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Talazko, Helmut. “On the history of protestant efforts to the benefit of emigrants and emigrated.” In: Jetzt wohnst du in einem freien Land; Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch, vol. 39, no. 3, 1989, pp. 345-353.
Notes: The articles are in German.
Hrsg. Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart.
Abstract: Die evangelische Auswandererfuersorge setzt etwa zur gleichen Zeit ein wie die deutsche Massenauswanderung nach Nordamerika. Sie geht jedoch nicht von den Landeskirchen aus; denen machte es ihre enge Verbindung mit dem Staat unmoeglich, Verantwortung fuer solche zu empfinden, die aus dem Untertanenverband ausgeschieden waren. Die Hilfe kam vielmehr aus der vielgestaltigen Welt der christlichen Vereine, die sich — getragen von der Erweckungsbewegung — in der ersten Haelfte des vorigen Jahrhunderts in grosser Zahl zu bilden begonnen hatten. Sie ermoeglichten auch den Laien eine Mitwirkung, die ihnen in den Kirchen versagt blieb, und nahmen Aufgaben in Angriff, die von diesen nicht gesehen wurden. Es entstanden Missions-, Bibel- und Traktatvereine, Juenglingsvereine und Frauenvereine fuer Armen- und Krankenpflege; ab der Jahrhundertmitte kam die grosse Zahl der Vereine hinzu, die der als Innere Mission bezeichneten Bewegung zuzurechnen waren. Es ist nicht zu uebersehen, dass diese christlichen Vereine nur ein Teil der grossen allgemeinen Assoziationsbewegung waren, die in der ersten Haelfte des 19. Jahrhunderts nicht nur in Deutschland aufbrach und es zu einem Jahrhundert der Vereine machte.
MKI JV 8014 .J47 1989
Emigration and immigration / Societies, etc./ Religious works

Tappert, C. R., Hrsg. Der lutherische Kalender aufs Jahr unseres Heilandes 1938. Burlington, Iowa: Lutheran Literary Board, 1938. 110 pp.
MKI P88-108
PIA/ Protestant/ Calendars & Almanacs

Tappert, Theodore G. “Muhlenberg as Author.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 34, 1962, pp. 82-85.
Abstract: Review of what Muhlenber’s writings.
MKI P93-90
Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, 1711-1787/ Biographies

te Velde, John R. “The Black Sea Germans in the Dakotas: Factors in language maintenance and shift.” 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. 77-103.
Abstract: This paper presents the main features of German-Russian language maintenance and identifies the forces which were largely responsible for it, how they differed from those in other areas of the United States and how the people themselves differed from German Americans.
MKI PF 5925 G47 1993
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Language maintenance/ Russian Germans/ Dakotas/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Dialects

Teich, Susan. “Frank Teich’s German Mark.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 26, no. 4, Winter 2004, pp. 384-392, ill.
Abstract: Frank Teich was born in 1856 in Lobenstein, Thuringia, Germany. He immigrated to the United States in 1878, first living with his grandparents in Wisconsin, then travelling across the country. He eventually arrived in Texas, where, as a sculptor, he “left his German mark in granite,” decorating buildings, cemeteries, and parks throughout the state.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Texas/ 19th century/ Business & Industry/ Artists

Terry, Benjamin. “Die Heimstaetten-Gesetz-Bewegung.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 2-4, 1902, pp. 1-9; 1-16; 1-11.
Abstract: Heft 2: Das Heimstaetten-Gesetz von 1862 und der sechszehnjaehrige Kampf darum; Der Ursprung des Heimstaetten-Gesetzes; Der sechsjaehrige Kampf um Gehoer. Heft 3: Die Scheidelinie zwischen Nord und Sued; Das Heimstaetten-Gesetz vs. die Rechte der aelteren Staaten. Heft 4: Die Groessere Frage wirft ihre Schatten voraus; Die Kansas-Nebraska Bill; Der Makel der Abolition; Abfall des Suedwestens; Staatenrechte gegen Staatenrechte; Die Beschwerde des Freien Westens.
MKI Periodicals
Law/ Civil War, 1861-1865/ Wars

Teske, Julia. “Mathilde Franziska Anneke. Eine 1848erin in Amerika.” Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, 2009. 90 pp.
Notes: Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel. Historisches Seminar. Schriftliche Hausarbeit zur Ersten Staatspruefung fuer das Lehramt an Gymnaisen nach der Pruefungsordnung der POL I. Erstpruefer: Prof. Dr. Christoph Cornelissen. Zweitpruefer: Prof. Dr. Karl Heinrich Pohl.
Donated by Julia Teske, 2009.
Abstract: “Doch wie verschaffte sich ein Frau, die nicht nur als Frau, sondern auch als Einwanderin benachteiligt und marginalisiert war, in einer patriarchalischen Gesellschaft Gehoer? Mit welchen Argumenten versuchte sie zu ueberzeugen? Lassen sich spezifische 1848er Ideale erkennen? Annekes politischer und emanzipatorischer Aktivismus in Ameika aeusserte sich auf verschiedene Weise, anhand dessen sich die Themenschwerpunkte dieser Arbeit wie folgt konstituieren:
Ein Untersuchungsgegenstand dieser Arbeit ist ihr Beitrag in der amerikanischen Frauenbewegung — der National Woman Suffrage Association. Anneke wurde Vizepraesidenten des Staates Wisconsin und vertrat die Interessen der Frauen Wisconsins auf nationaler Ebene. . . . Recht auf gleiche Bildungschancen forderte Anneke zeitlebens und gruendete 1865 in Milwaukee eine Schule fuer deutsche-amerikanische Maedchen. Schulgruendung, Konzeption, sowie die Entwicklung der Schule sollen nachgezeichnet werden und ihre Rolle als Paedagogin beleuchten. Auch literarisch aeusserte sich die Frauenrechtlerin. Die Schriftstellerin Anneke, die an ihre literarische Karriere in Deutschland anknuepfte, publizierte in Amerika Kurzgeschichten fuer eine deutschamerikanische Einwandererpresse, die immer wieder ihre feministische, aber auch abolitionistische Grundhaltung zum Ausdruck brachten. . . . Annekes zeithistorische Rezeption und die darauf folgende Rezeptionsgeschichte bilden den Schluss dieser Arbeit. Wie wurde die feministische Freidenkerin von ihren amerikanischen und deutschen Zeitgenossen wahrgenommen? Von welcher Forschung wurde sie am meisten rezipiert oder — andersherum — vernachlaessigt? Wie beurteilte besonders die feministische Frauenforschung die Frauenrechtlerin?”
MKI P2009-21
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/ Forty-eighters/ Women/ Teaching/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees/ German Americans/ Women authors/ Slavery/ Wisconsin

Teske, Robert T., and Harold W. Pfohl. The German-American Farm: A Cedarburg Chronicle: Photographs of the Nieman, Fromm, and Lueders Families, 1850-1950, Collected by Harold W. Pfohl. Cedarburg, WI: Cedarburg Cultural Center, 1994.
Abstract: Pamphlet for a 1994 exhibition of photographs that explored German-American agricultural life in Ozaukee and Washington Counties from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. The Nieman family emigrated in 1852 from an estate near Spornitz in Mecklenberg-Schwerin.
MKI P2003-3
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Farming/ Agriculture/ Exhibitions/ Wisconsin — Ozaukee County/ Wisconsin — Washington County/ Nieman/ Fromm/ Lueder

Tetzner, Franz, ed. Namenbuch. 2nd ed. Leipzig: Reclam, 178 pp.
Notes: Donated by Hanna and Robert McDermott.
Abstract: Given names: Maenner-Namen, Frauen-Namen, Namen-Kalender, Deutsche Heiligen-Namen (Maennliche and Weibliche).
MKI P2012-2
Names, Personal — German — Dictionaries

Teut, Fritz. “Aus der deutschen Bewegung. Eine deutsche Feier im tiefsten Wisconsin.” Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger, vol. 1, 1913, pp. 548-556.
Abstract: “…Dann kam der 19. Juli 1870. Es war ein grosser Moment im Voelkerleben, als die Kunde von der Kriegserklaerung Frankreichs an Preussen durch die Welt rauschte. Eine brausende Begeisterung hatte das Deutsche Volk ergriffen: — ueberall in der Welt, wo Deutsche wohnten, stieg die Begeisterung himmelan!” Reactions of German-Americans to political activity in Germany, with Norwalk, Wisconsin (Monroe County) as an example.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Ethnic identity/ Political activity

Thackrey, Don. “My Background in PA German.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 5, Winter 1999 (II), p. 20.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Thackrey shares his experiences in converting to the Amish church, with a focus on learning the Pennsylvania German dialect.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Amish/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Thalmann, Dan. “‘Min leiwe aolle Modersprak’ (My Dear Old Mother Tongue).” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 23, no. 1, Jul./Aug./Sept. 2005, pp. 26-27.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society. Reprinted from the Washington County [Kansas] News, Nov. 25, 2004.
Abstract: Reports on efforts by Scott Seeger, a doctoral student from the University of Kansas, to document Low German speakers in Kansas. “Seeger said the majority of settlers in the Horseshoe Creek area came from the area of Germany around the towns of Hannover, Bremen, and Oldenburg.”Another group in the Lanham area speak an East Frisian dialect. Seeger cites three main factors in the decline of German language usage: urbanization of rural communities, the desire to fit into the larger American society, and a decrease in German-speaking immigrants moving to the area. Anti-German sentiment during the World Wars also played a role, but it should be examined in conjunction with the factors mentioned above.
MKI Periodicals
Low German dialect/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ German Americans — Kansas/ Linguistics/ Language loss/ Frisian language

Tharp, Henry E. “Mining to the Max: Or Digging in a Passenger List.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 28, no. 3, June 2003, pp. 3-5.
Abstract: Compares three versions of the passenger list of the Leathley, which arrived in Philadelphia on 25 September 1753.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Passenger lists/ Ships

Theiler, John. “Etwas ueber das Molkereiwesen in Wiskonsin.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 41, 1921, pp. 37-42, ill.
Notes: Author is from New Glarus, Wisc.
Abstract: Dairy farming and the cheese industry among Swiss Americans in Wisconsin. Particular emphasis is on New Glarus, Monroe, and other areas in Green County. An illustration shows the “Pioniere der Kaese-Industrie im Green County”: Gottlieb Baehler, Jakob Regez, Niclaus Gerber, and Jakob Karlen.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Farming/ New Glarus (Wis.)/ Agriculture/ Monroe (Wis.)/ Wisconsin — Green County/ Business & Industry

Thieme, Emma. “Germans from Russia.” The Researcher: The Sheboygan County Historical Researcher Center Newsletter, vol. 12, no. 3, May 2003, pp. [4-5].
Notes: Book is in Historical Society Pamphlet Collection: AQZ4955UW
Abstract: Excerpts from A Time for Reflection: The First One Hundred Years. Discusses the settlement of Germans in Russia, their exodus to America with a focus on settlement in Sheboygan, and their employment, religious life, and social activities.
MKI P2003-18
Russian Germans/ Sheboygan (Wis.)/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Thieme, Richard C. “The Last Oktoberfest: German-Americans and the City of Brotherly Love. Master’s Thesis.” La Salle University, 2010. 122 pp.
Notes: A Master’s Thesis presented by Richard C. Thieme. Submitted to the M.A. Program in History at La Salle University, Philadelphia.
MKI P2020-05
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Cultural contribution/ Social life and customs/ Philadelphia (Pa.).

Thiesen, John D. “The American Mennonite Encounter with National Socialism.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 27, 1992, pp. 127-158.
Notes: Examination of an ethnic group of Germans in the U. S., the Mennonites, and their encounter with National Socialism.
MKI Periodicals
Religion/ Mennonites/ History/ National Socialism

Thiessen, Jack. “Arnold Dyck — the Mennonite Artist.” Mennonite Life, vol. 24, 1969, pp. 77-83.
Abstract: A master of observation, description and wit in both the high and low German, Arnold Dyck has written numerous dramas, a Bildungsroman and several tales as well as some Novellen
MKI P93-91
Literature, German (Canada)/ Literary criticism/ German Canadians/ Mennonites/ Low German dialect

Thiessen, Jack. Review: Diese Steine: Die Russlandmennoniten.
Notes: Print-out from word-processing program.
Abstract: Review of book by Adina Reger and Delbert Plett.
MKI P2002-105
Book reviews/ Mennonites/ Russia/ Canada/ Emigration and immigration

Thiessen, Jack. “A Walk in the Garden of Words.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 7-8, 12, 14.
Abstract: “I grew up a dual citizen amidst the language of my father and that of my mother–and while they spoke the same language [Mennonite Low German] the twain rarely met.”
MKI Periodicals
Language, German (Canada)/ Mennonites/ Low German dialect

Thode, Ernest. “The German and Swiss Heritage of Monroe County, Ohio.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 1979, pp. 60-64.
Abstract: Thode’s 4 page article traces the history of three migrations undertaken in the 19th century by German-speaking peoples to Ohio.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Ohio/ Genealogy/ Palatines/ 19th century

Thomas, Barry G. “Review: The German-Americans: An Ethnic Experience by Willi Paul Adams.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994, pp. 143-145.
Abstract: Thomas’ essay gives a positive review of Rippley’s and Reichmann’s translation of Adams’ book.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Thomas, C. A. “Ein Besuch bei unsern Waisen.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 21, no. 11, Nov. 1889, pp. 643-645, ill.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
Abstract: Describes the history of and a visit to the orphanage at Flat Rock, Ohio.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Evangelical Association of North America/ Children/ Ohio/ 19th century

Thomas, C. A. “Grosse Maenner. Begebenheiten aus dem Leben frueherer Praesidenten der Ver. Staaten.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 2, Feb. 1890, pp. 67-71.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
Abstract: Stories of George Washington, John Adams, William Henry Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Ulysses S. Grant.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Washington, George, 1732-1799/ United States — History/ Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Thomas, C. A. “In einem Sarge.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 8, Aug. 1890, pp. 481-482.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt. A version of this news story appears in English in the Feb. 22, 1890 issue of The Milwaukee Journal, attributed to the Louisville Courier-Journal. See: MKI P2011-22.
Abstract: German translation of a story told by an express messenger traveling on the Southern Pacific Railroad, relating how he trapped one train robber inside a coffin and separated the smoking car containing other thieves from the rest of the train.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ United States — History/ Train robberies

Thomas, C. A. “Kuenstliche Metallarbeiten der Ureinwohner Amerikas.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 10, Oct. 1890, pp. 591-596, ill.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
Abstract: “Schon lange, ehe Columbus Amerika entdeckte, hatten die Eingebornen des centralen und suedlichen Amerikas eine bedeutende Fertigkeit erlangt in der Herstellung allerlei kuenstlicher Gegenstaende aus allem Metall, und dies sowohl mit Ruecksicht auf Dinge zum taeglichen Gebrauch als auch im Hinblick auf persoenlichen Schmuck und allgemeine Zierde ihrer Wohnungen und dergleichen.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ South America/ Art/ Antiquities

Thomas, C. A. “Osterblumen.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 4, Apr. 1890, pp. 209-214, ill.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
Abstract: Begins: “Es war Ostermorgen drunten in New Orleans.” Character names include: Lizzie Reichert, Gretchen Koenig, and Adele Foerster.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Fiction/ Juvenile literature/ New Orleans (La.)/ Easter

Thomas, C. A. “Rache eines Indianers.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 21, no. 10, Oct. 1889, pp. 597-597.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
Abstract: Begins: “Wer liest wohl nicht hie und da zum Wechsel gerne wieder einmal eine Geschichte von den Indianern? Es ist wahr, viel Abenteuerliches wird ihnen angedichtet, das nie geschehen ist, und doch sind diese Wilden, wenn ihr Zorn einmal angefacht ist, fast zu allem faehig. Was ich erzaehlen will, ist erst vor einigen Jahren passirt und von der Mutter selbst, die der Gegenstand der Rache war, in den Blaettern des Landes veroeffentlicht worden. Ich halte mich genau an ihre eigene Worte: Vor mehreren Jahren, sagt sie, baute mein Gatte ein Hotel in den Golddistrikten Californiens, um Reisende und Minenarbeiter zu bewirthen und zu bekoestigen. Es war in einem netten Staedtchen an dem Terminus einer Eisenbahn, und wie fast bei allen dergleichen Staedtchen in dem noerdlichen Californien, so hatte auch das unsere in nicht weiter Ferne eine Indianer-Niederlassung.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Fiction, historical/ Native Americans/ German Americans — California

Thomas, C. A. “Terra Cotta in der Architektur. Part I.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 6, June 1890, pp. 331-334, ill.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt. —- Part II appears in vol. 22, no 6, July 1890, pp. 407-410, ill.
Abstract: Begins: “Der Reisende, welcher von Woodbridge oder Perth-Amboy in New Jersey, westwaerts geht, New Brunswick zu, der wird entlang des Weges rechts und links grosse Hoehlungen beobachten, die sich eine lange Strecke dahinziehen. Manche sind vierzig bis sechzig und noch mehr Fuss tief. Schaut man hinein, so gewahrt man unten am Boden dieser Hoehlungen Fahrwege um grosse Lehmhaufen her, und eine Menge Arbeiter, die den Lehm ausgraben und weiterfoerdern. Die umliegende Landschaft ist im Grunde sehr spaerlich bewohnt, und wenn man auf die struppigen Birken, die niedrigen Tannen und die knorrigen Ahornbaeume blickt, meint man gewisslich nicht, dass ein solcher Reichthum daselbst verborgen laege; den gerade hier liegen unermessliche feine Lehmlager, die zur Herstellung von Feuer-Brick und Terra Cotta ausgebeutet werden. Der Lehm ist hier buchstaeblich unerschoepflich.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Architecture/ New Jersey

Thomas, C. A. “Vater W. W. Orwig.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 21, no. 8, Aug. 1889, pp. 474-476, ill.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt. —- From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Orwig): “William W. Orwig (25 September 1810 – 29 May 1889) was a Bishop of the Evangelical Association in the United States, elected in 1859. He is considered one of the most famous historical figures of the Evangelical Association. . . . . Orwig was born near Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania into a faithful Evangelical home. Orwigsburg was named in honor of his great-grandfather Gottfried Orwig, who emigrated from Germany and settled there in 1741. . . . Orwig was married to Susanna Rishel . . . . She was the daughter of George and Catharine Rishel, a prominent Evangelical family in Centre County, Pennsylvania. William and Susan’s eldest son was the well-known Rev. A.W. Orwig, who . . . was a member of the Ohio Conference of the Evangelical Association, and was an editor and author. Among their daughters were Mary (the wife of the Rev. Josiah Bowersox, missionary to Oregon), Susan (the wife of the Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman, and a poet and hymn writer in her own right), Elizabeth (the wife of the Rev. S. L. Wiest), Addie (the wife of Isaac Y. Moyer, a noted Cleveland layman of the Church).”
Abstract: Obituary for Wilhelm W. Orwig, 1810-1889. “Er schied im Frieden, nachdem er ueber sechzig Jahre im Ministerium der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft gestanden. Seine Ueberreste ruhen auf dem schoenen Woodland Friedhof zu Cleveland, O.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Orwig, Wilhelm W., 1810-1889/ Obituaries/ Methodist Church/ Methodist Church/ Evangelical Association of North America

Thomas, Delphine. “Locating the European Village of Origin for Your 18th Century German.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. Vol. 5, no. 3, Fall 2002, pp. 7-8.
Abstract: A summary of a presentation given by Annette Burgert at the German Genealogy Society’s 2002 Spring Conference: “Over 30,000 Germans immigrated to Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century. Many came from northern Switzerland. These Swiss first settled in Alsace, Kraichgau, Odenwald, or the Palatinate before leaving for America.”
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Emigration and immigration / 18th century/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Switzerland/ Pennsylvania

Thomas, Delphine Richter. “Finding Wilhelm Johann Ebert from Mecklenburg.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, Summer 2007, pp. 10-13, ill.
Abstract: Details the author’s search for information on William John (Wilhelm Johann) Ebert, who was born illegimately in 1869 in the village of Laage, in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. William John Ebert came to America at the age of 13 in 1881 with his grandmother, Maria Beckman(n) Ebert, and his mother Christine (Ebert) Funk. William John Ebert was marired in Slades Corner, Kenosha County, Wisconsin to Catharine Hemker. They moved from Wisconsin to Iowa to Minnesota and back to Wisconsin.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Mecklenburg/ Ebert/ German Americans — Iowa/ Funk

Thomas, Delphine Richter. “Finding Wilhelm Johann Ebert from Mecklenburg [Part 2].” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 15, no. 4, Winter 2012, pp. 16-18, ill.
Abstract: Additional information discovered since the author’s first article was printed in the Summer 2007 issue of the Germanic Genealogy Journal.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Mecklenburg/ Ebert/ German Americans — Iowa/ Funk/ Hemker

Thomas, Delphine Richter. “Our Ancestors in 1858: Four Families Come to Minnesota .” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, Summer 2008, pp. 16-17.
Abstract: Summary of a family history submitted to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the state of Minnesota. All of the families come from Pomerania and east Prussia, now Poland. The families came to the United States in the 1800s, settling mostly in Stearns County, Minnesota, with a few stopping briefly in Wisconsin. Family names include Richter (from Kallies, Kreis Dramburg, Pomerania), Rodenwald (from Woltersdorf, Kreis Dramburg, Pomerania), Schoen, Bachenger/Barchenger, Giegel, Kind, Krueger, Kaiser, Mog/Mogk, Scheunemann, Teske (from Kreis Belgard, Pomerania), Sabrowsky and Eggert (from Bienau, Kreis Osterode, east Prussia), and Bayer.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ German Americans — Minnesota/ 19th century/ Pomerania

Thomas, Ursula. “Mark Twain’s German Language Learning Experiences.” 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. 133-143.
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

Thompson, Lawrence S. “German Travel Books on the South.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 30th Report, 1959, pp. 87-106.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Travel/ United States

Thompson, Michael D. “Liberty loans, loyalty oaths, and the street name swap: Anti-German sentiment in Ohio, Spring 1918.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 33, 1998, pp. 139-156.
Abstract: In the months leading to American entry into the war, normal relations between the native stock and the German community deteriorated. The former perception of German immigrants that accepted them as easily assimilable and patriotic turned to a harsh xenophobia centered around accusations of disloyalty. Matters in Ohio–and the rest of the country–grew even worse as the war escalated. By examining a cross-section of newspapers from large metropolitan cities to small rural towns in Ohio, a picture of the various and distinctive styles of nativism develops. The research for this study included thirteen Ohio newspapers–chosen with an organized randomness. The results of the study clarify and amplify our knowledge of American nativism in the past. The study follows traditional historiography in noting that anti-German sentiment reached all levels of American society during World War I. But it also provides an important new dimension by examining different kinds of nativism in Ohio. Some areas erupted, while others remained calm.
MKI Periodicals
Ohio/ Anti-German sentiment/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans

Thompson, Vance. “Heinrich Conried: Artist and Man.” American-German Review, vol. 1, no. 2, 1899, pp. 174-180.
Notes: Portraits and illustrations.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ Arts

Thumshirn, Rainer. “”Frisch, fromm, froehlich, frei!” The history of the German Turnverein movement, reflecting causes of 19th century emigration.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 11, no. 2, 1993, pp. 45-48.
Abstract: Sacramento German Genealogy Society
MKI Periodicals
Turners

Thumshirn, Rainer, and Steven Krolak. “A time to act foolish (Fasching); Historical roots of Karneval.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 11, no. 3, 1994, pp. 110-111.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
Abstract: About carnival.
MKI Periodicals
Germany/ Folklore

Thurow, Raymond C. “The Thurows of Pomerania.” 1992. 7 pp.
Notes: 8.5 x 11 printout. Marked “DRAFT.” Graphics include map, two crests, and a photograph.
Abstract: This paper is a “progress report” compiled by Dr. Raymond C. Thurow and his family about the origins of their extended family and their migrations. Includes background history on Pomerania and Poland and information on the family name.
MKI P2000-19
Family History/ Pomerania

Thurston, John M. “Reciprocity Between America and Germany: A Symposium of Appeals to the American and the German People.” American-German Review, vol. 1, no. 3, 1899, pp. 270-281.
Notes: Symposium papers by the U.S. Senator of Nebraska and various members of Congress concerning American relations with Germany.
MKI Periodicals
Politics/ History/ Relations, Germany-US

Timm, Adolph. “Der Nationalbund und die Deutsch-Amerikaner.” German American Annals, vol. 1, n.s., 1903, pp. 54-56.
Abstract: Timm was Secretary of the German-American Alliance
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Ethnic identity/ National German-American Alliance

Timm, Dale. “Our Ancestors in 1858: The Brueske Family of Douglas County.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, Summer 2008, pp. 12.
Abstract: Summary of a family history submitted to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the state of Minnesota. Douglas County, Minnesota, was first settled in 1858, but nearly all its settlements were abandoned in 1862 because of the Dakota (Sioux) uprisings. Friedrich Brueske and his wife, Coelestine Cossum, came from Stettin and Berlin, respectively, and settled initially in the Lebanon, Wisconsin, area. Friedrich enlisted in the 48th Wisconsin Infantry in 1865; by 1876 the family had moved to Ida Township, Douglas County, Minnesota. Ida Township ws organized in 1870, and the 2000 census shows that about 34% of the population were of German ancestry.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ German Americans — Minnesota/ 19th century/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Tishler, William H. “Ein Freilichtmuseum nach deutschem Vorbild: Old world Wisconsin.” Globus, vol. 21, no. 1, Jan./Feb. 1989, pp. 20-21.
Abstract: “Die meisten Voelker haben im Lauf ihrer Geschichte auch ihre charakteristischen Baustile entwickelt. Als die fruehen Einwanderer in der unberuehrten Landschaft Wisconsins ihre Gebauede und Siedlungen errichteten, taten sie das im Stil der jahrhundertealten Traditionen ihres Mutterlandes. Die neue Heimat bot dazu alles, was noetig war: Holz in Fuelle, Stein, Lehm zur Herstellung von Backsteinen.”
MKI P92-5
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Architecture/ Farm life/ Immigrants, German

Tishler, William H. “Fachwerk construction in the German settlements of Wisconsin.” Winterthur Portfolio, vol. 21, no. 4, 1986, pp. 275-292.
Abstract: In countless ways, the culture and values brought by German immigrants shaped cultural patterns of the young state, many aspects of which still linger on. The physical manifestations of this are perhaps best exemplified in the surviving traditional German buildings found in the rural Wisconsin landscape
MKI P98-12, P87-151, P94-40
Architecture/ Wisconsin

Tishler, William H. “German Immigrants Brought Old World to Midwest.” Preservation News, Oct. 1986, pp. 12-13.
Abstract: One of 22 essays in “America’s Architectural Roots”, published by Preservation Press, 1986
MKI P86-127
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Architecture

Tobin, Jesse. “Es Pennsylfaanisch Muunraad: The Pennsylvania German Moon Wheel.” Hollerbeier Haven: Newsletter for the Herbal and Healing Arts, vol. 2, no. 1, May 2008, pp. 4, 8-9, ill.
Abstract: “Until the early part of the twentieth century the moon wheel would most likely not have been considered a part of Braucherei tradition. Truly, it fits more clearly with the traditional ways of agriculture, and I believe it would have been seen as essential to the Braucher mostly in terms of its relevance to the growing of crops and herbs for medicinal purposes. . . . The moon wheel we have today exactly lines up with and reflects the Greek moon wheel of the 12 zodiac signs. The wheel begins with the Aries/Holzhaane (woodcock) moon and continues to the Pisces/Graab (crow) moon. The information shared in this article about the various animals of the wheel will be almost entirely magical and spiritual information relevant to the time of the year of each moon, as well as some information as to characteristics of a person born with that “sun sign” or those born during the month of the animal in question. All of these animals are clearly of new world origin. . . [some] however have connections to European equivalents.”
MKI P2008-1
Medicine & Health/ Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Folks-medicine/ Folklore

Todd, Vincent H. “Christoph von Graffenried and the Founding of New Bern, N.C.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 12, 1912, pp. 1-123.
Abstract: “It is not sufficient then to know that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a large number of Germans came to America, and made or tried to make certain settlements. We want to go farther and learn about their life and work and be able to appreciate them as we do the other pioneers. It is for this reason that a study of Baron Christoph von Graffenried’s settlement may be considered worth while.”
MKI Periodicals
North Carolina/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Settlements/ Immigrants, German

Toegel, Edith. “Margaret Fuller, Bettina von Arnim, Karoline von Guenderrode: A Kinship of Souls.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 23, 1988, pp. 141-151.
Abstract: The American feminist critic Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), editor of the transcendental journal The Dial, developed a fascination for two German women authors, Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Guenderrode. The two German women had a close friendship about which Bettina von Arnim wrote in Die Guenderode, later translated in part by Fuller. This article examines Fuller’s interest in the two German women and German literature.
MKI Periodicals
Women authors/ Literature, German/ Literary criticism/ Feminists

Toetoesy de Zepetnek, Steven. “Pre-1900 German-Canadian ethnic minority writing.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal, 2002.
Notes: 17 pp.; Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven.
MKI P2002-30
German Canadians/ Poetry/ 19th century

Toetoesy de Zepetnek, Steven. “Selected and annotated bibliography of German-Canadian literature and criticism.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal, 2002.
Notes: 12 pp.; Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven.
MKI P2002-30
German Canadians/ Bibliographies

Toetoesy de Zepetnek, Steven. “Selected bibliography of work on Canadian ethnic minority writing (to 1999).” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal, 2002.
Notes: 15 pp.; Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven.
Abstract: Includes some listings for works on German-Canadian writers.
MKI P2002-30
German Canadians/ Bibliographies

Tolzmann, Don H. “1990 census statistics.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 14, no. 1, 1993, pp. 6-7.
Notes: SGAS.
Abstract: Table listing those of German ancestry (immigrants or descendants of immigrants from Germany). This statistic does not include the 1,952,051 other German ethnic group categories (Alsatian, Austrian, Luxemburger, Swiss-German, German-Russian, and Pennsylvania German). The fact that the Census Bureau continues to refuse to provide a statistic listing all the German ethnic groups together can be extremely misleading, and obstructs the attempts by German-Americans to attain a total statistic
MKI shelf
Immigrants, German/ Census

Tolzmann, Don H. “Amerikabuertige deutschsprachige Autoren der Gegenwart.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, editor. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, editors Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, vol. 10.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1985, pp. 169-175.
Abstract: Description of life and work of the most influential American born German language authors of the present.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)

Tolzmann, Don H. “Celebrating the German Heritage.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 1-6.
Abstract: Tolzmann’s article provides a brief discussion of the first German settlers’ emigration to Pennsylvania and their founding of Germantown. It also describes the 1883 bicentennial celebration of German emigration, which took place in Philadelphia and was organized by Seidensticker and which developed into the super-regional traditional “German Day” and was accompanied by the growth of German-American societies.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Philadelphia (Pa.)/ Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719/ Immigrants, German/ Societies, etc./ Pioneers/ Ethnic identity/ Seidensticker, Oswald, 1825-1894

Tolzmann, Don H. “German-American Collections: A Definition.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 4, 1985, p. 26.
Notes: SGAS.
Abstract: A definition of German-Americana collections with national and with regional or special focus.
MKI Periodicals
German Americana

Tolzmann, Don H. “German-American Studies: History and Development.” Monatshefte, vol. 80, no. 3, 1988, pp. 278-288.
Abstract: This article details five main periods in the history and development of German-American studies in the United States: The Church History Period, The Pioneer Period, Filiopietism, German-American Studies after the World Wars, and The Ethnic Revival and Beyond.
MKI P94-24
German-American Studies/ History/ Research

Tolzmann, Don H. “German-Americana in archives and libraries: Notes on the current state of affairs.” 1995. 13 pp.
Abstract: Includes an overview; what is a German-American; collections; examples of published calatogs; where are the collections; what are the contents; how much has been lost; what is being preserved; current state of affairs; areas of concern.
MKI P96-1
German Americana

Tolzmann, Don H. “The German Language Press in Minnesota, 1855-1955.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 169-178.
MKI Periodicals
Newspapers, German-American/ 19th century/ 20th century/ German Americans — Minnesota/ Heinzen, Karl, 1809-1880

Tolzmann, Don H. “In Memoriam: Anna Katarina Scheibe.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1979, pp. 145.
Abstract: Scheibe, Anna Katarina, 1885-
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Literature, German-American/ Women authors/ Literary criticism/ Artists / Biographies

Tolzmann, Don H. “INDEX to the JGAS 1969-1980.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 15, no. 3-4, 1980, pp. 75-94.
Abstract: Tolzmann’s index is divided into three parts: Part A, an index of the contents of the issues of the Journal; Part B, an author index; and Part C, a subject index. He also gives a brief history of the Journal.
MKI Periodicals
Indexes

Tolzmann, Don H. “Members of the German Musical Society of Milwaukee in 1900.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 1976, pp. 25-29.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Music/ Societies, etc./ Milwaukee (Wis.)

