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M., R. [Matt, Robert]. “Die Eagle Cliff Post.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 6, June 1890, pp. 350-353.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt. —- An English-language version of this story appeared in the Los Angeles Herald, April 7, 1907, copyrighted by James Elverson. [URL: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042462/1907-04-07/ed-1/seq-32.pdf — See MKI P2011-21].
Abstract: The towns Eagle Cliff and Graniteville are mentioned in the story, as well as No Man’s Gulch and the name Jed Prouty.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Fiction/ United States — History

M., R. [Matt, Robert]. “Die Wunder des amerikanischen Westens.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 8, Aug. 1890, pp. 450-454, ill.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
Abstract: “Der Adjunktus ist ein Deutscher dessen Wiege mitten im Schwarzwald drinnen stand, und denen spricht man das Deutschthum bekanntlich nicht bald ab; wenn er aber weiss, dass unser Adoptiv-Vaterland Wunder bietet, die ihm kein anderes Land gleichbieten kann, dann geniert er sich auch nicht, dieses frei und offen zu sagen, und diese Wunder in Wort und Bild zu verherrlichen und zu reuhmen, und das verdient vor Allem der sogenannte Yellowstone National-Park von Nordamerika.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ United States/ Travel/ 19th century

M., R. [Matt, Robert]. “Die Zerstoerung von Johnstown, Pa.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 21, no. 8, Aug. 1889, pp. 459-465, ill.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Floods — Pennsylvania — Johnstown — History — 19th century/ United States

M., R. [Matt, Robert]. “Ein deutscher Osage-Haeuptling.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 9, Sept. 1890, pp. 515-517.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
Abstract: “Wenn man heutzutage von den Erlebnissen der weissen Ansiedler des Westens liest, dann legt man gewoehnlich das Buch weg, oder man warnt seine Leute, den Quatsch nicht zu glauben, weil leider so unglaublich viel ueber Indianergrausamkeit geschrieben wird. Natuerlich sagen die Buecher selten etwas ueber die Grausamkeit der Weissen. Wenn wir aber eine Geschichte entdecken, welche von dem Leben der ersten Ansiedler handelt, und finden den Mann, der die Erfahrungen selbst erlebt hat und die Wahrheit seiner Erzaehlung mit lebenden Zeugen bestaetigt, dann lesen wir die Geschichte mit grossem Interesse. Eine solche Geschichte haben wir fuer unsere Leser entdeckt und versichern sie, dass deren Wahrheit verbuergt ist. Wer weiss, ob nicht im jetzigen Staat Kansas noch ein Magazinleser ist, der sich an die Begebenheit erinnert? Wir lassen den Mann selbst reden: ‘Als meiner Eltern von Deutschland nach Amerika auswanderten, war ich etwa vier Jahre alt, und weil wir von Haus aus arm waren, zogen meine Eltern sogleich nach dem fernen Westen, denn mein Vater rechnete darauf, seine Familie von der Jagd zu ernaehren, bis dem Lande die erste Ernte abzugewinnen sei. Wir liessen uns daher sogleich in der Naehe einer Indianer-Reservation nieder und lebten taeglich im Verkehr mit den unterschiedlichen, halbcivilisirten Indianern, mit denen wir in bestem Einvernehmen standen. . . . Als Knabe kam ich taeglich mit den Jungens der Indianer in Beruehrung, von denen ich das Fallenstellen und auch den Gebrauch der Wassen lernte. Aber was mir von weit groesserem Werth war, lernte ich auch, nemlich die Sprache der Osage-Indianer und der Shawnee’s, so dass ich mit Indianern beider Staemme ganz gelaeufig verkehren konnte.'” Relates an encounter with the Osage chief, Big Hill Joe.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ United States — History/ Native Americans/ German Americans — Kansas

M., R. [Matt, Robert]. “Ein Sonntag in Neuengland vor sechzig Jahren.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 21, no. 9, Sept. 1889, pp. 527-530.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
Abstract: “Nach englischen Quellen.” appears after the title. Begins: “Die jaehrliche Stadtversammlung, der Exerziertag, und der woechentliche Gottesdienst in der Dorfkirche waren die einzigen Erholungsstunden, die der Neuengland Farmer und seine Familie damals kannten. Daher kam es auch, dass kein Wetter zu rauh, kein Regen zu stark und kein Weg zu schlecht war fuer ihn, wenn der Sonntag kam: er vermisste keine Versammlung.””
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ New England/ United States — History/ Religion/ Social life and customs

