, Martin. “An Unpublished Poem by Martin Drescher in His Own Handwriting.” German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1971, pp. 1.
Notes: Contributed by Robert E. Ward.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Poetry/ Literature, German-American

Drevlow, Arthur H. “C. F. W. Walther: Shaped by Adversity.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 1, Spring 1996, pp. 49-57.
MKI Periodicals
Walther, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm/ Biographies/ Religious life/ Lutherans/ Lutheran Church

Dreyer, David, and Josette Steiner Hatter. “The Banat Settlement in Southwestern North Dakota.” German-American Genealogy, Spring 2003, pp. 4-7, ill.
Notes: (Burbank, CA).
Abstract: “During the period 1892 to 1912 about 600 German families from the Hungarian province of the Banat homesteaded in the Stark and Hettinger counties of southwestern North Dakota.” Examines the migration from Central Europe to the Banat, the first Banater known to migrate to southwestern North Dakota, and the several waves of immigration that followed. Includes maps.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Dakotas/ Banat/ History/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ North Dakota/ German Americans — North Dakota

Driesler, Johann Ulrich. “A Mission Report from Frederica, Georgia, to Gotthilf August Francke (July 30, 1744)–Life in Frederica, St. Simons Island.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 72, no. 2, Summer 1999, pp. 92-110, ill.
Notes: Translated and edited by George F. Jones. Part one of this article appears in the Spring 1999 issue of CHIQ.
MKI Periodicals
Lutherans/ Lutheran Church/ German Americans — Georgia/ Letters/ America/ History

Driesler, Johann Ulrich. “A Mission Report from Frederica, Georgia, to Gotthilf August Francke (July 30, 1744). Part 1.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 72, no. 1, Spring 1999, pp. 27-45.
Notes: Translated and edited by George F. Jones.
Abstract: Includes information on conditions at sea during the journey to Georgia. Part two appears in the Summer 1999 issue of CHIQ.
MKI Periodicals
Lutherans/ Lutheran Church/ German Americans — Georgia/ Letters

Druckenbrod, Richard. “The Pennsylvania German Language and Continuity and Incontinuity.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 10, no. 4, Fall 2003, pp. 11-12.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Assesses “some of the identifiable factors in my parents’ and grandparents’ experiences, both maternal and paternal, both positive and non-positive as to the language continuity and discontinuity matter.”
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Language maintenance/ Ethnic identity

Drummond, Robert R. “Alexander Reinagle and his Connection with the Musical Life of Philadelphia.” German American Annals, vol. 5, n.s., 1907, pp. 294-306.
MKI Periodicals

Dubs, Al. “Al Dubs and His Pennsylvania Dutch Radio Program.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, Summer 1999, pp. 10-11.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Radio broadcasting

Duden, Gottfried. “Die nordamerikanische Demokratie und das v[on] Tocqueville’sche Werk und Duden’s Selbst-Anklage wegen seines amerikanischen Reiseberichtes von 1837.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 44, 2009, pp. 125-229.
Notes: Transcribed by Steven Rowan, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Includes bibliographical note.
MKI Periodicals
Duden, Gottfried, 1789-1856/ German Americans — Missouri/ National characteristics, American — Public opinion, German/ Slavery/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)

Duden, Gottfried. “North American Democracy and the Work of de Tocqueville, and Duden’s Confession on Account of His American Travel Report of 1837.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 44, 2009, pp. 23-123.
Notes: Translated by Steven Rowan, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Includes bibliographical notes.
MKI Periodicals
Duden, Gottfried, 1789-1856/ German Americans — Missouri/ National characteristics, American — Public opinion, German/ Slavery/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)

Duempelmann, Sonja. “Pueckler and America.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 39, Fall 2006, pp. 199-203.
Notes: Conference Reports.
Abstract: “The writer and landscape designer Prince Hermann von Pueckler-Muskau (1785-1871). . . . never actually traveled to the United States. However, Pueckler had in 1834 intended to cross the Atlantic and had, in fact, already planned his route on the North American continent. . . . The intentions of the conference “Pueckler and America,” organized by the GHI and the Stiftung Fuerst Pueckler Park Bad Muskau, were to trace Pueckler’s reception by writers and landscape architects in the United States and to enhance transnational and transatlantic scholarship in landscape history.”
MKI Periodicals
Germans/ Conferences