Tolzmann, Don H. “New Ulm, Minnesota [poem].” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 51-52.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Tolzmann, Don H. “Recent German-Canadiana.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 15, no. 3-4, 1980, pp. 95-97.
Abstract: Tolzmann’s 3 page article gives a brief history of and evaluates the Canadian publications Deutsch-kanadisches Jahrbuch, Annalen Deutschkanadischer Studien and Deutschkanadische Schriften as well as the state of German-Canadian scholarship.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, German (Canada)/ German Canadians/ History

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of “Americans From Germany” by Gerard Wilk. (German Information Center: NY, 1976.).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, 1977, pp. 74.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of “B. Traven: An Introduction” by Michael Baumann. (University of New Mexico Press, 1976.).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 1976, pp. 44-45.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Clifford Neal Smith and Anna Piszczan-Czaja Smith’s “Encyclopedia of German-American Geneological Research.” New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1976.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, 1978, outside back cover.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews/ German Americans — Genealogy/ Germany — Social life and customs/ Germany — Politics and Government

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America, edited by Samuel Urlsperger. George Fenwick Jones and Renate Wilson, Trs. and Eds. Volume 5, 1738. Wormsloe Foundation Publications, No. 14. Athens: University of Georgia Pr., 1980.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, 1980.
Abstract: German Americans–History/German-Americans–Georgia
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Die Deutschen in Kanada: Eine Volksgruppe im Wandel, by Hartmut Froeschle. Eckart-Schriften, no. 101. Wien: Oesterreichische Landsmannschaft, 1987.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies. 1989, pp. 163-165.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Die wunderbare Neue Welt: German Books about America in the John Carter Brown Library, 1493 to 1840: Pilot Edition Covering the Years 1493 to 1618, by Ilse E. Kramer. Providence, RI: The John Carter Brown Library, 1988.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1989, pp. 169-170.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Emil Meynen’s Bibliography on German Settlements in Colonial North America. Reprint of the 1937 edition. Detroit: Gale, 1966.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, 1978, inside and outside back cover.
Abstract: “This is a basic guide which anyone researching German ancestry from the colonial era should consult.”
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Frederick Luebke’s Bonds of Loyalty: German Americans and World War I. (Northern Illinois University Press, 1974.).” German-American Studies, vol. 9, Spring 1975, pp. 65-66.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Germans to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1850-1855. Edited by Ira A. Glazier and P. William Filby. 10 vols. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1988-90.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1989, pp. 165-166.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Gertrud Kuhn’s USA-Deutschland-Baden und Wuerttemberg. Eine Auswahl von Titeln zur Auswanderung und zur Geschichte der Deutsch-Amerikaner vor allem aus Baden und Wuerttemberg von den Anfaengen bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. (Stuttgart: Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen, 1976).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 3-4, 1976, p. 99.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Kathleen N. Conzen’s Immigrant Milwaukee 1836-1860. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 3-4, 1976, pp. 95-96.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of LaVern Rippley’s The German-Americans. (Boston: Twayne, 1976).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 3-4, 1976, p. 98.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Local Lives: Poems about the Pennsylvania Dutch. by Millen Brand.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 10, Fall 1975, pp. 74-75.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Monatshefte Bicentennial Issue, 68:2.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 3-4, 1976, pp. 97-98.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Norbert Krapf’s Finding the Grain: Pioneer Journals, Franconian Folktales, Ancestral Poems. Jasper, Indiana: Dubois Historical Society, 1977.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, 1978, inside and outside back cover.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Oskar Holl’s Fremdsprache: Deutsch; Deutschunterricht; Germanistik und deutsche Image in den USA: Ein Erfahrungsbericht. (Pullach bei Muenchen: Verlag Dokumentation, 1974).” German-American Studies, vol. 9, Spring 1975, pp. 61-63.
Abstract: Holzmann’s 3 page review states that Holl’s book is not a “Forschungsbericht,” but rather an “Erfahrungsbericht,” based on the author’s experience of teaching in the US and his interviews with over 100 students. The book covers such a range of topics as: the situation of foreign language study in America, the history of the American education system, and a critique of German instruction. Holzmann uses the review as a springboard to call for the inclusion of German-Americana into the field of study for American Germanists.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Paul Wasserman’s Ethnic Information Sources of the U.S. (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1976).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 3-4, 1976, p. 99.
Abstract: Tolzmann’s review states that Wassermann’s book identifies and describes sources of information for 89 U.S. ethnic groups, excluding “Blacks, Indians and Eskimos.”
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Reflections on a Heritage: The German-Americans in Southwestern Indiana. Darrel E. Bigham with Research Assistance from Charles F. Petranek. Evansville, Indiana, 1980. 32 pp.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, 1980.
Abstract: Tolzmann’s 3-page review provides a lengthy summary of Bigham’s pamphlet.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Robert R. Robinson-Zwahr’s Die Bremerverwandschaft in Deutschland und in Texas. Volume 1. Wichita, Texas: Nortex Press, 1977. 652 pp.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, 1978, outside back cover.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of Teutonic Visions of Social Perfection for Emerson: Verheissung und Erfuellung: A Documentary History of Peter Kaufmann’s Quest for Social Perfection from George Rapp to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edited by Karl J. R. Arndt. Worcester, MA: The Harmony Society Pr. 1988.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies. 1989, pp. 159-161.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Misssouri: A Survey of a Vanishing Culture. Raveswaay, Charles van. Columbis: University of Missouri Press, 1977.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, 1978, pp. 122-123.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of The German Forty-Eighters in America, edited by Charlotte L. Brancaforte. German Life and Civilization, vol. 1. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1990, pp. 219-221.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of The German-Speaking Forty-Eighters: Builders of Watertown, Wisconsin, by Charles J. Wallman. Madison: The Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1990, pp. 219-221.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “Review of The Story of German-American Involvement in the Founding and Development of America by Klaus Wurst and Norbert Muehlen. (National Carl Schurz Foundation: Phil., 1976).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, 1977, p. 75.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Tolzmann, Don H. “The Society for German-American Studies: The First Twenty Years.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 23, 1988, pp. 165-171.
Abstract: The history and development of the Society for German-American Studies is noted since its founding in 1968 and its subsequent substantial growth.
MKI Periodicals
German-American Studies/ German Americans — Societies, etc.

Tolzmann, Don H. “Teaching German-Americana.” Die Unterrichtspraxis, vol. 9, no. 2, 1976, pp. 14-18.
MKI P86-123 / MEM AP .U6137
German-American Studies/ Education

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. “The 300th Anniversary of the Reformation (1817) and its Implications for German Immigration to America.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. XLII, no. 4, September 2017, pp. 12-16.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Introduction — The Prussian Church Union — The Wartburg-Fest — [Impact of the Reformation anniversary of 1817 on German-American immigrants and immigration].
MKI Periodicals
Lutheran Church– Missouri Synod — History/ German Americans — Religion — History/ Immigrants, German

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. “Baron von Steuben: From Prussian Soldier of Fortune to Inspector General.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 36, no. 1, Dec. 2010, pp. 26-32, ill.
Notes: Presented at the Steuben Monument Centennial in Washington, D.C., 4 December 2010, sponsored by the Steuben Society of America. Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Draws upon biographical works of Steuben, beginning with the first by Friedrich Kapp, to examine how “packaging and marketing” helped this Prussian soldier of fortune to assume a position “which served to carry out into practice the projects which [General George] Washington conceived.”
MKI Periodicals
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm von, 1730-1794/ United States/ History/ 18th century/ Biographies

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. “Enemy Aliens vs. Innocent Immigrants.” Cobblestone, vol. 22, no. 5, May 2001, pp. 32-33, ill.
Notes: German Americans issue; intended for readers ages 9-14.
Abstract: Article aimed at readers ages 9-14 briefly examines anti-German sentiment during World War II.
MKI P2003-5
World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans/ Anti-German sentiment

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. “Exploring Eighteenth Century German-Americana with the Tools of the Twenty-First Century.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 59-71, ill.
Abstract: Examines electronic delivery of German-American texts through the Evans Digital Edition, an ongoing project to digitize all American imprints from the 17th and 18th centuries. Includes sample title pages.
MKI Periodicals
German Americana/ Research/ Publishing/ Book trade/ 18th century

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. “The German Heritage of Southern Illinois and Missouri.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 36, no. 2, Mar. 2011, pp. 14-23, ill.
Notes: Presented at a meeting of the German Special Interest Group in St. Louis, Missouri, co-sponsored by the German-American Heritage Society of St. Louis, 7 November 2010. Includes bibliographical notes.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ German Americans — Missouri

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. “German Settlements in the Midwest.” Cobblestone, vol. 22, no. 5, May 2001, pp. 10-12, ill.
Notes: German Americans issue; intended for readers ages 9-14.
Abstract: Article aimed at readers ages 9-14.
MKI P2003-5
German Americans — Ohio/ German Americans — Indiana/ German Americans — Illinois/ German Americans — Michigan/ German Americans — Minnesota/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. “The Germanic Museum, 1903-2003.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 24, no. 3, Sept. 2003, pp. 1-4, ill.
Notes: SGAS.
Abstract: Relates the life of Kuno Francke (1855-1930), Professor of the History of German Culture at Harvard, and his role in establishing the Germanic Museum, today called the Busch-Reisinger Museum, in Boston.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ Cultural contribution/ Arts/ Culture/ Germanists (US)/ Francke, Kuno, 1855-1930/ Museums/ German Americans

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. “The Germanic Museum at Harvard University.” German-American Journal, vol. 62, no. 1, Feb./Mar. 2014, pp. 5, 8, ill.
Notes: This article originally appeared at the website of the German-American Hall of Fame: www.gamhof.org.
MKI Periodicals
Cultural contribution/ Arts/ Culture/ Germanists (US)/ Francke, Kuno, 1855-1930/ Museums/ German Americans/ Busch, Adolphus/ Busch-Reisinger Museum — History

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. “The Land of Milk and Honey: Letters of Johann Bernard Meyer from America to Family in the Osnabrücker Nordland, 1835 and 1844.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. XLIII, no. 2, March 2018, pp. 11-17.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Introduction — The Author and his Letters — Letter from Johann Bernard Meyer to Gerhard Vahrmann, dated 6 December 1835 — Letter from Johann Bernard Meyer to his Mother, dated 12 June 1844.
MKI Periodicals
Letters/ Michigan/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Immigrants, German

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. “The Ohio Germans in the Civil War.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. XLIV, no. 3, June 2019, pp. 13-16.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Introduction — Germans in the Civil War (2010 Essay) — Cincinnati Germans in the Civil War — “Dutch Devils” — Conclusion (2019) — Book Reviews: Augustine Valintine Kautz, USA: Biography of Civil War Beneral / Laurence G. Kautz; A Young General and the Fall of Richmond: The Life and Career of Godfrey Weitzel / G. William Quatman.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Ohio/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. “Robert E. Ward (1937-2017): In Memoriam.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 51, 2016, pp. 3-4, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries/ Ward, Robert E., 1937-2017/ German-American Studies

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. “Thirty-Five Years of the Society for German-American Studies: A Chronology, 1968-2003.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 1-20, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Societies, etc./ History/ Society for German-American Studies

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. “Wilhelm Pfaender, a German Forty-Eighter and Turner Leader in Germany and America.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 39, no. 2, Mar. 2014, pp. 18-23, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical essay, notes, and references.
Abstract: Pfaender (1826-1905) “helped establish Turnvereine in Germany; Cincinnati, Ohio; and New Ulm, Minnesota. In 2009, a historical marker was erected in his honor in New Ulm, Minnesota.”
MKI Periodicals
Turners/ Societies, etc./ Pfaender, Wilhelm, 1826-1905/ German Americans — Minnesota/ Forty-eighters

Toman, Kurt, and Martha Brunner-Orne. “The Austro-American Association.” In Germans in Boston. Paul K. Ackermann, ed., 1981, p. 89.
Abstract: Founded in 1944, this association had the purpose of gathering together a group of people of Austrian extraction, to be mutually supportive in starting a new life in the United States.
MKI F73.9 .G3 G47 1981
German Americans — Other US states/ Societies, etc. / Ethnic groups — German-speaking

Tortora, Daniel J. “From Purrysburg to Prosperity on the Southern Frontier: Francis Pelot of South Carolina, 1720-1774.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 49, no. 1, Feb. 2013, pp. 1-19, ill.
Abstract: In 1734, the Pelot family left La Neuveville, a French-speaking medieval village in the canton of Bern, to come to South Carolina. This article offers information on the life and Baptist ministry of wealthy Francis Pelot, owner of slaves and plantations.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Switzerland/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Genealogy/ South Carolina/ de Pury/ Slavery/ 18th century/ Pelot/ German Americans — South Carolina

Toth, Carolyn. “Review of Letters from a German Family: The Bornemann Correspondence in Historical Context, by Alfred H. Bornemann. Croton, NY: Little Flame Press, 1988.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1989, pp. 161-162.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Toth, Carolyn. “Review of States of Progress: Germans and Blacks in America over 300 Years: Lectures from the Tricentennial of the Germantown Protest against Slavery, edited by Randall M. Miller. Philadelphia: The German Society of Pennsylvania, 1989.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1990, pp. 235-236.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Toth, Cathryn. “Review of Teaching German in America: Prolegomena to a History, edited by David P. Brenseler, Walter F.W. Lohnes, and Valters Nollendorfs.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 291-292.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Totten, Christine M. “Elusive Affinities: Acceptance and Rejection of the German-Americans.” In America and the Germans. Frank Trommler and Joseph McVeigh, eds. Vol. 2. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1985, pp. 185-203.
Abstract: This essay looks at three centuries of German immigration to the US and the degrees of public acceptance or rejection of the German-Americans. The cliche of the hardworking German, the arrival of revolutionary intellectuals after 1830 and 1848-49, influence of the press, induction of German music and literature into US culture, the devastation caused by WWI and WWII and scholarly organizations for German-American studies all contributed to US public opinion of German-Americans.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 A39 1985
German Americans/ Attitudes/ Assimilation/ Foreign public opinion/ Image/ Stereotypes/ United States/ Anti-German sentiment

Townley, Suzanne. “Agriculture in the New World: A Comparative Analysis of Rhenish Prussians and Other Immigrant Groups in Cross Plains, 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. 207-235, ill.
Abstract: Paper explores how well immigrants fared in the enterprise of acquiring good farmland and building a new life for themselves and their families by comparing the agricultural success of the Rhenish Prussians with that of other immigrant groups who settled in Cross Plains, Wisconsin.
MKI F590 G3 W573 2006
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.)/ 19th century

Townsend, Andrew Jacke. “The Germans of Chicago.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 32, 1932, pp. 1-153.
Abstract: Reprint of author’s Dissertation, Chicago, 1927
MKI / SHS F896 .8D4 v.32 (Cutter) and F896CA .T74 (Cutter)
Chicago (Ill.)/ German Americans — Illinois

Trefousse, Hans L. “Carl Schurz and the Indians.” Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, Spring 1984, pp. 109-120, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: In March 1877, when President Rutherford B. Hayes sent to the Senate his nomination of Carl Schurz for Secretary of the Interior, Republican party regulars were outraged. Schurz was accused of being an unrealistic dreamer, an impractical philosopher with no ability in business.
However, his tenure Secretary of the Interior is of considerable interest, both in the biography of Carl Schurz and in the history of the department. “Forceful, well connected, and literate, [Schurz] was able to introduce civil service reform and succeeded in ridding the Indian [Bureau] of many of its more corrupt officers. After at first mistakenly endorsing it, Schurz was able to reverse the outdated policy of concentrating the Indians on large reservations and pioneered in the attempt to integrate them into the mainstream of society. The experiment was not wholly successful and has had many critics, but at the time assimilation seemed the most humane path feasible. Schurz also laid the foundation for a national policy of conservation of natural resources, marking his administration as a period of great innovation.”
MKI P2018-15
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Native Americans/ United States — History/ Politics

Trefousse, Hans L. “Carl Schurz and the politics of identity.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 31, 1996, pp. 1-12.
Abstract: During his lifetime, Carl Schurz managed to fuse the identities of his heritage and his new environment. he had become a good American while yet retaining his affection for his German roots, a solution which served as an example to his countrymen, whose loyalty to the Union he was able to strengthen. His answer to the age-old question facing immigrants was a viable one, and it is as valid today as it was in the 1860s.
MKI periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Ethnic identity/ Assimilation/ Biographies/ Political activity

Trefousse, Hans L. “Carl Schurz: Myth and Reality.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 19, 1984, pp. 1-15.
Abstract: Trefousse’s article discusses the biographical information about Schurz, which does not correspond to the myth of the man as a “gentleman of the purest character, and as an able patriotic and scholarly statesman.” However, the article concludes by reconfirming the importance and accuracy of the myth.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ Myths/ Missouri/ 19th century/ Civil War, 1861-1865/ Politics

Trefousse, Hans L. “The Forty-Eighters and the sectional crisis: Carl Schurz as an example.” Gesellschaft und Diplomatie im transatlantischen Kontext: Festschrift für Reinhard R. Doerries zum 65. Geburtstag. Michael Wala, Hrsg. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999, pp. 27-38.
Abstract: The 1848 refugees from Germany to America were often highly educated, imbued with ideas of democracy, and eager to improve the world. They hoped to find utopia in the United States, or at least temporary shelter until conditions in Europe improved. In America, however, they were faced with the new dilemma of the American Union. This article examines how the 48ers dealt with the problems posed by the controversy leading to the Civil War and Reconstruction, using Carl Schurz as an example.
MKI E183.7 G47 1999
Forty-eighters/ Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Trefousse, Hans L. “Friedrich Hecker and Carl Schurz.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 33-42.
Abstract: Trefousse’s article provides a biography of both the German revolutionary Friedrich Hecker as well as of Carl Schurz. It argues against the claim that Hecker converted Schurz to the Republican party.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719/ Biographies/ Germany/ History/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Newspapers/ Letters/ Political activity/ Hecker, Friedrich, 1811-1881

Trenckmann, William A. “Christmas in Troubled Times.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 30, no. 4, Winter 2008, pp. 310-315.
Notes: Translated by Anders Saustrup. Originally printed in Round Top, Texas by the Friends of Winedale, 1976. Reprinted with permission of Mrs. Charles (Helen) Trenckmann of Austin. Original article appeared in German in the Wochenblatt Kalender fuer 1894/Beilage zu No. 11 des Bellville Wochenblatt/Jahrgang 3 (December 1893), pp. 8-13.
Abstract: From the translator’s preface: “William Andreas Trenckmann was a settled man of 34, married and father of three, when he wrote this memoir of a Texas-German Christmas. Two years earlier, in 1891, and with only two paid subscriptions in hand, he had started Das Bellville Wochenblatt, a weekly newspaper published in Bellville, Texas and intended for the neighboring Texas-German communities in which English was still a second language. . . . The setting [of this memoir] is the community of Millheim on Mill Creek in Austin county, where a number of Germans had settled in the 1840s and ’50s in reaction to their political and economic frustrations in Germany. . . . As the Civil War drew closer and finally broke out, these struggling, high-principled Texas-Germans were confronted with political and moral dilemmas beyond their comprehension and seemingly without solution: though opposed to slavery, would they still not have to accept that Texas–one of only three of the eleven states of the Confederacy to have a referendum on the matter–by majority vote had chosen to secede from the Union? Or should they put personal principle and conviction above community decision when an immoral cause was pursued? The Christmas memoir tells us what they did in actual practice. Friends and neighbors were divided; there were splits within families; some who remained loyal to their personal convictions fled to Mexico, while others felt equally obligated to serve in the Confederate Army.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Newspapers, German-American/ Christmas/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ 19th century

[Trent, William Peterfield.] “Non-English Writings I: German.” The Cambridge History of American Literature. William Peterfield Trent, ed. New York: Macmillan; Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1947, pp. 572-590.
Notes: Donated by Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr.
Abstract: Page headings: Pastorius; Kelpius — Early German Printing — Early Ministers and Missionaries — German Romances on America — Lyrics in German — Reitzel — Pennsylvania German — The German Theatre.
MKI P2007-33
German-American press/ America in German literature/ Theater & Drama/ Pennsylvania Germans/ Poetry

Trepte, Helmut. “Deutschtum in Ohio bis zum Jahre 1820.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 32, 1932, pp. 155-409.
Abstract: “Inaugural-Dissertation genehmigt von der philogisch-historischen Abteilung der Philosophischen Facultaet der Universitaetstat Leipzig zur Erlangung der philos. Doktorwuerde. von Helmut Trepte aus Dresden.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Ohio/ Ohio/ Settlements/ Communities/ 18th century/ 19th century/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Tritt, Donald, Amanda Crowley, and Jenna Settles. “Bibliography of the Donald G. Tritt Swiss Library.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 49, no. 3, Nov. 2013, pp. [1]-94.
Abstract: The Donald G. Tritt Library for Swiss-American Studies is a non-circulating collection of more than 10,000 volumes, pamphlets, videos, prints, maps, and manuscripts housed at The Swiss Center of North America located in New Glarus, Wisconsin.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ New Glarus (Wis.)/ Cultural contribution/ Bibliographies/ Switzerland

Trommler, Frank. “Bridging intellectual and mass cultures across the Atlantic.” The German-American encounter: Conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000. Frank Trommler and Elliott Shore, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001, pp. 256-266.
MKI/MEM E 183.8 G3 G472 2001
20th century/ United States/ Germany/ Social life and customs/ Social influence/ Cultural influence

Trommler, Frank. “Establishing German-American Studies in the Nineteenth Century: a Philadelphia Story.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 52, 2017, pp. 25-42.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Building on the “invention of ethnicity” (Kathleen Conzen) as an effort by German-American leaders to overcome ethnic insecurity, this paper traces the anchoring of German-American identity in ancestry and tradition, and a scholarly understanding of that history.
MKI Periodicals
German-American Studies/ Genealogy / 19th century

Troup, Alexander. “C. W. Heppner: A Visionary for the German-American People of Dallas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 72-74.
Abstract: C. W. Heppner came to the United States in 1883. The 1920 census lists his occupation as builder; by 1930 he was a furniture merchant living at Western Heights, now West Dallas. Heppner helped organize the Sons of Hermann located on Elm Street on 1910, and is also known for his work with the Trinity River Levee and Drainage Club.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Dallas (Tex.)/ Heppner, C. W.

Troup, Alexander M. “The German-Americans of Dallas, Texas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 46-49.
Abstract: Discusses lodges and societies established in Dallas, particularly the Sons of Hermann, and the discovery of items found at three locations in the Swiss Avenue and Elm Street (or “Deep Ellum” area) that provided a glimpse into the German-speaking community of the mid-1900s.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Dallas (Tex.)/ Societies, etc./ Swiss Americans — Texas

Trout, Jennifer L. “The Comprehensive Pennsylvania German Dictionary Brings Back Memories.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 139-142.
Notes: The Language and Culture of the Pennsylvania Germans: A Festschrift for Earl C. Haag. Edited by William D. Keel and C. Richard Beam.
Abstract: Trout was a co-editor of C. Richard Beam’s dictionary. Here she explains the impact the work has had on her life, particularly how words remind her of her Pennsylvania Dutch grandparents.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Dictionaries

Trout, Jennifer L. “A German-Pennsylvanian Association Project: Pennsylvania German Place Names.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, Fall 2006, p. 15.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Names, Geographical — Pennsylvania German/ Pennsylvania Dutch

Trout, Jennifer L. “Saffran or Saff(e)rich Among the Pennsylvania Dutch of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter 2006, pp. 3-7, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: The author describes her own family’s experiences with the growing, picking, cleaning, and use of saffron.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Horticulture & Gardening

Troyer, Emanuel A. “Holmes County From the Rocking Chair.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer 2010, pp. 3-19.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Transcription by Mattie Lowry of stories told by her father, Emanuel A. Troyer, who dictated an account of Holmes County, Pennsylvania, history almost entirely in Pennsylvania Dutch. Mr. Troyer, an Amish farmer for most of his life, includes information on the roles played by dogs and horses in Amish life, Amish education in one-room grade schools, the interaction of Amish with their neighbors, the frequency with which the Amish move from house to house, the manner in which the Holmes County Amish prepare for their bi-weekly religious services, and young Amish men as conscientious objectors during the world wars.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Memoirs/ 20th century/ Amish/ Education/ History

Troyer, Les. “High Expectations for an Amish Settlement in Burkes Garden.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, Summer 1999, p. 8, map.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Troyer’s investigation, originally printed in The Budget in 1998, of a failed Amish settlement in Burkes Garden, Virginia.
MKI Periodicals
Amish — Virginia/ Settlements

Troyer, Les. “Vitae Curriculum.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, Summer 1999, pp. 9-10, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Autobiographical information on Les Troyer, who was “born into the Amish world [and] made his mark on the international community.”
MKI Periodicals
Amish/ Autobiography

True, John Henry. “My Memories of Growing Up in German Davenport [Part 1].” Infoblatt, vol. 8, no. 2, Spring 2003, pp. 5-8, ill.
Abstract: True (1905-1979) describes his childhood years between 1910 and 1917, when Davenport’s German culture was still prevalent.
MKI Periodicals
Davenport (Iowa)/ German Americans — Iowa/ 20th century

True, John Henry. “My Memories of Growing Up in German Davenport [Part 2].” Infoblatt, vol. 8, no. 3, Summer 2003, pp. 5-8, ill.
Notes: Italicize Vogelschiessen.
Abstract: True (1905-1979) describes his childhood years between 1910 and 1917, when Davenport’s German culture was still prevalent. In this article he discusses his grandfather’s grocery story, band concerts at Schuetzenpark, the Turngemeinde’s Vogelschiessen (bird shoot), and examples of childhood patriotism.
MKI Periodicals
Davenport (Iowa)/ German Americans — Iowa/ 20th century

Truesdale, Jackson. “Scraps of History.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, Winter 1997, pp. 10-15, maps.
Notes: Millersville University. Newspaper columns originally published in The Mahoning Dispatch between 1897 and 1900. Supplemented by two maps by Richard Ulrich.
Abstract: History of Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio.
MKI Periodicals
Canfield (Ohio)/ History/ Ohio — Mahoning County/ Immigrants, German/ German Americans — Ohio/ Pennsylvania Dutch

Tscharner, Benedict de. Albert Gallatin (1761-1849): Geneva’s American Statesman. (Albert Gallatin (1761-1849): Ein Genfer im Dienste der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika). Pregny-Geneve [Switzerland]: Museum of the Swiss Abroad; Gollion [Switzerland]: editions Infolio & Editions de Penthes, 2008. 152 pp., ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [144]-152). Donated by Swiss-American Historical Society, 2008.
Abstract: Gallatin left Geneva at age nineteen “to discover America and get a taste of freedom. Even though he lived in the back country of Pennsylvania, his political career progressed rapidly, first as a congressman, then as Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Jefferson and Madison. . . . To finish the war of 1812 with Great Britain, Gallatin was charged with negotiating the Treaty of Ghent. . . . His years of retirement were filled with intensive activity: Gallatin chaired a bank, founded a university and undertook research into the languages of Native American tribes.”
WHS/MKI P2008-6
Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849/ Swiss Americans/ Biographies/ United States/ Politics

