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Kindlieb, Vetter. Thier-Garten. Cleveland, Ohio: Verlagshaus der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft, n.d. 96 pp., ill.
(Lauer & Mattill, Agenten.)
Vorerinnerung: “Unser Büchlein ist keine Naturgeschichte, sondern ein Thiergarten, wie schon sein Name andeutet. Vetter Kindlieb will seine jungen Leser durch diesen Garten führen und ihnen allerlei Thiere in allerlei Stellungen zeigen — grosse und kleine, wie sie der Hirt zum Thor hinaus treibt. — Im Vorbeigehen dann erzählt er ihnen allerlei Geschichten von diesen Thierlein, wie er sie hie und da beobachtet, gehört und gelesen hat.”
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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.

Kaehler, E. W. Jubellied. Eine Festgabe zum 300jaehrigen Jubilaeum der Concordienformel, am 29. Mai 1877. St. Louis, Mo.: Deutsche ev.-luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio …, 1877. 7 pp.
MKI P88-113
PIA/ Festivals/ Songs

Kahn, Lisa. “Culture: International Bridge or Barrier? Literary Reflections on their Acculturation Process by Contemporary Emigrant and Immigrant Writers.” Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch. Denn meine Heimat ist das, was ich schreibe: Zeitgenoessische deutschsprachige Literatur in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, vol. 39, no. 1, 1989, pp. 9-13.
Notes: hrsg. Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart; German-American author/woman author.
MKI PT 3913 .D4 1989
Literary Criticism/ 20th century/ Literature, German (US)

Kahn, Lisa. “Der Verlust der sechsten deutschen Sprache?” Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch. Denn meine Heimat ist das, was ich schreibe: Zeitgenoessische deutschsprachige Literatur in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, vol. 39, no. 1, 1989, pp. 6-8.
Notes: hrsg. Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart; German-American author/woman author.
MKI PT 3913 .D4 1989
Literary Criticism/ Literature, German (US)/ 20th century

Kahn, Lisa. “Deutschsprachige Literatur der Gegenwart in den USA.” 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. 155-169.
Abstract: The author examines contemporary German language literature published in the US, discusses the writers’ motivations, themes, and their use of the German language.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)

Kaiser, Jochen-Christoph. “German Emigration to the United States and the German Protestantism, 1830-1870. Summary.” [1990]. 2 pp.
Notes: In German. 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
Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Protestants.

Kaller, Gerhard. “Archivalien zur Auswanderungsgeschichte der Pfaelzer im Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe.” 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. 15-24.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Palatines/ Archives/ Germany/ Emigration and immigration

Kaller, Gerhard. “Johann August Sutter (1803-1880).” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehunge,. 1976, pp. 78-80.
Abstract: Included in section “Lebensbilder von Deutsch-Amerikanern aus dem deutschen Suedwesten”
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Biographies/ Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880/ Swiss Americans — California

Kaller, Gerhard. “Johann Jakob Astor (1763-1848).” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen,.1976, pp. 77-78.
Abstract: Included in section “Lebensbilder von Deutsch-Amerikanern aus dem deutschen Suedwesten”
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Biographies

Kallmann, Helmut. “The German contribution to music in Canada: A bibliography.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook,1983, pp. 228-233.
Abstract: This bibliography is divided into four sections:   The German Contribution to Musical Life in Canada; Musical Life among Minorities of German Descent; Some Musicians and Music Administrators of German-speaking Ancestry; and German Scholars and Commentators on Music in Canada.
MKI Periodicals
Bibliographies/ Music/ Canada/ German influence

Kallmeyer, Charles. How to Become a Citizen of the United States of America. Wie werde ich Bürger der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika? In English and German. New York: Charles Kallmeyer, 1911. 88, 34 pp.
Donated by Rolf G. Schünzel, 2006.

 

 

 

Kallmeyer, Otto. Gedenkschrift und Geschichtliche Mittheilungen ueber den Deutschen Schulverein und der Freien Gemeinde von St. Louis, 1850-1910. St. Louis, Mo.: C. Schreiner Printing Co., [1910]. [23] pp., ill.
Notes: Also on title page: Gegruendet am 6. November 1850. Zum sechszigjaehrigen Stiftungsfeste des Vereins und in dessen Auftrage verfasst von Otto Kallmeyer. — On cover: German School Association & Free Community of N. St. Louis.
Abstract: Includes portraits of C. F. Gebbers (erster Lehrer und Sprecher der Gemeinde), Franz Schmidt, Dr. Carl Luedeking, F. A. Gottschalk (erster Praesident der Gemeinde), Georg Hoffmann, J. H. Evers, J. W. Kurtzeborn, U. F. W. Bentzen, Moritz Wuerpel, J. C. H. D. Block, Chas. Nohl, Heinrich Clarner, F. Forthmann, B. Hoffmann, Wilhelm Petersen, Dr. Emil Preetorius, Louis Effig, August Hoffmann, and Dr. Max Hempel.
MKI P84-95
PIA/ German Americans — Missouri/ St. Louis (Mo.)/ Schools/ Education/ Freethinkers/ Societies, etc.

Kamp, Vernon. “Folklore Ruled Homestead on Pennsylvania Farms.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, Summer 2000, pp. 13-14.
Notes: Millersville University. Reprinted from The Patriot, March 4, 1999.
Abstract: Folklore associated with the springhouse, bake oven, woodshed, washhouse, haymaking, pig pen, chicken house, and corncrib.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Pennsylvania/ Folklore/ Farm life/ Agriculture/ Farming

Kamp, Vernon. “PA German Forebears Had Folklore for the Farmhouse.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, Summer 2000, pp. 13-14.
Notes: Millersville University. Reprinted from The Patriot, February 4, 1999.
Abstract: Folklore associated with the farmhouse; barn; meadow, stream, and woods; yard, garden, and orchard; and fences.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Pennsylvania/ Folklore/ Farm life/ Agriculture/ Farming

Kampe, Norbert. “Reichsstelle fuer das Auswanderungswesen and the expulsion of the German Jews 1933 to 1941.” In: Jetzt wohnst du in einem freien Land; Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch, vol. 39, no. 3, 1989, pp. 326-335.
Abstract: Die Reichsstelle fuer das Auswanderungswesen wurde 1924 in derjenigen Form gegruendet, wie sie auch noch waehrend des “Dritten Reiches” fuer die juedische Auswanderung zustaendig war.    Das bis dahin bestehende Reichswanderungsamt war in seinem Aufgabenbereich auf die (vermeintlichen) Beduerfnisse einer deutschen Welt- und Kolonialmacht hin ausgelegt.    Nach dem verlorenen Ersten Weltkrieg und den territorialen Amputationen erschien das Reichswanderungsamt alas unzeitgemaess aufgeblaeht und fiel angesichts der kritischen Finanzlage dem Rotstift zum Opfer.    Aktuell war damals nur doch der staatliche Schutz fuer deutsche Auswanderer, deren Zahl 1923 auf 115,000 hochgeschnellt war, waehrend sich die Zahl von 24,000 Auswanderern 1921 noch in der Groessenordnung der letzten Vorkriegsjahre bewegt hatte.
MKI JV 8014 .J47 1989
Emigration and immigration / Jews, German/ World War, 1939-1945/ Germany

Kamphoefner, Walter. “German Americans: Still Divided by the Reformation 500 Years Later?” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 52, 2017, pp. 5-23.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Examines the role of Catholic, and multiple Protestant denominational, adherents in the impact of German-American immigrants throughout U. S. History.
MKI Periodicals
Religion/ German Americans/ United States — History

Kamphoefner, Walter D. “Comments and Context.” Journal of American Ethnic History, vol. 28, no. 1, (Special issue, Racial Divides) Fall 2008, pp. 70-76.
Notes: Forum: German Americans and Their Relations with African Americans during the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Includes bibliographical notes.
MKI P2009-4
African Americans/ German Americans/ Ethnic relations/ 19th century

Kamphoefner, Walter D. “Forum: German Americans and Their Relations with African Americans during the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Introduction.” Journal of American Ethnic History, vol. 28, no. 1, (Special issue, Racial Divides) Fall 2008, pp. 10-12.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: The three papers presented for this forum address the “most elusive of issues. . . : personal attitudes of German immigrants toward the question of slavery and the social and political rights of African American in the Civil War and Reconstruction Era.” The papers utilize German-language sources to uncover missing aspects of American history, and they “recognize that Immigrant groups can be subjects as well as objects of discrimination and that immigrant acculturation involves interactions not just with the ‘dominant society,’ but with other ethnic and racial minorities as well.”
MKI P2009-4
African Americans/ German Americans/ Ethnic relations/ 19th century

Kamphoefner, Walter D. “The German-American Experience in World War I: A Centennial Assessment.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 49, 2014, pp. 3-30; ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: “An overview of the both the attitudes and actions of German-Americans in the Great War and the effects of the war on this ethnic group and its language and culture.”–p.4
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans

Kamphoefner, Walter D. “German and Irish Big City Mayors: Comparative Perspective on Ethnic Politics.” 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. 221-242, tables.
Notes: Paper originally presented at a conference at Texas A&M University, Apr. 1997.
Abstract: From the conclusion: “[S]o far as the office of mayor in American big cities is concerned, German immigrants and ethnics came off better then Irish Catholics in the fist generation, and only slightly worse thereafter. Their electoral chances were greatly improved in cities where Germans made up a large share of the population–an indication that ethnic politics and identity did come into play, just as with the Irish. . . . But if one looks at policy outputs, particularly in the realm of cultural issues such as education, language, and alcohol, German Americans were able to wield a considerable amount of influence in urban politics, particularly during the era up to World War I.”
E 184 .G3 G295 2004
19th century/ 20th century/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Ethnic identity/ Political activity/ Politics/ Ethnic groups — Other groups/ Political influence

Kamphoefner, Walter D. “German Texans: In the Mainstream or Backwaters of Lone Star Society?” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 119-138, map.
Abstract: Examines “the political integration of Texas Germans, the degrees to which they stood apart from Anglo-Texans both in the Civil War era and later[;] . . . the economic integration of this group, and how they stacked up against their Anglo neighbors in terms of occupation and wealth[;] . . . [and] language and culture, the survival of the German tongue and institutions such as school and the press which sustained it.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Social aspects/ Economic aspects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Newspapers, German-American

Kamphoefner, Walter D. “The Handwriting on the Wall: The Klan, Language Issues, and Prohibition in the German Settlements of Eastern Texas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 30, no. 4, Winter 2008, pp. 319-326.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Reprinted from the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, vol. 112, no. 1, July 2008.
Abstract: Describes how in the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan targeted German Americans of Washington County, Texas, and adjacent areas for their German ethnicity, for their use of the German language, and for their political activism.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Anti-German sentiment/ 20th century/ Language, German (US)/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Language maintenance

Kamphoefner, Walter D. “Liberal catholicism and its limits: The social and political outlook of the Louisville Katholischer Glaubensbote, 1866-86.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 31, 1996, pp. 13-24.
Abstract: The Catholic Church’s outlook on the labor question in the nineteenth century was highly ambivalent.On the one hand, the church was largely comprised of poor immigrant workers, but on the other hand, the hierarchy strongly believed in civil order and abhorred the violence which often ensued in labor conflicts. A focused study of one German Catholic newspaper, the St. Louis Amerika, was undertaken and compared to the Katholischer Glaubensbote. Particular attention is focused on issues that placed Catholicism in conflict with other principles such as democracy and republicanism, egalitarianism, racial and ethnic pluralism, and not least a German national pride, that were present or prevalent in other elements of German-American society.
MKI periodicals
Catholic Church/ 19th century/ Labor and laboring classes/ Attitudes/ Periodicals

Kamphoefner, Walter D. “The Quest of the Historical Juernjakob: A Centennial Evaluation of an Immigrant Novel and the Real-Life Figure Behind It.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 51, 2016, pp. 5-27.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references (pp. 22-27). — Jürnjakob.
Abstract: Describes both the author’s and Eldon Knuth’s search to trace the fictionalized Juernjakob Swehn to a real person. “Even with Knuth’s discoveries [see: Knuth, Eldon L. “Who Wrote Those Letters?” German-American Genealogy. 2005 Spring; 11-12, ill.] and those I have built upon them, there is still much that remains ambiguous as to what parts of the book [Jürnjakob Swehn der Amerikafahrer] we can attribute to the historical Juernjakob, a real Iowa immigrant farmer [named Wiedow], and how much is attributable to his ghostwriter Gillhoff. But perhaps the strongest conclusion we can draw . . . is the evidence his example brings of the openness and assimilative pull of American society for European immigrants and their children, even in German enclaves of rural Iowa.”
MKI Periodicals
Gillhoff, Johannes/ German Americans — Iowa/ Swehn, Juernjakob/ Immigrants in literature/ Letters/ Mecklenburg

Kamphoefner, Walter D. “Review of Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity (Russell A. Kazal, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvii, 382 pp., ill.).” H-NET Book Review, Mar. 2005, pp. [2 pp.].
Notes: Published by H-GAGCS@h-net.msu.edu.
Abstract: “This study examines both the social and economic structure of the German community of Philadelphia, and its culture and self-identification–as well as the ways these interacted with one another and changed over time. . . . [Kazal] takes on a somewhat later time segment than most census-based studies, beginning only with the waning of mass immigration at the turn of the twentieth century, and spanning the crucial era of World War I and its aftermath, down into the 1930s. . . . This study focuses particularly on four ethnic subcultures (middle class Vereinsdeutsche, working class socialists, Lutherans, and Catholics), each of which followed a somewhat distinctive path into a different part of the American mainstream.”
MKI P2005-11
Book reviews/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Philadelphia (Pa.)/ Ethnic identity/ Assimilation/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking

Kamphoefner, Walter D. “Review of “The Making of an American Pluralism: Buffalo, New York, 1825-60,” by David A. Gerber. Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1990, pp. 230-32.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Kamphoefner, Walter D. “The Uses of Immigrant Letters.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 41, Fall 2007, pp. 137-140.
Notes: Conference at the GHI, May 18-19, 2007.
Abstract: “[W]orkshop participants set out to evaluate the editing and other work done with immigrant letters in the past, and to assess the uses that scholars–within and outside the historical profession–might make of such letters.” Topics included aspects of immigrant correspondence that deserve greater attention, the impact of changing communication, archival practices, contextualization of letters, letters as “the real guidebooks” for immigrants, cultural history approaches to immigrant letters, and the linguistic potential of letter evidence.
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Letters/ Conferences

Kann, Hans-Joachim. “Germanismen in Time 1976.” In Muttersprache: Zeitschrift zur Pflege und Erforschung der deutschen Sprache. Wiesbaden: Gesellschaft fuer deutsche Sprache, 1977, pp. 418-428.
Abstract: Analysis of new germanisms in the American Time magazine.
MKI P93-26
Language, English/ United States/ Foreign elements (Language)/ Languages in contact

Kapp, Friedrich. Die Sklavenfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten. Goettingen: Wigand; New York: Schmidt, 1854. vi, 185 pp.
Notes: On title page: Geschichtlich entwickelt von Friedrich Kapp. Goettingen: Georg H. Wigand. New-York: L. W. Schmidt. 191 William-Street
Printed from Google Books
MKI P2010-6
Slavery/ United States — History/ United States, Foreign opinion — German/ Politics/ 18th century/ 19th century

Kappe, Walter. “Die deutschsprachige Presse in Uebersee. Nennenswerte Ergaenzungen. Vereinigten Staaten [und] Kanada.” Deutschtum im Ausland, vol. 22, no. 6, June 1939, pp. 382-383.
Notes: Deutschtum im Ausland: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Ausland-Instituts Stuttgart. [Served as a propaganda instrument of the National Socialist party in Germany]. Photocopy.
MKI P2007-31
German Americans/ Newspapers, German-American/ National Socialism/ Forty-eighters

Kappe, Walter. “Die deutschsprachige Presse in Uebersee. Nordamerika [Vereinigte Staaten und Kanada].” Deutschtum im Ausland, vol. 21, no. 6, June 1938, pp. 336-349, ill.
Notes: Deutschtum im Ausland: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Ausland-Instituts Stuttgart. [Served as a propaganda instrument of the National Socialist party in Germany]. Photocopy.
Abstract: Contents: Vereinigte Staaten. Der ersten Anfaenge der deutschsprachigen Presse — Rapider Aufstieg des Zeitungswesens — Die ersten Niedergangserscheinungen — Der Weltkrieg und seine Folgen — Schwierigkeiten der deutschsprachigen Presse — Konzern-Bildung als Gebot der Notwendigkeit — Die voelkische Presse des Amerikadeutschtums — Der Niedergang der deutschsprachigen Tagespresse der Vereinigten Staaten in den letzten 50 Jahren — Kanada
MKI P2007-31
German Americans/ Newspapers, German-American/ National Socialism/ German Canadians

Kappe, Walter. “Juden gegen das Deutschtum in Uebersee.” Deutschtum im Ausland, vol. 22, no. 2/3, Feb./Mar. 1939, pp. 77-82.
Notes: Deutschtum im Ausland: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Ausland-Instituts Stuttgart. [Served as a propaganda instrument of the National Socialist party in Germany]. Photocopy.
MKI P2007-31
German Americans/ 20th century/ National Socialism/ Jews

Kappe, Walter. “Laenderberichte. Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika.” Deutschtum im Ausland, vol. 21, no. 3, Mar. 1938, pp. 137-139.
Notes: Deutschtum im Ausland: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Ausland-Instituts Stuttgart. [Served as a propaganda instrument of the National Socialist party in Germany]. Photocopy.
Abstract: Contents: Behoerdliche Untersuchung gegen amerikadeutschen Volksbund ergebnislos, trotzdem Andauern der deutschfeindlichen Hetze — Grosse Erfolge der Weihnachtsmaerkte und Messen — Deutsche Bauerntage in Ohio — Die bevorstehende Saengerfeste — Allgemeines Erstarken des voelkischen Gedankens.
MKI P2007-31
German Americans/ 20th century/ National Socialism/ German-American Bund

Karp, Matthew. “The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War: A Global History.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 52, Spring 2013, pp. 169-175.
Notes: Conference at the German Historical Institute, Sept. 20-22, 2012.
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865/ History/ Conferences

Karpinsky, R., comp. Humor für Kinderfeste. Band 1. Gedichte zum Vortragen für Lehrer oder Schüler. Antigo, Wis.: Antigo Publishing Company, n.d. 110 pp.
On title page: Gesammelt von R. Karpinsky. Preis 50 cents. — Last two pages are advertisements for other Antigo Publishing Company books, some in German and some in English: Geburtstagswünsche, Deutscher Humor, Lustige Sachen für Mädchen zum Lachen , Drills, Games For Young People’s Societies, and American Humor, Poetic and Prose. —- Internet research shows there was a Rev. Rudolph Albert Karpinsky, born 1871 in Augusta, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, his parents having come to America from Germany in 1868. In 1900 Rudolph received theological training and graduated from Concordia College in Springfield, Illinois, and in this year he also married Amanda Zank of Augusta, Wisconsin. He served as Lutheran minister at Bern, in Nemaha County, Kansas, until 1903, when he was transferred to Belle Plaine, in Shawano County, Wisconsin. In 1911 he installed as pastor at the Lutheran Church in Manawa, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, serving there until 1946. He died in 1947 and is buried in Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin.
Primarily in High German; a few of the pieces appear to be in the Low German dialect. On page 60 is a poem titled “Amerika.”
PIA  WI

Kastens, Dennis A. “Luther’s Descendants Today.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 3, 1983, pp. 141-143.
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535

Katritzky, Linde. “”German Romance” and American Romance:    Influences of Ludwig Tieck and E. T. A. Hoffmann on Nathaniel Hawthorne.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 22, 1987, pp. 59-70.
Abstract: Katritzky’s article discusses the connections between German and American Romanticism by comparing works by Hawthorne, Tieck and Hoffmann.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, German/ Literature, comparative

Katritzky, Linde. “A Model Scientist:    Lichtenberg’s Views on Franklin.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1989, pp. 115-129.
Abstract: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was the Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Goettingen and the leading German authority on electricity.    He took an interest in Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work, and emphasized his achievements and his general human and humanitarian traits, refraining from entering political controversy.    He saw Franklin as a scientific paragon.    Lichtenberg was convinced that the methods and procedures of such people must be studied, copied, perfected, and perpetuated for the continuing good of humanity.    He took a comprehensive view of Franklin and lauded him as an example to scientists as well as to mankind.
MKI Periodicals
Science/ 18th century/ Intellectual life

Katrizky, Linda. “Johann Gottfried Seume’s Expedition with the Hessians to America, 1781-83.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 37, 2002, pp. 41-61.
Notes: Same author as Linde Katritzky?
Abstract: Recounts the experiences of the German author Seume, who was born into the rural poor and pressed into the Hessian Army to fight in Canada.
MKI Periodicals
Seume, Johann Gottfried, 1763-1810/ Hessians/ Revolution, 1775-1783/ Soldiers/ Canada

Kauffman, Dave. “Food for Thought: A Letter from Dave Kauffman.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, Summer 1999, pp. 15-16.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: David Kauffman wrote a series of articles about growing up among the Pennsylvania Dutch for the magazine Heritage Country. He compiled his writings into a short book title A Collection of letters from “Oiyah Dutch Dave.”
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch/ Letters/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Kaufholz, Frederick C. “Addenda on a Few Wuerttemberg Families.” Journal of German-American Studies:    A Journal of History, Literature, Biography and Genealogy, vol. Vol. 12, no. No. 4, 1977, pp. 89-91.
Notes: Robert E. Ward, Editor-in-Chief.
MKI Periodicals / SHS E 184. G3 G315
Genealogy

Kaufholz, Frederick C. “A Few Wuerttemberg Families of Grafenberg, Kohlberg, Riederich and Tischardt.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, 1977, pp. 1-21.
Abstract: Kaufholz’s 21 page article lists data for the genealogy of the 4 named families, as well as histories of the Brandstetter, Thueringer and Euchner families.    It includes indexes of persons and places.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ History/ 19th century/ German Americans — Genealogy

Kaufmann, Julius. “Zustaende in einer kleinen Stadt von Missouri vor 50 Jahren.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, no. 1, Jan. 1911, pp. 15-21.
Notes: Deutsch-Amerikanische Historische Gesellschaft von Illinois; Staiger Printing Co., Chicago; “Aus ‘Bahnfrei,’ von Julius Kaufmann, Philadelphia.”
Abstract: “Bei der gewaltigen Entwicklung, welche die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika, das Land der ‘unbegrenzten Moeglichkeiten,’ im Laufe eines halben Jahrhunderts durchgestrebt haben, mag es fuer den Leser interessant sein, die Verhaeltnisse, wie dieselben in einem Staedtchen Missouris vor 50 und mehr Jahren existierten, kennen zu lernen; sie waren so total verschieden von den gegenwaertigen, dass sie Gegenwart sie kaum fassen kann, aber eben in dieser Verschiedenheit hat der Rueckblick einen gewissen Reiz, den zu schildern ich versuchen werde. Im Jahre 1857 brach ueber die Vereinigten Staaten eine Finanz-Katastrophe gerein, welche mich zwang, der Stadt St. Louis den Ruecken zu kehren, und ich war froh, eine Stelle in Lexington, einer kleinen Stadt am Missouri, zu finden. . . . Es war zur Zeit vor dem Ausbruch unseres Buergerkrieges, als die Sklaverei noch in Missouri bestand, und L. nebst Umgegend beherbergte mehr Schwarze als Weise. . . . Wir Deutsche hatten in L., um die Langeweile todtzuschlagen, natuerlich einen Club gegruendet; dazu gehoerten alle einigermassen gebildeten Deutschen; und einige verwegene Schuetzen darunter beschlossen eines Tages, am naechsten Sonntag eine grosse Jagd zu veranstalten.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Missouri/ Personal narratives/ United States/ History/ 19th century/ Slavery

Kaufmann, Wilhelm. “Auf alten deutschen Spuren. In Virginien.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 8, 1908, pp. 9-15.
Notes: “mit Erlaubniss des Verfassers.”
Abstract: An examination of traces of early German settlements in the valleys of the Appalaichan mountain range, especially in Virginia, in the early eighteenth century.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Virginia/ Settlements/ 18th century/ Virginia

Kaufmann, Wilhelm. “Der deutsche Soldat im Buergerkrieg.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 123-152.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Soldiers

Kaufmann, Wilhelm. “Die Deutschen im Buergerkriege.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 8, 1908, pp. 107-115.
Abstract: A brief examination of the role of Germans in the American Civil War, taken from Kaufmann’s then-unpublished book of the same title.
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Soldiers/ German Americans/ Wars

Kaufmann, Wilhelm. “Die Deutschen im Buergerkriege. Ein Nachtrag zum Monographie: Der deutsche Soldat im Buergerkriege.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 753.
Notes: In section “Nachtraege und Andere Artikel” ed. by Max Heinrici.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Soldiers

Kaufmann, Wilhelm. “Die ersten deutschen Einwanderer.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 7, 1907, pp. 107-112.
Notes: See also response by Ernest Bruncken, pp. 123-124, and counter-response, pp. 149-151.
Abstract:  “Die deutsche Einwanderung beginnt mit dem Anfange aller germanischen Kulturarbeit auf amerikanischem Boden, also um 1620.    Schon in den Kindheitstagen amerikanischen Pionierlebens wirkt neben dem Englaender, Hollaender und Schweden der Deutsche, und auch auf bedeutungsvolle Spuren deutscher Geistesarbeit treffen wir schon in jener ersten Perioden.”
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Settlements/ 17th century

Kaufmann, Wilhelm. “Die Wirkung der Einwanderung auf die Entscheidung des Buergerkrieges.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 10, 1910, pp. 168-172.
Abstract: An examination of the effects of immigration on the American Civil War.
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865/ Immigrants/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Soldiers

Kaufmann, Wilhelm. “Sigel und Halleck.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 10, 1910 , pp. 210-216.
Abstract: Historical account of the Civil War generals Franz Sigel and Halleck in Missouri.
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Missouri/ Soldiers/ German Americans — Missouri

Kautsky, Karl. Frederick Engels: His life, his work and his writings. Chicago, Ill.: Charles H. Kerr, 1899.
MKI P92-42
PIA/ Biography

Kawaguchi, Lesley Ann. “The Making of Philadelphia’s German-America: Ethnic Group and Community Development, 1830-1883. Dissertation.” University of California, Los Angeles, 1983. 565 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988.
Abstract: Studies on German immigrants in America have traditionally assumed that a single German ethnic identity defined the millions who emigrated from the thirty-four provinces that eventually formed the second German Empire in 1871.
However, regional, religious, political, cultural, and social variations characterized these immigrants in Europe and America.  Although scholars have advanced several definitions of ethnicity, the most promising ones treat it as a form of multiple self-definition.
Until 1871, a broadly-conceived “German” ethnic identity and community in Philadelphia were products of careful creation and cultivation by leaders whose occupational interests and/or political views demanded that the immigrants as a whole occasionally identify themselves as Germans, not only as emigrants with specific provincial or religious loyalties.   
The extent of regional and occupational variation appeared among German immigrants in two major areas.    First, distinct regional and occupational patterns of German emigration and immigrant settlement occurred.    Although emigration moved from the German southwest into the north and east and drew handicraft workers, agricultural laborers, and farmers depending on the region, American cities and towns attracted their own unique regional and occupational mixtures of Germans.
Second, between 1850 and 1880 in Philadelphia, northern Germans were more likely to attain higher status occupations, while southern and central Germans flocked to skilled and handicraft work.
Despite these variations, three arenas in which Philadelphia German leaders emerged encouraged the formation of a German-American ethnic identity and community.  The voluntary associations catered to the diverse interests of Philadelphia Germans, yet bound them to a loosely-defined “German-America.”
The German-language press committed itself to nationalist German aspirations, while diverging in its American political affiliations.  Yet, the editors and publishers, as leaders, united in their commitment to ethnic group development, while their press provided a univeral German language for their readers.
Third, the brewing industry created a symbolic product–lager beer–which, despite its southern German origins, became German beer in America. The brewers joined the voluntary association leaders and journalists in assisting in the making of Philadelphia’s German-America.
MKI F160 G3 K38; shelved with MKI dissertations/ SHS microfilm
Philadelphia (Pa.)/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Communities/ 19th century/ Immigrants, German.