M., R. [Matt, Robert]. “Gen. Simon Cameron.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 21, no. 8, Aug. 1889, pp. 494-496, ill.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
Abstract: Obituary for Simon Cameron (March 8, 1799 – June 26, 1889), an American politician who served as United States Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War. After making his fortune in railways and banking, he turned to a life of politics, becoming a Democratic U.S. senator in 1845 for the state of Pennsylvania. In 1857 he won a Senate seat as a member of the People’s Party, the Pennsylvania branch of what became the Republican Party. Cameron gave his support to Abraham Lincoln and became his Secretary of War, but served only a year before resigning amidst corruption. He was the minister to Russia during the Civil War, but was overseas for less than a year. He again served in the Senate, eventually being succeeded by his son, J. Donald Cameron, and only resigned from the Senate upon confirmation that his son would succeed him. From page 496: “Was immer man auch gegen S. Cameron als Politiker sagen kann, so muss man ihm doch stets fuer Muth, Energie und Scharfsinn Credit geben. Er hatte Fehler, wer keine hat, der werfe den ersten Stein auf ihn. Er hatte Feinde, wer keine hat, ist kein Mann. Sein Tod nimmt den aeltesten amerikanischen Staatsmann aus unserer Mitte. Die Geschichte unseres Landes hat ihm ein Denkmal gesetzt, das ihm Ehre macht.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Obituaries/ Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889 / Politics/ United States

M., R. [Matt, Robert]. “Grosse Fluthen.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 21, no. 8, Aug. 1889, pp. 481.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Floods — Pennsylvania — Johnstown — History — 19th century/ United States

M., R. [Matt, Robert]. “Lottchen’s Bibelvers.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 9, Sept. 1890, pp. 542-545.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt. — This story appeared in the Aug. 15, 1889 issue of Bible Echo and Signs of the Times (Melbourne, Victoria) and is attributed to Sarah B. Kenyon, in Christian Union. See MKI P2011-22.
Abstract: Translation of “Betty’s Verse,” by Sarah B. Kenyon. Includes original introductory comments in German.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Fiction

M., R. [Matt, Robert]. “Numro 10.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 5, May 1890, pp. 262-264.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
Abstract: Tales of the Civil War told from the perspective of an eldery baggage master who worked on a railcar now broken in two pieces. “Das ist die Haelfte des einst beruehmten ‘Numro 10,'” sagte der Begleiter des Berichterstatters, als sie bie der Ruine angelangt waren. “Urspruenglich war dieser Gepaeckwaggon dreissig Fuss lang und mit gruener Farbe angestrichen; roth und gelb verziert und mit koestlichem Firniss hart lackirt. Ich war zu jener Zeit Gepaeckmeister auf der C. & P. Bahn, ‘Numro 10’ war mein, d. h. er stand unter meiner Aufsicht. . . . ‘Numro 10’ und ich haben Uncle Saem’s Jungens von Cleveland nach dem Kriegschauplatz befoerdert. . . . Wenn dieser Waggon reden koennte! Der hat manches heitere Lied, manchen frohen Witz, auch manches freche Prahlen gehoert, ohne ein Wort darein zu reden. . . . Zur Zeit als [Brig.] General [John Hunt] Morgan in Ohio enfiel, hatten wir auch einmal Erlebnisse; dieser gefuerchtete Guirillafuehrer kreuzte unsere Bahn zweimal. . . Morgan und seine Bande wurde bald darauf bei Salineville gefangen, und ich bekam vierzehn seiner Mannschaft in meinen Waggon, um sie nach Wellsville zu bringen.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Civil war, 1861-1865/ German Americans — Ohio/ Fiction, historical

M., R. [Matt, Robert]. “Warum Eben Higgins dankbar war.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 11, Nov. 1890, pp. 644-648.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
Abstract: Thanksgiving story, possibly translated from English, featuring Ebenezer Higgins and his wife Rachel. “‘O Mann, es waere ja gar nicht Danksagungstag ohne Truthahn, und zudem habe ich unseren bereits fett gemacht, und die Preisselbeeren, Fleischpasteten u. s. w. sind auch bereit. So haben wir es immer gehabt, Eben, ob das Haus voll war, oder ob wir allein waren.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Thanksgiving/ Fiction, historical

M., R. [Matt, Robert]. “Zur Garfield-Feier.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 7, July 1890, pp. 425-429, ill.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
Abstract: “Der sogenannte Graeberschmueckungstag, d. i. der 30. Mai, war bestimmt zur Einweihung des Garfield Denkmals in dem prachtvollen Lake View Friedhof zu Cleveland, Ohio. Manche unserer Leser haben vielleicht das thurmartige Gebaeude schon gesehen, wenn sie auf der Eisenbahn, besonders der ‘Nickel Plate’ durch Cleveland gefahren sind. Das Monument steht gerade an der Stadtgrenze oestlich auf einer schoenen Anhoehe. In Verbindung mit der Feier wollen wir zuerst eine kurze Geschichte der Entstehung des Garfield-Monumentes geben.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ History/ Biography/ Politics/ Cleveland (Ohio)/ Burial — United States/ Garfield, James A. (Abram), 1831-1881