Turbes, Donna. “Primary Evidence of German and Swiss Origins: Eighteenth Century Documents.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, Fall 2002, pp. 6-7.
Abstract: A summary of a presentation given by Annette Burgert at the German Genealogy Society’s 2002 Spring Conference: “The records that may name villages of origin for the large group of German-speaking immigrants arriving before the Revolutionary War can be divided into three main groups based on their location–in American records, in immigrants’ possession, and in European records.”
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Emigration and immigration / 18th century/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Turbes, Donna Hollerung. “The Brown County Historical Society: A genealogical gem in southwestern Minnesota.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, Summer 2001, pp. 8-9.
Abstract: Information on the Society’s holdings; contact information, hours, and fees; and website address.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ German Americans — Minnesota

Turbes, Donna Hollerung. “Emigrants from Kreis Malmedy, Prussian Rhineland, to North America, 1843-1907.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring 2001, pp. 5-9.
Notes: “This list of emigrants was originally published as part of an article by Karl Leopold Kaufmann…in Nachrichtenblatt fuer rheinische Heimatpflege, Jahrgang 12:3 (1940), pp. 355-360” [not held by MKI]; “these emigrants are listed in the 1990 Supplement to Passenger and Immigration Lists Index” [*MKI CS 68 .P362 Suppl. 1986-90].
Abstract: Entries, arranged chronologically, provide year of emigration, village name, emigrant’s first initial and surname, age, marital status, and accompanying family members (occupation is sometimes listed). Index of surnames appears at end of article.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Turbes, Donna Hollerung. “A Guide to Resources of Wuerttemberg.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 7, no. 4, Winter 2004, pp. 5-10, ill.
Abstract: Describes resources specific to Wuerttemberg, including U.S. immigration records, gazetteers and maps, the Family History Library Web site, research guides, church and civil records, emigration and immigration resources, compiled genealogies (the works of Max Cramer, Deutsche Geschlechterbuecher, and the Faber Collection), materials related to history and geography, village genealogies, periodicals, and internet sources.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Research/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Baden-Wuerttemberg

Turbes, Donna Hollerung. “The Internet and Germanic Family-History Research.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 18-22.
Abstract: Overview of genealogy search engines, databases, societies, periodicals, archives, and emigration sites and sources. Includes a glossary of German words pertinent to genealogy Web sites.
MKI Periodicals
Family History/ Genealogy/ Databases/ Research

Turbes, Donna Hollerung. “Overlooked and Underused Resources for German Genealogy.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 12-15.
Abstract: Examines English-language Germanic genealogy periodicals, general-interest genealogy periodicals, German-language genealogy periodicals, local and state genealogical and historical society libraries, university and public libraries, printed books, digitized books, authors and speakers, and Web sites.
MKI Periodicals
Family History/ Genealogy/ Bibliographies/ Databases

Turbes, Donna Hollerung. “Researching Your 19th-Century Alsatian Immigrant.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 5-11.
Abstract: “Since Alsace [Elsass] belonged to France and to Germany at different times, Alsatian documents can be in Latin, German, or French.” Includes a brief history of Alsace; how to identify Alsatian immigrants using U.S. records; useful emigration records; Alsatian research basics; Alsatian place names; Alsatian civil, church, census, and military records; printed resources; genealogical collections; and Web sites.
MKI Periodicals
Family History/ Genealogy/ Bibliographies/ Databases/ Alsace

Turbes, Donna Hollerung. “Resources for Writing Family History.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 12-13.
Abstract: Bibliography of print and other sources.
MKI Periodicals
Family History/ Genealogy/ Writing/ Bibliographies

Turbes, Donna Hollerung. “Surnames from Kreis Malmedy found in Brown County, Minnesota, and St. Croix County, Wisconsin.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, Summer 2001, pp. 7.
Notes: “This article is a follow up to ‘Emigrants from Kreis Malmedy, Prussian Rhineland, to North America, 1843-1907.'”
Abstract: Lists 14 surnames for Brown County, Minnesota, and six for St. Croix County, Wisconsin, as discovered in indexes to naturalization records.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ German Americans — Minnesota/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Genealogy/ Naturalization

Turbes, Donna Hollerung, and Lois Edwards. “Ahnendaten: A German Ancestor Database.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 18-21, ill.
Abstract: “Ahnendaten [ancestor data] at <www.ahnendaten.de> provides a searchable genealogy database of German (and some non-German) individuals and families.”
MKI Periodicals
Family History/ Genealogy/ Databases/ Research

Turbes, Donna Hollerung, and Edwards Lois. “Catholic Church Records: A Closer Look.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 12-15, 22-23, ill.
Abstract: Includes: Which areas have microfilmed records?; locating the parish; civil records; finding the records; languages; record formats; reading the records.
MKI Periodicals
Family History/ Genealogy/ Research/ Catholic Church

Turk, Eleanor L. “The Business of Emigration: The Role of the Hamburg Senate Commission on Emigration, 1850-1900.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1989, pp. 27-40.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and Immigration

Turk, Eleanor L. “Germans In Kansas. Review Essay.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, vol. 28, Spring 2005, pp. 44-71, ill.
Notes: Printed from the Internet.
Abstract: Examines the history of “the thousands upon thousands of Europeans, lured by the prospects of land and independence, who chose to leave their ancient homeland for the challenges of the American frontier.” Focusing mainly on ethnic Germans, Turk looks at the rich literature that already exists and suggests areas in need of further study-the possibilities are especially rich for scholars interested in “European Germans,” as opposed to the Germans from Russia who have received much more scholarly attention through the years.
MKI P2007-18
German Americans — Kansas/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ History/ United States — History/ Newspapers, German-American/ Immigrants, German/ Immigrants, Swiss/ Russian Germans

Turk, Eleanor L. “The Immigrant Experience in Kansas, 1860-1900: Considerations of Methodology for a Comparative Study of German Immigrants in Atchison and Wabaunsee Counties, Kansas.” In Papers from the St. Olaf Symposium on German-Americana. La Vern J. Rippley and Steven M. Benjamin, eds., 1980, pp. 113-129.
Abstract: Much of our formal understanding of ethnicity in America has been limited to the urban viewpoint. The author investigated German immigration to Kansas from the point of view of rural social history. She examined the experience of immigrants from Central Europe who came after the mid-nineteenth century and made their way to settle in Kansas: in Atchison and Wabaunsee Counties
MKI P85-85
German Americans — Kansas/ History

Turk, Eleanor L. “Prince Henry’s royal welcome: German-American response to the visit of the Kaiser’s brother, 1902.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 33, 1998, pp. 127-138.
Abstract: In these early days of the 20th century, the celebration of Prince Henry’s visit gave no hint of the future animosity between the two nations, or of the suffering which German-Americans would experience because of it. The American moguls and the German-Americans of all levels shared in the festivities.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Festivals

Turnbull, Cliff. “Three Ancestors from Cammin and Regenwalde.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 25-27.
Abstract: Tracing three names — Kufalk, Krause, and Ohm — from the former Kreis Cammin and Kreis Regenwalde. The Kufalks and Krauses came by boat to Milwaukee; the Ohm name appears in southern Wisconsin.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Pomerania/ Krause/ Kufalk/ Ohm

Twaddell, James E. “A Photographic Study of the Byerstown Woodwork Shop.” Historic Schaefferstown Record, vol. 16, no. 3, 1982.
Abstract: Amish-Mennonite; buggies
MKI P86-152
Folklore/ Mennonites/ Amish

Uebelherr, Jan. “One Hundred Years of ‘The Settlement’: Classic Cookbook Began with Humble Mission of Assimilating Immigrants.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 18, 2001.
Article text copied from e-mail and printed, 7 pp.; italicize book title.
The Way to a Man’s Heart: The Settlement Cook Book was first published in Milwaukee in 1901 under the guidance of Lizzie Black Kander. The book taught young Jewish immigrant women how to take care of a household while also helping them to assimilate into American society. Include recipes from the cookbook.
MKI P2003-17
Jews, German/ Assimilation/ Cookbooks/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Kander, Lizzie Black

Ueberhorst, Horst. Turners und Sozialdemokraten in Milwaukee. Fuenf Jahrzehnte der Kooperation (1910-1960). Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
Notes: Vortrag vor dem Gespraechskreis “Politik und Wissenschaft” des Forschungsinstituts der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn am 26. Maerz 1980; donation from Juergen Eichhoff.
Abstract: There were five decades of continuing cooperation between Turners and Social Democrats in Milwaukee. This period began with Emil Seidel’s electoral victory in 1910. This was preceded by the organizational work of Victor Berger and Eugene V. Debs with the Social Democratic Party (1897). Despite various tensions and disagreements within the party, it was always the solidarity of Social Democrats in Milwaukee and in Wisconsin which delivered the most important condition for their electoral victories. The contributions of Daniel Hoan and Frank P. Zeidler are discussed. Zeidler’s organizational and ideological leanings toward the Turners merely result from his many years of ideal cooperation based on concepts of social reform as set forth in the ‘Turner Principles’. After the Turner Society abridged the old principles the attachment to social and ethical values declined. In no other American city have German Americans played such an important role in shaping local politics as in Milwaukee. Here German Americans participated in the Turner movement as well as in the political reforms as Social Democrats (where they played a leading role).
MKI P2001-14
Turners/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Socialism

Uhland, Robert. “Grundgedanken der Ausstellung.” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen, 1976, pp. 15-17.
Abstract: Eine Zusammenfassung der Planung einer Ausstellung anlaesslich des 200. Jahrestages der Unabhaengigserklaerung, Suedwestdeutschland und die USA.
Eine Anregung des Auswaertigen Amts in Bonn, man moege sich in Deutschland an den Veranstaltungen beteiligen, die aus Anlass des 200. Jahrestags der Unabhaengigkeitserklaerung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika abgehalten werden, war fuer die Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Wuerttemberg Anlass, in Geminschaft mit dem Institut fuer Auslandsbezeihungen in Stuttgart eine Ausstellung ueber die geschichtlichen Beziehungen Suedwestdeutschlands zu den USA ins Auge zu fassen.
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Revolution, 1775-1783/ Relations, Germany-US/ Exhibitions

Uhland, Robert. “Max Kade (1882-1967).” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen, 1976, pp. 97-98.
Abstract: Included in section “Lebensbilder von Deutsch-Amerikanern aus dem deutschen Suedwesten”
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Biographies

Uhland, Robert. “Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854-1899).” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen, 1976, pp. 93-95.
Abstract: Included in section “Lebensbilder von Deutsch-Amerikanern aus dem deutschen Suedwesten”
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Biographies

Uhler, David. “Area German Choirs Strive to Preserve Musical Traditions.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 26, no. 7, Winter 2004, pp. 411-412, ill.
Notes: Reprinted from the San Antonio Express News, May 19, 2004.
Abstract: “Although fewer than a dozen German singing groups still exist in central and south Texas, those that survive are sometimes bigger than they were in their heydays.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Songs/ Societies, etc.

Uhler, David. “University Researchers Are Trying to Record State’s Unique, and Dying, German Language.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 27, no. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 176-180.
Notes: From the San Antonio Express-News (online).
Abstract: Reports on efforts by researchers from the University of Texas Germanic Studies Department to record speakers of Texas-German dialects. In 1910, Texas had 110,000 residents who spoke German as their first language. Today, there are fewer than 8,000 native Texas German speakers.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Linguistics/ Texas/ Language, German (US)/ Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Uiberall, Ernest Ernst Peter. Sieben Kurzgeschichten. [S.l.]: Selbstverlag, 1981. [24] pp.
Notes: Donated by J Tiedemann; the following may refer to the author: “one of the longest-serving interpreters at the Nuremberg Trials, Austrian-born Peter Uiberall, had worked as a stock clerk and farm laborer in the United States after leaving Austria as a refugee in 1938”; also Ueberall [Überall].
Abstract: Short stories written in 1934 under various pseudonyms and which originally appeared in Austrian, German, and Swiss newspapers and magazines: “Begegnung im Quartier Latin,” “Der Spleen des Reginald Stirling,” “Andre,” “Mac und Jeff,” “Ehephotoskop,” “Glühende Farben,” and “Das Modell.”
MKI P2003-2
PIA/ Fiction

Ullrich, Vicky. “Louisville German-American Gesangverein [Louisville’s Bloody Monday, August 6, 1855].” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 29, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 13-15, ill.
Notes: SGAS.
Abstract: “The society’s Auxiliary. . .sponsored the presentation of the drama “Necessity Knows No Law — The Lives and Liberties of Bloody Monday,” a short play about an immigrant’s experiences during the bloody riots in Louisville on August 6, 1855. It is a dramatic presentation derived from memoirs written by eyewitnesses to the events, and presented by members of the Kentucky Historical Society. In the mid 1800s, the American Nativists (also known as ‘Know Nothings’) were convinced that the newly arrived (German, Irish, and other Catholic) immigrants would undermine the American way of life. In cities across this country, there was unrest. . . . Louisville’s ‘Bloody Monday’ election day rioting in August 1855 was certainly among the most violent outbreaks, with 22 confirmed deaths.” Details the events in the German and Irish districts of Louisville during the riot.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Kentucky/ History/ Louisville (Ky.)/ Anti-German sentiment/ Immigrants

Ulrich, Richard. “An Early History of Canfield [Ohio]. Chapter IV, Canfield in the New State of Ohio, 1803 to 1805.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, Winter 1997, pp. 17-18.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Canfield (Ohio)/ History/ Ohio — Mahoning County/ Immigrants, German/ German Americans — Ohio/ Pennsylvania Dutch

Uttman, Magdalena Tellenbach. “Perceiving Germanness—Changing Concepts of German Culture and History as Seen from Abroad: A Swedish and an American Perspective.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wales, 2003. 218 pp., ill.
Notes: Submitted to the University of Wales in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Anthropology; donated by the author, 2004.
Abstract: “The aim of this study was to investigate the dynamics of perceptions of Germanness during the last hundred years, from a Swedish and an American perspective, and how time and distance affect ethnic identity, as experienced from without and within. Field research was undertaken in two places during a year: Milwaukee in Wisconsin, United States, and Sweden as a whole. These two choices were considered as good examples of different connections to Germany and Germans, and influences of Germanness, and constituted a relevant comparison. The material was collected through participant observation, interviews, archive material such as personal documents, and old newspapers. The research was explorative through empirical methods, and the data collected is of qualitative character. This thesis has brought out some interesting and important aspects of identity, and more specifically about perceiving Germanness. Perceptions have emerged in both static images, and dynamic processes of events or developments in history. The world wars caused damage to German identity, especially the First World War to Germanness in America. The Second World War, and especially the Holocaust, has had a great effect in both countries. But also less dramatic events influenced perceptions of Germanness. At the same time as perceptions have changed completely due to certain events, there have been parallel perceptions upheld by different groups in society. Many of the stereotyped ideas of Germanness have been the same during the last hundred years, and changes in perceptions have often stayed within similar categories. Certain events or processes have made it difficult to be German at times, but expressing ethnic identity also depends on social developments such as multiculturalism.”
MKI dissertations
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Culture/ Cultural influence/ Ethnic identity/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Sociology/ Anthropology

V., A. Gottes Endplan mit der Welt. 2. Aufl. Cleveland, Ohio: Baptist Publication Society, n.d. 96 pp., ill.
MKI P89-74
PIA/ Theological

Vallaster-Dona, Elfe, and Elena Chandler. “German-American Literary Reviews.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 41, 2006, pp. 169-173.
Abstract: Reviews of Pictorial Conversations: On Margot Scharpenberg’s Iconic Poetry by Reinhold Grimm; Hitlers unwilliger Soldat: Memoiren eines jungen Deutschen vor und waehrend des Zweiten Weltkriegs by Konrad Kircher with Andy Kircher; Looking for God’s County and Invisible Presence by Norbert Krapf.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews/ Poetry

Vallaster-Dona, Elfe, and Gert Niers. “German-American Literary Reviews.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 151-161.
Abstract: Reviews of Von Partituren, Lesezeichen, und so weiter: 60 Bilder mit 12 Collagen und Umschlagbild von Annegret Heinl by Margot Scharpenberg; StadtFluchten, CityEscapes: Selected Poems by Claudia Becker; Wooden Shoe Hollow: Charlotte Pieper’s Cincinnati German Novel edited by Don Heinrich Tolzmann; New Occassions of Sin by Stuart Friebert; and The Country I Come From: Poems by Norbert Krapf.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews/ Poetry

Vallaster, Elfe. “Review of Belles Lettres: Informative Definitionen by Rita Terras, Santa Fe, Etc. Etc. Etc.: Gedichte & Skizzen/Poems & Sketches by Peter Pabisch, Noch vor dem juengsten Tag: Ausgewaehlte Gedichte und Essays by Ernst Waldinger, and Deutschschreibende Autoren in Nordamerika: Gedichte edited by Lisa Kahn abd Werner Kitzler.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 283-290.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Vallaster, Elfe. “Review of Der Morgen leicht wie eine Feder: Gedichte, by Peter Pabisch. Lyrik aus Oesterreich, vol. 47. Baden bei Wien: G. Grasl, 1989.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1990, pp. 221-226.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Vallaster, Elfe. “Review of Sioux und andere Er-Fahrungen, by Peter Pabisch. Deutschschreibende Autoren in Nordamerika, vol. 1. Vermillion, SD: University of South Dakota, 1989.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1990, pp. 221-226.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Vallaster-Safriet, Elfe. “Review Essay: Belles Lettres 1988.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1989, pp. 149-158.
Notes: Four works are examined: 1) Margot Scharpenberg, Verlegte Zeiten: 25 Gedichte angeregt durch das Frankfurter Museum fuer Vor- und Fruehgeschichte–Archaeologisches Museum. Duisburg: Gilles & Francke, 1988; 2) Lisa Kahn, KPHTH: fruchtbar und anmutsvoll. Berlin: Klaunig, 1988; 3) Richard Exner, Ein halber Himmel: Gedichte. Muenchen: Schneekluth, 1988; 4) Ed. and trans. by Norbert Krapf, Beneath the Cherry Sapling: Legends from Franconia. New York: Fordham Univ. Pr., 1988.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Van de Luyster, Nelson. “Gerstaecker’s Novels about Emigrants to America.” American German Review, vol. 20, no. 5, 1954, pp. 22-23, 36.
MKI P93-92
Gerstaecker, Friedrich, 1816-1872/ Literary criticism/ Fiction

Van Ells, Mark D. “How Milwaukee’s German-Americans faced down fascism eighty years ago.” Milwaukee Independent, March 17, 2017.
Abstract: In the 1930s, the Wisconsin Federation of German-American Societies opposed the fascist German-American Bund.
Web post
Anti-German sentiment| German Americans — Wisconsin| German-American Bund| Milwaukee (Wis.)| National Socialism| Societies, etc| World War 1939-1945

Van Winkle, Irene. “Leinweber Family Stays True to Its Name.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 34, no. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 48-50, ill.
Notes: Originally appeared in the West Kerr Current.
Abstract: Jacob Leinweber, his wife Catherine Schnieder Leinweber, and their six children left Holzhausen, Rheinland-Pfalz, in the mid-1800s for Texas. Jacob died en route between San Antonio and Castroville; the rest of the family settled in Vandenburg, Medina County.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Leinweber

Vanchena, Lorie A. “Interview with Armin Hadamer.” German-American and German-Canadian Studies Discussion Network, H-GAGCS@h-net.msu.edu, Mar. 8, 2007. 5 pp.
Abstract: Interview with Hadamer about his dissertation, “Mimetischer Zauber: Die englischsprachige Rezeption deutscher Lieder in den USA, 1830-1880” (Ph.D. Diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 2005).
MKI P2007-10
German Americans/ Cultural exchange/ Music/ Literature, German

Vanchena, Lorie A. “Prince Maximilian and Karl Bodmer in German America.” German-American and German-Canadian Studies Discussion Network, H-GAGCS@h-net.msu.edu, Mar. 10, 2007. 2 pp.
Abstract: Notes to generate discussion “about explorers, scientists, artists, and writers from the German-speaking regions of Europe who visited North America in the first decades of the nineteenth century. . . . Prince Maximilian of Wied (1782-1867). . .conducted an expedition from 1832 to 1834 to study the flora, fauna, and native cultures along the upper Missouri frontier. He hired Swiss artist Karl Bodmer (1809-1893) to accompany him and create a visual record of the subjects he planned to study.”
MKI P2007-10
German Americans/ 19th century/ America/ United States, Foreign opinion — German/ Travel in literature/ Germans

[varies]. “[A collection of articles about small, local beers, brewing and breweries with German ties.].” [varies[, [varies]. p. [varies].
[Miscellaneous articles about beer, brewing and breweries in the United States as related to German-American influence.]
Contents: Captain Pabst Seabird IPA (Wisconsin State Journal, Jan. 26, 2020) —
MKI P2020-11
Breweries/ History/ Beer/ German Americans

Verenkotte, Christoph. “Emigration and mobility today — Preparing for the stay abroad as a social responsibility.” In: Jetzt wohnst du in einem freien Land; Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch, vol. 39, no. 3, 1989, pp. 369-373.
Notes: The articles are in German.
Abstract: Zwischen 50 000 und 60 000 Bundesbuerger verlegen jaehrlich ihren Wohnsitz ins Ausland. Die ueber siebzig Auswandererberatungsstellen im gesamten Bundesgebiet verzeichnen im Schnitt sogar 140 000 Beratungen im Jahr. Statistisch also gibt es Auswanderung auch heute. Aber in welcher Form?
Je enger die Welt zusammenwaechst, je wichtiger der Austausch zwischen den Staaten und Voelkern fuer das Zusammenleben aller Menschen wird, desto wichtiger wird auch die Vorbereitung auf das Ausland. Dem muss sich auch der Staat vermehrt stellen. Die Bedeutung dieser sozialen Aufgabe wird weiter zunehmen.
MKI JV 8014 .J47 1989
Emigration and immigration / 20th century/ Employment

Verikas, Elizabeth. “Die Ostertuete, die Schultuete. Memories of school days in Germany.” The German Connection, vol. 17, no. 2, 1993, pp. 38-39.
Abstract: Tradition of the Easter grab-bag, the first day of school grab bag for first graders in Germany. Short mention of how school life was organized in West Prussia, and mention of German kindergartens which were strictly play schools.
MKI periodicals
Germany/ Social life and customs

Vetter, Marianne, and Liz Hicks. “In Search of Christian Schifferling.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 33, no. 3, Fall 2011, pp. 154-158, ill.
Abstract: Marianne Vetter of Bern, Switzerland, owns family letters written during the 1850s by her great-great-great uncle, Christian Schifflering. Christian was born in 1828 in Eckartsweier, Baden. Family stories speculated that Christian did not get along with his step-mother, and he left for America in 1849, where he enlisted in the U.S. Army. This article provides three translated letters from Christian, one dated 1851 and two dated 1852. The letters include descriptions of military life and the Texas landscape, as well as some anti-Semitism and the difficulties of making a life in America: “Nobody in Germany knows how it truly is here. Most of the people who are here do not dare to write the truth because they are ashamed of it. If somebody has found a place where he earns a little bit of money, he has to work sore [very hard] for it. One illness is enough to take away the little money you put aside. . . . This here is the land of freedom, but it is also the land where nobody gives a damn about the other one.” Additional information was discovered by Liz Hicks in searches of military records at the National Archives: Christian’s occupation was as a tailor, he served in the Civil War in the 47th Ohio Infantry, Company H. He received a disability discharge in 1880, “broken down in line of duty through exposure and hardships due to the service and old age.” He died in 1893 at the Soldiers Home in Washington, DC, and is buried in the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery.
MKI Periodicals
Letters/ Soldiers/ German Americans — Texas/ Native Americans/ United States, Foreign opinion — German/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Viehmeyer, Allen. Personal Collection of German-American Imprints. [2002]. 53 pp.
Abstract: Listing of some 500 German-language imprints published in the United States between 1739 and 1920 in the personal library of Allen Viehmeyer.
MKI P2006-2
Bibliographies/ German Americana/ Publishing/ German-American press

Viehmeyer, Allen. “Schwenkfelder Literacy and Education to 1842.” The ABCs of German American Education in Pennsylvania Prior to the Public School Movement of 1834: A Symposium, 34 pp.
Notes: June 30, 2007 at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, Pennsburg, PA.
MKI P2007-47
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Education/ 18th century/ Pennsylvania Germans

Viehmeyer, L. Allen. “The Bruderlied and the Schwesterlied of the Ephrata Cloister.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 31, 1996, pp. 121-136.
Abstract: The brothers and sisters of the Ephrata Cloister community had been writing and publishing congregational hymns for many years when the so-called Bruderlied and Schwesterlied were published in 1756. These two “hymns” are unique in the history of hymn writing at the cloister. Their uniqueness lies in their collaborative approach, parallelism, length, musical setting and, more intriguingly, their editing history.
MKI periodicals
Ephrata/ Hymns/ Religious works

Viehmeyer, L. Allen. “Harold Gottfried Carlson: In Memoriam.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 193-194.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, German-American

Vieker, Jon D. “C. F. W. Walther, Editor of Missouri’s First and Only German Hymnal.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 2, Summer 1992, pp. 53-69, ill.
Abstract: Includes information on Walther’s musical background and background on his editorship of the “Kirchengesangbuch fuer evangelisch-lutherische Gemeinde ungeaenderter Augsburgischer Confession,” and examines European sources for the 1847 hymnal.
MKI Periodicals
Walther, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm/ Biographies/ Religious life/ Lutherans/ Songs/ Missouri/ Music/ Hymns

Viereck, Georg Sylvester. “Udo Brachvogel, Deutsch-Amerikas groesster Balladendichter.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 397-398.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
Literature, German-American/ Poetry

Viereck, L. “Zwei Jahrhunderte deutschen Unterrichts in den Vereinigten Staaten.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 273-286.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
Education/ Language, German (US)/ Teaching of German

Viereck, Wolfgang, and Juergen Eichhoff. “Bibliographie zur Erforschung der deutschen Mundarten und Sprachvarianten in den Vereinigten Staaten.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 267-305.
Abstract: Extensive bibliography covering research of German dialects and language changes in the United States.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)/ Bibliographies

Vines, Mary Jo. “A Pioneer Poet of Texas.” American German Review, vol. 14, no. 5, 1948, pp. 28-30.
Abstract: Short biographical sketch and poems. Her writings show the reactions of a woman of refinement to the events of her time. Weisselberg, Marie Anna, 1835-1911.
MKI P93-93
Biographies/ Literary criticism/ Poetry/ Women authors/ Texas/ Literature, German-American

Vogelsanger, David. “Swiss in the American Civil War: a forgotten chapter of our military history.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 51, no. 3, November 2015, pp. 40-43.
Notes: Author is Ambassador of Switzlerland to New Zealand at the time of publication.
Abstract: The author’s short description of the roles of men of Swiss origins serving in the War Between the States, a reprint of material submitted for publication in the June 2015 issue.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Civil War, 1861-1865

Voigt, Frieda. “Kurt Baum: German Poet in Milwaukee.” Historical Messenger of the Milwaukee County Historical Society, vol. 24, no. 3, 1968, pp. 73-79, ill.
Notes: German-American author.
Abstract: Baum, Kurt, 1876-1962, Poet. Includes a portrait of the author.
MKI P84-81 / SHS F 587 .M6 H5/24
Biographies/ Literature, German-American/ Poetry/ Literary criticism/ Milwaukee (Wis.)

