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Saathoff, John A. “The Eastfriesians in the United States: A Study in the Process of Assimilation.” University of Iowa, 1930. 123 pp.
Notes: Donated by Philip Webber, 2007.
Abstract: “The Eastfriesian people have made a notable contribution to the development of the Middle West. . . . The second and third generations are now occupying the land. These are purely American. Not only are they American born, but they know but little of the traditions and the land of their fathers. . . . The purpose of the study is to analyze the process of assimilation through noting (1) the attitudes of the older generation; (2) the attitudes of the later generations; (3) the changes that have taken place in attitudes and customs; (4) some of the factors involved in the changes. . . . A brief introduction covering the history of the people both in Europe and America will be followed by the main body of material covering the attitudes of the group as revealed by the activities of the older as well as the younger people in regard to such topics as private property, education, marriage and family life, amusements and recreation, State and community, church and religion, superstitions, and others that may suggest themselves in the course of the study.”
MKI P2007-11
Frisians/ Assimilation/ Research/ Immigrants, German/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Low German dialect/ Ethnic identity/ Attitudes/ Social life and customs.

Sabalius, Romey. “Review of Ulrich Ott. Amerika ist anders: Studien zum Amerika-Bild in deutschen Reiseberichten des 20. Jahrhunderts (Europaeische Hochschulschriften, Reihe I: Deutsche Sprache und Literatur, 1221) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1991,” German Studies Review, 1993, pp. 585-586.
MKI P94-52
Book reviews

Saenger, Ulrich. “Before Cross Plains: The Immigrants from Cologne Bay.” 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. 37-55, ill.
Abstract: Examines the situation of farmers in the Cologne Bay (Koelner Bucht) before their emigration to Cross Plains, Wisconsin, looking at geographic and climatic conditions, the ways and means of farming, and the size of landholdings. “In order to provide a more detailed view, a typical village is portrayed, and the landholdings of individual families there are analyzed.”
MKI F590 G3 W573 2006
Geography/ Wisconsin/ Farm life/ Land ethic/ Agriculture/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Wisconsin — Dane County/ Cross Plains (Wis.)

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de. Der glee Prins. Mit der Schreiwer sei eegni Pickders. (Le Petit Prince) Mark L. Louden, trans. Neckarsteinach, Germany: Edition Tintenfass, 2006. [96] pp.,  ill. (mostly col.).
Iwwersetzt aus’s Frentsche in’s Pennsylfaanisch-Deitsche vum Mark L. Louden.
Donated by Mark L. Louden.
Abstract: The Little Prince is the most read and also the most translated book in the French language, having appeared in more than 180 languages and now available in Pennsylvania Dutch. The Little Prince is a story for all ages, providing profound and idealistic observations about life and human nature, and emphasizing the importance of innocence and love.
MKI P2013-1
Fiction/ Juvenile/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Writing/ Literature, Pennsylvania-German/ Literature, juvenile

Saint-Jacques, Roger. “La catastrophe du pont ferroviaire de Beloeil.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. IX, 1986, pp. 97-124.
Notes: In French.
Abstract: This article offers a chronological account of the railway disaster that occurred on June 29, 1864 in Beloeil, P.Q. 97 German immigrants, who had landed in Quebec on June 26, were killed when the entire train was hurled into the Richelieu River.
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)/ Canada

Salber, Ron. “Our Ancestors in 1858: The Salber Brothers of Wuerttemberg.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, Summer 2008, p. 19.
Abstract: Summary of a family history submitted to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the state of Minnesota. “Bernhardt and Melchior Salber were brother who emigrated from Herdtlinsweiler, Oberamt Gmuend, Wuerttemberg. . . . Melchior came to America in the summer of 1867 and is listed in the 1870 census in Iowa County, Iowa. . . . Bernhardt, born in 1850, came to America in June 1868.” He lived on Wards Island, New York, until sometime after October 1873, when he arrived in Iowa. By 1883 Bernhardt and Melchior were living with their wives on neighboring farms near Schell City, Missouri.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ German Americans — Iowa/ 19th century/ Wuerttemberg/ German Americans — Missouri

Salloch, Erika. “Traces of Fascist Ideology in American Professional Journals, 1933-1945.” 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. 253-270.
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
National Socialism/ Attitudes

Salmons, Joseph. “Community, Region, and Language Shift in German-Speaking Wisconsin.” Regionalism in the Age of Globalism, Volume 2: Forms of Regionalism. Madison, Wis.: Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005, pp. 133-144.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Examines how a transition in central institutions of Wisconsin-German community structure–including the spheres of politics, economics, religion, and education–eroded the foundation for maintenance of the German language.
MKI JF197 R438 2005
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Language shift/ Communities/ Linguistics/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Middle West/ Language loss/ Language maintenance/ Sociolinguistics

Salmons, Joseph. Language Shift and Community Structure: How and Why Wisconsin German Speakers Became English Monolinguals. [Madison, Wis.]: [Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies], [1999]. 17 pp.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references. Note: This is a “rough and incomplete draft.”
Abstract: Argues that World War I was not the primary reason for the “death of German culture and language” in America, but that a shift of control of key community structures and institutions from the hands of “local German-speaking community members and into the hands of national and regional organizations” led to an enforced transition “to English in key contexts, [triggering] a slow chain of shift down to the level of the family and individual.”
MKI P2012-4
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Language shift/ Communities/ Linguistics/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Middle West/ Language loss/ Language maintenance/ Sociolinguistics

Salmons, Joseph. “The Role of Community and Regional Structure in Language Shift.” Regionalism in the Age of Globalism, Volume 1: Concepts of Regionalism. Madison, Wis.: Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005, pp. 129-138.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Argues that a basic restructuring of community and regional life during the late nineteenth century undermined the maintenance of the German language in Wisconsin. The premise is that “horizontally structured communities will typically maintain a minority language, while verticalization will lead to shift to the majority language.”
MKI JF197 R438 2005
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Language shift/ Communities/ Sociolinguistics/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Middle West/ Language loss/ Language maintenance

Salmons, Joseph, Steven Geiger, and Michael Lind. Language and Region: Immigrant Language and Community Structure in the American Midwest. [199?]. 3 pp.
Abstract: Information on a proposed project designed to study the relationship between language and region. “This project will provide a significantly new model for how and when and why minority language communities abandon their languages for a majority tongue. This kind of reverse subsidiarity builds most directly on Warren’s verticalization, but ties in closely with other disciplines and a variety of other topics, like Midwestern regionalism and the reinvention of ethnicity among German Americans. The overall project aims for a balance of broad theoretical focus and Midwestern small regional empirical orientation.”
MKI P2005-29
Linguistics/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Middle West/ Language loss

Salmons, Joseph C. “Academic/Non-academic relations and filiopietism in German-American Studies.” Monatshefte, vol. 86, no. 3, 1994, pp. 374-377.
Abstract: In this paper Joseph Salmons defines the positive side of academic/non-academic relations in German-American Studies.
MKI P99-9
German-American Studies

Salmons, Joseph C. “Approaches to English in Some Indiana German Newspapers.” 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. 183-194.
Abstract: This volume attempts to present a relatively broad spectrum of the broadly-defined German-American press’ activity.
MKI PN 4885 .G3 G467 1992
Newspapers, German-American

Salmons, Joseph C. “But Hoosiers Do Speak German: An Overview of German in Indiana.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 21, 1986, pp. 155-166.
Abstract: Salmons’ article briefly introduces a few of the most important historical and contemporary facets of German in Indiana from sociolinguistic and linguistic perspectives. It also contrasts “Indiana German” to other German-American dialects.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ German Americans — Indiana/ Amish/ Mennonites/ Newspapers/ Lutherans/ Schools/ Dialects

Salmons, Joseph C. “Issues in Texas German Language Maintenance and Shift.” Monatshefte, vol. 75, no. 2, 1983, pp. 187-196.
Abstract: Early in its history, Texas Germans established a socio-historical and linguistic stability which has recently begun to break down, leaving TxG’s role in even informal domains unclear. TxG is rarely used in written or formal domains. Linguistically, paradigms have been reduced (e.g. loss of dative/accusative distinction; loss of umlaut in strong verbs in present tense); numerous loans have been introduced; phonological inventory has been reduced. Slowly, a kind of consensus standard of how TxG ought to be spoken is being lost.
MKI P86-32 / MEM AP .M7383
Dialectology/ Language, English/ United States/ Dialects/ Texas

Sammons, Jeffrey L. “The Lorenzo da Ponte Episode in Ferdinand Kuernberger’s Der Amerika-Muede.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, 1980.
Abstract: Sammons’ article evaluates scholarly treatment of nineteenth-century German novels about America. He utilizes Kuernberger’s Der Amerika-Muede as his springboard, in particular Kuerberger’s method of writing, what Sammons calls “plagiaristic synthesis.”
MKI Periodicals
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literature, German/ 18th century/ 19th century/ Literary criticism/ America in German literature

Sammons, Jeffrey L. “Review Essay. Were German-Americans interned during World War II? A question concerning scholarly standards and integrity.” The German Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 1, 1998, pp. 73-77.
Abstract: The author reviews and criticizes the following books: Holian Timothy J. The German-Americans and World War II: An Ethnic Experience. New German-American Studies. Ed. Don Heinrich Tolzmann. 6. New York: Lang, 1996. xii + 243 pp.
Tolzmann, Don Heinrich ed. German-Americans in the World Wars. Vol. 4, The World War Two Experience: The internment of German-Americans. Munich; Suaer, 1995. 3pts. in 4 vols. x + 1418 pp.
MKI P99-6
Prisoners of war/ World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans/ Book reviews

Sammons, Jeffrey L. “The shape of freedom in Charles Sealsfield’s Plantation Novels.” Schatzkammer, vol. 21, no. Nos. 1 & 2, 1995, pp. 1-20.
Notes: Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte.
P2001-36
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Sander, Volmar. “Zur Rezeption der deutschen Literatur in der “New York Times”. In Die USA und Deutschland. Wolfgang Paulsen, ed. 1976, pp. 160-173.
Abstract: Eine Analyse der journalistischen Kritik deutscher Buecher in der amerikanischen Presse, sowie eine Liste der bevorzugten Titel.
MKI PT 123 .U6 A4 1976 / MEM PT 123 .U6 A4 1975
Literature, German/ Journalism/ Newspapers

Sänger Bundes des Nordwestens, editor. Sänger-Zeitung. LaCrosse, Wis.: Sänger Bundes des Nordwestens. 1908. Fuer das 23.te Saengerfest, LaCrosse, Wis., July 23.-26. 1908.
PIA
PIA/ Periodicals / Societies, etc./ Songs

Sassaman, John. “My Patriotic Dietrich Ancestor.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, Summer 2010, pp. 5-9, ill.
Abstract: Adam Dietrich served as a sergeant in the Pennsylvania Militia during the American Revolution. This article describes the author’s efforts to prove his lineage to Dietrich and to register him with the Sons of the American Revolution. Other family names mentioned include Becker, Ludwig, Steigerwald, and Zimmerman. The Dietrich and Steigerwald families are believed to come from Floersbach, Hesse.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Hesse/ Dietrich/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Revolution, 1775-1783

Satrum, Carolyn. “Tracing the Ernsts Back to Baden.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 13, no. 3, Fall 2010, pp. 19-21, ill.
Abstract: Beginning only with the information that her grandmother was a German speaking Roman Catholics with the maiden name of Ernst, the author begins her search. A baptismal record for the grandmother revealed that Josephine Wilhelmina Ernst had been born in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, in 1877, and that her parents were named John Ernst and Mary Theobald. It was determined that John (Johannes) Ernst emigrated in 1869 from Weitenung, Buehl, Baden, arriving on the S. S. Ohio in Baltimore. More searching discovered that John Ernst was born in Ottenhofen (less than one mile from Weitenung) in 1850. While John left Baden as a farmer, in America he became a blacksmith working for Gaar, Scott & Co. in Richmond, Indiana (a manufacturer of steam- and horse-power threshing machines and steam traction engines) and he later worked as a stone mason. “He married, fathered 11 children, weathered the deaths of five young daughters, and died at 93 years of age.”
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Baden-Wuerttemberg/ Ernst

Sauberzweig, Reinhard. “Ich bin ein deutsch Texaner (I Am a German Texan).” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 3, Fall 2005, pp. 267, ill.
Notes: Reprinted from the San Antonio Freier Presse, 1936. Translated and modified for rhyming by Brian J. Boeck of Marion.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Poetry

Sauer, Angelika, and Emily Stokes-Rees. “Who’s Who in German-Canadian History: Wilhelm Hespeler [Part 1].” German-Canadian Studies Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 3, ill.
Notes: Printed from PDF version from German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg Web site.
Abstract: Born in 1830 in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Hespeler migrated to Preston, Canada West in 1850. He returned to Europe in the late 1860s and worked to recruit German immigrants to Canada. He was instrumental in helping German-speaking Mennonites in southern Russia find a new home in Canada.
MKI P2002-106
German Canadians/ Biographies/ Hespeler, Wilhelm/ Mennonites

Sauer, Angelika E. “Transnational Lives: The Otto Hahn Family in Reutlingen, Wuerttemberg and Toronto, Ontario, 1880s-1920s.” 2007. 9 pp.
Notes: Donated by Angelika Sauer, 2007.
Abstract: “The Hahn family gives us a glimpse of an immigrant family that lies outside the traditional assimilation paradigm. They did not decide to be German or Canadian or German-Canadian. They lived their lives defined by their family’s intellectual, religious, and artistic traditions.”
MKI P2007-45
German Canadians/ Baden-Wuerttemberg/ Hahn, Otto, 1828-1904/ Artists/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)

Sauer, Paul. “Die USA als Zufluchtsland fuer Verfolgte des nationalsozialistischen Regimes.” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen, 1976, pp. 66-70.
Abstract: Die Moeglichkeiten und Schwierigkeiten als Verfolgter des Naziregimes 1933in den USA Zuflucht zu finden.
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Refugees, Political (US)/ Exile/ National Socialism

Sauer, Paul. “Hermann Frasch (1851-1914).” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen, 1976, pp. 92-93.
Abstract: Included in section “Lebensbilder von Deutsch-Amerikanern aus dem deutschen Suedwesten.”
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568 Biographies

Sauer, Paul. “Johann Konrad Weiser, Vater und Sohn (1664-1760).” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen, 1976, pp. 71-73.
Abstract: Included in section “Lebensbilder von Deutsch-Amerikanern aus dem deutschen Suedwesten.”
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Biographies

Sauer, Philip von Rohr. “The Rev. L. F. E. Krause: A Paradoxical Pioneer Pastor.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 2, Summer 1995, pp. 80-83, ill.
Abstract: “Though Krause ‘was close to becoming the honored patriarch of all Lutheran pastors in Wisconsin,’ the Missouri Synod declared him a dangerous radical.”
MKI Periodicals
Krause, John Fritz Leberecht Ehregott/ Biographies/ Religious life/ Lutherans/ Lutheran Church

Sauer, Philip von Rohr. “Some Heinrich von Rohr Letters and a Tribute to His Widow.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 4, Winter 1989, pp. 170-179, ill.
Abstract: Heinrich von Rohr’s “reports about the success of their countrymen in Wisconsin caused the majority of Lutherans to settle in this state.” This article presents translations of letters from 1853 while aboard the steamship Arabia and from 1866 while in Winona, Minnesota; and of a tribute written by Heinrich von Rohr to his wife, Margerete Luetzel von Rohr, after her death in 1876.
MKI Periodicals
Letters/ Religion/ Lutherans/ Rohr, Heinrich von

Sauer, Walter. “Der Schtruwwelpittre: Heinrich Hoffmann’s Struwwelpeter, Dutchified by Earl C. Haag.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 159-173, 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: Provides text in both Pennsylvania German and German.
MKI Periodicals
Children’s literature/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Sauer, Walter. “‘Ein grus an dig meine liebe frau’: A Civil War Letter from a Pennsylvania German Soldier to His Wife.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. Supplemental Issue, vol. 2, 2006, 2006, pp. 67-76, ill.
Notes: Preserving Heritage: A Festschrift for C. Richard Beam. Edited by Joshua R. Brown and Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. Includes bibliographical notes.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialects/ Linguistics/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Letters

Sauerzapf, Rolf. “Sie zogen mit Bibel, Katechismus und Gesangbuch in die Ferne.” Globus, vol. 17, no. 6, 1985, pp. 3-5.
Abstract: Kirchen der Auslandsdeutschen. Viele Auswanderer aus dem ganzen deutschen Sprach- und Kulturraum zogen um des Glaubens willen in die Ferne.
MKI P87-110
Immigrants, German/ Religion/ Churches

Saunders, Thomas J. “[Review of] Ingrid Schoeberl. “Amerikanische Einwandererwerbung in Deutschland 1845-1914″ (Von Deutschland nach Amerika, 6). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990. Pp. 254. Paper DM 48,–.” German Studies Review, vol. 15, no. 2, May 1992, pp. 402-3.
Notes: MKI owns reviewed book: MKI JV 6684 .S35 1990.
Abstract: “Volume six in Steiner Verlag’s series on the social history of emigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries looks behind emigration trends and experiences to examine the efforts of American states to attract European immigrants.”
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Sautter, Maynard G. “Peter Sautter: Sioux Uprising, Civil War, Soldier.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 19.
Abstract: Peter Sautter was born in 1826 in Reusten, Wuerttemberg, and came to the United States in 1849. He lived first in Crown Point, Indiana, and then settled in the Minnesota Territory in the mid-1850s. He served in Co. G, 10th Regiment, Minnesota Volunteers.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ German Americans — Minnesota

Sautter, Udo. “Kanadas Einwanderungspolitik in historischer Sicht.” Gesellschaft und Diplomatie im transatlantischen Kontext: Festschrift für Reinhard R. Doerries zum 65. Geburtstag. Michael Wala, Hrsg. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999, pp. 385-403.
Abstract: “In den folgenden Betrachtungen sollen einige der Faktoren aufgezeigt werden, welche im Laufe der letzten 130 Jahre die kanadische Einwanderungspolitik bestimmten. Die Darstellung kann dann gleichzeitig als Abriss der Entwicklung dieser Politik dienen. Sie folgt dabei mehr oder weniger der zeitlichen Abfolge, die sich in fuenf Hauptabschnitte unterteilen laesst, naemlich die Anfangsperiode bis Mitte der 1890er Jahre, die Jahrzehnte der staerksten Einwanderung bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg, die Zwischenkriegszeit, die starkem Wandel unterworfene Periode vom Zweiten Weltkrieg bis in die Mitte der 1970er Jahre und schliesslich die juengste Zeit.”
MKI E183.7 G47 1999
Canada/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)/ History

Sazaki, Kristina R. “Between two worlds: August Auerbach’s American correspondence to his father, Berthold Auerbach.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 35, 2000, pp. 117-132.
Abstract: August Auerbach, son of the popular German-Jewish author Berthold Auerbach, sailed to America on August 16, 1873 and returned to Germany at the end of September 1874. His letters home reveal the difficulty August experienced in “creating a self-image that was in some way independent of his father and his father’s reputation as author, literary authority on America, and Jew.”
MKI Periodicals
Letters / Travel/ America/ 19th century/ Jews, German

Scanlon, Leo. “How the West Was Lost: The Conspiracy to Destroy German Culture in America.” In Rescue the Western Alliance! Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Schiller Institute July 3-4, 1984. New York, NY: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1984, pp. 72-93.
Abstract: The German culture was replaced by the Cowboy culture. The American Protective league’s racist propaganda against German Americans during and at the end of the first World War.
MKI P88-69
World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Anti-German sentiment

Schach, Paul. “Comments on some Pennsylvania-German words in the Dictionary of Americanisms.” American Speech, vol. 29, no. 1, 1954, pp. 46-54.
Abstract: Miscellaneous pertinent information concerning the history, usage, meaning, pronunciation, and geographic distribution of some Pennsylvania-German words which may be useful and interesting to students of American English
MKI P97-11
Pennsylvania-German dialect

Schach, Paul. “Facts and Fallacies About Berks County Dutch.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, Summer 2000, pp. 4-5.
Notes: Millersville University. Reprinted from the Historic Review of Berks County, vol. 10 (1945), pp. 80-82.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect

Schach, Paul. “German-language newspapers in Nebraska 1860-1890.” Nebraska History, vol. 65, 1984, pp. 84-107.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper will be to trace the development of the German-language press in Nebraska from its inception in 1860 to shortly after 1890. During these thirty-odd years sixty-seven German-language newspapers were founded in the state.
MKI P98-10
German-American press/ Nebraska/ Newspapers, German-American

Schach, Paul. “Hybrid Compounds in Pennsylvania German [Part 1].” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn 2001, pp. 18-21.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialectology/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Linguistics/ Languages in contact

Schach, Paul. “Hybrid Compounds in Pennsylvania German [Part 2].” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, Winter 2002, pp. 11-14.
Notes: Originally published in American Speech, vol 23, 1948, pp. 121-134.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialectology/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Linguistics/ Languages in contact

Schach, Paul. “The linguistic impact of North America on Maximilian’s Tagebuch.” Monatshefte, vol. 80, no. 1, Spring 1988, pp. 50-58.
Notes: Monatshefte fuer deutschen Unterricht, deutsche Sprache und Literature.
Abstract: “In the Tagebuch of his trip to the North American frontier (1832-1834), Maximilian Fuerst zu Wied uses English terms for concepts typical of the American environment both directly and parenthetically with German words. There is also interference in the more subtle form of semantic borrowing.”
MKI P2001-35
United States/ Travel/ Language influence

Schach, Paul. “Maximilian Prinz zu Wied encounters Landsleute in the New World.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 30, 1995, pp. 1-17.
Abstract: Short biography of Alexander Philipp Maximilian (1782- ), the influence on von Humbolt on him, his expedition to Brazil and to North America. He undertook a study of Indian cultures and wrote “Tagebuch” and “Reise in das innere Nordamerika.” In Brazil, prince Maximilian was enabled to achieve his two major scientific objectives through the substantial support to three German colleagues. In North America, too, a Landsmann helped the prince preserve memories of an Indian tribe that was soon to be destroyed by warfare and disease. In this country, the prince’s contact with Germans and German Americans were many and varied. At that time the U.S. and the Western Indian lands were in a state of rapid transition, many aspects of which are reflected by Maximilian’s keen observations. These include the arrival and settlement of immigrants, the preservation or loss of the German language, the establishment of farms and colonies and of missions among the Indians, etc.
MK Periodicals
United States/ Travel/ Literary criticism

Schach, Paul. “Observations on Palatine and Hessian Dialects on the Great Plains.” In Dialectology, Linguistics, Literature. Wolfgang W. Moelleken, ed. 1984, pp. 232-248.
Abstract: The author examines the way in which the Rhenish-Franconian dialects Palatine and Hessian appear on the Great Plains. He compares them to Pennsylvania-German and to the dialects as the appear in Germany.
MKI P 367 .D53 1984
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Dialectology / Dialects

Schach, Paul. “The Pennsylvania Contribution to the American Vocabulary.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 7-10, ill.
Notes: Millersville University. Originally published in the Historic Review of Berks County, Vol. 19 (1953), pp. 2-8.
Abstract: “Perhaps the most famous contribution of this kind is the title The Father of His Country, which was bestowed upon George Washington by Francis Baily. On the cover of his Nord-Amerikanischer Kalender for the year 1779 (published in Lancaster, PA), there was a flying Fame with a medallion of Washington. Sounding from her trumpet were the words ‘Des Landes Vater.'” Sections include: Religious Terminology, Food Terminology, Miscellaneous Borrowings.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialectology/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Linguistics/ Languages in contact / Language influence

Schach, Paul. “Phonetic Change in German Dialects on the Great Plains.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 157-172 .
Abstract: Schach’s article discusses linguistic change in the Balzer dialect as spoken in Nebraska and in Amana German as spoken in Iowa. It also discusses the “Swiss Mennonite” dialect spoken in Kansas and South Dakota.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Dialectology/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Bilingualism/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Europe/ Nebraska/ Schools/ World War, 1914-1918/ Amana/ Mennonites/ Iowa/ Palatinate/ Language, German (US) — Foreign elements/ Kansas/ Dakotas/ Dialects

Schach, Paul. “Semantic borrowing in Pennsylvania German.” American Speech, Dec. 1995, pp. 257-267.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper will be to examine a number of semantic loans in PaG with a view to classifying them according to the linguistic forces which initiated or furthered the process of semantic borrowing.
MKI P97-11
Pennsylvania-German dialect

Schach, Paul. “Some Approaches to the Study of German Dialects in America.” In Papers from the St. Olaf Symposium on German-Americana. La Vern J. Rippley, and Steven M. Benjamin, eds., 1980, pp. 96-112.
Abstract: In this paper the author has noted a few of the many approaches that can be used to study the dynamics and the ecology of German speech enclaves in America
MKI P85-85
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Linguistics/ Dialects

Schach, Paul. “Some Notes on Linguistic Interference in American-German Dialects.” Journal of the Center for Pennslvania German Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, Summer 2005, pp. 15-21.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Dialectology/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Linguistics/ Languages in contact

Schach, Paul. “Types of loan translations in Pennsylvania German.” Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, 1952, pp. 268-276.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper will be to examine a number of loan translations in the old-established colonial language of Pennsylvania German with a view to classifying them and determining their relative prevalence as compared with the number of loanwords, loanblends (hybridisms), and semantic borrowings in common use.
MKI P97-11
Pennsylvania-German dialect

Schade, Gerhard. Verse eines Amerika-Deutschen.
Notes: Unpublished manuscript. German-American author.
MKI P91-29
PIA/ Poetry

Schaerff, Robert. “Robert Schaerff’s journey to America: April 2nd to September 13th, 1849.”1849. ca 50 leaves.
Notes: Schärff.
Abstract: Diary in seven chapters. Description of the atlantic crossing and travel across America
MKI P2000-7
Diaries/ Travel/ Personal narratives/ Atlantic crossing.