Maass, Joachim. “Carl Schurz stuerzt sich in die Politik.” American-German Review, vol. XVII, no. 4, 1951, pp. 11-12.
Notes: L: German; Schurz’s political relations and his struggle for social freedoms.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ Politics

MacFarlane, Margaret. “The Minnesota Valley Restoration Project.” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1981. 67-71
Abstract: Several photographs are included of buildings in the project. The paper also includes a brief biological sketch of the Berger family.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981
German Americans — Minnesota/ Architecture/ Ethnic identity/ Farming/ Biographies

Maczewski, Johannes. “Auf der Suche nach dem NICHTS: Zu Walter Bauers Kanada Gedichten.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 19, 1984, pp. 133-154.
Abstract: Maczewski’s article is divided into three sections, the first being an introduction. In the second it discusses the general characteristics of Bauer’s work; in the third it discusses the “Canada-Poems” directly and investigates the “speziell Bauersche Art der Adaption europaeischen Erbes in Kanada.” The following poems are included: “Die Sonne hier muss eine andere Sonne sein,” “Canada,” and “Kanada.”
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Poetry/ German Canadians/ 20th century

Madsen, Myra. “Heirloom Document Adds to Family Knowledge.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 24, ill.
Abstract: Document provided the author with information about the marriage of Christian Mielke to Louise Kowalske in Czierwienz, Kreis Stolp, Pomerania. Their son, Johann Ludwig Mielke, brought his family of eight to Minnesota.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Pomerania/ Mielke/ Kowalske

Major & Knapp Engraving Co. “‘The Emigrants = Die Auswanderer.’ Aus ‘Goethe-Gallerie’ von W. von Kaulbach.” Wilhelm von 1804-1874. Kaulbach. S. Zickel, New York, 1882. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2013646643/.
Depicts “Dorothea und die Auswanderer” (Illustration zum 1. Gesang; Hermann erblickt Dorothea unter den Flüchtlingen) from Hermann und Dorothea (1797) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Ent. accord. to Act of Congr. in the year 1882 by S. Zickel in the Office of the Librarian of Congr. at Washington, D.C. N13272 U.S. Copyright Office. Donated by Prof. Philip Bohlman, Chicago.
Print shows a procession of emigrants with a young boy carrying an umbrella and a bag over his shoulder at the lead, walking next to a large dog; a young woman follows carrying a basket with a lamb against her left hip and holding a cattle prod in her right hand, there is a ram by her side, she looks to the right toward a young man who is standing among bushes, shielding his eyes against the sun, he has come closer for a better view and is looking at her. Two cows yoked to a wagon are behind the young woman, in the wagon are elderly women and small children, as well as bundles of household possessions; a man with a walking stick brings up the rear. In the background is a similar group of emigrants. In the upper right is a small group of people watching the procession pass.
MKI PIA Poster file
Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Art

Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. “‘The Emigrants Farewell = Abschied Der Auswanderer.’ Nach dem in der Königlichen Gemälde-Gallerie zu Dresden befindlichem Originalgemälde von Ludwig Bokelmann.” Ludwig Bokelmann. S. Zickel, New York, 1883. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2013646644/.
Ent. accord. to Act of Congr. in the year 1883 by S. Zickel in the Office of the Librarian of Congr. at Washington, D.C. O15415 U.S. Copyright Office. Donated by Prof. Philip Bohlman, Chicago.
Print shows groups of emigrants in a small town square, taking leave of loved-ones, friends, and neighbors, before passing beneath an arched entryway where wagons are waiting to take them on their journey.
MKI PIA Poster file
Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Art

Makin, Annelise. “Surviving the ‘Haengerbande’ Times: the Murder of the German Unionists in Fredericksburg.” German Life, vol. December [2017]/January 2018, 2018, pp. 26-29.
Abstract: Relates the fate of German immigrants to Fredericksburg, Texas, and others who were set upon by Confederate soldiers and massacred for their support of the United States and their anti-slavery stance.
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ German Americans — Texas

Makowski, Ed. “William K. Ebers, Wagonmaster.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 2, Summer 2009, pp. 154-159.
Abstract: William Karl Ebers and Maria Juliana Fulz left Braunschweig and settled in Grassyville in Bastrop County, Texas. Includes a listing of their descendants.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Ebers

Makowski, Edwin. “William Makowski, Methodist Circuit Rider.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 67-70.
Abstract: Friedrich Wilhelm Makowski emigrated from Danzig, Prussia at the age of 22. In Guadalupe County, Texas, he found employment at the Blumberg farm near McQueeny and raised enough money to bring his mother and two younger sisters to America. In 1896, at the age of 28, he enrolled at Blinn College in Brenham to become a Methodist minister. This article details his life as a minister in Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Makowski, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1868-1950