Voigt, Frieda. “Letters and Postcards to my Husband from Oskar Marie Graf and Julius Bab.” German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1971, pp. 24-45.
Abstract: Photocopies of many hand-written letters are included. Voigt, Rudolf, 1899-1956/Voigt, Frieda
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Letters

Voigt, Johannes H. “The risks of emigration overseas and reactions of German governments in the period between 1848 and the formation of Norddeutscher Bund.” In: Jetzt wohnst du in einem freien Land; Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch, vol. 39, no. 3, 1989, pp. 243-249.
Notes: The articles are in German.
Abstract: Die Auswanderung nach ueberseeischen Laendern war fuer die Auswandernden bis zur Einrichtung von Dampferverbindungen mit vielfachen Risiken verbunden: mit Gefahren fuer “Leib und Leben” auf der langen Seereise, mit der Gefahr finanziellen Betrugs durch die Auswanderer-Agenten, mit der Moeglichkeit der Taeuschung ueber das Einwanderungsland, mit der Aussicht, im Falle einer Rueckwanderung keine Bleibe mehr in der alten Heimat zu finden und aehnlichem.
MKI JV 8014 .J47 1989
Emigration and immigration / Atlantic crossing/ Germans

Voigt, Karsten D. “Germany and the United States in the Euro-Atlantic community.” The German-American encounter: Conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000. Frank Trommler and Elliott Shore, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001, pp. 248-255.
MKI/MEM E 183.8 G3 G472 2001
20th century/ United States/ Germany/ Politics

Voigt, Rudolf. “Die Krippe.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1971, pp. 23-24.
Abstract: This is a copy of a song, complete with musical notation.
MKI Periodicals
Music/ Songs

Volgt, Irma E. “The Life and Works of Theresa Robinson (Talvj).” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 13, 1913, pp. 7-148.
Abstract: This article studies the life and work of Mrs. Therese Robinsin, also known as Talvj: “a woman distinguished as a scholar and author, and representing as a member of the Goethe circle the highest type of German culture, enters America at a period when the higher civilization of this country is in the first stages of its making.”
MKI Periodicals
Women authors/ Literature, German-American/ German Americans

Volkmann, R. B. Die Toten und das Jenseits. Heft IV: Die Auferstehung des Leibes. Geisweid: Verlagshaus der deutschen Zeltmission, 1921.
Notes: Religion; Eine Vortagsreihe
MKI P92-46
Theological

Volz, Louis. “Deutscher Unterstuetzungsbund von Pittsburgh, Pa.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 877-879.
Notes: Included in section “Der Deutsch-Amerikanische National-Bund und seine Staats- und Staedte-Verbaende.”
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
German Americans — Societies, etc./ German Americans — Pennsylvania

Von Bredow, Wilfried. “Divided Nation – Common Security?” In After Forty Contentious Years: The Two Germanys Since 1949. Max Kade Institute for Austrian – German – Swiss Studies. Los Angeles, California: The Max Kade Institute, Feb. 16-18, 1990.
Abstract: Commentary by Karl-Heinz Roeder (Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR) and Michael Geyer (University of Chicago) follows.
MKI P90-13
Germany

von der Heydt, Alfred. “Oskar Maria Graf.” German Quarterly, vol. 41, 1968, pp. 401-412.
Abstract: Graf, Oskar Maria, 1894-1967
MKI P93-94
Biographies/ Literary criticism

Von-Maszewski, Wolfram M. “The Dilemma over the Adelsverein Ships Nahant and Timoleon.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 29, no. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 276-286, ill.
Abstract: “The Timoleon was chartered once [in 1846] by the [Adelsverein, or] Society [of Noblemen]. A search for the passenger manifest for 1845/1846 reveals some conflicting information. One source states that the Timoleon and another Society ship, the American bark Nahant, departed Antwerp on 25 November 1845,” carrying 167 and 130 passengers respectively. When the Nahant shipwrecked on the English coast on 18 March 1846 the Timoleon took on board the passengers from the ship-wrecked ship. “Documentary evidence shows. . . that the Nahant and the Timoleon did not depart Europe together . . .and the Timoleon had been chartered to pick up the shipwrecked passengers.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Ships

Von Reck, Philipp Georg Friedrich. “Journal of Travel in Colonial America May-July 1734.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 31st Report, 1963, pp. 83-90.
Notes: Translated and edited by George F. Jones.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Travel / Personal narratives/ United States/ Colonial period

von Siegfried, Oskar. “Greetings From the Federal Republic of Germany: an Overview.” A Heritage Fulfilled: German-Americans: Die Erfuellte Herkunft. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1984. 142-144.
Notes: von Siegfried, Consul General Dr. Oskar.
Abstract: Von Siegfried’s essay celebrates positive diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States.
MKI F615 G3 H48 1984
Relations, Germany-US

Vonnegut, Kurt. “I Am a German-American.” German-American Journal, vol. 55, no. 2, Apr./May 2007, p. 6.
Notes: From A Man Without a Country, edited by Daniel Simon, New York: 2005, Steven Stories Press, pp. 50-52.
MKI Periodicals
Vonnegut, Kurt, 1922-2007/ German Americans

Vuilleumier, Carl. “Leichtes Blut.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 41, 1921, pp. 83-88, ill.
Notes: The author is noted as being from Philadelphia. Includes a portrait of the author.
Abstract: The story of Hans Kaufmann, who travels to America (Lande der “unbegrenzten Moeglichkeiten”). He serves as a cook with the military while stationed in France, marries a widow and returns with his new family to America.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Fiction

Vuilleumier, Carl. “Philipp Schaff. Geboren den 1. Januar 1819 in Chur, gestorben den 20. Oktober 1893 in New York.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 47, 1927, pp. 88-94, ill.
Abstract: “Unter den sogenannten Wolkenkratzern, den turmhohen Gebaeuden der Stadt Philadelphia, befindet sich auch das Philipp Schaff Gebaeude, das Verlagshaus der Reformierten Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten.” Schaff was an important figure in the Reformed Church, as well as a church historian and author of several publications.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Biographies/ New York (N.Y.)/ Reformed Church

Vuilleumier, Carl. “William Penn und die ersten Schweizer in Pennsylvanien.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 53, 1933, pp. 70-72.
Notes: Author noted as being in Philadelphia.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Pennsylvania/ German Americans — Pennsylvania

Waal, Anton de. Valeria, oder, Der Triumphzug aus den Katakomben. [Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Waisenfreund], n.d. 146 pp.
Abstract: Publication information taken from back cover.
MKI P89-12
PIA/ Fiction

W. W. [Wackernagel, William.] Liedergeschichten. Segensspuren der Kernlieder unserer Kirche. Mit Angabe der Entstehung der Lieder und Singweisen, Mittheilungen ueber das Leben der Dichter, [etc.]. Erster Band. Reading, Pa.: Pilger, 1882. [4], 192 pp., ill.
On title page: Bearbeitet von W. W.
Erster Band, zumeist Luther-Lieder enthaltend. Mit 30 Bildern und Initialen. —- Inscribed Walter Gausewitz, 1915.
Donated by Marjorie L. Gausewitz.

Waffel, Derek. “Friedrich Wilhelm Wehle, Artist of Biblical and Religious Pictures.” Historical Footnotes. Concordia Historical Institute (Saint Louis, MO), vol. 58, no. 1, Spring 2013, pp. 1-5.
Notes: Published by the Department of Archives and History of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, Concordia Historical Institute.
Abstract: “Wilhelm” Wehle was born in Jonsdorf by Zittau in Saxony, emigrated from Dresden in 1866 through New York to attend Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and moved with his wife and children to Milwaukee in 1879 where he lived the rest of his life. He was known during his lifetime as a talented artist of biblical and religious scenes including portraits and altar pieces, and lithograph copies of his works were found in homes and churches across the country.
MKI P2015-05
Wehle, Friedrich Wilhelm/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Artists

Wagner, Hans-Ludwig. “The Bicentennial of Zion Church in Baltimore.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 29th Report, 1956, pp. 64-67.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Maryland / Zion Gemeinde

Wagner, Maria. “Amerikanische Nachdrucke und das Copyright der Freiligrath-Gesamtwerke.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 19, 1984, pp. 97-120.
Notes: Article in German.
Abstract: Wagner’s article discusses the book trade in the United States of books in German. He discusses in detail the circumstances surrounding the publication of the American edition of Freiligrath’s “Collected Works.”
MKI Periodicals
Language, German (US)/ Letters/ German-American press/ Book trade

Wagner, Maria. “Francis J. Grund neu betrachtet.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 21, 1986, pp. 115-126.
Abstract: Wagner’s article discusses the life of Francis J. Grund, a German-American politician in the 19th century, and attempts to redirect the scope of scholarship regarding Grund in hopes of making it more objective and less condemning.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Biographies/ 19th century/ Politics/ Letters

Wagner, Maria. “Representation of Slavery in German-American Prose Fiction.” In Papers from the St. Olaf Symposium on German-Americana. La Vern J. Rippley and Steven M. Benjamin, eds., 1980, pp. 130-143.
Abstract: The author focuses mainly on the novels and short stories of Mathilde Anneke on slavery and analyzes them.
MKI P85-85
Slavery/ Literature, German-American/ Fiction/ Prose/ Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/ Literary criticism

Wagner, Marion. “Bayerische Volksfestkultur in der Neuen Welt. Das Oktoberfest in den USA im Kontext deutsch-amerikanischer Kulturkontakte. Diplomarbeit.” Diplomarbeit, Universitaet Passau, 2007. 106 pp., ill.
Notes: Diplomarbeit im Studiengang Sprachen, Wirtschafts- und Kulturraumstudien. Universitaet Passau, Prof. Dr. Armin Ratusny, Lehrstuhl fuer Anthropogeographie. Januar 2007. Donated by Marion Wagner.
Abstract: “Zielsetzung: Im Folgenden werden die raeumliche Verbreitung von Oktoberfesten in den USA, die Gruende fuer deren Entstehen und der Zusammenhang zwischen Auspraegungen, Veranstalter und Authentizitaet genauer untersucht. Wo und seit wann gibt es Oktoberfeste in den USA? Inwieweit haengt deren Entstehung mit der deutsch-amerikanischen Vergangenheit zusammen? Wer sind die Veranstalter und was ist deren Intention? Ist es moeglich und ist es den amerikanischen Veranstaltern gelungen, das ‘echte’ Oktoberfest authentisch zu kopieren? Am Ende soll die Frage beantwortet werden, ob und in wie weit durch die zahlreichen Oktoberfeste in den USA die bayerische Kultur vermittelt wird und welche Auswirkungen das in den USA hat. Betroffen sind dabei Tourismus und Wirtschaft, das vorhandene deutsche Kulturgut und nicht zuletzt die Beziehung zwischen Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten, genauer genommen das Bild, das der US-Amerikaner von den Deutschen hat.”
MKI P2007-8
Cultural contribution/ Cultural influence/ Bavaria/ Festivals/ German Americans/ Social life and customs/ National characteristics, German — Public opinion, American

Wagner, Sally Roesch, ed. “The Germans from Russia. The Germans.” Daughters of Dakota. Schooled in privation: German, German-Russian and Scandinavian immigrants in South Dakota. Volume 4.  Yankton, SD: Dauthters of Dakota, 1989, pp. 1-26//27-55. 1
Abstract: They came because the land was free, conditions were bad in the old country, land and railroad agents enticed them with mouth-watering propaganda, and friends and relatives who had already come to Dakota encouraged them to do likewise. Welcomed into the two-room shanties of the families who had arrived earlier, the newcomers located land and constructed temporary housing. Nothing was easy. At every turn, they were pulled between the old country and the new. English was the bridge to the new world, but their native language carried the memory of who they were.
MKI P94-21
German Americans — Dakotas/ Biographies/ Russian Germans/ Dakotas/ Women/ Personal narratives/ Immigrants, German

Wagner, Ulrike. “The Aesthetics of bildende Nachahmung: A Transatlantic Dialogue between Ralph Waldo Emerson and Karl Philipp Moritz.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 45, 2010, pp. 33-59.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: The first part of this essay examines biographical parallels between Goethe’s, Moritz’s, and Emerson’s “self-invention as artists on their respective Italian journeys and highlights the centrality of Moritz’s treatise on artistic production for the three poets. The second section puts Emerson’s explications on criteria of original artistic creation in his lectures on ‘Michel Angelo Bounaroti’ and ‘The Eye and Ear’ in dialogue with Moritz’s expositions of the same theme.”
MKI Periodicals
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882/ Moritz, Karl Philipp, 1756-1793/ Literature, Comparative

Wagner, Walter H. “A Key Episode in American Lutheranism: Muhlenberg’s and Zinzendorf’s Encounter.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 2, Summer 1998, pp. 72-85.
MKI Periodicals
Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, 1711-1787/ Zinzendorf, Nicholas Ludwig/ Lutherans/ Lutheran Church/ History/ German Americans — Pennsylvania

Wala, Michael. “‘American Fair’ und ‘Schoenes Geschlect’: Zur Konstruktion von Weiblichkeit in den Vereinigten Staaten und in Deutschland im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert.” Gesellschaft und Diplomatie im transatlantischen Kontext: Festschrift für Reinhard R. Doerries zum 65. Geburtstag. Michael Wala, Hrsg. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999, pp. 61-78.
Abstract: “Im Gefolge der Aufklaerung und mit der aufkommenden buergerlichen Gesellschaft veraenderte sich nicht nur das Verstaendnis ueber das Verhaeltnis der Menschen innerhalb der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Ordnungen zueinander, wurden hierarchische Strukturen, die auf religioeser Legitimation basierten, in Frage gestellt und in den zwei grossen Revolutionen des 18. Jahrhunderts, der amerikanischen und der franzoesischen, umgestossen. Es wurden auch die Geschlecterrollen in gesellschaftlichen und politischen Diskursen diesseits und jenseits des Atlantischen Ozeans neu- und rekonstruiert.”
MKI E183.7 G47 1999
Women/ Social conditions/ 18th century/ 19th century

Wala, Michael. “Reviving Ethnic Identity: Foreign Office, Reichswehr, and German Americans during the Weimar Republic,” In German-American Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004, pp. 326-342.
Notes: Paper originally presented at a conference at Texas A&M University, Apr. 1997.
Abstract: After World War I, efforts were initiated by the German Culture Department and Reichswehr to cultivate the German-American community and help foster a generally positive attitude toward postwar Germany. “Outright support for Weimar Germany could be expected only after German Americans had regained their self-respect. This should not be promoted by propaganda, but rather by more subtle attempts to rekindle their pride in their ancestry.” Efforts included academic and other exchange programs, and support for and visits to German-American organizations, with special success being reported in cases where Reichsmarine vessels made calls at U.S. ports during the 1920s and early 1930s.
E 184 .G3 G295 2004
Ethnic identity/ World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans/ Germany/ Relations, Germany-US/ German Americans/ Politics/ Societies, etc.

Waldeck, Phillip. “A Diary Kept by Chaplain Waldeck During the Last American War. Part II.” Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, vol. 2, no. 4, 1984, pp. 28-63.
Notes: Translation by William E. Dornemann. Introduction by Bruce E. Burgoyne.
MKI Periodicals

Waldeck, Phillip. “Waldeck’s Diary of the Revolution (1776-1780).” German-American Annals, vol. 1-2, n.s., 1903-1904, pp. 1) 97-116, 178-186, 225-232, 275-283, 357-364, 420-428, 577-592, 734-747; 2) 59-64, 192-198, 252-257, 309-318, 367-378, 435-445.
Notes: Ed. by M. D. Learned and Rudolph Cronau.
MKI Periodicals

Waldenrath, Alexander. “The Emergence of Pennsylvania-German in the 18th Century: A Mixture of English and German?” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, 1978, pp. 1-15.
MKI Periodicals
Languages in contact/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ History/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialects

Waldenrath, Alexander. “The German Language Newspress of Pennsylvania During the American Revolution.” German-American Studies, vol. 6, Fall 1973, pp. 43-56.
Abstract: The first German language newspaper in American was established by Benjamin Franklin, the Philadelphische Zeitung, in 1732. It was short-lived, and the German-American press most often traces its origin to Christopher Sauer’s establishment in 1739 of the Hoch-Deutsch Pennsylvanische Geschict-Schreiber in Germantown. This study examines the development and growth of the Pennsylvania German-American press, especially in light of the American Revolution and their political standings.
MKI Periodicals / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Newspapers, German-American/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Revolution, 1775-1783/ German-American press

Waldenrath, Alexander. “Germans in California: The California Demokrat of San Francisco.” In German-American Studies: A Journal of History, Literature, Biography and Genealogy. Robert E. Ward, Editor-in-Chief, vol. 8, 1974, pp. 53-63.
MKI / SHS E 184. G3 G315
German Americans — Other US states/ Biographies/ Newspapers, German-American

Waldenrath, Alexander. “Pennsylvania German Literature: John Birmelin and Charles C. More.” 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. 506-528, ill.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Literature, Pennsylvania-German/ Birmelin, John, 1873-1950

Waldenrath, Alexander. “Review of Bilder und Gedanke: A Book of Pennsylvania Dutch Verse, by Russell W. Gilbert.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 10, Fall 1975, pp. 71-74.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Waldenrath, Alexander. “Review of From Geilenkirchen to Acadia Parish: A History of the Germans of Roberts Cove, 1880-1987, by Reinhard Kondert; Genealogical Materials by Fr. Charles Zaunbrecher; Foreword by Fr. Keith L. Vincent. Lafayette, LA: The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1988.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1989, pp. 168-169.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Waldenrath, Alexander. “Review of German Immigration and Assimilation in Ontario, by Werner Bausenhart.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 290-291.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Waldenrath, Alexander. “Review of Pragmatic Prophet: The Life of Michael Robert Zigler, by Donald F. Durnbaugh. Elgin, IL: Brethren Press, 1989.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1990, pp. 229-30.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Waldenrath, Alexander. “Review of The German Coast During the Colonial Era 1722-1803: The Evolution of a Distinct Cultural Landscape in the Lower Mississippi Delta during the Colonial Era, by Helmut Blume. Translated by Ellen C. Merrill.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 293-295.
Abstract: Waldenrath’s review states that Blume’s book offers a much-needed study of a German enclave in the Americas outside of the mid-Atlantic states and the Midwest. It also gives a positive review of Merrill’s translation.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Waldenrath, Alexander. “Review of The Germans of Colonial Louisiana 1720-1803, by Reinhard Kondert.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 298-299.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Waldenrath, Alexander. “Three Studies in German Culture in Pennsylvania. I: The Manuscripts of Charles C. More. II: German Churches of the Lehigh Valley. III: Rural Pennsylvania German Newspress in the 18th Century.” German-American Studies, vol. 9, 1975, pp. 16-34.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Social life and customs/ Literature, Pennsylvania-German/ Palatines/ Immigrants, German/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Poetry/ Lutheran Church/ Catholic Church/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Religion/ German-American press

Waldfogel, Martin. “The German Impact on Modernism in Art.” A Special Relationship: Germany and Minnesota, 1945-1985. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1983, pp. 69-79.
Abstract: Waldfogel’s paper discusses German influences on the fine arts in the U.S. in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
MKI E183.8 G3 S64 1983
Germany/ National Socialism/ Architecture/ World War, 1914-1918/ Minnesota/ German influence/ Arts

Waldman, Glenys A. “Review of Wander, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm. Auswanderungs-Katechismus: Ein Rathgeber fuer Auswanderer, besonders fuer Diejenigen, welche nach Nordamerika auswandern wollen (Glogau, 1852). Ed. and introd. Wolfgang Mieder. Berne: Lang, 1988.” In The German Quarterly, 1990, pp. 149-150.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Waldschmidt-Nelson, Britta, and Anja Scheler, eds. “Forging Bonds Across Borders: Transatlantic Collaborations for Women’s Rights and Social Justice in the Long Nineteenth Century.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement, vol. Supplement 13, 2017, pp. 1-183.
Notes: Also at Memorial Library. Full-text available online (https://www.ghi-dc.org/publications/ghi-bulletin/bulletin-supplements/forging-bonds.html?L=0).
Abstract: Contents: Introduction / Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson and Anja Schueler — Transatlantic Freethinker, Feminist, and Pacifist: Ernestine Rose in the 1870s / Bonnie S. Anderson — Speaking Truth to Divergent Powers: Margaret Fuller, Bettina von Arnim and the Broken Bond / Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos — Transatlantic Networks for Legal Feminism, 18881912 / Sara L. Kimble — Reform Claims in Family Law and Legal Struggles of the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine within the International Council of Women, 1888-1914 / Marion Röwekamp — A Rare Colored Bird: Mary Church Terrell, Die Fortschritte der farbigen Frauen, and the International Council of Women’s Congress in Berlin, Germany, 1904 / Noaquia N. Callahan — Abolitionists Abroad: Women, Travel, and Abolitionist Networks / Stephanie J. Richmond — The World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union: An Early Transnational Women’s Organization and Its Work in India, 1883-1900 / Lori Osborne — A Transatlantic Network: American and German Women in the Kindergarten Movement / Ann Taylor Allen — Aletta Jacobs and the Dutch Cap: The Transfer of Knowledge and the Making of a Reputation in the Changing Networks of Birth Control Activists / Mineke Bosch.
MKI Periodicals
Women immigrants — United States — Biography/ Women/ History/ German Historical Institute (Washington D.C.)–Periodicals/ German Historical Institute

Walford, Lynn. “Getting in touch with your roots online.” [Investor’s Business Daily], [1999?].
8.5 x 11 photocopy. “Investor’s Business Daily” is under author’s name in byline; actual newspaper source is unknown. Column title “Computers Made Plain.”
Brief article regarding online genealogy, including five chosen websites.
MKI P2000-16
Genealogy

Walker, Mack. “Sombart and the Sauk River Settlements.” Making Their Own America: Assimilation Theory and the German Peasant Pioneer. Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute. Kathleen N. Conzen, ed., 1990, pp. 34-37.
MKI P90-17
German Americans — Minnesota/ Pioneers/ History/ Settlements

Walker, Ralph S. “‘Trenton … I Shall Never Forget’: Excerpts from a Hessian Officer’s Diary.” American History Illustrated, vol. 11, no. 8, 1976, pp. 43-49.
Abstract: On December 26, 1776, 1st Lieutenant Andreas Wiederhold of the Fusilier Regiment von Knyphausen of Hesse-Cassel found himself in the first action of the Battle of Trenton. Two days later he recorded the events of the day in his Tagebuch (diary) that he had begun keeping the previous October. It is one of the liveliest of the surviving Hessian diaries and one of the most interesting eyewitness accounts of the Revolution. The Tagebuch was published in 1901 in Americana Germanica, Vol. IV, No. I, from which these extracts have been translated by Ralph S. Walker.
MKI P86-142 / SHS E 171 .A574
Revolution, 1775-1783/ Soldiers/ Diaries/ Hessians/ Wars

Walker, Ross Gaetzke. A Chronological History of Der Westfielder Deutsche Bischoeflichen Methodisten Kirche/Westfield German Methodist Episcopal Church, S5498 Rock Elm Road, Westfield Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin. [Milwaukee, Wis.: the author], 2002. 26 pp., ill.
Notes: Founded in 1852 (the 150th anniversary), present church building erected in 1877 (the 125th anniversary); on the occasion of the 89th Homecoming, Sunday, July 21, 2002.
MKI P2002-92
Wisconsin/ Wisconsin — Sauk County/ Lutheran Church/ Churches/ History

Walker, Ross Gaetzke.Voices from the Past…Our Ancestors Speaking to Us Through Their Writings of 1884, 1885 and 1886. [Milwaukee, Wis.: the author], 2000. [9] pp., ill.
Notes: Westfield German Methodist Episcopal Church founded in 1852 (the 150th anniversary), present church building erected in 1877 (the 125th anniversary); included a lending library.
Abstract: Includes photocopies of original Sunday School records, with translations. The records note school attendance, weather, and visitors.
MKI P2002-92
Wisconsin/ Wisconsin — Sauk County/ Lutheran Church/ Churches/ History

Walker, Ross Gaetzke, and Erv Uecker. Westfield German Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery. [Milwaukee, Wis.: the author], 2001. [16] pp.
Abstract: Includes list and location of burials and index of persons buried in the cemetery in Westfield Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin.
MKI P2002-92
Wisconsin/ Wisconsin — Sauk County/ Lutheran Church/ Churches/ Genealogy

Wallach, Martha Kaarsberg. “German immigrant women.” In Journal of German-American Studies, 1978, pp. 99-106.
Abstract: In Wallach’s 8 page article, she discusses the large holes in the history of German-Americans re contributions and achievements of German-American women. She cites the documentation of Anna Ottendorfer’s life as the exception and continues to fill in those holes by providing a general social history, highlighting the difficulties of such a generalization, and calling for further research. She focusses on the image of the German “Hausfrau,” “Dienstmaedchen,” and the status of German women as seen by other Americans (and vice-versa).
MKI Periodicals/SHS
Immigrants, German/ Women/ History/ 20th century/ Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884

Walsh, Barbara B. “German Immigrant Arrivals: Resources in the Library of Congress.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 25, no. 2, Oct./Nov./Dec. 2007, pp. 118-124.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society. From a bibliography compiled and annotated by Barbara B. Walsh.
Abstract: The full text of this annotated bibliography is 35 pages long and is available on the Internet. Arranged in sections: Historical Background and Bibliographical Guides, General Resources: No Specific Locality, Regions of Germany, and Regions of Settlement Within the United States.
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ 19th century/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Bibliographies/ Library of Congress

Walther, Gary. “A Christmas Heritage: The German Tree in America.” American History Illustrated, vol. 17, no. 8, 1982, pp. 15-17.
MKI P86-138 / SHS E 171 .A574
Germany/ Folklore/ Christmas/ History

Walther, Klaus. “Carl Postls maehrische Kindheitslandschaft.” Schriftenreihe der Charles-Sealsfield-Gesellschaft, vol. 4, 1989, pp. 25-30.
Abstract: Walther’s article tries to piece together an emotional and physical landscape of Sealsfield’s childhood from his writings. Walther concludes that Sealsfield’s novels portray not only pictures of an American reality, but also “poetic images in which childhood and foreignness” pervade.
MKI PT2516.S4 Z4586 / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Biographies/ Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864

Walther, Klaus. “Europa, die Erinnerung Amerikas Kindheitslandschaft und Amerika-landschaft in den Romanen von Charles Sealsfield,” 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. 26-37.
MKI PT 2516 S4 L3 1993
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism/ Fiction

Walther, Lina. Christelchen: Eine wahre Geschichte. Himmelsblumen, Nr. 5. Konstanz: Carl Hirsch, n.d. 32 pp.
MKI P89-56
PIA/ Fiction

Walz, John A. “Three Swabian Journalists and the American Revolution.” German American Annals, vol. 1, n.s., 1903, pp. 209-224; 257-274;-347-356; 406-419; 593-600.
Abstract: Begins with III. – Chr. Fr. D. Schubart.
MKI Periodicals

Wandt, Karl-Heinz. “Pennsylvaniadeutsch und die Auslegung von “Cultural Themes” durch religioese Gruppen in Kent und Sussex County, Delaware.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, editor. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, editors Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, 10.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1985, pp. 20-26.
Abstract: This article discusses cultural themes and language shift of two groups of Pennsylvania-German speakers.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)/ Language shift

Wangemann, A. “[Translation of a Letter from a German-Texan Confederate Soldier].” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 1, Spring 2006, pp. 58-61, ill.
Notes: Translated by Dr. James M. Hyde of Many, Louisiana.
Abstract: Translation of a letter written during the Civil War by A. Wangemann, a German-Texan soldier in the Confederate Army, and dated June 4, 1864. “It appears Wangemann was from Austin County. He mentions other soldiers named Traugott Hildbrand and John Meiers, who probably were also from Austin County.” Includes an image of the last page of the letter in the original German.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Letters

Wanka, Willi. “Auftakt zur deutschen Nachkriegseinwanderung nach Kanada.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. IX, 1986, pp. 125-140.
Abstract: This article recalls the multitude of problems that had to be overcome in post-war Canada and Europe before certain German refugees and Displaced Persons were officially permitted to emigrate to Canada.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1939-1945/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)

Ward, Don. “Unravelling the Mystery of Ethnic Identity.” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1981, pp. 34-39.
Abstract: Ward’s paper includes several photographs and discusses the difficulties in studying the shaping of ethnic identities.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981
German Americans — Minnesota/ Assimilation/ Ethnic identity/ Folklore/ Stereotypes

Ward, Robert A. “Greta Hartwig Manschinger in Memoriam.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, p. 196.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies

Ward, Robert A. “Review of Theodore Huebner’s The Germans in America (Chilton Co.: Philadelphia, 1962).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1970, pp. 101-102.
Abstract: Ward’s review states that Huebner’s book is more suited for the high school student and general reading public than to the scholar.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Ward, Robert E. “Address to the Participants of the German Day Program Sponsored by the Western Reserve Historical Society on November 26, 1975.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 10, Fall 1975, pp. 20-24.
MKI Periodicals
Archives/ Ethnicity/ Immigrants, German

Ward, Robert E. “Auswahlbibliographie.” In Deutsche Lyrik aus Amerika. Robert E. Ward, hrsg., 1969, pp. 94-96.
MKI PT 3914 .W27 1969/ MEM PT 3914 +.W27
Literature, German-American/ Poetry/ Bibliographies

Ward, Robert E. “Bibliographical and Genealogical Data in the Publications of the German Pioneer Society of Cincinnati.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, 1978, pp. 113-116.
MKI Periodicals
Bibliographies/ German Americans — Ohio/ Cincinnati (Ohio)/ Genealogy/ History/ 19th century/ German Americans — Societies, etc./ Frontier and pioneer life

Ward, Robert E. “Bio-Bibliographien.” In Deutsche Lyrik aus Amerika. Robert E. Ward, hrsg., 1969, pp. 97-109.
Abstract: Short biographical sketches of each German-American poet featured in this volume (Deutsche Lyrik aus Amerika: Eine Auswahl), including: August Friedrich Augustin, Rose Scherzer-Auslaender, Carl Ferdinand Bauer, Hans Bauer, Kurt Baum, Conrad Beissel, Wilhelm Benignus, Friedrich Bergammer, Michael Binder, Caspar Butz, Friedrich Karl Castelhun, Emil Doernenburg, Eduard Dorsch, Martin Drescher, Georg Edward, Jacob Erhardt, Edna Fern, Kurt J. Fickert, Hanns Fischer, Egon Frey, Alfred Gong, Mimi Grossberg, Norbert Grossberg, Justus Heinrich Christian Helmuth, Max Hempel, Johannes Hensen, Maria Hess-Englert, Helmut Hirsch, Ernst Otto Hopp, Pedro Ilgen, Johann Kelpius, Theodor Kirchhoff, Karl Knortz, Oskar Kollbrunner, Margarete Kollisch, Conrad Krez, August Lange, Friedrich Michel, Hertha Nathorff, Gotthold August Neeff, Gustav Adolph Neumann, Konrad Nies, Franz Daniel Pastorius, Helmut Paulus, Eva Selma Racine, Heinrich Armin Rattermann, Robert Reitzel, Hans Erwin Roemer, Otto Roeser, Maurice Ruebner, Dagobert D. Runes, Anna Katarina Scheibe, Fred Karl Scheibe, Carl Heinrich Schnauffer, Gertrude Clorius Schwebell, Oswald Seidensticker, Eleonore Katharina Stein, Johann Heinrich Stepler, Donald Tolzmann, Georg Sylvester Viereck, Johann Bernhard Vinke, Rudolf Voigt, Ernst Waldinger, Victor Gottfried Wicke, Moritz Wiener, and Emmy Zeller-Eid.
MKI PT 3914 .W27 1969/ MEM PT 3914 +.W27
Poetry/ Literature, German-American/ Beissel, Conrad, 1690-1768/ Krez, Konrad, 1828-1897/ Nies, Konrad, 1862-1921/ Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719/ Rattermann, Heinrich Armin, 1832-1923/ Reitzel, Robert, 1849-1898

Ward, Robert E. “Carl W. Spohr in Memoriam.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, p. 197.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Ward, Robert E. “Cleveland’s Germans in Historical Perspective, Part I.” German-American Journal, vol. 49, no. 2, Mar./Apr. 2003, p. 13.
Abstract: Discusses the earliest German immigrants to the Cleveland area.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Ohio/ Cleveland (Ohio)

Ward, Robert E. “Cleveland’s Germans in Historical Perspective, Part II.” German-American Journal, vol. 50, no. 3, May/June 2003, p. 13.
Abstract: Discusses the arrival of the Forty-Eighters, early German businesses, role in the Missouri Synod, early press and stage, and “entering the main stream.”
MKI Periodical
German Americans — Ohio/ Cleveland (Ohio)/ Religion/ Forty-eighters

Ward, Robert E. “Cleveland’s Germans in Historical Perspective, Part IV.” German-American Journal, vol. 52, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 2003, p. 13.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Ohio/ Cleveland (Ohio)/ Religion/ Forty-eighters