Duerst, Niklaus. “First Letter from New Glarus.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 41, no. 2, June 2005, pp. 68-75, ill.
Notes: “The original letter is archived in the Pulverturm at Schwanden, Canton Glarus. . . .based on the transcription made by Suzanne Peter-Kubli and published in ‘Die Welt ist hier weit,’ a special printing of the ‘Yearbook’ of the Historischen Vereins des Kantons Glarus, volume 75, pp. 15-23 (Glarus: Tschudi, 1995).” Translation by Peter Etter and Leo Schelbert.
Abstract: “The following letter comprises the first official report on the emergence of New Glarus. It was written by Judge Niklaus Duerst, and signed by both Duerst and Fridolin Streiff, several days after the group of colonists arrived in Wisconsin. . . . The letter offers intriguing insights into the founding of New Glarus. . . . Particularly, Duerst explains how much more land could have been purchased has prairie land been an acceptable option. He deplores the difficulties the original immigrants had to endure because of unfortunate circumstances and the lack of proper planning. He speculates that the immigrants might have been better served had they waited out the winter in St. Louis, due to cheaper provisions and the opportunity to earn cash, and had put off the arrival at the settlement site until spring, 1846.”
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ 19th century/ Immigrants, Swiss/ Swiss Americans — Wisconsin/ New Glarus (Wis.)/ Duerst, Niklaus/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Letters/ Settlements

Duerst, Niklaus. “Memorandum and Account Book.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 41, no. 2, June 2005, pp. 43-60.
Notes: Transcribed and translated by Leo Schelbert; revisions by Urspeter Schelbert.
Abstract: Transcription and translation of a notebook kept by one of the two men who selected the site for the Swiss colony of New Glarus in Wisconsin. The original document is archived at the Wisconsin State Historical Society in Madison, Wisconsin. Niklaus Duerst was a 48-year-old appeals judge from Canton Glarus, Switzerland, who, along with 29-year-old blacksmith Fridolin Streiff, was selected by the Emigration Society of the Canton of Glarus to travel to the United States in 1845 and purchase land for a proposed settlement.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ 19th century/ Immigrants, Swiss/ Swiss Americans — Wisconsin/ New Glarus (Wis.)/ Duerst, Niklaus/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Duffy, Sue. “The Swiss in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: Novelist Tracks Early Settlers.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. Vol. 38, no. 3, Nov. 2002, pp. 37-39, ill.
Notes: Photography by Perry Baker.
Abstract: Profile of Carol Williams, author of three novels about Swiss and German immigrants in the eighteenth-century backcountry of South Carolina
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ South Carolina/ Williams, Carol

Dunbar, Ronald W. “The Presence of German in the Jargon of the American Skier: A Sociological Look at the Past, Present, and Future.” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, ed. 1980, pp. 182-197.
Abstract: On the history of American ski instruction which was initiated by Germans around 1929.
MKI P85-83
German Americans/ Sociology/ Language, German (US)/ Language influence

Dunkelman, Mark H. “Hardtack and Sauerkraut Stew: Ethnic Tensions in the 154th New York Volunteers, Eleventh Corps, during the Civil War.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 36, 2001, pp. 69-90, ill.
Abstract: “History has not been kind to the Eleventh Corps of the Army of the Potomac, the Union’s chief fighting force in the eastern theater of the Civil War. today the Eleventh is commonly remembered as a heavily ethnic unit–composed primarily of German-Americans–that compiled a poor battle record when it was routed at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg….Modern historians…have been kinder than their predecessors.”
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ German Americans — New York (state)

Durnbaugh, Donald F. “Advice to prospective immigrants: Two communications to Germany from Pennsylvania in the 1730s.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 35, 2000, pp. 57-71.
Abstract: Two letters — one written in 1736 by Andreas Bohni, religious dissenter in Pennsylvania, to a cousin in Europe; the other an “open letter” published in Frankfurt am Main in 1739 and signed by leading German-Americans from the Philadelphia area –“provide useful insights into the motivations, procedures, practical problems, and, especially, hazards of emigration from German-speaking areas to North America in the mid-eighteenth century.”
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Letters / 18th century/ Pennsylvania/ Atlantic crossing/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Social conditions/ Economic aspects/ Economy (Pa.)