Maldonado, Sigrid. “Family Migration from Bavaria.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 2013, pp. 16-20, ill.
Notes: See also the author’s article, “Migrations to Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, USA, Canada, and Argentina” (Germanic Genealogy Journal, Winter 2003, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 20-21.
Abstract: Additional research since the author’s previous article has uncovered information on the following lines: Schmidt-Rummel (their child Georg Thomas Johann Eduard immigrated to America); Degen-Bleckholm (grandson Georg Ludwig Degen immigrated to America in 1854, homesteading in Pennsylvania; his descendants lived in Ohio, Maryland, and California); the author’s aunts, with family immigrating to Ontario, Canada; California, Washington, and Texas; and Argentina.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German

Maldonado, Sigrid. “Migrations to Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, USA, Canada, and Argentina.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 6, no. 4, Winter 2003, pp. 20-21.
Abstract: “The Degen, Sebald, and Schmidt families from Bavaria immigrated to many countries over the period from 1850 to 1990. Johann Jakob Ludwig Degen (1754-1834) and his wife Maria Sophia Bleckholm (1774-1856) had seven children. This article follows the paths of two of those children and their descendants.”
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German

Mallinckrodt, Anita M. Augusta, Missouri’s Ebenezer Evangelical Church in its 1800s Community. [Footprints of History]). Augusta, MO : Mallinckrodt Communications, 2001. 23 p. : ill., maps.
Notes: Contents: Early Missouri history — Church on the frontier — Church expansion — Church controversies, 1841-43 — 1845 Augusta area churches — Augusta’s Evangelical Church — Separate denominational churches — Civil War — Post-Civil War growth. Cover title. Includes bibliographical references. Autographed to and donated by J Tiedemann, 2014.
MKI P2014-10
Augusta (Mo.) — Church history./ German Americans — Religion — History./ Ebenezer Evangelical Church (Augusta, Mo.) — History./ Deutscher-evangelischer Kirchenverein des Westens./ Muench, Friedrich (1799-1881).

Mallinckrodt, Anita M. Don’t Let the Fire Go Out: Stories to Tell and Retell. Augusta, MO : Haus Dortmund, 2017. 52 p. : ill.
Notes: Donated by J Tiedemann, August 2018.
Abstract: Contents: Ancestry — Language — River. Typewritten lectures presented by the author to: Road Scholar programs, 2017 (Ancestry: German immmigration to Augusta, Missouri) — Washington Library, March 2017, and Marthasville Bicentennial, September 2017 (Language: Handwriting, the German script, documentation) — Augusta History Museum, August 2017 (Floods: the Missouri River at Augusta and official entities).
MKI P2018-05
German Americans — Missouri — History/ Writing — German

Mallinckrodt, Anita M. Femme Osage Evanglical Church. Footprints of History). Augusta, MO : Mallinckrodt Communications, 2008. 35 p. : ill.
Notes: Autographed to and donated by J Tiedemann, 2014.
Abstract: Contents: History of the Evangelical Movement in the Middle West — Femme Osage’s History in Documents — Femme Osage Chronik (History of the Congregation) / Karl Barkau, c. 1923; Emil Beier, c. 1925 — Femme Osage Church Pastors, 1836-2008 — Femme Osage Church Elders, 1890-1913, 1939. Errata corrected, p. 7. Includes bibliographical references. Researched by the author from the Church’s original German records and associated publications in conjunction with the 175th anniversary of its founding (1833).
MKI P2014-10
German Americans — Missouri — History./ German Americans — Religion — History./ Der Friedensbote (Periodical)./ Deutscher-evangelischer Kirchenverein des Westens./ Garlichs, Hermann (1807-1865).

Mallman, Sharon M. “The Brumders of Milwaukee.” Milwaukee History, vol. 3, no. 3, Autumn 1980, pp. 66-79.
Abstract: Brumder, George, 1839-1910
MKI P84-79 also P84-119
Book trade/ Brumder/ History

Malsch, Wilfried. “Vom Vorbild zum Schreckbild. Politische USA-Vorstellungen deutscher Schriftsteller von Thomas Mann bis zu Reinhard Lettau.” In Die USA und Deutschland, Wolfgang Paulsen, ed., 1976, pp. 29-51. Abstract: Am Beispiel verschiedner deutscher Autoren werden die hohen Hoffnungen und die bitteren Enttaeuschungen vorgefuehrt, die man mit Amerika verband und verbindet.
MKI PT 123 .U6 A4 1976 / MEM PT 123 .U6 A4 1975
United States in literature/ Foreign public opinion/ United States