Ward, Robert E. “Deutsche Sprache in Ohio.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 3-15.
Abstract: This article deals with the history and the present state of the German language in Ohio. MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)

Ward, Robert E. “Deutsches Buehnenwesen in Amerika.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 53-55.
MKI Periodicals
Theater & Drama/ 19th century/ Turners

Ward, Robert E. “Dr. Egon Frey in Memorium.” German-American Studies, vol. 6, Fall 1973, p. 1.
Abstract: Ward’s one page memorium states that Frey was both a specialist in lung disease and a poet.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Biographies

Ward, Robert E. “Dr. J. H. Stepler, Cleveland’s German-American Pastor-Poet.” German American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 69-96.
Abstract: Biography and last eight pages of Stepler’s manuscript. Lutheran literature; Stepler, Johann Heinrich, 1841-1928
MKI P93-95
Biographies

Ward, Robert E. “Edward Dorsch and Otto Roeser: German-American Poets in Michigan.” Michigan Heritage, vol. 11, 1969, pp. 61-69.
Abstract: Biography of Dorsch, Eduard, 1822-1887 ; Roeser, Otto, 1823-1885
MKI P85-52
Literature, German-American/ Poetry/ Biographies

Ward, Robert E. “Eine Bibliographie deutschamerikanischer Originalwerke im Besitz der Deutschen Gesellschaft von Pennsylvanien.” German-American Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1969, pp. 33-48.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Literature, German-American/ Bibliographies

Ward, Robert E. “Englischsprachige Literatur ueber Deutsche in Amerika.” German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1971, pp. 46-47.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Language, German (US)

Ward, Robert E. “Frieda Voigt in Memoriam.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974, pp. 3-4.
Abstract: Voigt, Frieda
MKI Periodicals
Biographies

Ward, Robert E. From Germantown to Cleveland in Historical Perspective. [20] pp.
Notes: Printed from the Internet, URL: http://www.fogas.org/history1.htm
MKI P2004-47
German Americans — Ohio/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Cultural contribution/ Ethnic identity/ History/ Cleveland (Ohio)/ Business & Industry

Ward, Robert E. “German-American Genealogical Research Techniques. No. 1: University and School Matricles.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 3-4, 1976, pp. 89-90.
Abstract: Ward recommends consulting the records of educational institutions attended by one’s ancestors for biographical and genealogical data. He explains how one finds such records and provides a list of German universities, teachers’ colleges and seminars dating from the 19th century. He also reminds that ancestors could have attended universities outside of present-day Germany, that is in German-speaking areas.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Germany

Ward, Robert E. “The German-American Library of H. H. Fick: A Rediscovery.” German-American Studies, vol. 1(1), 2(1), 1969-1970, pp. 49-68; 2-29.
Abstract: Part I in Vol. 1, No. 1; Part II in Vol. 2, No. 2. The bibliography also includes a biographical sketch of H.H. Fick.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Literature, German-American/ Bibliographies/ Collections/ Biographies

Ward, Robert E. “German and German-American Genealogical Guides and Sources Since 1850.” Journal of German-American Studies: A Journal of History, Literature, Biography and Genealogy, vol. 12, no. 4, 1977, pp. 77-88.
Notes: Robert E. Ward, Editor-in-Chief.
MKI Periodicals / SHS E 184. G3 G315
Genealogy/ Periodicals/ Bibliographies/ Catalogs

Ward, Robert E. “Henry A. Pochmann in Memoriam.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974, pp. 1-2.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries

Ward, Robert E. “Index to Confirmants of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church at Garfield Heights, Ohio for the Years 1854-1929.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, 1977, inside and outside back covers.
MKI Periodicals / SHS E 184 .G3 .G315
German Americans — Ohio/ Genealogy

Ward, Robert E. “Johannes Urzidil In Memoriam.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, p. 195.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Ward, Robert E. “Konrad Nies, German-American Literary Knight.” German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1971, pp. 7-11.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Nies, Konrad, 1862-1921/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Biographies

Ward, Robert E. “Lutherische Pastoren, die zur deutsch-amerikanischen Literatur beigetragen haben.” German-American Studies, vol. 6, Fall 1973, pp. 68-71.
Abstract: Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, 1711-1787/Falckner, Justus, 1672-1723/Bauer, Carl Ferdinand, 1869-1939/Hildebrandt, Alfred Walter, 1862-?/Theiss, John William, 1863-1932/Walther, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm, 1811-1887/Zagel, Hermann H., 1859-1936
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Lutherans/ Literature, German-American/ Zagel, Hermann H., 1859-1936/ Walther, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm, 1811-1887/ Theiss, John William, 1863-1932/ Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, 1711-1787/ Falckner, Justus, 1672-1723/ Bauer, Carl Ferdinand, 1869-1939/ Hildebrandt, Alfred Walter

Ward, Robert E. “Norbert Grossberg in Memoriam.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 1970, p. 54.
Abstract: This 1 page memoriam summarizes the life and accomplishements of German-American poet Norbert Grossberg, husband to poet Mimi Grossberg.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry

Ward, Robert E. “Preston A. Barba in Memoriam.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 200-202.
MKI Periodicals
Bibliographies/ Pennsylvania Germans/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Ward, Robert E. “Reflections on Some German Poems by Lutheran Pastors in America.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 44, 1971, pp. 114-121.
Abstract: Hildebrandt, Alfred Walter. 1862-?/Bauer, Carl Ferdinand, (1869-1939); von Bosse, Georg; Gauss, Ernst Franz Ludwig (1842-after 1906); Holler, Helmut P. (1871-after 1912); Rembe, Heinrich (1858-after 1925); Maass, Johannes; Augustin, August Friedrich (1863-1940); Hensen, Johannes (1897-1963); Mordhorst, O.F. (1868-after 1925); Neeff, Gotthold August (1869-1909); Weigand, Hermann (1858-?); Weinand, Paul (1857-after 1912); Stepler, Johann Heinrich (1841-1928)
MKI P93-96
Lutheran Church/ Poetry/ Literary criticism

Ward, Robert E. “Review of A Genealogical Handbook of German Research. Rev. ed.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1979, pp. 151-152.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Ward, Robert E. “Review of Charles M. Hall’s The Palatine Immigrant. (Palatines to America: Salt Lake City, Utah, 1976).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 3-4, 1977, p. 95.
Abstract: Ward’s review reports of a new journal (The Palatine Immigrant) published by the Palatines of America and describes the contents of the first two issues.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Ward, Robert E. “Review of Charles M. Hall’s The Palatine Pamphlet, published by the author.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 3-4, 1976, p. 94.
Abstract: Ward states that the 17-page booklet lists names of ships, dates they arrived, the place of origin of the passengers, the places they settled in America, religious preferences of the passengers, and the titles of sources and of persons who provided the information.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Ward, Robert E. “Review of German-American Names by George F. Jones.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 296-298.
Abstract: Ward’s review claims that Jones’ dictionary is “a major step in filling” the gap toward a German-American equivalent of Hans Bahlow’s “Deutsches Namedlexikon.” It praises the book for not being too technical.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Ward, Robert E. “Review of Mitteillungen des Ostpreussischen Salzburhvereins. New Series no. 53. 1977 (1).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, 1977, p. 76.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Ward, Robert E. “Review of Pfaelsisch-Rheinische Familienkunde 26:8:10.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, 1977, p. 76.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Ward, Robert E. “Review of The Germans in America 1607-1970 by Howard B. Furer.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, 1974, pp. 134-135.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Ward, Robert E. “Review of The Palatine Immigrant 1:3, 1:4, 2:1.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, 1977, pp. 75-76.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Ward, Robert E. “Review of The Process of Immigration in German-American Literature from 1850-1900, by Barbara Lang. American Studies, vol. 64. Muenchen: Fink, 1988.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1989, pp. 170-172.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Ward, Robert E. “Searching German Military Sources.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 1980, pp. 1-8.
Abstract: Ward’s 8 page article outlines the methodology one must employ in constructing a family genealogy using military sources. He also provides an evaluative list of available sources.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Genealogy/ Sources

Warren, Paula Stuart. “Finding Ancestral Places of Origin.” National Genealogical Society 2002 Conference in the States Program Syllabus. Arlington, VA: the society, 2002, pp. 349-351.
Notes: Donated by Robert Luening.
Abstract: Outline of presentation given in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
MKI P2002-93
Genealogy

Waseem, Gertrud. “Deutsche Einwandererschicksale in der Gruenderzeit von Nova Scotia.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. VII, 1983, pp. 40-48.
Notes: The article is in German.
Abstract: Eight brief accounts of German immigrants to Nova Scotia in the mid-eighteenth century, detailing their trips and new lives.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)/ Immigrants, German/ Canada/ Atlantic crossing

Washington, Ida H. “America in the Poetic Development of Detlev von Liliencron.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 17, 1982, pp. 21-28.
Abstract: Washington’s article discusses the work of Liliencron, a German poet with American ancestors.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Poetry/ Biographies/ United States in literature

Weaver, Roy M. “The Early Amish Families and Church in Holmesville/Shreve, OH, Area.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, Summer 1999, pp. 5-6.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: “The Amish settlement of this area comes from the growth of the families and churches in the eastern part of Holmes, Wayne, and Tuscarawas Counties, although a few families came from Indiana.”
MKI Periodicals
Amish — Ohio

Weaver, William W. “The Pennsylvania German House: European Antecedents and New World Forms.” Winterthur Portfolio, vol. 21, no. 4, 1986.
Abstract: The object of this essay is to explore the German mind and spirit in order to explain the Pennsylvania German house. We will be dealing with attitudes; it should always be kept in mind that building materials was itself a language in folk architecture. The Pennsylvania German house was a symbol. Stone houses for instance projected a conscious achievement of status. In its evolution, the Pennsylvania German house, with its three- or four-room arrangement, rapidly developed a character of its own and found its greatest expression in Pennsylvania.
MKI P98-27
Architecture/ Pennsylvania/ Culture

Weaver, William Woys. “Early Printed Cook-Books of the Pennsylvania Germans: Their Sources and Their Legacy.” 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. 361-374, ill.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Pennsylvania Germans/ Social life and customs/ Palatines/ Cookbooks

Webber, Mark. “The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies.” German-Canadian Studies Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 1, Spring 1998, p. 6.
Notes: Printed from PDF version from German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg Web site.
Abstract: “Scholars and students with an interest in the interdisciplinary study of contemporary Germany in its European context will be delighted by the recent opening of The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies/Le Centre canadien e’etudes allemandes et europeennes.”
MKI P2002-106
Germany/ Europe

Webber, Philip E. “Betwixt and between: The tension of language contact in Iowa’s Amana colonies.” 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. 104-123.
Abstract: The Community of True Inspiration (die Gemeinde der wahren Inspiration) under Johann Rock and Eberhard Gruber founded in Germany in 1714, migrated to the United States in 1842 and first settled in Ebenezer, near Buffalo, New York and then in Iowa. Here the Inspirationists established, and gradually populated, the seven villages that today comprise the Amana Colonies. The Amanana Colonies have exhibited remarkable tenacity in preserving many aspects of their German heritage, including the German language. The author has been collecting interview material in the Colonies since 1981 and has focussed his research on an analysis of interview data, with an eye toward documenting evidence of changing patterns of language use in the Amana Colonies. A questionnaire was used (see appendix). In this paper, Webber has chosen to comment on several areas that appear to offer immediate prospects for sociolinguistic investigation, rather than to attempt to “touch all bases” in a passing and superficial manner.
MKI PF 5925 G47 1993
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Iowa/ Amana/ Dialects

Weeter, Gary K. “From Saarland to Pennsylvania: Archives Jackpot.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 28, no. 2, Mar. 2002, pp. 3-6.
Abstract: Table presents information on persons granted permission by local authorities of Ottweiler to immigrate to Pennsylvania (1738, 1748-1749); data comes from Weeter’s research in Ottweiler, Germany with correlations to Werner Hacker’s Auswanderungen aus Rheinpfalz und Saarland im. 18. Jahrhundert (1987).
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ 18th century/ Ottweiler, Germany

Wegener, Wilhelm. “My Biography.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 1, 1948, pp. 6-26.
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535

Wegener, Wilhelm. “Short Biographies of Some Outstanding Teachers of the Missouri Synod.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 4, 1948, pp. 170-180.
Abstract: Dietrich Meibohm (1845-1924); Henry F. Hoelter (1846-1916); Gustav Just (1847-1924); Friedrich Rechlin (1851-1915); Henry Nehrling (1853-1929); George Christopher Albert Kaeppel (1862-1934); August Wilhelm Simon (1864-1919); Oscar Rusch (1871-1940); Paul Theodore Buszin (1873-1944).
MKI Periodicals / SHS BX 8001 .C535
Lutheran Church/ Missouri/ Biographies

Wegner, Gregory P. “Prussian Volksschulen through American Eyes: Two Perspectives on Curriculum and Teaching from the 1890s.” German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917. Henry Geitz, Juergen Heideking, and Jurgen Herbst, eds. Washington, D.C.; Cambridge; New York : German Historical Institute; Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 57-67.
MKI/MEM LA 216 G47 1995
Education/ United States/ History/ German influence/ 19th century/ Prussia

Wegner, Gregory Paul. “The Anna Ruedy Diary: A Young Girl’s Life among the ‘Bangor Swiss,’ 1874-1884.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 94, no. 1, Autumn 2010, pp. 40-53, ill.
Abstract: Born to a family of Swiss Germans who had originally settled in Honey Creek in Sauk County, Anna Ruedy belonged to one of Bangor, Wisconsin’s wealthiest and most influential families (her father owned a 170-acre farm and a woolen mill on Dutch Creek). Her diary, began when she was 12 years old and written between 1874 and 1884, contains a wealth of information about immigrant history, the agrarian culture of western Wisconsin in general, and life in Bangor specifically during this period. The Ruedy family, like many immigrants in the area, was multilingual, and about half of Anna’s diary is in Swiss German and High German, switching to English as she grew older and fluent in that language. Her entries reflect a variety of cultural activities and farming practices of the time, mentioning how she drove a new Marsh Harvester reaping machine in 1874 at age 14, the flood of 1899, concerts and plays at Concordia Hall, English and German language classes, a literary society, gymnastics programs, and public lectures. She also noted births and deaths among the town’s residents and occasionally mentioned young men who were either the object of her affection or who sought her attention. In an effort to keep such relationships secret, Anna made some entries in Morse code. Anna lived into her 80s, dying in Glendale, Calif., during World War II.
MKI P2011-8
Swiss Americans — Wisconsin/ Bangor (Wis.)/ Diaries/ 19th century/ Farm life/ Rural life & conditions/ Ruedy/ Bosshard

Wegscheid, Elizabeth. “The German Theater in Davenport, Iowa.” Infoblatt, vol. 10, no. 4, Autumn 2005, pp. 5-10, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
Abstract: “In November of 1855, Der Deutsche Liebhaber Theater Verein (The German Amateur Theater Society) was formed. Among its founders were Fritz Welcker, a nephew of a famous revolutionary hero of Baden, and Jacob Strasser, for 50 years Davenport’s most widely sought band and orchestra leader.” Reports that the theater, then known as Lahrmann’s Hall, was draped in black to mourn the 1859 execution of abolitionist John Brown, as most of the Germans in Davenport were also abolitionists. As the theater flourished, the Turners in Davenport became its chief promoters after 1871, building a hall next to the theater. In 1887, a new Turner Hall and Grand Theater was built to replace the original buildings, although the theater finally closed in 1910.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Davenport (Iowa)/ Theater & Drama/ 19th century/ Cultural contribution

Wehner, Silke. “Auswanderung deutscher Dienstmaedchen in die USA, 1870-1920.” Frauen wandern aus: Deutsche Migrantinnen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Monika Blaschke and Christiane Harzig, eds. Bremen: Labor Migration Project, 1990, pp. 29-50.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
MKI HQ 1410 .F738 1990; SHS Pam 90-3693
Women/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Social conditions

Weidlich, Hansjürgen. Felix contra U.S.A. Ein Deutscher haut sich mit Amerika. Roman des Quota-Immigrant no. 10363. Berlin: Buch- und Tiefdruck-Gesellschaft, 1934. 326 pp., ill.
Note: Weidlich (1905-1985) immigrated to America in 1927, holding various jobs in Pittsburgh and New York City, but returned to Europe in 1932.
Label inside front cover: Ex Libris Fritz Rosenberg.
From the Vorwort: “Leider gibt es nämlich noch ein besonderes Amerika, das für Deutschland erst noch entdeckt werden muss: das Amerika des kleinen Mannes, des Alltags, des täglich sich auf das unerbittlichste und grausamste erneuernden Kampfes um das bisschen Brot, um die nächste Miete, um die nächste Abzahlungsrate, das Amerika, in dem das Leben kein Leben mehr ist, sondern ein langsames Zerriebenwerden, das Amerika der Namenlosen, das Amerika der Millionen. . . . Da kommt nun dieser Hansjürgen Weidlich und ist begabt mit Erfahrungen und Kenntnissen gerade dieses Amerikas und ausserdem begabt mit der Fähigkeit, zu schreiben. Er hat — man spürt es sofort — etwas erlebt, oder besser gesagt, erlitten, was Unzählige erlitten haben. Aber während die Unzähligen schweigend litten und leiden, schweigend untergingen und untergehen, hat er sich aus den Mühlsteinen herausgerettet und sein Schicksal, das nicht nur seins ist, aus der Verborgenheit und Vergänglichkeit emporgehoben. Er hat ein Recht, zu sagen: Leute, wenn ihr etwas von Amerika erfahren wollt, was vielleicht neu, bestimmt aber wichtig ist, dann lest mal dies Buch hier!”
Donated by Eva Speier.

Weigand, Hermann J., and Henry J. Schmidt. “Interview with Hermann J. Weigand (1892-1985).” 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. 285-292.
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

Weigel, Lawrence A. “The Songs and Music of the Volga Germans of Ellis County, Kansas.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht and J. Anthony Burzle, eds., 1977, pp. 121-125.
Abstract: Weigels article discusses the various types of folksongs sung by Volga Germans and their functions.
MKI P87-163
Russian Germans/ Folk songs, German/ German Americans — Kansas

Weinberg, Gerhard L. “Germany and the United States: Perspectives and Problems.” Amerikastudien / American Studies, vol. Jahrgang 33, no. Heft 4, 1988, pp. 459-468.
Abstract: Relations between the United States and Germany over time experience ups and downs as do relations the United States maintain with other nations. The history of two World Wars, however, as well as the specific interests and problems of the Federal Republic are part of this specific complex system of connections. The essay is concerned with issues and questions that have influenced the way people from the two countries have looked at each other, often at a distance across the Atlantic. Many aspects of German-American relations also are directly or indirectly influenced by the way the United States and the Soviet Union deal with each other. In spite of the difficulties occasionally threatening the transatlantic link, the author feels that common interests between the two nations at least in the foreseeable future will be stronger and more attractive to both sides than alternatives in view.
MKI P91-5
Relations, Germany-US

Weiser, Frederick S. “From the Cradle to the Grave: Something about Pennsylvania German Personal Documents and Folk Art.” 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. 375-389, ill.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Pennsylvania Germans/ Folk art

Weiser, Frederick S. “Personal Records of Pennsylvania Germans.” 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 335
Abstract: Several approaches to Pennsylvanian Germans and their private records.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 3
Pennsylvania Germans/ Genealogy

Weiser, Frederick S. “The U.S. Family in the Community.” 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 311
Abstract: On Pennsylvania Germans; introduction to a local history project.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 3
Pennsylvania Germans/ Genealogy

Weisert, John J. “Lewis N. Dembitz and Onkel Tom’s Huette.” American German Review, vol. 19, no. 3, 1953, pp. 7-8.
Abstract: Dembitz, Lewis N., 1833-1907
MKI P93-97
Bibliographies/ Literary criticism

Weiskopp, Thomas. “Prohibition in the United States: The German-American Experience, 1919-1933.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 53, Fall 2013, pp. 31-53, ill.
Notes: Thomas Weiskopp, University of Bielefeld.
Abstract: “The Prohibition movement . . . ostracized the [German Americans] precisely on account of their ‘Germanness’ . . . . Prohibition wiped out the beer-garden culture and paved the way for cheap speakeasies that were worse than the most degenerate saloons. Although the role of brewers of German descent in the self-inflicted saloon crises was considerable and their attempts to defend themselves were clumsy and self-defeating, they sustained severe financial loses when the beer trade became illegal, driving some brewery owners to the brink of illegality. Quite unexpectedly, in the wake of Prohibition both prominent and ordinary German Americans discovered that their best option for preserving a sense of ethnic community was to maintain a low profile built around small, private circles rather than the web of civic institutions and large-scale public leisure that had flourished only thirty years earlier.”
MKI Periodicals
Prohibition/ United States — History/ German Americans — Social life and customs/ Political activity/ Politics/ 20th century/ Ethnic identity/ Breweries

Weiss, Gerhard. “Onkel Karl aus Milwaukee: Deutsch-amerikanische Einwandererkultur im Spiegel der Jugendliteratur vor hundert Jahren.” Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, vol. 31, no. 1, 1998, pp. 26-30.
Abstract: This article examines a late nineteenth century Milwaukee publication for children and young people as a reflection of German-American middle-class culture of the time. It shows how the spirit of the 1848 revolution and the experience of the American Civil War shaped German-American intellectuals and how the ideals of freedom and equality dominated their thoughts. It also reflects their dedication to the natural sciences and their identification with the Free-Thinker movement.
MKI P98-42
German-American Studies/ Emigration in literature/ Literature, juvenile/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Culture/ Ideology

Weiss, Gerhard H. “From New York to Philadelphia: Issues and Concerns of the American association of Teachers of German between 1926-1970.” 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. 215-227.
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

Weiss, Gerhard H. “The German Language Press in Minnesota.” A Heritage Fulfilled: German-Americans: Die Erfuellte Herkunft. Clarence A. Glasrud, editorMoorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1984, pp. 47-63.
Abstract: Weiss’ paper provides a brief history of the German language press in the United States, stating that it played a major role in the struggle between ethnic consciousness and gradual assimilation. He then describes the history of the German language press in Minnesota, what topics the papers generally covered as well as their formats and their use of advertising. Journalists and publishers discussed include: Friedrich Orthwein, Albert Wolff, Samuel Ludvigh, Ludwig Bogen, and Lambert Naegele. Also included are several illustrations.
MKI F615 G3 H48 1984
German Americans — Minnesota/ Ethnic identity/ Newspapers, German-American/ Assimilation

Weiss, Gerhard H. “The Image of the German in Contemporary Minnesota.” A Special Relationship: Germany and Minnesota, 1945-1985. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1983, pp. 35-47.
Abstract: Weiss’ paper discusses the stereotypical images of German-Americans and Germans prevalent in the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries.
MKI E183.8 G3 S64 1983
German Americans — Minnesota/ Stereotypes/ Germany/ Politics/ World War, 1939-1945/ Religion/ Austria/ Newspapers/ Ethnic identity/ Genealogy/ Language, German (US)/ Farming/ Breweries/ Turners/ Lutherans/ Catholics/ Culture/ Schools/ World War, 1914-1918/ Folklore

Weiss, Walter. “Der Zusammenhang zwischen Amerika-Thematik und Erzaehlkunst bei Charles Sealsfield.” In Deutschlands literarisches Amerikabild. Alexander Ritter, editor, vol 4, 1977, pp. 272-294.
Notes: Neuere Forschungen zur Amerikarezeption der deutschen Literatur.
MKI PT 149.A5 D4
Literature, American/ Literary criticism/ 19th Century/ Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864

Weissenborn, Georg K. “German elements in Canadian postage stamp designs.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. VII, 1983, pp. 49-62.
Abstract: “Upon closer examination, a surprising number of Canadian postage stamps reveal more than they were intended to represent. Nearly eighty of them attest to both an uninterrupted German presence in and contribution to the Canadian cultural mosaic, since the year of the introduction of the first postal adhesive here, in 1851.” This article enumerates and describes several Canadian postage stamps that show German influence.
MKI Periodicals
German influence/ Canada/ Cultural influence

Weissenborn, Georg K. “The Weisskopf Controversy.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 22, 1987, pp. 111-126.
Abstract: Weissenborn’s article argues the case that in 1901 Gustav Weisskopf was in fact the first to achieve “powered, controlled flight,” but was denied recognition because he was a German-American.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies

Weissenborn, Georg K. “William John Wintemberg, Father of Canadian Archaeology (1876-1941).” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. IX, 1986, pp. 198-202.
Abstract: A brief biographical account of William John Wintemberg, “Father of Canadian Archaeology,” (1876-1941).
MKI Periodicals
Canada/ History/ Discovery & exploration

Weitling, Wilhelm. Garantieen der Harmonie und Freiheit. Dritte Auflage. Hamburg: Verlag des Verfassers, 1849. xxxiv, 314 pp.
On cover is label: “Leihbibliothek und Musikalien-Leihanstalt von Vojta Naprstek, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Gegründet 1850.” [Vojta Naprstek, 1826-1894, “sparked the national life among Czech Americans, not only in Wisconsin but in the entire country. He published his famous Milwaukee Flugblatter there and gave impetus for publishing Czech newspapers in the US.” He lived in the U.S. for ten years.] Label inside front cover mostly torn out, from Vojta Naprstek’s Leihbibliothek.
From Ward, Bio-Bibliography: Weitling, Wilhelm Christian (orig: Weidling), b. 10-5-1808 in Mageburg, d. 1-22-1871 in N.Y. Born out of wedlock. Married Dorothea Carolina Louise Toedt in N.Y. in 1854.]

Wellauer-Lenius, Maralyn A. “Christmastime in German-speaking Switzerland: Ae raecht schoeni Wiehnacht.” Perspektiven, vol. 5, no. 1, Winter 2005-2006, pp. 1, 4-6, ill.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
MKI Periodicals
Switzerland/ Folklore/ Christmas/ History

Wellauer-Lenius, Maralyn A. “German-Speaking Swiss in Wisconsin.” Perspektiven, vol. 5, no. 4, Fall 2006, pp. 12-13.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: Briefly describes significant settlements of Swiss immigrants in Wisconsin, including: Alma and Tell City, Buffalo County; Town of Ashford, Fond du Lac County; Bangor and Mormon Coulee, La Crosse County; Honey Creek, Sauk County; Brookfield, Waukesha County; and Iola and Scandinavia, Waupaca County.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans — Wisconsin

Wellauer-Lenius, Maralyn A. “German-Speaking Swiss in Wisconsin: Settlements in the Nineteenth Century.” Perspektiven, vol. 5, no. 3, Summer 2006, pp. 12-13, ill.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: “Approximately 12,000 Swiss immigrants came to Wisconsin in the 19th century, according to the U.S. Federal Census. In 1870, three large concentrations of Swiss appeared in Green County with 1,246, Buffalo County 941, and Sauk County with 601. . . . No comprehensive, in-depth study of Swiss immigration to Wisconsin has been compiled. The author has been working on a long-range project since 1980. The goal is to produce brief biographical and genealogical studies of all persons of Swiss birth who resided in Wisconsin prior to 1900.”
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans — Wisconsin/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ 19th century

Wellauer, Maralyn A. “Swiss in Illinois.” The Swiss Connection, vol. 10, no. 1, Fall 2001, pp. 4-5.
Abstract: Excerpted from from the new edition of Tracing Your Swiss Roots.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Illinois

Wells, Robert W. “City’s German-language Papers were the Most Successful Ones when Club Formed 100 Years Ago.” Milwaukee Press Club, vol. 89, 1985, pp. 6-17.
Abstract: Deals with Milwaukee German-language newspapers and Milwaukee Press Club
MKI P86-18
Newspapers, German-American

Wendel, Joe. “Review of Robert Vexler’s Germany – A Chronology and Fact Book 1415-1972. (Oceana Publication: Dobbs Ferry, New York, 1973. World Chronology Series.).” German-American Studies, vol. 9, Spring 1975, pp. 63-64.
Abstract: Wendel’s review states that the book fails to give a thorough account of German history (out of 187 pages, 101 pages deal with the 20th century, and a bibliography consumes 20 pages). Although it claims to contribute to the scholarship re the history of German emigration, according to Wendel, the book fails at this, too.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Wendler, Glenn H. “The High Amana Store: An anachronism amid simplicity.” Infoblatt, vol. 6, no. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 16-19.
Notes: The author is “the last child born in the Amana Society before it changed to a capitalistic system.”
MKI Periodicals
Amana/ Iowa

Wendling, Miriam. “‘Wir leben in einer schweren Zeit’: The 1917-1918 Concert Season of the Milwaukee Musical Society.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 50, 2015, pp. 45-58; ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Examines the difficulties faced by the Musikverein von Milwaukee in the final year of World War I.
MKI Periodicals
Musikverein von Milwaukee (Milwaukee Musical Society)/ German Americans — Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Music–Middle West–History/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans

Werbow, Stanley N. “Goethe Celebrations in Maryland 1949.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 27th Report, 1950, pp. 71-73.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Maryland/ Festivals

Werner, E. Sankt Michael. [Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Waisenfreund ?], n.d. 220 pp.
Note: Pseudonym of Elisabeth Buerstenbinder.
Abstract: Publication information taken from back cover of P89-12.
MKI P89-14
PIA/ Catholics

Werner, Johannes. “Von Baden nach Amerika: Weg und Irrweg des Ordenspriesters Joseph Albrecht [From Baden to America: the Path and Going Astray of the Missionary Priest Joseph Albrecht].” Freiburger Dioezesan-Archiv, 123. Band, 3. Folge, 55. Bd., pp. [109]-123.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Donated by the author (Johannes Werner, Steinstrasse 21, D-76477 Elchesheim-Illingen, Germany), 2014.
Abstract: Biography of Joseph Albrecht, born in Unter-Neuhaeuser by Kirchzarten in Breisgau January 6, 1800. Although he married Maria Anna on November 29, 1826, they separated and she joined a cloister founded by the mother of by Franz Sales Brunner, priest of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. In 1843 Brunner led a group of seminarians to Ohio where priests were in high demand, Maria Anna followed in 1844, Joseph Albrecht in 1848. Despite poor academic and theological training, and little regard by his fellow priests and superiors, Albrecht was a beloved priest in Ohio until his capital punishment of several young women caused a split in the congregation. He and a small band of followers traveled via St. Nazianz, Wisconsin, where a Christian commune had been founded by Ambrose Oschwald, to “Rush Lake” in Minnesota. His formal appointment in the new diocese was never made official, but his community grew. He was excommunicated in 1871, in 1879 his community was destroyed by arson, and he died in 1884. Includes appendix with brief biography of Ambros Oschwald.
MKI P2014-12
Albrecht, Joseph (1800-1884)./ Oschwald, Ambros (1801-1873)./ Catholic Church–Missions–Minnesota./ German Americans–Minnesota

Werner, Michael. “Das pennsylvaniadeutsche Zeitungsprojekt Hiwwe wie Driwwe und die Rolle von Profesor C. Richard Beam.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. Supplemental Issue, vol. 2, 2006, 2006, pp. 5-11.
Notes: Preserving Heritage: A Festschrift for C. Richard Beam. Edited by Joshua R. Brown and Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr.
MKI Periodicals
Beam, C. Richard, 1925-/ German-American Studies/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Newspapers, German-American

Werner, Michael. “‘Mer schwetze noch die Mudderschprooch!’: Zur Geschichte und Zukunft des Pennsylvaniadeutschen in den USA.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 101-112.
Notes: The Language and Culture of the Pennsylvania Germans: A Festschrift for Earl C. Haag. Edited by William D. Keel and C. Richard Beam.
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “Wie ist das Pennsylvaniadeutsche entstanden, wie hat es sich weiterentwickelt, und wird es in hundert Jahren ueberhaupt noch Sprecher geben?. . . . Insgesamt kann man sagen, dass die Perspektiven fuer das Pennsylvaniadeutsche nicht so schlecht sind, wie oft geschrieben wird.”
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Werner, Michael. “Zur Geschichte und Zukunft des Pennsylvaniadeutschen in den USA.” 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. 93-99.
MKI E 184 P3 A94 2009
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ History/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Pennsylvania Germans

Wernich, W. Waldemar. Unsere Hausthiere in gesundem und krankem Zustande, nebst Anleitung zum Futterbau. [2nd ed.]. Appleton, Wis.: H. W. Meyer, 1893. viii, 104, 20 pp., ill.
On title page: “Von W. Wernich, praktischem Farmer, land- und forstwirtschaftlichem Schriftsteller. Prämie zum Appleton Volksfreund. Appleton, Wis. Druck und Verlag von H. W. Meyer. 1893.” Bound with “Der Futterbau. Anweisung, Futterfelder zu bestellen und gute Dauerwiesen und Dauerweiden anzulegen.” Vorwort written by W. Wernich, Milwaukee, Wis. [Wernich, Waldemar, W., 1850-1898.]
Front cover missing.
Contents: Die Pferdezucht — Pferdehandel und edle Pferde — Pferdekrankheiten — Die Rindviehzucht — Die Krankheiten des Rindviehs — Die Schweinezucht — Die Krankheiten der Schweine — Die Schafzucht — Die Krankheiten der Schafe — Die Hühnerzucht in Wort und Bild — Gaense und Enten — Truthühner [Turkeys] — Der Futterbau: Der Grasbau — Der Kleebau.
Donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center, 2008.