Kazal, Russell A. “Review of Deutsche im Amerikanischen Buergerkrieg: Briefe von Front und Farm 1861-1865 (Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds., Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoeningh, 2002. 580 pp., maps, glossary.).” H-NET Book Review, Jan. 2005, [3 pp.].
Notes: Published by H-German@h-net.msu.edu.
Abstract: “Historians of the Civil War, of the mid-nineteenth-century United States, and of American immigration would find this a welcome source, and the volume strongly merits an English translation on these grounds alone. Students of German immigration may well find this collection indispensable. The correspondence, with its focus on conditions and experiences within the wartime United States, has less to say to historians of Germany. Yet those with transnational interests–in migration, including return migration, in trans-Atlantic networks and influences, and in the image of America in the German states–may also find this collection rewarding.”
MKI P2005-22
Book reviews/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Letters/ Personal narratives/ 19th century/ United States/ History

Keel, William. “German Americans & World War I.” Cobblestone, vol. 22, no. 5, May 2001, pp. 29-31, ill.
Notes: German Americans issue; intended for readers ages 9-14.
Abstract: Article aimed at readers ages 9-14 examines anti-German sentiment during World War I.
MKI P2003-5
World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Anti-German sentiment

Keel, William. “German Language ‘Kaput’?” Cobblestone, vol. 22, no. 5, May 2001, pp. 26-28, ill.
Notes: German Americans issue; intended for readers ages 9-14.
Abstract: Article aimed at readers ages 9-14 examines the influence of German on American English.
MKI P2003-5
German influence/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects

Keel, William D. “An 1857 Version of the Schnitzelbank-Song from Basel, Switzerland.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 175-196, 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 notes.
Abstract: Explores connections between Pennsylvania German folk songs and the Schnitzelbank traditions in the United States and Europe, particularly Switzerland.
MKI Periodicals
German Americana/ Songs/ Cultural contribution/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Keel, William D. “Adolf E. ‘Dolf’ Schroeder (1916-2013): In Memoriam.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 47, 2012, pp. 5-7, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries/ Schroeder, Adolf E., 1916-2013/ German-American Studies

Keel, William D. “Daniel C. Nuetzel (1962-2013): In Memoriam.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 47, 2012, pp. 1-3, ill.
Notes: Nützel.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries/ Nuetzel, Daniel C., 1962-2013/ German-American Studies

Keel, William D. “Deitsch, Daeaetsch, Dueuetsch, and Dietsch: The Varieties of Kansas German Dialects after 150 Years of German Group Settlement in Kansas.” Yearbook of German-American Studies , vol. Supplemental Issue, vol. 2, 2006, 2006, pp. 27-49, ill.
Notes: Preserving Heritage: A Festschrift for C. Richard Beam. Edited by Joshua R. Brown and Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. [Däätsch, Düütsch] Includes bibliographical references.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ German Americans — Kansas/ Dialects/ Linguistics

Keel, William D. “From Freischärler in Baden to American Patriot: Wendelin Bührle–A Common Soldier in Two Struggles for Freedom.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 33, 1998, pp. 19-40.
Abstract: “This investigation into the life and historical context of the emigration from Baden and involvement in the American Civil War of one common soldier in the revolutionary citizens’ militia of Baden in 1848-49 is dedicated to the memory of all such men and women who were only able to realize their dreams of freedom and democracy in their adopted homeland of America and in their own small way contributed to the cultural and social fabric of American society. In examining the fragmentary information of one such individual’s life, we are also able to see how the experience of participation in the fight to preserve the Union enabled thousands of such German immigrants to become fully integrated into American society. It also sheds light on the amazing phenomenon of the rapid assimilation of these Germans in the pre-World War I era.”
MKI Periodicals
Forty-eighters / Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Cultural influence/ Assimilation/ Soldiers

Keel, William D. “From Refugee of 1848 to American Superpatriot: ‘Colonel’ Fred Buehrle, the Official Cannoneer of the State of Missouri.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 51, 2016, pp. 109-134, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Missouri/ Forty-eighters/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Bührle, Fridolin, 1837-1915

Keel, William D. “A German-American Cultural Icon: O, du schoene Schnitzelbank!” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 221-253, ill.
Notes: Italicize “O, du schoene Schnitzelbank!” in title.
Abstract: Examines the variations on the song.
MKI Periodicals
German Americana/ Songs/ Cultural contribution

Keel, William D. “German-American Studies: The need to americanize the field.” Monatshefte, vol. 86, no. 3, 1994, pp. 342-345.
Abstract:  The field invites a multi-disciplinary approach, a broad spectrum of academic research. The German-American perspective enhances the work of scholars within their disciplines. The field must be more Americanized and at the same time begin to be de-Germanized.  We must free the field from its umbilical ties to departments of traditional German studies or Germanistik.   
MKI P99-9
German-American Studies

Keel, William D. “Helmut Huelsbergen (1929 -2017): In Memoriam.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 51, 2016 , pp. 1-2, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries/ Huelsbergen, Helmut, 1929-2017/ German-American Studies

Keel, William D. “Henry ‘Hank’ Geitz (1931-2012): In Memoriam.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 46, 2011, pp. 1-3, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries/ Geitz, Henry, 1931-2012/ German-American Studies

Keel, William D. “On Dialect Mixture: The Case of Ellis County (Kansas) Volga-German.” Published in    Proceedings of 1981 Mid-America Linguistics Conference.
Abstract: The Russian-German settlers in Ellis County (Kansas) represent a linguistic dilemma.    Each of the five counties is said to speak a different dialect. Historically, the speakers in these villages descend from German colonies on the Volga founded during the years 1764-1774 at the invitation of Catherine the Great. The linguistic problem is to determine the relationship of the Ellis County Volga-German dialect(s) to the known German dialects in the German homeland.  Do these dialects represent the result of a complex series of dialect mixtures?
MKI P85-55.
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Russian Germans/ Kansas/ Dialects.

Keel, William D. “On the “Heimatbestimmung” of the Ellis County (Kansas) Volga-German Dialects.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 17, 1982, pp. 99-110.
Abstract: Beginning in 1875, large numbers of German Catholics from Russia settled on land purchased from the Kansas Pacific Railroad in Ellis County, Kansas.
They came from farming villages established in the 1760s along the Volga River at the invitation of Catherine the Great. To this day each village prides itself on its German heritage, maintained in foreign environments for over two hundred years.
The German dialects taken to Russia in the eighteenth century by the forebears of these Kansans were preserved and passed down from generation to generation until the 1940s.
This study is the search for a linguistic homeland for the dialects still spoken in these villages. It is essentially a linguistic description of the Ellis County dialects in terms of the characteristics which distinguish the continental West Germanic dialects.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315 and P85-56 (manuscript)
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Russian Germans/ Kansas/ Dialects

Keel, William D. “The Pennsylvania German element in Kansas settlements established 1854-1920.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol.  3, no. 4, 1996, pp. 3-9.
Abstract: Among the earliest immigrants to Kansas were substantial numbers of Pennsylvania Germans.    Unfortunately, their settlement pattern in the state cannot be analyzed as easily using statistical information as can be done for German-speaking immigrants to Kansas from Europe.
The most practical approach is to attempt to locate congregations of religious denominations with a clear Pennsylvania origin.
In the eastern quarter of Kansas, Pennsylvania Germans settled throughout the area, but they established concentrated settlements in the Brown/Nemaha County border area and southern Douglas County and northern Franklin County.
In central Kansas, significant concentrations of Pennsylvania Germans are to be found on either side of the Smoky Hill flood plain in Dickinson County.    In south central Kansas we find what may be regarded as a complex of Pennsylvania German settlement centered on the city of Hutchinson and extended out to the rural areas of Reno, Harvey, McPherson, and Marion counties.
Isolated concentrations are to be found in the counties of Harper, Osborne, and Scott.  Active use of Pennsylvania German for home and community communication is now essentially restricted to the Old Order Amish settlements in Reno County and Anderson County
MKI Periodicals
Kansas/ Immigrants, German/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Religion/ Amish/ Settlements

Keel, William D. “Review: “Michigan German in Frankenmuth: Variation and Change in an East Franconian Dialect by Renate Born.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994, pp. 145-146.
Abstract: Keel’s review states that Born’s study is a “welcome addition to the growing number of analyses of Restsprachinseln in North America.”
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Keel, William D. “A Russian-German settlement dialect in Kansas: Plautdietsch in South Central Kansas.” 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. 138-157.
Abstract: In this paper the author situates the Plautdietsch dialect spoken by large numbers of Mennonites in South Central Kansas within the context of German settlement dialects in Kansas as well as in term of its historical development and current status.    Salient features of the phonological and morpholoigcal structures of the dialects are examined as well as the lexicon with a view toward eventual comparative studies.
MKI PF 5925 G47 1993
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Mennonites/ Kansas/ Russian Germans/ Dialects

Keel, William D. “Studying German Dialects in Kansas.” University Forum (Ft. Hays State Univ.), vol. 27, Summer 1982, pp. 6-9.
MKI P86-34
Dialectology/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Kansas/ Dialects

Keel, William D., and Barbara A. Bopp. “Some Suggestions for a Course on the German Heritage of America.” Die Unterrichtspraxis, vol. 9, no. 2, 1976, pp. 18-24.
MKI P86-123 / MEM AP U6137
German-American Studies/ Education

Keeven, Dorris. “Franz Schwarzer: The Zither King.” Infoblatt, vol. 11, no. 3, Summer 2006, pp. 10-12, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
Abstract: Schwarzer was born in 1828 in Olmutz, Austria. He immigrated with his wife to Missouri in 1864, eventually settling in 1865 in the town of Washington. There he opened a zither factory that produced award-winning instruments.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Missouri/ Business & Industry/ Music/ Musical instruments

Keeven, Dorris. “Inside the Old Turner Hall.” Der Maibaum (Deutschheim Association Journal), vol. 10, no. 1, Spring 2002, pp. 1, 3-8, ill.
Abstract: History of the Washington, Missouri, Turnverein.
MKI Periodicals
Societies, etc./ German Americans — Missouri/ Turners

Keeven, Dorris. “A Long-Lived Warren County, Missouri, Tradition: Die Schuetzenfeste des Vogelschiessens.” Der Maibaum (Deutschheim Association Journal), vol. 4, no. 2, Summer 1996, pp. 6-7.
Abstract: Examines the Schuetzenfest, or shooting match, as one of the many customs that came to America with German-speaking immigrants. “In the Old World, the Schuetzenfest had evolved over centuries into a sporting and social event. However, to the Anglo Americans on the Missouri frontier in the early 1800s marksmanship was a serious business. It was an essential skill for survival. . . . By 1840 on the 4th of July, the rapidly increasing German population around Washington, Missouri, organized a shooting fest to which they invited their fellow Anglo Americans, just to watch, not to take part.” The event involved a Vogelschiessen, the shooting of a carved wooden eagle that represented the ruling classes of Germany.
MKI Periodicals
Societies, etc./ German Americans — Missouri/ Festivals/ Social life and customs

Kehr, Kurt. “German in Virginia and West Virginia: Language loss and language acquisition in a changing society.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, 1996, pp. 16-18.
Abstract: A language or a dialect will erode and finally die under the influence of the competing, more functional language.    The last stages of survival often seem merely folkloristic.    This paper gives an overview of this phenomenon for Virginia. Although German dialect in Virginia has lost its foundations, some still use it in their families
MKI Periodicals
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Virginia/ Language loss/ Dialects

Keil, Hartmut. “Chicago’s German Working Class in 1900.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983, pp. 19-36, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references; donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Abstract: Examines population development (includes table showing the German population of Chicago, 1850-1900); occupational change (includes tables showing occupational status of German heads of household, 1850, 1880, and 1900 and the distribution of the German working class in the Chicago economy in 1880 and 1900 by first and second generation); and geographic distribution (includes table showing geographic distribution of white-collar and working-class German households in 1880 and 1900).   
MKI/SHS HD8081 G4 G47 1983
German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Employment/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Labor and laboring classes/ 19th century/ 20th century

Keil, Hartmut. “Ethnizitaet und Rasse: Die deutsche Bevoelkerung und die Kritik der Sklaverei in der deutschen Presse von New Orleans.” Gesellschaft und Diplomatie im transatlantischen Kontext: Festschrift für Reinhard R. Doerries zum 65. Geburtstag. Michael Wala, Hrsg. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999, pp. 9-25.
Abstract: This article addresses the reaction of German-Americans to slavery and race relations in mid-nineteenth century New Orleans, and how it was expressed in the German-language newspapers of the time.    Examines New Orleans’s role as a destination for German immigrants.
MKI E183.7 G47 1999
New Orleans (La.)/ Slavery/ German-American press/ Newspapers, German-American/ Ethnic relations/ 19th century

Keil, Hartmut. “Francis Lieber’s Attitudes on Race, Slavery, and Abolition.” Journal of American Ethnic History, vol. 28, no. 1, (Special issue, Racial Divides) Fall 2008, pp. 13-33.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: “On January 9, 1836, only a few months after having moved from Philadelphia to Columbia, South Carolina, in order to assume the chair for History and Political Econmy at South Carolina College, Francis Lieber and his wife bought their first two slaves.” Keil examines how German immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century perceived of slavery, and describes Francis Lieber’s personal and practical encounter with and analysis of race and slavery.
MKI P2009-4
African Americans/ German Americans/ Ethnic relations/ 19th century/ Slavery/ Lieber, Francis, 1798-1872

Keil, Hartmut. “German working-class radicalism after the Civil War.” The German-American encounter: Conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000. Frank and Shore Elliott Trommler, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001, pp. 37-48.
MKI/MEM E 183.8 G3 G472 2001
Labor and laboring classes/ German Americans/ History/ Social life and customs/ United States/ Immigrants, German/ Politics

Keil, Hartmut. “Race and ethnicity: Slavery and the German radical tradition.” 1999. 23 pp.
Notes: Talk given by Hartmut Keil in Madison, Wisconsin on February 3, 1999 and sponsored by the Max Kade Institute for German- American Studies and the Center for the History of  Print Culture.
Abstract: As part of a larger project the author is investigating the kinds of relationship that developed between African Americans and German immigrants in the 19th century. In his talk the author isolates the specific issues of mutual intellectual traditions and a common philosophical heritage between Germany and the U.S. that may account for sympathy for abolitionism and antislavery sentiment among parts of the German immigrant population.
European and American Enlightenment thought evolved not in isolation, but through an intense exchange of ideas that crossed the Atlantic in both directions. The author pays close attention to Alexander von Humboldt as an embodiment of the enlightened scholar and humanist in Germany who had a significant impact on German immigrants; and to Ottilie Assing as a journalist intellectual closely involved in the abolitionist cause who influenced through her reports important intellectual circles in Germany.
MKI P99-5
Slavery/ Immigrants, German/ Ethnic groups — Other groups.

Keil, Hartmut, and Heinz Ickstadt. “Elemente einer deutschen Arbeiterkultur in Chicago zwischen 1880 und 1890.” Geschichte und Gesellschaft: Zeitschrift für Historische Sozialwissenschaft, vol. 5, no. 1, 1979, pp. 103-124.
Notes: Volume titled “Arbeiterkultur im 19. Jahrhundert.”  Herausgegeber dieses Heftes: Juergen Kocka. Published in Goettingen by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
MKI P85-31
Immigrants, German/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Social conditions/ Labor and laboring classes/ History/ 19th century

Keil, Hartmut, and John B. Jentz. “The Chicago Project:  A Study in German Ethnicity.” American Studies International, vol. 20, no. 4, 1982, pp. 22-30.
Notes: Photocopy.
Abstract: Scope and method of the Chicago project, a study in German ethnicity in Chicago during the nineteenth century; census analysis; newspaper analysis; neighborhood studies; industry studies.    The project so far has produced new and fruitful insights into the history of German immigrants in the US, their settlement in urban industrial centers, and their participation in the Chicago labor movement
MKI P88-104
German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Labor and laboring classes/ Immigrants/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Social conditions/ Ethnicity

Keil, Hartmut, and Marylou Pelzer. “A German Farmer Views Wisconsin, 1851-1863.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 62, no. 2, Winter 1978-1979, pp. 128-143, ill.
Notes: Photocopy, donated by Karyl Rommelfanger.
Abstract: “Most of the millions of persons who poured into the United States during the past three hundred years somehow managed to make new homes in their adopted country. But some did not. A few, like Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Pflaume of the town of Aschersleben in Prussia, merely tarried, then returned home. Pflaume’s twelve years here, from 1851 to 1863, constituted a prolonged tour of inspection. From his base in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, he examined America’s condition, developed a farm (of which much is still in production), and acquired the material for a literary career that occupied the rest of his life back in Germany.”
MKI P2007-17
Pflaume, Karl Ludwig Wilhelm/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Manitowoc (Wis.)/ Farm life/ Farming/ United States, Foreign opinion — German/ United States — History/ Wisconsin — Manitowoc County

Keiser, Steve Hartman. “What is “Midwestern Deitsch” and how did it get that way?” 2000.
Notes: Notes for Max Kade Institute Mini-Conference; Hartman is from the Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University.
Abstract: “Midwestern Deitsch establish[es] a cohesive regional identity for Amish [along the National Road from Wheeling to St Louis]. The linguistic features that differentiate the Midwest from the East are relatively minor pronunciation and vocabulary items which nonetheless carry significant weight as social evaluation critera. A salient linguistic and cultural divide between Amish communities in Pennsylvania and those in Midwest has its roots in the settlement patterns of the late 1700s and early 1800s.”
MKI P2002-12
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Linguistics/ Amish

Keller, Christian B. “‘All We Ask Is Justice’: German-American Reactions to the Battle of Chancellorsville.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 41, 2006, pp. 1-26, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: “Anglo-Americans in the Army of the Potomac and at home strongly blamed the German-born element of the Eleventh Corps for the Union defeat at Chancellorsville in May 1863. In so doing, they found an easy scapegoat and an excuse with which to ease their consciences. . . . Nativist attacks in the English-language press, especially, wreaked havoc with German trust and morale. Soldiers, civilians, and newspapermen alike rallied to the defense of the German troops accused of cowardice, carefully refuting the slanderous criticism in the American papers. . . . Articles appeared in German-language newspapers starkly distinguishing the difference between German and Americans in the Chancellorsville affair, and several national meetings occurred in which German patriotism and virtue were held up against American slander and military failure. The German Americans had clearly experienced a severe jolt on the road to Americanization.”
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Anti-German sentiment/ 19th century/ Newspapers, German-American

Keller, Christian B. “The Reaction of Eastern Pennsylvania’s German Press to the Secession Crisis: Compromise or Conflict?” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 34, 1999 , pp. 35-61.
Abstract: “This essay will argue that an ethnocultural interpretation of the reaction of eastern Pennsylvania Germans to secession is appropriate, but that the political turmoil between Democrats and Republicans was more bitter, and longer-lasting than ethnocultural explanations would have us believe.    Democratic and Republican newspapers battled for public opinion throughout 1860 and in the early months of 1861, and even after the deep South seceded — indeed, until Fort Sumter was fired upon — the eastern Pennsylvania German press was irreconcilably divided … German-language newspapers from Allentown, Pennsburg, Skippackville, Reading and Lancaster provide brief windows on their world during the critical years leading up to the Civil War.”
MKI Periodicals
German-American press/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Newspapers, German-American/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Keller, Francesca. “History and Culture of the Catholic Volga Germans in Kansas.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds. 1977, pp. 107-111.
MKI P87-163
German Americans — Kansas/ Ethnic identity/ Russian Germans/ Catholics/ Social life and customs/ Kansas

Kellogg, Carolyn. “Ueber Auswanderung (On Emigration).” History Today (Outagamie County [Wis.] Historical Society), Nov./Dec. 1983, pp. 6-10.
MKI P86-88
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Kellogg, Louise Phelps. “The Bennett Law in Wisconsin.” The Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 2, no. 1, September 1918, pp. 3-25, map.
Abstract: Bennett law agitation. Opposition of German Americans to the Bennett law in Wisconsin
MKI P92-16
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Politics/ Education/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects

Kelly, Nancy. “The Palatine Farmstead at Rhinebeck.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 30, no. 3, June 2005, pp. 7-10, ill.
Abstract: A farmstead property in Rhinebeck, New York, is being restored and interpreted to highlight the story of Palatine settlement in that state. The first building known to have occupied the site is pictured on a map of the area, c. 1750. The Farmstead is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Neher-Elseffer-Losee house, and it has remained in the possession of successive generations of one family throughout the centuries.
MKI Periodicals
Palatines/ German Americans — New York (state)/ 18th century

Kelz, Heinrich. “Die Plosive des Pennsylvaniadeutschen.” 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. 481-485.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Pennsylvania-German dialect

Kenkel, F. P. “Die “Noegers” (Hochzeitsbitter) von Florissant, Mo.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 7, 1907, pp. 175-178.
Abstract: A description of German wedding customs passed from German immigrants to their children in Missouri.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Missouri/ Culture/ Social life and customs/ Missouri

Kenkel, F. P. “Eine Streitfrage der Geschichtsforschung und das Bildniss Michael Hillegas auf dem neuen Zehndollarschein.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 7, 1907, pp. 173-175.
Abstract: An examination of whether or not Germans were ignored in early American historical research, with Michael Hillegas, the first United States Treasurer, as an example.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ History/ Research/ Anti-German sentiment

Kenkel, F. P. “Tagebuch von Christian Boerstler, geboren von Glanmuenchweiler, bey Cusel in Theutschland, auf der Reise nach Baltimore in Amerika.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 1-4, 1902, pp. 56-68; 29-32; 49-51; 49-55.
MKI Periodicals
Atlantic crossing/ Diaries

Kennedy, Thomas J. “Francis Lieber (1798-1872): German-American Poet and Transmitter of German Culture to America.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 28-50.
Abstract: Kennedy’s article provides a biographical sketch of Lieber and discusses, among other things, his publication of the “Encyclopaedia Americana” as well as his influence on contemporaneous American writers and thinkers. Includes his poem “An Champollion.”
MKI Periodicals
Lieber, Francis, 1798-1872/ 19th century/ Attitudes/ Ethnic identity/ Literature, German/ Immigrants, German/ Intellectual life/ Poetry/ Women authors

Kerl, Otto. “Forty-eight years in Dane County: The experiences of a German pioneer of Dane County.” 39 pp.
Notes: “Published in Wisconsin Staats-Zeitung“; donated by Caryl Bremer.
Abstract: Biography of Otto Kerl; description of his pioneer adventures in detail from May 17th, 1905 until January 19th, 1906. Kerl came to America in 1847 from Langensalza, Saxony, at the age of 25. Describes his trip from New York City to Milwaukee, and from there to the town of Berry in Dane County. “For more than half a century he practiced the homeopathic method of cure, which he learned in Germany, for the benefit of his fellow men.”
MKI P98-4
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Personal narratives/ Pioneers/ Wisconsin — Dane County/ History/ Kerl, Otto/ Medicine & Health

Kern, Albert J. W. “Jakob Leisler.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 13, 1913, pp. 149-180.
Abstract: “In der Kolonialgeschichte New Yorks treten drei Kraftmenschen in den Bordergrund der Buehne, die Gouverneure Minuit (Minnewit), Stuyvesant und Jakob Leisler.    Zwei davon, Minuit und Leisler enstammen deutscher Erde.  Minuit wurde zu Wesel am Rhein, Leisler zu Frankfurt am Main geboren.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — New York (state)/ New York (N.Y.)/ Immigrants, German

Kern, Albert J. W. “Johann Jakob Astor und die Astor Bibliothek.” German American Annals, vol. 2, n.s., 1904, pp. 147-174.
MKI Periodicals

Kern, Albert J. W. “Zum Stiftungfest der Vereinigung alter deutscher Studenten in Amerika.” German American Annals, vol. 1, n.s., 1903, pp. 559-576.
MKI Periodicals

Kersten, Holger. “The Creative Potential of Dialect Writing in Later-Nineteenth-Century America.” Nineteenth-Century Literature, vol. 55, no. 1, June 2000, pp. 92-117.
Notes: Printed from PDF file.
Abstract: Holger argues for more favorable evaluations of those texts produced from the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries that, to achieve their literary effects, availed themselves of the expressive potential inherent in unconventional language use. Written by authors such as Finley Peter Dunne, Charles Godfrey Leland, Thomas A. Daly, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alexander Posey and others–names rarely listed in standard literary histories–these texts derived their appeal from the way they used language but also from the perspective their linguistic strategy created. Their linguistic virtuosity, their potential value as documents of folklore and linguistic diversity, and their significance in the development toward alternative forms of literary expression make them an unusual treasure in America’s literary heritage.
MKI P2004-7
Humor & Satire/ Dialects/ German Americans/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Linguistics/ Literature, American

Kersten, Holger. “Nonsense, Satire, and Language Art: George V. Hobart’s German-American Dialect Writing.” Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor, vol. 19, no. 1&2, 1999, pp. 43-51.
Notes: Photocopy.
Abstract: George V. Hobart (1867-1926) was a prolific and successful journalist, writer, and playwright. “A full appreciation of Hobart’s work and that of his fellow creators of “Dutch Dialect” materials would have to acknowledge the distorted syntax, the mixed metaphors, and the thought-dissociations as elements that were to become part of the future development of modern literature.”
MKI P2004-9
Humor & Satire/ Dialects/ German Americans/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Literature, American/ Hobart, George V., 1867-1926

Kersten, Holger. “Sentimental Communication in Disguise: Yawcob Strauss’s German-Dialect Humor.” Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor, vol. 17, no. 1&2, 1997, pp. 21-35, ill.
Notes: Photocopy.
Abstract: Charles Follen Adams (1842-1918) was a Yankee of New England ancestry who, though he had “only a superficial knowledge of German-Americans and of Germany,” wrote a form of dialect caricature poetry that used German-Americans to celebrate domestic sentimentality.
MKI P2004-8
Humor & Satire/ Dialects/ German Americans/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Literature, American/ Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918

Kersten, Holger. “Using the Immigrant’s Voice: Humor and Pathos in Nineteenth Century ‘Dutch’ Dialect Texts.” MELUS , vol. 21, Winter 1996, pp. 3-17.
Notes: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
Abstract: “Dialect writing that set out to imitate the speech of immigrants has usually been excluded from scholarly scrutiny on the basis of the assumption that this form of expression was nothing but a stock dialect invented to denigrate the foreigner….A close look at some selected writers and their subject matter makes it clear that, on the contrary, they usually had a lot of sympathy, if not high regard, for their protagonists and the national group they stood for.” Examines the character of “Carl Pretzel,” created by journalist Charles H. Harris; anthologies of Dutch dialect anecdotes, songs, skits, and speeches, most intended for recitation; actors who played German-American characters, including Joseph Emmet and George S. Knight; and the poems of Charles Follen Adams, who created “Yawcob Strauss” and other German dialect characters.
MKI P2004-6
Humor & Satire/ Dialects/ German Americans/ Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918

Kessel, Elizabeth A. “Germans on the Maryland Frontier:  A Social History of Frederick County, Maryland, 1730-1800 (Volumes I and II). Dissertation.” Rice University, 1981. 447 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988.
Abstract: Frederick County, Maryland, in the early eighteenth century had three qualities which made it highly attractive to German, Huguenot, and Scotch-Irish setttlers in Pennsylvania who acutely felt the rising costs of land in that colony.    The abundance of unoccupied land which was at once cheap and fertile, a legal system which offered a large measure of civil and religious liberties, and the guarantee that property rights would be protected and secure were strong magnets for those seeking better opportunity for themselves and their families.  By 1790 Germans formed fully fifty percent of the county’s population.
Case studies of selected German settlers and their descendants who acquired land between 1738 and 1767 in the region which constitutes today’s Frederick County form the basis of this study.    The skills and abilities, as well as the timely arrival, of these settlers enabled them to participate in the development of this prosperous inland county and to take full advantage of its special opportunities.
Official records–land, probate, tax, court, military, and church documents–provide considerable detail about this generation of Germans in the various aspects of their lives: cultural, social, economic, and political.
The underlying theme of this dissertation is the subtle balance between cultural persistence and accommodation that these settlers achieved.    In Frederick County the process of integration was complex and uneven.
Even though Germans came at a time when they were welcomed and held many values and characteristics in common with the English, they still spoke a different language, observed different religious practices, and had a different cultural heritage.    The eighteenth century was a period in which toleration was only beginning; Germans, who were trying to preserve elements of their cultural identity while participating in the new society, encountered both prejudice and formal barriers to the acquisition of full legal and social status.
In time the normative effect of the legal and economic structures influenced and modified German behavior.    Yet in the process Maryland society was also affected, so that following the American Revolution, which most Germans of this study supported, there was greater toleration of diverse groups.    The heterogeneity of our society, long recognized as a hallmark of American cultural life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, actually had its origins in the Middle and Southern Colonies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
MKI F190 G3 K47 1981; shelved with MKI dissertations/ SHS microfilm
German Americans — Maryland/ Maryland/ History/ Assimilation/ Ethnic identity.

Kessler, Frank. “The German Saturday Language Schools in the USA–A Possible Source of Inspiration for the Pennsylvania Germans.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, Fall 2006, pp. 11-14.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Provides a brief history of private German language schools (Saturday Schools) in Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Houston, and elsewhere; and details on who attends these schools.
MKI Periodicals
Language, German/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Education/ Schools/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Kessler, Gottfried. “Finding Ancestors From the Present-Day Territory of the German Democratic Republic Through the Mail.” 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 519
Abstract: A summary of GDR archives.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 7
Genealogy/ Family history/ Archives

Kessler, Mary Agnes, and Katie M. Artz Simon. “Stories from the South Dakota Pioneer Daughters Collection: [Pioneer Daughters of German descent].” Daughters of Dakota. Volume 1. Sally Roesch Wagner, editor. Yankton, SD: Dauthters of Dakota, 1989, pp. 78-79/138-142.
Abstract: These are the fascinating stories of women who pioneered in South Dakota, told in their own words.    Mary Agnes Kessler was born in Dubuque County, Iowa on May 15, 1861.    Her father had left Germany at the age of seventeen. Mary was married to Dennis W. Sullivan and the bride and groom came by train to Dakota Territory, Lake County.    Katie M. Artz was born in Mehr, Germany on Dec. 19, 1892 of a German mother and a Dutch father. In May of 1893 the family immigrated to America, and in the summer to South Dakota, Potter County.
MKI P94-18
German Americans — Dakotas/ Biographies/ Women/ Personal narratives

Keuth, Martha. “Auswanderungen aus dem Kreise Dueren in den Jahren 1818-1924.” Duerener Geschichtsblaetter, no. 61, 1972, pp. 78-146.
Notes: Dürener Geschichtsblätter; Düren; donation of Winifred Lottes Lacy; cities in Kreis Dueren include: Rurberg, Woffelsbach, Schwammenauel, Hasenfeld, Mariawald, Heimbach, Hausen, Hergarten, Duttling, Vlatten, Berg, Blens, Abenden, Nideggen, Brueck, Rath, Leversbach, Uedingen, Kreuzau, Winden, Bilstein, Langenbroich, Untermaubach, Obermaubach, Zerkall, Bergstein, Bogheim, Strass, Gey, Grosshau, Brandenberg, Schmidt, Kallbrueck, Raffelsbrand, Simonskall, Germeter, Vossenack, Huertgen, Kleinhau, Schevenhuette, Wenau, Hamich, Heistern, Laufenburg, Merode, Langerwehe.
Abstract: Listing of emigrants’ names, dates of departure, intended destinations, birth dates, areas of origination, names of accompanying family members and in some cases additional information such as trade and amount of money taken on the journey. Includes map of Kreis Dueren
MKI P2001-38
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Lists

Keyser, Alan G. “Gardens and Gardening among the Pennsylvania Germans.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 11, no. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 15-[24], ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: “The Pennsylvania German garden under consideration here is not the elaborate pleasure garden so often described in histories of gardening, but the farm kitchen garden containing vegetables, culinary herbs, flowers and medicinal plants.” Discusses fencing the garden and whitewashing the fence; garden layout and tilling; “planting by the signs”; “the planting and care of onions”; “peas, cucumbers, and grapes”; “the growing of hops”; plants associated with a typical garden; weeding and watering techniques; “burying vegetables for winter use”; seed production; and “scarecrows and other deterrents.”
MKI Periodicals
Horticulture & Gardening/ Pennsylvania Germans

Keyser, Alan G. “Kucheheiser: Cake and Mead Shop Traditions.” Yearbook of German-American Studies , Supplemental Issue, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 143-157.
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.
Abstract: Cake and mead shops were once common in the towns and villages of inland Pennsylvania during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This article relates stories and articles related to the now-vanished institutions.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Food

Kiendl, Edeltraud. “Counseling Germans working abroad today.” In: Jetzt wohnst du in einem freien Land; Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch, vol. 39, no. 3, 1989, pp. 380-381.
Abstract: Die seit 1919 bestehende Auswanderungsberatungsstelle des Deutschen Ausland-Instituts bzw. Instituts fuer Auslandsbeziehungen in Stuttgart wurde laut Erlass des Wuerttemberg-Badischen Innenministeriums vom 27. April 1950 wieder als “gemeinnuetzig” anerkannt und sieht ihre Aufgabe im Auswandererschutzgesetz vom 26. Maerz 1975 begruendet.
In diesem Gesetz wird unter anderem dargelegt, dass durch die zunehmende Exporttaetigkeit und internationale Verflechtung der Wirtschaft als Auswanderer auch Personen oder Familien zu gelten haben, die sich auf Dauer oder fuer laengere Zeit im Ausland aufhalten.
Zum Schutz dieser Personengruppe gehoert die Vermittlung von Informationen ueber Ziellaender und die Beratung im persoenlichen und familiaeren Bereich.
MKI JV 8014 .J47 1989
Emigration and immigration / Law / Employment

Kiesewetter, Renate. “Die Institution der deutsch-amerikanischen Arbeiterpresse in Chicago: Zur Geschichte des “Verboten” und der “Chicagoer Arbeiterzeitung”, 1874-1886.” In Glimpses of the German-American Radical Press,1985.
MKI P86-11 / SHS Pam 85-4193
Newspapers, German-American/ Labor and laboring classes/ History/ Sources

Kimball, Marie Goebel. “Julius Goebel.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 32, 1932, pp. 529-556.
Notes: Includes “Bibliography of the Writings of Julius Goebel” (552-556).
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ Bibliographies

Kingsley, Charles. Hypatia. Christliche Erzaehlung aus dem fuenften Jahrhundert. Lahr (Baden) and New York: Kaufmann, n.d. 391 pp., ill.
Deutsch bearbeitet von E. Preuschen. Mit zahlreichen Bildern von R. Trache. Ernst Kaufmann. Lahr (Baden), New-Yok, N. Y. 22-24 N. William St. Shelved under New York.
Donated by Hartford (Wis.) History Room.