Malycky, Alexander. “The German-Albertans.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook. 1983, pp. 239-325.
Abstract: A bibliography listing books, articles and distinct sections thereof dealing wholly or mainly with German-Albertans (Canada).
MKI Periodicals
Bibliographies/ German Canadians/ Canada

Mammana, Richard J. Jr. “Interview with Sandra Hardy, Founder of Pennsylvania German Tombstones Online.” Der Reggeboge, vol. 38, no. 2, Aug. 2004, pp. 27-30.
Notes: Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society.
Donated by Dennis Boyer.
Abstract: “Pennsylvania German tombstones hold an important and concrete place in the culture of the men and women who carved and erected them. Standing at the unique intersection of religion, folk piety, art, language change, stone-quarrying and local economies, they provide a sometimes surprising look at the beliefs and abilities of Pennsylvania German settlers and their descendants. While it is difficult to infer intention without written records to this effect, the very creation of tombstones in German seems to indicate that those who made them expected later generations to be able to read and understand them. Tombstones speak in a clear voice of a forward-looking German-language civic and religious life. . . . With calm determination and sometimes with strong, highly stylized designs, they say, ‘German was once spoken here.'” Sandra Hardy has created an online resource to help preserve digital records of Pennsylvania German tombstones (available at www.pagstones.com).
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Monuments

Mannhardt, Emil. “Der Ursprung Germanna’s, der ersten deutschen Niederlassung in Virginien.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 4, 1902, pp. 28-32.
Abstract: “Dass Germanna die erste deutsche Niederlassung in Virginien gewesen, und ihr Dasein dem unternehmenden Gouverneur jener Kolonie, dem Schotten Alexander Spottswood verdankte, darf als unbestritten gelten…” Die Geschichte von Germanna und der Familie Kemper.
MKI Periodicals
Virginia/ German Americans — Virginia/ Settlements/ Colonial period/ Communities

Mannhardt, Emil. “Deutsches Blut in Mt. Morris Township, Ogle County, Ill.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 3, 1902, pp. 45-47.
Abstract: “Dass deutsches Blut im Staate Illinois wahrscheinlich viel staerker vertreten ist, als man allgemein annimmt, und als sich aus den Census-Berichten ersehen laesst, lehrt die nachstehende statistische Aufstellung, welche auf Angaben beruht, die in einr von Kable Bros. deselbst im J. 1900 herausgegebenen Geschichte von Mt. Morris Township in Ogle Co. enthalten sind.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Illinois/ Population

Mannhardt, Emil. “Die aeltesten deutschen Ansiedler von Illinois.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 1-2, 3, 1902, pp. 49-54; 49-62; 55-58.
Notes: Parts 2, 3, and 4.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois

Mannhardt, Emil. “Die Deutschen in Illinois.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 211-218.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
German Americans — Illinois

Mannhardt, Emil. “Die Deutschen in Illinois.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 10, 1910, pp. 217-224.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois

Mannhardt, Emil. “Die ersten deutschen Ansiedler von Perkins Grove.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 3, 1902, pp. 52-63.
Abstract: Illinois
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois

Mannhardt, Emil. “Die Jeveraner-Kolonie in Will County, Ill., und ihre Toechter-Kolonien.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 1, 1902, pp. 33-39.
Abstract: “Es sind besonders die Townships Greengarden und Monee, wo sich die Jeveraner niedergelassen haben, doch finden sie sich auch in Frankfort, Peotone und anderen Townships von Will County.”
MKI Periodicals
Illinois/ Settlements/ Communities/ History

Mannhardt, Emil. “Die rheinpreussische Niederlassung in und um Johnsburg, McHenry County.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 4, 1902, pp. 58-62.
Abstract: Illinois
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois

Mannhardt, Emil. “Eine Illinois Staatszeitung aus dem Jahre 1852.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 7, 1907, pp. 42-47.
MKI Periodicals
Illinois/ Newspapers — German-American

Mannhardt, Emil. “Zwei alte Chicagoer, Friedrich Burcky und Nikolaus Berdel.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 3, 1902, pp. 32-33.
Abstract: Brief account of Friedrich Burcky and Nikolaus Berdel, early German-American settlers in Chicago.
MKI Periodicals
Chicago (Ill.)/ German Americans — Illinois