Wessely, Herbert. “Charles Sealsfields Jugendland an der Thaya – in Wort und Bild -.” Schriftenreihe der Charles-Sealsfield-Gesellschaft, vol. 4, 1989, pp. 7-23.
Abstract: Wessely’s article discusses Postl’s relationship to the natural landscape of his southern Moravian birth place. Wessely weaves together reflections from his own childhood in the area with those of Postl. The article includes drawings by Wessely.
MKI PT2516.S4 Z4586 / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Biographies

Westbrook, Ray. “Texas History Nearly Took a Turn for ‘Wurst.'” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 24, no. 4, Winter 2003, pp. 308-309, ill.
Notes: Reproduced from the Lubbock Avanlanche-Journal.
Abstract: Report on a lecture by Prince Hans von Sachsen-Altenburg on a “19th-century plot by German nobility to take over [the southern and western parts of] Texas and turn it into a German country.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ 19th century/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German

Westege, Franz. “Die deutscheste Stadt Amerikas. Skizzen aus Milwaukee.” In Bibliothek der Unterhaltung und des Wissens. Vol. 1. Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig: Union Deutsche Velagsgesellschaft, 1897, pp. 211-228, ill.
Notes: Entire book is in pamphlet file.
MKI P2002-39
America/ United States/ Milwaukee (Wis.)

Westege, Franz. “Ein Spaziergang durch Washington. Bilder aus der Bundeshauptstadt der Vereinigten Staaten.” In Bibliothek der Unterhaltung und des Wissens. Vol. 5. Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig: Union Deutsche Velagsgesellschaft, 1897, pp. 113-133, ill.
Notes: Entire book is in pamphlet file.
MKI P2002-40
America/ United States/ Washington (D.C.)

Westermeier, Therese S. “A Baltimore Pioneer in Proprietary Medicine.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 28th Report, 1953, pp. 67-71.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Biographies

Westermeier, Therese S. “Saint Walburga in America.” American-German Review, vol. XVIII, no. 4, 1952, pp. 19, 31.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies

Wetzel, Erwin. “Ganz gewiss, Amerika allein ist unser Glueck, unsere Hoffnung! Eine Schweizer Auswanderungsgeschichte nach authentischen alten Briefen, Tagebuecher und Dokumenten.” 90 pp.
Notes: als Erzaehlung bearbeitet.
FH Rodolf
Swiss Americans/ Letters/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US).

Wheeler, Mary Alice. “Children’s Books About Pennsylvania Germans.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 3-6, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Bibliography of fifty children’s titles, both fiction and non-fiction, that provide insights into the history, daily life, customs, and holidays of Pennsylvania Germans.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, juvenile/ Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Bibliographies/ Children’s literature

White, Ellen G. Christi Gleichnisse. Battle Creek, Mich.: Review & Herald Verlagsgesellschaft, 1901. 437 pp., ill.
On title page: (Autorisierte Uebersetzung) — German translation of: Christ’s Object Lessons (1900). Includes indexes and six pages of advertisements for additional German-language religious publications of the Review & Herald Verlagsgesellschaft. Illustrated cover.
Donated by Katherine Bruner, 2012.

 

 

 

Wiant, Allen. “Her Name Was Mary. . . Or Was It? A Search for Identity.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 33, no. 3, June 2008, pp. 3-7, ill.
Abstract: “Johannes Weigand (later known as John Wiant) was a ‘Hessian mercenary’ who served under the British during the American Revolutionary War. . . . John’s origins, his arrival in America and his record as a soldier are related elsewhere [see: “John Wiant of Albemarle County, Virginia: A Hessian POW in America,” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. xxviii, no. 1 (Dec. 2002), pp. 8-12.]. The identity of the mother of his children, however, has remained a mystery.” Article presents the authors’ “findings and conclusions, based largely on circumstantial evidence.”
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ German Americans — Virginia/ 18th century/ 19th century

Wiant, Allen. “John Wiant of Albemarle County, Virginia: A Hessian POW in America.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 28, no. 1, Dec. 2002, pp. 8-12.
Abstract: Johannes Wiegand, of Kempfenbrunn in Hesse-Hanau, served under the command of General Burgoyne in Canada during the American Revolutionary War. Burgoyne’s defeat at the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777 resulted in Weigand becoming a prisoner of war; Weigand and other prisoners were marched to a location west of Charlottesville, Virginia. The author believes Weigand may have become John Wiant of Abermarle County, Virginia, who first appears in a census of 1787.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ German Americans — Virginia/ Hessians/ Revolution, 1775-1783/ Weigand

Wickham, Christopher J. “Oil and water: The development of the portrayal of Native Americans by nineteenth-century German painters.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 31, 1996, pp. 63-196.
Abstract: While the work of German artists has been acknowledged as a significant component in the collective portrayal of the Indian and the West, it has not been examined as a German contribution to the production of Native American images. This survey presents the work of these artists and proposes a flexible framework for their systematic analysis.
MKI periodicals
Artists/ Germany/ Native Americans/ Image

Widmer, Marie. “Das offizielle Auskunftsbureau der Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen in New York.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 36, 1916, pp. 87-90, ill.
Abstract: “Infolge der Riesendimensionen dieses Landes ist es vielen Schweizern wohl kaum bekannt, dass im Herzen der Stadt New York. . .seit dem 11. Januar 1908 ein von den Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen unterhaltenes offizielles Auskunftsbureau fuer die Schweiz besteht.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ New York (N.Y.)/ Travel/ Switzerland

Wiedemann-Citera, Barbara. “The Role of the German-American “Vereine” in the Revitalization of German-American Ethnic Life in New York City in the 1920s.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994, pp. 107-116.
Abstract: Wiedemann-Citera’s article discusses the reorganization of the German Vereine in the 1920s, after disbanding or moving due to persecution during World War I. It describes the various kinds of societies and focuses on the problems facing them as well as their role in the revitalization of German culture in New York.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americans — Societies, etc./ Ethnic identity/ New York (N.Y.)/ 20th century/ World War, 1914-1918/ Turners/ Music/ Newspapers, German-American

Wiedemanr, Leonhard. Jubilaeums-Buechlein. New York, N.Y.: Pustet, 1901.
Notes: Religion; donation from Ronald C. Wagner
MKI P92-63
PIA/ Prayers

Wieder, Regine. “Konrad Nies rediscovered.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 34, 1999, pp. 141-152.
Abstract: This article illustrates the importance of Konrad Nies for not only German-Americana, but also for a more complete understanding of the origins and history of America’s current ethnic make-up. The recent discovery of Nies’s complete manuscripts and private correspondence in the German Society of Pennsylvania has given access to aspects of his life which were previously unknown. This article also puts Nies into the context of a United States facing mass German immigration and the concomitant social, cultural and political issues. Nies is also shown as one of the first literary proponents of environmentalism based on conservation of our natural resources.
MKI Periodicals
Nies, Konrad, 1862-1921

Wiederhoeft, Linda. “Prisoners of War in Wisconsin?” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 36, April 2003, pp. 1, 4, ill.
Notes: Pommersche Verein Central Wisconsin.
Abstract: Summary of talk by historian and author Betty Cowley.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1939-1945/ Prisoners of war/ Wisconsin/ History/ Germans

Wiegand, Wayne A. “In Service to the State: Wisconsin Public Libraries during World War I.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 72, no. 3, 1989, pp. 199-224, ill.
Notes: http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/wmh/id/36936.
Abstract: An examination of the role of Wisconsin’s public libraries during World War I, including their dissemination of information about the war, extended services provided, and fund raising for the war. The war is depicted as a positive opportunity for the libraries to increase their clientele and professional authority, as well as a force that led librarians from objectivity and to censorship and xenophobia.
MKI periodicals
World War, 1914-1918| Wisconsin| Wars| Anti-German sentiment| Libraries

Wiegmann, Steffen. “”. . . in der edlen Illusion, doch noch eine feste Schanze der Freiheit gerettet zu haben!” Politisch motivierte Auswanderung aus Deutschland und dem heutigen Rheinland-Pfalz im 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. 37-41, ill.
MKI E 184 P3 A94 2009
Palatines/ German Americans/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ History/ Palatinate/ Forty-eighters/ Politics

Wiley, Raymond A. “The German-American Verse of Dr. Franz Lahmeyer.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974, pp. 14-29.
Abstract: Wiley’s 16 page piece describes the resources available in researching the life of Lahmeyer and sources used in preparing the manuscript entitled “Sinnreiche Ei[nsichten]/ in/ Stundenfroeh[lichkeit]/ ueber me[in]/ Vaterland Europa/ verglichen mit der/ Staatsverfassung und/ Landesbeschaffenheit/ gewidmet fuer/ meine Europaeis[c]hen Freunde/ im Koenigreiche Hannover/ von den dortigen Amerikanischen/ Staaten.” The poem is included.
MKI Periodicals / SHS E .G3 G315
Immigrants, German/ Passenger lists/ Literature, German-American/ Poetry/ Literary criticism

Wilhelm, Cornelia. “Shaping the American Jewish Community: The Independent Order of B’nai B’rith, 1843-1914.” German-Jewish Identities in America. Edited by Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2003, pp. 64-87.
Abstract: Examines the “exclusively Jewish fraternal order, the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith, which was fully independent from congregational and rabbinical authority, [and which] was to serve to promote a truly Jewish, yet modern, secular and respectable religious lifestyle among American Jews.”
MKI/MEM E184 J5 G37 2003
Jews, German/ Cultural influence/ Cultural contribution/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Ethnic identity/ Communities/ Societies, etc.

Wilhelm, Cornelia. “Von der Volksgeschichte zur Volkstumpolitik: Heinz Kloss und die volkspolitische Mobilisation des Deutschamerikanertums 1933-1945.” Gesellschaft und Diplomatie im transatlantischen Kontext: Festschrift für Reinhard R. Doerries zum 65. Geburtstag. Michael Wala, Hrsg. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999, pp. 181-204.
Abstract: “Heinz Kloss, der als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Bibliothekar und Leiter der Amerikaabteilung seit 1927 am Deutschen Ausland-Institut in Stuttgart angestellt war, galt zwischen 1933 und 1945 als ‘Experte’ fuer die Geschichte, Kultur und Traditionen des Deutschamerikanertums in den Vereinigten Staaten. Kloss konnte nur teilweise als ‘Historiker’ im traditionellen Sinn gesehen werden, denn er gehoerte einer stark sozialwissenschaftlich beeinflussten Schule, naemlich der in Folge des Ersten Weltkrieges entstandenen ‘Volksgeschichte’ an, die vor allem sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden anwandte. Trotzdem zaehlte er zu den schillerndsten Figuren der deutschen historischen Amerika-Forschung.”
MKI E183.7 G47 1999
World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans/ Political activity

Wilkerson, Miranda E., and Joseph Salmons. “‘Good Old Immigrants of Yesteryear’ Who Didn’t Learn English: Germans in Wisconsin.” American Speech, vol. 83, no. 3, 2008, pp. 259-283, ill.
Abstract: There is a prevailing belief that nineteenth-century immigrants to America typically became bilingual almost immediately after arriving, although little systematic data has been presented for this view. The authors present quantitative and qualitative evidence about Germans in Wisconsin, where, into the twentieth century, many immigrants and their descendants remained monolingual, decades after immigration had ceased. Even those who claimed to speak English often had limited command. Quantitative data from the 1910 Census, augmented by qualitative evidence from newspapers, court records, literary texts, and other sources, suggest that Germans of various socioeconomic backgrounds often lacked English language skills. German continued to be the primary language in numerous Wisconsin communities, and some second- and third-generation descendants of immigrants were still monolingual as adults. Understanding this history can help inform contemporary debates about language and immigration and help dismantle the myth that successful immigrant groups of yesterday owed their prosperity to an immediate, voluntary shift to English.
MKI P2009-14
Language maintenance/ Language shift/ Immigrants, German/ Language, English/ Language, German/ 20th century/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Bilingualism

Wilkins, Wynona H., and Herbert H. Boswau. “The Interdisciplinary Mini-Course: Instructional Development for Language Classes.” In Preparing Teaching Materials on German Heritage for the 300th Anniversary of German Immigration to America 1683-1983, 1983, pp. 135-137.
Abstract: This deals with a mini-course on German Heritage in America
MKI P85-163
Teaching/ German-American Studies

Willey, Norman L. “Sealsfield’s Unrealistic Mexico.” Monatshefte, vol. 48, 1956, pp. 127-136.
MKI P93-98
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism

Williams, Carol. “Response to Kristina Marcy’s Review Essay.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 38, no. 3, Nov. 2002, pp. 40-48.
Abstract: Novelist Carol Williams discusses her three novels, The Switzers (1981), By Wonders and By War (1999), and Brightness Remembered (2001), books that chronicle the experiences of three Swiss families in South Carolina.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ South Carolina/ Williams, Carol

Williams, Charles A. “A German Song of 1778, Relating to Mercenaries in America.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 15, 1915, pp. 361-367.
Abstract: “The following crude poem is preserved in a print in the Royal Library at Berlin in a volume belonging to the famous Meusebach collection…It was to be sung to the tune of Georg Neumark’s well-known hymn, ‘Wer nur den lieben Gott laeszt walten.'” Joseph Weinhard is the suspected author of the verses. Williams offers a brief historical commentary on the poem.
MKI Periodicals
Songs/ Soldiers/ Revolution, 1775-1783/ Wars

Williams, Stefanie E. “The Rise and Decline of the German-Speaking Community in San Francisco, 1850-1924.” University of California, Berkeley, 2014. 48 pp.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
MKI P2018-14
German Americans — California/ 19th century/ 20th century/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Societies, etc./ San Francisco/ Festivals/ Anti-German sentiment.

Willibrand, W. A. “English loan words in the low German dialect of Westphalia, Missouri.” The American Dialect Society, Apr. 1957, pp. 16-21.
Abstract: Study and history of loan word absorption in a small village of Central Missouri
MKI P97-2
German Americans — Missouri/ Low German Dialect

Willibrand, W. A. “German in Okarche, 1892-1902.” Chronicles of Oklahoma, vol. 28, Autumn 1950.
Notes: Reprint.
Abstract: This paper has been concerned primarily with the first decade of Okarche’s history. During this time the community became predominantly German in language and in the character of its people. The language was fostered by thriving religious groups and by a strong economic organization which brought a spirit of cooperation among the German farmers. A more important cohesive influence was the German-American press. Eventually the language was to disappear almost completely.
MKI P84-196
German Americans — Other US states/ History/ Language, German (US)/ German-American press/ Ethnic identity

Willibrand, W. A. “In Bilingual Old Okarche.” Chronicles of Oklahoma, vol. 29, Autumn 1951.
Notes: Reprint.
Abstract: The uniqueness of the Okarche community lies in the fact that it became a predominantly German settlement during the decade after 1892. German influence and German cultural aspects of Okarche are discussed.
MKI P84-197
German Americans — Other US states/ Culture/ Language, German (US)/ Bilingualism

Willich, August. “On man, history and socialism.” Hegel’s first American followers. Loyd D. Easton. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1966, pp. 312-330.
Notes: Letter by August Willich and translation under the same number. Abstract: Includes sections on: “Why do so few religious workers participate in labor movements?”; the state; Karl Marx’s system of political economy; organization of labor; unions.
MKI P97-23
Socialism/ Labor movement

[Wilson, Jos. S.] Bericht des Commissionär des General-Landamtes, der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, für das Jahr 1866. Washington, D.C.: Druck des Regierungsbuchdruckerei [Government Printing Office], 1867. 48 pp., map. Cover title: Oeffentliche Laendereien der Vereinigten-Staaten von America, A.D. 1867.
Theodore Franks, draughtsman, 1866.
Survey of the settlement of individual states and territories of the United States: Minnesota, Dakota, Montana, Kansas and Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, Utah, Washington Territory, Oregon, Nevada, California, and Spanish and Mexican land grants in California, along with descriptions of natural resources, public services, and economic possibilities for settlers. Includes a large (75 x 145 cm) map of the United States.
Donated by Thomas Schätti, Schwanden, Switzerland. Brought to the MKI by Robert Elmer, New Glarus, WI.

Wilson, Joseph. “The Earliest Anglicisms in Texas Germany.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 16, 1981, pp. 103-114.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Texas/ Language, German (US) — Foreign elements/ Farming/ Frontier and pioneer life

Wilson, Joseph. “The Kalender/Jahrbuch of the NeuBraunfelser Zeitung.” 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. 131-142.
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

Wilson, Renate, and Peter Nolte. “The diary of a German country parson in colonial Georgia,” In The German language in America, 1683-1991. Joseph C. Salmons, editor. Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, General editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wisconsin: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, UW-Madison, 1993, pp. 16-37.
Abstract: There is a large body of printed and written communication by colonial immigrants from the German-language areas of central Europe. Much of the printed material is known or accessible. Much less well known is the large body of written material by trained clergy. This paper analyzes one example of this written German discourse and places it in its historical and social context. The text is drawn from the voluminous correspondence between 18th-century Pietist Lutheran ministers and some of their associates in the American colonies and their mother house in Germany. A major focus of the analysis is the extent to which style, choice of metaphor and other rhetorical devices observed for Pietist writings from the late 17th and early 18th century in Europe were significant characteristics in communications within the relevant segments of the American colonial population of native German speakers.
MKI PF 5925 G47 1993
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Colonial period/ Diaries/ Dialects

Wilson, Verna Forbes. “Learning the History of Anna Catharina Ruby.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 31, no. 3, June 2006, pp. 9-15, ill.
Abstract: Reveals a genealogical search through baptismal and other church records. “The 1907 obituary of Anna Catharina Ruby, my paternal great-grandmother, from an old Illinois newspaper, was what started the search that led us back to 17th century Switzerland. . . . Her birthplace was the mill known as the Weyermuhl near Walhalben.” Anna Catharina, her parents, and her siblings immigrated to the United States in 1826. Around 1855, Anna Catharina, her husband, and her children moved to McLean County, Illinois. Includes images of parish and civil records.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Swiss Americans/ German Americans — Illinois

Wilson, Victoria. “Early Parishioners of St. Matthias Parish, Greenfield, WI.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, 1978, pp. 23-24.
Abstract: Wilson’s 2 article gives a brief history of the St Matthias parish and lists its early parishioners.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ 19th century

Windholtz, Oren. “The Bukovina Society of the Americas.” German-American Journal, vol. 54, no. 1, Jan./Feb. 2005, pp. 4-6, ill.
Abstract: From 1775 to 1918, Bukovina was the easternmost province of the Austrian Empire. It was partitioned by Romania and Ukraine in the wake of World War II. This article provides a history of Bukovina and of immigration of Bukovina Germans to the United States, Canada, and Brazil. Also provides details on the foundation and activities of the Bukovina Society, located in Ellis, Kansas.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ European Americans/ Bukovina

Winkel, Peter. “Emigration from Hesse-Darmstadt in the mid-nineteenth century.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 81-92.
Abstract: Winkel’s article concentrates on the immigration of 457 citizens from Viernheim, a village of 4,000, on June 8, 1852. It describes the process whereby such a large number of prospective emigrants applied for official permission to leave Hesse legally.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 19th century/ Hesse

Winkel, Peter. “Skepticism Turns to Enthusiasm: Seventeen Letters Written by a German Immigrant in New Jersey to His Father in Hesse-Darmstadt between 1852 and 1859.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1989, pp. 41-58.
Abstract: This article studies 17 letters written by a German immigrant in New Jersey to his father in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany between 1852 and 1859. The immigrant, Christopf Farnkopf, was 23 when he arrived in the United States, presumably to escape criminal prosecution in Germany. This study examines his gradual adjustment to life in New Jersey. The early letters tell of his frustration as well as his economic ambition. Later letters describe the misunderstandings between him and his family in Germany and of his success in New Jersey. The question is addressed as to whether or not New Jersey provided the expected golden opportunity for Farnkopf.
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Letters/ Assimilation/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Winkle, Irene von. “Seidenstickers Make Mark on Comfort since 1855.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 33, no. 4, Winter 2011, pp. 234-237, ill.
Notes: Originally published in the West Kerr Current, Sept. 23, 2010.
Abstract: According to the family’s history, Heinrich Christian Ludwig Seidensticker (1830-1892) was born in Halle, Germany. He settled in Comfort, Texas, in 1855, working as a tailor. He and his wife Juliana, nee Saur (1838-1882), raised a large family.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Seidensticker/ German Americans — Texas

Winkler, Albert. “The Germans and Swiss at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 54, no. 3, November 2018, pp. 1-103 : ill., charts.
Abstract: Examines the Germans and Swiss who participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, who they were, what their motives for joining the cavalry were, what their experiences in battle were. Includes lists of Germans and Swiss in the 7th Cavalry indicating Name, Company, Rank, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Job in the Army, Where in [during] Battle. A previous article by this author, “The Swiss at the Battle of the Little Bighorn” appeared in the February 2011 (Vol. 47, no. 1) issue (pp. 1-22) of this journal.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876/ United States — History

Winkler, Albert. “Henry Wirz and Andersonville: The Career of the Most Controversial Swiss American.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 47, no. 2, June. 2011, pp. 1-16, ill.
Abstract: Examines the career of Henry Wirz, born Heinrich Hartmann Wirz in Switzerland, who was commander of the Andersonville prison where nearly 13,000 Union prisoners died during the American Civil War. Concludes that while Wirz was “a flawed man,” he was “unfairly singled out for punishment” for the high death rates in the Confederate prison.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Civil War, 1861-1865/ United States — History/ Wirz, Henry, 1823-1865

Winkler Albert. “Herbert Hoover and Belgian Relief: The Philanthropy of a Swiss American President.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 49, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 21-46, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964/ 20th century/ World War, 1939-1945/ Belgium

Winkler, Albert. “The Swiss at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 47, no. 1, Feb. 2011, pp. 1-22, ill.
Abstract: Twelve men born in Switzerland were assigned to Custer’s Seventh Cavalry in the early summer of 1876; of these seven took part in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. This paper examines these men, assessing their motives in joining the calvary, and appraising their experiences in battle. The twelve men are Frederick Lehman and Frank Braun (both born in Bern), Robert Senn and John Lattman (both born in Zurich), Joseph Kneubuhler and Vincent Charley (both born in Luzern), Ludwig Borter, John Rauter, Francis Pittet, Edmond Burlis, and John King. Of the seven who took part in the Battle of Little Bighorn, five were killed in action or died later of wounds, and only two–Robert Senn and John Lattman–survived.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876/ United States — History

Winkler, Kurt. “Albert Einstein in Switzerland: The Education of the Most Famous Swiss American.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 48, no. 3, Nov. 2012, pp. 1-17, ill.
Abstract: “Einstein spent his most productive years in Switzerland where he matured, received his advanced education, fell in love an married, made life-long friendships., formulated his most important ideas, and received his first academic position. The purpose of this paper is to examine Einstein’s life in Switzerland to understand better how his experiences there influenced his intellectual and emotional development.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Swiss Americans/ Education/ Switzerland/ Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

Winkler, Kurt. “Robert Julius Trumpler and the Cosmos: The Contributions of a Swiss American Astronomer.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 49, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 1-9, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Truempler was born in 1886 in Zurich, Switzerland and studied physics, mathematics, and astronomy first at the University of Zurich and then at the University of Goettingen. He graduated magna cum laude in 1910. In 1918 he was offered a position at the Lick Observatory, operated by the University of California. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1921, at which time he dropped the umlaut from the spelling of his name.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans — California/ Science/ Trumpler, Robert Julius, 1886-1956

Winters, Keene. “Trieglafferen im Wausau.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 81, July 2014, pp. 14, ill.
Notes: Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin.
Abstract: Johann “August” and Bertha (Stark) Winter arrived in Wausau from Trieglaff in Pomerania with their five children in 1887 where they established a friendship with the Town of Maine family of Anton and Caroline (Gerht) Krueger, likely from Greifenberg, Pomerania.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Wipf, Joseph A. “Hutterite Life: The Role of the German School.” Die Unterrichtspraxis, vol. 9, no. 2, 1976, pp. 30-35.
MKI P86-123 / MEM AP .U6137
Hutterites/ Social life and customs/ Education/ Schools

Wirth, Andrzej. “Der Amerika Gestus in Brechts “Arbeitsjournal”.” In Die USA und Deutschland. Wolfgang Paulsen, ed., 1976, pp. 52-60.
Abstract: Eine Zusammenfassung und Analyse der streng marxistischen Kritik, die Brecht in seinen Arbeitsjournalen an Amerika uebt.
MKI PT 123 .U6 A4 1976 / MEM PT 123 .U6 A4 1975
Literature, German/ United States in literature

Wirz, Heinrich L., and Florian A. Strahm. “The Swiss in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: including 100 officers and 6 generals, important persons from Aschmann, Frey, Imboden, Lecomte, Lieb, and Smith to Zollicoffer.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 51, no. 2, June 2015, pp. 3-121.
Notes: Includes illustrations and portraits. Originally published in German in 2012 in the Schriftenreihe der Eidgenoessischen Militaerbibliothek und des Historischen Dienstes. Translated by Leo Schelbert; edited by Albert Winkler.
Abstract: Foreword / David Vogelsanger — A personal introduction / Heinrich L. Wirz — The American Civil War (1861-1865) in brief — Swiss officers and prominent personalities — Chronology of the Civil War, including names of killed, wounded, and captured Swiss officers — Alphabetical list with short biographical entries — Bibliography — Appendix: John Hitz’s list of 302 Swiss in the Union Army as of 16 April 1863.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Civil War, 1861-1865

Witmer, Christopher S. “The German Timber-Framed Threshing Barns of Lebanon Township, Dodge County, Wisconsin. MA Thesis.” Univ. of Wisconsin, 1983. 220 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988.
Abstract: This study examines the tradition of half-timber construction barns found in the German settlement area of Lebanon Township in Dodge County, Wisconsin. The research consisted of a farm-by-farm search of Lebanon Township. 203 barns were examined, 30 of which were found to be of half-timber construction. The hypotheses of this study are: 1) The German half-timber threshing barns built in Lebanon Township may not be true examples of folk architecture, as they may have been influenced by contemporary architectural pattern books; 2) Based on general examples from the Eastern United States, framing systems used in German threshing barns underwent some type of evolution over time; and 3) The demise of the German threshing barn was caused by economic and utilitarian reasons, based upon changing agricultural systems and the influence of advanced barn construction technology.
MKI dissertations / MEM AWO W826 C475
Architecture/ Wisconsin/ Farming/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Witmer, Margaret A. “Henry and Elizabeth Lapp; Amish Folk Artists.” Antique Collecting, vol. 2, no. 12, 1979, pp. 22-27.
MKI P84-198
Amish/ Antiques