Schafer, Joseph. “The Yankee and the Teuton in Wisconsin.” The Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. v. 6, nos. 1-4, v. 7, nos. 1-2, 1922-1924, pp. 125-145, 261-279, 386-402, 3-19, 148-171.
Notes: Contents: Characteristic attitudes toward the land, distinctive traits as farmers, some social traits of Yankees, some social traits of Teutons, social harmonies and discords.
Abstract: “My purpose in the present paper is to present, from local sources, some discussion of the relations of Yankee and Teuton to the land–a theme which ought to throw light on the process of substitution…, revealing how the Teuton came into possession of vast agricultural areas once firmly held by the Yankee.” Contents: Characteristic attitudes toward the land, distinctive traits as farmers, some social traits of Yankees, some social traits of Teutons, social harmonies and discords.
MKI P2002-76
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Social life and customs/ Land ethic/ Farming/ Agriculture/ Wisconsin

Scharlemann, Martin H. “The Mob is Coming.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 3, 1976, pp. 123-130.
Abstract: Third in a series of taped interviews with the Rev. Dr. Ernst K. Scharlemann by his son Dr. Martin H. This recounts anti-German sentiment in Campbell Hill, Illinois, in 1919.
MKI Journals/ SHS BX 8001 .C535
Personal narratives/ Anti-German sentiment/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ German Americans — Illinois

Schattenkirchner, Sophie. “Jetzt ist die Zeit und Stunde da. Wir reisen nach Amerika”: Migrationen aus Bayern in die USA zwischen 1848 und 1952, aufgezeigt an fuenf Lebensgeschichten aus Altbayern. Vienna: Universitaet Wien, 2013. 146 pp., ill.
Notes: Masterarbeit, Master Globalgeschichte und Global Studies.
Abstract: Five case studies of migration from Bavaria to the United States: Von Amesmaier zu Omesmyer: Die Auswanderung der Theres Amesmaier 1859 von Straubing nach Attica in Indiana — “Ich wollte Amerika kennen lernen und wanderte deshalb 1903 aus.” Die Aus- und Rueckwanderung des Max Feldbauer von Windischbergerdorf nach Chicago und wieder zurueck — “Anstaat dass’d mit’m Hitler gehst, seh ich Di lieber nach Amerika gehen!” Die Auswanderung der Schwester Victoria Wiethaler 1938 nach Milwaukee — “Verdacht der Rasseschaendung.” Die Zwangsmigrationen des juedischen Arztes Dr. med. Walter Perls 1939 von Muenchen nach New York — Magdalena Hayson. Als “Soldatenbraut” 1952 von Regensburg nach Colorado.
MKI P2013-6
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Bavaria/ 19th century/ 20th century/ Case studies/ Jews, German

Scheffler, Kristin. German Americans, Language Education, and First World War. 2001. 12 pp.
Notes: Research paper, November 21, 2001, Education Policy 412, Professor Michael Fultz.
Abstract: From the conclusion: The First World War was a catalyst which instigated widespread hate for German influences, and especially for the language. Propaganda, in and out of the classroom, played a significant role in creating negative feelings for the German language. These feelings affected the educational systems on all levels, public and private alike. The end result was a reduced number of students learning German and fewer instructors teaching German in American schools.
MKI P2006-13
Language, German (US)/ Language maintenance/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Education/ Anti-German sentiment

Scheib, Heinrich. Heinrich Scheib: 8. Juli 1808–15. November 1897: seine Lebensbeschreibung, von ihm selbst verfasst. Baltimore, Md.: s.n., n.d. 29 pp.
Notes: German-American author
MKI P88-76
PIA/ Autobiography

Scheibe, Anna Katarina. “Die Letzte Melodie [prose-poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974, pp. 49.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Scheibe, Fred Karl. “Heinrich Armin Rattermann: German-American Poet, 1832-1923.” German-American Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1969, pp. 3-7.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Rattermann, Heinrich Armin, 1832-1923/ Poetry

Scheibler, Jason. “An Immigrant’s Journey from East Prussia to the USA.” Perspektiven, vol. 3, no. 3, Summer 2004, pp. 10-12.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: Recounts the story of a young German who escaped from the east Prussian city of Tilsit as Russian troops advanced in 1945, survived the bombing of Dresden, and emigrated with his family to the United States.
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ 20th century/ World War, 1939-1945/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Scheibler, Jason. “Napoleon’s Heavy Hand Is Milwaukee’s Good Luck: The Gettelman Brewing Family Had Roots in Exodus from Alsace.” Perspektiven, vol. 4, no. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 5-6, ill.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: Peter Goettelmann left Hesse-Darmstadt to “escape with his family from a continent he viewed as too corrupt for redemption.” In Milwaukee the Goettelmann family merged with the aristocratic Schwieckhard family from Alsace, leading to the establishment of the A. Gettelman Brewing Company in 1871 on the site of the original Schweickhard Brewery.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Breweries/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Business & Industry/ A. Gettelman Brewing Company/ Alsace

Scheibler, Jason. “Not the Last of the Mohicans: How a German Immigrant Girl Learned to Be a Patrician Native American in Early 20th Century Wisconsin.” Perspektiven, vol. 4, no. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 1, 7, ill.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: In 1822 the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans were removed from their ancestral territories and ordered to travel westward across the Mississippi. One band refused to continue to Oklahoma and turned north, settling in Shawano County, Wisconsin. “Having abandoned the Mohican language for Yankee-accented English three full generations before the expulsion, the Stockbridge Band became the first English-speaking community to settle in the state.” Later the Stockbridge Mohicans converted to German Lutheranism. In 1907 Louisa Mielke, whose family emigrated from Saxony, married John Tousey, a Stockbridge Mohican. The article discusses the difficulties the couple encountered from both their families.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Women/ Native Americans/ 20th century/ Mielke, Louisa/ Lutherans

Scheibler, Jason. “Rare Treasure Prompts International Conference: Diaries of Artist F. W. Heine Are Illuminated by Goethe House Official.” Perspektiven, vol. 4, no. 1, Winter 2004-2005, pp. 11, 10, ill.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: The “re-discovery” of the diaries of panorama painter Friedrich Wilhelm Heine in the Milwaukee County Historical Museum has led to a commitment by Goethe House of Wisconsin “to insure their translation and publication. . . . As a diarist Heine not only recorded his inspirations and ideas for monumental paintings, but also his reflections on life in Germany and Milwaukee, his thoughts on politics and society, and a few revealing insights on his fellow artists.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Artists/ Paintings/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Diaries/ Heine, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1845-1921

Scheibler, Jason, and Samuel Scheibler. “Theodor Wettstein: A Name We All Should Know.” Perspektiven, vol. 3, no. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 10-11.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: Born in Barmen and growing up in Elberfeld, Theodor Wettstein came to America in 1848 and established himself in Milwaukee. He worked to promote the fledgling Republican Party among German immigrants six years before Carl Schurz arrived in Watertown, hosted weekly Sangerverein meetings four years before Buffalo organized its singing society, was the first president of the Milwaukee German Relief Society, and was even burned in effigy by those who thought he sought to bring “European despotism” to the German Mecca of Milwaukee. Wettstein also published two books that provided “counsel, guidance, and encouragement to Germans contemplating” immigrating to America.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Immigrants, German/ Wettstein, Theodor

Scheibler, Samuel. “The Delightful, Holy Advent and Christmas Season Descends from German Heritage of Symbols, Beliefs.” Perspektiven, vol. 4, no. 1, Winter 2004-2005, pp. 1, 5, 7, ill.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: Examines holiday custom and symbols, including Christmas tree ornaments, Marienkaefer (Ladybugs), apples, lucky mushrooms, the Christmas goat, and the possibly modern “Christmas pickle.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Cultural contribution/ Christmas/ Social life and customs/ Germany

Scheibler, Samuel. “Froehliche Weihnachten = Merry Christmas.” Perspektiven, vol. 3, no. 1, Winter 2003-2004, pp. 1, 4-7, ill.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.; Fröhliche.
Abstract: Examines aspects of German heritage apparent in Wisconsin during the Christmas season, including the Christmas tree, Advent wreaths, the Feast of St. Barbara, Santa Claus, and the celebration of the Three Wise Men.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Cultural contribution/ Christmas/ Social life and customs

Scheibler, Samuel. “‘Ich erinnere mich an . . . ‘ ‘I Remember When . . .’ Goethe House’s Wisconsin Oral History Project Has Successful Start.” Perspektiven, vol. 3, no. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 1, 4, ill.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: “Early this year the Goethe House board of directors. . . . resolved to create an enduring record of the rich and powerful personal memories of the state’s German-American citizens. . . . [and] began the task of preserving and cataloging the contributions of German-Americans in their own words through advanced digital recording.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Personal narratives/ Interviews/ History

Scheibler, Samuel. “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Perspektiven, vol. 6, no. 1, Winter 2006-2007, pp. 1, 5-7, ill.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: “While marked by all Christians since the 5th century A. D., the special import of [the twelve days of Christmas] arose in pre-Christian Germany and spread gradually throughout Western Europe. This even dozen very distinctive feast days. . . represent a remarkable synthesis of ancient Germanic belief, Christian doctrine, and popular piety.” Discusses cleansing rituals, talking animals, manifestations of “die Frau,” visits by the “raging hosts” in Mecklenburg and Pomerania, and the custom of “lead pouring” as fortune telling.
MKI Periodicals
Christmas/ Social life and customs/ Germany

Scheiffarth, Engelbert. “Der New Yorker Gouverneur Nelson A. Rockefeller und die Rockenfeller im Neuwieder Raum.” Genealogisiches Jahrbuch, vol. 9, 1969, pp. 16-41, ill.
Notes: Herausgegeben von der Zentralstelle fuer Personen- und Familiengeschichte; Neustadt an der Aisch: Degener & Co., Inhaber Gerhard Gessner; MKI owns photocopy of Sonderdruck; donated by Kathy Egstad, 2005.
Abstract: Sections include: Ein Dorf wird Wuestung; Die aeltesten Rockenfeller-Kirchenbucheintragungen im Raum Neuwied; Der Politiker Gouverneur Nelson A. Rockefeller und seine Einstellung zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Von Johannes Rockenfeller zu Nelson A. Rockefeller, von Altwied nach New York; and Die Rockenfeller in der neuen Heimat. The final section provides transcriptions of the following letters: Sophia Rockenfeller (geborene Glabach) to her brother Philipp, written from New York on 30 August 1880; Philipp Rockenfeller to his cousin, written from New York on 19 March 1882; and Henry Rockenfeller to Philipp Glabach (his uncle), written from New York on 9 October 1885. A note indicates “in New York ertrank 1884 der Sohn des Henry Rockenfeller.”
MKI P2005-10
Rockefeller, Nelson A./ Genealogy/ Letters

Scheimann, Richard W. “Family History and German Church Records.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 2, Summer 1996, pp. 82-87.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy

Schelbert, Leo. “Christian Funk’s Spiegel fuer alle Menschen: An Interpretive Introduction.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 32, 1997, pp. 153-168.
Abstract: Christian Funk’s Spiegel fuer alle Menschen, published in part in 1785 and in full in 1813, is offered here in transcription, and looked at from several perspectives. It reveals how the American Revolution affected a defenseless German-speaking immigrant group of Pennsylvania. It highlights theological issues arising from the demands of competing political authorities during the Revolution. It also reflects aspects and practices of the “Swiss” Brethren and Sisters, known as “Swiss” Mennonites in the US. The document’s German is of linguistic interest, reflecting a High German shaped by “Swiss” Mennonite liturgical texts, Alemannic Middle High German and the surrounding English-speaking environment. Finally it details the issues of doctrine and policy with personal hostilities and petty accusations, an experience from which no human group appears to be immune.
MKI periodicals
Revolution, 1775-1783/ Mennonites/ Swiss Americans/ Immigrants/ Language, German (US)/ 18th century

Schelbert, Leo. “The Enmeshment of Five Worlds, 1710-1713: The Making of New Bern in Southern Iroquoia.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 45, no. 3, Nov. 2009, pp. 8-56, ill.
Abstract: “On September 29, 1710, a hundred and three people–among them their leader Christoph von Graffenried and his son Christoph jr.–arrived at a river the Tuscarora called Gow-ta-no, meaning ‘pine water.’ . . . The newcomers were from Canton Bern, a leading member state of the Swiss Confederacy, and they intended to settle in a region located on the North Atlantic coast of the Western Hemisphere that the English named Carolina.” This article examines how it came about “that authorities of the canton Bern in central Western Europe became involved in an overseas venture, that the English government awarded a Bernese patrician the position of landgrave in one of its dominions, and that South Germans [from the Palatinate] were available in London to be shipped across the Atlantic.” Also describes encounters with Native Americans, and von Graffenried’s return to Switzerland.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Switzerland/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ North Carolina/ Graffenried, Christopher de, 1661-1743/ Settlements/ Immigrants, German/ Immigrants, Swiss/ Palatines/ Native Americans

Schelbert, Leo. “In Praise of Carolina: Johann Rudolf Ochs’s “Americanischer Wegweiser” of 1711.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 25, 1990, pp. 9-22.
Abstract: Schelbert’s article discusses the importance of immigration guides in influencing people’s decisions of whether to stay in their home country or to emigrate, and in shaping their expectations of the United States. He discusses Ochs’ “Americanischer Wegweiser” as a prime example of such a guide.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ United States in literature/ 18th century/ German-American press/ Life skills guides

Schelbert, Leo. “On Interpreting Immigrant Letters: The Case of Johann Casper and Wilhelmina Honegger-Hanhart.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 16, 1981, pp. 141-152.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Letters/ Biographies/ Immigrants

Schelbert, Leo. “Perspectives on Two Nations in Contact.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 25, 1990, pp. 3-6.
Abstract: Prologue to a special issue of the Yearbook of German-American Studies entitled “United States and Switzerland: Aspects of an Enmeshment”
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Languages in contact/ Language, German (US)

Schelbert, Leo. “The Reactivated Swiss American Historical Society at Forty: A Retrospective.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 293-305.
MKI Periodicals
Societies, etc./ History/ Swiss American Historical Society/ Ethnic identity

Schelbert, Leo. “Swiss in South Dakota: A preliminary sketch.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 37, no. 3, Nov. 2001, pp. 3-22.
Notes: German summary; prepared in commemoration of the opening of the Midwest Dairy Institute in Milbank, South Dakota.
Abstract: Discusses the general context, presence and dispersal of Swiss in South Dakota; the pioneer Swiss colony of Badus; the Swiss Mennonites from Russia in southeastern South Dakota; the Swiss Benedictines; and the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration/ Swiss Americans/ South Dakota

Schelbert, Leo. “Vevay, Indiana, and Chabag, Bessarabia: The Making of Two Winegrower Settlements.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 25, 1990, pp. 109-130.
Abstract: Schelbert’s essay discusses non-crisis motivations for migration, focussing on the founders of two colonies: Jean Jacques Dufour, who settled Vevay, Indiana in 1803 and Louis Vincent Samuel Tardent, who settled Chabag, Bessarabia (South Russia) in 1823. It also describes the beginnings and early decades of each of the settlements and probes the historical contexts within which they emerged.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration/ Swiss Americans/ Indiana/ Russia/ 19th century/ Biographies/ Switzerland/ Newspapers/ Settlements

Schelbert, Leo. “Von der geistlichen Welt des Pfaelzer Predigers Johann Peter Mueller (1709-1796), nachmals Prior der Klostergemeinde Ephrata in Pennsylvanien.” 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. 215-228, ill.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Palatines/ Biographies

Schelbert, Leo, and Urspeter Schelbert. “Portrait of an Immigrant Society: The North American “Gruetli-Bund”, 1865-1915.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 233-254.
Abstract: The Schelberts’ article discusses the organizational evolution of the “Nord-Amerikanischer Gruetli-Bund,” its main activities, its Swiss prototype and, finally, the socio-economic traits of its 1915 membership.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Societies, etc./ Swiss Americans/ Language, German (US)/ Ohio/ Ethnic identity/ Gruetli-Bund (Nordamerikanischer Schweizer-Bund)

Schelbert, Urspeter. “Adelrich Steinach’s Swiss Colonists: An Introduction.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 40, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 5-10.
Abstract: Introduction to Geschichte und Leben der Schweizer Kolonien in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika, compiled in the 1880s in collaboration with the North American Gruetli-Bund by the Swiss Physician Adelrich Steinach.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ 19th century/ Immigrants, Swiss/ Steinach, Adelrich, 1826-1892/ Gruetli-Bund (Nordamerikanischer Schweizer-Bund)

Schellack, Fritz. “Die Nordamerika-Auswanderung aus Eifel und Hunsrueck. Ein Ueberblick.” In Die Auswanderung nach Nordamerika aus den Regionen des heutigen Rheinland-Pfalz. Werner Kremp and Roland Paul, eds. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2002, pp. 37-48.
MKI E 184 .P3 A87 2002
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Palatines/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Letters

Schenderlein, Anne. “German Jewish “Enemy Aliens” in the United States During the Second World War.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, vol. 60, no. Spring, 2017, pp. 101-116.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Full-text available online.
Abstract: “This article focuses on the government-imposed classification of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany as “enemy aliens” in the United States during the Second World War. … It explores the baggage and meaning that came with using [the terms “enemy alien” and “German Jewish refugee”] and how such designations affected the everyday lives of people.” Article from author’s dissertation, 2014.
MKI Periodicals
Jews, German/ World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans/ Refugees — Germany — History — 20th century

Scherbel, E. Ernst F. Geschichte der Ersten Deutschen Ev. Luth. Gemeinde im Town Middleton, Dane County, Wis. Als Erinnerungsblatt zum 50jährigen Jubiläum der Gemeinde am 14. und 15. September 1902. [Middleton, Wis.: the Gemeinde, 1902]. [19] pp., ill.
“Nach gesammelten Aufzeichnungen zusammengestellt von Pastor E. F. Scherbel.” Includes “Verzeichniss der Confirmirten der ersten deutschen ev. luth. Gemeinde bei Middleton, Wis.”
Scan made from photocopy donated by Mae Hartwig, 2011.

Scherer, Karl. “‘Pfaelzer”–“Palatine.’ Ein Leitbegriff der Wanderungsgeschichte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Skizze zum Bedeutungswandel einer Herkunftsbezeichnung.” 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. 25-32, ill.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Palatines/ Emigration and immigration/ 18th century

Scherrer, Maria. “Drei Kerzen, drei Herzen. Eine weihnachtliche Skizze.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 50, 1930, pp. 53-55.
Notes: Maria Scherrer, St. Gallen.
Abstract: “Drei Schuesse knapp hintereeinander, punkt mittags 12. Uhr, das war fuer den Farmer auf “Black Corner” das Zeichen, dass ihn die Amberger Brueder auf der Farm “Fern Ridge” fuer den Abend zu Gaste luden. Hans Baptist, wie ihn die Ansiedler weit in der Runde mit amerikanischem Akzent nannten, war froh. . . . Freudig zog er die Fahne hoch an der Stande, die vor dem niedern Blockhause stand, damit sie auf “Fern Ridge” wussten, dass er am Abend kommen werde. Weiss-rot leuchtete die Schweizer-Flagge am stahlblauen, kanadischen Winterhimmel: ein frischer Nordwest liess sie froehlich flattern.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Canadians/ Fiction/ Christmas

Scheuerbrandt, Arnold. “Suedwestdeutsche Einwanderung und Siedlungsgruendung in USA.” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen,. 1976, pp. 50-61.
Abstract: Ein Versuch, ungefaehr die genaue Zahl der Auswanderer und ihrer Siedlungen in den verschiedenen Bundesstaaten der USA festzuhalten.
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Immigrants, German/ Settlements/ German Americans/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Schick, Philipp. “Ein verlorner Jugendtraum.” Germania Kalender [fuer das Jahr 1888], vol. [8], [1887], pp. 127-156.
Notes: “Fuer den Germania-Kalender. Von Philipp Schick.” Ward’s Bio-Bibliography of German-American Writers identifies Philipp Schick as the author of “Das Schulmeisterhaus. Eine Erzaehlung aus dem amerikanischen Pfarrleben.”
Abstract: From page 137: “Walter ging zu Militaerschule in West Point. Er hatte sich an einen Senator seines Staates gewandt, und der hatte ihm um der militaerischen Verdienste seines Vaters willen eine vakante Stelle in der Kriegsschule verschafft. Walters Vater war Husarenrittmeister in Preussen gewesen und war wegen des mexikanischen Krieges mit seiner Frau und dem einen Sohne nach Amerika gekommen. In dem Kriege hatte er mit Auszeichnung gedient; er wurde zum Oberst befoerdert, war aber in einer Schlacht bei einem Reiterangriff an der Spitze seines Regiments gefallen. Seine Witwe hatte in der Stadte, wo sie wohnte, Verwandte und zog es vor, in Amerika zu bleiben. So war Walter fruehe vaterlos geworden. Seine Mutter behielt er auch nicht sehr lange.” From page 145: “Frueh morgens am zwoelften April 1861 wurde die Vereinigten Staaten Festung ‘Sumter’ von den Konfoederierten beschossen und nach dreissig Stunden ihnen uebergeben. Damit fing der denkwuerdige Buergerkrieg unseres Lands an, welcher ungefaehr vier Jahre lang dauerte. Da rief Walter die ernste Soldatenpflicht zum kampfe, so dass er nicht Zeit hatte, seinem Schmerze nachzuhaengen.”
PIA [Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder]
PIA/ Fiction/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Schield, Emilie Dummann. “Pomeranian Emigration as Remembered by a Seven Year Old.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 47, Jan. 2006, pp. 4-5, 12, 15, ill.
Notes: Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin.
Abstract: Part one of an emigration story written by Emilie Schield in 1931 and translated by her niece Lillie Radtke-Goetsch. Emilie’s father, Carl Friederich August Dummann, was born in 1832 in the village of Stramehl in the district of Regenwalde. Her mother, Auguste Henrietta Louise (nee Luedtke) was born in 1834 in the village of Sellin. In 1865 a letter arrived from Ferd Boernke, a relative by marriage who was living in the Town of Maine, near Taegesville, Wisconsin. The letter asked them “to also come to America as they could soon acquire property of their own here and become independent. This they could never expect to do in Germany.” Several families, including the Dummanns and their seven-year-old daughter Emilie, left in 1866 to make the journey to America. The journey and its hardships are described. After landing in Quebec, they came eventually to Milwaukee, where some of the family stayed while others continued on to Wausau, and from there to Taegesville. Part two will tell about purchasing land in the Town of Maine and establishing a homestead.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Personal narratives

Schield, Ray. “Pommern Weddings in Wisconsin.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 31, Feb. 2002, pp. 14-15, ill.
Abstract: Describes typical wedding celebrations by Pomeranian immigrants in Wisconsin in the early 1800s, including music, food, and other customs. Includes wedding photographs taken by Oscar Borchardt in Lincoln and Marathon counties showing two wedding parties, cooks, and a band.
MKI Periodicals
Pomerania/ Social life and customs/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Schillerverein von St. Louis (Saint Louis, Mo. Der Schiller Verein von St. Louis. 3. Ausgabe . St. Louis, Mo.: Schillerverein von St. Louis, 1908. 58 p. : illustrations, portraits.
Abstract: Contents: Auszug aus Dr, Georg Richters Rede bei Gruendung des Schillervereins — Schillerverein von St. Louis und seine Geschichte — Die Verfassung des Schillervereins — Erinnerungsblatt an Emil Preetorius, Ehrenvorsitzer des Schillervereins — Lebensbild von Oberst Karl G. Stifel, Stifter des Schillerdenkmals in St. Louis–
Ansprache gehalten von Prof. Ernst Wolf beim Schillerfest am 12. Mai 1907 — Address delivered by F.W. Lehmann at the Schiller-Memorial on May 12, 1907 — Vorstands- und Mitgliederliste.
MKI P2019-07
Schiller

Schilling, Robert. Geld. Eine statistische und wissenschaftliche Abhandlung über Geldfrage, vom fortschrittlichen Standpunkt. Milwaukee, Wis.: National Reformer, 1891. 36 pp., ill.
On title page: Von Robert Schilling, Sekretär des National-Comites der Volkspartei. At top of title page: “Grau Freund, ist alle Theorie.”
Inside front cover: “Der National Reformer, Robert Schilling Redakteur, besteht seit 1880 und war zehn Jahre lang die einzige deutsche Zeitung in der Welt, welche die in diesem Buche erläuterten Prinzipien befürwortete. Jeder Freund des Fortschritts sollte auf denselben abonniren.”
Robert Schilling was born 1843 in Osterburg, Saxony and migrated with his family to the U.S. in 1846. He was an advocate of paper currency and one of the founders of the Greenback party. In 1880 he moved to Wisconsin; in Milwaukee he edited the German-language newspapers Der Reformer and Volksblatt. In 1891 Schilling helped to organize the national People’s (Populist) party, becoming its first national secretary. By 1898, failing to win the Democratic nomination for Congress, Schilling ran unsuccessfully as a Populist candidate, and two years later retired from active politics, emerging only once in 1917 to support Robert M. La Follette, Sr., in his opposition to World War I, and to speak on behalf of his old political rival, Socialist Victor L. Berger. For additional information, see: Milton M. Small, “The Biography of Robert Schilling” [Unpub. M.A. thesis, Univ. of Wis., 1953].
Chapters include: Geld muss sein. — Geschichte des Geldes in den Ver. Staaten. — Geld vor dem Kriege. — Wie man durch Schulden reich wird. —  Ohne Geld kein Krieg. — Wie Papiergeld entwerthet wurde. — Ein Tausend Millionen Dollars gesetzlich gestohlen. — Etwas über Preis und Werth. — Ein kleines Gewicht um viel zu wiegen. — Eine Pyramide auf der Spitze. — Gold ändert sich im Preise. — Wie die Geld-Könige sich durch Manipulation der Preise bereichern. — Das Eides Columbus. — Die Lehren der Geschichte. — Anhang. Der National Bank-Schwindel.
Donated by the School Sisters of St. Francis, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Schindler, Burton. “The Haymarket Bomb.” American History Illustrated, vol. 12, no. 4, 1986, pp. 20-27.
Abstract: Chronicle and historical background of the Haymarket affair. Spies, August Vincent Theodore, 1855-1887
MKI P86-135 / SHS E 171 .A574
Haymarket Affair/ Labor movement/ Chicago (Ill.)

Schinnerer, Otto. “Karl Heinzen, Reformer, Poet and Literary Critic.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 15, 1915, pp. 84-144.
Abstract: Biographical sketch of the German poet, Karl Heinzen, with sections on his political activity, poetry, and literary criticism. Includes a chronological list of his publications, separated by which were published in Europe and America.
MKI Periodicals
Heinzen, Karl, 1809-1880/ Literature, German/ Poetry/ Literary criticism

Schlaeger, Eduard. “Das Freidenkerthum in den Vereinigten Staaten.” Internationale Monatsschrift, vol. 1, Jan. 1882, pp. 49-61.
Notes: Schläger.
Abstract: Overview of the freethinker movement
MKI P98-48
Freethinkers/ Forty-eighters

Schlaeger, Eduard. “Der Wheelinger Congress im September 1852.” Der Deutsche Pionier: Erinnerungen aus dem Pionier-Leben der Deutschen in Amerika, vol. 8, 1876, pp. 90-97.
Notes: Schläger.
Abstract: Forty-eighter idealism and yearning after a new world order, free and united was expressed by the Congress of Wheeling.
MKI P98-43
Forty-eighters / Ideology

Schlathoelter, Rev. Louis F. Die taegliche Communion. Milwaukee, Wis.: Columbia Publishing House, n.d.
Notes: Religion; pamphlet
MKI P92-53
PIA/ Theological

Schlauch, Wolfgang. “West Germany: Reliable Partner? Perspectives on Recent German-American Relations.” German Studies Review, vol. 8, no. 1, 1985, pp. 107-125.
Abstract: Brief survey of political relations between Germany and U.S. since 2nd World war.
MKI P86-119 / MEM AP .G371 S934
Relations, Germany-US

Schlemper, Beth. “Building Identity in the Holyland.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring 2003, pp. 1, 10-11, ill.
Abstract: The Holyland region is among the most distinctive settlements of Catholic German-speaking immigrants in Wisconsin, comprising an area primarily in Fond du Lac and Calumet counties. Prof. Schlemper examines reasons for nineteenth-century emigration from the Vulkan Eifel region of what was then Rhenish Prussia to the Holyland area, and identifies how these settlers have affected the identity of east-central Wisconsin up to the present day.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Wisconsin — Fond du Lac County/ Wisconsin — Calumet County/ Catholics

Schlemper, M. Beth. “The Borders of the Holyland of East-Central Wisconsin.” Wisconsin German Land and Life. Heike Bungert, Cora Lee Kluge, and Robert C. Ostergren, eds. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2006, pp. 189-205, ill.
Abstract: “Among the most distinctive of . . . large clustered German settlements in Wisconsin is one that has been known at least since 1898 as the ‘Holyland.” This district, which is located primarily in Fond du Lac County and partially in Calumet County, comprises several rural German Catholic communities that are connected by religion and place of origin. With place names such as Johnsburg, Mount Calvary, Marytown, St. Peter, St. Cloud, St. Anna, St. Joe, Calvary, and Jericho, there is little mystery on the surface about why the district bears the nickname ‘Holyland’. . . . While the name implies that religious beliefs and practices are key to the region’s identity, this is only one of many factors, which include a wide range of social, cultural, political, and even economic elements.”
MKI F590 G3 W573 2006
Wisconsin/ Farm life/ Land ethic/ Agriculture/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 19th century/ Wisconsin — Fond du Lac County/ Wisconsin — Calumet County/ Catholics/ Ethnic identity

Schlicher, J. J. “The beginning and early years of the Mission House.”
Notes: Reprinted from the Wisconsin Magazine of History.
Abstract: The events which led to the founding of the Mission House of the Reformed Church began when some eighty-six immigrants from Lippe Detmold came to Sheboygan county in 1847. They were from the village of Langenholzhausen. The history includes the early years of the Mission House; and of the Mission House and Mission House Seminary in the eighties.
MKI P84-158
Reformed Church/ Wisconsin/ Missions/ History/ Sheboygan (Wis.)/ Lippe-Detmold/ Westphalia

Schlicher, J. J. “Bernhard Domschcke. I–A Life of Hardship.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 29, no. 3, March 1946, pp. 319-332, [1 portrait leaf].
Notes: Continued in June 1946 issue.
Abstract: Domschcke was a journalist with wide-ranging abilities, including as an orchestra conductor in Dresden where he conducted early Wagner operas. Entangled in the revolutionary movements of 1848-1849, Domschcke landed (after imprisonment?) in July 1951 in New York. He became involved with Free Congregations on the East Coast as well as establishing a newsletter and editing a German-language newspaper, the Neu-England Zeitung. Following further newspaper efforts in Louisville, Domschcke arrived in Milwaukee in the summer of 1854. He gave a lecture appealing to the German American population to switch their loyalty from the Democratic to the Republican Party and the Republicans established a printing press and editorial offices for him, from which he published “Der Corsar” for fourteen months. Following a failed effort to publish a daily, the Milwaukee “Journal,” another weekly, the “Atlas” appeared successfully from March 1856 into the period of the Civil War.
MKI P2014-11/WHS F576 W7
Domschcke, Bernhard (1827-1869)./ German Americans — Milwaukee (Wis.)./ Forty-eighters–Wisconsin–History.