Mannhardt, Emil, and Otto H. Matz. “Chicago vor 50 Jahren und die damaligen deutschen Architekten. Vortrag gehalten am 19. Oktober 1903 vor dem Illinoiser Kapitel des American Institute of Architects vom Architekten Otto H. Matz.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 7, 1907, pp. 37-42.
Notes: “nebst Anmerkungen von Emil Mannhardt.”
Abstract: “Ein interessanter Beitrag zur Geschichte eines wesentlichen Zeitabschnitts in Chicagos Wachstum, ist in einem Vortrage enthalten, den der seit dem Jahre 1854 hier thaetige Architekt, Herr Otto H. Matz, vor einigen Jahren vor dem hiesigen Architekten-Verein in Folge der an ihn und andere aeltere Ansiedler ergangenen Aufforderung gehalten hat, seine persoenlichen Erinnerungen betreffs des Bauwesens und der Architektur in Chicagos Jugendjahren mitzutheilen.
Dem den ‘Geschichtsblaettern’ freundlichst zur Verfuegung gestellten Manusckript dieses Vortrags ist das Nachstehende entkommen:…”
MKI Periodicals
Architecture/ Chicago (Ill.)/ 19th century/ German Americans — Illinois

Manning, Mary J. “A German Family Becomes an American Family.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 32, no. 3, June 2007, pp. 19-25, ill.
Abstract: The Kosmin/Behnke family left the village of Gross Jannewitz in eastern Pomerania in the province of Lauenburg in 1864 to join August Kosmin’s brother in Chicago.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Kosmin/ Behnke/ Family history/ Pomeranians/ Atlantic crossing/ German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)

Manning, Mary J. “The Plight of German Americans Before and During World War I.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer 2013, pp. 16-27, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Reports on anti-German sentiment in the United States before and during the First World War, and tells the story of Otto Edwin Radke, a third generation German American born in Barrington, Illinois, who enlisted in the 132nd Infantry, Illinois National Guard, in 1917. Otto, along with his cousin Harry, died on October 11, 1918, during the Meusse-Argonne Offensive.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ German Americans — Illinois/ Radke, Otto Edwin, 1900-1918/ Ethnic identity/ Anti-German sentiment

Mannone, John Charles. “A Propensity for Genius: That Something Special About Fritz Zwicky (1898-1974).” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 42, no. 1, Feb. 2006, pp. 3-42, ill.
Abstract: “It is difficult to write just a few words about a man who was so great. It is even more difficult to try to capture the nuances of his character, including his propensity for genius as well as his eccentric behavior edging the abrasive as much as the funny, scope of his contributions, the size of his heart, and the impact on society that the distinguished physicist, Fritz Zwicky has made. So I am not going to try to serve that injustice, rather I will construct a collage, which are cameos of his life and accomplishments. In this way, you, the reader, will hopefully be left with a sense of his greatness and a desire to learn more about him.”
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Biographies/ 20th century/ Science/ Zwick, Fritz, 1898-1974

Manz, Stefan. “Nationalism Gone Global: The Hauptverband Deutscher Flottenvereine im Auslande 1898-1919.” German History, vol. 30, no. 2, June 2012, pp. 199-221.
Abstract: The Wilhelmine battle fleet was a powerful symbol of national strength and unity not only within the Reich but also in German ethnic communities abroad. A global network of 179 navy clubs with 9,500 members (1913) was coordinated by the Berlin-based Central League for German Navy Clubs Abroad (Hauptverband Deutscher Flottenvereine im Auslande). Its aims were the collection of migrants’ money for concrete navy projects and the promotion of allegiance to the Reich and of ethnic cohesion abroad. This article analyses German navy campaigning within a transnational framework and supports the view that migrants were discursively drawn into Imperial Germany’s global aspirations as outposts of ‘Germanness’ abroad.
MKI P2014-1
Ethnic identity/ German Americans/ Germany/ Societies, etc.

Marcy, Kristina. “Review essay: Reflections on three novels of Carol Williams.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 38, no. 1, Feb. 2002, pp. 24-38.
Abstract: Examines The Switzers (1981), By Wonders and By War (1999), and Brightness Remembered (2001), books that chronicle the experience of three Swiss families in South Carolina.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Book reviews

Margolick, David. “After helping Jews, a paper saves itself.” New York Times, June 23, 2001, pp. A15, A17.
Abstract: Report on The Aufbau, a newspaper founded in New York by Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler’s Europe.
MKI P2001-4
Jews/ Newspapers

Margulies, Herbert. “Cautiously Constructive: The Congressional Career of John Jacob Esch of Wisconsin.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 83, no. 2, 1999/2000, pp. 111-137.
Abstract: This article examines the career of Wisconsin Congressman John Jacob Esch from 1898 to 1920, including his role in the Transportation Act of 1920 (or the Esch-Cummins Act). Esch was born in 1861 to German immigrant parents near Norwalk in Monroe county.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Political activity/ Statesmen/ Biographies

Markham, Sara. “The Golden Signpost: An Immigrant Guide in its Historical Setting.” The Golden Signpost: A Guide to Happiness and Prosperity. Colin D. Thomson, trans. Charlotte Lang Brancaforte, ed. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute, 1993, pp. xxv-xl.
MKI BJ 1573 G6513 1993
Life skills guides/ Immigrants/ Immigrants, German