 

 

Kirch, Curt Joseph. “Der hollaendisch-deutsche Zweig der Familie Washington und einige Washington-Dokumente.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 12, 1912, pp. 306-326.
Abstract:  Includes a Washington family register spanning the years 1687-1858, excerpts from the “Boston Weekly Messenger” and some letters.
MKI Periodicals
Family History/ Genealogy/ Registers/ America

Kirchheimer, Manfred. “German Jew or Jewish German?: Post Immigration Questions.” German-Jewish Identities in America. Edited by Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2003, pp. 154-162.
Notes: “This article is adapted from the introduction to Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer and Manfred Kirchheimer, We Were So Beloved: Autobiography of a German Jewish Community (Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997).”
Abstract: Personal recollection of the experience of a German Jewish family who immigrated to the United States after Hitler’s rise to power.
MKI/MEM E184 J5 G37 2003
Jews, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Ethnic identity/ National Socialism

Kirchhoff, Theodor. “A Court Scene in Texas, by Theodor Kirchhoff.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 10, 14, ill.
Notes: Translated by Cora Lee Kluge.
Abstract: Translation of a personal narrative by Kirchhoff that originally appeared in the first volume of his Reisebilder und Skizzen aus Amerika (1875). Here Kirchhoff describes the legal improprieties and uncouth customs of a courtroom in Clarksville, Texas.
MKI Periodicals
Kirchhoff, Theodor, 1828-1899/ United States, Foreign opinion — German/ Personal narratives/ Texas

Kirsten, Hans. “Pioneer Missionaries of MELIM.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 3, 1983, pp. 116-132.
Abstract: Much information on German-American Lutheran missionaries to India; MELIM is “Missouri Evangelical Lutheran Indian Mission.”
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535

Kita, Terry. “Koeppel and Multerer Families in Bavaria.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 10-13, ill.
Abstract: Recounts the author’s search for the birthplaces of “my Germanic great-great-grandparents, Johann Koeppel and Catherine Multerer Koeppel. In 1854, they immigrated separately to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, where they married and settled.” With the assistance of individuals in Bavaria, the author discovered his ancestors had come from Haselmuehle, near Hohenwart.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Family history/ Bavaria/ Koeppel/ Multerer

Kitzler, Werner. “German-American studies: A selected bibliography.” Schatzkammer, vol. 21, no. Nos. 1 & 2, 1995, pp. 103-114.
Notes: Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte.
P2001-36
German-American Studies/ Education/ Bibliographies

Klassen, Peter P. “Die Mennoniten Volk der Wanderschaft.” Globus, vol. 17, no. 6, 1985, pp. 23-25.
Abstract: Wanderweg der Mennoniten nach Osten and dann wieder zurueck in den Westen und in die Neue Welt.
MKI P87-110
Mennonites/ History/ Immigrants

Kleinschmidt, Wolfgang. “Pfaelzische Migration unter volkskundlichen Aspekten–Probleme und Aufgaben.” 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. 391-403.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Palatines/ Emigration and immigration

Klimke, Martin. “The African American Civil Rights Struggle and Germany, 1945-1989 .” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 43, Fall 2008, pp. 91-106, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: “The permanent stationing of the US Army in Europe after the Second World War brought about 3 million African American GIs to the Federal Republic during the Cold War. Shortly after the fall of National Socialism, Germans were directly confronted with the presence of African Americans in the country, be it as soldiers, customers, tenants, husbands, or sons-in-law. In recent years, historians like Haria Hoehn, Petra Goedde, and Heide Fehrenbach have begun to analyze and interpret the relationship between these two groups and the impact it had on the Cold War. This project will extend these groundbreaking studies by exploring the mutual relationship between the African American civil rights movement and German attitudes toward race and ethnicity, focusing in particular on how Germany was perceived by African Americans during the Cold War.”
MKI Periodicals
African Americans/ Germany/ 20th century

Klimke, Martin, Carla MacDougall, and Wilfried Mausbach. “Atlantic Crossings? Transcultural Relations and Political Protest in Germany and the United States, 1958-1977.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 34, Spring 2004, pp. 184-189.
Notes: Report on a conference at the GHI, Oct. 17-18, 2003.
Abstract: Reports on a conference that examined the significance of cultural transfer and transnational networks in the political and social protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s in the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. Panel topics at the conference included “Framing Internationalism: Interculturality, Transnationality, Social Movement Theory”; “Appropriating Ideas, Appropriating History”; “Transnational Links and the Politics of Feminist Activism”; “The Student Protest of the 1960s from a Transatlantic Perspective”; and “Public Sphere/Political Imagination.”
MKI Periodicals
America/ Germany/ 20th century/ Political activity/ Cultural influence/ Women

Kline, Dick. “Chasing Family Myth through Canada to Germany.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 11, no. 4, Winter 2008, pp. 15-21, ill.
Abstract: “Describes the research conducted to determine locations, dates, and circumstances surrounding the multi-step immigration of my Klein (Klein) ancestors from Germany in the 1830s to Ontario and finally to the border counties of Indiana and Michigan. . . illustrates research strategies and approaches used to make and test hypotheses.” Identifies the Klein home village as Remmesweiler in the St. Wendel area of today’s German state of Saarland.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ German Canadians/ German Americans — Indiana/ German Americans — Michigan

Kline, Dick. “The Company They Kept.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, Summer 2012, pp. 21-24, ill.
Abstract: Study of an immigration cluster involving the author’s ancestors, who were part of a group of  thirty-seven closely related emigrants from small villages in Landkreis Sankt Wendel, north of Saarbruecken, in the Saarland region of Germany. In 1834, the group, all with surnames of either Klein or Schneider, immigrated to Rainham Township, Haldimand County, Upper Canada (Ontario). Some of the Schneiders moved to Cook County, Illinois, around 1842-1844.
MKI Periodicals
Family history/ Genealogy/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)

Kline, Dick. “Death Reveals Life circa 1855.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, Summer 2009, pp. 5-7, ill.
Abstract: Examines how probate records for a German-American farmer in Elkhart County, Indiana, provided “a richer understanding of my distant ancestors’ lifestyle, their value, their use of money, and the laws and norms of their society.”
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Research/ German Americans — Indiana

Kline, Dick. “Genealogy of a Fraktur Confirmation Letter.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, Summer 2012, pp. 18-20, ill.
Abstract: “Tucked into the pages of an old book in my parents’ attic was a beautiful 4 by 6 inch fraktur with nine lines of calligraphy and a hand-painted scene with flowering bushes, a cherub, and young girl.” The fraktur document was created by Ursula Ebner to memorialize the 1849 confirmation of her goddaughter Maria Koelle in Wuerttemberg. The author’s research discovered that Maria Koelle immigrated from Laichingen, Wuerttemberg, to America in 1854 at age 19, travelling with her mother, sister, brother, and a young man names George Mangold, who later became Maria’s husband. The family’s father awaited them in Coventry, New York, where he had been employed as a laborer since arriving in 1852. The surname was changed to Kelley, and Maria’s sister Anna Kelley married the author’s great-grandfather, Martin Seeley, in 1865.
MKI Periodicals
Family history/ Genealogy/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Fraktur art — Pennsylvania — Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Kline, Francis. “Sermon: Was Is Glaawe? = What Is Faith?” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 16, no. 3, Fall 2010, pp. 3-6.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Provides a Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at Altalaha Lutheran Church in Rehrersburg, Penn., in 2009 by Parre Francis Kline, along with an English translation.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion

Kline, Francis. “Was is en Diener? = What Is a Servant?” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 17, no. 3, Summer 2011, pp. 4-7.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Provides a Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at Little Tulpehocken Church [Bernville, Penn.], in 2010 by Parre Francis Kline, along with an English translation.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion

Kline, Francis. “Was is Zufriddeheet?” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, Spring 2007, pp. 10-11.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: A Pennsylvania Dutch sermon given on October 14, 2007, at Die Altalaha Evangelisch Lutherische Karich in Rehrerssteddel, Penn.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion

Klippenstein, Lawrence. “Canadian Mennonite writings: a survey of selected published titles, 1981-97.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 34, 1999, pp. 153-169.
Abstract: “This survey will update, in part, a similar bibliographic summary for the decade of the 1970s published about fifteen years ago.    As at that time, the focus now will be primarily on studies in literature, language, history and sociology as the currently dominant (though not at all the only) areas of Mennonite research…” [Includes brief description of history and composition of the Canadian Mennonite community as a whole.]
MKI Periodicals
Mennonites/ Bibliographies/ Canada

Kloberdanz, Timothy J. “Cultural Integrity and the Role of Religion.” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor, Moorhead, Minn.:  Concordia College, 1981, pp. 80-89.
Abstract: Kloberdanz’ paper discusses the “cultural baggage” of immigrants, especially in regard to an “Old World Catholic Heritage” as well as what he calls the religiously “fragmented heritage” of Germans.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981
German Americans — Minnesota/ Ethnic identity/ Immigrants, German/ Religion/ Catholics/ Assimilation/ Architecture

Kloeden, Irmela. “Ehemalige Tuebinger Studenten in der USA.” In USA–Universitaet Tuebingen. Volker Schaeffer, and Uwe Jens Wandel, bearb., 1976, pp. 59-76.
MKI P85-126 / MEM LF 3132.5 .U17
Cultural exchange

Kloss, Heinz. “Deutsch im Hochschulunterricht:  Statistische Angaben.” 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. 218-220.
Abstract: Statistics regarding the enrollment in foreign language courses, particularly German, in post-secondary education between 1960 and 1980.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)/ Education

Kloss, Heinz. “Die Deutschamerikaner als Vorkaempfer eines sprachlichen und weltanschaulichen Pluralismus im Amerikanischen Schulwesen.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 217-232.
Abstract: Kloss’ article discusses the promotion of linguistic and cultural plurality in the school systems of the U.S. by German-Americans.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americans/ Schools/ Language, German (US)/ German language school/ Ethnic identity/ Catholics/ Amish

Kloss, Heinz. “Die deutschamerikanische Schule.” Jahrbuch fuer Amerikastudien, vol. 2, 1962, pp. 141-175.
Notes: Photocopy donated by Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr.
MKI P2007-33
German Americans/ Language, German (US)/ Education

Kloss, Heinz. “Die deutsche Sprache im amerikanischen Schulwesen.” 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. 179-201.
Abstract: This article discusses how German is taught in various school settings in the US: public schools, private schools, immersion schools etc.    The author attempts to come up with a total figure of German learners and also compares this figure to that of other languages.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)/ Education

Kloss, Heinz. “Die Stellung des deutschen Elements in den Abstammungs- und Sprachenzaehlungen der Jahre 1969-1980.” 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. 259-274.
Abstract: The author examines the relative place of German (ethnic origin and language) between 1969 and 1980 using the results of 1969, 1979 and 1980 polls.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)

Kloss, Heinz. “German-American Language Maintenance Efforts.” Language Loyalty in the United States: The Maintenance and Perpetuation of Non-English Mother Tongues by American Ethnic and Religious Groups. Joshua A. Fishman, et al. London: Mouton, 1966, pp. 206-252.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. MKI has photocopy of this chapter only; book is in MadCat, MEM P 377 F5.
Abstract: “Six factors contributing to language maintenance in the United States can currently be isolated on the basis of careful study. . . 1. religio-societal insulation; 2. time of immigration: earlier than or simultaneously with the first AngloAmericans; 3. existence of language islands; 4. affiliation with denominations fostering parochial schools; 5. pre-immigration experience with language maintenance efforts; 6. former use as the only official tongue during pre-Anglo-American period.”
MKI P2006-7
Linguistics/ Language maintenance/ Language, German (US)/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Education/ Schools

Kloss, Heinz. “German-American Notes:  Vom Lohr-Archiv und anderen Dokumenten zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache im Uebersee.” German-American Studies, vol. 9, Spring 1975 , pp. 75-79.
Abstract: Kloss’ essay gives a brief history of Otto Lohr, historian of German-Americana, and his writings and includes a discussion of the DAI, das Deutsche Auslandsinstitut.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Language, German (US)/ German Americana/ Social life and customs

Kloss, Heinz. “Sander A. Diamond’s Surrealistic Portrait of Research Done in the Third Reich on German Americans.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, 1977, pp. 49-72.
Abstract: Kloss’ article critiques Sanders’ book “The Nazi Movement in the U.S. 1925-1941” for being unscholarly, incomplete and misleading (“slandering”) re the Deutsches Auslandinstitut (DAI), for which Kloss worked. Kloss counters with his understanding of the history of the DAI and a defense of his own work at the Institute.
MKI Periodicals
National Socialism/ German Americans — Societies, etc./ Ethnic identity

Kloss, Heinz. “Sprachkonservative Religionsgemeinschaften.” 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. 127-137.
Abstract: The author gives a short overview of the history and language of three religious sects of German origin:    The Old Order Amish, Old Order Mennonites, and Hutterites.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)/ Religion/ Amish/ Mennonites/ Hutterites

Kloss, Heinz. “Sprechstatistischer Rahmen.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 225-227.
Abstract: This articles discusses the language statistics resulting from the 1940 and 1970 censuses.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)

Kloss, Heinz. “Ueber ‘Diglossie’.” Deutsche Sprache: Zeitschrift für Theorie, Praxis, Dokumentation, no. 4, 1976, pp. 313-323.
Notes: Published by: Institut fuer deutsche Sprache, Mannheim.
Abstract: Diglossie: eine dauerhafte Arbeitsteilung zwischen zwei nahverwandten Sprachformen, ‘high variety’ H, und ‘low variety’ L. H herrscht weitaus vor im schriftlichen, L weitaus im muendlichen Sprachgebruach.    Kinder erlernen von ihren Eltern nur L, dem erst auf der Schule H beigesellt wird.
MKI P93-27
Linguistics

Kluge, Cora Lee. “American History through the Eyes of German-American Commentators: The New Lincoln Territory, 1878.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer 2007, pp. 12-14, ill.
Abstract: “The discovery of gold in the Black Hills of today’s South Dakota led to one of the most complicated and problematic chapters in the development of the American West. In 1868, the Fort Laramie Treaty had reserved the land for the Sioux tribe of American Indians; but by 1875 the U.S. government, having received reports of mineral and natural resources there, was attempting to purchase the area. . . . In the 1870s, the New Yorker Bellestristisches Journal published several articles on the Black Hills, revealing (and fueling) interest among German Americans. . . . [One such was] Paul Oeker’s 1878 article entitled “Das kuenftige Lincoln-Territorium” (The Future Lincoln Territory), from which the following excerpts were taken.”
MKI Periodicals
United States — History/ United States — Foreign public opinion, German — History/ South Dakota/ Newspapers, German-American/ 19th century

Kluge, Cora Lee. “Carl Gerhard, Mayville’s German-American Poet.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer 2009, pp. 12.
Abstract: A book of poetry attributed to Carl Gerhard and published by the Mayville, Wisconsin German-language newspaper Dodge County Pionier, led to a search to learn more about the author. The author’s full name was Carl Gerhard Grashorn, and he married into the Ruedebusch family. Describes some of the poems in the book Blumen am Wege.
See also: “Carl Gerhard Grashorn, Author of Poems ‘Blumen am Wege’,” Wagon Wheels, Sept. 2009, vol. 15, no. 3, p. 11-3, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Grashorn, Carl Gerhard, 1851-1925/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Poetry/ Mayville (Wis.)

Kluge, Cora Lee. “Gerhard Weiss: Recipient of SGAS Award for Achievement.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 29, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 9-10, ill.
Notes: SGAS.
Abstract: Provides a biographical sketch of Gerhard Weiss, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of the University of Minnesota, highlighting his contributions to the field of German-American studies.
MKI Periodicals
Weiss, Gerhard/ Society for German-American Studies/ Biographies/ German-American Studies

Kluge, Cora Lee. “Outrage Over German-Language Plays Divides Citizens of Milwaukee in February, 1919–Part I.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 13-15.
Abstract: “Just two months after the end of World War I, performances of German-language plays scheduled at Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater for the benefit of the German actors led to protests from many sides. A resolution passed by the board of directors of the local Rotary Club appeared in the Milwaukee Journal on February 15, and the same day a “citizens’ mass meeting” was held at the Pfister Hotel.” Part I of this article contains excerpts from the minutes of the Pfister Hotel.
MKI Periodicals
Anti-German sentiment/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Theater & Drama

Kluge, Cora Lee. “Theodor Kirchhoff and the German Scandal of the American West: Hurdy-Gurdy Dancing Girls from the Rhine.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 10, 13, ill.
Abstract: In the Wild West of the 1850 and 1860s, dance halls and saloons advertised that “Hurdy-Gurdy girls” were available for the entertainment of miners. Most of these women were from the Duchy of Nassau and the Darmstadt area. Questions about the circumstances under which they had come to American and what their role was in the West were hotly debated in German lands and in the German press. Theodor Kirchhoff, a native of Holstein, had come to the U.S. in 1851 and had lived in many parts of the country. In 1865 he sent his eye-witness report to the German illustrated magazine, Die Gartenlaube. A translation of part of his report is included.
MKI Periodicals
United States — History/ United States — Foreign public opinion, German — History/ Kirchhoff, Theodor, 1828-1899/ Women

Knape, Sherie, and Hermann Schlortt. “Kroll Pickle Factory/Helmuth Conrad Kroll, 1813-1883.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 32, no. 3, Fall 2010, pp. 210-212, ill.
Abstract: The Kroll Pickle Factory was located in Biegel, Texas. Helmuth Kroll and his wife, Bertha van Els, immigrated with their two children from Germany in the mid 1840s. “In 1850 Kroll was operating a two-man cabinet shop in Galveston . . . and by 1858 he was working in Chappell Hill.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ History/ Kroll

Knarr, Thomas C. “Harmonie and New Harmony: The Influences of Owen, Maclure, and Neef.” Contemporary Education, vol. 58, no. 2, 1987, pp. 75-87.
Abstract: New Harmony is an Indiana town located on the Wabash River.    It was the site of two unsuccessful social experiments in communal living in the first half of the nineteenth century.    Though both movements failed, they left behind a legacy of fascinating lore.    The first of these experiments, a community named “Harmonie,” was established in 1814 by George Rapp.    He led 500-600 religious dissenters of the German Lutheran Church from Wuerttemberg to Indiana, where they practiced celibacy and lived in dormitories under the belief that the second coming of Christ would occur during their lifetime.    Rapp eventually decided to move to Pennsylvania, and sold his town to Robert Owen, a Welsh social reformer and industrialist.    Owen renamed the town “New Harmony.”    His partner was philanthropist William Maclure, whose main focus was the educational efforts of New Harmony.    Professor Joseph Neef came from Switzerland to take charge of the educational features of New Harmony at the solicitation of Maclure.    The article chronicles the relations between these men and their views of the ideal community.
MKI P87-153
New Harmony (Ind.)/ Harmony Society/ Indiana/ Communities/ Rapp, George, 1757-1847/ German Americans — Indiana

Knerr, Douglas. “Moral sport: Cincinnati’s young men’s gymnastic association.” Timeline, July/Aug. 1997, pp. 28-41.
Abstract: Article on the YMGA association, its background and history; the annual exhibition to promote gymnastics and to give the association needed publicity
MKI P97-34
Physical education/ Turners/ Cincinnati (Ohio)

Knief, Frederick C. “Johann Jakob Meyer.” American German Review, vol. 17, no. 4, 1951, pp. 8-9.
Abstract: Biographical sketch and examples of his poems. Meyer, Johann Jakob, 1870-1939
MKI Periodicals and P93-73
Biographies/ Poetry

Knigge, Carol A. “Early German Catholic Parishes in Chicago.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 27, no. 1, July/Aug./Sept. 2009, pp. 17-18.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society
Source: “German Catholic Parishes in Chicago,” compiled by Carol A. Knigge, German Folks Quarterly Journal, April-June 1997.
Abstract: Provides location, date established, and information on where records may be obtained.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Catholic Church

Knipf-Komlosi, Elisabeth. “Wortfindungsprobleme im Sprachgebrauch von Minderheitensprechern.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 207-219.
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.
Abstract: “Von Sprechern einer Sprachgemeinschaft erwartet man eine durchgaengig korrekete und fliessende Kommunikation, d. h. die angemessene Verwendung der sprachlichen Ausdrucksmittel, des Wortschatzes. Dem ist jedoch nicht immer so, was auf viele Ursachen zurueckzufuehren ist. . . . Mehrsprachige Minderheitensprecher mischen ihre Sprachen mit unterschiedlicher Intensitaet, ausgeloest durch mehrere Ursachen, die jedoch zum Grossteil bestimmt werden von dem ein-oder mehrsprachigen Sprachmodus, von dem Umstand, dass beim Fehlen von entsprechenden Woertern auf die stuetzende und gleichzeitige Ersatzfunktion der im mentalen Lexikon abrufbaren vorhandenen (anderen) Sprache zurueckgegriffen wird.”
MKI Periodicals
Linguistics/ Dialects/ Dialectology

Knobel, Dale T. “‘Hans’ and the Historian: Ethnic Stereotypes and American Popular Culture, 1820-1860.” German-American Studies, vol. 15, no. 3-4, 1980, pp. 65-74.
Abstract: Knobel’s 8-page article describes common stereotypes of German-Americans in American popular culture between 1820 and 1860.    He discusses the motivations and implications of ethnic stereotyping in general as well as the importance of stereotypes for historical research into inter-ethnic relations.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Ethnic identity/ Stereotypes/ Immigrants, German/ 19th century/ Minorities/ Attitudes/ Ethnic relations

Knoche, Carl H. “Alexander Conze:  An Early Milwaukee German-American Poet.” German American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 148-162.
Abstract: Lived in Milwaukee for a short while and died young. Examples of his poems. Conze, Alexander, 1819-1847
MKI P93-74
Biographies/ Poetry/ Literature, German-American/ Milwaukee (Wis.)

Knoche, Viola E. “The Early Influence of Richard Wagner in America.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 14, 1914, pp. 623-673.
Abstract: This article examines the life and work of the poet-composer Richard Wagner and his influence in America.    Includes chapters: “European Opposition to Wagner and His Work,”; “Wagner’s Introduction into America through Musical Organizations and Opera Companies,”; “Bayreuth as a medium in arousing interest in Wagner,”; “Wagner as an Influence in Arousing an Interest in the German Literature of the Middle Ages,”; and “Other Sources of Influence.”
MKI Periodicals
Artists/ Music/ Cultural influence/ Cultural contribution/ German influence

Knopp, Ken. “Book review: North America, particularly Texas, in the year 1849–A travel account by Wilhelm Steinert.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 23, no. 1, Spring 2001, pp. 38-41.
Notes: Historical Society owns reviewed book: SHS    F384.3 .S45 1999.
Abstract: “A German schoolmaster comes to evaluate Texas in 1849.”
Book reviews/ Texas/ Travel in literature

Knopp, Ken. “Friedrichsburg’s infamous ‘Doctor’ Schubert.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 22, no. 3, Fall 2000, pp. 53-64.
Abstract: Recounts the “trail of questionable deeds” of Friedrich August Strubberg, a 19th-century emigrant from Kassel, Germany, to Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ 19th century

Knopp, Ken. “A German State in the New World: The Adelsverein’s Texas Colonization Scheme, 1842-1847.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 26, no. 2, Summer 2004, pp. 163-171.
Abstract: Lists members in the Adelsverein with brief biographies; discusses the “dream of a German state”; describes the role two German Texan leaders, Jacob Kuechler of Friedrichsburg and Eduard Degener of Sisterdale, played in a plan to have the State of West Texas secede from the Confederate States of America; and lists interesting provisions of that proposed state’s constitution.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Texas/ Settlements/ 19th century/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Politics

Knopp, Kenn. “Ernst Dosch: The Hunting King of the Texas Hill Country.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 1, Spring 2006, pp. 50-55.
Abstract: Dosch was born in Erbach, Hessen-Darmstadt, in 1821, and arrived in the Texas Hill Country in 1848.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Dosch, Ernst, 1821-1906/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Knopp, Kenn. “Excerpts from Hin Nach Amerika! Off to America! The Germans of the Texas Hill Country.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 29, no. 2, Summer 2007, pp. 225-231.
Abstract: Begins with Spanish exploration Texas, explains the interest of the Adelsverein (the Society of Noblemen) in the Hill Country of Texas during the 1840s.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ 19th century

Knopp, Kenn. “Friedrichsburg: Seine Zukunft und Schicksal = Fredericksburg: Its Future and Destiny. Part 3: Higher Education Began Early in Friedrichsburg.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 341-349.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Section headings: Rev. Alto Sebastian Hoermann, O. S. B. (1829-1867). The Founding of the Catholic College of Texas in Freidrichsburg — The Founding of the Catholic Parish in Friedrichsburg — The Travail of the Civil War Period — The Benedictine Years in Friedrichsburg — The Catholic College of Texas and the Benedictine Monastery and Seminary of Friedrichsburg — Some of the Known Writings of Father Hoermann — Fredericksburg College Opened by the Methodists in 1876 — St. Anthony’s College Opened in 1909 — Community Colleges Began Offering Courses in 1971 — The Hill Country Higher Education Steering Committee — Texas Tech University-Fredericksburg Established in 2002 — City of Fredericksburg Offers Land for the Texas Tech Campus
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Fredericksburg (Tex.)/ Education/ Catholics/ History

Knopp, Kenn. “The German Cowboys Encounter the Native Indians: The Sharing of the Mysteries.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 78-82.
Abstract: Tells the tale of how the first German settlers became ranchers and cowboys, and of how a successful cataract operation by a German doctor upon an Indian chief led to the sharing of a cactus-based elixir that imparted feelings of bliss and visions of Elfendritschenwolperdinger.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Native Americans

Knopp, Kenn. “How Fredericksburg (Friedrichsburg) Was Named.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 33, no. 1, Spring 2011, pp. 32-37, ill.
Abstract: “The acknowledged founder and the namer of Fredericksburg was John O. Meusebach who succeeded Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels as director of the Adelsverein activities in Texas in 1845. Meusebach named the town after Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Hohenzollern von Preussen, nephew of the king. The prince’s castle, Burg Rheinstein ueber Rhein, was not far from Mainz, the headquarters of the Adelsverein. . . . Prince Friedrich was the largest stockholder in the Adelsverein. . . . The official spelling of the town was Friedrichsburg until the mid 1880s when the US Post Office complained of confusion about the usage of both the German and the English spellings.” Provides detailed information on the activities of the Adelsverein, which was organized by the aristocracy in 1842 to recruit “troublemaking” liberals for a German colony in Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ History/ Fredericksburg (Tex.)/ 19th century

Knopp, Kenn. “The Negro Underground Railroad to the Texas German Hill Country.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 29, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 376-380.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ African Americans/ Slavery/ 19th century

Knopp, Kenn. “Part 6. World War I: No Sympathy for the Vaterland — Fredericksburg’s Lieutenant Louis J. Jordan, Hero! Travail of a German-Texan Teacher During World War I — Lutheran Pastor Imprisoned for Preaching in German.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 2, Spring 2009, pp. 160-168.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Anti-German sentiment

Knopp, Kenn. “The Role of German-Texans in Reconstruction after the Civil War (Part 2).” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 26, no. 7, Winter 2004, pp. 393-399.
Notes: Jacob Kuechler and Eduard Degener, Texas-German Leaders of Reconstruction: 1865-1875, Supporters of the State of West Texas and Its Capital in San Antonio. August Siemering and the San Antonio Express-News, Champions of Civil Rights for All.
Abstract: Describes the efforts of German-Texan Union loyalists Jacob Kuechler and Eduard Degener as leaders in the Reconstruction and as supporters of the plan to divide Texas into two states; also mentions the work of August Siemering, who founded Die Freie Presse (later known as the San Antonio Express News), which extolled the ideal of civil rights for all.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Texas/ Settlements/ 19th century/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Politics

Knopp, Kenn. “Sam Houston and the Texas Hill Country Germans.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 144-152.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Houston, Sam, 1793-1863/ Texas/ 19th century/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Knopp, Kenn. “The Situation in Germany and in Texas 1840-1860. Julius Theodor Splittgerber (1819-1897): A Prussian Militarist Becomes a First Founder of Fredericksburg, Texas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 337-340.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Sections headings: Splittgerber Reports to Baron Meusebach instead of Prince Solms — The Gruelling Effects of the Civil War, Especially on the Splittgerbers — The Present Day Descendants
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Splittgerber, Julius Theodor, 1819-1897/ Fredericksburg (Tex.)/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Knopp, Kenn. “Texans Forever! The Germans of the Hill Country: Die Friedrichsburger Manuskripte = The Fredericksburg Manuscripts. Part VIII: The New German Texans Confront the Slavery Question. The African-American ‘Underground Railroad’ to the Hill Country.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 30, no. 4, Winter 2008, pp. 354-360.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ African Americans/ Slavery/ 19th century

Knopp, Kenn. “Uniquely Friedrichsburgerisch! Part 2: Germlish: Fritztown Talk, Heritage German, as Spoken in the Fredericksburg Area.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 27, no. 1, Summer 2005, pp. 181-187.
Abstract: Examines the Texas-German dialect known as Friedrichsburger Deutsch, also called “Stadkrick Geschwetz” or town creek German (“from the local expression of being baptized in the bad creekwater, that is, picking up bad German”). Provides a collection of German expressions, many of which incorporate English words or grammar.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Linguistics/ Texas/ Language, German (US)/ Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Knopp, Kenn. “World War II: Still No Sympathy for the Vaterland, Fredericksburg’s Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Hero! Standing Firm Against the Nazis.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 3, Fall 2009, pp. 252-261.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans/ Nimitz, Chester W., 1885-1996/ Fredericksburg (Tex.)