Schlicher, J. J. “Bernhard Domschcke. II–The Editor and the Man.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 29, no. 4, June 1946, pp. 435-456.
Notes: Continuation of article begun in March (v. 29 : 3) 1946 issue.
Abstract: Domschcke published the Atlas in Milwaukee from March 1856 to April 1861. In September 1861 he became the first editor of the Milwaukee “Herold.” About a year later, he along with the entire staff resigned to enlist in the Union Army. His writing is both opinionated and well-done, covering local, state (Carl Schurz for governor of Wisconsin) and national politics (scandals, slavery) as well as culture (musical reviews). He was captured and held prisoner of war in Richmond, Virginia and then marched through the South as far as Georgia before being exchanged at Wilmington, North Carolina in February 1865. The physical strain of his war experiences apparently were reflected in his loss of intense engagement with the issues he subsequently editorialized about, and following collapse, he died an invalid on May 5, 1869.
MKI P2014-11/WHS F576 W7
Domschcke, Bernhard (1827-1869)./ German Americans — Milwaukee (Wis.)./ Forty-eighters–Wisconsin–History

Schlicher, J. J. “Eduard Schroeter the Humanist: I. The Early Years of Storm and Stress. II. Work and Honor at Sauk City.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, Dec. 1944; Mar. 1945, pp. 169-183; 307-324.
Notes: Reprinted from Wisconsin Magazine of History, December 1944, March 1945.
Abstract: Schroeter, Eduard, 1811-1888
MKI P86-113, P88-132
Forty-eighters/ Wisconsin/ History/ Freethinkers/ Biographies/ Schroeter, Eduard, 1811-1888

Schlortt, Minnie Backhaus. “The Backhaus Family of Texas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 41-42, ill.
Abstract: Five Backhaus brothers emigrated from Jaderberg, Germany, to Texas between 1878 and 1887.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy

Schluembach, Friedrich von. “Mardi gras, oder: Ein Carneval im Sueden.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift fuer die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 5, May 1877, pp. 235-237.
Notes: Donated by the Mayville Historical Society. Schlümbach. Author’s name appears only in index to bound volume. — Donated by the Mayville Historical Society. — Information on the author: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_von_Schl%C3%BCmbach.
Abstract: Describes Mardi Gras in Galveston, Texas.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Festivals/ Texas/ Travel

Schlyter, Daniel M. “The Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934: Departure Gate for Central and Eastern Europe.” National Genealogical Society 2002 Conference in the States Program Syllabus. Arlington, VA: the society, 2002, pp. 187-190.
Notes: Donated by Robert Luening.
MKI P2002-93
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Ships/ Immigrants, German

Schlyter, Daniel M. “Understanding Germany and Its Records.” National Genealogical Society 2002 Conference in the States Program Syllabus. Arlington, VA: the society, 2002, pp. 102-105.
Notes: Includes list of gazetteers of the German Empire. Donated by Robert Luening.
MKI P2002-93
Germany/ Genealogy/ Geography

Schmahl, Helmut. Das Ober-Floersheimer Kriegerdenkmal und sein Stifter Sebastian Walter. Ober-Floershiem einst und jetzt, Heft 1. Ober-Floersheim: Heimat- und Kulturverein Ober-Floersheim, 2001.
Notes: “Herausgegeben vom Heimat- und Kulturverein Ober-Floersheim anlaesslich des 100. Jahrestages der Denkmaleinweihung 2001”; Grusswort by Joseph Salmons.
Abstract: Walter immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1866. He worked for the Kieckhefer Brothers Company and patented a “jacketed” oil can, and later went into politics.
MKI P2001-8
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)

Schmahl, Helmut. “Die Auswanderung aus dem Raum Oppenheim im 19. Jahrhundert.” In Der Landkreis Mainz-Bingen: Region und Unterricht. Otto Kandler, Wolfgang Licht, and Elmar Rettinger, eds. Bad Kreuznach: Paedagogisches Zentrum Rheinland-Pfalz, 1997, pp. 185-199.
Abstract: Umfang und Verlauf der Auswandrung; Groesse der ausgewanderten Familien und Altersstruktur; Ursachen der Auswanderung; Zielgebiete (Nordamerica, Suedamerika, Algerien, Europ. Ausland, Sonstige/keine Angaben); Reisevorbereitungen und Ueberfahrt; Siedlungsschwerpunkte in den USA: das Beispiel Wisconsin.
MKI P2002-108
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ Wisconsin/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Palatinate/ 19th century

Schmahl, Helmut. “Die deutsche und rheinland-pfaelzische Nordamerikaauswanderung im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert.” Aufbruch nach Amerika 1709-2009. 300 Jahre Massenauswanderung aus Rheinland-Pfalz. Marlene Jochem and Jens Stoecker, eds. Kaiserslautern: Theodor-Zink-Museum; Referat Kultur der Stadt Kaiserslautern, 2009, pp. 8-36, ill.
Abstract: Overview examines emigration from the Rheinland-Palatinate during America’s colonial period and in the 19th century, including beginnings, mass migration to New York in 1709, Pennsylvania, the “Redemptioner System,” settlements and ethnic cohesion, the Ephrata Cloister, acculturation and assimilation, economic and social background, reasons for emigrating, attitudes held by the German states, chain migration, organized emigration (Mainzer Adelsverein), farming and trades practiced by German Americans, the press and literature, societies, and nativism and politics.
MKI E 184 P3 A94 2009
Palatines/ German Americans/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ History/ Palatinate

Schmahl, Helmut. Finding Birthplaces of German Immigrants to North America. 2002. 8 pp.
Notes: photocopied pages.
Abstract: Notes for a presentation given at the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society spring meeting in Jessup, Maryland, April 27, 2002.
MKI P2002-109
Genealogy/ Germany/ Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Schmahl, Helmut. “Hessians in Washington County, 1860.” Hessischer Verein, 2000, January, pp. 4-5.
Abstract: List of Hessian families that emigrated from Hessen and settled in Washington County; taken from 1860 Wisconsin census. Includes first names and ages. List for Town of Polk.
MKI Periodicals
Hessians/ Wisconsin/ Genealogy/ Wisconsin — Washington County

Schmahl, Helmut. “Hessians in Washington County, 1860.” Hessischer Verein, 2000, Apr., pp. 3-4.
Abstract: List of Hessian families that emigrated from Hessen and settled in Washington County; taken from 1860 Wisconsin census. Includes first names and ages. List for Town of Polk, continued from January 2000 issue.
MKI Periodicals
Hessians/ Wisconsin/ Genealogy/ Wisconsin — Washington County

Schmahl, Helmut. “Innerlicher Mangel und auesserliche Nahrungshoffnung: Aspekte der Auswanderung aus Kurmainz im 18. Jahrhundert.” In Reichskirche–Mainzer Kurstaat–Reichserzkanzler. Peter Claus Hartmann, hrsg. Mainzer Studien zur neueren Geschichte, eds. Peter C. Hartmann, Walter G. Roedel, and Konrad Amann, vol. 6. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2001, pp. 121-143.
MKI P2002-27
18th century/ Emigration and immigration/ Germany

Schmahl, Helmut. Introduction to Family Research in the Palatinate. 2002. 9 pp.
Notes: Photocopied pages.
Abstract: Notes for a presentation given at the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society spring meeting in Jessup, Maryland, April 27, 2002. Includes annotated list of important addresses and maps showing the territories of Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland.
MKI P2002-110
Genealogy/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Palatinate/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ History

Schmahl, Helmut. “Sebastian Walter (1828-1922): Pionier des Emaillierhandwerks in Amerika und Wohltaeter seiner Heimatgemeinde.” Aufbruch nach Amerika 1709-2009. 300 Jahre Massenauswanderung aus Rheinland-Pfalz. Marlene Jochem and Jens Stoecker, eds. Kaiserslautern: Theodor-Zink-Museum; Referat Kultur der Stadt Kaiserslautern, 2009, pp. 112-115, ill.
Abstract: Born in Ober-Floersheim, Sebatsian Walter immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1866.
MKI E 184 P3 A94 2009
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Rheinland-Pfalz

Schmahl, Helmut, comp. Traces they left behind: German archival sources on immigrants to North America. [Madison, Wis.: Helmut Schmahl, 2002]. 20 pp.
Notes: Photocopied materials for workshop moderated by Helmut Schmahl, Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of Mainz, Germany, Saturday Feb. 9, 2002.
Abstract: Emphasis on documents related to Hessen-Darmstadt; includes copies of source documents (passport application, permission to emigrate, “list of emigrants from Gau-Bickelheim, Hessen-Darstadt, compiled by the mayor, 1847-1851,” “list of sea voyage contracts made in Kreis Alzey, Hessen-Darmstadt, 1851,” Spezialmusterliste der Gemeinde Ober-Floersheim (Census of 6 February, 1817), and “Announcement of intention to emigrate in Grossherzoglich Hessische Zeitung 21 Dec 1847”).
MKI P2002-65
Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Archives/ Germany, Emigration and immigration/ Hesse

Schmahl, Helmut. “Transplanted But Not Uprooted: 19th-Century Immigrants from Hessen-Darmstadt in Wisconsin.” National Genealogical Society 2002 Conference in the States Program Syllabus. Arlington, VA: the society, 2002, pp. 133-134.
Notes: Donated by Robert Luening.
Abstract: Outline and notes for presentation given in Milwaukee, WI. Discusses background of emigration from Rheinhessen and the chain migration process
MKI P2002-93
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 19th century/ Wisconsin/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Schmahl, Helmut. Transplanted But Not Uprooted: Nineteenth-Century German Immigrant Life in Wisconsin [Presentation]. [Madison, Wis.: Self-published, 2002]. 10 pp.
Notes: Photocopies of transparencies for presentation by Helmut Schmahl to the Chair’s Seminar, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 24, 2002.
MKI P2002-78
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 19th century/ Wisconsin/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Schmahl, Helmut. “Truthful Letters and Irresistible Wanderlust: The Emigration from Rhenish Hesse to Wisconsin.” Wisconsin German Land and Life. Heike Bungert, Cora Lee Kluge, and Robert C. Ostergren, eds. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2006, pp. 145-159.
Abstract: “This essay concerns the migration and settlement process of some two thousand people from the southwestern German province of Rhenish Hesse who established group settlements in several counties in eastern Wisconsin in the mid-1800s. After an introduction to the social and economic situation in Rhenish Hesse at that time, the focus shifts to the question of how Wisconsin, a territory scarcely known in Germany, came to the attention of Rhenish Hessians as early as 1840, and how a chain migration tradition developed that lasted until the outbreak of the Civil War. Next, the study takes a closer look at Rhenish Hessian settlement patterns in Washington and Sheboygan Counties, where the immigrants clustered in areas known as the Darmstaedter Settlements. The final part deals with the agricultural experiences of Rhenish Hessian and other German settlers in the study area up to the end of the nineteenth century.”
MKI F590 G3 W573 2006
Wisconsin/ Farm life/ Land ethic/ Agriculture/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Hesse/ Letters/ 19th century/ Wisconsin — Washington County/ Wisconsin — Sheboygan County

Schmahl, Helmut. “Verpflantz, aber nicht entwurzelt: Die Auswanderung aus Hessen-Darmstadt (Provinz Rheinhessen) nach Wisconsin im 19. Jahrhundert. Dissertation.” Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet, 1999, 449 pp.
Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit ist in acht Kapitel gegliedert. Zu Beginn der Untersuchung (Kapitel 2 ) sind zunaechst die Grundzuege der politischen, wirtschaftlichen und demographischen Entwicklung Rheinhessens im 19. Jahrhundert zu thematisieren. Das Wanderungsgeschehen selbst wird im dritten Kapitel untersucht. Im vierten Kapitel ruecken die Auswanderer in den Vordergrund der Betrachtung.
Das fuenfte Kapitel leitet den umfangreichen transatlantischen Teil dieser Studie ein. Es vermittelt zunaechst einen Ueberblick ueber die von hessischen und anderen deutschen Immigranten bis 1870 bevorzugten Siedlungsraueme in den Vereinigten Staaten. Danach steht die hessische Bevoelkerung Wisconsins im Zentrum der Betrachtung.
Das sechste Kapitel enthaelt einen detaillierten Ueberblick ueber die Siedlungsgebiete hessen-darmstaedtischer Einwanderer in Wisconsin. Im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung stehen die counties Washington und Sheboygan, Zentren der rheinhessischen Immigration.
Das siebte Kapitel beschaeftigt sich mit der Akkulturation rheinhessischer Einwanderer und ihrer deutschen Landsleute im Osten Wisconsins. (Bild; Berufsstrukturen; soziale Schichtung der Bevoelkerung in laendlichen Rauemen). In den Abschnitten zur Landwirtschaft zwischen 1840 und 1885 werden Gemeinsamkeiten und unterschiede bei Ackerbau und Viehzucht der einzelnen Einwohnergruppen heruasgearbeitet. Eingliederung rheinhessischer Immigranten in staedtischen Gebieten soll anhand zweier ausgesuchter Erwerbszweige (Brauwesen und Weinhandel in Milwaukee) herausgearbeitet werden.
Das achte und letzte Kapitel beschaeftigt sich mit der Akkulturation rheinhessischer Immigranten auf dem religioesen Sektor (Kirchengemeinden). Anhand des Beispeils der Freien Gemeinden Wisconsins soll geklaert werden, inwieweit rationalistische Stroemungen in Wisconsin Fuss fassten.
MKI dissertations
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 19th century/ Wisconsin/ Assimilation/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Social aspects/ Farming/ Agriculture/ Rural life & conditions/ Business & Industry/ Breweries/ Religious life/ Freethinkers

Schmahl, Helmut. “‘We Are Not Strangers in This Land’: Rheinhessische Auswanderer in Wisconsin.” In Die Auswanderung nach Nordamerika aus den Regionen des heutigen Rheinland-Pfalz. Werner Kremp and Roland Paul, eds. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2002, pp. 74-87, ill.
Abstract: Includes information on the German migration to Wisconsin, the establishment of Darmstaedter settlements, the relationships between immigrants from Rhein-Hessen and other ethnic groups, their agricultural production methods, breweries and wineries in Wisconsin, societies and festivals, and church societies.
MKI E 184 .P3 A87 2002
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Palatines/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Wisconsin/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Hesse/ Freethinkers

Schmeller, Helmut J. “Folk Doctors and Home Remedies among Volga Germans in Kansas.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 36, 2001, pp. 157-165.
Abstract: “Folk doctors and traditional remedies retained a measure of some popularity well into the middle of the twentieth century” among the Volga German settlers in western Kansas, perhaps because the methods of the folk doctors were more gentle and less threatening than the practices of professional physicians. While the religious component in some of the healing practices may have reduced the patient’s anxiety and thus contributed to the healing process, it may be that the special relationship based on a common language and shared cultural background played the most important role in the persistence of folk medicine and folk doctors among the Volga Germans.
MKI Periodicals
Russian Germans/ Culture/ Kansas/ German Americans — Kansas/ Medicine & Health/ Folks-medicine

Schmeller, Helmut J., and Ronald J. Fundis. “Cultural Maintenance among the Volga Germans in Western Kansas.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 23, 1988, pp. 49-58.
MKI Periodicals
Russian Germans/ Culture/ Kansas/ German Americans — Kansas

Schmelz, Lisa M. “In Her Own Words: an Heir to Black Point Estate Pens her Thoughts While Traveling in Europe at the Onset of WWI.” At The Lake: Geneva Lakes Area Magazine, Winter 2018, pp. 28-40.
Notes: Includes illustrations. Original documents featured in the article are at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Black Point Estate, Fontana, WI has copies in its archives. Donated by Black Point Estate, Wisconsin Historical Society, September 2018.
Abstract: Article highlighting letters by Alma Schmidt Petersen, granddaughter of the German immigrant and leading Chicago beer brewer, Conrad Seipp. Alma wrote home as a 20-year old who was visiting and traveling in Europe, accompanied by her grandmother, Conrad’s second wife, Catherine Seipp, in the summer of 1914. She also befriended a German soldier, Fritz Hirschberger, his letters to her are also preserved.
MKI P2018-06
Petersen, Alma Schmidt/ Hirschberger, Fritz/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Travel/ Letters/ World War, 1914-1918

Schmid, Christoph von. Das Laemmchen. Die Waldkapelle. Die Kirsche. Drei Erzaehlungen. Feierabend-Stunden fuer den christlichen Familienkreis. St. Francis, Wis.: Gerend, n.d.
Notes: “Herausgegeben zum Besten armer Taubstummen von M.M. Gerend, Rektor der St. Johannes Taubstummen-Anstalt zu St. Francis, Wis. Druck von J.H. Yewdale & Sons Co., Milwaukee.” – t.p. ; cover missing.
MKI P94-43
PIA/ Juvenile literature

Schmid, Friedrich Jr. “Das Leben und Wirken von Pastor Friedrich Schmid, des Pionier-Missionars der evang.-luth. Kirche im Staate Michigan und besonders in Washtenaw County.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 9, 1909, pp. 122-130.
Abstract: Zusammengestellt von Friedrich Schmid Jr.
MKI Periodicals
Lutheran Church/ Michigan

Schmid, Monika S. “‘I Always Thought I Was a German, It Was Hitler Who Taught Me I Was a Jew’: National-Socialist Persecution, Identity, and the German Language.” German-Jewish Identities in America . Edited by Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2003, pp. 133-153.
Abstract: Explores the consequences Nazi persecution had upon the maintenance and attrition of the German language among a group of German-Jewish refugees.
MKI/MEM E184 J5 G37 2003
Jews, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Ethnic identity/ National Socialism/ Language, German/ Language loss

Schmidt, Gerda. “Harmonist Poetry Provides Glimpse into Sacred Communal Life.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 21, 1986, pp. 75-96.
Abstract: Schmidt’s article attempts to articulate the philosophy that guided the day to day lives of the Harmonists. The article includes facsimiles of songs and poems.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Poetry/ Rapp, George, 1757-1847/ Lutherans/ Harmony Society/ Arts/ Music/ Language, German (US)

Schmidt, H. J. Antritts-Rede in der Kapelle des Columbia College am 7. Maerz 1848. New York, N.Y.: H. Ludwig, 1848. 32 pp.
MKI P89-87
PIA/ Speeches/ Educational

Schmidt, Helen Kirk. “Easter Carol, Chorale, and Hyme.” American-German Review, vol. XVI, no. 4, 1950, pp. 3-5.
Notes: Forms of Easter music originating in Germany; illustrations.
MKI Periodicals
Germany/ Folklore/ Music

Schmidt, Henry J. “The Rhetoric of Survival: The Germanist in America, 1900-1925.” In Teaching German in America: Prolegomena to a History. David P. Benseler, Walter F. W. Lohnes, and Valters Nollendorfs, Editors. Monatshefte occasional volumes, vol. 7. Madison, WI : The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988, pp. 165-175.
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
Education/ Bilingualism/ World War, 1914-1918/ Foreign public opinion/ United States/ Germany

Schmidt, Sally. “The Schmidts and Crescent Macaroni.” Infoblatt, vol. 12, no. 4, Autumn 2007, pp. 7, 11, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
Abstract: Hermann Oswald Hugo Schmidt grew up in Dahl, near Hagen, close to the Dutch border. In 1854, when he was fifteen years old, he left home to visit his sister and brother-in-law, Matilda and Henry Lambach, in Davenport, Iowa. In 1904 his son Oswald, along with a partner, purchased the Crescent Macaroni Company. This company stayed in the Schmidt family for four generations.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa / Business & Industry/ Davenport (Iowa)

Schmitt, Albert R. “‘The Hessians and Who?’ A Look at the other Germans in the American War of Independence.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 41-62.
Abstract: Schmitt’s article discusses various aspects of German invlovement in the War of Independence.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Hessians/ Wars

Schmucker, S. S. Antrittsrede gehalten in Gegenwart des Direktoriums des Theologischen Seminariums, errichtet durch die General-Synode der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Nord-Amerika, zu Gettysburg. YorkTown: Reinstedt, 1827.
Notes: Religion
MKI P93-44
PIA/ Protestant/ Speeches

Schnaeggaehubel-Annaeli [Kuechler, Anna. “Eine Ferienreise.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 44, 1924, pp. 55-61.
Abstract: Describes a trip by train through the state of New York to see Niagara Falls.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Personal narratives/ New York (N.Y.)/ Travel

Schnaeggaehubel-Annaeli [Kuechler, Anna. “Erinnerungen . . . Zwei denkwuerdige Tage.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 41, 1921, pp. 97-101.
Abstract: From the text: “Ellis Island kam in Sicht. Das Aeusere des Gebaeudes war imposant. Wir stiegen eine Treppe hinauf. Bevor wir uns recht besinnen konnten, was vorging, waren wir in einzelene Gruppen geteilt. Tueren oeffneten sich; wir verschwanden. Aber o weh! Ich war von meinen Schweizern getrennt worden und befand mich in Gesellschaft dreier Franzoesinnen, also buchstaeblich allein und verlassen in der weiten Welt. . . . Da sah ich einen aelteren Herrn daherkommen. Ich hatte ihn zwar vorher noch nie gesehen, aber sein Bild hatte immer einen Ehrenplatz in unserer besseren Stube eingenommen. Ich wusste, das war mein Amerikaner-Onkel. . . . Dann fuehlte ich mich so frei und wohlgeborgen, als ich mein geliebtes Idiom wieder sprechen hoerte und nun auch selbst wieder sprechen durfte. Bevor wir jedoch New York verliessen, besuchten wir das “Gruetli.” Dort feierten wir meine frohe Ankunft im Lande der Ellbogenfreiheit und meinen Geburtstag, denn anno dazumal da konnte man noch einen guten Tropfen trinken (1915). . . . Neu war fuer mich, dass wir mit unserem Auto gleich ins Boot hineinfahren konnten, das uns ueber den Hudson brachte. Dann sah ich die Palisaden, sah die imposanten Kuppeln des Klosters von West Hoboken, sah die vielen schmucken Haeuschen und dan wusste ich, dass ich, das fremde Schweizerkind, hier auf dem ‘Bergli’ meine zweite Heimat finden wuerde.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Personal narratives/ Emigration and immigration (Switzerland-US)/ New York (N.Y.)/ Travel

Schnaeggaehubel-Annaeli [Kuechler, Anna. “S’ Buebli.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 47, 1927, pp. 86-87, ill.
Notes: Photograph of the author.
Abstract: Continuing series of the experiences of Anna, an emigrant from Switzerland, in the U.S. In this installment, Anna is working as a governess in New York City, and she relates the birthday celebration of the young daughter of a wealthy New York industrialist.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Personal narratives/ New York (N.Y.)

Schneidemesser, Luanne von. “More German loanwords from the Dictionary of American Regional English.” 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. 225-254.
Abstract: The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is a dictionary of folk and regional terms used in American English. Examples are given.
MKI PF 5925 G47 1993
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Dialects

Schneider, Dorothee. “‘For Whom Are All the Good Things in Life?’ German-American Housewives Discuss Their Budgets.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983, pp. 145-160.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references; donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Abstract: Tables show: Average weekly pay of German immigrants in New York City for selected occupations; and Six family budgets from the New Yorker Volks-Zeitung.
MKI/SHS HD8081 G4 G47 1983
Employment/ Labor and laboring classes/ 19th century/ Women/ Newspapers, German-American/ New Yorker Volks-Zeitung/ German Americans — New York (state)

Schneider, Heinrich. “Karl Follen: A Re-appraisal and Some New Biographical Materials.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 30th Report, 1959, pp. 73-86.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Biographies

Schneider, Michael. “The Kirschvinks of Texas: Ancestral Beginnings.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 34, no. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 35-38, ill.
Abstract: Leonard J. Kirschvink (1830-1897) and Anna Maria Hansen Kirschvink (1830-1915) emigrated in 1855 with their infant daughter from the town of Raeren (formerly part of the north Rhine-Westphalia region of Prussia, today a part of Belgium) first to Indianola, Texas, and later to Fredericksburg. They were Roman Catholic and the family business was shoemaking.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Kirschvink/ Rheinland-Pfalz

Schneider, Sigrid. “The German-American Press Today: Patterns of Communication in an Ethnic Group.” 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. 257-270.
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

Schneirov, Richard. “Class Conflict, Municipal Politics, and Governmental Reform in Gilded Age Chicago, 1871-1875.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983, pp. 183-205, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references; donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
MKI/SHS HD8081 G4 G47 1983
German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Labor and laboring classes/ 19th century/ Politics

Schnitzler, Guenter. “Dichtung und Bildende Kunst: Sealsfields Entwurf der Wirklichkeit aus Moeglichenkeiten der Malerei,” 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. 78-98.
MKI PT 2516 S4 L3 1993
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Schnitzler, Guenter. “Erfahrung und Erfindung zum Romanwerk Charles Sealsfields (Karl Postls).” Schriftenreihe der Charles-Sealsfield-Gesellschaft, vol. 6, 1991, pp. 7-22.
Abstract: Schnitzler’s article discusses the imagery of the United States and “the West” in Sealsfield’s works, advocates the interpretation of his writing as German-American, not American, and warns against overestimating the importance of America for Postl. It also maps out extensively Postl’s heritage and the relationship between the man and his pseudonym.
MKI PT2516.S4 Z4586
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Biographies/ United States in literature/ Catholics/ Fiction/ Image/ Literary criticism

Schnitzler, Guenter. “Gemalte Texte. Zur amerikanischen Malerei der ersten Haelfte des 19. Jahrhundert.” Schriftenreihe der Charles-Sealsfield-Gesellschaft, vol. 6, 1991, pp. 141-170.
Abstract: In his article Schnitzler discusses the exchange of ideas between painters and writers in the U.S. in the 19th century. He highlights the painter, writer, aesthetician Thomas Cole but also discusses the works of Asher B. Durand, Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze, George Inness, Albert Bierstadt, and Henry Inman. He argues that one can read history in the romanticized depictions of nature, especially in the works of Cole. He also briefly compares the style of Nature painting at that time to portraiture. Illustrations are included as well as a poem by Cole.
MKI PT 2516.S4 Z4586
Arts/ Paintings/ United States/ 19th century/ Music/ Poetry/ Germany/ Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Myths

Schnitzler, Guenter. “Karl Postl-Charles Sealsfield: Herkunft und dichterische Wirklichkeit.” Schriftenreihe der Charles-Sealsfield Gesellschaft, vol. 4, 1989, pp. 31-48.
Abstract: Schnitzler’s article discusses how Sealsfield’s childhhood in Moravia affected his writing. Schnitzler claims that Hofmannsthal’s identification of Sealsfield’s soul as German but having passed through a “foreign school” serves as the point of departure for his analysis.
MKI PT2516.S4 Z4586 / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Biographies/ United States in literature

Schoene, E. Er kommt aber doch: Eine Weihnachtserzaehlung. Neue Ausgabe. Vergissmeinnicht-Erzaehlungen fuer Gross und Klein, Heft 8. Konstanz: Carl Hirsch, n.d. 16 pp.
MKI P89-50
PIA/ Juvenile literature/ Christmas

Schoenrich, C. O. “Emil Dapprich.” German American Annals, vol. 2, n.s., 1904, pp. 65-67.
MKI Periodicals
Dapprich, Emil, 1841-1903/ Biography/ Education

Schoepp, Joseph C. “Charles Sealsfield: Der Aufgeklaerte Europaeische Reisende als Amerikanischer Mythenbildner,” 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. 193-207.
MKI PT 2516 S4 L3 1993
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Schomberg, Roland. “In Sheboygan spielt man Skat nach alten Regeln.” Globus, vol. 21, no. 1, Jan./Feb. 1989, pp. 22-23.
Abstract: “Der Name ist indianischen Ursprungs, aber die Stadt ist wie die meisten anderen Ortschaften entlang der Ostkueste des Michigansees stark von Einwanderern aus Deutschland gepraegt. 68% seiner 48 000 Einwohner haben nach der Volkszaehlung von 1980 deutsche Vorfahren. Damit liegt die Stadt mit an der Spitze in den gesamten USA. In der laendlichen Umgebung ist es nicht anders.”
MKI P92-5
Sheboygan (Wis.)/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Cultural influence

Schons, Paul A. “German Clubs and Social Organizations.” A Heritage Fulfilled: German-Americans: Die Erfuellte Herkunft. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1984. 133-41.
Abstract: Schons’ paper discusses the history and activities of the following societies: the Turner Clubs (in New Ulm, St. Paul, and St. Anthony), the Minneapolis Liederkranz, der Deutsche Klub of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Stammtisch in Mankato, the Frauenverein branch of the New Ulm Turnverein, the Victoria Sports Club, the Concord Singers, the Edelweiss Dancers, the Volksfest Association, the Schuplattler, the Germanic Society of Minnesota, and the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.
MKI F615 G3 H48 1984
German Americans — Minnesota/ Ethnic identity/ Societies, etc./ Turners/ Music/ Songs/ Physical education/ Genealogy/ Folklore