Durnbaugh, Donald F. “Holy Cow! The Unlikely Development of a Highly-Recognized Voluntary Agency–Heifer International.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 93-103.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “The originator of the project was Dan West (1893-1971), a farm-based peace activist and staff worker for the Church of the Brethren, known as one of the three Historic Peace Churches along with the Mennonites and the Friends (Quakers). The Brethren originate in Central Germany in 1708, migrating within a few decades to North America, where they became known as one of the groups of “plain people,” similar in many ways to the better-known Amish and Mennonites. They maintained their largely German ethnic identity until well into the twentieth century.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Brethren Church/ Societies, etc.

Durnbaugh, Donald F. “Johann Adam Gruber: Pennsylvania-German Prophet and Poet.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 83, 1959, pp. 382-408.
Abstract: Johann Adam Gruber is one of the least-known figures of colonial Pennsylvania, yet he played a significant role among the German element in the religious history of the first half of the 18th century. He was a prolific writer and poet. Before coming to Pennsylvania in 1726 he was a prominent leader in the unusual religious movement known as the Community of True Inspiration. This group later migrated to the New World where it established the well-known Amana Community in Iowa. Gruber, Johann Adam, 1693-1763
MKI P93-61
Biographies/ Poetry/ Literature, Pennsylvania-German

Durnbaugh, Donald F. “Radical Pietist Involvement in Early German Emigration to Pennsylvania.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994, pp. 29-48.
Abstract: Durnbaugh’s article discusses the ideological significance of the Radical Pietist influence upon emigration from the German states to Pennsylvania. However, it is careful to credit economic factors as well.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Religion/ Pietism/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Beissel, Conrad, 1690-1768

Durnbaugh, Donald F. “Research Note: The Autobiography of Johannn Georg Jungmann, a Moravian Missionary to the Indians.” Der Reggeboge, vol. 37, no. 2, Dec. 2003, pp. 3-13.
Notes: Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society
Includes bibliographical notes. Donated by Dennis Boyer.
Abstract: Johann Georg Jungmann (1720-1808) was born in “Hockenheim in the Palatinate and came as a child to Pennsylvania in 1731-32 with his family, surviving an especially harrowing ocean crossing.” Jungmann was converted in a Moravian meeting as a young man, and in 1746 he began working with Native Americans. “In 1811 portions of Jungmann’s spiritual autobiography (Lebenslauf) were published in a Pietist-oriented publication in Nuernberg, Germany. This was reprinted in Der deutsche Pionier, the path-breaking journal on Germans in America founded and edited by Heinrich Armin Rattermann (1832-1923) of Cincinnati; it appeared in the first volume (1869-1870) of the journal. This in turn was republished in Benjamin F. Trexler’s Skizzen aus dem Lecha Thal (1880-1886) The first publication in English was “The Narrative of the Life of John George Jungmann,” in Periodical Accounts Relating to the Missions of the Church of the United Brethren, volume 6 (1814). The present translation into English is based on the original German publication of 1811.”
MKI Periodicals
Moravians/ Native Americans/ 18th century/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Jungmann, Johann Georg, 1720-1808