Knortz, Karl. “Amerikanische Sprichwoerter und Redensarten.” Folkloristische Streifzuege, vol. 1, 1899, pp. 210-223.
Notes: Prof. Karl Knortz, Schulsuperintenden zu Evansville, Indiana. Oppeln und Leipzig: Verlag von Georg Maske. Only first volume was published.
[From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Knortz, Karl, b. 8-28-1841 in Garbenheim, Rhenish Prussia, d. 1-28-1918 in Tarrytown, N.Y. German-American translator, editor, poet, folklorist, author, journalist, teacher and literary historian who introduced Walt Whitman to the German public. . . . [E]migrated to America [from London] in 1864. Studied the languages of the Indians and taught from 1864 to 1868 at the Schule des Seminarvereins in Detroit. 1868-71 taught German and Latin in Oshkosh, Wis. Taught 1871-74 at a seminary in Cincinnati and edited 1873-74 Der deutsche Pionier; 1875 the Indiana deutsche Zeitung in Indianapolis. In the fall of 1876 he was director of the school of the Deutsche Unabhaengige Gemeinde and the congregation’s speaker in Johnstown, Pa., later (1882) in N.Y. where he taught in the suburb Melrose. Served as sup’t. of German instruction in Evansville, Ind. from 1892-1905. Moved to Tarrytown, N.Y. Contributed to Die Glocke in Chicago; Deutsch-Amerikanische Dichtung; Deutsch-Amerikanische Monatshefte fuer Politik, Wissenschaft und Literatur; Americana Germanica; and Allgemeine Modenzeitung. Edited the section on American literature in Meyer’s Conversations-Lexikon.]
MKI P2009-22
English language — Idioms/ Language, English/ United States, Foreign opinion — German

Knortz, Karl. “Der boese Blick.” Folkloristische Streifzuege, vol. 1, 1899, pp. 280-291.
Notes: Prof. Karl Knortz, Schulsuperintenden zu Evansville, Indiana. Oppeln und Leipzig: Verlag von Georg Maske. Only first volume was published.
[From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Knortz, Karl, b. 8-28-1841 in Garbenheim, Rhenish Prussia, d. 1-28-1918 in Tarrytown, N.Y. German-American translator, editor, poet, folklorist, author, journalist, teacher and literary historian who introduced Walt Whitman to the German public. . . . [E]migrated to America [from London] in 1864. Studied the languages of the Indians and taught from 1864 to 1868 at the Schule des Seminarvereins in Detroit. 1868-71 taught German and Latin in Oshkosh, Wis. Taught 1871-74 at a seminary in Cincinnati and edited 1873-74 Der deutsche Pionier; 1875 the Indiana deutsche Zeitung in Indianapolis. In the fall of 1876 he was director of the school of the Deutsche Unabhaengige Gemeinde and the congregation’s speaker in Johnstown, Pa., later (1882) in N.Y. where he taught in the suburb Melrose. Served as sup’t. of German instruction in Evansville, Ind. from 1892-1905. Moved to Tarrytown, N.Y. Contributed to Die Glocke in Chicago; Deutsch-Amerikanische Dichtung; Deutsch-Amerikanische Monatshefte fuer Politik, Wissenschaft und Literatur; Americana Germanica; and Allgemeine Modenzeitung. Edited the section on American literature in Meyer’s Conversations-Lexikon.]
Abstract: An examination of the Evil Eye among various cultures, including the Pennsylvania Germans.
MKI P2009-22
Superstitions/ Folklore/ Pennsylvania Germans

Knortz, Karl. “Die plattdeutsche Litteratur Nordamerikas.” Folkloristische Streifzuege, vol. 1, 1899, pp. 305-313.
Notes: Prof. Karl Knortz, Schulsuperintenden zu Evansville, Indiana. Oppeln und Leipzig: Verlag von Georg Maske. Only first volume was published.
[From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Knortz, Karl, b. 8-28-1841 in Garbenheim, Rhenish Prussia, d. 1-28-1918 in Tarrytown, N.Y. German-American translator, editor, poet, folklorist, author, journalist, teacher and literary historian who introduced Walt Whitman to the German public. . . . [E]migrated to America [from London] in 1864. Studied the languages of the Indians and taught from 1864 to 1868 at the Schule des Seminarvereins in Detroit. 1868-71 taught German and Latin in Oshkosh, Wis. Taught 1871-74 at a seminary in Cincinnati and edited 1873-74 Der deutsche Pionier; 1875 the Indiana deutsche Zeitung in Indianapolis. In the fall of 1876 he was director of the school of the Deutsche Unabhaengige Gemeinde and the congregation’s speaker in Johnstown, Pa., later (1882) in N.Y. where he taught in the suburb Melrose. Served as sup’t. of German instruction in Evansville, Ind. from 1892-1905. Moved to Tarrytown, N.Y. Contributed to Die Glocke in Chicago; Deutsch-Amerikanische Dichtung; Deutsch-Amerikanische Monatshefte fuer Politik, Wissenschaft und Literatur; Americana Germanica; and Allgemeine Modenzeitung. Edited the section on American literature in Meyer’s Conversations-Lexikon.]
Abstract: Examines works by Niklas Butenschoen (Uns’ Muttersprak in Amerika), Wilhelm Diescher, Albert [Alfred] Arnemann, Hans Juergen Bullerjahn, Gustav Holthusen, and Karl Muenter.
MKI P2009-22
Low German dialect/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Literature, German-American/ Literature, German (US)/ Poetry

Knortz, Karl. “Vom lange Asmus un seim amerikanische Skizzebuechelche.” Folkloristische Streifzuege, vol. 1, 1899, pp. 270-279.
Notes: Prof. Karl Knortz, Schulsuperintenden zu Evansville, Indiana. Oppeln und Leipzig: Verlag von Georg Maske. Only first volume was published.
[From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Knortz, Karl, b. 8-28-1841 in Garbenheim, Rhenish Prussia, d. 1-28-1918 in Tarrytown, N.Y. German-American translator, editor, poet, folklorist, author, journalist, teacher and literary historian who introduced Walt Whitman to the German public. . . . [E]migrated to America [from London] in 1864. Studied the languages of the Indians and taught from 1864 to 1868 at the Schule des Seminarvereins in Detroit. 1868-71 taught German and Latin in Oshkosh, Wis. Taught 1871-74 at a seminary in Cincinnati and edited 1873-74 Der deutsche Pionier; 1875 the Indiana deutsche Zeitung in Indianapolis. In the fall of 1876 he was director of the school of the Deutsche Unabhaengige Gemeinde and the congregation’s speaker in Johnstown, Pa., later (1882) in N.Y. where he taught in the suburb Melrose. Served as sup’t. of German instruction in Evansville, Ind. from 1892-1905. Moved to Tarrytown, N.Y. Contributed to Die Glocke in Chicago; Deutsch-Amerikanische Dichtung; Deutsch-Amerikanische Monatshefte fuer Politik, Wissenschaft und Literatur; Americana Germanica; and Allgemeine Modenzeitung. Edited the section on American literature in Meyer’s Conversations-Lexikon.]
Abstract: Georg Asmus was born in 1830 in Giessen, and died in 1892 in Bonn. In 1862 he immigrated to America where he worked in mining operations on Lake Superior and New York. He wrote poems in the Hessian dialect as well as novels.
MKI P2009-22
Asmus, Georg, 1830-1892/ Poetry/ Humor & Satire/ Dialects/ Hessians

Knortz, Karl. “Zur Erinnerung an den urschwaben G. Heerbrandt.” Folkloristische Streifzuege, vol. 1, 1899, pp. 292-303.
Notes: Prof. Karl Knortz, Schulsuperintenden zu Evansville, Indiana. Oppeln und Leipzig: Verlag von Georg Maske. Only first volume was published.
[From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Knortz, Karl, b. 8-28-1841 in Garbenheim, Rhenish Prussia, d. 1-28-1918 in Tarrytown, N.Y. German-American translator, editor, poet, folklorist, author, journalist, teacher and literary historian who introduced Walt Whitman to the German public. . . . [E]migrated to America [from London] in 1864. Studied the languages of the Indians and taught from 1864 to 1868 at the Schule des Seminarvereins in Detroit. 1868-71 taught German and Latin in Oshkosh, Wis. Taught 1871-74 at a seminary in Cincinnati and edited 1873-74 Der deutsche Pionier; 1875 the Indiana deutsche Zeitung in Indianapolis. In the fall of 1876 he was director of the school of the Deutsche Unabhaengige Gemeinde and the congregation’s speaker in Johnstown, Pa., later (1882) in N.Y. where he taught in the suburb Melrose. Served as sup’t. of German instruction in Evansville, Ind. from 1892-1905. Moved to Tarrytown, N.Y. Contributed to Die Glocke in Chicago; Deutsch-Amerikanische Dichtung; Deutsch-Amerikanische Monatshefte fuer Politik, Wissenschaft und Literatur; Americana Germanica; and Allgemeine Modenzeitung. Edited the section on American literature in Meyer’s Conversations-Lexikon.]
Abstract: Gustav Heerbrandt was born in 1819 in Reutlingen and died in 1896 in New York. He was arrested and imprisoned as a revolutionary in 1848, immigrated to America in 1850. He was the founder and editor of a Swabian newspaper in New York in 1876.
MKI P2009-22
Heerbrandt, Gustav, 1819-1896/ Forty-eighters/ Swabians

Knott, Gregory. “Felix Austria, or: Modernism and the Success of the Austrian Presence at the 1904 World’s Fair.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 41, 2006, pp. 77-86, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Examines German and Austrian participation at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. Germany had created a reconstruction of Schloss Charlottenburg, following a “particularly conservative directive from the Emperor.” Austria focuses on “contemporary, modernist style when designing its pavilion and assembling its cultural displays. The unofficial representation of the country at the Tyrolean village, on the other hand, provided a stark contrast to this, emphasizing stereotypical images of rural and imperial life, in a decidedly unmodern depiction of the country.” The April 1904 edition of the World’s Fair Bulletin stated, “St. Louis wants the Tyrolean Alps to tell the story of the St. Louisan’s affection for the old country and faith in the new home.”
MKI Periodicals
20th century/ Austria/ St. Louis (Mo.)/ German Americans — Missouri/ National characteristics, German — Public opinion, American/ Arts

Knowlton, James. “Charles Evans’ American Bibliography as a Research Tool for German-American Studies.” In Papers from the St. Olaf Symposium on German-Americana. La Vern J. Rippley, and Steven M. Benjamin, eds., 1980, pp. 70-78.
Abstract: Tips on how to use Evans’ American bibliograpy for German-American studies and analysis of German printing in the bibliography.
MKI P85-85
German-American Studies/ Bibliographies

Knowlton, James. “Georg Michael Weiss und sein “Prediger”: Ein fruehes Beispiel der deutsch-amerikanischen Literatur.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 1979, pp. 27-35.
Abstract: Weiss, Georg Michael
MKI Periodicals
Literature, German-American/ Literary criticism/ Beissel, Conrad, 1690-1768

Knox, George. “A Complex Fate: Sadakichi Hartmann, Japanese-German Immigrant Writer and Artist.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974.
Abstract: Knox’ 12 page article quotes extensively from Hartmann’s manuscripts re Walt Whitman’s influence on his poetry, his experiences of being forced to move to the United States to live with his uncle, his embracing of the “American way of life,” (and his rejection of defining himself as Eurasian or German).    It also states that Hartmann wrote extensively on literature, theater, dance, the visual arts, and photography (particularly the avant-garde), dedicated himself to living the bohemian life, founded a theater in California and became involved in movies.    The article goes on to discuss his harassment during WW II. Finally, the article briefly analyzes the influence of Hartmann’s race and national origins on his career.
MKI Periodicals / SHS E .G3 G315
Biographies/ Poetry/ Immigrants/ Assimilation/ World War, 1939-1945

Knuth, Eldon. “Mecklenburger Gotteskasten, Dubuque, Iowa, 1904.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 45, 2010, pp. 193-199, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Provides of summary of biographical information on twenty-three pastors from a photo of twenty-nine men identified as the “Mecklenburger Gotteskasten.” The photo was taken at a 1904 celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. Twenty of the individuals were born in Mecklenburg and emigrated between 1846 and 1896.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Dubuque (Iowa)/ Mecklenburg/ Lutheran Church

Knuth, Eldon L. “Emigrant waves from northern Germany.” German-American Genealogy, Spring 2002, pp. 1-6.
Notes: (Burbank, CA)
Abstract: “Emigrants left Germany in waves, with the crests corresponding to social and political crises in Germany. Major waves occurred in 1845-1858 (1.36 emigrants), 1864-1873 (1.04 million emigrants) and 1880-1893 (1.78 million emigrants).” Examines reasons for emigrating, typical emigration patterns, and the emigration records available to genealogists.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ Germany, Emigration and immigration

Knuth, Eldon L. “Friedrich Holter, German Missionary-Pastor to America.” German-American Genealogy, 2014, pp. 7-11.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Holter immigrated from Mecklenburg to America following initial seminary studies in Bavaria at the Neuendettelsau Mission Society.    He completed studies at Wartburg Seminary (then in Mendota, Ill.) and subsequently founded 13 congregations in Dakota Territory, and 12 additional congregations in Rhode Island, New Jersey and New York.  The author’s research connects Holter with the fictional Moene Markow, created by Johannes and Theodor Gillhoff in a sequel publication to the immigrant letters of the fictional Juernjakob Swehn.
MKI Periodicals
Holter, Friedrich / German Americans — Religion — History/ Swehn, Juernjakob

Knuth, Eldon L. “Who Wrote Those Letters?” German-American Genealogy, Spring 2005, pp. 11-12, ill.
Notes: (Immigrant Genealogical Society, Burbank, CA).
Abstract: Details the author’s search for information on Carl Wiedow and his descendants. Johannes Gillhoff, author of the book Juernjakob Swehn, der Amerikafahrer, had supposedly revealed that a large fraction of the letters in his book were written by one of his father’s former pupils by the name of Wiedow.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ Germany, Emigration and immigration/ Letters/ Fiction/ Gillhoff, Johannes/ German Americans — Iowa/ Mecklenburg

Kob, Karl Friedrich. “Excerpts from Wegweiser fuer Ansiedler im Territorium Kansas (1857) (Guide for Settlers in Kansas Territory).” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 40, 2005, pp. 75-85.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Translation of selected sections of the text originally published in German in 1857. Kob’s text emphasizes the important political role German settlers could play in the struggle against slavery. Includes Foreword, Present State of Population and Settlement in the Territory, and Some Advice and Contacts for Immigrants.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Kansas/ Slavery/ Kansas/ Kansas-Nebraska bill/ Forty-eighters/ Immigrants, German/ Guides

Kob, Karl Friedrich. “Wegweiser fuer Ansiedler im Territorium Kansas. Mit vorausgeschickter Erklaerung der bestehenden Gesetze und Verordnungen ueber Besiedelung oeffentlicher Staats-Laendereien in den Ver. Staaten von Nord-Amerika.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 40, no. 28-74, ill., 2005, pp. 1-26.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Original published 1857 in New York by G. B. Teubner.
Abstract: Reprint of the text originally published in 1857, this document was modeled on Information for Kansas Immigrants written by Thomas Webb. Kob’s text emphasizes the important political role German settlers could play in the struggle against slavery.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Kansas/ Slavery/ Kansas/ Kansas-Nebraska bill/ Forty-eighters/ Immigrants, German/ Guides

Koberstein, Paul. “Der Brand des Passagier-Dampfers “Erie” auf der Hoehe von Silver Creek am 9. August 1841.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 4, 1902, pp. 36-39.
Notes: “Nach alten Zeitungsberichten bearbeitet von Paul Koberstein.  (Aus dem Buffalo Demokrat, Aug. 10, 1902.).”
Abstract: “Am 10. August 1841, heute vor 61 Jahren, erliess am Nachmittag Mayor Isaac R. Harrington einen Aufruf an die Bewohner Buffalo’s zum Sammeln von Unterstuessungsgeldern fuer die Ueberlebenden des Passagierdampfers Erie.”    Includes brief passenger lists for trips to Chicago; Massilon, OH; Dover, OH; Cleveland, OH; and Akron OH.    Describes the fire that destroyed the Erie“
MKI Periodicals
Ships/ History/ Passenger lists

Koberstein, Paul. “Die ersten deutsch-amerikanischen Miliz-Compagnien.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 3, 1902, pp. 43-45.
Abstract: “Masslose Aufregung hatte sich am 30. Dezember 1837 der Bewohner Buffalo’s auf die Kunde einer entsetzlichen Greuelthat bemaechtigt, die von britischen Soeldlingen in der vorgegangenen Nacht bei Schlosser’s Dock, etwa zwei Meilen oberhalb der Niagara-Faelle, auf amerikanischem Gebiet veruebt worden war.
Schon laengere Zeit gaehrte es unter einem Theile der Bevoelkerung Canada’s, den Einwohnern franzoesischer Abstammung, infolge anstoetziger AMassnahmen der von der britischen Krone eingesetzten Regierung.    Die Unzufriedenheit brach im Herbst 1837 in offene Rebellion, die als ‘Patrioten-Krieg’ bekannte Erhebung aus…”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Soldiers/ Wars/ Canada/ German Americans — New York (state)

Koch, Barry Leroy Jr. “A Teutonic Potpourri.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, Summer 1999, pp. 21-22, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: “My primary goal is to present some facts about a small region in Branch Township, Schuylkill County . . . . This story centers on a farming community between Stein’s Mill and Llewellyn . . . [where] an interesting Germanic community developed comprised of old stock Pennsylvania Germans and the more recent German American of the nineteenth century.”
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch/ German Americans — Pennsylvania

Koekkoek, Byron J. “Sprachgermanistik in den USA.” Deutsche Sprache: Zeitschrift fuer Theorie, Praxis, Dokumentation, no. 4, 1976, pp. 351-355.
Notes: Published by: Institut fuer deutsche Sprache, Mannheim.
MKI P93-27
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Teaching/ Bibliographies/ Dialects

Koelpin, Arnold J. “A WELS Historical Profile; Chronological Sketches of Our Synod’s Past: 1800-1850.” WELS Historical Institute Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, 1983, pp. 4-8.
Notes: Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
MKI Periodicals

Koelsch, William A. “Three Friends of Swiss-American Science: Louis Agassiz, Arnold Guyot, and Cornelius C. Felton.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 44, no. 1, Feb. 2008, pp. 45-59, ill.
Abstract: 2007 “marks the bicentennial of the births of two Swiss scientists from Canton Neuschatel who came to America in the 1840s, the natural historian Jean Louis Rodophe Agassiz and the geographer-geologist Arnold Henri Guyot. It is also the bicentennial of the birth of the Harvard classicist Cornelius Conway Felton, who became Agassiz’ closest American friend and his brother-in-law, and was the translator of Guyot’s first American lectures as well as the instigator of his first book.”
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ 19th century/ Switzerland/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Science

Koenig, Angela T. “German Émigré Artists in America.” German Life, Apr./May 1999, pp. 44-47.
Notes: 8.5 x 11 photocopy.
Abstract: An account of German-American artists, including Emanuel Leutze (“Washington Crossing the Delaware”) and Albert Bierstadt. Includes sidebar on Peter C. Merrill, one of the world’s leading experts on German art in America.   
MKI P2000-18
Artists/ German Americans/ Arts/ Paintings

Koenig, Brian. History of the Lewiston Congregation = Geschichte der Lewiston Gemeinde.
Notes: Translated and donated by Bjarne Breilid.
Abstract: English and German version of 50th Anniversary Sermon at St. Michaels Ev. Luth. Church, circa 1903; includes names of founding members of the congregation.
MKI P2002-21
Churches/ Wisconsin

Koenig, Fritz H. “Language and Culture in German Textbooks from the Amana Colonies in Iowa.” 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. 144-154.
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
Amana/ Language, German (US)/ Teaching/ Culture/ Iowa

Koenig, Jon Todd. “Theodore Anna Arnoldine Henriette Sack (von Roeder / von Rosenberg).” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 33, no. 4, Winter 2011, pp. 228-231, ill.
Abstract: Theodore Sack (known as Dorchen to her family) was born in Duesseldorf, Germany, on 7 May 1829. In 1849 she set sail with her brother-in-law Wihelm Franz Xavier Jaentschke to meet with her sister, Elise Otillie Anna Sack Jaentschke, in Austin County, Texas. Theodore first married her cousin, Wilhelm Adolph Johann Eberhard Ludwig von Roeder, in 1850, and had one child — born, interestingly, in Bielefeld, Germany. Wilhelm died in 1852, and Theodore married Carl Eugen von Rosenberg in Round Top, Fayette County, Texas, in 1853. Five children were born to the couple, and they also adopted an orphaned girl sometime in the 1880s. Eugen served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Sack/ German Americans — Texas/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Koenig, Karl F. “Henry (Vater) Mirbach, Volksdichter.” American German Review, vol. 16, no. 5, 1950, pp. 25-27.
Abstract: Biographical sketch and several poems included. Mirbach, Henry, 1865-1949
MKI P93-75
Biographies/ Poetry

Koenig, Robert J., and Greg Koenig. “The Saxon Immigration of 1839: Why They Came; Why They Succeeded.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 1, Spring 1996, pp. 41-47.
Abstract: Examines five events in Germany that led to the establishment of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod: the rise of rationalism in the Lutheran State Church of Germany; the changes, or anticipated changes, that resulted from the Prussian Union attempted by Frederick William III, king of Prussia; the activities of a group of ministerial students (who called themselves “the Awakened”) at the University of Leipzig; the poor economy in Germany in the early 1800s; and the rise in prominence of Dresden pastor Martin Stephan.
MKI Periodicals
Religious life/ Lutheran Church/ Lutherans/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Germany, Emigration and immigration/ Germany/ History

Koepke, Wulf. “German-American and Exile Studies: Still a divided stream.” Monatshefte, vol. 86, no. 3, 1994, pp. 361-366.
Abstract: We should envision and practice an interdisciplinary study of Germans in North America, exiles and immigrants alike, and try to integrate the various aspects of such a study, historical, literary, cultural, ethnological, religious.  The exile immigration poses specific questions in relation to earlier immigration. Which of the problems faced by the exiles were typical for any new immigrants and which were special? The later twentieth century immigration requires an approach that focuses on the unattached individual, including the academic, the professional, the businessperson, who only occasionally joins or supports ethnic groups and who lives in urban areas.
MKI P99-9
German-American Studies/ Exile

Koepke, Wulf. “Review of Tagebuecher 1951-1952 by Thomas Mann.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994, pp. 160-162.
Abstract: Koepke’s review summarizes the contents of the 9th volume of Thomas Mann’s diaries.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Koeppe, Friedrich. “Daily Diary of Friedrich Koeppe of Anhalt, Germany, 1885-1890.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 29, no. 2, Summer 2007, pp. 215-225.
Notes: Translated and transcribed by Hildegarde Steger Gebert.
Abstract: Diary entries describe Koeppe’s trip from Zerbst, Germany to the port of Bremen, his Atlantic crossing, and his arrival at Castle Garden in New York. He then traveled to Manor, Texas, and then to Richland.to stay with the Nehrings. “This was my trip from Germany here to America. I has been 3 weeks since I left — 3 days in Germany, forty days on the ship and 5 days on the train.” Entries from 1887 describe his trip back home to Germany, and entries from 1890 describe another trip to America. The translator notes “Friedrich Koeppe died in the home of my grandparents, Peter Wilhelm and Magdalena Oertli Steger. He wasn’t a relative, but he was staying with them when he died, therefore his diaries were in their home. He died in 1894 and is buried in St. John cemetery in Richland Community, Travis County, TX.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Diaries/ Saxony-Anhalt/ Atlantic crossing/ 19th century/ Koeppe, Friedrich

Koerner, Christian. The Bennett Law and the German Protestant Parochial Schools of Wisconsin. Milwaukee, Wis.: Germania Publishing Company, 1890. [32] pp., tables.
Notes: Printed from the Internet. On title page: “By Christ. Koerner, Member of the Milwaukee Bar and Editor Legal Department ‘Germania.'” Stamped: “State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.” — Also published in German: Das Bennett-Gesetz und die deutschen protestantischen Gemeindeschulen in Wisconsin.
Abstract: Christian Koerner, the legal editor of Milwaukee’s leading German language newspaper, Germania, outlines the Wisconsin German-American community’s opposition to the Bennett Law, providing legal and statitiscal evidence against each part of the law.
MKI P2018-01
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Politics/ Education/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Schools/ Lutheran Church/ Lutherans

Koerner, Hermann Joseph Aloys. Lebenskaempfe in der Alten und Neuen Welt. Eine Selbstbiographie. Vol. 2. New York, N.Y.: Schmidt, 1866. [592] pp.
Notes: Carl Schurz Collection; have vol. 2 only; book is in poor condition with no cover and lacking final pages (ends with p. 592); on t.p.: “ordentlicher Professor an der New-Yorker Freien Academie.”
MKI P2001-7
PIA/ Autobiography/ Politics/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849

Kohl, Johann Georg. “Wisconsin through a German’s Eyes in 1855: The Travels of Johann Georg Kohl.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 67, no. 4, Summer 1984, pp. 263-278, ill.
Notes: Edited and translated by Frederic Trautmann.
Abstract: Translation of the Wisconsin section of Reisen im Nordwestern der Vereinigten Staaten.
MKI Periodicals
Kohl, J. G. (Johann Georg), 1808-1878 — Travel — Wisconsin/ America in German literature

Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory. “German Ideas and Practice in American Natural History Museums.” 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. 103-114.
Abstract: “The examples in this essay point to a pattern of involvement by Germans in American museums in the nineteenth century that emphasized, among other things, the educational potential of museum materials. Historians of education have indicated that science in public as well as private schools derived more from German than English philosophy and practice in the nineteenth century. There was an evident parallel in museums, which pulled and in some cases were pushed by local school officials and teachers to provide resources and special instruction. The German influence, however, was inevitably complex, and the outcomes were unpredictable.”
MKI/MEM LA 216 G47 1995
Museums/ United States/ History/ German influence/ 19th century/ Education

Kolb, Ingeborg. “Pommern in Berliner Buergerbuechern im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert.” Sedina Archiv: Familiengeschichtliche Mitteilungen Pommerns, vol. 5, no. 1 & 2, 1983, pp. 201-216.
MKI P92-12
Pomerania/ Genealogy

Kolb, Robert. “Luther for German Americans: The St. Louis Edition of Luther’s Works, 1880-1910.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 3, 1983, pp. 98-110.
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535

Kole, Carolyn. “Voltz to Folse, Huber to Oubre: German Louisiana — A Creole History.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 3, Fall 2005, pp. 287-291, ill.
Notes: Reprinted from Louisiana Life, Autumn 2004.
Abstract: Traces the cultural contributions of German immigrants in Louisiana.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Louisiana/ Cultural contribution

Kollander, Patricia. “Reflections on the Experiences of German Emigre Soldiers in the U.S. Army during World War II.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 41, 2006, pp. 103-116.
Notes:  Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Makes a case for the significance of research on German emigre veterans during World War II, providing sketches of the careers of K. Frank Korf, Joachim Elbe, Hans Schmitt, and Tom Frazier (born Ulrich Heinicke). The sketches examine their reasons for leaving Germany, “their experiences as immigrants, and their response to the internment of German-Americans.” The article “also features their military careers, especially their reactions to being back in Germany, and highlights their special contribution to the war effort in general and opposition to Hitler in particular.”
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans/ Anti-German sentiment/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Soldiers

Kollbrunner, Oskar. “Auch ein Kriegsopfer. Aus den Erlebnissen eines Gruenhorns.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 47, 1927, pp. 20-29.
Notes: German-American/Swiss-American author; “Nacherzaehlt von Oskar Kollbrunner, New York City”.
Abstract: Begins: “Zur Zeit, als die Vereinigten Staaten sich im moerderlichen Krieg gegen Deutschland den Allierten anschlossen, wohnte ich in Chicago.” The narrator is arrested for failure to report to the Army camp in Chicago.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Emigration and immigration (Switzerland-US)/ Personal narratives/ World War, 1914-1918

Kollbrunner, Oskar. “Drei Gedichte aus dem Nachlass Oskar Kollbrunners.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 10, Fall 1975, pp. 76-77.
Abstract: The three poems are: “Vor einer Uhr,” “Herbstag,” and “Stille Nacht.” German-American/Swiss-American author
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Kollbrunner, Oskar. “Drei Neuweltgedichte.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 47, 1927 , pp. 17.
Notes: German-American/Swiss-American author.
Abstract: Poems: “Die Brooklynbruecke,””Im Indianerdorf,” and “Volk im Untergang.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Poetry

Kollbrunner, Oskar. “Ein Lazarus der Landstrasse.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 48, 1928, pp. 23-28.
Notes: German-American/Swiss-American author; author is noted as being from Huettlingen-New York.
Abstract: Begins: “Das Heer der Wegelagerer und Wanderer nannte ihn Landstrassengrau, weil er sich wiegerte mit der neuen Zeit zu gehen, weil er den Gueterzug, mit dem seine Vagabunden- und Gelegenheitsarberiterkameraden nach Kansas in die Ernte kutschierten, mit einer Bewegung seiner Hand je und je als eines Wanderers unwuerdig erklaert hatte. . . . ‘Eine Vagabund, der keine Zeit hat, ist ueberhaupt kein Vagabund’ philosophierte er.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Fiction

Kollbrunner, Oskar. “Ein Tag mit der Amerikanischen Schweizerzeitung.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 47, 1927, pp. 95-100, ill.
Notes: Note: “Die beiden Bilder wurden vom ausgezeichneten Photographen, Herrn Emil Duft in New York, einem Schweizer-Amerikaner von Kaltbrunn, Kt. St. Gallen, hergestellt.” First photograph is attributed to M. Fromkin. German-American/Swiss-American author.
Abstract: A humorous look at a day at the newspaper. Includes photographs of the staff, including S. Meier, Frau S. Meier, Franz X. Amrein, Fred W. Muelchi, and Oskar Kollbrunner.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Newspapers, German-American/ New York (N.Y.)/ Newspapers, Swiss-American

Kollbrunner, Oskar. “Gedichte von Oskar Kollbrunner.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 41, 1921, pp. 59-61, ill.
Notes: Illustration of the poet with the caption, Oskar Kollbrunner, New York; German-American/Swiss-American author.
Abstract: Poems: “Es geht mein Herz zu Euch . . . “; Vom Braeutlein Sonnenschein”; “Vom singenden Brunnen”; “Ja, dort im Taelchen!”; “Leid der Welt”; and “Naechtlicher Weg.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Poetry

Kollbrunner, Oskar. “Im Chineseviertel. Amerikanovelle.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 44, 1924, pp. 19-24, ill.
Notes: German-American/Swiss-American author; photographic portrait of the author.
Abstract: Story takes place in New York City. Begins: “Ich besass noch fuenf Cents, sage und sc[h]reibe: Fuenf ganze Cents. Ein blitzblankes Nickelstueck mit einem federngeschmueckten Sitting-Bull-Kopf.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss American/ Fiction/ New York (N.Y.)