Schrader, Frederick F. Franklin. “Germans in the Congressional Press Gallery.” American-German Review, vol. 1, no. 3, 1899, pp. 231-236.
Notes: Portraits; a review of German-American journalists.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies

Schreckenbach, Paul. Als Deutschland erwachte: Ein Roman aus der Zeit deutscher Schmach und Erhebung. Milwaukee, Wis.: Herold, n.d.
MKI P90-9
PIA/ Fiction, historical

Schreiber, William I. “The Backbone Counties of Ohio.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds., 1977, pp. 89-93.
MKI P87-163
Ohio/ Genealogy/ Amish/ Mennonites/ Architecture/ Hutterian Brethren/ Hutterites

Schreiber, William I. “First Christmas Trees in America.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 1980, pp. inside back cover.
Abstract: A listing of different accounts or historical data noting first evidence of Christmas tree use in America
MKI Periodicals
Culture/ Christmas/ Cultural influence

Schreiwer, Robert L. “Braucherei in the Urglaawe Context. Part 1: Background.” Hollerbeer Haven, Journal of Urglaawe, Braucherei, and Deitsch Wisdom, vol. 5, no. 3, Fall 2012, pp. 1, 5-7.
Notes: Available online as PDF at: http://urglaawe.blogspot.com/.
MKI Periodicals
Medicine & Health/ Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Folks-medicine/ Folklore

Schreiwer, Robert L. “Braucherei in the Urglaawe Context. Part 2a: Urglaawe Philosophy.” Hollerbeer Haven, Journal of Urglaawe, Braucherei, and Deitsch Wisdom, vol. 5, no. 3, Fall 2012, pp. 1, 5-7.
Notes: Available online as PDF at: http://urglaawe.blogspot.com/.
Abstract: Seeks to explain the fundaments of Urglaawe as they arise from the Eddaic creation myths, with discussions of “Wurt” and “Urleeg.”
MKI Periodicals
Myths/ Medicine & Health/ Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Folks-medicine/ Folklore

Schroeder, A. E. “Traditional Song Current in the Midwest.” In Proceedings of the International Centenary Conference of the Folklore Society, July 1978. Venetia Newall, ed.London: 1981. pp. 384-90
MKI P90-14
Middle West/ Folklore/ Songs/ Ethnic groups — General

Schroeder, Adolf E. “The contexts of continuity: Germanic folklore in Missouri.” Kansas Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 2, 1981.
Abstract: German folklife west of Mississippi.
MKI P88-131
German Americans — Missouri/ Folklore

Schroeder, Adolf E. “Deutsche Sprache in Missouri.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 125-159.
Abstract: This article deals with the history and present state of the German language in Missouri. It includes statistics and a list of German placenames.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)

Schroeder, Adolf E. “Eden on the Missouri: Immigrant Women on the Western Frontier.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 197-215.
Abstract: Schroeder’s article discusses German settlement of Missouri, focussing on the misleading promises of Gottfried Duden. It also tries to reconstruct the experiences of women through letters, diaries, and observations of travellers. Bruns, Henriette, 1813-1899/ Muench, Friedrich, 1799-1881
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americans — Missouri/ Women/ Pioneers/ 19th century/ Letters/ Biographies/ Immigrants, German/ Diaries

Schroeder, Adolf E. “New Sources of Charles Sealsfield.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 46, 1947, pp. 70-74.
MKI P93-86
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism/ Sources

Schroeder, Adolf E. “The Persistence of Ethnic Identity in Missouri German Communities.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds., 1977,
pp. 29-41.
MKI P87-163
German Americans — Missouri/ Assimilation/ Ethnic identity

Schroeder, Adolf E., and Carla Schulz-Geisberg. “Introduction to ‘Hold Dear, As Always: Jette, a German Immigrant Life in Letters.'” Der Maibaum, vol. 24, no. 1-2, 2015, pp. 4-10, 4-14.
Notes: Reprint of introduction to book originally published Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, 1988.
Abstract: Summary of the background of German immigration to Missouri in the first half of the 1800s, including the influence of the writings of Gottfried Duden, and the personal experiences of a young well-born German woman who emigrated with her physician husband and family members, arriving in Osage County in November 1836, through her death in Jefferson City, November 1899.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Missouri — Immigration

Schroeder, David. “Wisconsin Synod Lutherans in Milwaukee during the Bennett Law Contest, 1889-1891.” Marquette University, 2005. 40 pp.
Notes: Paper submitted in partial fulfillment for the requirements of History 320, taught by Dr. Steven Avella, Marquette University, Spring 2005; includes bibliographic references and table showing Wisconsin Synod Congregations and Schools in Milwaukee in 1890.
Abstract: The Bennett Law refers to a Wisconsin statute stipulating that required subjects be taught in English. It “sparked a political and cultural controversy that pitted Wisconsin German-Americans against the state’s other ethnic groups. The Bennett Law contest, which lasted a brief two years, provides a window through which to study a specific sub-group of German-Americans in Wisconsin–Milwaukee German-American Lutherans who affiliated themselves with the Wisconsin Synod.” Examines the history of Wisconsin Synod congregations in Milwaukee, with an emphasis on parochial schools; the public school system in Milwaukee; the 1889 Wisconsin Synod convention; and efforts to “rid Wisconsin of the Bennett Law.” Many Wisconsin Synod Lutherans, fearing “the requirements of the Bennett Law as threat to their denomination and their culture,” became opponents of the law, helping to lead to its defeat.
MKI P2005-16
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Politics/ Education/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Schools/ Lutheran Church/ Lutherans.

Schroeder, Joel B. “Wisconsin Synod: Right or Wrong in Handling the Bennett Law?” Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 1976. [16] pp.
Notes: Senior church history paper submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, Wisconsin, February 27, 1976.
Abstract: Contents: I. A short history of the Bennett Law. II. The official synod position as found in its periodicals [Gemeindeblatt (1889-1891), Proceedings (Conventions of the Wisconsin Synod, 1889-1891), and Christian Koerner’s The Bennett Law].
MKI P2018-02
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Politics/ Education/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Schools/ Lutheran Church/ Lutherans/ Political activity/ Political activity/ Politics/ 19th century

Schroeder, Walter A. “Rural Settlement Patterns of the German-Missourian Cultural Landscape.” In The German-American Experience in Missouri. Howard Wight Marshall and James W. Goodrich, eds. Columbia, MO: Missouri Cultural Heritage Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1986, pp. 25-44.
Abstract: Cultural landscapes are the product of cultural groups. 19th-century German immigrants to Missouri, bringing with them their particular skills, technologies, and values, created “German” cultural landscapes in the regions they settled. Among the numerous aspects of a cultural landscape are settlement pattern, architectural style, building materials and color, kinds of fencing, field patterns, and the kinds of crops and animals raised. These aspects are modified as the immigrants and their descendants undergo cultural changes and adjust to their new social, economic, and natural environments. New architectural styles may become popular. Technological advances will change the way structures are built. Local and national economic developments require new farming systems as time goes on. During the century and a half of German settlement in Missouri, the cultural landscape the immigrants initially created has lost much of its “Germanness,” and in many respects is merging into a mainstream Missouri landscape.
MKI/SHS F 475 G3 G4 1986
German Americans — Missouri/ Rural life & conditions/ Settlements/ Missouri/ Farm life/ Cultural influence

Schroeer, Pastor. “Two Letters Requesting Charitable Contributions from the Pabst Estate, 1904.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer 2007, pp. 8-9.
Notes: Translated by Antje Petty; [Schröer].
Abstract: Two letters from the Evangelical Rectorate Catharinenrieth near Allstedt, Province of Saxony, Germany requesting funds for the construction of a new church, written upon the event of the death of Frederick Pabst, who was born in Nicolausrieth.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Pabst, Frederick, 1836-1904/ Letters

Schroer, Timothy L. “The American Civil War and Race in Transatlantic Perspective. Review of German-Speaking Officers in the U.S. Colored Troops, 1863-1867. (Martin W. Oefele, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. New Perspectives on the History of the South Series, xviii, 320 pp.).” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 13-14.
Notes: Reprinted with permission of Timothy L. Schroer and H-NET Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ United States Army — African American troops

Schubel, Hugo. Arthur van Eweyck zum Grusse, 1891 … 1922. [Milwaukee, Wis.]: ?, [1922].
MKI P88-22
PIA/ Poetry

Schubert, Johannes. “Ideale und Irrtuemer.” Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger, vol. 1, 1913, pp. 49-51.
Abstract: “von Pastor Dr. Johannes Schubert.” “Jahrzehnte lang dauerte der reisige Strom deutscher Einwanderung fort. Maechtige deutsche Kirchengemeinden entstanden, bluehende Vereine traten allerorten ins Leben, deutscher Geist und deutsche Arbeit bauten maechtige Industrien auf, aber eine einheitliche deutsche Kulturbewegung kam nicht zustande. Und wo man wirklich den Anlauf nahm, ein deutschen Ideal zu verwirklichen, wo man etwa die Gruendung einer rein deutschen Stadt oder gar eines rein deutschen Staates in der Union anstrebte, da erwies sich das Ideal als ein verkehrtes: Irrung — Verirrung!”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Cultural contribution/ Cultural influence/ Ethnic identity

Schuchalter, Jerry. “Charles Sealsfield and the frontier thesis.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 30, 1995, pp. 19-34.
Abstract: Affinity between Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles Sealsfield. Frederick Jackson Turner gave the frontier thesis a formal scholarly sanction. Review of Sealsfield work in the light of the cultural narrative of the West and westward expansion and various themes of the frontier thesis and comparison with Turner. Sealsfield is not only an important precursor of the frontier thesis, but in addition an unsettling voice in its ideological deconstruction.
MKI–Journals
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Schuchalter, Jerry. “Charles Sealsfield’s “Fable of the Republic.'” In Yearbook of German-American Studies. 1989. pp. 11-26.
Abstract: Charles Sealsfield (1793-1864) commented on the fiftieth anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence in the “Vorrede” to his first published work, Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika, nach ihrem politischen, religioesen und gesellschaftlichen Verhaeltnisse betrachtet (1827). Sealsfield witnessed the fifteth anniversary celebration, and as someone eager to be initiated into the spirit of the new nation, he could actually experience the process of mythmaking firsthand. For after 50 years of national existence, the American people, Sealsfield observed, seemed to have reached that stage in their development, where they were intent on sanctifying their past, rendering immortal through public ritual, as one historian has described it, “the fable of the republic.” In Sealsfield’s work, this “fable of the republic” is his primary theme. In his republican and political commentary, he writes from both American and European viewpoints.
MKI Periodicals
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Politics/ Literature, German-American

Schuchalter, Jerry. “Geld and Geist in the Writings of Gottfried Duden, Nikolaus Lenau, and Charles Sealsfield: A Study of Competing America-Paradigms.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 27, 1992, pp. 49-73.
Notes: Thoughts about the paradigmatic structure of the dicotomy between prose and poesy, Geld and Geist, and civilization and culture.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, Comparative

Schuchalter, Jerry. “”Morton” and the American studies movement: A book in search of a method,” 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. 239-253.
MKI PT 2516 S4 L3 1993
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Schuchalter, Jerry. “Review of Amerika zwischen Traum und Desillusionierung im Leben und Werk des Erfolgsschriftstellers Balduin Moellhausen (1825-1905), by Horst Dinkelacker. American University Studies, series 1, Germanic Languages and Literatures, vol. 86. Frankfurt, Bern, New York, Paris: Lang, 1990.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1990, pp. 228-229.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Schuenemann-Pott, Friedrich, editor. Blaetter fuer freies religioeses Leben. 1871, Juli – 1873, June.
Notes: Published in San Francisco by Friedrich Schuenemann-Pott, “Sprecher der “Deutschen Freien Gemeinde” in San Francisco
MKI PIA Periodicals
PIA/ Freethinkers

Schueppen, Franz. “‘Amerika’ im Koeniglichen Schauspielhaus Berlin: Rudolf Geneés Charakterbild Stephy Girard nach Charles Sealsfields Morton und Theodor Fontanes Kritik in der Vossischen Zeitung zum 12. October 1978.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 105-121.
Notes: Includes English summary and bibliographical references; [italicize Stephy Girard, Morton, and Vossischen Zeitung].
Abstract: From the summary: In October 1878 the Royal Theatre of Berlin performed a one-act play by Rudolf Geneé about Stephen Girard, an important nineteenth-century banker and wholesaler in Philadelphia. Charles Sealsfield had written a two-volume novel in which he described how John A. Morton, having become bankrupt, becomes Girard’s London agent in the banking industry, forsaking his life as a farmer on the Susquehanna. While Sealsfield’s work contains a “certain demonization of banking establishments,” novelist Theodor Fontane favorable review of Geneé‘s play finds the character of Girard to represent the “typical American” as “a representative of a new world and a new age.” Geneé and Fontane’s writings “indicate a certain rapprochement of Prussia to the United States in those years.” The “American” qualities of such businessmen, in contrast to those of slave-holding planters, are held to be leading to “a better world.”
MKI Periodicals
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literature, German-American/ National characteristics, American, in literature/ National characteristics, American — Public opinion, German/ America in German literature

Schueppen, Franz. “”Der Amerikaner lebt in und durch Stuerme”: Zur moralisch-didaktischen Dimension von Sealsfields Bild des Nordamerikaners.” Schriftenreihe der Charles-Sealsfield-Gesellschaft, vol. 4, 1989, pp. 71-126.
Abstract: Schueppen claims that Sealsfield had two intentions with his novels: 1) to portray as closely as possible the environment he observed and 2) to transform the outlook of European and American intellectuals since he believed he possessed a truer philosophy regarding a world-view.
MKI PT2516.S4 Z4586 / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ United States in literature

Schueppen, Franz. “‘Deutsche, die das Glueck haben, Amerikaner zu sein!’: Das Bild der Deutschamerikaner bei Charles Sealsfield und Theodor Fontane.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 32, 1997, pp. 99-115.
Abstract: This essay summarizes in a few examples the picture of German-Americans in the 19th century in German literature. It is founded on the very favorable description of the economic qualities of German settlers by the Pennsylvania politician Benjamin Rush at the end of the 18th century, which is contrasted with the dark picture of Germans in the United States given by the novelist Charles Sealsfield/Karl Postl. Sealsfield painted the world politically to prepare his readers for a life in a democratic country and world. Theodor Fontane, the Prussian author, shows in very favorable pictures the United States as the better realization of modern life.
MKI periodicals
Literature, German-American/ America in German literature/ Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ 19th century

Schueppen, Franz. “Natur als Kultur: Sealsfields Maedchen und Frauen,” 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. 99-152.
MKI PT 2516 S4 L3 1993
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Schueppen, Franz. “Wirtschaftlicher Optimismus aus der Neuen Welt. Zu Voraussetzungen und Erscheinungsformen amerikanischer Oekonomie in Pennsylvanien, Philadelphia und bei Charles Sealsfield.” Schriftenreihe der Charles-Sealsfield-Gesellschaft, vol. 6, 1991, pp. 109-140.
MKI PT2516.S4 Z4586
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Pennsylvania/ Philadelphia (Pa.)/ Economic aspects/ Biographies/ 19th century/ Farming/ Letters/ Texas/ Switzerland/ Business & Industry

Schuette, Friedrich. “Auf den Spuren von Amerikaauswanderern des 19. Jahrhunderts.” In Beitraege zur Heimatkunde der Staedte Loehne und Bad Oeynhausen, 1985, pp. 53-92.
DD 801.N6 B4 1985; MKI P87-1
North Rhine-Westphalia/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ History/ 19th century/ Genealogy

Schuetze, Julius. “My Experiences in Texas: The Murder of German Unionists in Fredericksburg, Texas, in 1864.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 32, no. 3, Fall 2010, pp. 174-187.
Notes: From the Texas Vorwaerts, June 4, 11, 18, 25 and July 2, 9, and 16, 1886. Translated from the original German by Winifred Schuetze Cade.
Abstract: “During the [Civil] war and until the fall of 1864 I lived in Austin, where I served partly as schoolteacher in order to escape conscription in the Confederate army and partly as a music teacher to earn my bread, for keeping school yielded no livelihood. . . . It was around mid-day, the 27th of February, 1864, when a heavily armed border soldier stepped into my room and asked if I was a brother of Captain Louis Schuetze of Fredericksburg.” Julius was told that a band of men led by Captain J. P. Waldrip had seized his brother from his home and hanged him. [See also: Engelke, Louis B. “He Got the Drop on Waldrip,” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), Fall 2005, vol 28, no. 3, pp. 255-257, ill.]
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ History/ 19th century/ Fredericksburg (Tex.)/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Schuetze, Yvonne. “The Changing Role of Women in the Federal Republic.” 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: Followed by an article by Christiane Lemke (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and commentary by Robert Moeller (University of California, Irvine) and Hertha Kuhrig (Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR).
MKI P90-13
Germany/ Women

Schultz, Arthur R., and others. “Bibliography Americana Germanica 1978.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 4, 1979, pp. 153-180.
Abstract: This 31 page index is “an annotated indexed bibliography of books, articles, dissertations,…manuscripts, films and microforms, exhibits, conferences, symposia,…together with the reviews thereof, bearing on the life and culture of the German element in the US and Canada from the Colonial times to the present.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americana/ Bibliographies

Schultz, Arthur R. “Notes on German-Americana and the Discipline of History.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds., 1977, pp. 21-28.
Abstract: Schultz’ article calls for more research on behalf of American Germanists into German aspects of “American identity.” His article is divided into the following sections: the “Invisible Ethnics,” “Groundwork,” “Internal History,” and “Exoteric History.”
MKI P87-163
German Americana/ Ethnic identity

Schultz, Gwen. “Evolution of the Areal Patterns of German and Polish Settlement in Milwaukee.” ERDKUNDE, Archiv für wissenschaftliche Geographie, vol. 10, no. 2, 1956, pp. 136-141, maps.
Sonderdruck. “With 5 maps.” Includes bibliographical references.

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Schultz, H. “Friedrich Gerstaecker’s Image of the German Immigrant in America.” In Deutschlands literarisches Amerikabild. Alexander Ritter, editor vol 4. 1977, pp. 319-337.
Notes: Neuere Forschungen zur Amerikarezeption der deutschen Literatur.
MKI PT 149.A5 D4
Immigrants, German/ Immigrants in literature/ America in German literature

Schultz, Karla Lydia. “At Home in the Language: The Cases of an Exile and an Immigrant.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 125-132.
Abstract: Schultz’ article discusses the different and similar “experiences through language” faced by immigrants and exiles. She also draws a distinction between experiences faced by men and women and by people of various economic classes. As specific examples she discusses Theodor Adorno and Katharina Heunsaker.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Language, German (US)/ Immigrants, German/ Exile/ Women/ Farm life

Schultz, Karla Lydia. “‘Think: You Could Become an American …’: Three Contemporary Poets Respond to America.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 23, 1988, pp. 153-163.
Abstract: Views of three contemporary German poets, expressed in writing in the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, show a wide range of perspectives about America. All three writers experienced American in the role of academic visitor, two from the Federal Republic of Germany and one from the German Democratic Republic. The poets are Martin Walser, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Guenter Kunert.
MKI Periodicals
America in German literature/ Poetry/ Literature, German/ 20th century

[Schultz, William.] “Minutes of a Protest Meeting, held February 15th, 1919, at the Club Room, Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, Wis.”[1919]. 35 pp.
Notes: At head of first page: William Schultz, Shorthand Reporter, 207-208 Merchants and Manufacturers Bank Bldg., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Telephone Grand 3548. Photocopy from the Milwaukee County Historical Society.
Abstract: Transcript of a meeting to protest a German-language play to benefit German-speaking actors at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee. Names of speakers appearing in the document: Capt. Russell Johnson, James H. Stover, Mr. Wiemann (city attorney of Watertown, Wis.), Dr. Paul B. Jenkins, Mr. John Peterson, Mr. John Furlong, Mr. Charlie J. Dixon, Mr. Frank Hoyt, Robert Sammond, Mr. Gilbert Hickox, and Mr. Jack Johnson.
MKI P2007-23
Anti-German sentiment/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Theater & Drama.

Schulz, Renate A. “”Methods of Teaching German in the United States: A Historical Perspective”.” In Teaching German in America: Prolegomena to a History. David P. Benseler, Walter F. W. Lohnes, and Valters Nollendorfs, Editors Monatshefte occasional volumes, 7. Madison, WI : The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988, pp. 55-75.
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

Schulz, Siegfried A. “Ludwig Baron von Closen.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 30th Report, 1959, pp. 107-111.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Biographies

Schulze, Curtis. “The Hilda Post Office.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 206-208.
Abstract: “The Rev. Gustav Schulze and his third wife, Emma Stiehl Schulze, established the official post office in the Beaver Creek community and named it for the community, but had to rename it ‘Hilda,’ because the name of ‘Beaver Creek’ was already in use. . . . According to the family history book . . . the Schulze family closed the store and post office in 1918, dismantled the buildings and loaded them onto wagons, sold the land, and moved to another community in Mason County named Ten Mile.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ 19th century/ Settlements/ Schulze/ Family history

Schuricht, Hermann. Geschichts-Tabellen mit Hervorhebung der Bildungs- und Sittengeschichte fuer deutsch-amerikanische Schulen. Newark, N.J.: Hermann Schuricht, 1875. 18 pp.
MKI P89-87
PIA/ Educational/ History/ Textbooks

Schurz, Carl. “Present Aspects of the Indian Problem (July 1881).” The North American Review, vol. 258, no. 4, Special Heritage Issue: the Indian Question, 1823-1973, Winter 1973, pp. 45-54.
Notes: Downloaded 15 Apr 2015, 15:50:17 UTC.
Abstract: Schurz advocates an Indian policy that does not “stand in the way of … the development of the country.”
MKI P2015-04
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Native Americans

Schurz, Karl. “Die deutsche Muttersprache.” America-Herold Kalender, vol. 56, 1936, pp. 40.
Abstract: Abridged from his speech at a banquet in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Deutscher Liederkranz of New York City, January 9, 1897. For English translation, see: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_German_Mothertongue
MKI P2014-7
History/ United States — History/ Native Americans

Schuttpelz, Barbara. “Auswanderungsagenten.” Aufbruch nach Amerika 1709-2009. 300 Jahre Massenauswanderung aus Rheinland-Pfalz. Marlene Jochem and Jens Stoecker, eds. Kaiserslautern: Theodor-Zink-Museum; Referat Kultur der Stadt Kaiserslautern, 2009, pp. 49-54, ill.
Abstract: Examines the role of emigration agents.
MKI E 184 P3 A94 2009
German Americans/ Ships/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ History

Schutts, Jeff R. “Business as usual? Conceptions of German-American economic relations under Hitler.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 28, Spring 2001, pp. 104-107.
Notes: German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Report on panel at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association, October 2000.
MKI P2002-28 and MKI Periodicals
20th century/ Germany/ United States/ America/ World War, 1939-1945/ Economic aspects/ Business & Industry

Schutz, H. “Friedrich Gerstaecker’s Image of the German Immigrant in America.” German American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 98-116.
MKI P93-87
Gerstaecker, Friedrich, 1816-1872/ Literary criticism

Schutz, Walter E. It Was Fun Being Young. Washington Island, WI: Karl Publishing Co., [1988]. 166 pp., ill.
Notes: Illustrations by Marguerite Jewell; donated by Jocelyne Bodden, 2004.
Abstract: “The purpose of this book is to tell you what everyday life was like in a period from about 1902 to about 1920 as lived by an average middle-class worker’s family of German heritage living on the North side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.”
MKI P2004-52
Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Personal narratives/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ 20th century

Schwaben-Verein, Chicago. Fest-Programm fuer das Zweiundsiebzigste Cannstatter Volksfest, Sonntag, den 21. August, Montag, den 22. August, 1949 in Kozy Park – 6343 W. Irving Park Road, veranstaltet vom Schwaben-Verein, Chicago. [Chicago]: Garden City Printing Co., 1949. 96 pp., ill.
Notes: Folder includes newspaper clippings.
Abstract: Includes poetry, songs, essays, travel reports, profiles of Verein members, and advertisements. Of particular interest is an account of the first Zeppelin to travel to America twenty-five years earlier.
MKI P93-12
PIA/ Miscell. documents/ Societies, etc./ Festivals/ German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Poetry/ Danube Swabians

Schwaben-Verein von Chicago. 67. Jahres-Bericht. [Chicago]: 1945.
MKI P84-161
Danube Swabians/ German Americans — Societies, etc.

Schwaben-Verein von Chicago. Fest-Zeitung fuer das 33ste Cannstatter Volksfest herausgegeben vom Schwaben Verein Chicago. Festtage: Sonntag, den 21, Montag, den 22., und Sonntag, den 28. August 1910 in Brand’s Park, Chicago. [Chicago]: Northwestern, 1910. [100] pp., ill.
Notes: Folder includes newspaper clippings.
Abstract: Includes poetry, songs, essays, travel reports, profiles of famous Swabians, and advertisements. Of particular interest is the poem “Ein Lindenblatt fand ich im Buch,” by the German-American poet Mathilde Minuth of Grand Haven, Michigan.
MKI P93-12
PIA/ Miscell. documents/ Societies, etc./ Festivals/ German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Poetry/ Danube Swabians

\Schwaben-Verein von Chicago. Fest-Zeitung fuer das Dreissigste Cannstatter Volks-Fest des Schwaben Verein Chicago. Sonntag, den 18. August, Montag, den 19. August und das Sonntag, den 25. August 1907 in Brand’s Park, Elston nahe Belmont Ave. [Chicago]: Northwestern, 1907. [88] pp., ill.
Notes: Folder includes newspaper clippings.
Abstract: Includes poetry, songs, essays, profiles of famous German Americans and Verein members, and advertisements. Of particular interest are two poems, “Lieder des Florida-Minstrels,” and an essay, “Deutsch-amerikanische Rueckblicke und Ausblicke,” attributed to the German-American author Henry F. Urban of New York.
MKI P93-12
PIA/ Miscell. documents/ Societies, etc./ Festivals/ German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Poetry/ Danube Swabians

Schwaben-Verein von Chicago, hrsg. Fest-Zeitung fuer das Einunddreissigste Cannstatter Volks-Fest des Schwaben Verein Chicago; 23 Aug., 24 Aug., 30 Aug., 1908 in Brand’s Park. Chicago, Ill.: North-Western Printing Co., 1908.
Notes: PIA.
Abstract: Various articles.
MKI P85-120
PIA/ Danube Swabians/ German Americans — Societies, etc.

