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Germans in America
Author | : Walter D. Kamphoefner |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2021-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781442264984 |
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From the first arrivals at Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1683 to the twilight of ethnicity in the twenty-first century, this book surveys the sweep of German American history over 300 years. It presents not only the institutions German immigrants created, but also their individual and collective voices as they established their lives within American society.
The Germans in America
Author | : Virginia B. Kunz |
Publsiher | : Lerner Publications |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 082251009X |
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Discusses the history and contributions of the Germans in America from colonial times to the present, noting prominent German Americans throughout American history.
The German Americans
Author | : La Vern J. Rippley |
Publsiher | : Boston : Twayne Publishers |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015002236936 |
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Represents the German-American experience in the United States. Provides a German-American Chronology section to assist with orientation in historical time. Includes some of the key events in the history of Germany.
Germans in the Civil War
Author | : Walter D. Kamphoefner,Wolfgang Helbich |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807876596 |
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German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union troops. Yet little attention has been paid to their daily lives--both on the battlefield and on the home front--during the war. This collection of letters, written by German immigrants to friends and family back home, provides a new angle to our understanding of the Civil War experience and challenges some long-held assumptions about the immigrant experience at this time. Originally published in Germany in 2002, this collection contains more than three hundred letters written by seventy-eight German immigrants--men and women, soldiers and civilians, from the North and South. Their missives tell of battles and boredom, privation and profiteering, motives for enlistment and desertion and for avoiding involvement altogether. Although written by people with a variety of backgrounds, these letters describe the conflict from a distinctly German standpoint, the editors argue, casting doubt on the claim that the Civil War was the great melting pot that eradicated ethnic antagonisms.
Germans to America
Author | : Ira A. Glazier,Percy William Filby |
Publsiher | : Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : German Americans |
ISBN | : 0842024069 |
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Title of the first 10 volumes of the series is Germans to America : lists of passengers arriving at U.S. ports 1850-1855.
Citizens in a Strange Land
Author | : Hermann Wellenreuther |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2013-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780271063591 |
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In Citizens in a Strange Land, Hermann Wellenreuther examines the broadsides—printed single sheets—produced by the Pennsylvania German community. These broadsides covered topics ranging from local controversies and politics to devotional poems and hymns. Each one is a product of and reaction to a particular historical setting. To understand them fully, Wellenreuther systematically reconstructs Pennsylvania’s print culture, the material conditions of life, the problems German settlers faced, the demands their communities made on the individual settlers, the complications to be overcome, and the needs to be satisfied. He shows how these broadsides provided advice, projections, and comment on phases of life from cradle to grave.
Germans and African Americans
Author | : Larry A. Greene,Anke Ortlepp |
Publsiher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010-12-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1604737859 |
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Germans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany, in great depth. Germans and African Americans encountered one another within the context of their national identities and group experiences. In the nineteenth century, German immigrants to America and to such communities as Charleston and Cincinnati interacted within the boundaries of their old-world experiences and ideas and within surrounding regional notions of a nation fracturing over slavery. In the post-Civil War era in America through the Weimar era, Germany became a place to which African American entertainers, travelers, and intellectuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois could go to escape American racism and find new opportunities. With the rise of the Third Reich, Germany became the personification of racism, and African Americans in the 1930s and 1940s could use Hitler's evil example to goad America about its own racist practices. Postwar West Germany regained the image as a land more tolerant to African American soldiers than America. African Americans were important to Cold War discourse, especially in the internal ideological struggle between Communist East Germany and democratic West Germany. Unlike many other countries in Europe, Germany has played a variety of different and conflicting roles in the African American narrative and relationship with Europe. It is this diversity of roles that adds to the complexity of African American and German interactions and mutual perceptions over time.
Tearing the Silence
Author | : Ursula Hegi |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2011-05-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781439144138 |
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Ursula Hegi grew up in Germany and moved to the United States at age eighteen. As she grew older and raised a family, questions about her roots and her native land haunted her until, at last, she felt compelled to write about them. Tearing the Silence brings together her interviews with dozens of German-born Americans, and their confrontations with the taboo of the Holocaust.