Kollbrunner, Oskar. “Tigerlilien. Novelle von Oskar Kollbrunner, New York.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 41, 1921, pp. 63-70, ill.
Notes: German-American/Swiss-American author.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss American/ Fiction

Kollmorgen, Walter M. “The Pennsylvania German Farmer.” In The Pennsylvania Germans. Ralph Wood, ed. 1942, pp. 29-55.
Abstract: The agricultural history of the state of Pennsylvania provides one of the finest examples of the significance of cultural considerations in farming enterprises.  No other colony received so large a representation of different European ethnic groups as Pennsylvania.  No other colony witnessed such unlike attacks upon the frontier or such unlike techniques of farming and making a living.  The German immigrants brought to this country different agricultural attitudes and techniques.  The Old World cultural patterns in their early agricultural practices represented deeply seated folkways.  These folkways were modified in the New World but were not completely obliterated.
MKI/SHS F 160 .G3 W66
Farming/ Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Agriculture

Kondert, Reinhart. “The German Press of New Orleans, 1839-1909.” 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. 143-156.
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

Kondert, Reinhart. “Germans in Louisiana: The Colonial Experience, 1720-1803.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 16, 1981, pp. 59-66.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americans — Louisiana/ History/ Farming/ Colonial period

Kondert, Reinhart. “The Germans of Colonial Louisiana: A bibliographical essay.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 30, 1995, pp. 127-140.
Abstract: Numerous articles and books have been written documenting the role of the Germans in Louisiana’s colonial history.    These works vary greatly in quality. It is the purpose of this essay to critically evaluate the published secondary sources that deal with this topic and to sort out those works which have value from those that are essentially worthless.
MKI–Journals
German Americans — Louisiana/ History/ Bibliographies/ Colonial period

Konings, P. A. Die Generalbeicht erleichtert. New York, N.Y.: Benziger Brothers, ©1880.
Notes: Religion; donated by Ronald C. Wagner.
MKI P92-44
PIA/ Religious works

Konnak, Sally. The Farmsteads of New Glarus: A Description of Ten Watercolor Paintings by New Glarus Artist Sally Konnak Exhibited at the Chalet Landhaus, New Glarus, Wisconsin, October, 1998 and Auto/Bike Tour of Scenic Roads around the Village of New Glarus. [S.l.]: [s.n.], [1998]. 14 pp.
Abstract: Provides history and stories about the following farms in Green County, Wisconsin: The Hefty [Hefti]-Blum farmstead (other surnames mentioned include:Kundert, Freitag and Vogli); “Two Silos” and the Meadow Valley School (surnames metioned include: Babler, Durst, Ott, and Rudd); the Elmer Dairy; the old Streiff barn; the Dean and Doris Streiff homestead; the John B. Ott homestead; and the Hustad farmstead.
MKI P2005-31
Exhibitions/ Paintings/ Farm life/ New Glarus (Wis.)/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Swiss Americans — Wisconsin

Konnak, Sally, comp. Free Congregation of Sauk City Library: Annotated Bibliographies. [Sauk City: Free Congregation], 2005. 45, 12, 6, 7 pp.
Notes: Donated by Sally Konnak and the Free Congregation of Sauk City; available on-line in PDF format at: https://mki.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1100/2015/10/Sauk_City_Freie_Gemeinde_Library_0.pdf.
Abstract: Bibliographies of books, pamphlets (including tracts, sermons, lectures, etc.), newspapers, and periodicals at the library of the Sauk City Freie Gemeinde, which was founded in 1852. Annotations describe subject matter, condition of materials, and inscriptions and signatures (often of prominent Sauk City families).
MKI P2005-23
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Sauk City (Wis.)/ Wisconsin — Sauk County/ Freethinkers/ Bibliographies/ Forty-eighters/ Free religion

Konnak, Sally, comp. Free Congregation of Sauk County: Music Archives: A General Description. [Sauk City: Free Congregation], 2005. 35 pp.
Notes: Donated by Sally Konnak and the Free Congregation of Sauk City; available on-line in PDF format at: https://mki.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1100/2015/10/Sauk_City_Freie_Gemeinde_Music-sm.pdf.
Abstract: Music collection from the Freie Gemeinde established at Sauk City in 1852. Items are listed and described under the following categories: Music Instruction; Vocal Music: Solos, Duets, and Trios; Operas and Operettas; Cantatas; Christmas Songs; “Freie Gemeinde Songs”; WWI Songs (German and other); “Regional Songs” (specific regions of Germany and elsewhere in Europe); Naffz, Carl (special folder); Songsheets and Songbooks (mostly English language); Songbooks (mostly in German); Choral Music: Choir Members’ Names; Two Pitchpipes; Maennerchor; Mixed Chorus (including Oratorios and “The Music Suitcases”); Instrumental Music: Wisconsin Composers; Handwritten Scores; For More than One Piano and/or Piano Player; Solo Piano; Violin or Flute, Zither, Piano or Organ, with Vocal; Miscellaneous Music: Pieces and Scraps; Miscellaneous Music Catalogs and Ordering Information; Music Programs, etc. (from Sauk-Prairie, U.S., and abroad); Miscellaneous Everything Else; and Music Periodicals.
MKI P2005-23
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Sauk City (Wis.)/ Wisconsin — Sauk County/ Freethinkers/ Bibliographies/ Forty-eighters/ Free religion/ Music

Konnak, Sally. Toward Understanding the Founders of the Freie Gemeinde of Sauk County (307 Polk Street, Sauk County, Wisconsin). Spring Green, Wis.: the author, 2006. [68] pp.
Notes: Summaries of research by historians Friedrich Engels, Theodore Hamerow, and LaVern Rippley, supplemented by observations gained as Freie Gemeinde cataloguer and archivist. Donated by Sally Konnak.
Abstract: Contents: The 1848 German Revolution (summaries of Friedrich Engels’ “The German Revolutionaries” and Theodore S. Hamerow’s “Restoration, Revolution, Reaction”); German Immigrant History: An Overview (summaries of LaVern Rippley’s “The German-Americans” and “The Immigrant Experience in Wisconsin”); Freie Gemeinde of Sauk County, Wisconsin: List of Founders. Includes references.
MKI P2006-16
Freethinkers/ Sauk City (Wis.)/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Forty-eighters/ Wisconsin — Sauk County/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees

Konnak, Sally. Toward Understanding the Founders of the Freie Gemeinde of Sauk County (307 Polk Street, Sauk County, Wisconsin), Part II: Coming to the Sauk Prairie. Spring Green, Wis.: the author, 2007. 60 pp., ill.
Notes: Donated by Sally Konnak.
Abstract: “Describes the arrival of the founders of the village of Sauk City, Wisconsin, and its Freie Gemeinde, and the early settlement period 1840-1861. Includes a summary of pre-settlement history, information on the post-glacial landscape, Native American villages and mounds, and the water routes of voyageurs and priests. The effects of white settlement on the land are discussed.”
Contents: The Lure of the New Land. The Sauk Prairie. The Oak Openings. Wetlands — The Native Peoples — Here Come the Colonists — Capt. Marryat’s Diary in America — Fathers Inama and Gaertner; Gaertner’s 1846 Panorama Drawing — Wisconsin Beckons the 48ers — Freethinkers on the Prairie. Exit: Agoston — Formation of the Freie Gemeinde; 1850 Census — Founders and Friends: Snapshots and Anecdotes — Freie Gemeindler in the Civil War — The Sauk Prairie: Requiescat in pace. Includes references.
Names mentioned: Frederick George Jacob Lueders, J. C. Graepel, Emma Rendtorff, the Ochsner family, Agoston Haraszthy, Karoly Fischer, Adolph Rendtorff, Henriette Graepel, Ottilie and Karl Naffz, Peter Kehl, Matthias Leinenkugel, Carl Duerr, Eduard Schroeter, Paul Lachmund, Berry Haney, Joseph J. Heller, Adam Clas, Elise Schumm, Paul Berwig, Herman Schumm, Emilie Crusius, Herman Leuders, Lona Fischer, C. F. Viebahn, Christoph Spiehr, Robert Cunradi, Johann Kehl, Wilhelm Nebel, the Meyer families, Michael and August Derleth, Eduard Ganz, Charles Buchanau, Jacob Bohn, Henry Sorg, George Ferber, Julius Kuhn, Gottfried Bosshard, William Thiele, Jr., J. Ulrich Schmidt, Max Kroscher, Ferdinand Keller, and John Dieterle.
MKI P2006-16
Freethinkers/ Sauk City (Wis.)/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Forty-eighters/ Wisconsin — Sauk County/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees

Konopka, Nicole K. “Finding an Image of the Past: Traces of 19th Century German Immigrants in Today’s USA = Auf der Suche nach Bildern: Die Spuren deutscher Auswanderer in den heutigen USA.” Bild Bewegung. Bilder von Migration, Migration von Bildern. Rostock, Germany: Universitaetsdruckerei Rostock, 2009, pp. 60-91, ill.
Notes: Ein Photoprojekt von Mitgliedern des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs “Kulturkontakt und Wissenschaftsdiskurs.” Donated by Nicole Konopka.
Abstract: “My primary interest lay in the tracking and recording of visual traces of German-American immigrants. . . Several questions dominated this documentation of cultural contact: to what extent are cliches and conventional images consciously and unconsciously depicted in everyday life? How may the photographic gaze be used to (re-)shape the imagination of an audience? Does the medium of photography serve, or subversively undermine this purpose?” Photographs include a landscape of Mazomanie County, Wisconsin; Prospect Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; St. John’s Lutheran Church, Clayton County, Iowa; Amana Colonies, Iowa; Old Town, Chicago, Illinois; Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, Illinois; German Fest, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Over the Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
MKI P2009-6
German Americans/ Cultural influence/ America/ National characteristics, American — Public opinion, German

Kopp, Achim. “Abraham Reeser Horne’s Pennsylvania German Manual.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 45, 2010, pp. 107-127, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references. This article is reprinted in the Spring 2013 Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2.
Abstract: Examines the life of Abraham Reeser Horne (1834-1902) and his influential source book for Pennsylvania German language, literature, and culture, the Pennsylvania German Manual, first published in 1875.
MKI Periodicals
Horne, Abraham Reeser, 1834-1902/ Pennsylvania Germans/ 19th century/ Literature, German-American/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Kopp, Achim. “Evidence of Convergence in Pennsylvania German.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. Supplemental Issue, vol. 2, 2006, 2006, pp. 49-65.
Notes: Preserving Heritage: A Festschrift for C. Richard Beam. Edited by Joshua R. Brown and Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. Includes bibliographical references.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialects/ Linguistics/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Kopp, Achim. “The matched-guise technique in practice: Measuring language attitudes within the Pennsylvania German speech community.” 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. 264-283.
Abstract: The matched-guise technique offers a unique chance to gain rather objective insight into the informants’ language attitudes.    The regional-standard speaker was generally regarded to have higher intelligence and status than the speakers of Pennsylvania German and Pennsylvania German English.    Social success is associated mostly with standard American English.    These results reflect the presence of the stereotype of the ‘dum Dutchman’.    On the other hand, both ethnically-marked varieties were favored over the regional standard in connection with emotional issues and solidarity.
MKI PF 5925 G47 1993
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Attitudes/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialects

Kopp, Achim. “”Of the most ignorant stupid sort of their own nation”: Perceptions of the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 35, 2000, pp. 41-55.
Abstract: “The purpose of this essay is to trace the development of the current perceptions and stereotypes associated with the Pennsylvania Germans (also known as the Pennsylvania Dutch) and their linguistic varieties….The study of both the development and the current nature of cultural attitudes and stereotypes is of great importance for our understanding of recent linguistic developments among the Pennsylvania Germans. In particular,…adoption of, and widespread belief in, the stereotype of the “dumb Dutchman”…has led to a shift from Pennsylvania German to English as native language and will ultimately result in language death within this subgroup.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Image/ 18th century/ 20th century/ Stereotypes / Language loss/ Linguistics

Kopp, W. LaMarr. “The Allison-Shelley Collection of Anglica-Americana Germanica.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds., 1977. pp. 1-5.
Abstract: Kopp’s 5 page paper outlines the scope of the Allison-Shelley collection at Penn State and encourages the public to make use of it.
MKI P87-163
German Americana/ Collections

Korth, Louis F. “Die deutschen Siedlungen im Scioto-Thale.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 8, 1908, pp. 7-9.
Abstract: “Wenn wir von der Colonisierung des Scioto-Thales sprechen, an welcher ja auch die Deutschen ihren Antheil, einen grossen, gehabt haben, so muessen wir auch die Vorgeschichte derselben, die der Entdeckung und der ersten Durchquerungen und Durchforschungen, streifen, welche uns in die Indianerzeit traegt, um nicht in der Mitte zu beginnen.”
MKI Periodicals
Settlements/ German Americans — Ohio/ 18th century/ Pioneers/ Immigrants, German

Kortum, Gerhard. “Migrationstheoretische und bevoelkerungsgeographische Probleme der nordfriesischen Amerikarueckwanderung.” In Die deutsche und skandinavische Amerikaauswanderung im 19. und 20.    Jahrhundert. Kai Detlev Sievers, ed. 1981, pp. 111-201.
Abstract: “Der folgende Beitrag gliedert sich in einen allgemein-theoretischen und regional-empirischen Teil und versucht damit, das Problem der Rueckwanderung von zwei Ebenen her naeher zu fassen.    Rueckwanderungsvorgaenge sind bislang in der Forschung nur sehr wenig beachtet worden.    Es ist die Absicht, der Fallstudie zur Rueckkehr nordfriesischer Amerikaauswanderer ueber deren sozialgeschichtliche und landeskundliche Bedeutung hinaus ein grundsaetzliches Gewicht zu geben.”
MKI P87-84 / MEM E 184 .G3 D54 1981
Emigration and immigration / Population

Koshar, Rudy. “‘Germany has been a melting pot’: American and German intercultures, 1945-1955.” The German-American encounter: Conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000. Frank and Shore Elliott Trommler, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001, pp. 158-178.
Abstract: Examines “whether the type of historical and social imagery one finds in tourist literature has anything to do with the lived experience and history not only of the society tourists visited but of the tourists themselves.”
MKI/MEM E 183.8 G3 G472 2001
America/ Germany/ Travel/ 20th century

Kovach, Thomas. “German Jews and Ostjuden in the American South: Alfred Uhry’s Last Night of Ballyhoo .” German-Jewish Identities in America. Edited by Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons Madison, WI : Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2003, pp. 117-132.
Abstract: Uhry’s play portrays a wealthy and assimiliated German-Jewish family in Atlanta, Georgia, at the time when Hitler is invading Poland. This article considers the broader historical context of the Jewish community in Atlanta during this period and then examines the play in-depth with a focus on the attitude of the play’s German Jewish family toward Ostjuden.
MKI/MEM E184 J5 G37 2003
Jews/ Jews, German/ World War, 1939-1945/ Theater & Drama/ German Americans — Georgia

Kraft, Elaine. “In the Beginning: Looking back on 40 years of the Pommerscher Verein Freistadt.” Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Rundschreiben, June 2018, p. 7.
Abstract: A summary of the organization of the Pommersche Tanzdeel Freistadt, associated with the Alte Kameraden Band; the Pommerscher Verein Freistadt; and Pommerntag.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Pomeranians — Wisconsin

Krahn, Cornelius. “Russo-Mennonite Literature in Canada and U.S.A.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds. 1977, pp. 95-100.
MKI P87-163
Mennonites/ Low German dialect/ Russian Germans/ Schools/ Literature, German

Krakau, Knud. “‘…important luminaries for the political telescope to observe’: Preussen — gesehen durch das amerikanische politische Teleskop des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts.” Gesellschaft und Diplomatie im transatlantischen Kontext: Festschrift für Reinhard R. Doerries zum 65. Geburtstag. Michael Wala, Hrsg. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999, pp. 39-59.
Abstract: “Fuer die jungen Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika hatten die Beziehungen mit Preussen als Staat oder Gesellschaft im 18. Jahrhundert bestenfalls marginale Bedeutung.    Preussen sagte den Amerikanern wenig, ihnen und selbst fuehrenden Politikern war es weitgehend unbekannt.    Sie sahen es durch das Prisma amerikanischer Interessen und Stereotypen, die weniger spezifisch auf Preussen als vielmehr auf Europa ganz allgemein als die ‘Alte Welt’ fixiert waren.”
MKI E183.7 G47 1999
Prussia/ Relations, Germany-US/ 18th century/ Politics

Krammer, Arnold. “Hitler’s Legions in America.” American History Illustrated, vol. 18, no. 4, 1983, pp. 54-64.
Abstract: German prisoners in America after World war II (POWs)
MKI P86-137 / SHS E 171 .A574
World War, 1939-1945/ Prisoners of war

Krapf, Norbert. “The Germans came flying like snowflakes.” In Studies in Indiana German-Americana, 1988, pp. 93-102.
Abstract: Poem
MKI P92-9
Poetry

Krause, Bonnie J. “The German Saxon Community in the Illinois Mississippi River Bottoms.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 23-36, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “During the early nineteenth century, thousands of Germans immigrated, enticed by [Gottfried] Duden’s Report [on a Journey to the Western States of North America]. One of those inspired to lead others to emigrate from Saxony, the Saxon Duchies and Saxon Province of Prussia was Martin Stephan, an ultra conservative clergyman. . . . By 1837 he formed an Emigration Association with plans to move from Dresden to Hamburg . . . from Hamburg . . . to New Orleans, then to St. Louis by steamboat. In St. Louis the group would choose a site for their colony. . . . Between 3 and 18 November 1838, 665 people departed from Bremen on five ships. One ship, the Amalia with fifty-eight people on board, was lost at sea. The remaining voyagers arrived in St. Louis during January and February 1839. Four-fifths of the immigrants were farmers and craftsmen. In May 1839, they purchased 4,475 acres of private and government land for $9,234.25 in Perry County, Missouri.” The Missouri colonists later separated into six major settlements: Altenburg, Nieder Frohna, Dresden, Seelitz, Johannisberg, and Wittenberg. The Missouri colonies continued to grow and eventually crossed the Mississippi River to create a new colony in Fountain Bluff, Jackson County, Illinois.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ German Americans — Missouri/ Lutherans/ Personal narratives

Kreis, Karl Markus, ed. Ein deutscher Missionar bei den Sioux-Indianern. Der Sprachforscher, Ethnologe und Sammler Eugen Buechel / Eugene Buechel (1874-1954): Materialien zu Leben und Werk. Ergebnisse aus Forschung und Entwicklung, Nr. 19. Dortmund: Fachhochschule Dortmund, [2004]. 107 pp., ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Donated by Karl Markus Kreis, 2006.
Abstract: Contents: Part 1: Leben und Werk. “‘Wanbli Sapa,’ der ‘Indianerpater’ aus der Rhoen,” by Karl Markus Kreis –    “Pater Eugen Buechel SJ / Father Eugene Buechel, S.J. Lebensdaten,” by Josef Buechel and K. M. Kreis — “‘Die Menschen mochten ihn.’ Aussagen ueber Person und Werk,” by K. M. Kreis — “Der Missionar als Wegbereiter des interkulturellen Austauschs,” by K. M. Kreis — “Eugene Buechels ethnologische Sammlung,” by Raymond A. Bucko SJ — “Schwarzer Adler ueber die Sioux-Grammatik,” by William J. Moore SJ — “Fotografien von Rosebud und Pine Ridge, 1922-1942. Einfuehrung zur Fotoausstellung,” by David Wing — Part 2: Texte von Eugene Buechel. “Briefe an Jesuiten in Deutschland”: “Sorge um die katholischen Indianerschulen,” — “Erfolg der Schule. Ein Maedchen mit dem ‘zweiten Gesicht'” — “Alltag eines Superiors” — “Eine neue Indianer-Religion” — “Artikel in amerikanischer Missionszeitschriften”: “St. Patricks-Kirche, Rosebud Reservation” — “Drei grosse alte Maenner” — “Der faule Indianer–ein Mythos” — “Alte Indianer sind fest im Glauben” — “Frank Arrowside” — “Ein indianischer Kamillus” — “Weihnachten in den Missionen” — “Arbeiter der elften Stunde” — “Nachdenkliches von einem altgedienten” — “Missionar” — Nachwort: “Deutsche Ordensletue bei den Sioux. Bericht aus einem kaum erforschten Gebiet,” by K. M. Kreis.
MKI P2006-22
Buechel, Eugene, 1874-1954/ Dakota Indians — Missions/ Native Americans/ Jesuits — Missions — South Dakota — Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.) — History — Sources/ Jesuits — Missions — South Dakota — Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) — History — Sources

Kreis, Karl Markus. Reaktionen in der deutsch-amerikanischen Presse auf die nationalsozialistischen Judenverfolgungen: “Buffalo Volksfreund” und “Aurora und Christliche Woche,” Buffalo, N.Y. Ergebnisse aus Forschung und Entwicklung, Nr. 17. Dortmund: Fachhochschule Dortmund, [2001]. 68 pp.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Donated by Karl Markus Kreis, 2006.
Abstract: Section titles are: I. Zur sozialen und politischen Situation bei Beginn der dreissiger Jahre — II. Presseberichte ueber Judenverfolgungen nach der “Machtergreifung,” Januar-Maerz 1933 — III. Veraenderungen zwischen 1933 und 1938 — IV. Presseberichte ueber Judenverfolgungen bei und nach Novemberpogromen 1938 — V. Fazit und offene Fragen — VI. Literatur — VII. Veroeffentlichungen des Autors seit 1995 zu deutsch-amerikanischen und verwandten Themen.
MKI P2006-22
Newspapers, German-American/ Buffalo (N.Y.)/ German Americans — New York (state)/ 20th century/ Jews/ National Socialism/ National characteristics, German — Public opinion, American/ Jews, German

Kremling, Helmut J. “The Beginning of Cleveland’s German Language Theater, 1820-1860.” In Papers from the St. Olaf Symposium on German-Americana. La Vern J. Rippley, and Steven M. Benjamin, eds., 1980, pp. 79-86. Abstract: Includes sections on Cleveland’s cultural growth; German Clubs initiating theater in the 1850s; first professional German theater in Cleveland
MKI P85-85
Cleveland (Ohio)/ Theater & Drama

Krenz, Michael Frederich. “Wisconsin Pommerns in the Civil War: A letter of Michael Frederick Krenz to his wife.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 30, Oct. 2001, pp. 15.
Notes: Translated by Norma Krenz, Wausau, WI.
Abstract: Translation of letter written by Krenz on January 21, 1865, from Alabama.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Letters/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Kretzmann, Paul E. [Edward]. Gottes Wunderwege. Vier Erzählungen aus dem Westen. Konstanz: Hirsch, 1924. 64 pp., [2] col. plates.
On titel page: Buch- und Kunstverlag Carl Hirsch A.-G. Printed in Germany. Illustrated cover. — Inscribed “Glorace[?] Kuehl.”
German-American author. Kretzmann, Paul Edward (August 24, 1883 — July 13, 1965). Born Farmers Retreat, Dearborn County, Indiana; educated at Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri; pastor Shady Bend, Kansas, 1906-1907; Denver, Colorado, 1907-1912; prof. sciences and math. Conc. Coll., St. Paul, Minnesota, 1912 -1919; ed., later production manager, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Missouri, 1919-1923; prof. Conc. Sem., St. Louis, Missouri, 1924-1946; pastor Forest Park, Illinois, 1946-1948.
Stories set in the American West. Contents: “Verachte deine Mutter nicht, wenn sie alt wird” — Eine Missionsreise durch die Steppen des Westens — “Alle eure Sorge werfet auf Ihn!” — Wunderbare Geschichte, wie zwei Männer zu verschiedenen Zeiten beten gelernt haben.
Donated by Dale Bartel.