Schwaben-Verein von Chicago. Fest-Zeitung fuer das Neunundzwanzigste Cannstatter Volks-Fest des Schwaben Verein Chicago. Sonntag, den 19. August, Montag, den 20. August und das Kinder-Fest am Sonntag, den 26. August 1906 in Brand’s Park, Elston nahe Belmont Ave. [Chicago]: Northwestern, 1906. [88] pp., ill.
Notes: Schwaben Verein-Chicago, 1878-1906; folder includes newspaper clippings; Demuth is listed as being the president of the Herold Publishing Co. in the Sioux Falls, Minnehaha Co., SD – 1909 Business Directory.
Abstract: Includes poetry, songs, essays, profiles of Verein members, and advertisements. Of particular interest is “Der Deutsch-Amerikaner Trutzgesang,” attributed to Hans Demuth, Sioux Falls, Sued-Dakota. Demuth was the president of the Herold Publishing Co. in South Dakota.
MKI P93-12
PIA/ Miscell. documents/ Societies, etc./ Festivals/ German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Poetry

Schwalm, David L. “Schwalm Family Coal Miners.” Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, vol. 2, no. 4, 1984, pp. 1-13.
MKI Periodicals

Schwalm, Mark A. “A Composite List of German Prisoners of War Held by the Americans 1779-1782.” Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, vol. 2, no. 1, 1981, pp. 4-15.
MKI Periodicals

Schwartzkopff, Christa. Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil III. German Americans; die sprachliche Assimilation der Deutschen in Wisconsin. Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, Bd. 12. Stuttgart : Steiner, 1987, 446 pp.
Notes: MKI owns photocopy only. Donated by Felecia Lucht, 2006.
Abstract: Inhaltsverzeichnis: I. Deutsche Einwanderung und Sprachassimilation. II. Sprachverhalten in Wisconsin: empirische Studie.
MKI P2006-11
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Assimilation/ Language, German (US)

Schwarz, Egon. “Die sechste Schwierigkeit beim Schreiben der Wahrheit. Zum Gruppendenken in Leben und Literatur.” In Die USA und Deutschland. Wolfgang Paulsen, ed., 1976, pp. 11-26.
Abstract: Ausgehend von Brechts “Fuenf Schwierigkeiten beim Schreiben der Wahrheit” ergaenzt der Autor den Nationalcharakter in Literatur und Philosophie als eine Kategorie, die den Wahrheitsbegriff weiter verzerrt.
MKI PT 123 .U6 A4 1976 / MEM PT 123 .U6 A4 1975
Literature, German

Schwarz, Ingo. “Alexander von Humboldt’s Correspondence with Johann Gottfried Fluegel.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 46, 2011, pp. 87-94.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: The scientist Alexander von Humboldt was a prolific letter writer, corresponding with more than three thousand people, “some of them well-known even today, others forgotten. . . . Occasionally the editors of Humboldt’s letters stumble across people who are almost forgotten even though they were important by virtue of their contributions to their respective fields. Such a man is the German-American Johann Gottfried Fluegel whose life and work are worth being remembered.” Fluegel was a lexicographer, American consul, and a representative and correspondent for the Smithsonian Institution and other American literary and scientific organizations.
MKI Periodicals
Germans/ Travel/ Science/ Geography/ 19th century/ Letters/ Fluegel, Johann Gottfried, 1788-1855

Schwarz, Wilhelm. “Kirschen am Friedhof. Eine Dorfgeschichte.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. IX, 1986, pp. 203-205.
Abstract: Short story in German.
MKI Periodicals
Fiction/ German Canadians/ Literature, German (Canada)

Schwarzmaier, Hansmartin. “Auswandererbriefe im 19. Jahrhundert.” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen, 1976, pp. 62-65.
Abstract: Bestimmte Muster und immer wiederkehrende Inhalte der Auswandererbriefe.
Der Auswandererbrief ist, so koennte man annehmen, eine rein private Sache wie jedes Schreiben eines einzelnen an seine Verwandten oder Freunde. Auch der Inhalt laesst dies vermuten; handelt es sich doch vornehmlich um Mitteilungen und Berichte ueber Erlebnisse und Erfahrungen des Briefschreibers, der aehnliche Nachrichten aus der Heimat erbittet: also um einen Ausschnitt aus einer — meist nicht erhaltenen — Korrespondenz.
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Letters/ 19th century

Schwarzmaier, Hansmartin. “Franz Sigel (1824-1902).” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen, 1976, pp. 80-82.
Abstract: Included in section “Lebensbilder von Deutsch-Amerikanern aus dem deutschen Suedwesten”
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Biographies

Schwarzmaier, Hansmartin. “Hermann Eduard v. Holst (1841-1904).” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen, 1976, pp. 88-90.
Abstract: Included in section “Lebensbilder von Deutsch-Amerikanern aus dem deutschen Suedwesten”
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Biographies

Schweitzer, Christoph E. “Francis Daniel Pastorius, the German-American Poet.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 21-28.
Abstract: Schweitzer’s article discusses Pastorius’ poetry as examples of three different types of epigrams: moralizing, satiric, and playful.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719/ Poetry/ Biographies/ Pennsylvania

Schweitzer, Christoph E. “Goethe’s Werther and the First American Novel, William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 21-28.
Notes: Italicize Werther and Power of Sympathy (book titles) in title and in abstract fields.
Abstract: “It is obvious that William Hill Brown (1765-93) knew Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774) when he wrote what is considered to be the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or, The Triumph of Nature (1789).”
MKI Periodicals
Literature, American/ Literature, Comparative/ Literature, German

Schweitzer, Christoph E. “The Significance of a Newly Discovered Volume of Verse by Matthaeus Gottfried Hehl.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 16, 1981, pp. 67-72.
Abstract: Hehl, Matthaeus Gottfried, 1705-1787.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Moravians/ History/ Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719/ Beissel, Conrad, 1690-1768/ Pennsylvania/ Poetry/ Newspapers/ Literature, Pennsylvania-German

Schwert, Donald P. “Tracing Surname Changes of Slavic Germans — Schimakowski to Schimmer: from Rural West Prussia to Buffalo, New York.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall 2017, pp. 5-11.
Notes: Includes bibliographical resources.
Abstract: Experiences and tips for tracing Germans with Slavic surnames (often Germanized or Americanized soon after arrival) who immigrated from the eastern provinces such as West Prussia, East Prussia and Pomerania.
MKI Periodicals
Prussia / Pomeranians — Genealogy/ Genealogy/ Research

Scott, Ann Miller, and Virginia Poland. “Basic Facts and Resources for Researching Anabaptist and German Baptist Sects: Amish, Apostolic Christian Church, Brethren in Christ, Church of the Brethren, Hutterites, Mennonites, Missionary Church.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 35, no. 4, Sept. 2010, pp. 7-9.
Abstract: Includes: common doctrines, chronology of events (especially those affecting migration and settlement), special library and archival collections, and additional resources.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Research/ Amish/ Mennonites

Scott, Clifford H. “Hoosier Kulturkampf: Anglo-German Cultural Conflicts in Fort Wayne, 1840-1920.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 1980, pp. 9-18.
Notes: Scott’s 9-page article discusses the causes of the conflict between various ethnic groups in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the 19th century and traces the results of this conflict up into the 20th century. He describes the impact of the split on education, politics, marriage practices, and language use.
MKI Periodicals
Ethnic identity/ History/ 19th century/ Religion/ Education/ Politics/ German Americans — Indiana/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans

Scott, Marian Postel. “My Grandfather: A German and American Hero.” Infoblatt, vol. 27, no. 4, Fall 2017, pp. 4-6.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
Abstract: Fritz Postel was a German immigrant from Holstein to Davenport, Iowa in 1872, after he had fought for Bismarck and Germany in the Franco-Prussian War. A monument to German-American veterans of this war was erected with reports of the great dedication ceremony in 1907 in Davenport’s Washington Square. Just ten years later, the anti-German sentiment as a result of World War I resulted in the destruction of the monument.
MKI Periodicals
Postel, Fritz/ German immigrants — Iowa/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans

Sealsfield, Charles. “Charles Sealsfield ueber General von Steuben.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911, pp. 72-73.
MKI Periodicals
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864

Seeger, Mary A. “English influences on the language of the Dodge County Pionier of Mayville, Wisconsin. Dissertation.” University of Wisconsin, 1970. 282 pp.
Abstract: The Dodge County Pionier was a German weekly newspaper published in Mayville, Dodge County, Wisconsin, between 1876 and 1946. This study presents the history and content of the newspaper against a background of the history of the area and of the foreign-language press in the United States. Dodge County was a bilingual community, and the Dodge County Pionier reflects the resulting interference phenomena. The major part of this study categorizes the four thousand examples of linguistic interference collected from seven representative volumes of the newspaper. The study includes samples of the paper’s text, glossaries of the interference phenomena and samples of syndicated material from the newspaper.
MKI dissertations
Language, German (US)/ Language, German (US) — Foreign elements/ Language influence/ Bilingualism/ Wisconsin/ Languages in contact/ Linguistics/ Newspapers, German-American

Seel, Maria von. “Nach drueben! An die Deutsch-Amerikaner.” Die Welt, vol. 15, no. 4, October 1915, p. 17.
Notes: Eine illustrirte Vierteljahrsschrift fuer deutsche Familien. Druck und Verlag: Publ. “Die Welt” Press Bldg., Lincoln, Neb. — Nach drüben.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Poetry/ World War 1914-1918 — German Americans, Poetry

Seele, Herman. “A Christmas Day in Texas 1849.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 30, no. 4, Winter 2008, pp. 363-369.
Notes: Translated by Randy Rupley. Seele, Friedrich Hermann (1823-1902) was a teacher, public official, writer, and cultural leader. The son of Jonas and Anna (Runge) Seele, he was born in Hildesheim, Hannover, Germany, on April 14, 1823. He was educated at the Andrenaeum Academy in Hildesheim and subsequently immigrated to Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Autobiography/ Christmas/ 19th century/ Seele, Friedrich Hermann, 1823-1902

Seewald, E. M. “Hawaii’s Arizona War Memorial. Our famous German-Americans: The story of the architect Alfred Preis.” German-American Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, Spring 2002, pp. 1, 3.
Abstract: Despite fleeing Austria during Hitler’s rise to power, Preis was interned on Sand Island at the entrance to Honolulu Harbor during World War II; he later went on to design the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial among other architectural works.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans/ Architecture/ Preis, Alfred/ Prisoners of war/ Biographies

Segovia, Ric. “Traditional Performance: Wilhelm Tell, a Swiss Heritage Tradition.”2000. [48] pp.
Notes: Student paper for Wisconsin Folklore, March 30, 2000.
Abstract: Paper examines the role Dennis Streiff has played as actor, director, and volunteer for the Wilhelm Tell play in New Glarus, Wisconsin for over fifty years. Includes transcripts of interview with Peter Etter, President of the Wilhelm Tell Guild, and with Dennis Streiff.
MKI P2007-15
Folklore/ Theater & Drama/ Swiss Americans — Wisconsin/ New Glarus (Wis.)/ Interviews.

Seidensticker, Oswald. Bilder aus der Deutsch-pennsylvanischen Geschichte. (Geschichtsblätter. Bilder und Mittheilungen aus dem Leben der Deutschen in Amerika, vol. 2. Ed. By Carl Schurz.) New York: Steiger, 1885. viii, 276 pp.
Not literal “Bilder” but a history of German settlement in Pennsylvania intended to complement the same for New York presented in vol. 1 of the series. Chapters: Die ersten deutschen Einwanderung in Amerika und die Gründung von Germantown im Jahre 1683 — Johann Kelpius, der Einsiedler am Wissahickon — Die beiden Christoph Saur in Germantown — Ephrata; eine amerikanische Klostergeschichte — Die Deutschen im Frieden und im Kriege.
Part of the Carl Schurz Collection. Title/volume also in Wisconsin Historical Society (F152 S43 v.2).  Digital versions available: Hathi Trust (http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000336397), Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_PRkdAAAAMAAJ).Volume 1 of set is titled Die deutschen im Staate New York während des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, and is shelved separately in PIA under its author, Friedrich Kapp.
Information on publisher: STEIGER, Ernst, German-American bibliographer, born in Gastewitz, Saxony, 4 October 1832. He was trained as a bookseller, emigrated in 1855 to New York City, and in 1863 opened an independent business. He became the publisher of important works of German Americans and of language textbooks, and also a manufacturer and importer of all that belongs to the Kindergarten system. Mr. Steiger is the author of “Der Nachdruck in Nordamerika” (New York, 1860); “Das Copyright-Law in den Vereinigten Staaten” (1869) ; and “Periodical Literature,” a bibliography (1873). [Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM].

 

 

Seidensticker, Oswald. “Friedrich August Conrad Muehlenberg.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 9, 1909, pp. 12-22.
Abstract: A biographical essay on Friedrich August Conrad Muehlenberg (son of Heinrich Melchior Muehlenberg), who was active in the American Revolution and became Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1789.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Statesmen/ Revolution, 1775-1783

Seifert, Lester. Notes for a Class in German Dialects. unpaginated.
Notes: Donated by Suzanne Seifert Treichel, 2007. Some mimeographed pages, many handwritten.
Abstract: Includes: Introduction to German Dialect Study (Otto Springer) [bibliographical citations] and handwritten notes; Grouping of German Dialects (comparison); Linguistic Characterization of German Dialects; Runic Inscriptions (Otto Springer) [bibliographic citations] and handwritten notes; page from Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada, showing New England, Middle Atlantic States, and South Atlantic States and handwritten notes; Negation and Interrogation (annotations in pencil); Translation of English Grammatical Categories (annotations in pencil); Morphology (annotations in pencil); handwritten notes on Chinese Grammar; Syntax (annotations in pencil); The Sentence (annotations in pencil); Dialects (annotations in pencil); Systems of Transcription (annotations in pencil); Styles of Pronunciation (annotations in pencil); Stress, Juncture and Tone-Sandhi (annotations in pencil); Distribution of Initials and Medials (annotations in pencil); Sample of Quasi-Mandarin and handwritten notes.
MKI P2008-3
Seifert, Lester W. J./ Linguistics/ Dialectology/ German philology — Study and teaching (Higher) — United States

Seifert, Lester W. J. “A Contrastive Description of Pennsylvania German and Standard German Stops and Fricatives.” Approaches in Linguistic Methodology, 1967, pp. 81-88.
Notes: Reprint.
MKI P87-160
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Linguistics/ Research

Seifert, Lester W. J. “Dialect differences between and within Western Berks and Western Lehigh Counties, Pa. Causes of the dialect differences between and within Western Berks and Western Lehigh Counties, Pa.” The Morning Call, Mar. 15, 1941; July 26, 1941.
Abstract: The purpose of this work was to find out how much the dialect differed from region to region and also how much it differed within a comparatively small area.
MKI P97-16
Pennsylvania-German dialect

Seifert, Lester W. J. “The diminutives of Pennsylvania German.” Monatshefte, vol. 39, 1947, pp. 285-293.
Abstract: This article is based entirely upon the material in records of specimens of the German dialect of southeastern Pennsylvania
MKI P97-12
Pennsylvania-German dialect

Seifert, Lester W. J. “In Memoriam: Carroll E. Reed.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. ix-x.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Biographies

Seifert, Lester W. J. “A Link between Pennsylvania German Language and Lore.” In Dialectology, Linguistics, Literature. Wolfgang W. Moelleken, ed., 1984, pp. 267-274.
Abstract: This article discusses powwowing and the beliefs and superstitions of Pennsylavania Germans and specifically the role language plays in that matter.
MKI P 367 .D53 1984
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania/ Folklore/ Folks-medicine

Seifert, Lester W. J. “Methods and Aims of a Survey of the German Spoken in Wisconsin.” Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, vol. 40(?), 1950(?), pp. 201-210.
Notes: Reprint.
MKI P87-159
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Wisconsin/ Dialects

Seifert, Lester W. J. “The Problem of Speech-Mixture in the German Spoken in Northwestern Dane County, Wisconsin.” Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, vol. 39, 1949, pp. 127-139.
Notes: Reprint.
MKI P87-158
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Wisconsin/ Dialects

Seifert, Lester W. J. “[Review of] “Changes in an obsolescing language: Pennsylvania German in West Virginia” by Silke Van Ness. Tuebingen: Gunter Narr, 1990. xiv + 161 pages. DM 56,-.” Monatshefte, vol. 85, no. 4, Winter 1993, pp. 487-490.
Notes: Photocopy of review. MKI owns reviewed book: MKI PF 5937 .W4 Y5 1990.
Abstract: Reviews investigation which documents the changes occurring in Pennsylvania German, nearing extinction. West Virginia is in many ways different from other dialects of Pennsylvania German; e.g., West Virginia owes its survival to geographical isolation, while other varieties of Pennsylvania German owe their maintenance to practices of religious groups. West Virginia both preserves archaic features and undergoes interesting sound transformations and simplifications of its own.
P2000-23
Book reviews/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Seifert, Lester W. J. “Some German Contributions to Wisconsin Life.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 173-184.
Abstract: Seifert’s article pays tribute to Gerhard Balg (1852-), who published a glossary of the Gothic language. In addition it discusses the involvement of German immigrants in Wisconsin’s educational system and in founding various societies.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315 and P92-18
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Cultural influence/ Education/ Societies, etc.

Seifert, Lester W. J. “Stress accent in Dane County Koelsch.” Monatshefte, vol. 55, no. 4, 1963, pp. 285-293.
Notes: R-M.S. Heffner number.
Abstract: This paper deals with a particular, perhaps unusual, development in Dane County Koelsch
MKI P97-12
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Dialects/ Linguistics

Seifert, Lester W. J., comp. The Wisconsin German Questionnaire. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1946. 37 pp.
Abstract: Questionnaire developed to study the German language in Wisconsin. Covers the following topics: house and home, dishes and utensils, farm and buildings, crops and implements, animals and fowl, vegetables and fruit, meals and meats, foods and drink, trees and flowers, small life, topography, store and business, the body, clothing, sickness, personal attributes, the family, social affairs, the emotions, the weather, time, numerals, and miscellany.
MKI P2005-26
Linguistics/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Seifert, Lester W. J. “The Word Geography of Pennsylvania German: Extent and Causes.” In The German Language in America. Glenn G. Gilbert, ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971, pp. 14-42.
Abstract: An overview over studies in Pennsylvanian Dutch since 1872.
MKI/MEM PF 5925 .G4
Pennsylvania-German dialect

Seiler, Christiane. “In meiner Heimat bin ich nicht Tourist.” In Studies in Indiana German-Americana. 1988. pp. 84-92.
Abstract: Poem
MKI P92-9
Women authors/ Poetry

Seiler, Lena B. “Die Pioniere von McHenry County.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 1, 1902, pp. 54-56.
Notes: Part III.
Abstract: “Queen Ann Prairie heisst der schoenste Theil von Greenwood Township in McHenry County. Dieser echt englische Name benennt eine Gegend, die von Elsaessern besiedelt und urbar gemacht wurde und noch jetzt fast ausschliesslich von Deutschen bewohnt wird…”
MKI Periodicals
Illinois/ Settlements/ German Americans — Illinois/ Pioneers

Selby, Paul. “Lincoln and German Patriotism.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 12, 1912, pp. 510-535.
Abstract: Regarding events preceding and during the Civil War in which German-Americans were politically active and supportive of Abraham Lincoln.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ German Americans — Illinois/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Civil War, 1861-1865/ Political activity

Selig, Robert A. “Barbarous Strangers? The Myth and Reality of the Hessian Mercenary.” German Life, vol. December [2018]/January 2010, 2018, pp. 18-21.
Notes: Available by subscription, see website for full information.
Abstract: The Hessians brought the Christmas tree to the United States. Eventually numbering over 30,000, msny of the mercenary soldiers brought to support the British in the Revolutionary War did not really realize where they were or what they were fighting for. And many stayed on in the new country when the war was over.
MKI Periodicals
Revolution, 1775-1783/ Soldiers

Selig, Robert A. “Father Ferdinand Steinmeyer and his German-American-Canadian-Connection.” German Life, vol. December 2014/January 2015, 2014, pp. 46-48.
Notes: Available by subscription, see website for full information.
Abstract: Schwabian immigrant and Jesuit priest Father Ferdinand Steinmeyer (1720-1786) was priest of Old St. Joseph Church in Philadelphia, but as Father Ferdinand Farmer, the “Priest on Horseback” he provided pastoral services to small groups in New York and Delaware, including families of a Canadian regiment in the Revolutionary War.
MKI Periodicals
Catholic Church/ Biography/ Revolution, 1775-1783/ Soldiers

Selig, Robert A. “The Idea and Practice of the Ius Emigrandi in the Holy Roman Empire from the Reformation to the French Revolution.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 27, 1992, pp. 15-22.
Notes: Development of the ius emigrandi as it changed from an emergency right of the Protestant Reformation to the human right of the French Revolution.
MKI Periodicals
Religion/ History/ Emigration and immigration

Selig, Robert A. “Of Skulls, Skeletons and Headless Horsemen: What to do with a Dead Hessian or a Brunswicker, as the case may be?” German Life, vol. December [2017]/January 2018, 2018, pp. 42-45.
Notes: Available by subscription, see website for full information.
Abstract: Many soldiers from German provinces fought as mercenaries along with the army of English King George II in the American Revolutionay war. When they were killed, how was the disposal of their bodies and effects far away from home handled in the New World? Washington Irving’s 1820 story of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow relates the haunting actions of one such cavalryman who was buried without his destroyed head.
MKI Periodicals
Revolution, 1775-1783/ Soldiers

Selig, Robert A. “The price of freedom: Poverty, emigration and taxation in the Prince- Bishopric of Wuerzburg in the eighteenth century.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 105-126.
Abstract: Selig’s article discusses the practice of “emigration taxes.”
MKI Periodicals
18th century/ Emigration and immigration/ Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719

Sell, Rainer. “Der Deutsche Pionier-Verein von Cincinnati, Heinrich Armin Rattermann, and “Der Deutsche Pionier” – A Nucleus of Nineteenth-Century German-America.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 49-60.
Abstract: Sell’s article discusses the history of the journal “Der Deutsche Pionier” as well as the history and interests of the society, which published it. Seidensticker, Oswald, 1825-1894/ Stallo, Johann Bernhard, 1823-1900/ Rattermann, Heinrich Armin, 1832-1923 / Seidensticker, Oswald, 1825-1894
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americans — Societies, etc./ Ohio/ Rattermann, Heinrich Armin, 1832-1923/ Language, German (US)/ Ethnic identity/ 19th century/ Politics/ Germany/ History/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees/ German language school/ Newspapers/ Cultural contribution/ Stallo, Johann Bernhard

Sell, Rainer. “The German Language – Mirror of the German-American Struggle for Identity as Reflected in “Der Deutsche Pionier” (1869-1887) and the Activities of Der Deutsche Pionier-Verein von Cincinnati.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 3-4, 1976, pp. 71-81.
Abstract: Sell’s 11 page article provides a history of the Deutsche Pionier-Verein von Cincinnati and analyzes it as a representative model of the German-American struggle for identity in the second half of the 19th century.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Ohio/ Cincinnati (Ohio)/ History/ 19th century/ Societies, etc./ Ethnic identity

Selle, Christian August Thomas. “C. A. T. Selle’s Autobiography: Professor at Addison.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 22-35, ill.
Notes: Translated and edited by William H. Nielsen and George R. Nielsen.
Abstract: Autobiography first appeared in German in “Der Lutheraner” from May 31 1898 to Nov. 29, 1898.
MKI Periodicals
Selle, Christian August Thomas/ Lutherans/ Lutheran Church/ Autobiography

Selle, Christian August Thomas. “C. A. T. Selle’s Illinois Pastorates: An Autobiography.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 3, Fall 1997, pp. 110-137, ill.
Notes: Translated and edited by William H. Nielsen and George R. Nielsen.
Abstract: Autobiography first appeared in German in “Der Lutheraner” from May 31 1898 to Nov. 29, 1898.
MKI Periodicals
Selle, Christian August Thomas/ Lutherans/ Lutheran Church/ Autobiography

Selle, Christian August Thomas. “Early Years of C. A. T. Selle: An Autobiography.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 2, Summer 1997, pp. 53-69, ill.
Notes: Translated and edited by William H. Nielsen and George R. Nielsen.
Abstract: Autobiography first appeared in German in “Der Lutheraner” from May 31 1898 to Nov. 29, 1898.
MKI Periodicals
Selle, Christian August Thomas/ Lutherans/ Lutheran Church/ Autobiography

Senn, Fritz. “Das Dorf im Abendgrauen.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. IX, 1986, pp. 206-206.
Abstract: A poem in German.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry/ German Canadians/ Literature, German (Canada)

Sensenbrenner, F. Joseph Jr. A Proclamation. 1 p.
Abstract: Sensenbrenner, mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, proclaims October 6, 1987 to be German-American Day.
MKI P2004-30
Festivals/ German Americans/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Madison (Wis.)

Serchinger, Gertrud. “Working abroad and counseling: The example of Indonesia.” In: Jetzt wohnst du in einem freien Land; Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch, vol. 39, no. 3, 1989, pp. 382-383.
Abstract: Was kann dem Ratsuchenden an Hilfestellungen geboten werden? Das folgende Beispiel mag dies verdeutlichen, obwohl die Verhaltnisse von Land zu Land voellig unterschiedlich sind oder doch sein koennen. Nehmen wir den Fall, dass einem in einem deutschen Unternehmen taetigen Diplomingenieur das Angebot gemacht wird, fuer etwa drei Jahre nach Indonesien mit Standort Jakarta zu gehen, um dort am Aufbau eines Projektes mitzuarbeiten.
MKI JV 8014 .J47 1989
Employment/ Travel

Sevin, Dieter. “Joachim Maass in Amerika.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 21, 1986, pp. 189-200.
Abstract: Sevin’s article discusses the general difficulties faced by German intellectuals forced into exile by the National Socialists. The article focuses on Maass’ own difficulties, as well as on the influence of his experience in the United States on his work. It discusses the translation of “Das magische Jahr” into English.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
National Socialism/ Exile

Seyffarth, G. Die wahre Zeitrechnung des alten Testaments, nebst einer Zeittafel zum neuen Testamente: eine Huelfsbuechlein fuer christliche Bibelleser. St. Louis, Mo.: Niedner, 1857. 112 pp.
MKI P88-117
PIA/ Religious works

Seyffert, Gordon. “Naturalizations of Germans in St. Louis, 1906-1917.” German-American Genealogy, 2013, pp. 10-15.
Notes: (Immigrant Genealogical Society, Burbank, CA).
Abstract: Entries provide surname and given name, birth year and occupation, and — in most cases — place of birth.”For those with unusual German surnames, here is a resource that coincidentally may match one’s surname of interest with a specific place in Germany. . . It gives one a speculative locality for further investigation.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Missouri/ St. Louis (Mo.)/ 20th century/ Citizenship/ Naturalization/ Genealogy

Shapiro, Michael Steven. “Froebel in America: A Social and Intellectual History of the Kindergarten Movement, 1848-1918. Dissertation.” Brown, 1980. 545 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: This is the study of a nineteenth century social-educational movement–a collective attempt to bring about change in the educational institutions of America in order to reform society. It is the story of the men and women who believed that they had special insight into the development and early education of children between the ages of three and six. Having studied the ideas of the German romantic reformer Friedrich Froebel, they attempted to establish a new educational institution, the kindergarten, or child’s garden, in America. Since their efforts met with strong, initial resistance from a conservative society whose child-rearing notions derived from evangelical Protestantism rather than from romantic poetry, the American Froebelians were forced to mount an organized campaign for the acceptance of the kindergarten. This study is a record of their accomplishments and failures, their contributions and their shortcomings. Since most Froebelians believed that the success of the kindergarten movement depended upon changing the fundamental attitudes of Americans toward child-rearing and early education, this study is also an interpretation of American social and intellectual history between 1865 and 1917 viewed through the lens of early childhood education. Though the European origins of social-educational reform movements are not the subject of this inquiry, several broad generalizations at the outset may be helpful. The Enlightenment of the eighteenth century produced a new philosophical tradition which not only provided a critique of western society and values but also, for the first time, made childhood a symbol of human potential and the corruption of adult society. In attacking (or defending) the social order, writers like Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke, therefore, focused upon the educational systems which perpetuated the society. The educational tracts of the Enlightenment, however, remained largely philosophical disputations. By the beginning of the nineteenth century social-educational reform movements arose to propel the educational ideas of these philosophies. In England the utopian programs of Robert Owen and, in Europe, the ideas of Johann Pestalozzi and Friedrich Froebel began to attract groups of devoted followers. The reformers held in common their desire to perfect the child, improve the adult, and regenerate the social order. By the mid-nineteenth century social educational movements were already undergoing a marked transformation. When the Froebelian kindergarten reached the United States in 1860, the European movement was already in the second stage of development. An international, organizational structure had replaced the bands of loyal disciples while the educational writings of Froebel were crystallized into an ideology of childhood education. The strategy of the American Froebelians, moreover, changed from educational innovation to the establishment of kindergartens and normal training schools. During the nineteenth century Froebelianism entered other American social institutions including the family, school, social settlement, normal school and the university. Inevitably the growth of the Froebelian movement set into motion the very forces which defeated the ideals that gave birth to it. Factionalization, bureaucratization and professionalization were the prices of rapid growth. In part, this study traces the gradual absorption (and rejection) of Froebelian institutions by the larger educational community and society which surrounded it. Since the Froebelians were perhaps more successful in their attempt to influence ideas than to change educational institutions in America, I have devoted much of the study to the competing ideologies of early childhood education in America. For the purpose of this study Lawrence Kohlberg’s definition of an educational ideology as a set of concepts which define the desirable aims, content, and method of education is employed (Harvard Educational Review, November 1972). Educational ideologies, in turn, are grounded in moral positions and surrounded by an epistemology and psychology. They are the sources to which American parents have turned in periods of significant changes in the economic, political, demographic or social conditions of the society. It is the thesis of this study that new theories or ideologies of education, often introduced by social-educational movements, may be adopted, in whole or in part, during such periods of social and intellectual reorientation. Throughout American history the dominant ideology of early childhood education has been family government. Rooted in Calvinist theology, family government stressed the orderly transmission of skills, knowledge and the rules of society from one generation to the next. The success of this educational system was measured by the ability of the individual to find a vocational or spiritual calling on the one hand and the stability of society on the other. Based on a rational epistemology and associational psychology, knowledge was assumed to be repetitive and objective in nature and absorbed through the senses. As a moral system family government was so firmly rooted in American culture that it was not challenged until the mid-nineteenth century and was never entirely displaced. In part this study traces the search for a new ideology of early childhood education in the afterglow of Calvinism. By the 1830s American parents and teachers were introduced to a radically different theory of early childhood education. Initially associated with New England Transcendentalism, romantic educational ideology stressed that what comes from within the child was the most important aspect of development. Therefore, the task of the educator was to unfold the “inner good” of the child and restrain the “inner evil.” To romantics the child was neither totally depraved nor totally innocent; he was flawed but perfectible. Knowledge was defined as an immediate awareness while the objective of education remained self-insight. In the process of self-exploration the child’s mental faculties were nourished and unfolded like those of a plant. Transcendentalism, neverertheless, remained a minority report on child-rearing and early education in the early nineteenth century. It was not until the Froebelian movement reached its peak of popularity in the Gilded Age that most Americans understood or accepted parts of European romantic educational ideology. The third and final ideology of childhood education was introduced during the 1890s. As the chief spokesman for progressive educational ideology, John Dewey defined education as the natural interaction of the child with his environment and the society by which the child progresses through a series of stages to a higher level. Grounded in a pragmatic epistemology, progressive childhood education was an attempt to resolve the relationship between an inquiring mind and a problematic situation. Influenced by the Froebelian movement, Dewey’s theory of progressive childhood education was, in part, a hybrid of earlier theories of education. Endowed with values derived from the mainstream of evangelical Protestantism, Dewey’s brand of childhood education at least temporarily attracted a wider following among American parents than Froebelianism. The purpose of this study is not merely to build new bridges between the ideological peaks of periods of social-educational reform in American history. Wherever possible I have attempted to connect the Froebelian movement to a larger cycle of ideological crisis and social reform. I have attempted to show how American parents and educators have periodically come to redefine their own basic values and beliefs and the means by which they will transmit them to the next generation. Such periods of reform in childhood education have often closely followed periods of cultural renewal which usually begins with broad awakenings of religious feeling. Significantly, the Froebelian movement reached the peak of its popularity between the Second Great Awakening (1800-1830) and the Third Great Awakening (1890-1920). Today American culture is again in a period of cultural revitalization which some historians have called the Fourth Great Awakening. Parents and teachers are again concerned and confused about the guidance and early education of their children; some have turned toward the romantic theories of Maria Montessori and A. S. Neill for answers. It is toward the solution of this larger historical problem of cultural renewal and cultural transmission that this study of the Froebelian kindergarten movement is aimed.
MKI LB1205 S526; shelved with MKI dissertations
Kindergarten/ Education