Witt, Reimer. “Quellen des Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landesarchivs zur Ueberseewanderung aus Schleswig-Holstein.” In Die deutsche und skandinavische Amerikaauswanderung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Kai Detlev Sievers, ed., 1981, pp. 73-87.
Abstract: “Bei den Quellen des Landesarchivs ueber die Auswanderung sind zwei Ueberlieferungskomplexe deutlich voneinander zu unterschieden: 1. die Akten aus gesamtstaatlich-daenischer Zeit vom ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts und 2. die Akten aus preussischer Zeit von 1867 bis zum Jahre 1923, in dem eine geschlossene Aktenserie ueber die Entlassung aus dem Untertanenverband abbricht.”
MKI P87-84 / MEM E 184 .G3 D54 1981
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Emigration and immigration / Schleswig-Holstein/ Archives

Wittke, Carl F. “American Germans in two World wars,” 1943.
Notes: Reprint of paper read at a meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association held at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on April 23, 1943. It is based largely on the author’s published writings.
Abstract: Short historical outline of the “German element” in the U.S. World War I was a shock for which the German element in the U.S. was utterly unprepared. Suddenly, German-Americans found themselves distrusted, suspected, and abused by their American neighbors, and forced to endure one of the most difficult experiences any immigrant group has ever had to bear in this county. The German group closed ranks in defense of their status in America and of the reputation of their blood brothers across the sea. After 1917 the majority of the German element became quiet. Then they gradually came to support the war effort of the government and met all the public demands made upon their loyalty. Between 1917 and 1918 everything of German origin came under the attack of patriotic Americans. As early as 1923, the Nazi Party began its campaign for recruits in the U.S. A minority of the German-born and some native Americans of German stock were attracted by the swastika and Fritz Kuhn’s Bund, with its storm troopers’ camps, parades, and uniforms. However, there has been no problem concerning the loyalty of the overwhelming majority of the German element in the U.S. in World war II. The Fritz Kuhns were locked up and their organizations broken up.
MKI P85-69
World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans

Wittke, Carl F. “The German Forty-Eighters in America: A Centennial Appraisal.” American Historical Review, July 1948, pp. 711-725.
Abstract: Brief outline of the history of the Forty-eighters (background to immigration, immigration, the variety of Forty-eithers who immigrated, their cultural mission). Radicals and freethinkers are mentioned, Turnervereine, and the immigrants’ cultural contribution in the fields of music, arts, etc.
MKI P85-67
Forty-eighters/ History/ Culture/ Cultural contribution/ Freethinkers/ Turners

Wittke, Carl F. “Karl Heinzen’s Literary Ambitions.” Monatshefte für Deutschen Unterricht, Feb. 1945.
Abstract: Karl Heinzen’s career illustrates the crusading spirit of that minority of radical reformers who constituted part of the German immigration of the middle nineteenth century, and who added a powerful leaven of freethought and zeal for reform to a body politic still largely under the influence of early American Puritanism. Heinzen played the role of extreme republican in the German Revolution of 1848 and 1849; in his adopted fatherland he fought for 30 years for the rights of the Negro, for equal rights for women, for a truly democratic foreign policy, and for a host of other political, economic and social reforms. He edited his famous Der Pionier in the U.S. for more than a quarter century. This paper is primarily concerned with Heinzen’s ambitions to achieve recognition as a poet and a playwright.
MKI P85-66
Heinzen, Karl, 1809-1880/ Forty-Eighters/ Poetry/ Theater & Drama

Wittke, Carl F. “Peter Witt, Tribune of the People.” Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, Oct. 1949, pp. 361-377.
Abstract: A biographical sketch of Peter Witt. Some highlights in the career of a tempestuous Clevelander whose reputation as a crusader spread far beyond the borders of his native city, and whose activities are part of the great reform era of recent times.
MKI P85-68
Biographies

Wittman, Marie Gionet Arnold. “My Hessian Ancestors.” German-American Genealogy, Fall 2005, pp. 1-2, ill.
Notes: (Immigrant Genealogical Society, Burbank, CA).
Abstract: Family history. “I would like to introduce you to Christian Adolf Schumpf who was born on 18 January 1753 in Enkirch, near the Moselle River in Germany. Christian died in Quebec City [Canada] on the 24th of December 1815.” He was a Hessian soldier, and very likely a tailor, serving under General Burgoyne.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)/ Immigrants, German/ Germany, Emigration and immigration/ Hessians/ Canada

Wittstadt, Gerard W. “Major General the Baron Johannes De Kalb: A forgotten Maryland patriot.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 41st Report, 1990, pp. 16-22.
Abstract: Account of the Baron Johannes De Kalb (1721-1780), a German soldier who fought with the Maryland line during the Revolutionary War.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Maryland/ Revolution, 1775-1783/ Soldiers

Wohlert, Harry S., and Hilde Wohlert. “Die deutsche Sprache im heutigen Oklahoma.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, editor. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, editors Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, 10.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1985, pp. 45-54.
Abstract: This article deals with the history and present state of the German language in Oklahoma; it includes some statistics from the 1970 census.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)

Wohlrabe, John C. Jr. “Zur Einigung; The St. Paul Theses–A Document Study.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 3, 1983, pp. 133-140.
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535

Wokeck, Marianne. “A Tide of Alien Tongues: The Flow and Ebb of German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1683-1776. Dissertation.” Ph.D. dissertation, Temple University, 1983. 350 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988.
Abstract: Includes chapters on the Germans of colonial Pennsylvania: An early american migration; migration in eighteenth-century Germany; In Europe and to America; the flow and the composition of German immigration to Philadelphia, 1727-1775; passengers and promoters: The German immigrant trade, 1727-1775; making the first step in a new world; German and Irish migration: a comparison; the workings of a major transatlantic migration
MKI dissertations/ SHS microfilm
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Pennsylvania/ Immigrants, German/ History/ 18th century.

Wolf, Edward C. “Justus Henry Christian Helmuth — Hymnodist.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 117-147.
Abstract: Wolf’s article includes a bibliography of the hymn, anthem and cantata texts written and published by Helmuth.
MKI Periodicals
Lutheran Church/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Hymns/ Zion Gemeinde/ Poetry/ Journalism/ Archives/ Diaries/ Music/ Bibliographies

Wolf, Richard Charles. “The Americanization of the German Lutherans, 1683 to 1829. Dissertation.” Yale University, 1971. 596 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: FINDINGS 1. The economic, political, ecclesiastical, physical and psychological conditions existent in Germany between 1618 and 1776 moved a large number of German Lutherans to emigrate to America between 1683 and 1776, and conditioned the emigrants toward a readiness to acclimatize themselves in America. 2. The long, arduous, costly and dangerous journey to America served both as a guarantee of the permanent settlement of the German Lutherans in America and as a deterrent to any return to Germany. 3. The unorganized condition in which these German Lutherans arrived in America and the absence of a German colony to which they could resort made them dependent upon and subject to the prevalent English culture in which they found themselves. The indenture system, the obligatory oaths of allegiance to the British Crown and the exigencies of frontier life afforded a condition of malleability which facilitated their adjustment to the new culture in which they found themselves. 4. The ecclesiastical disorganization of the German Lutherans, marked by a lack of pastors and congregational organization, prepared the way for Henry Melchior Muhlenberg who by his personal life, organizational policies, ecclesiastical and political attitudes led them to a high degree of accommodation to and participation in the life and culture of the American colonies. 5. The pressures of the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary periods fused the German Lutherans into the body of the new nation as an indigenous part of that nation. 6. The Lutheran ecclesiastical organization developed under the impact of the American environment was both democratic and Lutheran, thus assuring the Lutheran Church a permanent place in the American culture. 7. The development of this democratic Lutheran Church came at the critical juncture when a new wave of German immigration was arriving on American shores. It guaranteed that the Lutheran Church in America would not revert to the position of a “foreign” ecclesiastical body in the surrounding American culture. 8. The “German” Lutheran Church became the “American” Lutheran Church. Planted here before the formation of the American nation it shared the struggles which produced the nation, helped perpetuate the nation’s existence and grew and matured with the nation as it grew and matured.
MKI BX8041 W6 1947a; shelved with MKI dissertations
Lutherans/ Lutheran church/ Assimilation.

Wolff, Kerstin. “Review of “Auf denn, Ihr Schwestern!”: Deutschamerikanische Frauenvereine in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1844-1914. (Anke Ortlepp, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2003. Transatlantische Historische Studien 17. 309 pp.).” H-NET Book Review, June 2004, 3 pp.
Abstract: [Book is owned by Historical Society Library, F589 .M69 G3 2004]
MKI P2004-45
Book reviews/ Women/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ German Americans — Societies, etc./ German Americans — Wisconsin

Wolff, Linda. “Along the Indianola Trails to New Braunfels and San Antonio.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 129-136, ill.
Notes: “For 2006 joint annual meeting of Texas German Society and German Texan Heritage Society, March 12, 2006.”
Abstract: “The Indianola Trail is most associated with the route taken by German immigrants brought by Prince Carl Solms-Braunfels from Germany to settle on land grants in the Texas Hill Country. One might wonder how many of the German immigrants brought to Texas by the Adelsverein knew–and understood–that their land grants were going to be more than 150 miles inland from their landing place on the Texas Gulf coast.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ 19th century/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Settlements

Wolfram, Theo. Neue Heilmethode. Erfolgreiche Anwendungen der Sagine Heilmittel in Bekaempfung der Krankheiten der Haut und Schleimhaut. Columbus, Ohio: Sagine Company, n.d.
MKI P93-11
PIA/ Medicine & Health/ Folks-medicine

Wolkerstorfer, John Christine. “Minnesota’s Germans and the Civil War.” A Heritage Fulfilled: German-Americans: Die Erfuellte Herkunft. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1984, pp. 116-32.
Abstract: Wolkerstorfer’s paper discusses the settlement of New Ulm, the activity of Minnesota regiments in the Civil War, the Sioux’ attack on New Ulm, and the possible causes of this uprising. Photographs and illustrations are included.
MKI F615 G3 H48 1984
German Americans — Minnesota/ New Ulm (Minn.)/ Native Americans/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Wolsch, Eddie. “Ethnic migrations to less populated Texas areas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 22, no. 3, Fall 2000, pp. 68-69.
Notes: “The following article was copied from the Texas German Society Newsletter…”.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)

Wolsh, Eddie. “From the River Spree and the North Sea to the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River: The History of the Wolsch and Kneschk Families and Their Immigration to Texas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 2, Summer 2009, pp. 140-148.
Notes: “To be concluded, next Journal.”
Abstract: “The following is an excerpt of my dad’s family’s history which includes references to his Plaatdeutsch ancestors of his mother from the Oldenburg area as well as the history of the Texas region and northwest Texas communities which Emil [Wolsch] migrated to.” The Wolsch and Kneschk families came from the villages of Braunsdorf, Weisswasser and Gablenz in Prussia, and were Wendish, a Slavic people with a culture and language akin to Polish and Czech. Matthaeus and Anna Kneschk, along with four daughters, a son, and August Wolska, immigrated to Texas in 1877. Explores possible reasons behind the decision to leave and provides what information is known about the trip. “After arriving in Mannheim, Lee County in 1877, August Wolska married Augusta [daughter of Matthaeus] in Williamson County in 1885. . . Once in Texas they followed the pattern of earleir Wendish immigrants, periodically moving in an effort to improve their financial condition. . . . From 1877 to the early 1880s they moved from Mannheim to Paige, Bastrop County, to Dessau, Travis County, to Walburg and Beyersville, Williamson County.” Among the children of August and Augusta was Emil Wolsch, the author’s grandfather.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Wolsch/ Kneschk

Wolsh, Eddie. “From the River Spree and the North Sea to the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River: The History of the Wolsch and Kneschk Families and Their Immigration to Texas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 3, Fall 2009, pp. 230-235, ill.
Notes: “Continued from Spring Journal.”
Abstract: Part two of an article describing the author’s genealogic research. The Wolsch and Kneschk families came from the villages of Braunsdorf, Weisswasser, and Gablenz in Prussia, and were Wendish, a Slavic people with a culture and language akin to Polish and Czech. Describes the reasons for Wendish emigration from Prussian and Saxon states, how the use of Hochdeutsch as a lingua franca among immigrants who spoke various dialects contributed to the loss of Wendish language and culture, and anti-German sentiment during World Wars I and II in Haskell County, Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Wolsch/ Kneschk/ Anti-German sentiment

Wood, Ralph. “Geschichte des Deutschen Theaters von Cincinnati.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 32, 1932, pp. 411-522.
Abstract: Inhaltsverzeichnis: Die Deutschen in Cincinnati; Die Anfaenge des deutschen Theaters in Cincinnati; Die Glanzzeit des Stadttheaters in der Turnhalle; Das deutsche Theater in Robinsons Opernhaus 1876-1881; 1881-1882. Das Interegnum; 1882-1890. Der Kampf um das selbstaendige deutsche Theater; Szwirschina, der “Reine Tor”; Otto Ernst Schmid; Das Theater und die deutsche Bevoelkerung.
MKI Periodicals
Theater & Drama/ German Americans — Ohio/ Ohio/ Cincinnati (Ohio)/ Cultural influence/ Culture/ Arts

Woodring, Daniel. “Karl Georg Stoeckhardt: His Life and Labor.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 72, no. 1, Spring 1999, pp. 46-63, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Stoeckhardt, Karl George/ Lutherans/ Lutheran Church/ Biographies

Woodward, David, Ostergren, Robert, Brouwer, Onno, Hoelscher, Steven, and Hane, Joshua. “Cultural Map of Wisconsin: A Cartographic Portrait of the State.” Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
This map is a way to discover the history, culture, land, and people of Wisconsin. More than 1200 points of interest are located on the map. The front of the map shows the entire state. The back of the map provides many more sites of interest on smaller cultural maps of sixteen cities, as well as six thematic maps that emphasize the strong connections between regional landscapes and cultures. Included is 24-page booklet with a key to the numbered symbols on the map. Hundreds of descriptive notes provide fascinating details about Wisconsin.
MKI P2000-12
Wisconsin/ Maps/ Culture/ History/ Ethnic groups — General/ Folklore

Worley, Linda Kraus. “Through Others’ Eyes: Narratives of German Women Travelling in Nineteenth-Century America.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 21, 1986, pp. 39-50.
Abstract: Worley’s article discusses the similarities in the travel narratives of Clara von Gerstner, Ida Pfeiffer, Catharina Migerka, and Frederika Bremer. It also describes differences seen between the travel writings and conditions of men and women.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Travel in literature/ Women authors/ United States in literature

Wuchter, Astor Clinton. “Der Viert Juli.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 2000, p. 22.
Notes: Millersville University. “This poem was printed in The Pennsylvania German, July 1902, and in “Es Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch Eck,” July 4, 1936.
Abstract: Poem in Pennsylvania German, with glossary of terms used.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, Pennsylvania-German/ Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Poetry/ Wuchter, Astor Clinton, 1856-1933

Wuchter, Astor Clinton. “Die Kummersdorfer Kaerich.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 18-19.
Notes: Millersville University. Cover of journal issue has portrait of Astor Clinton Wuchter (1856-1933), Pennsylvania German Poet. Includes glossary of terms used in the poem.
Abstract: Poem from 1922 by Wuchter in Pennsylvania German dialect.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, Pennsylvania-German/ Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Poetry/ Wuchter, Astor Clinton, 1856-1933

Wuchter, Astor Clinton. “Katz Verseefe.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 19-20.
Notes: Millersville University. Cover of journal issue has portrait of Astor Clinton Wuchter (1856-1933), Pennsylvania German Poet. Includes glossary of terms used in the poem.
Abstract: Poem from May 1916 by Wuchter in Pennsylvania German dialect.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, Pennsylvania-German/ Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Poetry/ Wuchter, Astor Clinton, 1856-1933

Wuchter, Astor Clinton. “Verdreht, Verkehrt.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, Winter 2001, p. 18.
Notes: Millersville University. Cover of journal issue has portrait of Astor Clinton Wuchter (1856-1933), Pennsylvania German Poet. Includes glossary of terms used in the poem.
Abstract: Poem by Wuchter in Pennsylvania German dialect.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, Pennsylvania-German/ Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Poetry/ Wuchter, Astor Clinton, 1856-1933

Wuchter, Astor Clinton. “Woi Schiese.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, Winter 2001, p. 6.
Notes: Millersville University. May 5, 1916. Cover of journal issue has portrait of Astor Clinton Wuchter (1856-1933), Pennsylvania German Poet. Includes glossary of terms used in the poem.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, Pennsylvania-German/ Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Poetry/ Wuchter, Astor Clinton, 1856-1933

Wunderlich, Mark C. “The Free Thinking Society of Waumandee, Wisconsin: An Historical Overview.” Unpublished. 14 pp.
Notes: Student paper for German 610, Prof. Juergen Eichhoff, dated April 26, 1989.
MKI P2001-24
Freethinkers/ Waumandee (Wis.)/ Forty-eighters/ Wisconsin.

Wuschke, Ewald. Volhynian Heritage (A Synopsis of the History and Problems of the Germans from Volhynia) and Die Schwaben und die Kaschuben (An Insight on Two Groups of Germans in Poland). Presentations during June and July 1993. Vancouver, Canada: Ewald Wuschke, [1993]. 10 pp.
Notes: Donated by Donna Kjendlie, 2007
MKI P2007-46
Germans/ Poland/ Russia/ Russian Germans

Wust, Klaus G. “From Carolina to Connecticut: Germans and Swiss in Search of Gold and Silver, 1704-1740.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 41st Report, 1990, pp. 43-53.
Abstract: Vignettes of German and Swiss immigrants seeking riches in the U.S., including Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Swiss Americans/ Discovery & exploration/ 18th century

Wust, Klaus G. “German Immigrants and Nativism in Virginia, 1840-1860.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 29th Report, 1956, pp. 31-50.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
German Americans — Virginia/ Immigrants, German

Wust, Klaus G. “German Immigrants and Their Newspapers in the District of Columbia.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 30th Report, 1959, pp. 36-66.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
German-American press/ Newspapers, German-American/ Maryland

Wust, Klaus G. “German Printing in Virginia, A Check List 1789-1834.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 28th Report, 1953, pp. 54-66.
Abstract: Bibliographic references to Virginia German newspapers 1789-1809 and German books and broadsides printed in Virginia, 1804-1834.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Bibliographies/ Literature, German-American/ Virginia/ German-American press

Wust, Klaus G. “Johann Thomas Schley (1712-1790): schoolmaster, musician and Fraktur artist of Frederick, Maryland.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 42nd Report, 1993, pp. 81-89.
Abstract: Biographical sketch of Schley, emphasizing his life and work as school teacher and calligraphy artist.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Maryland/ Artists / Teaching

Wust, Klaus G. “Military immigration from German lands 1776-1783.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 44th Report, 2000, pp. 33-48.
Abstract: Account of German involvement in the Revolutionary War, with an emphasis on Hessian soldiers.
MKI Periodicals
Revolution, 1775-1783/ Soldiers/ Hessians/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Wust, Klaus G. “Palatines and Switzers for Virginia, 1705-1738: Costly Lessons for Promoters and Emigrants.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 19, 1984, pp. 43-56.
Abstract: Wust’s article discusses the recruitment and subsequent emigration of European religious dissenters to the United States, especially to Virginia. It also discusses plans made by Franz Louis Michel in the 18th century for a Swiss colony, which would have allowed for the free practice of religion.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Palatines/ Pennsylvania/ Quakers/ Mennonites/ Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719/ Virginia/ North Carolina/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)

Wust, Klaus G. “Wartburg: Dream and Reality of the New Germans in Maryland.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 31st Report, 1963, pp. 21-45.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
German Americans — Maryland

Wyneken, H. “A Memorial to Gustav Pfau: Artist.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, 1949, pp. 149-151.
Notes: Trans. by A. C. Stellhorn. From “Der Lutheraner” 40 (1884): 37.
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535

Wyttenbach, C. Vertheidigung des Christenthums. Cincinnati, Ohio: Ehlen & Kallenberg, 1853.
Notes: Religion; Defense of Christianity (against Vossaurek’s aesthetic attacks) in 8 public debates.
MKI P91-61
PIA/ Theological

Yacovazzi, Cassandra L. “The First Bread of Instruction: The School Sisters of Notre Dame and German Immigrant Communities in 19th-Century Missouri.” Der Maibaum (Deutschheim Association Journal), vol. 25, no. 1, Fall / Winter 2016, pp. 10-14; ill.
Abstract: History of the the School Sisters of Notre Dame in American schooling and the establishment of the first German-immigrant school in St. Louis in 1858. By 1900 the German order would be running 23 schools throught the scattered German immigrant towns in Missouri.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Missouri — History/ Education/ Schools/ School Sisters of Notre Dame/ Catholic Church

Yoder, Don. “The Dialect Church Service in the Pennsylvania German Culture.” 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. 349-360.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Pennsylvania-German dialect

Yoder, Don. “”The ‘Dutchman’ and the ‘Deitschlenner’: The New World Confronts the Old.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 23, 1988, pp. 1-17.
Abstract: By the middle of the nineteenth century in North America, there were two separate German-speaking worlds: the Pennsylvania Dutch and the German immigrant, known by the Pennsylvania Dutch as the “Deitschlenner.” These groups came into contact with each other in Pennsylvania, the Midwest, and Ontario, and increasingly so in the second half of the nineteenth century. While the Pennsylvania Dutch had become Americanized by 1850, both in politics and general outlook, the German immigrants were developing a distinctly German-American culture. While the Pennsylvania Dutchman had long ago given up interest in Europe, the newcomers tried to be “Germans in America.” The author concludes that the contact between the two groups resulted in the following influences: (1) the immigrant Germans who settled in Pennsylvania in the nineteenth century served the existing Pennsylvania Dutch culture in industry, business, church and the press; (2) the immigrant Germans enriched Pennsylvania Dutch folklore; and, most importantly, (3) the presence of the immigrant Germans stimulated the Pennsylvania Dutch to decide who they were, ethnically speaking. They saw that they were not “Germans in America” nor “German-Americans,” but Pennsylvania Dutch, different in almost every aspect of their culture.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans/ 19th century/ Immigrants, German

Yoder, Don. “Palatine, Hessian, Dutchman: Three Images of the Germans in America.” In Ebbes fer alle–ebber ebbes fer dich: Essays in Memoriam, Albert Franklin Buffington, 1980, pp. 107-129.
Abstract: The larger American context of ethnic history includes several general terms used by Anglo-Americans for the German emigrants who “invaded” English-speaking areas of the United States over the past three centuries. Of these terms, the three most important are “Palatine,” “Hessian,” and “Dutchman.” Each of these terms is examined in turn and set in its historical and emotional context.
MKI/SHS GR 110 .P4 A372 v.14
Anti-German sentiment/ German Americans/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Ethnic identity/ Hessians/ Palatines

Yoder, Don. “Pennsylvania German Folklore Research: A Historical Analysis.” In The German Language in America. Glenn G. Gilbert, ed Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971, pp. 70-105.
Abstract: On the historical analysis of the rise and progress of folklore scholarship on the Pennsylvanian Germans from the 1890’s to the present.
MKI/MEM PF 5925 .G4
Pennsylvania Germans/ Folklore/ Research

Yoder, Don. “The Pennsylvania German Rediscovery of Europe.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994, pp. 1-28.
Abstract: Yoder’s analysis of the “European consciousness” as held by Pennyslvania Germans centers on the following issues: dwindling contacts and their renewal; churches’ rediscovery of their ties; genealogists’ rediscovery of European roots; the Pennsylvania German tourist and European backgrounds; and students, scholars, and 20th-century churchmen.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Ethnic identity/ Assimilation/ Europe/ Religion/ Travel/ Genealogy

Yoder, Don. “Plain Dutch and Gay Dutch: Two Worlds in the Dutch Country.” In 1957 Tourist Guide Through the Dutch Country, Alfred L. Shoemaker, ed., 1957, pp. 29-59.
Abstract: This article examines the differences between the “Gay Dutch” and the “Plain Dutch,” which are mainly separated along religious lines among the Pennsylvania Dutch. The “Gay Dutch” were those who lived in “the world” and made no attempt to reject its cultural pattern. The “Plain Dutch” were those who preferred to live apart, in the world and yet not of it. The “Gay Dutch” are the majority, and they set the pattern of what we generally know as Pennsylvania Dutch culture. The “Plain Dutch,” the Amish, are the minority. The distinctions between the two groups are described, and the history, development, and practices of the Plain Dutch are closely examined.
MKI P86-145
Pennsylvania Germans/ Amish/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Pennsylvania/ Cultural differences

Yoder, Don. “The Reformed Church and Pennsylvania German Identity.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 63-82.
Abstract: Yoder’s article discusses the role of the Reformed Church in creating a sense of ethnic identity for Pennylvania Germans in the 19th century. It refers to the the influence of four men: Henry Harbaugh, Benjamin Bausman, Eli Keller, and William A. Helffrich. Keller, Eli, 1825-1919. Harbaugh, Heinrich, 1817-1867/
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Reformed Church/ Pennsylvania/ Ethnic identity/ Newspapers/ Poetry/ Religion/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Palatinate/ Mennonites/ Letters/ Biographies

Yoder, John R. “[Letter to the Editor].” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn 2001, pp. 4.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Provides comments on some unusual terms in the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Dutch

Yoder, Levi. “Was Mir Verlore Hen.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, Winter 1999, p. 11.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Short tale in Pennsylvania German dialect that “paints another sad story of our waning Muddersprooch. ‘Was mer net in der Hand hot, kammer net hewe!'”
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Language

Yoder, Paul D. “Vorlore un Widder Gfunne. En Pennsylvaanisch Deitsch Breddich an der Schteenich Karich, Brodbeck’s, York Kounty, PA am Sundaag, July 27, 1952, Nummedaags am 2 Uhr.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, Winter 2015, pp. 11-14.
Notes: Millersville University. Der Parre Paul D. Yoder, D. D., Codorus, PA.
Abstract: Pennsylvania German dialect sermon.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion

Yoder, Tobias E. “Pioneer Life on a Montana Homestead.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn 2001, pp. 4-8.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Account of Amish settlement in Dawson County, Montana. Enos D. Yoder and his wife, along with their five children, arrived in Montana, by train, in March of 1906.
MKI Periodicals
Amish/ Montana/ Pioneers/ 20th century

Young, James Rankin. Der Krieg der Vereinigten Staaten mit Spanien und ihre Kämpfe zu Wasser und zu Lande. Chicago, Ill.: Waverly Publishing Co., 1898. ix, 480 pp., ill. (some col.).
Inscribed “Theresa [Wis.], Okt 15th 1899, Gottfried Schellpfeffer. Donor: Mrs. Karla Zimmerman.”
Also on title page: Hochinteressante Schilderungen der Zerstörung des “Maine,” des glorreichen Dewey’schen Sieges bei Manila, der Vernichtung der spanischen Flotte zu Santiago, der Gefechte bei El Caney und bei San Juan, der Uebergabe von Santiago, Besitznahme von Porto Rico und des Abschlusses des Krieges; dazu eingehende Schilderungen früherer amerikanischer Seeschlachten u. dgl. m. Von James Rankin Young, Congressabgeordeneter und vormals der Schriftführer des Bundessenats. Unter Mitwirkung von J. Hampton Moore, bekannter Schriftsteller und Zeitungs-Correspondenten. Mit prachtvollen Holzschnitten reichlich ausgestattet.
Donated to MKI by Mayville [Wis.] Historical Society.

Yox, Andrew. “Ethnic Loyalties of the Alsatians in Buffalo, 1829-1855.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 105-123.
Abstract: Yox’ article discusses the Franco-German element of Alsation immigrants, which set them apart from other German immigrants. It includes several demographic tables and charts.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Ethnic identity/ German Americans — New York (state)/ 19th century/ Assimilation

Yox, Andrew. “The German-American Community as a Nationality, 1880-1940.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 36, 2001, pp. 181-193.
Abstract: Examines efforts to preserve German traits in America, with a focus on Buffalo, New York.
MKI Periodicals
Ethnic identity/ German Americans — New York (state)/ 19th century/ Assimilation/ Culture

Z., G. A. “Die Zigeuner in Amerika.” Germania Kalender [fuer das Jahr 1888], vol. [8], [1887], pp. 109-121.
Notes: The author is indicated only by the initials G. A. Z., and might be Gustav Adolph Zimmermann.
Abstract: “Auch hier in Nordamerika giebt es der Zigeuner [Romani] viele, ja mehr als die meisten sich traeumen lassen, und wer weiss, mancher Kalender-Leser hat vielleicht schon mit Leuten regen, intimen Verkehr gehabt, in deren Adern Zigeunerblut floss, ohne dass er eine Ahnung davon hatte. Sehen wir also einmal zu, wo im Gebiete der Ver. Staaten wir Vertreter dieser seltsamen Race finden, was sie treiben, wie sie leben. Zuvor aber einige Bemerkungen ueber Herkunft, Namen und Sprache der Zigeuner im allgemeinen.”
PIA [Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder]
PIA/ Romanies — United States

Zamzow, Don. “Famous (Local) Pommern — Esther Bloch.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 64, Apr. 2010, p. 9, ill.
Notes: Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin.
Abstract: Esther Maria Wilhelmine Krenz Bloch was born in 1903 and graduated from Marathon County [Wisconsin] Normal School in 1923. She married Edward L. Bloch in 1928. Her voice is heard on a dialect recording in the archives of the Max Kade Institute; she recounts, in Low German, her experiences growing up in Marathon County.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Biographies/ Wisconsin — Marathon County

Zamzow, Don. “Famous Pommerns — August Kickbusch: Pioneer, Settler, First Mayor of Wausau.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 49, May/June/July 2006, p. 16, ill.
Notes: (Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin); “Because of the prominence of this man, we will cover his story over two issues. The piece that follows comes from a front page article that appeared in the Wausau Pilot on June 4, 1901 [a week after his death].”
Abstract: Born in Colberg, Pomerania, in 1825, August Kickbusch emigrated in 1857. In 1860 he established the A. Kickbusch Grocery Company in Wausau. Part two of this article will show how Kickbusch helped to develop Marathon County.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Politics/ Biographies/ Wausau (Wis.)/ Wisconsin — Marathon County/ Kickbusch, August, 1825-1901

Zamzow, Don. “Famous Pommerns — August Kickbusch: Pioneer, Settler, First Mayor of Wausau.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 50, Aug./Sept./Oct. 2006, pp. 16-17, ill.
Notes: Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin.
Abstract: Part two of a biographical profile of August Kickbusch, who helped to develop Marathon County, Wisconsin.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Politics/ Biographies/ Wausau (Wis.)/ Wisconsin — Marathon County/ Kickbusch, August, 1825-1901

Zamzow, Don. “Low German Language Project Expands.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 33, July 2002, p. 13.
Abstract: Describes project to document Pommersches Platt undertaken by Alexandra Jacob, a Visiting Scholar at the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies.
MKI Periodicals
Dialects/ Low German dialect/ Linguistics

Zamzow, Don. “Platt op Wisconsin Shoot: NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) Filming ‘Wisconsin op Platt,’ Part of ‘Low German in the World’ Series.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 58, Oct. 2008, pp. 2, 4, ill.
Notes: Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin.
Abstract: Report on the filming of the Wisconsin episode of Norddeutscher Rundfunk’s “Die Welt op Platt.” The series locates and showcases examples of people who still speak Low German in various dialects around the world.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ Low German dialect/ Wisconsin — Marathon County/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Zamzow, Don. “Verein Celebrates 20 Years.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 43, Jan. 2005, pp. 1-5, ill.
Abstract: Includes a timeline showing events of the Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin from June 1993 to October 2004.
MKI Periodicals
Pomerania/ Genealogy/ Societies, etc.