Kretzschmar, Angelina Genzer. “Dr. George Ferdinand Herold’s Relationship to the Schmidt, Lauw, and Linbrugger Families in Texas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 306-309.
Abstract: “In the 1870 Frelsburg, TX census, Dr. Herold or Harold was 40 years old and from Prussia. He is listed as a farmer and physician. . . . He lived with his wife Anna, who was 50 years old. . . . In the 1880 Frelsburg, TX census, George F. Herhold, 46, from Hesse Cassel is listed with his wife, Anna Herhold, 61, from Oldenburg. Listed as living with them are four orphans, Mathilde Lauw, 13 at school; Julie Lauw, 11 at school; Anna Lauw, 9 at school; and Anna Meyer, 1, orphan. Lauw is spelled Laow. . . . Around 1886, William and Lina Linbrugger and their family moved to Osage, on the north bank of the Colorado River, on a farm belonging to Dr. G. F. Herold. . . . William Schmidt, per his obituary, accepted a position with Dr. G. F. Herold of Frelsburg, TX, who voluntarily offered to defray all of his incidental expenses and pay him a cash bonus of $200 at the end of the year, as a farm manager. . . . This article was written only as a historical source on how Dr. Herold helped the Schmidt, Lauw and Linbrugger families in Texas. I found his name mentioned numerous times in my family history and always as assisting them.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Herold, George F./ Schmidt/ Lauw/ Linbrugger

Kriebel, David W. “New Directions in a Traditional Pennsylvania German Healing Practice: A Twenty-First Century Powwower.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 57-71.
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.
Abstract: Relates how Chris Bilardi became interested in and learned the traditional healing art of powwowing and examines the evolution of powwowing in the twenty-first century.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ 21st century/ Medicine & Health/ Folks-medicine

Kriebel, David W. “Powwowing: A Traditional Pennsylvania German Healing Practice.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. Supplemental Issue, vol. 2, 2006, 2006, pp. 101-110.
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 Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Medicine & Health/ Folks-medicine/ Folklore/ Superstitions

Kriebel, David W. “Powwowing at the Millenium: A Report on My Recent Research.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn 2001, pp. 17-18.
Notes: Millersville University. Includes selected bibliography.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Medicine & Health/ Folks-medicine/ Folklore/ Superstitions

Krieger, Peter. “New York Skyscrapers, Made in Hamburg: Jerry Cotton as Visual Educator.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement, no. 2, 2005, pp. 139-156, 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: Essay portrays how “movies could provide an important simulacrum for real experience while training their audiences to read architecture according to mainstream ideology. In this sense, the visual ambience of glass curtain walls was sufficient to create a virtual Manhattan as the stage for secret agent “Jerry Cotton,” a pulp fiction hero in the mold of James Bond who appeared in a series of movies between 1965 and 1969. Because the low budget made filming in New York impossible, the hero, played by George Nader, instaead saved the world agains the backdrop of Hamburg. Stock footage of Manhattan’s dramatic skyline was intercut with close-ups of high-rise facades in Hamburg. . . [testifying] as much to the artistic possibilities of film as to an actual interchangeability of buildings and locations within the now truly international style.”
MKI Periodicals
Architecture/ 20th century

Kriegleder, Wynfrid. “Sealsfield — Strubberg — Karl May, oder: Der deutsche Amerikaroman wird zum Ego-Trip.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 46, 2011, pp. 5-19.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “Die in diesem Beitrag behandelten Romane, bis hin zu den Texten Charles Sealsfields, stehen allesamt in der Tradition des Aufklaerungsromans. Sie folgen damit einer Literaturauffassung, die dem Autonomiepostulat der Weimarer Klassik und der Romantik vorangeht. . . Die Amerikaromane sind zuaechst von diesen gattungspoetischen Neuerungen unberuehrt; von Seybold bis Sealsfield dominiert das Modell des Aufklaerungsromans. . . . Die von uns heute als trivial eingestuften Romane Strubbergs und Mays folgen letztlich dem Schema des Wilhelm Meister. . . . Nach 1848 beschraenkt sich das Amerikamotiv in deutschsprachigen Romanen weitgehend darauf, fuer individuelle Lebensgeschichten funktionalisiert zu werden. Informationen ueber die Vereinigten Staaten oder gar eine gesellschaftliche Alternative zur europaeischen Misere bieten die Romane nicht mehr. Das mag natuerlich auch damit zusammenhaengen, dass Amerika nicht mehr als positive Alternative begriffen wird.”
MKI Periodicals
Travel in literature/ America in German literature/ May, Karl Friedrich, 1842-1912/ Strubberg, Friedrich Armand, 1806-1889/ Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literature, German/ Literature, German-American/ 19th century

Krier, Beatrice A. Wester. Naming the Land: Town Belgium. Immigration from Belgium and Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Europe. [2] pp.
Notes: Donated by Beatrice A. Wester Krier, President, Luxembourg Society of Wisconsin.
Abstract: Includes a brief chronology.
MKI P2002-62
Luxembourg/ Belgium/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Wisconsin — Ozaukee County

Krimm, Konrad. “Friedrich Hecker (1811-1881).” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen. 1976, pp. 85-87.
Abstract: Included in section “Lebensbilder von Deutsch-Amerikanern aus dem deutschen Suedwesten.”
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Hecker, Friedrich, 1811-1881

Krog, Carl E. “The battle against the Kaiser: Social and cultural conflict in Marinette, Wisconsin, during the World War I era.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 231-248.
Abstract: Krog’s article traces the social and cultural conflict between German- and Anglo-Americans in Marinette, Wisconsin during World War I, which sped up the Americanization process of German-Americans.
MKI Periodicals
Wisconsin/ German Americans/ World War, 1914-1918/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Ethnic identity

Krommer, Anna. “An Austrian Liberator in America 1854-1917.”
Notes: German-American author. Woman author (wrote the article).
Abstract: Re Hans Kudlich. Kudlich, Hans, 1854-1917
MKI P86-45
Biographies/ Kudlich, Hans, 1854-1917

Kronoff, Frida von. Der Kleinen Zeitvertreib.
MKI P97-40
PIA/ Poetry/ Children

Krueger, La Vina Lee. “Grease ain’t bad if you never had butter.” Heritage Review (Germans from Russia Heritage Society), vol. 20, no. 2, 1991, pp. 28-30.
Abstract: Memoirs of her childhood in South Dakota during the depression, then they moved to Oregon
MKI Shelf–Periodicals
Russian Germans/ Memoirs/ Dakotas

Krueger, Lillian. “Madame Mathilda Franziska Anneke: An Early Wisconsin Journalist.” The Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. XXI, no. 2, 1937, pp. 161-167.
MKI P91-1
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/ Biographies/ Women authors/ Feminists

Krueger, Rudolph. “Geschichte der Kath. Union von Missouri.” In 62te General-Versammlung des deutschen roemisch-katholischen Central-Vereins.1917, pp. 122-147.
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.
Abstract: A history of the Catholic Union of Missouri.
MKI PIA MO
Catholic Church/ Churches/ Societies, etc./ Missouri/ German Americans — Missouri/ History

Krueger, Rudolph. “Geschichte des Centralvereins.” In 62te General-Versammlung des deutschen roemisch-katholischen Central-Vereins.1917, pp. 75-117.
Notes: Includes illustrations, portraits, maps, plates.  Cover title, “62 General Versammlung des D. R. K. Central-Vereins”    In UWLibyCat BX 1418 .S3 Z8 1917.
Abstract: A history of the “deutschen roemisch-katholischen Central-Verein,” beginning with colonial history and German settlements in 1606 and continuing to the time of publication, 1917.  The Central-Verein was founded in 1855.
MKI PIA MO
Catholic Church/ Churches/ History/ Societies, etc./ German Americans — Missouri

Krumpelmann, John T. “Sealsfield and Sources.” Monatshefte, vol. 43, 1951, pp. 324-326.
Abstract: Examples of details Sealsfield borrowed from other sources.
MKI P93-76
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Krumpelmann, John T. “Sealsfield’s Observation Concerning the Blooming of Magnolias in Louisiana.” Modern Language Notes, vol. 84, 1969, pp. 796-798.
MKI P93-81
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Kuby, Alfred H. “Die Leute von der Snow ‘Ketty.'” 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. 79-95, ill.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Palatines

Kueck, Henry. “[Dear Metta: three letters written by Henry Kueck from near Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863, to his wife in Caroldelet, Missouri].” Der Maibaum, vol. 24, no. 1, 2015, pp. 11-14.
Notes: Letters from the Henry Kück Collection, Western Historical Manuscripts, University of Missouri-St. Louis; English translation from the German by Steven Rowan.
Abstract: “…noted for their quality of war reportage by a German-American fighting for the Union.” [Directors’ Greeting]   Includes information on the weather, the conditions in camp, the incompetence of officers; concern for health, economics and peace.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Missouri/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Letters

Kuehlwein, Heinz. “”Leb wohl du teures Land, das mich geboren…”: Die Auswanderung nach den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika zwischen 1840 und 1870 im Bereich der Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Emskirchen.” Bausteine Emskirchner Geschichte, vol. Nr. 19/20, 1999/2000, pp. 3-61.
Notes: Herausgegeben vom Heimatverein Emskirchen e.V.; Druck: Franz Wegerer, Kopie und Druckservice.
Abstract: Article addresses German immigration to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, especially from Emskirchen.    Includes lists of family names from ship registers, a table comparing emigration from different German towns, and details of the Atlantic crossing.
MKI P2000-14
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Kuemin-Jurt, Martha. “Ufnau: An Island in Switzerland’s Lake Zurich, a Hamlet in the American State of Texas.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol.    48, no. 1, Feb. 2012, pp. 1-10, ill.
Abstract: Article seeks to understand the connection between Ufnau Island in Switzerland and a small area in Comal County, Texas — with an old schoolhouse and a teacherage — also called Ufnau.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans — Texas/ Ufnau (Tex.)/ Texas — Comal County

Kuepfer, Elmer. “A History of the First Five Years of the Old Order Amish in Kincardine Township, Bruce County, Ontario, 1995-2000.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 15-16.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Amish/ Ontario, Canada

Kuhm, Herbert W. “Ve Goink Milvowkee!” Historical Messenger of the Milwaukee County Historical Society, vol. 31, no. 4, 1975, pp. 106-113, ill.
Abstract: A brief examination of Wisconsin’s settlement by European immigrants.    The author has incorporated his ancestors’ reminiscences of immigrant journeys to America that he heard as a youth.    An emphasis on German immigrants in Milwaukee.
MKI P84-82 / SHS F 587 .M6 H5/31
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)

Kuhm, Herbert W. “When Black Crepe Hung on Milwaukee Doors.” Milwaukee History, vol. 3, no. 4 , 1980, pp. 112-116.
Abstract: The author offers a brief recollection of the treatment of death in his German family and community in turn-of-the-century Milwaukee.    He details the customs involving funeral services, the hearse, and the practice of hanging crepe on a house’s door to indicate a resident had died.
MKI P84-120
Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Culture/ Social life and customs/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Kuhn, Mrs. Roland J., comp. The Town Rhine Monument to Civil War Dead. S.l.: Sheboygan County Landmarks, [1976?]. [12] pp.
Notes: photocopy; “Civil War memorial monument Co. Tr. E at Co. Tr. FF, July 1868.”
Abstract: The monument, erected in 1868, bears an inscription in German.
MKI P2002-73
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Kulas, John. “Der Wanderer of St. Paul: an Overview of the First Years.” A Heritage Fulfilled: German-Americans: Die Erfuellte Herkunft. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor, Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1984, pp.. 64-93.
Abstract: Kulas’ paper discusses the history of the Catholic-affiliated newspaper “Der Wanderer,” published in St. Paul.  Several photographs and illustrations are included.
MKI F615 G3 H48 1984
German Americans — Minnesota/ Ethnic identity/ Language, German (US)/ Newspapers, German-American/ Assimilation/ Catholics

Kulhanek, Katie. “German Immigrant Builds Up a Town. The Father of Halsted: John Henry Wessels.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 2, 1934, pp. 122-123, ill.
Notes: Originally appeared in the Fayette County Record, Sept. 6, 2011.
Abstract: Johann Hinrich Wessels was born on April 8, 1863 in Oldenburg, Germany. When his father died, his mother decided to join relatives in Rutersville, Fayette County, Texas; she and her three boys arrived in 1871. As an adult, John Henry did much for the community of Halsted, building a house and opening a general merchandise store, cotton gin, saloon, lumber shed, dance hall, and several gravel pits. he married Mary Magdalen Heller, and later was elected County Commissioner for Precinct I. Two fires which occurred in the early 1900s destroyed most of the buildings John Henry Wessels had established.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Texas — Fayette County/ Wessels, Johann Hinrich, 1863-1943

Kulp, Clarence. “Fiess Wesche = Foot Washing.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, Summer 2007, pp. 6-11.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Provides a Pennsylvania German dialect Sunday School Lesson given by Kulp on September 18, 1980, at the Historic Schaefferstown Festival, along with an English translation.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion

Kuntze, Edward J. “Harvest Festivals in Pomerania.” Die Pommerschen Leute, vol. 35, no. 3, Fall 2012, pp. 1, 3-5, ill.
Notes: “This is the third in a series of articles adapted from The riverside Magazine for Young People. Written by Edward J. Kuntze, this one is from the August 1867 issue. Here again, the story is told by a grandfather who now lives in America, and he is sharing memories of his youth in Pomerania with his grandchildren. From the story, it is clear the grandfather was a son of estate owners and grew up in the manor house.” [It is uncertain whether the author is the same as the Pomeranian-born sculpter (1826-1872) who lived in New York.].
MKI Periodicals
Pomerania — Description and travel/ History/ Festivals/ Harvest festivals/ Greifswald, Pomerania

Kuntze, Edward J. “Whitsuntide in Pomerania.” Die Pommerschen Leute, vol. 34, no. 2, Summer 2011, pp. 21, 23-25.
Notes: “This [story] appeared in The Riverside Magazine for Young People, May 1868. At the time this was written, many of our ancestors still lived in Pomerania. No specific Kreis or villages are mentioned in the story, and customs would vary from one area to another. . . Whitsunday is another name for Pentecost. Pentecost (Pfingsten in German) . . . is the fiftieth and final day of the Easter season of the Christian liturgical calendar. . . .” [It is uncertain whether the author is the same as the Pomeranian-born sculpter (1826-1872) who lived in New York.].
MKI Periodicals
Pomerania — Description and travel/ History/ Festivals/ Religious life

Kunze, Wolfgang. “A National Videotheque as a Means of Information and Communication in the Field of German-American Literature and Culture.” In Germanica-Americana 1976,
Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds., 1977, pp. 7-11.
Abstract: Kunze argues for the use of video in teaching students about German-American culture and for the establishment of an international “videotheque.” He also explains how videos could be used in teaching.
MKI P87-163
Culture/ Teaching of German

Kurdylo, Kevin. “Enter “The Painted Forest” in Valton, Wisconsin, and Enter Another World.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 11-12, ill.
Abstract: “On a hillside in the small community of Valton, Wisconsin. . .sits an unpretentious white frame building–Modern Woodmen of America Camp 6190, completed in 1899 to serve as a fraternal lodge and local meeting hall. Within the 60 x 24 foot lodge is an open room with a tall arched ceiling and stage, and it is here where one may see The Painted Forest, a creative and captivating mural produced by itinerant German-born painter Ernst Huepeden.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Artists/ Paintings/ Wisconsin — Sauk County

Kurdylo, Kevin. “Henry Nehrling’s North American Birds of Song and Beauty.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 1, 3-5, 8, ill.
Abstract: Examines Die nord-amerikanische Volgewelt, written by German-American ornithologist Henry Nehrling and published by George Brumder in Milwaukee in 1891.
MKI Periodicals
Nehrling, Henry, 1853-1929/ Publishing/ Science/ Birds — North America/ German-American press

Kurdylo, Kevin. “Lecture by Angelika Sauer: ‘The German-Canadian Family of Otto Hahn’.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 15.
Abstract: “Otto Hahn (1828-1904) was a fascinating man of varied interests who developed unique theories on the psychology of immigration and German identity, and who was the father of two well-known Canadian artists, a painter and a sculptor.”
MKI Periodicals
German Canadians/ Ethnic identity/ Hahn, Otto, 1828-1904

Kurdylo, Kevin. “Lecture Report: How Fast Did German Immigrants Learn English?” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 15.
Abstract: Miranda Wilkerson and Joseph Salmons presented findings from their study of the 1910 U.S. census (the first to record whether residents could speak English), Wisconsin court records, articles in the state’s German-language newspapers, and portrayals in German-language literature from around the same period to show that in many Wisconsin communities there were substantial numbers of monolingual spaekers of German well into the 20th century, often decades after immigration to those locations had ceased.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Language, German (US)/ Language loss/ Language maintenance

Kurdylo, Kevin. “Lecture Report: Nils Langer–“German Identity in American School Grammars”.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 11, 15, ill.
Abstract: Report on Langer’s presentation of his research into why German Americans lost their language and “submerged” their cultural identity. Hypothesizing that German lessons in American schools transmitted cultural knowledge as well as teaching language, he examined the Ellis Collection of German Textbooks at the UW-Madison’s Memorial Library.
MKI Periodicals
Primers/ Fibeln/ Education/ German Americans/ Language, German (US)/ Language loss/ Ethnic identity

Kurthen, Hermann. “Gone with the wind? German language retention in North Carolina and the United States in comparative perspective.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 33, 1998, pp. 55-83.
Abstract:  The author discusses general factors and developments of language maintenance and retention struggles on a national level and then looks at similar processes in North Carolina on regional and local “micro” levels.    He also explores some of the conditions of German language maintenance in comparion with other non-English immigrant languages, such as Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Dutch.
MKI Periodicals
Language, German (US)/ Language maintenance/ North Carolina

Kurtz, Karen B. “Wheels Made by Hand.” Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People, vol. 8, no. 11, Nov. 1987, pp. 30-32, ill.
Abstract: Profiles an Amish buggy repair shop in Goshen, Indiana.
P2003-6
Amish/ Social life and customs

Kuse, Loretta. Joseph Brucker and the Brucker Ludloff Building. 2 pp.
Notes: Printed from the Internet. Folder also includes holdings record from Wisconsin Historical Society for Der Waldbote newspaper.
Abstract: “Joseph Brucker was a German immigrant who greatly influenced the settlement of Taylor County [Wisconsin]. . . . Joseph Brucker started Der Waldbote, a German weekly newspaper. At first it was printed in Milwaukee but later in Medford [Taylor County, Wisconsin]. . . . [Brucker] moved to Chicago in 1892.”
MKI P2006-21
Brucker, Joseph/ Wisconsin — Taylor County/ Medford (Wis.)/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Newspapers, German-American

Kuyper, Susan Jean. “The Americanization of German Immigrants: Language, Religion and Schools in Nineteenth Century Rural Wisconsin. Dissertation.” Univ. of Wisconsin, 1980. 218 pp.
MKI dissertations / MEM AWB K97803 S863 / SHS Microforms Room
Schools/ Wisconsin/ 19th century/ Religion/ Immigrants, German/ Language, German (US)/ Assimilation.

L. B.M. “Von den Amischen im Mittelwesten.” 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. 199-208.
Abstract: Article is written by a member of the Amish community.  It describes the history of the Amish, their beliefs and customs.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)/ Amish/ Middle West

Labriola, Patrick. “German Intellectual History and American Romanticism: Spirit, Nature Philosophy, and the Occult.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 37, 2002, pp. 79-90.
Abstract: Examines the connections between the literary, philosophical, and theological writings associated with German intellectual history and the works of such American writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Edgar Allan Poe.
MKI Periodicals
Philosophy/ Literature, Comparative/ Cultural influence

Lach, Edith. “Berczys Bemuehungen um Ordnung und Aesthetik.  Eine Analyse seiner ‘Fragmente ueber die Geographie Geschichte und Naturgeschichte von Ober und Unter Canada.'” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. IX, 1986, pp. 63-70.
Abstract: The Baby-Archive of the University of Montreal has among the unpublished manuscripts of William Moll Berczy the “Fragments relating to the geographical and natural history of Upper and Lower Canada,” dated 1798.    Berczy details in this manuscript his observations during his travels in Upper and Lower Canada.    This article examines in depth Berczy’s endeavor to be as particular as possible yet to present his findings in a favorable light.
MKI Periodicals
Travel in literature/ Canada/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)

Lacher, J. H. A. John Henry A. “Francis A. Hoffmann of Illinois and Hans Buschbauer of Wisconsin.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 13, no. 4, June 1930, pp. 327-355, ill.
Notes: “In preparing [this] article the author had the invaluable cooperation of two granddaughters of the subject, Mrs. W. F. Nehrling (née Minna Frances Hoffmann) [Werner Francis Nehrling was the son of Heinrich / Henry Nehrling, author of Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (Brumder, 1891)], of Orlando, Florida, and    Mrs. Clarence M. Service (née Alma Hoffmann), of Springfield, Illinois. The former was reared on “Riverside Farm,” and the latter also lived there for eight months when a child. She, too, was instructed in German by her distinguished grandfather.”
Abstract: Francis A. Hoffmann (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.
MKI P2010-4
Hoffmann, Franz Arnold, 1822-1903/ German Americans — Illinois/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Biographies/ Politics/ Agriculture

Laengin, Bernd G. “Ein PS als Gottesdienst: Die Amischen in Nordamerika.” Globus, vol. 17, no. 6, 1985, pp. 7-12.
Abstract: Bericht ueber Amische, Ihre Geschichte, Gebraueche, Glauben, Gepflogenheiten
MKI P87-110
Amish/ Social life and customs

Laengin, Bernd G. The Russian Germans under the Double Eagle and the Soviet Star: Including a Pictorial History of Cities, Landscapes and People. (Die Russlanddeutschen unter Doppeladler und Sowjetstern. Staedte, Landschaften und Menschen auf alten Fotos). Fargo, ND: Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, North Dakota State University Libraries, 2011.  125 pp., ill.
Notes: Translated by Jack Thiessen and Audrey Poetker. Pictorial documentation by Hanns-Michael Schindler
Printed from PDF donated by Jack Thiessen.
Abstract: Examines two centuries of Russian German history, with chapters on the Volga area; Ukraine; north and southern Caucasus; Bessarabia; Volhynia; Siberia, Steppe regions, and Middle Asia; and Asiatic Soviet Union.
MKI P2010-8
Russian Germans/ Germans — Soviet Union/ Ethnic identity

Laengin, Bernd G. “Warum zivilisierte badische Katholiken zu amerikanischen Pionieren wurden: Die Klosterzelle von St. Nazianz/Wisconsin.” Globus, vol. 17, no. 6, 1985, pp. 18-20.
MKI P87-110
Catholic Church/ Wisconsin/ History/ Catholics

Laessig, Simone, and Cornelia Wilhelm. “German Jews in the United States: A Guide to Research Resources.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 39, Fall 2006, pp. 101-105.
Notes: GHI Research.
Abstract: “The GHI is currently working with the Department for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich and the Academic Working Group of the Leo Baeck Institute in Germany to prepare [a guide on the history of German-speaking Jews in the United States].”
MKI Periodicals
Jews, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Research/ Guides

Lagerwey, Wallace. “Review of “The Germans in Chicago” by Rudolf Hofmeister. (Champaigne, Ill.: Stipes Publishing Co., 1976.).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, 1977, pp. 73-74.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Lake, Ann M. B. “The Amish: A Plain People.” Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People, vol. 8, no. 11, Nov. 1987, pp. 6-11, ill.
Abstract: Overview of the Amish faith and lifestyle.
P2003-6
Amish/ Religion/ Social life and customs

Lake, David L. “A Salute That Failed: The German-American Bund in Milwaukee.” Wisconsin Academy Review, vol. 39, no. 2, Spring 1993, pp. 14-18, ill.
Abstract: During the early twenties, a German society emerged which, after several changes in leadership and name, finally became the German-American Bund.    With the rise of Adolph Hitler in Germany, the Bund became more and more outspoken in its pro-Nazi statements and policies.
MKI Periodicals
Milwaukee (Wis.)/ German Americans — Societies, etc./ German-American Bund

Lalor, John J. “Excerpt (Part III, Conclusion) from ‘The Germans in the West,’ by J. J. Lalor as published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1873: An American Writer Observes the Many Newly Arrived Germans around Him.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 28, no. 2, Oct./Nov./Dec. 2010, pp. 84-86.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
Abstract: Includes: The Germans and their love of music, Germans’ attitudes toward America, Germans’ desire not to be “swallowed up,” Germans political standing, the German influence on Americans, and religious tendencies.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Cultural contribution/ Attitudes/ Assimilation/ 19th century/ Music/ National characteristics, American — Public opinion, German

Lalor, John J. “The Germans in the West.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 21, no. 2, June 2000, pp. 9-15.
Notes: Originally published in Atlantic Monthly, vol. 32 (1873), pp. 459-470. SGAS.
Abstract: A 19th-century view of German immigrants and their assimilation into the United States’ West, where they “are as thick as autumn leaves; they cover the country and swarm in the city.”    The article offers perspectives on how Germans affected American culture and lifestyle, and the author speculates on how the country will change as a result of Germans’ presence.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Cultural contribution/ Attitudes/ Assimilation/ 19th century

Lambert, Karen, and Thomas F. Stander. “Samuel’s Lutheran Church in Butler County, Ohio.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 3-4, 1976, pp. 70.
Abstract: Lambert’s and Stander’s 1 page article provides a brief history of the church, beginning in 1815 and listing the names found in the old cemetery at the Minton Road site.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Ohio/ Genealogy

Landa, Bjarne Emil. “The American Scene in Friedrick Gerstaecker’s Works of Fiction. Dissertation.” University of Minnesota, 1952. 315 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988.
MKI PT1885 G7 Z3 1952a; shelved with MKI dissertations
Gerstaecker, Friedrich, 1816-1872/ Fiction/ United States in literature.

Landenberger, J. Louis. “Ketterlinus, Lithographer.” American-German Review, vol. XIV, no. 4, 1948, pp. 26-28.
Notes: Biography and artistic career of the Christian William Ketterlinus family; illustrations.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ Arts

Landert, Christa. “Johann Heinrich Lienhard (1822-1903) and His Manuscript: A Biographical Sketch.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 25, 1990, pp. 131-150.
Abstract: Lienhard, Johann Heinrich, 1822-1903
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ Swiss Americans/ 19th century/ Farming/ Letters/ Lienhard, Johann Heinrich, 1822-1903

Lang, Barbara. “Immigration in German-American Literature, 1850-1900.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 22, 1987, pp. 39-58.
Abstract: Lang’s article discusses the various themes related to immigration in the works of several German-American authors: Boernstein, Henry, 1805-1892 / Klauprecht, Emil, 1815-1896 / Douai, Adolf, 1819-1888 / Asmus, Georg, 1830-1892 / Bertsch, Hugo, 1851-1935 / Winckler, Willibald, 1838-1871 / Gerstaecker, Friedrich, 1816-1872 / Sutro-Schuecking, Kathinka, 1831(35?)-1893 / Leonhart, Rudolf, 1832-1901
MKI Periodicals
Emigration in literature/ Literature, German-American/ 19th century

Lang, Christian. “Der Saengerbund von Philadelphia.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 10, 1910, pp. 177-187.
Notes: Aus “Mittheilungen des Deutschen Pionier-Vereins von Philadelphia” 17. Heft, 1910.
Abstract: “Nach mehreren vorhergehenden Versammlungen und Besprechungen gruedenten etwa achtundzwanzig Mitglieder des deutschamerikanischen Arbeitervereins am 18. Oktober 1849 in Loakl des Herrn Gebhard, Ecke der Vierten und Woodstrasse, einen Gesangverein mit dem Namen Saengerbund des Arbeitervereins, aber bald darauf einfach Saengerbund.    Als er nach fuenfzigjaehrigen Bestehen sich am 3. Oktober 1899 dem Gesangvereine Harmonie anschloss, lebten von den Gruendern noch Friedrich Oldach, Wilhelm Boekel, Hugo Sebald, Carl Rosenthal und Ignatz Kohler, die aber seitdem einer nachdem anderen zur grossen Armee abberufen wurden.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Societies, etc./ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Philadelphia (Pa.)/ Music

Lang, Elfrieda. “Germans in Vanderburgh County, Indiana, before 1848.” In Studies in Indiana German-Americana, 1988, pp. 1-13.
Abstract: Ten years before Indiana was admitted as a state in 1816 and twelve years before Vanderburgh County was organized, German pioneers settled in the extreme southern part of Indiana Territory.   Indiana had a small foreign population at that time, but of that foreign population, Germans constituted over fifty percent, with Vanderburgh County having the highest percentage MKI P92-9 German Americans — Indiana/ History

Langbein, Ralph, and    Wiebke Henning. “State and migration in the 19th century.” In Jetzt wohnst du in einem freien Land; Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch, vol. 39, no. 3, 1989, pp. 292-301.
Abstract: Im Zuge der grossen Auswanderungswellen des 19. Jahrhunderts rueckte das Problem der Auswanderung aus Deutschland in zuvor nie gekannter Weise in den Blickpunkt des oeffentlichen Interesses.    Schier unzaehlige Veroeffentlichungen zum Thema Auswanderung ueberschwemmten den Markt.    Sogenannte “Rathgeber” — eilig verfasste Informationsschriften oft zweifelhaften Inhalts — boten sich des Auswanderern an.    In zahllosen Presseveroeffentlichungen wurder ueber das Fuer und Wider einer Auswanderung aus Deutschland gestritten, Ungluecksfaelle auf Auswandererschiffen machten Schlagzeilen und fanden lebhafte Anteilnahme.    Immer haeufiger wurde nicht nur von seiten der Presse, sondern auch von namhaften Politikern, Geschaeftsleuten und den zahlreichen privaten Vereinigungen die Forderung an den Staat gerichtet, gesetzliche Regelungen auf dem Gebiet des Auswanderungswesens zu erlassen.
MKI JV 8014 .J47 1989
Emigration and immigration    / 19th century/ Law

Lange, Julia. “German-American Heritage Museums and the Representation of World Wars: A Case Study of the DANK Haus Museum in Chicago.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 53, 2018, pp. 151-172, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
MKI Periodicals
Museums/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans

Lange, Victor. “The History of German Studies in America:  Ends and Means.” 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. 3-14.
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

Lange, Victor. “In Memory of Albert Bernhardt Faust (1870-1951).” American-German Review, vol. XVII, no. 4, 1951, pp. 28.
Notes: Biography of the historian Faust.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Biographies/ Literature, German-American/ Literary criticism

Langer, Gertrude Hofmann. “Gertrude Hofmann Langer: The story of a life as told to Edward G. Langer.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 36, no. 2, June 2000, pp. 25-41.
Abstract: An account of Gertrude Hofmann Langer’s life, a Swiss-American who was born in Kuesnacht, Switzerland (Canton Zuerich) on May 1, 1911.  She also lived in Schoenenberg (Canton Thurgau), Kradolf (Thurgau), Horgen (Zuerich) and Hauptwil (Thurgau) before emigrating to the United States in 1921 with her mother.    There they lived in Lowell, Wisconsin and later in the area around Beaver Dam.    Langer married Francis Langer in 1932.  The account of her life goes through 1991.
MKI periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Wisconsin/ Personal narratives

Langer, Nils. “German Language and German Identity in America: Evidence from School Grammars 1860-1918.” German Life and Letters, vol. 61, no. 4, Oct. 2008, pp. 497-512, ill.
Notes: Donated by Nils Langer.
Abstract: Paper examines how “the transmission of cultural and linguistic knowledge takes place between motherland and linguistic enclaves,” with regard to the “retention and loss of German culture and language by recent and settled immigrants in America at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. . . . [E]vidence from German school grammars printed in the USA will be examined to investigate what kind of cultural references were taught to school children.”
MKI P2008-15
Primers/ Fibeln/ Education/ German Americans/ Language, German (US)/ Language loss/ Ethnic identity

Langer, Ute. “Using Archival Resources in Germany for Research Focused on Emigration from the Rhineland in the Nineteenth Century.” 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. 57-79, ill.
Abstract: “Using German dismissal papers, parish registers, and civil registers, one can put together extensive information on the lives of individual emigrants that document their circumstances and trace their roots before the left Germany. Land registers and land plats, in particular, can render German emigrants’ attitudes toward the land more visible.”
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

Latta, C. J. “Idioms and Expressions in the German of Fredericksburg, Texas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 32, no. 4, Winter 2010, pp. 246-248.
Notes: Presented at the 2010 Pioneer Ball in Dallas.
Abstract: Amusing examples chosen from the author’s collection.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ German language/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Fredericksburg (Tex.)