Shea, Robert J., and Giles R. Hoyt. “Teaching German-Americana with Assistance from the Web.” Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, vol. 31, no. 1, 1998, pp. 59-62.
Abstract: The World Wide Web can be used to facilitate teaching about German-Americana as a vehicle to teach German language and culture. One can use the Web to mine the knowledge base and to organize knowledge for local utilization. This article discusses some of the basic uses of web pages to find literary texts, syllabi and course outlines, images and regalia, as well as information about people, organizations, events, and places. It also highlights a few of the most useful German-American resources currently available online and discusses Internet applications, formatting, and the creation of web units and sites for teaching and studying German- Americana.
MKI P98-42
German-American Studies/ Teaching

Shepardson, D. E. “In the Prime of His Time: H. L. Mencken.” American History Illustrated, vol. 9, no. 9, 1975, pp. 10-19.
Abstract: As editor of the American Mercury, H.L. Mencken became spokesman and architect of a decade.
MKI P86-140 / SHS E 171 .A574
Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

Sherr, Paul C. Pennsylfonisch Deitsch im 21st Yohrhunnert: Schtoris un Gedichte. Holland, PA: PCS Press; Reamstown, PA: The PA German Periodical, c2004. 54 pp.
Notes: Donated by Dennis Boyer.
MKI P2004-46
PIA/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Fiction/ Poetry/ Dialects

Sherwood, Robert. “Alpine Footballers in the New World: Swiss Influence on Soccer in the United States.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 49, no. 1, Feb. 2013, pp. 31-47.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Switzerland/ Sports

Shoemaker, Alfred L. “J. Fred Wetter, Author of the Hansjoerg Dialect Column.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, Winter 1999, p. 8, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: J. Fred Wetter was born in Degerfelden, Canton Aargau, Switzerland on Nov. 17, 1846. He and his brother emigrated to America in August of 1867, where J. Fred was employed as a printer in Baltimore, Wheeling, Newark, and Pittsburgh, before settling permanently in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Here he worked for and eventually purchased the Pottsville Jefferson Demokrat. For twenty years Wetter wrote a column in Pennsylvania Dutch, which he signed D’r Hansgoerg, and which was syndicated in German-language newspapers across the country. Reprints one such column from January 1, 1952.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Dutch

Shore, Elliott. “Gained in translation: Hollywood films, German publics.” The German-American encounter: Conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000. Frank and Shore Elliott Trommler, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001, pp. 285-291.
MKI/MEM E 183.8 G3 G472 2001
20th century/ United States/ Germany/ Cultural influence

Short, Anne, and John Short, eds. Gutes Essen: A Family Cookbook. [Madison, WI]: Anne and John Short, 1987. 180 pp., ill.
Notes: Donated by Anne Short, 2005; inside front cover: Cover design: Coat of Arms of Baden-Wuerttemburg, the province in which our ancestral village is located. Alex Burkart and Rosina Seifried Burkart, our paternal grandparents, were born in Buehlertal, Baden, in the Black Forest region of West Germany. There were married there and all of their children, except for our father, were born there.
Abstract: Family cookbook includes reminiscences of parents Ida and Hubert Burkart from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and other family members (pp. 1-54). [See also: Burkart, Otto. Kriegs-Erinnerungen [amerikanisch-spanische Krieg]. Sheboygan: Demokrat Printing Co., 1898]
MKI P2005-18
Cookbooks/ Food/ Burkart/ Sheboygan (Wis.)/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Showalter, Michael. “‘A Door Was Opened. . .To Work Upon the Young People’: Education in 18th-Century Ephrata.” The ABCs of German American Education in Pennsylvania Prior to the Public School Movement of 1834: A Symposium, 13 pp.
Notes: June 30, 2007 at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, Pennsburg, PA.
MKI P2007-47
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Education/ 18th century/ Pennsylvania Germans/ Ephrata.

Shryock, Richard H. “British versus German Traditions in Colonial Agriculture.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review, vol. 26, no. 1, 1939.
Notes: Reprint.
Abstract: Everywhere along the fringe of southern Appallachia, the “Dixie-Dutch” were better farmers than their English or Scotch-Irish neighbors.
MKI P85-109
Cultural contribution/ Agriculture/ Colonial period/ Farming/ Germans

Shyer, Marlene. “Frankenmuth [Michigan].” German Life, vol. June/July 2018, 2018, pp. 46-49.
Notes: Available by subscription, see website for full information.
Abstract: Review of the “more Bavarian than Bavaria” tourist destination and its offerings that was founded as a “mission colony” in 1845 by farmers from Neuendettelsau, Franconia, Germany.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Michigan

Siber, Elizabeth M. “Experience and Enlightenment: Character Portrait in Letters of Johann Caspar Lohbauer.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 40, no. 1, Feb. 2004, pp. 4-18.
Notes: Published in book form in Zurich in 1864.
Abstract: “Johann Caspar Lohbauer’s letters written between March 1856 and December 1862 narrate in detail, sometimes with great humor, his life as a farmer in [Bowen’s Prairie,] Iowa and later, when he became Clerk to General Curtis, they describe a part of the Civil War that is less known. He admired much in the United States, was puzzled by some social movements, participated very actively politically…. Again and again he justifies his actions in his letters. One can feel his obligation to come up to the intellectual standards of his father, who owned a printing business and a stationary store at the Limmatquai in Zurich.” Johann Lohbauer [aka John Lowbower] is buried in Baxter Springs, Kansas, listed as having been “killed in the massacre by the rebel leader Quantrill on October 6, 1863.”
MKI Periodicals
Letters/ Swiss Americans/ Civil War, 1861-1865/ 19th century/ Immigrants, Swiss

Sicher, Matthew. “Challenges for a New Generation of Deitsch.” Hollerbeier Haven: Newsletter for the Herbal and Healing Arts, vol. 2, no. 1, May 2008, pp. 14, 16.
Abstract: “There are many inspiring and intelligent people working hard to ensure the continuation of our traditions. I conducted interviews with two Deitsch teachers: Rob Lusch and Edward Quinter. . . . Here, then, are some excerpts from the interviews: I asked both. . . why it was important for the dialect to survive into the 21st century.”
MKI P2008-1
Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Dialects/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Sicher, Matthew. “How to Have Fun with Groundhogs.” Hollerbeier Haven: Newsletter for the Herbal and Healing Arts, vol. 2, no. 2, Fall 2008, pp. 14-15.
Abstract: The first Grundsau Lodge (Groundhog Lodge) was formed in 1933 to help keep the Pennsylvania Deitsch language alive in the face of negative sentiments towards German languages since World War II. Paul Kunkel, “longtime Grundsau Grossdaadi and tireless promoter of Deitsch language. . . . is concerned that, ‘in twenty years from now, there will be virtually no native Deitsch speakers left who are not in the plain sects (Amish, Mennonite, etc.).'” The author plans to raise his child speaking Deitsch in the home, and Kunkel concurs that the “most effective way to ensure the continuation of the Deitsch language is to raise children speaking and hearing Deitsch from their first days. ‘It is important for children to grow up knowing that it is possible to be a part of their Deitsch culture, as well as English culture; to be a part of local tradition, and part of America as a whole.'”
MKI P2008-1
Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Dialects/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Language maintenance

Siehr, Linda. Ueber das Grab hinaus. Kriminal Roman, Band 1. Lincoln, Neb.: Press Publishing Company, n.d. 64 pp.
Paperback. On front cover: “Abonnirt heute! Wir moechten Sie gerne als Leser gewinnen.” Has stamp: Freie Presse, Lincoln, Neb. “Leset Mich”; 85 Cents pro Jahr. On back cover: “Abonnent! Beachtet Euren Bestellzettel. Schickt uns Erneuerung wenn Abgelaufen?” Has stamp: Freie Presse, Lincoln, Neb. “Denke Mein.” Inside front cover is a form to provide the names and addresses of German Landsleute so that free copies of the Lincoln Freie Presse, Deutsch-Amerikanischer Farmer, and Der Hausfreund can be sent. Inside back cover is a subscription form for the same titles (85 Cents in Vorausbezahlung auf ein Jahr) as well as for a 6-month subscription of Die Welt. On title page: “5 Cents.”
Donated by the Pommerscher Verein Freistadt (Wisconsin).
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Sielaff, John. “Germans Who Built Minnesota’s Capitol.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 21, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer 2019, pp. 41-45.
Notes: Includes bibliographical resources.
Abstract: A project dedicated to researching and recognizing the contributions of the contractors and construction workers on the Minnesota State Capitol, completed in 1905, after nine years of work, recovered not only the names of the six men who died on the job, but also the birth countries and decendents of many of the several hundred contractors and laborers.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Research/ German Americans — Minnesota/ History

Siemon-Netto, Uwe. “In Missouri, a Phoenix Named Hermann: Devastated by the Prohibition, a Wine-Growing German Town in the Midwest Is Again Thriving.” The Atlantic Times, Jan. 2007 (Life, p. 22, ill.
“In 1837 . . . settlers from Germany created a ‘New Fatherland’ on the banks of the Missouri River, which resembles the Rhine. They built a little town and named it Hermann, after a first-century Germanic chieftain. Soon literature, poetry, and music flourished. Within decades, wines from the hills surrounding Hermann won world acclaim. Rootstocks from these vineyards are even credited with having the Old World’s viticulture from destruction by the Phylloxera plague in the 1870s.”
MKI P2007-2
Hermann (Mo.)/ German Americans — Missouri/ Wine

Siemon-Netto, Uwe. “What, a U-Boat on the Ohio River? The Fate of German Immigrants during WWII in the U.S. Finally Gets a Hearing.” The Atlantic Times, June 2009 (Life, p. 19, ill.
vol. 6, no. 6.
“After war broke out between the U.S. and Germany 67 years ago, 11,000 German immigrants, including women and children, were sent to detention camps. . . . Finally, a Congressional subcommittee has begun looking into their fate.” Provides the story of Eberhard E. Fuhr, who spent nearly five years in confinement in Crystal City, Texas.
MKI P2009-8
Anti-German sentiment/ World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans / Fuhr, Eberhard

Sievers, Kai Detlev. “Stand und Aufgaben der Ueberseewanderungsforschung in Schleswig-Holstein.” In Die deutsche und skandinavische Amerikaauswanderung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Kai Detlev Sievers, ed., 1981, pp. 89-110.
Abstract: “Das Thema Auswanderung besitzt demnach fuer die landesgeschichtliche Forschung in Schleswig-Holstein ein reiches Spektrum von Fragestellungen. Verheissungsvolle Ansaetze liegen bereits vor. Wertvolle methodische Anregungen bietet vor allem die skandinavische Emigrationsforschung. Es gilt nun, durch sorgfaeltige Einzelstudien die Luecken zu schliessen und zu zusammenfassenden Erkenntnissen zu gelangen. Dazu bedarf es allerdings tieferdringender sozial- und wirtschafthistorischer Einblicke in die epochalen Wandlungen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, die auch Schleswig-Holstein erfassten.”
MKI P87-84 / MEM E 184 .G3 D54 1981
Emigration and immigration / Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Schleswig-Holstein/ Research

Sihler, W. Gespraeche zwischen zwei Lutheraner ueber den Methodismus. St. Louis, Mo.: Deutsche Ev.- Luth. Synode, 1867. 72 pp.
Abstract: “Der Hauptsitz der Krankheit” and “Die Lehre und Weise der Methodisten” are the two titles. Sihler was the pastor in Fort Wayne, IN.
MKI P89-20
PIA/ Protestant/ Theological

Simon, Roger D. “Reviews: The making of Milwaukee [by John Gurda].” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 84, no. 3, Spring 2001, p. 60.
Notes: Reviewed book is owned by State Historical Society and College Library: SHS/COLL F589 M64 G87 1999 — See URL for book review.
Book reviews/ Milwaukee (Wis.)

Simonsen, Judith. “Cyril Colnik.” Lore, vol. 31, no. 2, 1981, pp. 21-27.
Abstract: Anvil, hammer and tongs — tools used for centuries at the forge — were the instruments for artistry with metal in the hands of Cyril Colnik. His creative talent and technical mastery transformed shapeless metal into works of beauty and permanence. Colnik, of Austrian descent, became nationally known and achieved his success in his adopted country and home, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
MKI P99-1
Artists/ Crafts/ Folk art/ Milwaukee (Wis.)

Sinnema, John R. “German Methodism’s Ohio Roots.” German-American Studies: A Journal of History, Literature, Biography and Genealogy, vol. 8, 1974, pp. 64-85.
MKI / SHS E 184. G3 G315
Methodists/ Methodist Church/ History/ Biographies

Skorsetz, Ulrike. “Der Franzose wechselt die Mode, wir Deutschen dagegen wechseln die Wirtshaueuser: Wirsthaueser und Bierkonsum aus der Sicht deutscher Einwanderer im neunzehnten Jahrhundert.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 3, 1996.
Abstract: Waehrend der Mitte des vorigen Jahrhunderts verstaekte sich die Tendenz, den deutschen Einwanderer als Trunkenbold anzusehen. Zeitungen griffen verstaerkt das Thema Trunkenheit und Gewaltaetigkeit auf, und Delikte, die von Immigranten, spezielle deutschen und irischen Immigranten im Zustand der Trunkenheit begangen wurden. Alle diese Berichte waren Wasser auf die Muehlen der Temperenz-Bewegung. In der Tat was das Thema Prohibition sowohl fuer die eingewanderten Deutschen als auch fuer die Amerikaner ein wichtiger Punkt, die die Deutsch-Amerikaner einte und ein beachtenswertes Hindernis auf dem Wege der Assimilierung in die amerikanische Gesellschaft darstellte. Prohibitionsbestrebungen waren fuer die deutschen Immigranten Angriffe auf ein mitgebrachtes Element deutscher Kultur und Lebensweise und eine Einschraenkung der persoenlichen Freiheit
MKI periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Assimilation/ Ethnic identity/ Social life and customs/ Culture

Slesinger, Doris P., and Jeanne Bauer. “Ancestry of Wisconsinites.” WSDC News, vol. 14, no. 2, 1983, pp. 1-2.
Notes: From the Wisconsin State Data Center (WSDC).
MKI P94-54
Wisconsin/ Genealogy

Slifer, Frank. “‘Der Umgeschickt Menschefanger’: A Three-Act Pennsylvania German Play by the Women’s Guild of the Maxatawny Reformed Charge.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 20, no. 4, Fall 2014, pp. 3-26.
Abstract: In the mid-1930s, Rev. Dr. Franklin D. Slifer, pastor of the Maxatawny Reformed Charge in Berks County, wrote this dialect play about detective Otto Schmaltz, recently certified via a mail-order course in detection. His first case is to locate Arabella, daughter of Capt. Schmidt, who has eloped with Johnny Gretz. Schmaltz’s efforts are complicated by the escape of two residents of the local insane asylum. The play was originally performed by an all female cast, and was revived and staged in 1985 by the Goschenhoppen Historians.
MKI Periodicals
Theater & Drama/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Humor & Satire

Sloksnat, Hartmut. “The European home market and the itinerant workers – Remarks on the basic right to freedom of movement.” In: Jetzt wohnst du in einem freien Land; Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch, vol. 39, no. 3, 1989, pp. 384-387.
Notes: The articles are in German.
Abstract: “Wanderarbeitnehmer” ist die offizielle Bezeichnung fuer die Personen, die, unter Umstaenden mit ihren Familienangehoerigen, innerhalb der Europaeischen Gemeinschaft den Wohn- und Beschaeftigungsstaat wechseln. Bereits diese Definition deutet an, dass die Vorgaenge, die aeusserlich einer Aus- bzw. Einwanderung gleichen, in der Gemeinschaft einen besonderen Charakter haben.
MKI JV 8014 .J47 1989
Emigration and immigration / Employment/ Europe/ Business & Industry

Smalley, Eugene V. “The German Element in the United States.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 26, no. 4, Dec. 2005, pp. 25-27, 30-32.
Notes: Reprinted from Lippincott’s Magazine, vol. 31, 1883, pp. 355-363. SGAS.
Abstract: From the editor’s notes: “Here once again are Yankee views about the German element in the United States. . . . Of keen interest to the editor are Smalley’s thoughts about geographic distribution of the Germans, his keen analysis of their political affiliation and his accurate observations about the Puritanical Sunday, the role of Yankee vs. German women, and his affection for their food. . . Smalley lauds the consumption of German lager beer over the old Yankee preference for whiskey. He is nowhere more eloquent than in eulogizing the contributions to America of German music. Compliments for the German bakers, butchers, watchmakers, tailors and toymakers abound. He equates the German press to that of American tongue. . . ”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ German influence/ America/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ 19th century/ Immigrants, German

Smart, Terry L. “Early German Burial Sites and Cemeteries in Texas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 69-77.
Notes: First in a series.
Abstract: Covers the following counties: Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Colorado, Comal, Falls, Fayette, Frio, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Harris, Kendall, Mason, McLennan, Medina, Wilson.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Cemeteries

Smart, Terry L. “Germans Who Served in Texas Government, 1831-1915.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 32, no. 3, Fall 2010, pp. 199-203.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ History/ 19th century/ 20th century/ Politics

Smart, Terry L. “Houston’s German Heritage.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 30, no. 4, Winter 2008, pp. 339-344, ill.
Notes: From a presentation at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the German-Texan Heritage Society held at Houston on August 23.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Texas — Harris County

Smart, Terry L. “Past and Present Places in Texas with German Names.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 32, no. 4, Winter 2010, pp. 249-253.
Notes: From The German Legacy in Texas, c2010.
Abstract: Lists some of the many towns, communities, and counties throughout the state of Texas with names that reflect a German origin.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ History/ 19th century/ Names, Geographical — Texas/ German influence

Smart, Terry L. “Physical History of the German Free School in Austin: From ‘A Master Plan for the Old German Free School,’ August 1966.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 29, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 343-345, ill.
Notes: Abridged by Terry L. Smart.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Schools/ Education/ German language school/ Teaching of German/ Teaching

Smart, Terry L. “San Antonio’s German Heritage.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 52-57, ill.
Abstract: Discusses German neighborhoods, businesses, artists and musicians, social clubs and societies, and religious life.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ San Antonio (Tex.)

Smelser, Ronald M. “Germany Is As Close As Salt Lake City Utah: Using the German Microfilm Collection of the Genealogical Society of Utah.” 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 506
Abstract: A brief overview of the politics and geography of Germany and the opportunities opened up through the German collection of the Genealogical Society of Utah.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 7.
Genealogy

Smith, C. O. “The Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod’s Attitude Toward the Negro Both as Slave and as Freedman.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, 1949, pp. 145-149.
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535
Lutherans/ Slavery/ Tennessee

Smith, Charles Henry. “Die Mennoniten waehrend des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Niederlassungen in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, und den westlichen Staaten.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 9, 1909, pp. 113-121.
Abstract: aus “Die Mennoniten in Amerika,” von Prof. Dr. C. Henry Smith.
MKI Periodicals
Mennonites/ Illinois/ Ohio/ Indiana

Smith, Clifford Neal. “Why American Families Migrated.” 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 361
Abstract: Reasons and circumstances of migration and appearing problems of family history research.
MKI CS 69 .W6 1980; P87-148.
Genealogy/ Family history

Smith, Dinitia. “How Curious George Escaped the Nazis.” New York Times, Sept. 13, 2005, pp. [1].
Abstract: Reports how the creators of the children’s literature character Curious George — Hans and Margarete Rey, both German-born Jews — escaped from Paris by bicycle in June 1940, carrying the manuscript of what would become the first “Curious George” story as the Nazis prepared to invade.
MKI P2005-27
Children’s literature/ Jews, German/ Rey, Hans Augusto/ Rey, Margaret/ World War, 1939-1945

Smith, Sheryl. “Making German-American Connections through Culture Projects.” Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, vol. 31, no. 1, 1998, pp. 55-58.
Abstract: The article describes projects for high school German students dealing with aspects of German-American culture. The projects provide integration opportunities with courses in U.S. history.
MKI P98-42
German-American Studies/ Teaching/ Culture

Smith, Susan Lampert. “Free Thinkers Liked to Have Fun.” Wisconsin State Journal, Oct. 7, 2002 (Local. pp. B1, B4.)
Reports on the 150th anniversary of the Freie Gemeinde in Sauk City, Wisconsin.
MKI P2002-112
Freethinkers/ Wisconsin/ Forty-eighters/ Sauk City (Wis.)

Sollors, Basil. “Jonathan Hagar, the founder of Hagerstown.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 44th Report, 2000, pp. 7-16.
Notes: “…reprinted verbatim as it first appeared in the ‘Second Annual Report of the Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland’ (1888), pages 15-30.”
Abstract: Biographical sketch of Jonathan Hagar (1714-1775), settler in Maryland.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Maryland/ Settlements/ 18th century

Sollors, Werner. “German-language writing in the United States: A serious challenge to American studies?” The German-American encounter: Conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000. Frank and Shore Elliott Trommler, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001, pp. 103-114.
MKI/MEM E 183.8 G3 G472 2001
Literature, German-American/ Social influence/ German Americans/ History/ United States/ Immigrants, German

Sonneck, O. G. “Deutscher Einfluss auf das Musikleben Amerikas.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 355-367.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
German influence/ Music/ United States

Soto, Debbie. “Portrait of a Swiss immigrant to the U.S. in the late 1800’s.”
Abstract: Debbie Fiscalini Soto, a resident of Cambria, CA, is a great-granddaughter of a Swiss immigrant named Charles Fiscalini, who came to the U.S. in 1887. She filed this portrait of her ancestor.
MKI P95-10
Swiss Americans/ Biographies/ Immigrants/ Family history

Spaude, Edelgard. “Das Foucaultsche Pendel des Charles Sealsfield. Ueber Macht und Geheimnis im Morton-Roman.” Schriftenreihe der Charles-Sealsfield-Gesellschaft, vol. 6, 1991, pp. 63-82.
Abstract: Spaude discusses the interplay between power and secrets invoked in various written works, in particular Sealsfield’s novel Morton.
MKI PT2516.S4 Z4586
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Fiction

Specht, Christa, and others. Sersheim: Geschichte und Geschichten, 792-1992. [Stuttgart: Aldus Verlag], 1992. 279 pp., ill.
Notes: Donated by Phyllis M. Bunnelle, Jan. 2003.
Abstract: History of Sersheim, in Kreis Ludwigsburg, near Stuttgart.
MKI P2003-1
Sersheim, Germany/ Germany/ History/ Baden-Wuerttemberg

Sperling, Della Clason. “The Legacy of Ferdinand A. Brader (Swiss, 1833-1901).” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 51, no. 1, February 2015, pp. 1-17.
Abstract: Historical biography of the Swiss-American landscape artist who made his drawings in Pennsylvania and Ohio from 1879-1895.
MKI Periodicals
Brader, Ferdinand (1833-1901)/ Swiss-Americans/ Artists

Spiekermann, Uwe. “Dangerous Meat? German-American Quarrels over Pork and Beef, 1870-1900.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 46, Spring 2010, pp. 93-110, ill.
Abstract: Since the early 1860s, “meat quality was one of the most controversial issues in German-American trade relations. . . . “Emerging medical and bacteriological research detected and defined a growing number of zoonoses that had been unknown before. The spreading knowledge on food-related health risks led to growing concerns among experts, in the general public, and in politics.” By 1900, Germany decided to close their market to American meat. In America, trichinosis was presented as being prevalent among victims with German background, and attributed to cultural and traditional ways of eating food, i.e., with accusations that Germans “ate greedily” without properly cooking their ham.
MKI Periodicals
19th century/ Relations, Germany-US/ Medicine & Health/ Food/ Trade/ National characteristics, German — Public opinion, American

Spiekermann, Uwe. “Marketing Milwaukee: Schlitz and the Making of a National Beer Brand, 1880-1940.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 53, Fall 2013, pp. 56-67, ill.
Abstract: Examines how the marketing strategies of the Schlitz Brewing Company both before, during, and after the Prohibition era.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Breweries/ Business & Industry/ Prohibition

Spiekermann, Uwe. “The Spreckelses: American History as Family History.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement, no. 8, 2012, pp. 65-66, ill.
Notes: GHI Research.
Abstract: Report on a new book being published as part of the GHI’s Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German American Business Biographies project. “At the turn of the twentieth century, the German-born ‘Sugar King’ Claus Spreckels was recognized as a representative figure of the Californian elite, and the Spreckels family was publicly perceived as representative of the West Coast.” Claus Spreckels pioneered large-scale sugar plantations in Hawaii and introduced the sugar beet industry in the United States.
MKI Periodicals
Business & Industry/ History/ 19th century/ 20th century/ Biographies/ Research/ United States — History/ German Americans — California/ German Americans — Hawaii/ Spreckels, Claus, 1828-1908

Spiller, Robert, and Willard Thorp. “Literary History of the United States: German and Pennsylvania German.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1971, pp. 24-28.
Abstract: This selection, reprinted from the mentioned book (published in 1948), discusses prose, poetry, and drama and includes the names of books dealing with each topic.
MKI Periodicals
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Literature, German (US)/ 18th century/ 19th century/ Literary criticism/ 20th century/ Literature, Pennsylvania-German/ Dialects

Splitter, Wolfgang. “Pfaelzische Gemeinden in Pennsylvania im 18. Jahrhundert.” In Die Auswanderung nach Nordamerika aus den Regionen des heutigen Rheinland-Pfalz. Werner Kremp and Roland Paul, eds. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2002, pp. 21-36.
MKI E 184 .P3 A87 2002
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Pennsylvania/ 18th century/ Palatines/ Rheinland-Pfalz

Spuler, Linus. “New Yorker Gedichte. Zur Grossstadtdichtung des Schweizeramerikaners Oskar Kollbrunner.” Euphorion, vol. 47, 1953, pp. 341-350.
Abstract: Biographical sketch and poems. Kollbrunner, Oskar, 1895-1932; German-American/Swiss-American author
MKI P93-89
Biographies/ Poetry/ Swiss Americans

