German Heritage Holdings
Author : University of Missouri--Columbia. Western Historical Manuscript Collection
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 1988
Category : German Americans
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Author : University of Missouri--Columbia. Western Historical Manuscript Collection
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 1988
Category : German Americans
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Author : German Heritage Research Group
Publisher :
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Germans
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Author : W. Arthur Mehrhoff
Publisher : Missouri Life Magazine
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : German Americans
ISBN : 9780996805834
It's fair to say that no other immigrant group has had a greater influence on Missouri as the Germans. They swarmed into St. Louis and then followed the Missouri River westward in the early 1800s, finding in our rolling hills and broad valleys a beautiful country that reminded them of their beloved homeland in the Old World. This book is your personal tour guide into that unique heritage. It includes rare archival materials as well as places you can visit today to help you explore that history or let you sample their culture with all your senses. We hope this book encourages greater appreciation of Missouri Germans' influence upon our state's development, including their bedrock antislavery principles and support of the Union, their industrious work ethic and craftsmanship that shaped so much of our built environment, and a talent for fun that germinated so many breweries, wineries, bandstands, and other treasured aspects of our culture. We can practically guarantee your amazement at some the legacies these German immigrants left that still surround us. Immigration is one of the most debated political topics in our country today; it's hard to see clearly beyond the present situation. By looking back at the surprisingly parallel situation of Missouri's German immigrants beginning almost 200 years ago, perhaps we can better envision reaching our target of a diverse yet unified Missouri life in the furture.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education
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Page : 1396 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Deborah Sadie Hertz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300110944
When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, an urgent priority was to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast system of conversion and intermarriage records was created in Berlin, the country’s premier Jewish city. Deborah Hertz’s discovery of these records, the Judenkartei, was the first step on a long research journey that has led to this compelling book. Hertz begins the book in 1645, when the records begin, and traces generations of German Jewish families for the next two centuries. The book analyzes the statistics and explores letters, diaries, and other materials to understand in a far more nuanced way than ever before why Jews did or did not convert to Protestantism. Focusing on the stories of individual Jews in Berlin, particularly the charismatic salon woman Rahel Levin Varnhagen and her husband, Karl, a writer and diplomat, Hertz humanizes the stories, sets them in the context of Berlin’s evolving society, and connects them to the broad sweep of European history.
Author : Kathleen Neils Conzen
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873517342
A concise history of Germans in Minnesota including immigration patterns, the Catholic and Lutheran churches, cultural organizations, businesses, and politics, especially in the World War I years.
Author : Lynne Breen
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2020-12-20
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ISBN : 9780578756196
Author : Don Heinrich Tolzmann
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
Representing one-fourth of the population, German-Americans constitute the largest ethnic element, according to the U.S. Census, with well over 60 million people claiming German heritage. In twenty-six states, they comprise at least 20 percent of the population, and in five states they number more than 50 percent-important statistics in understanding the role played by German-Americans in U.S. history. The German-American Experience provides a comprehensive record of the essential facts in the history of this group, from its first U.S. settlements in the seventeenth century to the present. Beginning with "The Age of Discovery," this volume explores the earliest contacts between America and Germany, immigration and settlement patterns of Germans, foundations of German-American community life, their major involvement in the American Revolution, and the role German-Americans played in our Civil War. Both world wars are chronicled, including the anti-German sentiment and the internment of German-Americans during both wars. The revival of German heritage and the renaissance of German-American ethnicity since the 1970s is surveyed, along with recent events, including the impact of German unification and the 1990 census. The author also analyzes German-American influences on agriculture, industry, religion, education, music, art, architecture, politics, military service, journalism, literature, and language. In addition, he comments on prominent German-Americans, German names, sister cities, historical statistics, and much more.
Author : Bryn Mawr College
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Page : 930 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : Rudloph Leopold Biesele
Publisher :
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 2008-12-01
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ISBN : 9781571688576