Markham, Sara H. “Elusive Prosperity: Images of the United States Conveyed in Selected German Travel Literature, 1923-1933. Dissertation.” Univ. of Wisconsin, 1983. 567 pp.
Abstract: Previous studies have focused attention on two dominant tendencies of German travel imagery of the United States appearing 1924-1929: 1) a liberal-affirmative and mass-commercialized imagery of prosperity and Fordism; 2) a culture-conservative and national-chauvanist imagery of no culture. Studies of German travel imagery of the United States formulated 1929-1933 have seldom been undertaken. This study suggests and assesses changing creative dimensions of historical contribution and limitation conveyed in selected German travel literature 1923-1933. The literature is interpreted to lend itself in many respects to the changing socially-critical, women’s literary, worker-oriented, socialist, and nascent anti-fascist traditions of German imagery of the United States. Travel literature by the following travel writers are examined: Alfred Kerr, Roda Roda, Alice Salomon, Arthur Rundt, Arthur Feiler, ADGB-travelers, Marie Jacobi, Erika Mann and Klaus Mann, Richard Katz, Marta Kalweis, Adele Schreiber, Egon Erwin Kisch, Alfons Goldschmidt, Arthur Holitscher, Ernst Toller, and Maria Leitner.
MKI dissertations / MEM AWB M3459 S373
Germany in literature/ Travel in literature/ 20th century/ America in German literature/ Literature, German

Marlitt, E. Eugenie. Das Geheimnis der alten Mamsell. The German-American Series, n. 14. Chicago, Ill.: Laird & Lee, n.d. 304 pp., ill.
Notes: Illustrated by C. Koch. — E. Marlitt was the pseudonym of Eugenie John (1825-1887), a popular German novelist (not German American).
MKI P88-51
PIA/ Fiction

Marshall, Catherine Cook. “Review of “Twice Removed: The Experience of German-American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century” by Dorothea Stuecher.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 307-309.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Marsiske, Hans-Arthur. “The Contributions of the German-Speaking ‘Forty-Eighters’ to U.S. Cultural, Social and Political Life. Ein Symposium des Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies in Madison, Wisconsin, vom 9. bis 11. Oktober 1986.” IWK (Internationale Wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz zur Geschichte der Deutschen Arbeiterbewegung), vol. 22, no. 4, 1986, pp. 533-536.
MKI P87-91
Forty-eighters/ History/ 19th century/ Germany/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees/ Refugees, political (US)/ Political activity/ Cultural influence/ Social influence

Martell, Chris. “Honey Creek preserves the past: Swiss heritage lives in rural Sauk County.” Wisconsin State Journal, Dec. 2, 1990.
Notes: Sunday.
Abstract: Swiss homes in Honey Creek
MKI P92-7
Swiss Americans/ Wisconsin/ Architecture

Martens, Hedda. “Language Attitudes of German Immigrants and their Families as Observed in Rochester, N.Y. Dissertation.” University of Rochester, 1971. 188 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988 ; book, in MadCat.
Abstract: This is a descriptive study of the language behavior of German immigrants and their families who settled in Rochester, New York, covering approximately the period from 1850 to 1970. The attitudes of the pre-World War II immigrants are compared with those who settled here in the 1850’s as well as in the 1950’s, focusing on maintenance of German and acquisition of English. The speech behavior of voluntary immigrants is compared with that of refugees. Reasons and methods for the preservation of German (or a German dialect) as well as for the acquisition of English are described and discussed, stressing the efforts made through German-founded religious and secular groups as well as the individual homes. The linguistic behavior of skilled craftsmen who are able to earn a living without knowing English is compared to that of the unskilled or professionally trained immigrant. Approximately 150 first and second generation immigrants served as informants. Psychological, sociological and purely linguistic factors determining linguistic changes are described.
MKI dissertations
Immigrants, German/ Language, German (US)/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Linguistics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Martin, Michael. “Konrad Krez (1828 Landau–1897 Milwaukee).” 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. 109.
MKI E 184 P3 A94 2009
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Krez, Konrad, 1828-1897/ Forty-eighters/ Rheinland-Pfalz

Martin, Michael. “Thomas Nast (1840-1903).” 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. 116-118, ill.
Abstract: Born in 1840 in Landau, Thomas Nast was six years old when his family arrived in New York. Nast became famous in the 19th century as an American caricaturist.
MKI E 184 P3 A94 2009
Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902/ Artists/ German Americans/ 19th century/ Politics