Spuler, Linus. “Von deutschamerikanischer Dichtung.” German-American Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1969, pp. 8-16.
Abstract: Spuler’s article discusses the history of German-American literature. He divides his study into 6 periods, which are determined by the driving forces causing various groups to emigrate: 1) 1675-1825 (“religious” themes); 2) 1825-1848 (“philosophical-political”); 3) 1848-1880 (“political”); 4) 1880-1910 (“social”); 5) 1910-1935 (“apolitical”); 6) 1935 onwards (“political”). Grossberg, Mimi, 1905-/Waldinger, Ernst, 1896-1970/Kollisch Margarete, 1893-1979/Gong, Alfred, 1920-1981/Auslaender, Rose, 1907-/Nathorff, Hertha, 1895-
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Literature, German-American/ Poetry/ Literary criticism

Spuler, Richard. “”From Genesis to Convention: Literary Criticism as a German-American Institution”.” 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. 155-164.
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
Philology, German (US)/ Germanists (US)/ Biographies

Spuler, Richard. “Mediating German Culture: American “Germanstik” at the Turn of the Century.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 16, 1981, pp. 9-26.
Abstract: Spuler’s article discusses the use of German Studies in universities in the United States at the turn of the century, highlighting the history of the Germanic Museum at Harvard and concluding that the Germanists perceived themselves “in terms of cultural missionary work.” It includes the poem “Die Deutsche Muse” by Kuno Francke.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Biographies/ Cultural contribution/ Education/ Germanists (US)/ Francke, Kuno, 1855-1930

Spuler, Richard. “Wilhelm Tell as American Myth.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 17, 1982, pp. 89-98.
Abstract: Spuler’s article discusses why “Wilhelm Tell” has remained a popular and frequently performed work in German language theaters in the U.S.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Theater & Drama/ Literature, German

Spyri, Johanna. Und wer nur Gott zum Freunde hat, dem hilft er allewegen. Palmzweige: Erzaehlungen fuer Jung und Alt, Bd. 3. St. Charles, Mo.: Deutsche Ev. Synode von Nord-Amerika, ©1888. 28 pp., ill.
MKI P89-36
PIA/ Juvenile literature/ Women authors

Stadler, Ernst A. “A Forgotten Poet.” Missouri Historical Society Bulletin, vol. 19, 1963, pp. 356-358.
Notes: Ernst A. Stadler translated Jesse Grant’s poems.
Abstract: The father of President Grant was something of a man of letters. Although he was not a very educated man, he had an extraordinarily lively fantasy and the urge to bring his imagery to paper, and possibly into print. Strictly speaking, he should be counted among the American primitive poets
MKI P93-66
Biographies/ Poetry

Stadler, Xaver. “Geschichte der Omaha Schweizer-Colonie.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 10, 1910, pp. 106-118.
Abstract: A history of the settlement of Omaha, Nebraska by the Swiss. Begins with the poem,” An den Ufern des Missouri.”
MKI Periodicals
Nebraska/ Swiss Americans/ Settlements/ Frontier and pioneer life

Staffelbach, Georges. ‘s Heidi huerotet noch Amerika: E wohri Gschicht uff Luzaernerduetsch, verzellt. [S.l].: Wallimann Beromuenster, 1957. 8 pp.
MKI P88-18
PIA/ Fiction/ Dialects

Stahl, I. Victor. “David Schultze.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, Winter 1999, pp. 11-12.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: In 1733, at 17 years of age, David Schultz was among a small band of Schwendfelder immigrants that came to colonial America. David kept a diary that recounted his immigration journey as well as his entire life in Pennsylvania. The Journals and Papers of David Shultze were published in two volumes by the Schwenkfelder Library in 1952-1953.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ Colonial period/ 18th century

Stahr, Beth A. “Des Allemands: German Migration through New Orleans and Up the Mississippi.” National Genealogical Society 2002 Conference in the States Program Syllabus. Arlington, VA: the society, 2002, pp. 76-79.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Donated by Robert Luening.
Abstract: Outline for presentation given in Milwaukee, WI. Includes selected bibliography.
MKI P2002-93
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ New Orleans (La.)/ Ships/ Immigrants, German

Stanton, Gary W. “Material Artifacts Reflect People’s Lives.” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor, Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1981, pp. 74-77.
Abstract: Stanton’s paper discusses the distinction between document and artifact and calls for more fieldwork into German-speaking areas in the U.S.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981
German Americans — Minnesota/ Architecture/ Ethnic identity/ Farming

Starck, Renate. “Krefelder Juden in Amerika – Dokumentation in Briefen: Beitrag einer deutschen Schulklasse zum Jubilaeum 1983.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 19, 1984, pp. 155-174.
Notes: Article in German.
Abstract: Starck’s article describes the activities of school children in Krefeld, Germany for the celebration “300 Years of Germans in America,” in which they wrote to those Jews, who had immigrated ca 1933 from Krefeld to the U.S. The article then goes on to provide a brief history of Jews in Krefeld. The bulk of the article consists of the students’ letter and received responses.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Jews, German/ Immigrants/ Schools/ World War, 1939-1945/ Letters/ Biographies/ Catholics/ National Socialism

Stark, Heinz. “An American Pioneer from Bavaria: The George Schramm Story.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 41, 2006, pp. 27-47, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes. “In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of George Schramm’s death and dedicated to his great-granddaughter Carol Thomason.”
Abstract: Georg Schramm was born Feb. 12, 1816 in the market-town of Plech, Bavaria. His father decided to take the family to America, and by 1837 they were sailing from Bremen. Diary entries describe the ocean crossing and the trip to Circleville, Ohio. The family later moved on to Iowa, and in 1852 George was a candidate of the Whig Party for the Iowa State Senate, severing a term of four years.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Bavaria/ Schramm/ German Americans — Iowa/ Atlantic crossing/ Political activity

Steensen, Thomas. The Frisians in Schleswig-Holstein. Braeist/Bredstedt, Nordfriesland: Nordfriisk Instituut, 1994. 32 pp., ill.
Notes: Edited by the Frisian Council. Translated into English by Dirk Hansen. Includes bibliographical references, inside back cover. Donated by Jacob Martens, 2009.
MKI P2009-23
Frisians/ Schleswig-Holstein

Steger, Werner H. “German immigrants, the Revolution of 1848, and the politics of liberalism in antebellum Richmond.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 34, 1999, pp. 19-34.
Abstract: “Traditionally historians explain the alliance between antebellum German immigrants and the Democratic Party with the latter’s active opposition to the nativism of the Whig and later American Party. This, however, was not the case in Richmond … This essy will argue that the positions and respect these Germans gained and enjoyed in Richmond’s social and civic life suggest a higher level of tolerance towards political liberals exhibited by Southern authorities during the sectional crisis than previously assumed.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Virginia/ Politics/ Revolution, 1848-1849

[Steian? Steiau? Steiger?], E. Letter to Frau Senator Schurz, 18 February 1871.
Letter found in “The Kindergarten,” a book by Dr. Adolf Douai, published in New York by E. Steiger in 1871. The book is inscribed “Mrs. Schurz with respects of E. [Steian? Steiger?],” and is from the library of Carl Schurz.
Addressed to Frau Senator Schurz [Margarethe Meyer], Washington D.C., and written on letterhead of E. Steiger, German News Agent, Importer and Bookseller, Publisher and Printer, 22 & 24 Frankfort Street, New York, 1871, Feb. 18.
MKI P2010-2.
Letters/ Schurz, Margarethe Meyer/ 19th century/ Kindergarten
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Steigerwald, Jacob. “Danube Swabians.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 2, 1985, pp. 12-13.
Notes: SGAS
Abstract: A short overview of Danube Swabians.
MKI Periodicals
Danube Swabians

Stein, Fred C., and H. William Lieske. “Old Gravelton Revisited; A Description of the English District After Seventy-Five Years.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 4, 1948, pp. 162-170.
Notes: Repr. from the “Lutheran Witness,” English District Edition, Aug. 12, 1947.
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535

Stein, Herbert. “Deutsch-Americana.” America-Herold Kalender. Vol. 70. Winona, Minn.: National Weeklies, Inc., 1951, pp. 65-69, ill.
Notes: Preis $1.00.
Abstract: Brief mentions of the Pennsylvania-German bodyguards of George Washington; Conrad Heyer of Waldoboro, Maine, and memorials to German Americans in the cemetery there; the German-American press; Germanic geographic place names in the U.S.A.; German-Texans; the failure of an 1870 German colony from Chicago [led by Civil War veteran Gen. Carl Wulsten] to settle in the Wet Mountain Valley of Colorado, and more. Line-drawing illustrations of a “Pionier-Bauernhaus in Gnadenau, Kansas” and “Eine Wiege der Deutsch-Russen von Gnadenau, Kansas,” and of the “Alter Friedhof in Waldoboro, Maine.”
MKI P2005-15
PIA/ German Americans/ 18th century/ 19th century/ History

Stein, Kurt M. The Lorelei vom Michigan-Sea: 33 Gedichte in Germerican “Die schoenste Lengevitch.” Nach der Originalausgabe von 1926 neu herausgegeben von Hein Versteegen. Bibliothek der Entdeckungen, 22; Amerikanische Reihe. Herausgegeben von Edgar Wuepper und Timur Schlender. Goettingen: Bert Schlender, 1986. 71 pp.
Notes: schönste; Göttingen; MKI owns photocopy only.
Abstract: Originally published by Pascal Covici, Chicago, in 1926. Same poems as in “Die Schoenste Lengevitch,” except does not contain the poem “Iss Progress Fortschritt?”
MKI P2004-36
PIA/ Poetry/ Fiction/ Humor & Satire/ Dialects

Stein, Louis E. “Das Deutschthum in Kentucky.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 8, 1908, pp. 16-21.
Abstract: An historical account of German settlers in Kentucky.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Other US states/ Settlements

Stein, Mary Beth. “American Politics through German Eyes: The Elections of 1856 and 1860 as reported in the Freie Presse von Indiana.” In Studies in Indiana German-Americana, 1988, pp. 57-71.
Abstract: Increasing factionalism in the German-American community. Clashes between the older immigrants and the more progressive Forty-eighters. Increasing conflicts among the various German groups and struggle for power in which American political issues were perceived and seized upon as vehicles for the negotiation of power and status within the German-American community.
MKI P92-9
Newspapers, German-American/ Indiana/ Politics

Steinach, Adelrich. “Adelrich Steinach’s Autobiographical Sketch.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 40, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 11-14.
Notes: Translated by Leo Schelbert.
Abstract: Dr. Adelrich Steinach (1826-1892) immigrated to New York in 1855 and established his medical practice. In 1889 he published the Geschichte und Leben der Schweizer Kolonien in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ 19th century/ Immigrants, Swiss/ Steinach, Adelrich, 1826-1892/ Autobiography

Steinach, Adelrich. “Adelrich Steinach’s Portrait of the Ohio Swiss.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 40, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 15-41.
Notes: Translated and annotated by Leo Schelbert.
Abstract: Translated and annotated chapter on the nineteenth-century Swiss of Ohio, taken from Dr. Adelrich Steinach’s Geschichte und Leben der Schweizer Kolonien in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika. Includes Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, Archbold, Canton, Akron, and other settlements. Also comments on the cheese industry in Ohio.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ 19th century/ Immigrants, Swiss/ Ohio/ Swiss Americans — Ohio/ Cincinnati (Ohio)/ Cleveland (Ohio)/ Business & Industry

Steinach, Adelrich. “The Swiss of Louisville, Kentucky in the late 1880s.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 51, no. 3, November 2015, pp. 72-76.
Notes: Translated by Leo Schelbert from a report dated 1889.
Abstract: Brief description of the history of Swiss immigration to Louisville, including fraternal organizations and a number of names prominent in the city.
MKI Periodicals
Kentucky/ Swiss Americans/ History

Steiner, Linda. “An Era Ends: Milwaukee’s Last German-Language Newspaper Closes.” Milwaukee Journal, June 9, 1982.
Profiles the Milwaukee Herold.
MKI P2004-25
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Newspapers, German-American/ Milwaukee (Wis.)

Steinwedell, Capt. Wilhelm. “Gustav Adolph Roesler.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 2, 1902, pp. 39-41.
Abstract: “Gern komme ich dem Wunsche nach, fuer die “D.-A. Geschichtsblaetter” einige meiner Erinnerungen an Roesler von Dels, dem so wohlbekannten Reichs-Canarienvogel des Parlamentes von 1848 aufzuzeichnen, obgleich die Zeit meiner Bekanntschaft mit ihm schon laengst dahin ist; denn Roesler lebte hier in Quincy [Illinois] von 1851 bis 1855.”
MKI Periodicals
Personal narratives/ Politics/ German Americans — Illinois/ Illinois

Stempfel, Theodor. Fünfzig Jahre unermüdlichen Deutschen Strebens in Indianapolis. (Fifty years of unrelenting German aspirations in Indianapolis). Indianapolis: Pitts & Smith, 1898. unpaginated [144] pp., ill.
On half-title page: Festschrift zur Feier der Vollendung des Deutschen Hauses in Indianapolis, am 15., 16. und 18. Juni, 1898; inscribed “Mit Turnergruss, Theo. Stempfel, Indianapolis, Ind.” One page torn out and missing [23-24], one page torn but all pieces remain [139-140], one page torn with a section missing [141-142].
Festschrift celebrating the completion of Das Deutsche Haus in Indianapolis.
Donated by Mayville Historical Society, 2005.

Stern, Guy. “Bluecher, Brooks, and August Kopisch: A Report on an Unpublished Translation.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 8-11.
Abstract: Stern’s article includes Timothy Brooks’ translation of Bluecher’s poem “Bluecher am Rhein.”
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Stern, Guy. “Carl Schurz in Michigan.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 37, 2002, pp. 1-11.
Abstract: Utilizing materials from the morgue of the Detroit Wochenpost, four letters by Schurz preserved at the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan, and the papers of Udo Brachvogel located at the New York Public Library, Stern reconstructs the “intense and crisis-ridden” years 1866-1867 during which Carl Schurz resided in Detroit, Michigan.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ German Americans — Michigan/ Biographies/ Politics

Stern, Guy. “Review: “Georg Grosz/ Hans Sahl. So Long mit Haendedruck: Briefe und Dokumente” edited by Karl Riha.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994, pp. 152-154.
Abstract: Stern’s review discusses the biography of Grosz and Sahl, both exile-artists from Nazi Germany.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Stern, Guy. “Review of “Frauen schreiben im Exil: Zum Werk der nach Amerika emigrierten Lyrikerinnen Margarete Kollisch, Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss, Vera Lachmann,” by Gert Niers. Judentum und Umwelt, vol 23. Frankfurt, Bern, New York, Paris: Lang, 1988.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1989, pp. 176-177.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Stern, Guy, and Brigitte V. Sumann. “Women’s voices in American exile.” Schatzkammer, vol. 21, no. Nos. 1 & 2, 1995, pp. 39-50.
Notes: Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte.
P2001-36
Exiles’ writing, German/ Exile/ Literature, German/ 20th century/ Women authors/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Stern, Malcolm H. “American Jewish Family History.” In World Conference on Records: Preserving Our Heritage; August 12-15, 1980.[Salt Lake City]: Corporation of the President of the Church of Latter-day Saints, 1980. Series 355
Abstract: The definition of “what is a Jew?” and the family ties that come with the answer.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 4
Genealogy/ Jews/ Family history

Stern, Malcolm H. “Jewish Families: Their Assimilation into North American Culture .” 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 327
Abstract: The history of Jewish Immigration into the US since 1649.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 3
Genealogy/ Jews/ Assimilation/ Family history

Sternal, Sarah A. “”Die Ersten litten grossen Not, die meisten Zweiten holte ein frueher Tod und erst die Dritten fanden Brot.” Das Bild des pfaelzischen Auswanderers in der landeskundlichen Literatur von 1850 bis heute.” Aufbruch nach Amerika 1709-2009. 300 Jahre Massenauswanderung aus Rheinland-Pfalz. Marlene Jochem and Jens Stoecker, eds. Kaiserslautern: Theodor-Zink-Museum; Referat Kultur der Stadt Kaiserslautern, 2009, pp. 63-72, ill.
Abstract: Vom 19. Jahrundert bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg: “Reicher Onkel aus Amerika” — Weimarer Republik: 250 Jahre Auswanderung — Nationalsozialismus: Auswanderung als “Export deutschen Volkstums” — 1945 bis heute: Wissenschaftliche Neuorientierung der Pfalzforschung.
MKI E 184 P3 A94 2009
German Americans/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ History/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ United States, Foreign opinion — German/ Palatines/ Palatinate/ Literature, German

Sternberg, Paul. “German Map Glossary.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 7, no. 3, Fall 2004, pp. 20-21.
Abstract: List of terms likely to be found in the key to a German map, with their English translations.
MKI Periodicals
Family History/ Genealogy/ Maps

Sternberg, Paul, and Lois Edwards. “Immigrant Ships.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 2006, pp. 17-20, ill.
Abstract: Discusses how to find the name of the ship that brought your ancestors to America as well as detailed information on the ship itself.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Ships

Sternberg, Paul, and Warren Mitchell. “Finding the Village of Your Origin.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 15, no. 4, Winter 2012, pp. 6-8.
Abstract: An alphabetical listing of 27 ideas to help find your village of origin. An associated website at <http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnprgm/PRG/Village/Village.html> provides additional information aimed at researching Pomeranian ancestors.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Germany

Stessl, Janet. “A brief history of the Chicago Zither Club.” Infoblatt, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 2002, pp. 6-7, ill.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Music/ Societies, etc.

Stewart, Anne, and Mike Stewart. “Comfort [Texas] Women in the Civil War.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 35, no. 2, Summer 2013, pp. 105-109, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Describes the life of Emma Murck Altgelt, who married Ernst Hermann Altgelt and came to Comfort, Texas, in 1855. In 1863, a pro-Union vigilante group threatened Ernst Altgelt; at the insistence of Emma, Ernst fled to Germany, returning to his wife and children in 1865. The family soon moved to San Antonio, and then to Boerne, Kendall County. Ernst died in 1878, and Emma in 1922. Her memoirs were published in 1930.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ 19th century/ Comfort (Texas)/ Women/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Stewart, Anne, and Mike Stewart. “Friedrich Bauer: Lutheran Pastor in a Free Thought Town.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 35, no. 1, Spring 2013, pp. 33-35, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “Comfort and Sisterdale were the heart of freethinking German West Texas. It was not until 1891 that a small group of women decided they would bring a church to their town. . . . [T]hey put out a call for a minister and Friedrich Bauer, Lutheran pastor, answered. He arrived with his wife, Maria, to take up residence and begin the process of establishing a church in a non-welcoming environment.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Freethinkers/ 19th century/ Forty-eighters/ Comfort (Texas)/ Lutheran Church

Stewart, Anne Seidensticker. “Die Buergerkrieg (Civil War) in German West Texas: 1861-1865.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 24, no. 3, Fall 2002, pp. 224-229.
Notes: Bürgerkrieg.
Abstract: Reports on some of the effects the Civil War had upon the “German-Texas villages of Comfort, Fredericksburg, Sisterdale, and Grape Creek.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ 19th century/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Stewart, Anne Seidensticker. “Freethought in German West Texas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 22, no. 3, Fall 2000, pp. 37-42.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Freethinkers/ 19th century/ Forty-eighters

Stewart, Charles D. “A bachelor general.” The Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 17, 1933, pp. 144-154.
Notes: Short bibliographical note under same number.
Abstract: A bibliograpy of August Willich. Willich, August, 1810-1878
MKI P97-23
Biographies

Stewart, John, and Elmer L. Smith. “The Survival of German Dialects and Customs in the Shenandoah Valley.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 31st Report, 1963, pp. 66-70.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Virginia/ Dialects

Stiens, Robert E. “Mother or Stepmother: A German-American Geneaological Problem.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 1976, pp. 42-43.
Abstract: Stiens’ genealogical problem concerns the family Busse.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Ohio/ Cincinnati (Ohio)/ Genealogy

Stiens, Robert E. “A Partial List of Births and Christenings at Langfoerden, Germany 1839-1849.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 1976, pp. 35-41.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ History/ 19th century/ Genealogy

Stiens, Robert E. “Surname Inconsistencies in Northern Germany.” German-American Studies, vol. 9, 1975, pp. 43-45.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ History/ 19th century/ Genealogy

Stinde, Julius. Die Familie Buchholz, zweiter Theil. Chicago, Ill.: Laird & Lee, n.d. 180 pp.
MKI P88-14
PIA/ Fiction

Stinde, Julius, and F. Brentano. Humoresken und Gedichte von Julius Stinde, F. Brentano, und Anderen. Schick’s Humoristische Bibliothek, No. 2. Chicago, Ill.: Schick, ©1886. various pagings [99, 19, 18] pp., ill.
Inhalt: Die Familie Buchholz. (Erste Abtheilung.) Von Julius Stinde — Der Sekretär und sein Sägbock, von F. Brentano — [Humoristische Gedichte]: Das kranke Landmädchen, J. F. Castelli — Aus der Schlacht bei Dresden — Liebchen, R. Baumbach — Der Unentbehrliche, W. Busch — Der liebenswürdige Jüngling, H. Heine — Onkel Kaspers rothe Nase, W. Busch — Der alte Fritz, Karl Fröhlich — Ziethen, Friedrich v. Sallet — Endlich, W. Busch — Spatz und Spätzin, Carl August Mayer — Das gute Herz, W. Busch — Selbst-Erkenntniss, W. Busch.
Donated by Virginia Sipp Flett, 2005.

Stinde, Julius, Karl Emil Franzos, Edwin Bormann, and Max Barack. Humoresken und Gedichte von Julius Stinde, Karl Emil Franzos, und Anderen. Schick’s Humoristische Bibliothek, No. 4. Chicago, Ill.: Schick, ©1886. various pagings [40, 36, 64, 18] pp., ill.
Paperback; Verlag von L. [Louis] Schick; on cover: Preis 25 Cents per Nummer. Mit Illustrationen. Sticker on cover: C. N. Caspar’s Book Store, 437 East Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Inhalt: Die Familie Buchholz. (Dritte Abtheilung). Von Julius Stinde — Wladislaw und Wladislawa. Von Karl Emil Franzos — Herr Engemann (Ein Leipziger Geschichte.) Nach mündlicher Ueberlieferung erzählt von Edwin Bormann — Warum der alde Drumbeder Panfraz Seiler uf keen Studendecummers mehr geht. Humoreske in Pfälzer Mundart. Von Max Barack — [Humoristische in Poesie und Prosa]: Soldatenlied, Wolrad Kreusler — Der piffige Maurermeeschter, K. G. Nadler — Wendewein, J. Sturm — Ein Schul-Examen, Ludwig Menzel — Der pensionirte Amor, Max v. Schlägel — Besuch, Franz v. Gaudy — Der Schwadroneur, W. Busch — Eugen und Lucinde, W. Busch — Romanze, L. Kalisch — Die Schweden in Rippoldsau, J. B. Scheffel — Das Lied von Vergolder und Lackirer — Der Wildling (Oberbayerisch) — Eine Seeäubergeschichte. Erzählung des alten Steuermanns. Von Emanuel Geibel — Der Geck, W. Busch — Marie, W. Busch — In Pommern — Der nächste Weg — Kalte Füsse — In einer occupirten Stadt — In der Christenlehre — Gute Nacht, Herr Superintendente! Aus Thüringen — Fester Wille — Zerstreutheit — Genaue Auskunft — Billige Beförderung — Berliner Blau (In der Schweiz) — Merkwürdige Geschichte — Lakonisch — Wachtparade — Die Kommunisten — Künstlerbewusstsein — Karl Moor — Mittel gegen den Meineid — Sächsischer Speisezettel — Verwandtschaft — Täuschung — Bauer mit Frau in einer Kunsthandlung vor der Photographie einer “Venus” — Illustrationen zu deutschen Classikern — Die Kokette — Der Troppe Wasser (Pfälzisch) — Der Zeitphilosoph — Verwarnung vor Meineid — Der Empfang des Grossherzogs — Grosse Belohnung — Missverständniss — Aus dem Militärleben — Kunst, Fasanen zu fangen — Wasserhöhe im April 1817 (Strich an der Mauer).
Donated by Virginia Sipp Flett, 2005.

Stockman, Bob. “North German Square Dancing.” Der Maibaum (Deutschheim Association Journal), vol. 5, no. 1, Spring 1997, pp. 5-6.
MKI Periodicals (Miscellaneous)
German Americans — Ohio/ Cultural contribution/ Music

Stockman, Petra Fisseler. Germans to America: 300 years of immigration, 1683-1983. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 1985. 48 pp.
Notes: “Based on the exhibition and publication entitled: Germans to America: 300 Years of Immigration, 1683-1983 edited by Guenter Moltmann, published 1982 by Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Stuttgart in cooperation with Inter Nationes, Bonn-Bad Godesberg.” “Our publication was prepared to accompany the entire exhibition or the version which the Max Kade Institute has put on slides for wider distribution…the smaller slide version is fully illustrated in our publication.” SHS also owns copy in their pamphlet collection (number not yet assigned as of 8/20/01).
MKI P2001-3; SHS Pamphlet 02-1353
Immigrants, German/ History/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Stoddart, Alfred. “Christopher Sower, First and Second.” American-German Review, vol. 1, no. 3, 1899, pp. 237-245.
Notes: Portraits; Examination of Christopher Sower, Sr. who published the first bible in the U.S. (1743) and his son Christopher Sower, Jr. who published the later two editions of the bible.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ Religion/ History/ Bible/ Book trade/ German-American press/ Sower, Christopher, 1694-1758

Stoehr, Werner, ed. Gott ist fuer Uns. Andachten fuer jeden Tag. Large print edition. Yucaipa, Calif.: Lutheran Braille Workers, Inc., 2007. 100 pp.
Notes: ©2006. Printed under license from: Concordia-Verlag, Zwickau, Deutschland. Donated by Elaine Kraft.
Abstract: Large-print German prayer book.
MKI P2008-11
PIA/ Prayers/ 21st century/ Lutheran Church

Stoessel, Ed. “‘Lady of Germania’ Reborn in Davenport.” Infoblatt, vol. 11, no. 4, Autumn 2006, pp. 9, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
Abstract: “An eight foot bronze statue of Lady of Germania was unveiled on August 15, 2006, as the centerpiece of the Centennial Gateway Plaza . . . in Davenport. . . . Lady of Germania will help restore historical significance to the neighborhood and be a reminder of Davenport’s immigrant past.” Includes a photo of the original Lady of Germania, which stood atop a water fountain at the same location beginning in 1876.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Monuments/ Davenport (Iowa)

Stohs, Christopher. “Defending “Deutschthum:” The Germania‘s Bennett Law Coverage.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 52, 2017, pp. 91-116.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: The 1889 Bennett Law passed by the Republicans-led Wisconsin legislature required schools to teach core subjects like writing, math and U. S. History in English, an affront to many parochial schools that used German. In 1890 German Catholics and Lutherans cooperated to elect Democrats. German-language newspapers, particularly the Protestant Germania, were instrumental in convincing Lutherans that voting for Democrats was a defense of their religious freedom and German-American culture.
MKI Periodicals
Bennett Law (Wisconsin)/ Journalism/ Newspapers, German-American/ Schools/ Language, German

Stokesbury, James L. “Hessians in the American Revolution.” American History Illustrated, vol. 11, no. 8, 1976, pp. 4-7.
Abstract: Despised as mercenaries by American troops, the German soldiers earned more for their native princes than for themselves.
MKI P86-142 / SHS E 171 .A574
Hessians/ Revolution, 1775-1783

Stokesbury, James L. “John Jacob Astor: ‘A Self-Invented Money-Making Machine.'” American History Illustrated, vol. 6, no. 6, 1971, pp. 32-40.
Abstract: The man who made the American fur trade pre-eminent; A German-born immigrant to the United States.
MKI P86-143 / SHS E 171 .A574
Biographies

Stoll, Karl-Heinrich. “The Literary Activity of Georg Edward.” German-American Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1969, pp. 17-32.
Abstract: Stoll’s article consists of a biographical sketch of the poet and a criticism of his poems and prose. Stoll claims that Edward’s earlier poems do not reflect the Naturalist movement, which was popular in Europe, and that this “symptom” was typical of “large parts of German-American writing in general.” Stoll also discusses Edward’s later poems, which, he claims, become much more political. Selected poems are included in the article.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Literature, German-American/ Poetry/ Prose/ Literary criticism

Stoll, Peter Frederick. “German-American “Ethnicity” and “Ego Identity.” Dissertation.” State University of New York at Albany, 1984. 257 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988.
Abstract: In the early 60’s the sociological study of ethnic phenomena underwent a major conceptual and theoretical shift when it was discovered that the ethnic group continued to persist structurally although ethnics had adopted Anglo-American cultural norms and patterns of behavior. Earlier predictions which had forecast the ethnic group’s complete assimilation were now contradicted. The process of assimilation was identified as the movement of an ethnic minority toward the dominant host society and it was believed that, once begun, this process was inevitable. The purpose of this study is to identify, describe, and analyze the relationship between “ethnicity” and “ego identity” in a selected sample of German-Americans. The specific problems to be investigated are 1) to identify and analyze the recurring conscious and unconscious ethnic ideological themes used in identity formation; 2) to determine and analyze the relationship between these ethnic themes and identifications and the following variables: time, as indicated by successive generations, and place, as indicated by place of residence; and 3) to test the significance of the relationship between the ethnic themes and identifications of German-Americans and non-German-Americans.
MKI/SHS E184.G3 S8 1988 (UMI edition); shelved with MKI dissertations
Assimilation/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Ethnic identity/ Ethnicity/ German Americans

Stolz, Gerd. William Claudius Groth aus Lunden. Pfarrer in den USA und Professor für Neuere Sprachen in Ohio, 1862-1941. Lunden, Germany: Verein für Heimatgeschichte des Kirchspiels Lunden, 2012. 40 pp., ill.
On title page: “zugleich ein Beitrag zur schleswig-holsteinischen Amerika-Auswanderung im 19. Jahrhundert” and “Herausgegeben vom Verein für Heimatgeschichte des Kirchspiels Lunden e. V. anlässlich der 150. Wiederkehr des Geburtstages von Johann Wilhelm Claudius Groth am 17. Januar 2012.”
Johannes Claudius Wilhelm Groth was born in 1862 in Lunden, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He came to America in 1883, arriving at Castle Garden in New York, having listed his occupation as “farmer” on an immigration listing; by 1890 he was in Buffalo, New York, serving as a Lutheran pastor. In 1890, now with having “Americanized” his name to William Groth, he married his first wife, Maria (Mary) Rode (Rhoade), in Dayton, Ohio. In 1900 Groth, having become fluent in German, English, French, Italian, and Spanish, began teaching modern languages at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. After Mary died in 1902, Professor Groth married Sarah Lucinda Hastings; they had three children born in Ada, Ohio. In 1918 Groth became President of the Weidner Institute in Mulberry, Clinton County, Indiana, but left in 1919; by 1920 he was the pastor for Reedsburg and the nearby Plain Township in Wayne County, Ohio. In 1924 Groth left Ohio, serving as pastor in the small town of Aurora, Preston County, West Virginia; then in Middlebrook, Augusta County, Virginia; then in St. Clara, Doddridge County, West Virginia; then in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia; and finally returning to Middlebrook, where he died in 1941.
Donated by Gerd Stolz.