Laubenberger, Franz. “Die Geburt des Namens AMERICA — Martin Waldseemueller.” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen, 1976, pp. 18-22.
Abstract: Wie Martin Waldseemueller am 25.April 1507 eine Weltkarte veroeffentlichte und als erster Kartenzeichner den neuen Kontinent America nannte.
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
America/ Discovery & exploration

Laudi, Gisela. “Families Marowski and Junge Went West from Prussia.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 33, no. 4, Winter 2011, pp. 209-225, ill.
Abstract: Describes life in 19th-century Oderberg (some 30 miles northeast from Berlin, on the Oder river) and follows members of the Marowski, Junge, and Tubbe families, who eventually settled in Nacogdoches, Texas. Surname variations include: Marouski, Marousky, and Tunke.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Marowski/ German Americans — Texas/ Junge/ Tubbe

Learned, Marion Dexter. “An American Ethnographical Survey. Report by the Director, M. D. Learned.” German American Annals, vol. 5, n.s., 1907, pp. 30-53.
Notes: German-American author.
MKI Periodicals

Learned, Marion Dexter. “The American Ethnographical Survey. The Conestoga Expedition, Summer 1902 (Preliminary Report).” German American Annals, vol. 1, n.s., 1903, pp. 1-7.
Notes: German-American author.
MKI Periodicals

Learned, Marion Dexter. “Deutsche Ideale in Amerika.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 19-30.
Notes: German-American author.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
German Americans/ Ethnic identity

Learned, Marion Dexter. “Francis Daniel Pastorius, the Founder of Germantown.” German American Annals, vol. 5, n.s., 1907, pp. 131-171; 195-234; 259-293; 323-356 (incomplete).
Notes: German-American author.
Abstract: MKI does not own vol. 6, which completes this article
MKI Periodicals
Germantown (Pa.)/ History/ Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719

Learned, Marion Dexter. “The German-American Turner Lyric.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911, pp. 47-48.
Notes: Aus “Bahnfrei.”
Abstract: An excerpt of Professor Learned’s historical account of the Turners, with an introduction.
MKI Periodicals
Turners/ German Americans — Societies, etc.

Learned, Marion Dexter. “German Day in New York.” German American Annals, vol. 1, n.s., 1903, pp. 32-38.
Notes: German-American author.
MKI Periodicals
Festivals

Learned, Marion Dexter. “Herder and America.” German American Annals, vol.  2, n.s., 1904, pp. 531-570.
MKI Periodicals

Learned, Marion Dexter. “Joseph G. Rosengarten.” German American Annals, vol. 5, n.s., 1907, pp. 3-8.
MKI Periodicals

Learned, Marion Dexter, and Charles F. Brede. “An Old German Midwife’s Record. (Kept by Susanna Mueller, of Providence Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, During the Years 1791-1815.” German American Annals, vol. 1, n.s., 1903, pp. 73-96, 136-177.
MKI Periodicals
Lancaster County (Pa.)/ Personal narratives

Leary, James P. “Dialect Songs Among the Dutch.” Midwestern Folklore, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 14-35, ill.
Notes: Journal of the Hoosier Folklore Society, Indiana State University; donated by the author.
See also: https://mki.wisc.edu/dialect-songs-among-the-dutch-transcriptions/
Abstract: “The relatively neglected Dutch [deriving from ‘Deutsch’] songs considered are in a creolized English that, to invoke vernacular characterizations, has been ‘broken,’ ‘fractured,’ and ‘mangled’ through collisions with an immigrant’s native tongue.” Words are written to reflect an exaggerated, theatricialized German pronunciation, and many “residual words and phrases from the old country” can be found. Leary examines the emergence of Dutch dialect songs, particularly in the Upper Midwest, and its persistance in present-day manifestations. Includes a selected discography.
MKI P2004-40
Songs/ Dialects/ Humor & Satire/ Dialects/ German Americans/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Leary, James P. “Herr Louis, the Weasel, and the Hungry Five: German-American Performers on Midwestern Radio.” Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture, vol. 55, 2010, pp. 101-134, ill.
Jahrbuch des Deutschen Volksliedarchiv Freiburg. Includes notes and bibliographical references.
“The establishment of radio stations in the 1920s contributed importantly to the 20th century sustenance of German American culture in the Upper Midwest, particularly through the efforts of influential entertainers whose broadcasts combined dialect comedy with familiar folk songs and tunes, and who live appearances in communities throughout the region spawned local imitators. Foremost among them was Henry Moeller (1894-1946) who assumed the persona of ‘Herr Louie,’ while his radio partner, Harold J. Gilles, became the ‘Weasel.’ In the late 1920s, the duo joined with the ‘Hungry Five’—a Little German Band whose specific members remain unknown—to reach audiences via Chicago radio stations WGN and WCFL. . . . Their remarkable yet scarcely examined careers are critical to our understanding of the complex continuous presence of German folk music and song in America’s Upper Midwest.”
Preprint copy and postcards donated by James Leary.
Click here to view another postcard advertising Herr Louis, the Weasel, and the Hungry Five at Eitel’s Old Heidelberg Inn Rathskeller in Chicago.
MKI P2011-11
Songs/ Artists/ Dialects/ Humor & Satire/ German Americans/ 20th century/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Leary, James P. St. Nicholas Day in Wisconsin. Madison, Wis.: the author, [2008]. 1 p.
Notes: James P. Leary is Professor of Folklore and Scandinavian Studies and Director of the Folklore Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Abstract: The author reminisces about St. Nicholas Day at St. Joseph’s School in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, which he attended from 1956 to 1964.
MKI P2008-8
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Festivals/ Christmas/ Social life and customs

LeCompte, Mary Lou. The Texas Turnvereins. [Austin, Tex.: unpublished, 1985].
Notes: Donated by Juergen Eichhoff.
Abstract: Copy of typed paper presented at the Texas State Historical Association’s 89th annual meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, 1 March 1985.
MKI P2001-22
Turners/ Texas

Lederer, Norman. “Review of Exploding Star: A Young Austrian Against Hitler, by Fritz Molden.  Translated by Peter and Betty Ross.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1979, pp. 149-151.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Lederer, Norman. “Review of Seven Susannahs: Daughters of the Danube, by Koehler, Eve Eckert.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, 1978, pp. 124-126.
MKI Periodicals / SHS 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Lederer, Norman. “Review of “The Wanderers: The Saga of Three Women Who Survived,” Rimland, Ingrid.    Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, 1978, pp. 123-124.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Lee, Janice Kniker. “A History of the Family Henze.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society),    vol. 24, no. 3, Fall 2002, pp. 268-272, ill.
Notes: The author is the grandaughter of William Jr. and Emma Greinert Henze.
Abstract: Includes history of the Henze and Wildgrube families in Coupland, Texas, beginning around 1890.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ 19th century/ Henze

Lee-Whiting, Brenda B. “Why So Many German Immigrants Embarked at Liverpool.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. IX, 1986, pp. 71-79.
Abstract: A surprising number of German immigrants to Canada in the late 19th century boarded at Liverpool, England.    Shipping service between Hamburg and Quebec ended in 1871, and sea travel from Hamburg to New York continued.    Such a trip, made partly by sea and then by land and water, was laborious for a couple encumbered by children and luggage.    It was better to undertake the journey to a new country overseas by the quickest method possible, travelling most of the way by water.    The company that dominated the shipping lanes between Great Britain and North America during the last three decades of the 19th century, and well into the 20th, was the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company (later known as the Allan Line), which had its principal office in Liverpool.
MKI Periodicals
Atlantic crossing/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)/ Immigrants, German/ Ships

Lee, Whitney. “The County’s Namesake: George B. Erath.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 32, no. 2, Summer 2010, pp. 130-131, ill.
Notes: From the Stephenville Empire-Tribune, March 28, 2010.
Abstract: George Bernard Erath was a soldier, surveyor, and legislator, born in 1813, in Vienna, Austria. In 1832 he arrived in New Orleans, and by 1833 he moved to the Republic of Texas, where he became a surveyor in Robertson County. In 1843 he was elected to the Congress of the Republic of Texas, representing Milam County until 1845. Erath died in 1891. The city of Stephenville, in Erath County, boasts a set of Erath Memorial Arches at the entrance of Erath Street.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ History/ 19th century

Leeman, Merel. “The Transatlantic Reconstruction of ‘Western’ Culture: George Mosse, Peter Gay, and the Development of the German Tradition of Geistesgeschichte.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement, no. 10, 2014, pp. 139-159.
Notes: Full-text available online (http://www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=176&Itemid=161).
Abstract: With the United States a winner and world power after World War II, history departments across the country addressed tying Europe and the U.S. together both politically and culturally, including examination of the lessons German history held for the United States.
MKI Periodicals
Mosse, George L./ German Americans — History/ Geistesgeschichte

Lehmann, Edwin A. “The Pastor Who Possessed an All-consuming Love: Johannes Muehlhaeuser 1803-1867.” WELS Historical Institute Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 1983, pp. 8-20.
Notes: Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
MKI Periodicals

Lehmann, Heinz. “Die Russlanddeutschtum in Kanada.” Deutschtum im Ausland, vol. 22, no. 5, May 1939, pp. 281-282.
Notes: Deutschtum im Ausland: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Ausland-Instituts Stuttgart. [Served as a propaganda instrument of the National Socialist party in Germany]. Photocopy.
MKI P2007-31
Russian Germans/ 20th century/ German Canadians

Lehmann, Helmut T. “Missioner Extraordinary: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg [Part 1].” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 2, Summer 1998, pp. 56-71, ill.
Notes: Originally written as an introduction to FOCUS ’92, a celebration of the 250th anniversary of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg’s arrival in Pennsylvania, and was first published in the Partners in the Spirit newsletter of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Part two of this article appears in the Fall 1998 issue of CHIQ.
Abstract: Muhlenberg arrived in Philadelphia on November 25, 1742 with five other clergymen to form what is “generally recognized as being the ‘Mother Synod’ of American Lutheranism.”
MKI Periodicals
Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, 1711-1787/ Lutherans/ Lutheran Church/ Biographies/ German Americans — Pennsylvania

Lehmann, Helmut T. “Missioner Extraordinary: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg [Part 2].” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 3, Fall 1998, pp. 107-127, ill.
Notes: Originally written as an introduction to FOCUS ’92, a celebration of the 250th anniversary of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg’s arrival in Pennsylvania, and was first published in the Partners in the Spirit newsletter of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Part one of this article appears in the Summer 1998 issue of CHIQ.
MKI Periodicals
Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, 1711-1787/ Lutherans/ Lutheran Church/ Biographies/ German Americans — Pennsylvania

Lehmann, M. Der Spielmann: Eine Erzaehlung fuer das Volk.  2. Aufl. New York, N.Y.: Pustet, 1890. 198 pp.
MKI P89-9
PIA/ Fiction

Lehmkuhl, Ursula. “Jane Addams:    Politische Theorie und Praxis einer Sozialreformerin.” Amerikastudien / American Studies, vol. Jahrgang 33, no. Heft 4, 1988, pp. 439-458.
Abstract: Somewhat hidden in the biography of Jane Addams, there is an interesting and dynamic interrelationship between her philosophical background (theory) and her social endeavors (practice).    The paper aims at eludicating this relationship and at demonstrating its significance for the theoretical discussions in the contexts of political participation and feminism.   ”Feminine pragmatism” is a major characteristic of Jane Addams’ efforts in the practical fields of social settlement.   It also marks her cooperation with the national and international peace and woman’s suffrage movement during the period of American progressivism.    The “feminization of politics” is the major goal of her reasonings in the context of political theory.    Instead of arguing that men and women deserve the right to vote, she underlined the necessity of women’s political participation by pointing at the differences that exist between men and women in the way they think and act.    However, Jane Addams did not favor ghetto feminism.    She aimed at the cooperation of men and women in politics on the basis of a division of labor.    Instead of becoming like men women should cultivate their specific facilities to ameliorate the political apparatus.  “The real danger of feminine politics,” she writes, “is too much of a masculine policy.”
MKI P91-5
Women authors/ Feminists

Lehn, Walter Isaak. “Rosental Low German, Synchronic and Diachronic Phonology. Dissertation.” Cornell Univ., 1957. 167 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1969. .
Abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to describe the phonologic system of Rosental Low German and its development from Proto-West Germanic.
MKI PF5611 L44; shelved with MKI pamphlets P87-77 (2 copies, one donated by Glenn Gilbert)
Low German dialect/ Linguistics/ Research

Lehnhardt, Eberhard. “Family Origins in Eastern Europe: Using the Records of the Genealogical Society of Utah: East Germany.” 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 515(c)
Abstract: A brief review of the holdings of the library of the Genealogical Society of Utah in regards to East Germany genealogical research.   Includes instructions and contact information for researchers wishing to obtain genealogical data from East Germany.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 7
Genealogy/ Archives

Leineweber, Clemens Heinrich. Unterwegs: Gedichte. Washington, D.C.: Washington Journal, 1941.
Notes: German-American author.
MKI P85-79
PIA/ Poetry

Leineweber, Clemens Heinrich. Wuensche und Weisen: Gedichte. Washington, D.C.: Washington Journal, 1946.
Notes: German-American author.
MKI P85-80
PIA/ Poetry

Lemke, Christiane. “From State Socialism to Democracy: Women in the Process of Restructuring Politics and Society in East Germany After 1989.” 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, Feb. 16-18, 1990.
Abstract: Preceded by an article by Yvonne Schuetze (Max-Planck-Institut, West Berlin) and followed by commentary by Robert Moeller (University of California, Irvine) and Hertha Kuhrig (Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR)
MKI P90-13
Germany/ Women/ Politics

Lemke, John. “Tracing the Lemke Family Back to Pomerania.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 20-23.
Abstract: The author’s grandfather, Henry Lemke, was born in 1873 and died in Ramsey County, Minnesota. The author documents his search for information on the family, beginning in O’Brien County, Iowa and in Worthington, Nobles County, Minnesota, and ending in the town of Labehn, Kreis Lauenburg, Pomerania.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Pomerania/ Lemke/ Lehman

Lemon, James T. “The Best Poor Man’s Country: A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn 2001, pp. 13-14.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: The author reflects on the research he conducted for his dissertation and book, with particular emphasis on  agricultural practices.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania/ Agriculture/ Farming/ Amish/ Mennonites

Lennox, Sara. “Die New York Times in Johnsons Jahrestagen.” In Die USA und Deutschland. Wolfgang Paulsen, ed. 1976, pp. 103-109.
Abstract: Ueber Uwe Jonsons Kritik an der buergerlichen Presse und seiner ausweglosen Situation, sich nicht aus denen von ihm erhobenen Widerspruechen befreien zu koennen.
MKI PT 123 .U6 A4 1976 / MEM PT 123 .U6 A4 1975
America in German literature/ Literature, German/ Journalism/ Newspapers/ Fiction/ Literary criticism

Lentz, Julius E. “Schpiel: Sie Fange der Hitler / Play: They Capture Hitler.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, Winter 1997, pp. 20-23, ill.
Notes: Millersville University. In Pennsylvania German and English.
Abstract: A Groundhog playlet performed on February 4, 1946, by Groundhog Lodge #1 in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Pennsylvania/ History/ German Americans — Illinois/ Dialects/ Theater & Drama/ Humor & Satire

Leochko, Crystal. “German-Canadian Memories of Nazi Past.” German-Canadian Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, Dec. 2009, pp. 1-2, ill.
Abstract: Describes the research of Crystal Leochko, whose dissertation examines the oral histories of ten women who experienced National Socialism in Germany durng the Second World War and immigrated to Canada between 1947 and 1960.
MKI Periodicals
German Canadians/ History/ Research/ World War, 1939-1945/ Ethnic identity/ Refugees — Germany — History — 20th century/ Immigrants, German/ Women/ National Socialism

Lerner, Steve. “Suburban wilderness: Lorrie Otto is helping bring native plants back to the American lawn.” The Amicus Journal, Spring 1994, pp. 14-17.
Notes: Lorrie Otto and her husband are of German-American descent.
Abstract: Lorrie Otto is gardening with native plants. She is one of the pioneers ofthe natural gardening movement in her area (Bayside, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan). She wants to help preserve some of the unique features of Wisconsin’s ecosystem.
MKI P94-33
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Horticulture & Gardening

Leser, L. L. “Deutsche Dichtkunst in den Vereinigten Staaten.”  In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 369-396.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
Literature, German (US)/ Poetry

Lessing, O. E. “Kunstwart und Duererbund.” Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger, vol. 1, 1913, pp. 109-112.
Abstract: A brief account of the cultural groups “Kunstwart” and “Duererbund.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Societies, etc./ Societies, etc./ Culture

Lessing, Otto E. “Problem der Deutsch-Amerikaner.” New Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 17. Oktober 1937.
German-American author: Lessing, Otto Eduard (Peter Landgraf), b. 9-28-1875 in Keimshein, Wuerttemberg. Instructor in Mich. in 1896 and in Wisc. in 1900, prof. in Ill. in 1913 and at Williams College in Williamstown in 1922. Lit. and art hist., trans., professor, writer and poet. Contrib. s.st. and fairy tales to DG in 1907 and 1908. WORKS: Rebekka (1905), Whitmans Prosaschriften (trans.) (1906), Horace Traubels Weckrufe (trans.) (1907), Liebe im Herbst (1924), Bruecken ueber den Atlantik (1927).
“Es kann sich also niemals darum handeln, dass Reichsdeutsche ihre amerikanischen Blutsbrueder der politischen Verfassung und Regierung ihres neuen Vaterlandes abspenstig machen, sondern nur darum, dass sie ihnen das neuen Deutschland verstaendlich zu machen versuchen.”
MKI P2007-5
German Americans/ Germany/ Politics

Lessoff, Alan. “Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 36, Spring 2005, pp. 122-125.
Notes: Conference at the GHI, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2004.
Abstract: The life and career of Adolf Cluss (1825-1905) was the subject of a 2004 symposium, part of a binational effort to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of Cluss’s death that will include exhibitions and public events in autumn 2005 in Cluss’s hometown of Heilbronn, Baden-Wuerttemberg, and Washington, DC, where he worked as an architect. A leader of the 1848 Revolution in Mainz, Cluss immigrated to the United States and built a career as an architect and civil engineer. This report provides brief summaries of papers presented at the symposium.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Architecture/ Forty-eighters

Lester, Rosemarie K. “An Austrian in Wisconsin, 1856-1860: The impressions of Franz Hoelzlhuber.” Wisconsin Academy Review, vol. 22, no. 2, Spring 1998, pp. 21-28.
Abstract: “Here in Franz Hoelzlhuber’s own words are some of his comments and observations made during his travels through Wisconsin, enhanced by examples of his paintings.”
MKI P2001-1
Austria/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Travel in literature/ Diaries/ Artists/ Hoelzlhuber, Franz

Letwin, Daniel. “The claim to social resources: A contested issue in transatlantic perspective, 1776 to the present.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 28, Spring 2001, pp. 90-94.
Notes: German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Report on September 2000 workshop.
MKI P2002-28 and MKI Periodicals
Social life and customs/ Germany/ United States/ America

Levi, Kate Everest. “Geographical origin of German immigration to Wisconsin.” Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, vol. 14, 1898, pp. 341-393.
Notes: Publication also known as Wisconsin Historical Collections.
Abstract: Sections on Northeastern Germany: Education and religion, characteristics, religious colonies, later immigration; Northwestern Germany; South and Middle Germany; Rhenish Prussia; Luxemburg; Bavaria; Baden; Swiss settlements; Saxony; from other states: Pennsylvania group, Ohio group.
MKI P96-7
Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Levine, Bruce C. “Immigrant Workers, ‘Equal Rights,’ and Anti-Slavery: The Germans of Newark, New Jersey.” Labor History, vol. 25, no. 1, 1984, pp. 26-52.
MKI P98-51 /  SHS HD 4802 .L435
German Americans / Slavery

Levine, Bruce Carlan. “Free Soil, Free Labor, and Freimaenner: German Chicago in the Civil War Era.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983, pp. 163-182, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references; donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Abstract: Examines the role of Chicago’s German Americans in the history of antislavery, the development of the Republican Party, and the issues of the Civil War, suggesting ways in which developing social conditions and class relations shaped the outlooks and conduct of this immigrant group.
MKI/SHS HD8081 G4 G47 1983
German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Labor and laboring classes/ 19th century/ Politics

Lewinnek, Walter. “Once upon a time.” 4 pp.
Abstract: About Die Abendschule. A collection of this German-American jouranl is now in the possession of the Merrill Historical Society, Wisconsin.
MKI P95-12
Periodicals, German-American

Lewis, Brian A. “German in Colorado:    Background for a Linguistic Survey.” German-American Studies:    A Journal of History, Literature, Biography and Genealogy, vol. 8, 1974, pp. 106-113.
MKI / SHS E 184. G3 G315
Immigrants, German/ History/ Philology, German (US) / Linguistics/ Language, English/ United States/ Dialects

Lewis, Brian A. “New Glarus, a Swiss German Speech Island in the Midwest.” In New Glarus 1845-1970. Leo Schelbert, ed. 1970, pp. 190-197.
Notes: Orig. pub. in German in the Bericht des Schweizerdeutschen Waerterbuches ueber das Jahr 1969, Zurich, 1969, pp. 9-17, and also in the Jahrbuch des Historischen Vereins des Kantons Glarus, vol. 63, Glarus, 1970, pp. 96-103.
Abstract: An examination of the New Glarus, Wisconsin Swiss German dialect, and a brief comparison with the speech of the Canton Glarus in Switzerland.
MKI P86-154 and MKI F 589 .N5 S3 1970 / SHS F 589 .N5 S3
Dialects/ New Glarus (Wis.)/ Switzerland/ Swiss Americans/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Lewis, Brian A. “The Phonology of the Glarus Dialect in Green County. Dissertation.” University of Wisconsin, 1968. iii, 105 pp.
Notes: MKI has digital copies of interviews made by Brian Lewis for this dissertation.
Abstract: The present work is a synchronic description of the phonology of the Glarus dialect, as it is spoken in Green County, Wisconsin, by descendants of settlers from Canton Glarus, Switzerland. It is based on fieldwork carried out by the author in Green County in the summers of 1966 and 1967.    The work aims to present with the synchronic phonological description an illustrative sample of the forms which were recorded.    A comparison with the dialect of Canton Glarus is not undertaken here, but major items of interest are noted where they occur, and a future comparison has been borne in mind in the making of the analysis.    The data collected also provides material for a description of the morphology and the lexicon.
MKI dissertations
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Swiss Americans/ New Glarus (Wis.)/ Wisconsin/ Linguistics/ Dialects.

Lewis, Brian A. “Swiss German in Wisconsin:  The Assessment of Changes in Case Marking.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 27, 1992, pp. 1-14.
Notes: Case System in New Glarus.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Wisconsin/ Language, English/ United States/ Language influence/ Dialects

Lewis, Ward B. “The New World and the Yankee: Emigration as a Theme in the Works of Johannes Schlaf.” German-American Studies, vol. 6, Fall 1973, pp. 3-20.
Abstract: Ward’s 18-page article discusses the following themes in Schlaf’s works: the American poet, the “phenomenon of America,” and the inhabitants of America (focussing on “Yankees” and German immigrants).
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Immigrants, German/ Foreign public opinion/ Emigration in literature/ United States/ National characteristics, American — Public opinion, German

Ley, Hans. Relief! Kurzes Schauspiel in 2 Akten. Madison, Wis.: the author, 1920. [87] pp.
Abstract: Play written in journal in old German script, dated Feb. 12, 1920. The play is set in a city on the Rhein, and the characters include a father, mother, daughter, son, and uncle. Two letters written in red ink (the first dated 2. Juni 1914) appear interspersed in the text of the play.
MKI P2002-97
Letters/ Diaries, Letters/ Madison (Wis.)/ Theater & Drama

Leyh, Eduard. “German Translation of the Star Spangled Banner.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 3, 1978, p. 76.
MKI Periodicals
Songs/ Music

Lich, Glen E. “Courses on ‘Germano-Americana’ at Texan Universities since 1945.” 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. 244-249. Abstract: The author examines the history of German-American Studies at Texan universities, he looks at the contents of specific courses and discusses the objectives of the field.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)/ Education

Lich, Glen E. “Das Kajuetenbuch and its relation to Texas affairs.” 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. 221-238.
MKI PT 2516 S4 L3 1993
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Lich, Glen E. “Ethnic History: A Tool for Teaching Languages and Methods of Research.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 1979, pp. 36-45.
Abstract: Lich’s article provides ideas for teaching ethnic history in middle and high schools and at the undergraduate college level.    He suggests and describes 9 units: the historical background of immigration; local history; family history and genealogy; biographical research; folklore projects: oral traditions; folklore projects: material traditions; photographs; churches, schools, social clubs and societies; and lastly cemetaries.
MKI Periodicals
Education/ Ethnic identity/ German Americans — Texas/ History/ Immigrants/ Assimilation/ Genealogy

Lich, Glen E. “Germans in the Hill Country, A Pictoral Essay on Immigration to Texas in the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 3-4, 1976, pp. 51-70.
Abstract: Lich’s essay contains photographs of architecture (domestic and religious), people, signs, paintings, contracts, drawings, and cattle-brands.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ 19th century/ History

Lich, Glen E. “Notes on German-American Studies at Southwest Texas State University.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, 1977, pp. 47-48.
Abstract: Lich’s 2-page article discusses a course offered at the University entitled “Multicultures of America: German.”  He also states that the University has acquired the largest private research collection of German-Americana in the Southwest.
MKI Periodicals
German-American Studies/ Texas/ History/ Folklore/ Genealogy

Lich, Glen E. “Review of Ernest G. Fischer’s Marxists and Utopias in Texas.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, 1980.
Abstract: Lich critiques Fischer’s book Marxists and Utopias in Texas as being disorganized and lacking in thorough scholarship.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Lich, Glen E. “Review of From Chalk to Bronze: a Biography of Waldine Tauch by Alice Hutson. (Austin: Shoal Creek, 1978.).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1979, pp. 147-148.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Lich, Glen E. “Review of German Artist on the Texas Frontier: Friedrich Richard Petri, by William W. Newcomb, Jr. and Mary S. Carnahan. (Austin: Univeraity of Texas Press, 1978.).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1979, pp. 146-147.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Lich, Glen E. “Review of Otto W. Tetzlaff’s The Emigrant to Texas: A Handbook and Guide.  Bremen: Schuenemann, 1846.    Rpt. Burnet, Texas: Eakin, 1979.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, 1980.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Lich, Glen E. “Review of Texas and Germany: Crosscurrents.  Rice University Studies, ed. Katherine F. Drew.  Vol. 63, No.3.  Houston: William Marsh Rice University, 1977.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, 1978, pp. 121-122.
Abstract: Lich’s review praises the book of 11 essays as a “well-written introduction to the cultural life of German-speaking people in Texas.”
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Lich, Glen E. “Review of Texas Log Cabins: A Folk Architecture, by Terry G. Jordan.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, 1978, pp. 126-127.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Lich, Glen E. “Sealsfields’ Texas:    Metaphor, Experience, and History.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 22, 1987, pp. 71-80.
Abstract: Lich’s article discusses Sealsfield’s mythification of Texas.
MKI Periodicals
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Texas/ Literature, German (US)/ Myths

Lich, Glen E. “Survival and Succession:  Immigrant Autobiography as Cultural Legacy.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies. 1989. pp. 59-71.
Abstract: Ottilie Fuchs Goeth’s (1836-1926) autobiography (Was Grossmutter erzaehlt, or The Memoirs of a Texas Pioneer Grandmother, 1915) is one of the principal landmarks that explain the mid-nineteenth century German colonization in central Texas from the point of view of women.  The work is part of two literatures, German and American.    She began writing her memoirs in 1908 at the age of 72.  When she finished after seven years, her narrative spanned over a century and reflected, in and through her life, the history of German culture in Texas.
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Texas/ Autobiography/ Women authors/ Literature, German-American

Liddell, Peter G. “Germans on Canada’s Pacific Slopes: A Brief Survey of German Discovery, Settlement and Culture in British Columbia, 1778 to the Present.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 16, 1981, pp. 51-58.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)/ Literature, German (Canada)/ German Canadians/ Census/ World War, 1914-1918/ Russian Germans/ Hutterites/ Mennonites/ Farming/ World War, 1939-1945

Lidtke, Thomas D. “Carl von Marr.” Wisconsin Academy Review, Mar. 1986.
Abstract: Short biography of Carl von Marr.  Von Marr, Carl, 1858-1936
MKI P96-13
Artists / German Americans — Wisconsin/ Biographies

Lidtke, Thomas D. “Carl von Marr: A Cultural Journey from Milwaukee to Munich.” Perspektiven, vol. 1, no. 3, Summer 2002, pp. 8-11.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: Biography of artist Carl von Marr, 1858-1936.
MKI Periodicals
Artists / German Americans — Wisconsin/ Biographies

Lidtke, Thomas D. “Early German Artists Paint Lasting Pictures of Wisconsin.” Perspektiven, vol. 2, no. 1, Winter 2002-2003, pp. 8-10, ill.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Artists/ Lewis, James Otto/ Vianden, Heinrich (Henry)

Linberger, Peter. “Review of Das Ohiotal-The Ohio Valley: The German Dimension, edited by Don Heinrich Tolzmann.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994, pp. 170-172.
Abstract:    Linberger’s review summarizes the contents of Tolzmann’s book, which is a collection of papers read at a conference of the same name.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Lind, Wilhelm J. Ein Ratgeber für die Familie in der Krankenpflege nebst Einer Erzählung aus den deutschen Kolonien an der Wolga in Russland. Hoisington, Kansas: S.n., n.d. [1910s]. [103] pp., ill
On title page: “. . . von Wilhelm J. Lind, pastor der ev.-luth. Gemeinden zu Wilson und Galatia und Verwalter der Lind Hospital and Training School Association zu Hoisington, Kansas.” — [In 1910, Wilhelm J. Lind (born about 1881 in Russia; came to America in 1902; and died 1966 in Kansas City) and Georgina Mathilda Borell (born 1892 in Saratov, Russia; died 1981 in Russell, Kansas) were married in Wilson, Kansas.] — Inscribed: “Zum Andenken, Rev. Otto Pett.” [Rev. Otto Pett was the pastor of the German Lutheran church at Johnson Creek, Wisconsin. He was born in Pomerania, Germany, in 1866 and came to the U.S. in 1884, studying theology at Mendota, Illinois. Beginning in 1888, he did missionary work for twelve years in the Dakotas, then took charge of the Lutheran church in Watertown in 1900, before accepting the pastorate at Johnson Creek in 1910. He married Amelia Pischke of Princeton, Wisconsin, and they had six children.].
The title of the story beginning on page 53 is “Das Missionswerk der Krankenpflegerin. Eine Erzählung aus den deutschen Kolonien an der Wolga, in Russland.”
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Lindemann, F. “Die Errichtung des evangelisch-lutherischen Schullehrer-Seminars in Addison, Ill.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 3, 1902, pp. 17-21.
Abstract: “Die Errichtung und Foerderung einer deutschen Pflanzschule von seiten deutscher Lutheraner in einer fast ausschliesslich von Farmern bewohnten Gegend bildet ein Stueck Geschichte des Deutschthums in unseren Staate, das besondere Beachtung verdient.    Seit 38 Jahren befindet sich in Addison, DuPage Co., ein deutsches Schullehrerseminar…”
MKI Periodicals
Teaching/ Farming/ Farm life/ Illinois/ German Americans — Illinois/ Lutherans

Lindner, John Michael. History and Language of the Freistadt Settlement. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007. iii, 75 pp., maps.
Notes: Senior honors thesis. The interviews used in this study are part of the North American German Dialect Archive held at the Max Kade Institute in Madison, Wisconsin.
Abstract: Using three interviews made in the summer of 1968 with speakers of the Pommeranian dialect who resided in Freistadt, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, this work provides both an account of aspects of the history and life of the Freistadt settlers as told by the consultants and a linguistic description of the language, its similarities to the modern German language, and the extent of English influence on the dialect.
MKI P2007-26
Linguistics/ Low German dialect/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ History/ Lutherans/ Immigrants, German/ Wisconsin — Ozaukee County/ Freistadt (Wis.)/ Pomeranians

Linton, Derek S. “American Responses to German Continuation Schools during the Progressive Era.” 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. 69-82.
MKI/MEM LA 216 G47 1995
Education/ United States/ History/ German influence/ 20th century

Lips, Walter. “Hans Heinrich Felder, Jr., captain in South Carolina’s Revolutionary Army, 1778.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 37, no. 1, Feb. 2001, pp. 28-34.
Abstract: Historical, biographical and genealogical information on the Swiss-American Felder family, focusing on Hans Heinrich Felder, Jr. and his role in the Revolutionary War.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Revolution, 1775-1783/ Soldiers/ Family History

[Lisenbee, Will. “A ‘Squatter’s’ Fate: The Report Made by a Delegation of the ‘Union League’.” Thomas County Cat, vol. 5, no. 19, July 18, 1889, pp. [2].
Notes: Colby, Kansas. Story is attributed to “Will Lesenbee, in Drake’s Magazine.” Author might be Will Lisenbee, 1858-1925. See: “Auf neutralem Boden. Eine Geschichte aus fruehrer Zeit,” in Das Evangelische Magazin, Aug. 1889 (vol. 21, no. 8) in MKI Periodicals.
MKI P2011-22
Fiction, historical/ Kansas

Litiz Moravian Church. “The Moravian Church.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 1, 1985, pp. 2.
Abstract: A short overview of the Moravian Church.
MKI periodicals
Moravian Church

Livingston, Robert Gerald. “From Harry S to George W.: German-American relations and American presidents.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 29, Fall 2001, pp. 15-22.
Notes: German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
MKI Periodicals
Politics/ Germany/ United States/ America/ 20th century

Lobe, Horst W. “The evolution of rural timber frame construction in Northern Germany and its influence on vernacular architecture in Dodge County, Wisconsin. MA thesis.” University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984. 160 pp.
Notes: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Landscape Architecture).
MKI dissertations/ MEM AW L7955 H677
Architecture/ Wisconsin/ German influence.