Durnbaugh, Donald F. “[Review of] Karl J.R. Arndt and Reimer C. Eck, eds. “The first century of German language printing in the United States of America. Volume 1 (1728-1807); Volume 2 (1808-1830), comps. Gerd J. Boette and Werner Tannhof, with Annelies Mueller. Goettingen: Niederaeschsische Staatsund Universitaets-bibliothek Goettingen, 1989, pp. xxx,1-594; [iv], 595-1245. $100.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland , vol. 42nd Report, 1993, pp. 90-91.
Notes: Reviewed volumes owned by MKI.
Abstract: Review of updating of the classic bibliography of German-American imprints by Prof. Oswald Seidensticker, published in 1893 as “The First Century of German Printing in America.”
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews/ Bibliographies/ German-American press

Durnbaugh, Donald F. “The Salas: A German-American Printing Family.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 43-58.
Abstract: “The German-born Jakob Sala and his two sons, Salomon and Johann (both born in North America), were active printer-publishers in western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio in the early nineteenth century. . . . Though thus far little studied, their publishing activities were related to a wide diversity of themes–medical advice and practice, hymnody, devotional literature, newspapers, Fraktur certificates, innovative religious denominations, and ambitious but basically abortive communitarian ventures.”
MKI Periodicals
Publishing/ Book trade/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ German Americans — Ohio/ Business & Industry/ Newspapers, German-American/ Sala, Jacob Otto, 1770-1858/ Sala, Solomon, 1800-1866/ Sala, Johann, 1802-1850

Durnbaugh, Donald F. “Samuel Saur (1767-1820): German-American printer and typefounder.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 42nd Report, 1993, pp. 64-80.
Abstract: Samuel Saur was a third-generation member of the famed Sauer dynasty of German-American printers who made his own significant contribution to American publishing history. He worked in Chestnut Hill and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and in Baltimore, Maryland. He achieved fame as the first American founder of the exquisitely-small diamond type. This article surveys his life and work, drawing on previous research and family correspondence and records. Includes a listing of Samuel Saur imprints.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ German-American press/ Business & Industry

Durnbaugh, Donald F. “‘The Sauer Family: An American Printing Dynasty.'” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 23, 1988, pp. 31-40.
Abstract: Christopher Sauer, a printer of eighteenth-century Germantown, left a line of descendants that followed in his printing footsteps well into this century. This article briefly traces the course of the lives and works of the Sauer family of printers.
MKI Periodicals
German-American press/ Newspapers, German-American/ German Americans — Pennsylvania

Dux, Ryan. “Texas & Wisconsin German.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 81, July 2014, pp. 15, ill.
Notes: Pommerscher Verein Centeral Wisconsin.
Abstract: Ryan Dux, a native of Central Wisconsin, is a doctoral condidate researching Wisconsin Platt in comparison to Texas immigrant German dialect.
MKI Periodicals
Low German dialect/ German Americans — Texas/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Duxbury, Janell R. “Hermann Haessler Sr. (1838-1929): Milwaukee’s Own Duke of Mecklenburg — Part 1, Part 2.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 19, no. 2-3, Summer 2016, Fall 2016, pp. 5-10; 5-12; ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Hermann Haessler immigrated to the United States as a adult and began his career as a florist in Milwaukee in 1868. He was prominent in his profession and the community. His first wife, Johanna Louise Schomann was the mother of six children who survived to adulthood. His second wife was Anna Papenhagen and immigrated to the U.S. to marry Hermann.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Milwaukee (Wis.)

Duyckinck, Evert A. Geschichte des Krieges fuer die Union, politisch und militaerisch nach offiziellen und andern authentischen Dokumenten beschrieben. Friedrich Kapp, trans. New York, N.Y.: Johnson, Fry, [1863]. 4 issues (96 pp.), ill.
PIA MKI P2002-70
PIA/ Civil war, 1861-1865/ United States/ History

Dyer, Carolyn Stewart. “Political Patronage of the German-American Press in Antebellum Wisconsin: A Case Study in Political Assimilation.” In The German-American Press. Henry Geitz, editor Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 1992, pp. 227-241.
Abstract: This volume attempts to present a relatively broad spectrum of the broadly-defined German-American press’ activity.
MKI PN 4885 .G3 G467 1992
German-American press/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Politics