Stoltzfus, Sam S. “Amish One-Room Schools in Lancaster County.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 16-17, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Amish — Culture/ Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania Germans/ Education/ Lancaster County (Pa.)

Stoltzfus, Sam S. “Going to Public School in 1950s.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 16, no. 3, Fall 2010, pp. 11-14.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: The Amish author recounts his childhood experiences attending “English” schools in Leacock Township, Pennsylvania.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania Germans / Education/ 20th century/ Memoirs

Stoltzfus, Sam S. “Threshing Time in My Boyhood.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, Winter 2015, pp. 3-5.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Recollections of “Dreschezeit” from the 1950s.
MKI Periodicals
Farm life/ Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania Germans/ Autobiography/ 20th century

Stolz, Alban. Kalender fuer Zeit und Ewigkeit. St. Louis, Mo.: Herder, 1884.
Notes: Religion.
HOLDINGS: 1884
MKI P88-119
PIA/ Calendars & Almanacs/ Biblical/ Commentaries

Stolz, Friedrich. “Jagdstreifereien am oberen Mississippi.” Die Welt, vol. 11, no. 1, Jan. 1911, pp. 77-83, 86, 88, 102, 104-111.
Notes: Donated by Kathryn Odegaard, 2005.
Abstract: Hunting in Wisconsin. Begins: “Bald zwanzig Jahre wird es her, seit mich die preussische Regierung als unbesoldeter Bergassessor auf eine Studienreise in die amerikanischen Minenreviere am Superior See schickte. Fast drei Jahre hielt ich mich im noerdlichen Wisconsin auf und lernte Land und Leute dort kennen. Als ich meine beruflichen Aufgaben erfuellt, nahm ich mir noch eine weiteres Jahr Urlaub, nachdem ich meine Berichte, sorgfaeltig ausgearbeitet, nach Berlin gesandt hatte, und liess mich zur Erholung bei einem alten Jugend- und Studienfreunde in dem kleinen Arcadia im Staate Wisconsin nieder. Arcadia lag zwischen hohen Bergen idyllisch am Trempaleau-River, einem Seitenflusse des gewaltigen Mississippi, der die Grenze zwischen den beiden Staaten Wisconsin und Minnesota bildet. Die Bevoelkerung des Staedtchen wie der Umgegend bestand aus Deutschen, Schweizern und Polen; an Englisch-Amerikanern und Irlaendern oder “Eirischen,” wie sie kurzweg hiessen, war nur ein kleines Haeuflein vorhanden, aber alle lebten in groesster Eintracht untereinander.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Personal narratives/ Wisconsin — Trempealeau County/ Travel/ Animals

Stolz, Gerd. “Die Auswanderung der Offiziere der Schleswig-Holsteinischen Armee in die USA ab 1851.” Zeitschrift fuer Heereskunde, vol. 59, no. 376, Apr./June 1995, pp. 67-75, ill.
Notes: Wissenschaftliches Organ fuer die Kulturgeschichte der Streitkraefte, ihre Bekleidung, Bewaffnung und Ausruestung, fuer heeresmuseale Nachrichten und Sammler-Mitteilungen. Donated by Gerd Stolz, 2009.
Abstract: Includes a listing of the officers, providing name, military rank, activity prior to service, year of emigration and destination within the U.S., notes on service in the American Civil War, and additional notes.
MKI P2009-16
Schleswig-Holstein/ Soldiers/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 19th century

Stolz, Gerd. Emil Geisler aus Lunden. Ein erfolgreicher Unternehmer in den USA, 1828-1910, zugleich ein Beitrag zur schleswig-holsteinischen Amerika-Auswanderung im 19. Jahrhundert. Lunden, Germany: Verein fuer Heimatgeschichte des Kirchspiels Lunden, 2010. 56 pp., ill.
Notes: Donated by Gerd Stolz.
Abstract: Gesler was born in Lunden, in the Duchy of Holstein, and migrated to America in 1852. He settled in Davenport, Iowa, and was influential in the Upper Mississippi River Valley as a proponent of education. He died in Coronado, California. Includes several of Geisler’s poems.
MKI P2011-2
German Americans — Iowa/ Geisler, Emil, 1828-1910/ Poetry/ Schleswig-Holstein

Stolz, Gerd. Hans Reimer Claussen. Der vergessene Revolutionaer aus Dithmarschen, 1804-1894. Fedderingen, Germany: [Gemeinde Fedderingen], 1994. 30 pp., ill.
Notes: Herausgegeben von der Gemeinde Fedderingen anlaesslich der 100. Wiederkehr seines Todestages am 14. Maerz 1994 und der 190. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstages am 23. Februar 1994. Donated by Henning Peters jun., Verein fuer Heimatgeschichte des Kirchspiels Lunden e.V., 2009.
Abstract: Hans Reimer Claussen was a lawyer and journalist from the town of Ditmarschen. He was a representative in the first German National Assembly in Frankfurt, before he left for America due to political oppression, settling with his family settled in Davenport, Iowa. He served as a judge, an attorney, and a state senator.
MKI P2009-5
Claussen, Hans Reimer, 1804-1894/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees/ Legislators — Iowa — Biography/ Dithmarschen (Germany)/ Schleswig-Holstein/ Davenport (Iowa)

Stolz, Gerd. William Claudius Groth aus Lunden. Pfarrer in den USA und Professor fuer Neuere Sprachen in Ohio, 1862-1941. Lunden, Germany: Verein fuer Heimatgeschichte des Kirchspiels Lunden, 2012. 40 pp., ill.
Notes: On title page: “zugleich ein Beitrag zur schleswig-holsteinischen Amerika-Auswanderung im 19. Jahrhundert” and “Herausgegeben vom Verein fuer Heimatgeschichte des Kirchspiels Lunden e. V. anlaesslich der 150. Wiederkehr des Geburtstages von Johann Wilhelm Claudius Groth am 17. Januar 2012.” — Donated by Gerd Stolz.
Abstract: Johannes Claudius Wilhelm Groth was born in 1862 in Lunden, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He came to America in 1883, arriving at Castle Garden in New York, having listed his occupation as “farmer” on an immigration listing; by 1890 he was in Buffalo, New York, serving as a Lutheran pastor. In 1890, now with having “Americanized” his name to William Groth, he married his first wife, Maria (Mary) Rode (Rhoade), in Dayton, Ohio. In 1900 Groth, having become fluent in German, English, French, Italian, and Spanish, began teaching modern languages at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. After Mary died in 1902, Professor Groth married Sarah Lucinda Hastings; they had three children born in Ada, Ohio. In 1918 Groth became President of the Weidner Institute in Mulberry, Clinton County, Indiana, but left in 1919; by 1920 he was the pastor for Reedsburg and the nearby Plain Township in Wayne County, Ohio. In 1924 Groth left Ohio, serving as pastor in the small town of Aurora, Preston County, West Virginia; then in Middlebrook, Augusta County, Virginia; then in St. Clara, Doddridge County, West Virginia; then in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia; and finally returning to Middlebrook, where he died in 1941.
MKI P2012-12
Groth, Johannes Claudius Wilhelm, 1862-1941/ Schleswig-Holstein/ Lunden (Germany)/ German Americans — Ohio/ Education/ Religion/ Lutheran Church

Stone, Linda. “Turnvereins–Gymnastic societies.” German-American Genealogy, Spring 2001, p. 6.
Abstract: Brief history of the Turnverein movement.
MKI Periodicals
Turners/ Societies, etc.

Stone, Linda, Jean Nepsund, and Eldon Knuth. “Independent Order of Red Men / Unabhangiger Orden der Rothmaenner: The Donation of Record Books to IGS of Mohican Lager No. 52, U.O.R.M.” German-American Genealogy, Spring 2006, pp. 1-4, ill.
Notes: (Immigrant Genealogical Society, Burbank, CA).
Abstract: “Several years ago Mr. Ralph M. Wyser came into possession of three old ledger books of the Independent Order of Red Men. . . The minutes ledger is in old German handwriting. . . of a group here in Los Angeles [and] seems to have begun on 21 February 1905.” Includes a photocopy of the page of the “Erster Protokoll” with a translation. The other books are a ledger of financial records and a correspondence file. “Some letters were correspondence with a state headquarters in San Francisco, CA.” The ledgers may be donated to the Improved Order of Red Men at their National Headquarters at the Red Men Museum and Library at Waco, Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — California/ Societies, etc.

Stone, Witmer. “In Memorian–Henry Nehrling, 1853-1929.” The Auk: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, vol. 49, no. 2, Apr. 1932, pp. 153-158, ill.
Abstract: Henry Nehrling was born of German-American parentage in the town of Herman, near Howard’s Grove, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. In 1883 he was among the twenty-one ornithologists who organized the American Ornithologist’s Union. “His studies of our native birds culminated with the appearance, in 1889,” of a work published both in German and English: Die Nordamerikanische Voegelwelt (Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty). Nehrling intended the book to “fill the gap between the very expensive and the merely technical ornithological book” and “to combine accuracy and reliability of biography with a minimum of technical description.” He was also an accomplished horticulturalist.
MKI P2007-43
Nehrling, Henry, 1853-1929/ Biographies/ German American/ Science/ Wisconsin

Strauch, Gabriele L. “German American dialects. State of Research in the Mid West: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas.” Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, vol. 68, no. 3, 1981, pp. 313-328.
Abstract: Brief review of the low evaluation of dialect study in the Mid West and a suggestion of possible reasons for the exceptional status of Pennsylvania German in the context of GA dialect study generally. The discussion will then engage in a presentation of the linguistic data available for the GA dialect areas in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas.
MKI P98-9
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Middle West/ Dialects

Strauch, Gabriele L. “Letters From a Pomeranian Family of Day Laborers to Their Relative in Watertown, Wisconsin.” Papers From the Third Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, and Michael Ritterson, edsRadford, Va.: Intercultural Communications Center, 1985, pp. 76-84.
Abstract: In 1851, Wilhelm Krueger, his wife Minnie, and their children left Pomerania and migrated to Watertown, Wisconsin. There they joined a Prussian community that had been in existence for nearly a decade. Wilhelm Krueger left behind his parents, Martin and Sophia Krueger, and a brother Heinrich and his family. The letters they wrote to Wilhelm are now part of the so-called Krueger collection at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. These documents, which span the period from 1856 to 1890, contain a wealth of historical, cultural, and linguistic material.
MKI P98-50
Watertown (Wis.)/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Letters

Strehlow, W. H. “On the Road to Strehlow Township.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, Summer 2004, pp. 5-9, ill.
Abstract: Details the “long and arduous road” taken by August Strehlow (1836-1916) from Wepritz (now Wieprzyce), Brandenburg, Prussia. In 1851 he immigrated to Wisconsin with his family, then started his own farm and family in Utica Township, Winona County, Minnesota. Later, at the age of 67, he started a new settlement in Hettinger County, North Dakota, known as Strehlow Township.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — North Dakota/ German Americans — Dakotas/ North Dakota/ Wepritz, Brandenburg, Prussia/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Strehlow

Streufert, W. B. “A Tragic Sunday Noon.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, 1948, pp. 97-100.
Abstract: Re Herman Juede family
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535

Strickland, Jeffery. “How the Germans Became White Southerners: German Immigrants and African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1860-1880.” Journal of American Ethnic History, vol. 28, no. 1, (Special issue, Racial Divides) Fall 2008, pp. 52-69.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
MKI P2009-4
African Americans/ German Americans — South Carolina/ Ethnic relations/ 19th century/ Forty-eighters/ Political activity

Strieter, Johannes. Lebenslauf. Cleveland, Ohio: F. W. F. Leutner, 1904. 183 pp., ill.
Autobiography of an emeritus pastor in the Missouri Lutheran Synod. Born in Affalterbach, Oberamt Marbach, Wuerttemberg in 1829, Streiter served congregations in Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.
[See FH Streiter, Autobiography of John Strieter: An Early Itinerant Lutheran Minister Relates His Experiences in Central Wisconsin, translated from the German by Orlan Warnke, 1987, [39] pages.]
Second copy donated by Elfrieda Haese. Inscribed August Bethke Sr.

Strohschaenk, Johannes. “The Official Word vs. the Horse’s Mouth: Descriptions of Wisconsin for the German Emigrant in the 1850s.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 36, 2001, pp. 129-156.
Abstract: Examines the information contained in a pamphlet describing Wisconsin issued by Wisconsin’s Office of Commissioner of Emigration in the 1850s. The information in this pamphlet, copies of which “could not be found,” may have been derived from texts written by Increase A. Lapham, state geographer, or John H. Lathrop, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin. Compares this information with other publications by German emigrants designed “to offer advice to fellow Germans regarding Wisconsin as a desirable place for settlement. The conclusion constitutes an attempt to determine which of the mentioned sources was best suited to provide, and indeed did provide, crucial information and assistance to the German emigrant.”
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ 19th century/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Strohschaenk, Johannes. “Wisconsin and its Germans: a Coincidence and its Relevance.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 39, no. 3, Winter 2018, pp. 2-5.
Abstract: Articles related to the SGAS 43rd Annual Symposium “German in America: Words, Sounds and Images” held in Madison, WI, April 11-13, 2019.
MKI Periodicals
History / German-American Studies/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Strohschaenk, Johannes, and William G. Thiel. “The Wisconsin Commissioner of Emigration 1853-1855: An Experiment in Social and Economic Engineering and Its Impact on German Immigration to Wisconsin.” Wisconsin German Land and Life. Heike Bungert, Cora Lee Kluge, and Robert C. Ostergren, eds. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2006, pp. 93-121, ill.
Abstract: Wisconsin created the Office of State Commissioner of Emigration in 1852. This study traces the history of this agency during the years 1852-1855 (it was reinstated in 1867 under a slightly different name), examines its legal and political background, and discusses the three major functions of the office: 1) providing information concerning the state of Wisconsin, 2) giving advice concerning travel to Wisconsin, and 3) protecting the emigrant against fraud and deception.
MKI F590 G3 W573 2006
Geography/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Wisconsin — Emigration and immigration — History/ Immigrants, German/ 19th century/ Wisconsin. Office of the Commissioner of Emigration — History

Strother, French. “Fighting Germany’s Spies: Part 1–The Inside Story of the Passport Frauds and the First Glimpse of Werner Horn.” The World’s Work, vol. 35, no. 5, Mar. 1918, pp. 513-528, ill.
Notes: Donated by Bob Meier, P.O. Box 667, DeKalb, IL 60115, Sept. 13, 1999.
Abstract: “The series of articles Fighting Germany’s Spies is published to bring home to the public in a detailed and convincing manner the character of the German activities in the United States.”
MKI P99-11
Anti-German sentiment / World War, 1914-1918/ World War, 1939-1945/ National Socialism

Strother, French. “Fighting Germany’s Spies: Part II–The Inside Story of Werner Horn and the First Glimpse of the Ship Bombs.” The World’s Work, vol. 35, no. 5, Mar. 1918, pp. 652-669, ill.
Notes: Donated by Bob Meier, P.O. Box 667, DeKalb, IL 60115, Sept. 13, 1999.
Abstract: “The series of articles Fighting Germany’s Spies is published to bring home to the public in a detailed and convincing manner the character of the German activities in the United States.”
MKI P99-11
Anti-German sentiment / World War, 1914-1918/ World War, 1939-1945/ National Socialism

Struve, Walter. “”German Merchants, German Artisans, and Texas during the 1830s and 1840s”.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 23, 1988, pp. 91-103.
Abstract: This article explores the role of German merchants and artisans in migration to Texas in the early nineteenth century. The migrants in this period were not always leaving a preindustrial society to enter an industrial one, but usually going from a preindustrial society to another preindustrial society, or from one industrializing society to another. Much of the existing research on Germans in Texas has focused on peasants or agriculturalists, neglecting artisans and merchants. The author addresses the questions: Is it possible that much German migration to Texas during the nineteenth century consisted of artisans, and that much of this migration was steered by other Germans, among whom merchants played a strategic role? A positive answer is offered in response to the first question, and a tentative answer to the second.
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Texas/ German Americans — Texas/ Employment/ 19th century

Struve, Walter. “Review of Klaus J. Bade, ed. Deutsche im Ausland — Fremde in Deutschland: Migration in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Munich: C.H. Beck, 1992.” German Studies Review. 1993. p. 531.
MKI P94-52
Book reviews

Studer, Elisabeth. “Erinnerungen von Frau Elisabeth Studer, Peoria, Ill.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 2, 1902, pp. 66-67.
Abstract: The author gives an account of her family and their emigration from Basel, Switzerland to America when she was 8 years old in 1843. She writes from Peoria, Illinois, where she then lived with her husband, Dr. Joseph Studer.
MKI Periodicals
Family History/ Swiss Americans/ Illinois/ Personal narratives

Stuecher, Dorothea Diver. “Double Jeopardy: Nineteenth Century German American Women Writers. Dissertation.” University of Minnesota, 1981. 275 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: INTRODUCTION (Abbreviated): German American literature is not the only immigrant literary tradition to take root in America, but in the nineteenth century, it represented the earliest and largest non-English corpus of works produced in the New World. Struck by the fact that the greatest period of growth for German American literature (ca. 1850-1890), coincided with the rapid rise of female authors in both Germany and America, I became curious about women’s fictional expression of the immigrant experience. The hypothesis which I intitially formed appeared on a probable one: female immigrants, leaving a culture which was proving more and more amenable to women’s participation in literary activity, and entering a culture in which female authors were experiencing a heyday, were assumed to have capitalized on these new opportunities, creating an influential role for themselves as writers within the German American community. This hypothesis, however, proved premature, as research revealed a surprising paucity of German immigrant women writers. New questions were thus raised which took me beyond my original interest in these women’s literature: Why were there so few female immigrant writers? Why is it so difficult to establish their identities? What was their relationship to immigrant literature? How were they viewed by the immigrant community? Why did they write so little? The following study traces my steps in establishing answers to these and other questions which developed in my search to determine the relationship between the immigrant experience and women writers. Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/Robinson, Therese, 1797-1870/Sutro-Schuecking, Kathinka, 1831(35?)-1893
MKI PT3907 S78 1981a; shelved with MKI dissertations
Literature, German-American/ Women authors/ Literary criticism/ 19th century/ Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884

Stuhlinger, Ernst. “German rocketeers find a new home in Huntsville.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 31, 1996.
Abstract: “I would like to reach back into my own history and describe hwo it happened that my wife and I can be with you tonight to help celebrate the evolution of the proverbial American-German friendship.” The author narrates his own history and reasons for emigration.
MKI periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Personal narratives/ 20th century

Stulz, S. C., and E. A. eds. Stulz. Neuestes Deutsches Liederbuch. Kansas City,Mo.: Stulz Brüder, n.d. [1913]. 240 pp., ill.
On cover: Liederschatz. Herausgegeben von den Stulzen Bruedern, Kansas City,Mo. On title page: “Wo man singt, da lass’ Dich ruhig nieder! Boese Menschen haben keine Lieder.” Zusammengestellt und herausgegeben von den Stulzen Brüdern, Kansas City, Mo. Im Selbstverlage der Herausgeber. On title page verso: Gewidmet dem biederen Deutschen Pionier des grossen amerikanischen Westens.
Includes information on Stulz Brothers liquors and wines throughout at bottom of pages; pp. 196-235 are wholly devoted to the company and its products (with price listings); pp. 236-239 is an index to songs; p. 240 is an index to pictures.
Stulz Brothers/Bros, 1893-1918. Address timeline: 605 W 5th (1893-1897), 1416 Main (1898-1905), 618-620 SW Blvd (1906-1915), 2043 Main (1916-1918).
The Stulz Brothers emigrated from Wittlich, Germany: Simon Sigmund Carl Stulz, born 1860, emigrated in 1886, died 1928; Emil Arnold Stulz, born 1864, emigrated in 1886, died 1917. In fragile condition.
Donated by Edward Plagemann in memory of his mother, 2010.
Read an article (PDF) on The Stulz Brothers, a German-American Business in Kansas City.

Stumpp, Karl. “Karte Der Russlanddeutschen Siedlungen in Den USA Und Mexiko.” s.l.
Map of Russian German settlements in the US & Mexico
MKI P87-129
Russian Germans/ United States/ maps

Stumpp, Karl. “Russlanddeutsche Siedlungen in Kanada.” s.l.1962.
Map of Russian German settlements in Canada
MKI P87-130
Russian Germans/ Canada/ maps

Stutzman, Enos D. “Die Hammlin Sin Im Welschkann Feld.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn 2001, p. 3.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Pennsylvania Dutch song, words and music by Enos Stutzman.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania-German dialect / Songs/ Music

Stutzman, Noah H. Sr. “Mein Lebenslauf.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn 2001, pp. 8-12, maps.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Account, in English, of the author’s life from Ohio to Ontario, with map of Old Order Amish (Swartzentruber) settlement in Chesley, Ontario.
MKI Periodicals
Amish/ Biographies/ Ontario, Canada

Stutzman, Noah H. Sr. “Mein Lebenslauf [Part 2].” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, Winter 2015, pp. 20.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Brief addition to the author’s life story, which first appeared in The Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn 2001.
MKI Periodicals
Amish/ Biographies/ Ontario, Canada/ Ohio

Such, Baerbel. “Unseren taeglichen Essig gib uns heute: Alfred Gongs Um den Essigkrug als religioese Satire.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 46, 2011, pp. 61-69.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “Der aus Czernowitz in der Bukowina stammende deutsch-juedische Schriftsteller [Alred Gong] hatte die Verfolgung durch die Nazis im Untergrund ueberlebt und war nach einigen Jahren in Wien 1951 in die USA emigriert. Von seiner Auswanderung erhoffte sich der damals 31-jaehrige, dass er im Land der unbegrenzten Moeglichkeiten zu Wohlstand und Ansehen gelangen wuerde und sich ganz seinem Schreiben widmen koennte. . . . Die vorliegende Arbeit verfolgt nun das Anliegen, Gongs Theaterstueck Um den Essigkrug, das erst vor wenigen Jahren und damit gut 25 Jahre nach seinem Tod veroeffentlicht wurde, vorzustellen, und zwar besonders unter Beruecksichtigung der satirischen Elemente. Ausserdem soll Um den Essigkrug in den Kontext deutschsprachiger Nachkreigsdramen gestellt werden, indem der Bezug zu Friedrich Duerrenmatt aufgezeigt wird, der Gongs dramatisches Schaffen deutlich beeinflusste. Insbesondere soll dabei auf den Besuch der alten Dame (1956) eingegangen werden, da dieses Stueck ebenfalls als Gesellschaftssatire oder als Passionsspiel gelesen werden kann. Gong stellte Um den Essigkrug 1959 fertig, also etwa drei Jahre nach dem Erscheinen von Duerrenmatts Der Besuch der alten Dame.”
MKI Periodicals
Gong, Alfred, 1920-1981/ Jews, German/ Literature, German-American/ Humor & Satire/ Literary criticism/ Theater & Drama/ 20th century

Suelflow, August R. “The Life and Work of Georg Ernst Christian Ferdinand Sievers.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 20, 1947, pp. 135-141, 180-187; 21 (1948): 36-41, 75-87, 100-114, 175-180; 22 (1949): 43-48, 77-84.
Abstract: MKI has only installments #2-#6 of the 8.
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535

Suelflow, August R. “The Lutheran Family in North America.” 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 368.
Abstract: The various images of the Lutheran family in North America, historical, sociological, economical and theological perspectives on the Lutheran family.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 4
Lutherans/ Genealogy/ Family history

Suelflow, Roy A., trans. and ed. The chronicle of pastor L. F. E. Krause: First Lutheran pastor to work in Wisconsin. Freistadt, Wis.: Trinity Lutheran Church of Freistadt, [55] pp.
Notes: Donated by Juergen Eichhoff.
MKI P2001-32
Lutheran Church/ Wisconsin/ History

Suess, Harald. Deutsche Schreibschrift: Lesen und Schreiben lernen Lehrbuch. Augsburg: Augustus, 2000. [74] pp.
Notes: MKI has photocopy of pages 6-80 only; donated by Alexandra Jacob, July 2002. Book in Memorial: Z43 S87 2000.
Abstract: A textbook for learning the old German script, with reading exercises.
MKI P2002-82
German language — Writing

Suhrbur, Thomas J. “Ethnicity in the Formation of the Chicago Carpenters Union: 1855-1890.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983, pp. 86-103, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references; donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Abstract: Tables show: Proportions of native- and foreign-born among Chicago’s population, work force, and carpenters, 1870 and 1890; and Nativity among Chicago’s carpenters compared to the total employed, 1870 and 1890.
MKI/SHS HD8081 G4 G47 1983
German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Employment/ Labor and laboring classes/ 19th century/ Ethnicity

Swanson, Terri. “My memoirs.” Heritage Review (Germans from Russia Heritage Society), vol. 22, no. 1, 1992, pp. 23-29.
Abstract: Memories of her childhood. She was born in Saskatchewan from German- Russian parents and grew up during the depression, then the family moved to Alberta.
MKI Shelf–Periodicals
Russian Germans/ Memoirs/ Canada

Swartzbaugh, Keith. “Research Bibliography: ‘The Factors That Led to German Immigration to the Texas Coastal Plains from 1840 to 1880.'” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 26, no. 2, Summer 2004, pp. 133-151.
Notes: “Presented in partial fulfillment of History 6303-60, United States Immigration History, Presented to Dr. Gerhard Grytz, University of Texas at Brownsville, April 27, 2004”.
Abstract: Lists monographs, academic periodicals, and primary sources on the subject.
MKI Periodicals
Bibliographies/ German Americans — Texas/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Texas/ 19th century/ Sources

Symington, Rodney. “Eine deutsch-amerikanische literarische Freundschaft: Else Seel und Ezra Pound.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 21, 1986, pp. 13-37.
Abstract: Symington’s article discusses the correspondence between Seel and Pound, focussing on the exchange of litarary and cultural influences. A brief biography of Seel is given and the German authors Colin Ross and Frobenius are discussed.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Canadians/ Women authors/ Poetry/ World War, 1939-1945/ Letters/ Biographies