Lochner, Friedrich. Liturgie fuer einen Kinder-Gottesdienst zur Feier der heil. Weihnacht. St. Louis, Mo.: Concordia Publishing House, n.d. 15 pp.
MKI P84-107
PIA/ Children/ Christmas/ Liturgy

LoCicero, Vincent. “Review of “Franz Werfel” by Lore Foltin.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974, pp. 99-101.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Lock, Ethel. “They Came to Kansas as Farmers … and Then.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht and J. Anthony Burzle, eds.,1977, pp. 117-120.
MKI P87-163
Farming/ Kansas/ Lutherans/ Immigrants

Loewen, Harry. “From Prussianism to Mennonitism: Reality and Ideals in Theodor Fontane’s Novel Quitt.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, 1980, pp. 25-38.
Abstract: Loewen’s article discusses, evaluates, and responds to criticisms regarding the portrayal of American Mennonites in Fontane’s novel Quitt.
MKI Periodicals
Mennonites/ Fiction/ Literature, German

Logemann, Jan. “European Imports? European Immigrants and the Transformation of American Consumer Culture from the 1920s to the 1960s.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement, no. 8, 2012, pp. 49-50.
Notes: GHI Research.
Abstract: Report on a research project. “A wave of immigrants and emigres, fleeing the totalitarian regimes of the 1930s, came to play a prominent part in an exchange process about consumer marketing and design that continued well into the postwar era.”
MKI Periodicals
20th century/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Business & Industry

Logemann, Jan. “European Imports? European Immigrants and the Transformation of American Consumer Culture from the 1920s to the 1960s.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 52, Spring 2013, pp. 113-133, ill.
Notes: GHI Research.
Abstract: Report on the author’s research project investigating “the careers of European migrants who had come to the United States in the interwar period as immigrants or as emigres fleeing from National Socialism and who, in one way or another, played influential roles in postwar America’s ‘Golden Age’ of mass consumption — particularly consumer psychology, market research and product design, highlighting transatlantic differences as well as transfers and entanglements in the emergence of mid-twentieth-century mass consumer culture.”
MKI Periodicals
20th century/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Business & Industry

Logemann, Jan, Andreas Joch, Corinne Ludwig, Ashley Narayan, and Barbara Reiterer. “Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 48, Spring 2011, pp. 85-99, ill.
Notes: GHI Research.
Abstract: Describes a research project that will examine, among other things, the roles played by 20th-century European migrants in shaping American perceptions of Europe; the patterns of perception among migrants regarding specific aspects of European society, such as the European city, economy, and consumption; and the impact “professional migrants” had upon developments in Europe as they “reached back to their native countries in various ways.”
MKI Periodicals
United States — History/ 20th century/ Europe/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Research

Lohmann, F. H. Die deutsche Sprache: Was koennen wir beitragen zu ihrer Erhaltung in diesem Lande. Chicago, Ill.: Koelling & Klappenbach, 1904. 48 pp.
Notes: On title page: Von F. H. Lohmann, Comfort, Texas. — From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Lohmann, Ferdinand H., born Nov. 20, 1848 in Eckernfoerde, died June 18, 1931 in Comfort, Texas. Came to America in 1857 and worked in Texas as farm hand and teacher. Self-educated man. Taught 1871-1878 in Illinois. From 1902 on in Comfort. Published pedagogical articles, historical essasys, and poems in English nd German in newspapers and magazines and contributed to Der deutsche Vorkaempfer in 1908. Member of Jahrbuch des Verbands deutscher Schriftsteller in Amerika in 1911.
Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: I. Eigenschaften der Deutschen. II. Was die Deutschen in diesem lande geleistet haben. III. Deutsch in der Familie.    IV. Deutsch in den Vereinen.
MKI P84-108
Language, German (US)/ Ethnic identity

Lohne, Raymond. “‘Five Times as Enthusiastic’: Abraham Lincoln and the Bloody Seventh of Chicago.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 50, 2015, pp. 105-128, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Examines the role of both individual German-Americans and the immigrant group as a political bloc in Lincoln’s Republican support.
MKI Periodicals
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865/ Political activity/ German Americans — Illinois

Lohr, O. Otto. “Deutsche Aerzte und Naturforscher in den Vereinigten Staaten.” Deutschtum im Ausland, vol. 21, no. 9, Sept. 1938, pp. 569-583, ill.
Notes: Deutschtum im Ausland: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Ausland-Instituts Stuttgart. [Served as a propaganda instrument of the National Socialist party in Germany]. Photocopy.
Abstract: Contents: Die Aerzte der Kolonialzeit — Fruehe amerikabuertige Mediziner (1783-1835) — Die Fluechtlinge der 30er und 50er Jahre — Medizinische Fachgruppen — Das Pionierjahrhundert amerikadeutscher Naturforschung (1768-1870) — Naturwissenschaftliche Groessen und Gruppen.
MKI P2007-31
German Americans/ Medicine & Health/ Science/ 17th century/ 18th century/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Lohr, Otto. “Das Deutschamerikanertum vor Hundert Jahren und der Krieg von 1812-15.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 14, 1914, pp. 392-450.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Wars/ 19th century

Lohr, Otto. “Deutschsprachige Zeitschriften in den Vereinigten Staaten (von 1798 bis 1935).” Deutschtum im Ausland, vol. 22, no. 6, June 1939, pp. 364-371.
Notes: Deutschtum im Ausland: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Ausland-Instituts Stuttgart. [Served as a propaganda instrument of the National Socialist party in Germany]. Photocopy.
Abstract: Contents: Fruehe Versuche zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts — Vormaerz — Die Achtundvierziger — Die Nachsiebziger — Weltkrieg und Nachkriegszeit.
MKI P2007-31
German Americans/ Newspapers, German-American/ National Socialism/ Forty-eighters

Lohr, Otto. “Die Anfaenge deutscher Einwanderung in Nordamerika.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 12, 1912, pp. 499-509.
Abstract: “Vom Beginn des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts ab trifft man Deutsche ueber die ganze atlantische Front Nordamerikas verstreut.  Das Schicksal, dass diesen Zeitgenossen des dreissigjaehrigen Kriegs nur eine Rolle zweiten Ranges in diesen Breiten zugedacht, konnte nicht verhindern, dass ihrer eine stattliche Reihe bei der Erschliessung der Nordhaelfte der neuen Welt und bei der Verpfanzung der europaeischen Zivilisation in die amerikanischen Kolonien mit Hand anlegte…”
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German

Long, Amos. “Early Domestic Architecture Rapidly Vanishing from Countryside.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, Summer 1999, pp. 12-14.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch/ Architecture

Long, Amos. “Scarecrow, Tattered Sentinel of Cornfield, Fooled Pests, People.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 4-6, ill.
Notes: Millersville University. Originally published May 7, 1962 in the Lebanon Daily News. Includes poem: “Der Butzemann.”
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania/ Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Farm life/ Farming/ Poetry/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Long, Amos Jr. “Living a Long Life as a Tenth Generation Pennsylvania German [Conclusion].” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 5, Winter 1999 (II), pp. 4-15, ill.
Notes: Millersville University. Cover of this issue includes three reproduced photographs of Amos Long.
Abstract: Amos Long has written many articles on Pennsylvania German farms, architecture, heritage, and traditions. In this second part of his autobiography, Long discusses transportation; college; teaching; Sears Roebuck & Company; Lottie (his wife); marriage; farm purchase; livestock; garden; church affiliation; political office; writing; news correspondent; Humberger school property; European research; summer and culture involvement; board membership; my library; dialect; influential people; superstitions and beliefs; burial plot; Cleona history; documentary; philosophy; and Amos Long’s Schtorie (in Pennsylvania Dutch). Includes listing of articles written for Pennsylvania Folklife and photographs showing four generations of Amos Long’s family tree.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ Autobiography/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Long, Amos Jr. “Living a Long Life as a Tenth Generation Pennsylvania German [Part 1 of 2].” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 4, Fall 1999, pp. 4-11, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Amos Long has written many articles on Pennsylvania German farms, architecture, heritage, and traditions. In this first part of his autobiography, Long discusses his birth and childhood, school years, work responsibilities at home, overnight visits with relatives, the Great Depression, interacting with the elderly, work away from home, music, his goals, and military service in World War II.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ Autobiography/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Long, Amos Jr. “Picturesque Fences of Early Pennsylvania Reveal Ingenuity of Pioneer Farm Folk.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, Summer 2000, pp. 7-11, ill.
Notes: Millersville University. Reprinted from the Lebanon Daily News, July 31, 1961.
Abstract: Includes the Pennsylvania German names for the various types of fences described.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Pennsylvania

Long, Amos Jr. “Privy Was Necessary Building.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 8-13, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Architecture/ Rural life & conditions/ Farm life

Long, Amos Jr. “Widely Used Years Ago, Bakeovens Have Outlived Their Original Purpose.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn 2001, pp. 14-16, ill.
Notes: Millersville University. Originally published August 5, 1963 in the Lebanon Daily News.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania/ Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Food/ Baking

Long, Amos W. Jr. “Agricultural Almanacs.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 17, no. 3, Summer 2011, pp. 15-17.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Describes the importance of almanacs to the Pennsylvania Dutch, and their many uses as a guide and as entertainment for gardeners, farmers, merchants, and the family. Includes a chart showing the month, Earth’s zodiac sign, English and German name of symbol representing Earth’s zodiac sign, ruling planet, basic cardinal element, and part of the body controlled by constellation sign.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ Calendars & Almanacs

Loomis, Charles Grant. “The German Theater in San Francisco, 1861-1864.” University of California Publications in Modern Philology, vol. 36, no. 8, 1952, pp. 193-242.
Notes: Volume entitled “In Honorem Lawrence Marsden Price: Contributions by His Colleagues and by His Former Students.”
Abstract: The subject of the present study is the period of the Meaubert management, which gave San Francisco its first German theatrical productions of merit. The article includes an introduction and chapters on the repertoire, the company the critic, theatrical sidelights and conclusion.
MKI P86-121 / MEM PB 13 .C3/36/8
Theater & Drama

Lorence, James J. “‘Dynamite for the Brain’: The Growth and Decline of Socialism in Central and Lakeshore Wisconsin, 1910-1920.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 66, no. 4, Summer 1983, pp. 251-273, ill.
Notes: Donated by James Lorence, 2007.
Abstract: “Against great odds and despite the skepticism of revolutionists in the party, Wisconsin produced a significant Socialist vote in the state’s small cities and farming areas between 1916 and 1920. German ethnic background was the primary determinant of Socialist voting patterns in these locales. Moreover, Lutheranism and farm occupations were important secondary factors in explaining radical political behavior.”
MKI P2007-40
Socialism/ Wisconsin/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Wisconsin — Marathon County

Lorence, James J. “The Ethnic Impact of Wilson’s War: The German-American in Marathon County, 1912-1916.” Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, vol. 66, 1978, pp. 113-123.
Abstract: This paper explores the impact of ethnic background on the political attitudes and voter behavior of Marathon County’s German Americans during the early years of World War I.
MKI P86-128
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Political activity

Lorence, James J. “The Milwaukee connection: The urban-rural link in Wisconsin socialism, 1910-1920.” Milwaukee History, vol. 3, no. 4, 1980, pp. 102-111.
Abstract: Victor Berger, a socialist leader, was born in Austria. He assumed leadership of the fight for an agricultural plank in the Socialist national platform. Against great odds and despite skepticism from party revolutionists, a rural, small-town Socialist movement had assumed substantial proportions in Wisconsin. Under the stimulus of war and domestic repression, a German ethnic movement emerged in the central Wisconsin heartland and lakeshore extension of das Deutschtum. The Milwaukee base was critical to this expansion, for without the stability it provided, a struggling radicalism would have lacked the resources and talent to challenge the political establishment. The Milwaukee connection became the lifeline to the out-state Socialists, their comfort in a hostile environment.
MKI P84-120
Socialism/ Wisconsin/ Berger, Victor L./ Milwaukee (Wis.)

Lorenz, Christoph F. “Von der Vaterfigur zum Indianermythos: Charles Sealsfields Tokeah als literarischer Ahnherr von Karl Mays Winnetou.” 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. 291-302.
MKI PT 2516 S4 L3 1993
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Lorenz Edmund S., Hrsg. Vorwaerts. Eine Sammlung leichter geistlicher Maennerchoere. New York, N.Y.: Lorenz, ©1901.
MKI P93-18
PIA/ Songs, religious

Lorenz-Meyer, Martin. “To feed the hungry: German-Americans, the Truman administration and the European food crisis.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 44th Report, 2000, pp. 63-79.
Abstract: An account of the food crisis following World War II, especially in Germany, and Truman’s late response to solving the problem.    German-American concerns of the time are addressed.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans/ Relations, Germany-US

Lorenz-Meyer, Martin. “United in difference: The German community in nativist Baltimore and the presidential elections of 1860.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 35, 2000, pp. 1-26.
Abstract: Includes an analysis of two German-American newspapers in Baltimore, “Der Deutsche Correspondent” and the “Baltimore Wecker.”
MKI Periodicals
German-American press/ German Americans — Maryland/ Newspapers, German-American/ Politics/ Political activity

Lorenzkowski, Barbara. “Border Crossings: the Making of German Identities in the New World, 1850-1914.” University of Ontario, 2002. x, 385 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Notes: Thesis (Ph. D.) –University of Ottawa, 2002.  Also available on Microfiche, University Microfilms International, 2003.  Includes bibliographical references.   
Abstract: Exploring the evolution of German identities in two localities, Berlin (Ontario) and Buffalo (New York), the author examines what happened to “Germanness” in the broader Canadian and American cultures, including changes in language, singing societies, and schooling.
MKI Dissertations
German Americans — New York (State)/ German Canadians/ Ethnic identity.

Louden, Mark. “Amish bilingualism: Myth and reality.” [1998]. 8 pp.
Notes: Notes associated with a talk given by Mark Louden on May 20, 1998.
MKI P2002-9
Amish/ Language, German/ Language, English/ Language influence

Louden, Mark L. “Edward H. Rauch’s Pennsylvania Dutch Hand-Book.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. Supplemental Issue, vol. 2, 2006, 2006, pp. 111-122, ill.
Notes: Preserving Heritage: A Festschrift for C. Richard Beam. Edited by Joshua R. Brown and Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Describes “some of the more interesting aspects of the content of Rauch’s Hand-Book, with an eye to modern research questions in Pennsylvania Dutch linguistics.”
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Rauch, Edward Henry, 1820-1902/ Linguistics/ Pennsylvania Germans

Louden, Mark L. “Patterns of sociolinguistic variation in Pennsylvania German.” 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. 284-306.
Abstract: In this paper some of the major sociolinguistic parameters that determine the linguistic situation of Pennsylvania German are outlined.    Patterns of variation within Pennsylvania German can be grouped into two types; social and geographic. The various factors that are salient in each of these two areas are considered.    In the first part, the most important social dichotomy underlying Pennsylvania German society is examined.    It has very definite linguistic consequences.    The sociolinguistic difference between plain (sectarian) and nonplain (nonsectarian, i.e. part of the American mainstream) Pennsylvania Germans and how their particular varieties of the dialect interact with English can be effectively described within the context of what the author has termed stable bilingualism.    In the second major section of this paper, two parameters of geographic variation in Pennsylvania German society are examined. MKI PF 5925 G47 1993
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialects

Love, Ursula. “Die “geimpften Kreuzritter”: Stellvertreter der amerikanischen Weltmacht bei Wolfgang Koeppen.” In Die USA und Deutschland. Wolfgang Paulsen, ed. 1976, pp. 92-102.
Abstract: Koeppens “Amerikafahrt” und “Tauben im Gras” werden hier nach den    kritischen Anmerkungen zur amerikanischen Gesellschaft untersucht.
MKI PT 123 .U6 A4 1976 / MEM PT 123 .U6 A4 1975
Foreign public opinion/ United States

Lucht, Felecia A. “Language Variation in a German-American Community: A Diachronic Study of the Spectrum of Language Use in Lebanon, Wisconsin.” University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007. viii, 127 pp., ill.
Notes: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (German). Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: To date, there has been limited research on linguistic variation and language shift in North American German-speaking communities. In both academic and popular literature, statements regarding varieties in these communities are often overgeneralized, inaccurate, and unsubstantiated by empirical data. Following the direction suggested by Mattheier (1993), this dissertation examines a fuller range of language variation in one such community by presenting a case study of the linguistic varieties that existed, and in some cases, continue to exist in one Wisconsin German-American community. Language shift is a multidimensional, complex and uneven process. Examining the key areas of language shift as specified by Fishman (1991), three types of data have been collected. Documentation from church records, school records, municipal records and data from print and radio media provide information on institutional language use in the community. Self-reported data from recorded interviews with speakers allow insight into speakers’ perceptions of these varieties. The content of these interviews, complemented by data obtained from personal letters, creates the basis to build speech biographies of the participants and offers a personal perspective on community language use. Finally, a structural analysis of the interviews, translation and storytelling activities allow investigation of language change within the varieties used by speakers today. The data is then examined in the context of theories of larger social change, developed specifically for North American communities by Warren (1987), and applied to Wisconsin German communities by Salmons (2005). As detailed by Warren, there has been a shift in local community focus to vertical structures, resulting in less local autonomy. As seen in the data, this process of ‘verticalization’ has had a profound influence on language use in this community. But what is also shown by the results of this study is that the language shift in these communities has been considerable, but is not complete. While the future of German varieties in these communities is uncertain, they have not disappeared without a trace.
MKI P2011-5
Linguistics/ Linguistics/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Lebanon (Wis.)/ Language, German (US)/ Language shift/ Sociolinguistics

Ludwig, Emil. “Mein Schweizer Buergerrecht.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 53, 1933 , pp. 29-30, ill.
Notes: German-American/Swiss-American author.
Abstract: A political journalist, playwright, and biographer, Ludwig was born in Breslau with the surname Cohn. He became a Swiss citizen in 1932, and immigrated to America in 1940.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Biographies/ Writing/ World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans

Ludwig, John P. “Canaan Grove PG Service.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 9-13.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Provides a Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given by Rev. John P. Ludwig on September 23, 1990.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion

Luebke, David. “German Exodus: Historical Perspective on the Nineteenth-Century Emigration.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 1-17.
Abstract: Luebke’s article provides a brief history of the study of emigration, contrasting nationalistic models to models based on social, economic and demographic developments in both Germany and the U.S.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 19th century

Luebke, Frederick C. “Das Bild des deutschen Einwanderers in den Vereinigten Staaten und in Brasilien 1890-1918.” Amerika und die Deutschen. Bestandsaufnahme einer 300jaehrigen Geschichte. Frank Trommler, ed. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1986.
MKI P92-17
Immigrants, German/ Stereotypes

Luebke, Frederick C. “The German Ethnic Group in Brazil: The Ordeal of World War I.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 255-267.
Abstract: Luebke’s article discusses riots in Brazil against German-Brazilians in 1917 and the history of German settlement in Brazil.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Germans/ Ethnic identity/ World War, 1914-1918/ Stereotypes/ Emigration and immigration/ Brazil

Luebke, Frederick C. “The Germans.” In Ethnic Leadership in America. John Higham, ed. 1978, pp. 64-90.
Notes: MKI has photocopy of this chapter.
MKI P86-99 / MEM HM 141 .E86
German Americans/ Ethnic identity

Luedeke, Marie-Therese. Blueten eines deutschen Herzens in Amerika. Leipzig: Xenien-Verlag, ©1927. 20 pp.
Notes: Book is very poor condition, with loose, brittle pages.
Abstract: Contents: An mein Vaterland. Im Sommer 1917 — An meine Mutter zum 1. April — Auf Geistesfluegeln — Das Paradies der Kinderzeit. An Eva von Blomberg — Der Heimat Wert — Mein Heimatsort in Thueringen — An der Vater — An eine Freundin im Sommer 1917. An blauen Meer — An Gertie — An Eva von Blomberg zum 1. April — Dankbarkeit — Ein Liedchen aus der fernen Kinderzeit — Dein Wille geschehe — Mein Lied — Vor dem Jasminstrauch.
MKI P2019-06
Poetry/ Women authors

Luedeking, Carl. Programm der freien Gemeinde. St. Louis, Mo.: Plate, Olshausen & Co., 1867.
Notes: Vortrag, gehalten bei Eroeffnung der neu erbauten Halle der deutschen freien Gemeinde von Nord-St. Louis, am 29sten September 1867; Lüdeking
MKI P91-20
PIA/ Speeches/ Freethinkers

Luedtke, Alf. “To Deny or to Face One’s Own Perpetration:    Ways of ‘Coming to Terms’ With the Nazi Past in West Germany.” 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,  Feb. 16-18, 1990.
Abstract: Preceded by an article by Konrad Jarausch (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and followed by commentary by Elisabeth Domansky (Washington University, St. Louis) and Wolfgang Kuettler (Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR).
MKI P90-13
Germany/ National socialism

Luethke, Folkert, and Arthur Cropley. “Motives for emigration from a psychological point of view: Empirical findings and theoretical reflections.” Jetzt wohnst du in einem freien Land; Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch, vol. 39, no. 3, 1989, pp. 363-368.
Abstract: Es ist auch bei oberflaechlicher Betrachtung hinreichend evident, dass Wanderungsbewegungen von einzelnen oder gar von ganzen Voelkern seit langer Zeit ein mehr oder weniger weltumfassendes Phaenomen sind.  Oft handelt es sich dabei um die Flucht vor Verfolgung, Armut oder Hunger.  Auf der Suche nach besseren Lebensbedingungen gelangen Menschen in fremde Laender und Kulturkreise — man denke nur an vietnamesische Emigranten, die in juengster Vergangenheit nach Australien oder in andere Laender verschlagen wurden.    Angesichts der in diesem und vielen anderen Faellen augenfaelligen Ausloeser der Wanderungsbewegungen scheint sich die Frage nach den Wanderungsmotiven zu eruebrigen.  Und in der Tat, die klassiche Erklaerung von Wanderungen — auch in den Sozialwissenschaften — verweist stets auf eine vermeintliche oder tatsaechliche Verbesserung der jeweiligen Situation der Auswanderer als eigentliches Wanderungsmotiv.  Diese Herangehensweise an die Problematik hat bislang die wissenschaftliche Diskussion beherrscht.
MKI JV 8014 .J47 1989
Emigration and immigration / Attitudes

Luetkenhaus, Almuth. “Jack findet heraus, wer Jack nicht ist.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. VII, 1983, pp. 155-162.
Abstract: A short story written in German.
MKI Periodicals
Fiction/ Literature, German (Canada)

Luetkenhaus-Lackey, Almuth. “Drei Gedichte.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. IX, 1986, pp. 211-215.
Abstract: Die drei Gedichte von dem Deutschkanadischen Dichter sind, “Kanadischer Winter,” “Zu einem Bild von Gauguin,” und “Metamorphose.”
MKI Periodicals
Poetry/ German Canadians/ Literature, German (Canada)

Luetscher, G. D. “Industries of Pennsylvania after the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, with Special Reference to Lancaster and York Counties.” German American Annals,  vol. 1, 1903, pp. 135-155, 197-208.
MKI Periodicals
Business & Industry/ Pennsylvania

 

Luther, Martin. Der Bilder-Katechismus. Jubel-Ausgabe des kleinen Katechismus von Dr. Martin Luther. Dritte verbesserte Auflage. Reading, Pa.: Pilger, 1879. [98] pp., ill.
On title page: Mit 75 Bildern. Herausgegeben von der Pilgerbuchhandlung.
Donated  by Karyl Rommelfanger.
PIA PA

Luthy, David. “Bloomfield, Dawson County, Montana, 1903-1935.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn 2001, pp. 23.
Notes: Millersville University. [Selections from pages 261-267 of Amish in America: Settlements that Failed.].
MKI Periodicals
Amish — Montana/ Settlements/ 20th century

Luthy, David. “Japanese Interest in the Amish.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, Spring 1999, pp. 14-16.
Notes: Millersville University. Reprinted from Family Life, Dec. 1997.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Dutch

Lutz, Charles R. “Der Schweizertag an der Sesquicentennial Austellung in Philadelphia, Pa.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 48, 1928, pp. 29-32, ill.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Philadelphia (Pa.)/ Festivals

Lutz, Herman M. “Geb acht! Der Haahne Graeht.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, Winter 2007, pp. 9-11.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at Christ Little Tulpehocken Church, Sept. 10, 2006.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion

Lutz, Herman M. “Loss uns net unser Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch verliere.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 13, no. 3, Summer 2006, pp. 10-12.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Pennsylvania German dialect talk given at the West Berks County Versammling, Oct. 1, 2005.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect

Lutz, Herman M. “PA German Breddich: Seelich bei Gott fer zwee hunnert un fimf un siwwetzich Yahr = PA German Sermon: Blessed by God for 275 Years.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, Spring 2011, pp. 18-21, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Provides a Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at St. John’s (Hain’s) UCC church in 2010 by Parre Herman M. Lutz, along with an English translation.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion

Lutz, Herman M. “Seelich bei Gott fer zwee hunnert un fimf un siwwetzich Yaahr = Blessed By God for 275 Years.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 16, no. 3, Fall 2010, pp. 19-22.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Provides a Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at St. John’s (Hain’s ) UCC in 2009 by Pastor Herman M. Lutz along with an English translation.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion

Lutz, Herman M. “Sei Net Bang.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, Summer 2009, pp. 2-3.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at Christ Little Tulpehocken Church, Sept. 14, 2008.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion

Lutz, Tom. “The Gruenmettstetters of Town Herman and Sheboygan County.” The Researcher, vol. 26, no. 6, Aug. 2006, pp. 4-6, ill.
Notes: Newsletter of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center; “Part 2, to be found in a later newsletter, will continue with their tale of accomplishments as well as that of other Gruenmettstetters who continued to flow into Sheboygan County until the late 1800s.”
Abstract: In addition to pioneers from Lippe Detmold who settled [in the summer of 1847] just west of Howards Grove, Sheboygan County was also settled by another group of Germans who “arrived and homesteaded in nearly the same area [also in 1847], settling in Town Herman just east of Ada. . . . These Germans were not Lippers, but Wuerttembergers, and not Protestant, but Catholic. They came from the small hamlet of Gruenmettstetten, on the northeastern edge of the Black Forest, in Germany’s Neckar River valley.” Describes the accomplishments of two Gruenmettstetters, Caspar Pfister and Johann Lutz.
MKI P2006-18
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Wisconsin — Sheboygan County/ Lutz, Johann/ Pfister, Caspar