Zamzow, DuWayne. “Civil War Veteran, Friedrich Krenz, Homecoming Delayed. Seventh and Final in the Series.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 42, Oct. 2004, p. 12, ill.
Notes: Translated by Norma Krenz.
Abstract: This letter was dated June 22, 1865, and was written while Krenz was in Madison, Wisconsin. In this letter he laments the delay in his return to his home in the Town of Berlin, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
MKI Periodicals
Letters/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Pomerania/ Wisconsin — Marathon County

Zamzow, DuWayne. “Civil War Veteran, Friedrich Krenz, Longs for Home. Sixth in a Series.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 41, June 2004, p. 12, ill.
Abstract: This letter was dated June 14, 1865, and was written while Krenz was in Madison, Wisconsin.
MKI Periodicals
Letters/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Pomerania/ Wisconsin — Marathon County

Zamzow, DuWayne. “The Experience … Schult’s Country Inn.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 81, July 2014, pp. 3, 9-11, ill.
Notes: Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin.
Abstract: History of the rural Merrill tavern, Schult’s Country Inn, now run by the third generation of Pomeranian descendents. Founded as “Martin Hinz Hall” in 1936 by Martin and Marie Hinz, and continued as “Walt and Elsie Schult Tavern” by their daughter and son-in-law, the “Schult Country Inn” is now owned and run by granddaughters and grandsons-in-law, Don and Darlene Keeser (cooks) and Lee and Diane Pfaff (hosts).
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Business & Industry

Zamzow, DuWayne. “How the Catechism Came to America.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 98, July 2018, p. 4.
Notes: Newsletter of the Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin. Reprinted from a booklet published by Aid Association for Lutherans in 1979, the 450th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther’s Small Catechism.
Abstract: Overview of the arrival of Luther’s Small Catechism with various immigrant groups to various areas of the United States.
MKI Periodicals
Lutheran Church

Zamzow, DuWayne. “Jumper’s Bar: Little Chicago Town of Berlin, Wisconsin.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 96, February 2018, pp. 16, 18; ill.
Notes: Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin.
Abstract: History of the rural Marathon County tavern, Jumper’s Bar, which was built in 1893 as the first dedicated post office building for “Ziegler,” later Little Chicago. After the post office moved to Marathon City, the building served as a grocery and general store, then a bar connected to Riemer’s dance hall. It also operated as a shipping station for calves and pigs. It is still in operation as Jumper’s Bar at the intersection of Highway 107 and Highway A at present.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Business & Industry

Zamzow, DuWayne. “Letters from the Field: Friedrich Krenz, Civil War, 1864.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 34/35, Jan. 2003, pp. 14, ill.
Notes: Translated by Esther (Krenz) Bloch.
Abstract: Krenz emigrated from Pomerania in 1854 and bought a farm in the Town of Berlin, Wisconsin. He was drafted into the Union Army on September 22, 1864, serving in the Third Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. This letter was written November 2, 1864, in Madison, Wisconsin.
MKI Periodicals
Letters/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Pomerania

Zamzow, DuWayne. “Letters from the Field: Friedrich Krenz, Civil War, 1864. Second in a Series.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 36, April 2003, pp. 14, ill.
Notes: Translated by Esther (Krenz) Bloch.
Abstract: Krenz emigrated from Pomerania in 1854 and bought a farm in the Town of Berlin, Wisconsin. He was drafted into the Union Army on September 22, 1864, serving in the Third Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. This letter was written November 12, 1864, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
MKI Periodicals
Letters/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Pomerania

Zamzow, DuWayne. “Letters from the Field: Friedrich Krenz, Civil War Woes, 1864. Fifth in a Series.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 39, Feb. 2004, pp. 12, ill.
Notes: Translated by Esther (Krenz) Bloch.
Abstract: This letter was dated March 6 1865, and was written while Krenz was in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He misses his wife, Wilhelmina, and looks forward to returning to his home in the Town of Berlin, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
MKI Periodicals
Letters/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Pomerania/ Wisconsin — Marathon County

Zamzow, DuWayne. “Letters from the Field: Friedrich Krenz, Civil War Woes, 1864. Fourth in a Series.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 38, Oct. 2003, pp. 12, 17, ill.
Notes: Translated by Esther (Krenz) Bloch.
Abstract: Krenz emigrated from Pomerania in 1854 and bought a farm in the Town of Berlin, Wisconsin. He was drafted into the Union Army on September 22, 1864, serving in the Third Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. This letter was dated January 21, 1865, while he was in Alabama. He refers to the discomfort and illness the soldiers had to endure
MKI Periodicals
Letters/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Pomerania

Zamzow, DuWayne. “Low German: Platt in America.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 97, April 2018, pp. 9-10.
Notes: Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin.
Abstract: This story based on an uncited book by Stuart Gorman and Joachim Reppmann describes the arrival of immigrants speaking “Platt,” or Low German in the United States and the efforts of the Pommersche Verein Central Wisconsin to revive interest and use.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Zamzow, Gladys. “The Little Red School House: Maple Grove School.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 44, Apr. 2005, pp. 12, 16-17, ill.
Notes: Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin.
Abstract: Part 2 of an article. Lists the names of students in the 1904 census and describes a typical day in the one-room school house. Details the generous contributions of the Fromm Brothers (fur and ginseng company) to the school.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Education/ Schools/ Rural life & conditions

Zamzow, Gladys, and DuWayne Zamzow. “The Little Red School House: Maple Grove School.” Dat Pommersche Blatt, no. 43, Jan. 2005, pp. 12, 16, ill.
Notes: Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin.
Abstract: On September 26, 1870, a group of settlers met in Hamburg, Wisconsin, at the home of Joachim Nieman to discuss the building of a school house that would also serve as a church for visits by the traveling pastor. Describes construction, early classes, and rules governing teachers.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Education/ Schools/ Rural life & conditions

Zbinden, Karl. “Die Pfalz als Ziel und Etappe schweizerischer Auswanderung.” 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. 177-206, ill.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Palatinate

Zech, Erich. Ein Ritter vom heiligen Schwerte. Eine geschichtliche Erzählung aus dem 17. Jahrhundert. St. Louis: Eden, 1898. 207 pp.
On title page: Eden Publishing House, 1716-1718 Chouteau Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. — Stamped on t.p.: Northwestern University Library, Watertown, Wis. — On t.p. verso: Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1898, by A. G. Toennies, in trust for the Eden Publishing House, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. [August H. Toennies was born in 1844, immigrated to America in 1858, and died in 1926. He was appointed manager of the Eden Publishing House in 1890.]
The author Erich Zech may have been a German-speaking immigrant to America. Other books that may have been written by Erich Zech include: “Michaels Engel; Mein Onkel Theodor; Gott lenkt; Otfried und Maria. Vier Weihnachtsgeschichten aus dem deutsch-americanischen Leben” Deutsche Evangelische Jugend-Bibliothek, vol. 22 (St. Louis: Eden, 1895?); “Sigurd und Friderun. Eine Geschichte aus alter Zeit” Deutsche Evangelische Jugend-Bibliothek, vol. 23 (St. Louis: Eden, 1896); and “Zwei Welten. Geschichte aus dem neunzehnten Jahrhundert” (St. Louis: Eden, c1903). There is also “Gedichte” (Leipzig: F. Richter, 1892) by an Erich Zech, but it is uncertain if the author is the same.
Donated by Prof. David M. Gosdeck, Martin Luther College Library, New Ulm, Minn.

Zeidler, Frank P. Come, stroll with me: A volume of verse. [24] pp.
Notes: Photocopied pages, stamped Local History Collection, Milwaukee Public Library; each page signed F. F. Zeidler; Frank Zeidler was mayor of Milwaukee for 12 years: 1948-1960; he was the last of the Milwaukee socialists.
MKI P2002-22
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Socialism/ Poetry

Zeidler, Frank P. “Mathilde Franziska Anneke: The Suffragette.” Perspektiven, vol. 4, no. 4, Fall 2005, pp. 13-15, ill.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: Biographical sketch of the Milwaukee-born German-American Mathilde Franziska Anneke, who played a national role in the 19th-century suffrage movement.
MKI Periodicals
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/ Women/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Political activity/ Biographies

Zeidler, Frank P. Observations about the Enrichment of American Democracy from German Lands and the Modern Goethe House Contribution. Milwaukee: the author, 2000. 9 pp.
Notes: Goethe House Milwaukee Annual Meeting, December 6, 2000.
MKI P2005-28
Politics/ United States/ German influence/ Immigrants, German/ Political influence

Zeidler, Frank P. Reflections: The Poetry of a Young Frank Zeidler. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Public Library, 2002. xx, 85 pp.
Notes: Introduction by John Gurda; “On Frank Zeidler’s Poetry” by John Koethe; sponsored by the Harry F. and Mary Franke Idea Fund, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Robertson.
MKI P2003-10
Poetry/ Zeidler, Frank P., 1912-2006/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Zeidler, Frank P. “Review of The German-American radical press edited by Elliott Shore, Ken Fones-Wolf, and James P. Danky. Urbana: University of Illlinois Press, 1992.” Wisconsin Academy Review, vol. 40, no. 2, 1994, pp. 46-47.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Zeidler, Frank P. “The Way We Were: A Milwaukee Souvenir of 1886.” Perspektiven, vol. 3, no. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 5-6, ill.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: Describes the contents of Die Stadt Milwaukee. Fuehrer durch Deutsch-Athen fuer Fremde und Einheimische, a 119-page book published in 1886 by Caspar & Zahn as a souvenir for the 24th Saengerfest of the North American Singing Societies (Saengerbund).
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ History/ Societies, etc./ Music

Zeidler, Frank P. “Zeidler Writes of His 12 Years as the Mayor of Milwaukee.” Perspektiven, vol. 4, no. 4, Fall 2005, pp. 6-8, ill.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: Reports on a memoir of Frank P. Zeidler, a German-American Socialist who served as mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1948 to 1960.
MKI Periodicals
Zeidler, Frank P., 1912-2006/ Socialism/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Politics/ Political activity/ Autobiography

Zelade, Richard. “Days of Beer and Pretzels.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 34, no. 2, Summer 2012, pp. 107-112, ill.
Abstract: Describes the beer garden culture of Austin, Texas, during the 1880s and 1890s, specifically mentioning Buass Garden, Pressler’s Garden, Scholz’s Garden, Jacoby’s Garden, and Bulians’ Garden.
MKI Periodicals
Business & Industry/ German Americans — Texas/ Austin (Tex.)/ Societies, etc./ Social life and customs

Zeller, Alfred W. “Rennwagen Nummer 17. Eine Automobilgeschichte.” Die Welt, vol. 6, no. 4, October 1906, pp. 90-108.
Notes: Eine illustrirte Vierteljahrsschrift fuer deutsche Familien. Druck und Verlag: The Press Publishing Co., Lincoln, Neb.
Abstract: Begins: “Im Hause der Firma Pickton & Walden in Chicago, der Erbauer des Columbia-Automobiles, des “Königs der Automobile,” wie Mr. Pickton in seinen Circularen zu schreiben pflegte, herrschte grosse Aufregung.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Fiction/ Chicago (Ill.)

Zeller, Emmy. “Bayrische Volksbuehne Newark, New Jersey 1937-1975.” German-American Studies, vol. 9, Spring 1975, pp. 79-80.
Abstract: Zeller’s 2 page article discusses the founding of the Bayrische Volksbuehne by Willi Nusser and the various productions of the theater.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Theater & Drama

Zenda, Benjamin. “Subtle Loyalty: Germans and German-Americans in Wisconsin During the First World War.” 2010. vi, 35 pp. : ill.
Notes: “A thesis submitted to the department of history [University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire] in candidacy for the degree of Bachelors of Education” Copyright owned by the author, print from digital version “published by McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire with the consent of the author.” Includes bibliographical references. Primary sources consulted include Alexander Hohlfeld Papers, 1888-1956, at the Wisconsin Historical Society; Eau Claire County (Wis.) Superintendent of Schools’ records, 1873-1990, Eau Claire Area Research Center.
Abstract: “The overarching theme of this paper is that the incidents aimed at quashing German culture in Wisconsin during the First World War were erratic and unfounded because no serious threat existed of any serious uprising or revolt in support of ‘die Vaterland’.” [sic] — Abstract, p. ii. Chapters include: The University of Wisconsin & Wisconsin’s Council of Defense, German-Language in the Schools.
MKI P2018-03
German Americans — Wisconsin/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans

Zepp, E. “Surnames in the Winesburg, Ohio Evangelical and Reformed Church’s Baptismal Registers.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 11, no. 3-4, 1976, pp. 82-88.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Genealogy/ 19th century/ Ohio

Zersen, Katherina Maria Sophia Kirchhoff. “A Pioneer Pastor’s Wife, 1903-1907.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 2, Summer 1991, pp. 53-67, ill.
Abstract: Transcription of tapes made in the mid-1960s. “The tapes contain a vivid and fascinating account of the life of a missionary’s wife on the North Dakota prairie in the early years of the 20th century. Mrs. Zersen’s primary language was German, then the language of most of the Lutherans in the area of North Dakota…”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Dakotas/ North Dakota/ Lutherans/ History/ Religious life

Zeydel, Edwin H. “The German Theater in New York City. With Special Consideration of the Years 1878-1914.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 15, 1915, pp. 255-309.
Abstract: The purpose of this article is “to examine the influence of the German Theater on the American stage, to reveal the contrast between German and American theatrical conditions, and to describe the function of the German theater as an educational force. Nevertheless annals, not too detailed to be sure, will be given of the work of the theater. It has been thought best to present a short survey of each separate season, and in that way to offer an intelligent enumeration of the more important performances.”
MKI Periodicals
Theater & Drama/ Cultural contribution/ Cultural influence/ Arts

Zeydel, Edwin H. “The Teaching of German in the United States from Colonial Times through World War I.” 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. 15-54.
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

Ziebell, Thomas I. “Establishing an educational subculture: The 19th century German Gymnasium arrangement of Northwestern College in Watertown, Wisconsin to 1915.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994. 456 pp.
MKI dissertations/ MEM AWB Z6635 T465
Watertown (Wis.)/ Education/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Ziebell, Thomas I. “The Michigan Synod and its “School of the Prophets” in 1889.” WELS Historical Institute Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, 1983, pp. 21-35.
Notes: Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod; this article first appeared in the Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 55, No. 2 (Summer 1982).
MKI Periodicals
Michigan/ Religious life

Zieglschmid, A. J. F. “Dr. Wilhelm Keil’s Communal Enterprises: Bethel, Missouri, and Aurora, Oregon.” American-German Review, vol. XIV, no. 2, 1947, pp. 28-31.
Notes: “Dr.” Wilhelm Keil, the founder of the Bethel Commune in Missouri and the Aurora Commune in Oregon.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ History/ Methodist Church

Ziehn, Bernhard. “Gesammelte Aufsaetze zur Geschichte und Theorie der Musik.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 26-27, 1926-1927, pp. 26-86; 91-335.
Abstract: A compilation of essasys by Bernhard Ziehn, the German-American music critic, on music history and musical theory. Covers such musical figures as Schubert, Bruckner, Brahms, Mozart, Wagner, and Beethoven.
MKI Periodicals
Music/ Culture/ German Americans

Zier, Hans Georg. “Die 1848er in den Vereinigten Staaten.” USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen, 1976, pp. 32-36.
Abstract: Von den vielen Visionen und Problemen, mit denen die demokratisch gesinnten Immigranten aus Deutschland in Amerika zu kaempfen hatten. Kaum eine andere Gruppe von Einwanderern hat in der Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika so grosse Veraenderungen bewirkt wie die aus Deutschland gekommenen “Achtundvierziger,” die nach der fehlgeschlagenen Revolution aus Deutschland fliehen mussten. Viele von ihnen hatten 1849 in Baden und in der Pfalz gefochten und sind ueber die Schweiz oder ueber England nach Amerika gekommen. Ihre Zahl kann nicht genau angegeben werden, man schaetzt die Staerke dieser Gruppe auf etwa 500 000 Menschen. In den USA werden als Forty-Eighters aber nur die fuehrenden Maenner der Revolution in Deutschland bezeichnet; ihr Kreis umfasst etwa 4000 Personen. Von ihnen gelangten die Besten in den USA bald in einflussreiche Positionen, als Akademiker, Techniker, Politiker und vor allem als Journalisten.
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Forty-eighters/ Immigrants, German/ 19th century/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Zier, Hans Georg. “Suedwestdeutsche als Teilnehmer am Sezessionskrieg.” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen, 1976, pp. 37-40.
Abstract: Weil die suedwestdeutschen Immigranten meistens im Norden siedelten, durch ihre politischen Ueberzeugungen gegen die Sklaverei waren und bestimmte Kriegserfahrungen hatten, nahmen viele am Kampf gegen den Sueden teil.
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Civil War, 1861-1865/ Immigrants, German/ Slavery/ Politics

Zieren, Gregory R. “Late Nineteenth-Century Industrialization and the Forces of Assimilation on German Immigrants: The Views of Economist August Sartorius von Waltershausen.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 21, 1986, pp. 127-136.
Abstract: Zieren’s article discusses the insights of the German scholar Waltershausen into the economic system of the United States and in the 19th century as well as his blind spots. The author argues that Waltershausen’s lack of objectivity resulted from his being a “citizen of the German Reich,” which was in direct economic competition with the United States. Zieren’s article focusses on Waltershausen’s investigations into issues of German-American economic relations, such as “tariffs, immigration, currency issues and general commercial regulations and restrictions.” It also discusses Waltershausen’s comparison of the German and American work ethics.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Economic aspects/ Assimilation/ German Americans — Societies, etc./ 19th century/ Women/ Immigrants, German

Ziethe, W. Wilhelm, Bearb. Konfirmanden-Buechlein. Zur Erinnerung an den Tag der Konfirmation. Neueste amerikanische Ausgabe. New York, N.Y.: Kaufmann, n.d. 68 pp., ill.
Abstract: MKI P89-23 inscribed Martha Kloehn, zur bleibenden Erinnerung an den Tag deiner Konfirmatinon, am 31ten Maerz 1901, von deinem Seelsorger Wilhelm Rudolph.
MKI P84-101 and MKI P89-23
PIA/ Textbooks/ Educational, christian

Zimmer, Fritz Alfred. “Lustiges von Mark Twain.” America-Herold Kalender, vol. 56, 1936, pp. 65-66.
Abstract: Anecdotes: Sein längster Roman — Der anspruchsvolle Briefschreiber — Das Interview — Der Buchkauf — Der Dichter und die Trusts — Krankenrache — Radikalkur — Die Kostprobe.
MKI P2014-7
Humor & Satire/ Twain, Mark/ Clemens, Samuel

Zimmerman, Andrew. “Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, and the German Empire: Race and Cotton in the Black Atlantic.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 43, Fall 2008, pp. 9-20.
Notes: Lecture at the GHI, April 24, 2008. Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Describes a January 1901 mission by four African American men from Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute to the German Colony of Togo in West Africa. The expedition, organized by Booker T. Washington, was financed by a German business organization that sought to “transform cotton growing in Togo so that it would supply the world market with raw materials for European industry.” Includes information on the origins of the Tuskegee Institute, the interests of Germans in the American South, the experience of the Tuskegee expedition in Togo, and the transnational influence of the Tuskegee Institute.
MKI Periodicals
African Americans/ Agriculture/ Germany/ Tuskegee Institute/ 20th century

Zimmerman, Jeffrey A. “The recycling of America’s German-Athens: Architecture, public culture, and ethnic identity in late twentieth-century Milwaukee.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 17, no. 2, 1996, pp. 12-16.
Abstract: This paper illustrates how in recent decades Milwaukee’s downtown elites, merchants, and land-based interest groups, along with imported developers and architects, have resurrected the public expression of German identity in Milwaukee’s downtown landscape. Through a variety of strategies, these urban decision makers have chosen to employ a variety of historical German images within their redevelopment projects. The result has been the construction of a cohesive German historical narrative into the city’s downtown material landscape. However, this contemporary resurrection — or second German Renaissance — does not stand without critique. In fact, leaders in Milwaukee’s economically marginalized black community have read the textual elements of this material landscape as a symbolic language of exclusion, and in 1990 unleashed a campaign which called for, at the very least, the symbolic inclusion of the city’s black population in this recent economic rebirth of downtown.
MKI Periodicals
Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Architecture/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Ethnic identity/ Culture

Zimmermann, C. “Ueber einige Augenerkrankungen im kindlichen Alter und deren Verhuetung.” Germania Kalender [fuer das Jahr 1888], vol. [8], [1887], pp. 185-195.
Notes: Fuer den Germania-Kalender von Dr. C. Zimmermann, Augen- und Ohren-Arzt in Milwaukee, Wis. — [Dr. Charles Zimmermann, 155 Mason St., Milwaukee, was on the staff of Ophthalmology: Essays, Abstracts and Reviews, 1909 and 1910. He was part of a team that examined the sight and hearing of children in Milwaukee public schools in 1900.]
Abstract: On various eye diseases in children and their prevention.
PIA [Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder]
PIA/ Medicine & Health/ Children

Zimmermann, Manfred. “Amerikasympathien kurhessischer Offiziere zwischen Restauration und Revolution, 1816-49.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 35, 2000, pp. 107-116.
Notes: English summary, pp. 115-116.
Abstract: Discusses three cases of “a pronounced enthusiasm for the political situation in America” as expressed (often with an idealized image) by Hessen-Kassel officers during the early 1800s.
MKI Periodicals
Germany/ Hesse/ America/ Soldiers/ Political influence

Zimmermann, Manfred. “Quellen zur deutschen Einwanderungsgeschichte in der Bibliothek der German Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 34, 1999, pp. 133-140.
Abstract: “The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the fact that the Library of the German Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, besides its considerable holdings of printed books of high scholarly interest, also houses archival sources which, in their scope, go far beyond being just of regional importance, but are able to shed light on significantly wider aspects of the German immigration experience.”
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Bibliographies/ Philadelphia (Pa.)/ Archives

Zinggeler, Margrit V. “Das Kleine im Grossen, das Grosse im Kleinen. Multikulturalismus: Ein amerikanisches Konzept aus Schweizer Sicht.” Schatzkammer, vol. 21, nos. 1 & 2, 1995, pp. 65-70.
Notes: Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte.
Abstract: “Die Schweizer Perspektive auf Multikultur entspringt einer jahrhundertlangen Tradition eines Nebeneinanders der verschiedenen Kulturen, wobei die Trennung durch fuenf Sprachkomplexe…und durch die vielfaeltige Topographie auf kleinstem Raum charakterisiert ist.”
P2001-36
Cultural influence/ Switzerland

Zink, Joel K., trans. and ed. The Indexed Burial Records of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Massbach, Illinois. Record Books 1-3: 1858 to 1932. Alexis, Ill.: the author, 2009. 52 pp.
Notes: Translated, transcribed, indexed, and introduction by Joel K. Zink. Donated by Joel K. Zink, 2010.
Abstract: St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Massbach, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, was founded in 1857. The introduction contains information parish history and boundaries, place names and names of people, and the Rite of Christian Burial in the Evangelical Lutheran Church. “For many years, the pastor of the Rush Creek congregation was the only resident German-speaking pastor in southern Jo Daviess County and northern Carroll County. The other two German churches in Derinda Township, Derinda German Methodist Episcopal Church and the Massbach German Evangelical Association Church, were usually served by traveling circuit riders. The Roman Catholic churches at Hanover and Elizabeth were served by English-speaking priests that were often not equipped to minister to their German-speaking parishioners. As a result, the Rush Creek pastor was often asked to conduct services of German-speaking non-members. This fact is often noted in the ‘Comments’ section.”
MKI P2009-3
Churches/ Cemeteries/ Burial records/ Illinois/ German Americans — Illinois/ Massbach (Ill.)

Zink, Joel K., trans. and ed. The Indexed Confirmation Records of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Massbach, Illinois. Record Books 1-3: 1858-1932. Alexis, Ill.: the author, 2009. 69 pp.
Notes: Translated, transcribed, indexed, and introduction by Joel K. Zink. Donated by Joel K. Zink, 2009.
Abstract: St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Massbach, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, was founded in 1857. The introduction contains information on the practice of confirmation, parish boundaries, place names, and names of people. Includes a surname index to the confirmation registers.
MKI P2009-3
Churches/ Confirmation records/ Illinois/ German Americans — Illinois/ Massbach (Ill.)

Zink, Joel K., trans. and ed. The Indexed Marriage Records of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Massbach, Illinois. Record Books 1-3: 1859-1932. Alexis, Ill.: the author, 2008. 35 pp.
Notes: Translated, transcribed, indexed, and introduction by Joel K. Zink. Donated by Joel K. Zink, 2009.
Abstract: St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Massbach, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, was founded in 1857. Members of the congregation hailed from various areas of Germany, with a predominance from Massbach, Bavaria, and Dettingen, Wuerttemberg. The first marriage of record was in 1859, and German villages of birth are often noted in the marriage registers.
MKI P2009-3
Churches/ Marriage records/ Illinois/ German Americans — Illinois/ Massbach (Ill.)

Zollinger, Anna R. “D’ Chappen in der Hand und ‘s Gott grueez-i parat, Git offeni Ohren und guete Rat! Etwas zum Gruessen in der deutschen Schweiz.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 48, 1928, pp. 77-82, ill.
Notes: Von Dr. Anna R. Zollinger, New York.
Abstract: German greetings in Switzerland. Editor’s remarks about the author: “Die Verfasserin stammt aus der alten Zuercherfamilie der Escher, erblickte das Licht der Welt in Sueditalien, wuchs in Deutschland, dann in Zuerich auf, wo sie das Gymnasium besuchte, dann an der Universitaet deutsche Philologie studierte. Ihr besonderes Interesse galt von jeher der Volkssprache. Sie wurde auf Grund einer Dissertation ueber die Grussformeln der deutschen Schweiz zum Doktor promoviert und war ein paar Jahre lang Mitarbeiterin am umfassenden Woerterbuch der Schweizermundarten, dem Schweizerischen Idiotikon. Sie ist die Gattin des Schauspielers Dr. Jacob Zollinger und unterrichtet zur Zeit in deutscher Sprache am Vassar College, New York.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Switzerland/ Dialects/ Language, German

Zorn, H. M., editor. Sonntagsklaenge. St. Louis, MO.: Concordia. 1947. Continuation of title page: Kurze Andachten fuer die Zeit vom 1. Januar bis zum 18. Februar 1947 von D[oktor]. H. M. Zorn, Indianapolis, Ind…. Herausgegeben von der Ev.-Luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio und andern Staaten.
MKI P2019-11
PIA/ Prayers/ Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod/ Religious works

Zucker, A. Adolf E. “Bibliographical Notes on the German Language Theater in the United States.” Monatshefte fuer deutschen Unterricht, vol. 35, no. 5, May 1943, pp. 255-164.
Abstract: Zucker writes that important materials related to dramatic performances in the German language presented in the United States have been disappearing rapidly. Notes that the “best historical writing on the German language theater was done . . . by Professor George C. O. Odell” in his Annals of the New York Stage, which provides “annual summaries of the events on the chief German stages with critical remarks regarding the important performances, listing the dramatis personae and the casts.” Dr. Fritz A. H. Leuchs relates the New York German stage and its counterpart in Germany in his The Early German Theatre in New York, 1840-1872. Lists studies on the history of the German stage in America, “omitting the files of newspapers which in the case of every city constitute the most important source.” Headings for the listings are as follows: General, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Davenport, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Manitowoc, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco, Toledo.
MKI P2009-17
Theater & Drama/ German Americans

Zucker, Adolf E. “Adolf Gustav Steinmann.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland,  30th Report, 1959, pp. 29-35.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Biographies

Zucker, Adolf E. “An Interesting Baron DeKalb Letter.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 31st Report, 1963, pp. 59-62.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Letters/ History

Zucker, Adolf E. “A Mencken Reminiscence.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, 29th Report, 1956, pp. 68-69.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

Zucker, Adolf E. “A Monument to Robert Reitzel: Der Arme Teufel, Berlin.” Germanic Review, vol. 20, 1945, pp. 147-152.
Abstract: Four years after Robert Reitzel’s death, a group of German admirers founded an Armer Teufel in Berlin. The purpose of this weekly was to make Reitzel better known in Germany as well as to provide an organ for free discussion. Short biographical sketch of Robert Reitzel, criticism of his work and of the weekly “Armer Teufel” in Berlin.
MKI P93-99
Reitzel, Robert, 1849-1898/ Literary criticism

Zuckermann, Moshe. “The Israeli and German Holocaust discourses and their transatlantic dimension.” The German-American encounter: Conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000. Frank Trommler and Elliott Shore, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001, pp. 188-197.
MKI/MEM E 183.8 G3 G472 2001
Jews/ Jews, German/ United States