German American Day

German-American Day on Ann Arbor's west side. West Liberty from Main Street with open countryside beyond. John Haarer's Photograph Gallery is at the left. (Source: Old Ann Arbor Town by Hazel Proctor.)

Neues Kochbuch für die deutsch-amerikanische Küche : zuverlässige und geprüfte Rezepte zur Bereitung der verschiedenen Speisen und Getränke von Backwerk, Eingemachtem u.s.w. : nach den besten dutschen und amerikanischen Koch Büchern bearbeitet, hauptsächlich nach den ausgezeichnete Kochbuch /

Recipes taken from several cookbooks, including books by Henriette Davidis and Henriette Löffler.

The Germans in Texas; a study in immigration,

"Reprinted from German American annals, vol. VII."

Die Deutschen in Amerika : ein geschichtlicher Ueberblick /

Mode of access: Internet.

Proceedings and addresses.

Title varies slightly; some vols. lack title.

Lyra Gesang Verein (Ann Arbor, Mich.), organized 1885

On mat: Reuben Kempf born 1859 - Ann Arbor; Died 1945 - Ann Arbor. Graduate Royal Conservatory of Music 1879, Stuttgart, Germany. On verso: Other identification in UAs Kempf, Reuben H.

Jahrbuch der Deutschen in Amerika : fèur das Jahr 1873.

Mode of access: Internet.

Abendschule-Kalender für das Christliche haus auf das gemeine Jahr ...

Mode of access: Internet.

German for Americans : a practical guide for self-instruction and for colleges and schools /

Mode of access: Internet.

German for Americans : a practical guide for self-instruction and for colleges and schools /

Mode of access: Internet.

IMMIGRATION, THE AMERICAN WEST, AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: GERMAN FROM RUSSIA, OMAHA INDIAN, AND VIETNAMESE-URBAN VILLAGERS IN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA

The North American West is a culturally and geographically diverse region that has long been a beacon for successive waves of human immigration and migration. A case in point, the population of Lincoln, Nebraska -- a capital city on the eastern cusp of the Great Plains -- was augmented during the twentieth century by significant influxes of Germans from Russia, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese. Arriving in clusters beginning in 1876, 1941, and 1975 respectively, these newcomers were generally set in motion by dismal economic, social, or political situations in their sending nations. Seeking better lives, they entered a mainstream milieu dominated by native-born Americans -- most part of a lateral migration from Iowa, Illinois, and Pennsylvania -- who only established their local community in 1867. While this mainstream welcomed their labor, it often eschewed the behaviors and cultural practices ethnic peoples brought with them. Aware but not overly concerned about these prejudices, all three groups constructed or organized distinct urban villages. The physical forms of these enclaves ranged from homogeneous neighborhoods to tight assemblies of relatives, but each suited a shared preference for living among kinspeople. These urban villages also served as stable anchors for unique peoples who were intent on maintaining aspects of their imported cultural identities. Never willing to assimilate to mainstream norms, urban villagers began adapting to their new milieus. While ethnic identity constructions in Lincoln proved remarkably enduring, they were also amazingly flexible. In fact, each subject group constantly negotiated their identities in response to interactions among particular, cosmopolitan, and transnational forces. Particularism refers largely to the beliefs, behaviors, and organizational patterns urban villagers imported from their old milieus. Cosmopolitan influences emanated from outside the ethnic groups and were dictated largely but not exclusively by the mainstream. Transnationalism is best defined as persistent, intense contact across international boundaries. These influences were important as the particularism of dispersed peoples was often reinforced by contact with sending cultures. Adviser: John. R. Wunder

The last of the war lords ; new lights on the life and personality of Kaiser Wilhelm II., his relations with Britons and Americans, with artists and writers, and some account of his love-affairs.

Mode of access: Internet.

A history of Herkimer County : including the upper Mohawk Valley, from the earliest period to the present time ; with a brief notice of the Iroquois Indians, the early German tribes, the Palatine immigrations into the colony of New York, and biographical sketches of the Palatine families, the patentees of Burnetsfield in the year 1725 ; and also biographical notices of the most prominent public men of the county ; with important statistical information /

Includes index.

Someone Else's Textbooks: German Education 1945-2014

In the 20th century, German education repeatedly transformed as the occupying Americans, Soviets, and western-dominated reunification governments used their control of the German secondary education system to create new definitions of what it meant to be German. In each case, the dominant political force established the paradigm for a new generation of Germans. The victors altered the German education system to ensure that their versions of history would be the prevailing narrative. In the American Occupation Zones from 1945-1949, this meant democratic initiatives; for the Soviet Zone in those same years, Marxist-Leninist pedagogy; and for the Bundesrepublik after reunification, integrated East and West German narratives. In practice, this meant succeeding generations of German students learned very different versions of history depending on the temporal and geographic space they inhabited, as each new prevailing regime supplanted the previous version of “Germanness” with its own.