Martin, Mona Kadel. “Schmidt Family Reunions: A Story About a Pioneer German Family in Western Illinois.” Infoblatt, vol. 11, no. 4, Autumn 2006, pp. 5-8, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
Abstract: “The descendants of Peter (Johann Peter) Schmitt and Elizabeth Katharina Spilger Schmitt gathered every year for a reunion in Weed Park, Muscatine, Iowa . . . beginning in the year 1918. Peter and Elizabeth Schmitt immigrated to America from Bonsweiler, Hesse, Germany (the Odenwald), in 1856, settling in Buffalo Prairie Township, Rock Island County, Illinois.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Schmidt/ Schmitt/ Hesse/ 20th century/ German Americans — Iowa

Martin, Nancy. “A Misverschtendniss = A Misunderstanding.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, Winter 2007, pp. 16-17.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Nancy Martin, a resident of Hawkesville, Ontario, provides this humorous story of her uncle; includes English translation.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Humor & Satire

Martin, Nancy. “Old Order Mennonite Attitudes Towards the Dialect.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 10, no. 4, Fall 2003, pp. 8-9.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Mennonites/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Martin, Nancy. “A Short History of Die Botschaft.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 14-15.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Amish — Culture/ Newspapers/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Martin, Ruth O. “From Franken to Frankenmuth.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. Vol. 5, no. 4, Winter 2002, pp. 7-9, ill.
Notes: Article originally appeared under the title “Hemmeter-Leidlein” in the Timbertown Log (Saginaw Genealogy Society), vol. 22, no. 2, 1985.
Abstract: “This is the story of the 1847 journey of John Michael Hemmeter (b. 24 Sep. 1822, Wolfsbronn, Bavaria; d. 5 Nov. 1897, Saginaw, Michigan) and Anna Barbara Mary Leidlein (b. 15 May 1822, Polsingen, Bavaria; d. 17 Dec. 1896, Saginaw) from Bavaria to Frankenmuth, Michigan.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Michigan/ Lutherans/ Hemmeter/ Leidlein/ Wolfsbronn, Bavaria/ Polsingen, Bavaria/ Frankenmuth (Mich.)

Martschin, Hannes. “Die Burgenland-Amerikaner im Kontakt: Sprachverhalten und Kontaktphaenomene in Pennsylvania.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 28, 1993, pp. 93-106.
Abstract: Im Raum Allentown, Pennsylvania, und den angrenzenden Gebieten um Coplay und Northampton befindet sich die heute noch kulturell homogenste und, wenn auch in die autochthone Kultur absolut integrierte, so doch noch nicht voellig assimilierte Gruppe von Burgenland-Amerikanern. Die hier praesentierten Ergebnisse sind Teil der ersten linguistischen Forschung ueber die Burgenland-Amerikaner. Das Hauptinteresse dieses Projekts gilt einer ersten Dokumentation des Sprachverhaltens und Sprachstandes dieser Gruppe
MKI Periodicals
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Linguistics/ Languages in contact/ Dialects

Marty, Carl. “Bellevue.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 44, 1924, pp. 64.
Notes: Swiss-American author. From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: “b. 4-3-1873 in Gachnang, Switzerland, d. 1960 in Monroe, Wis. Came to Green County, Wisconsin, in 1887 to join his father and older brother. Returned to Switzerland in 1893 and visited his sister in Bucharest where he worked for 2 years as a bank employee with his brother-in-law. 1895 in Switzerland, 1896 in Wisconsin where he co-edited the Green County Herold. 1901 employed in cheese industry, 1907 owner of a cheese factory in Chicago which he built into a prosperous business. Contributed poetry to various Swiss-American periodicals. . . . Wrote works in Berner dialect with A. Rieder and P. Baehler.”
Abstract: Begins: “Im Norde vo Wisconsin da, Am See so klar u blaue, Het Bob es Huettli baue lah, E Freud isch gsy zum gschaue.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Poetry/ Dialects/ Wisconsin

Marty, Carl. Das Menschenkind auf Erden. Zeitgemaesse Jeremiade. Monroe, Wis.: 1944. [14] pp.
Notes: Swiss-American author. From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: “b. 4-3-1873 in Gachnang, Switzerland, d. 1960 in Monroe, Wis. Came to Green County, Wisconsin, in 1887 to join his father and older brother. Returned to Switzerland in 1893 and visited his sister in Bucharest where he worked for 2 years as a bank employee with his brother-in-law. 1895 in Switzerland, 1896 in Wisconsin where he co-edited the Green County Herold. 1901 employed in cheese industry, 1907 owner of a cheese factory in Chicago which he built into a prosperous business. Contributed poetry to various Swiss-American periodicals. . . . Wrote works in Berner dialect with A. Rieder and P. Baehler.”
Abstract: Verse about contemporary event.
MKI P97-21
PIA/ Literature, German-American/ Humor & Satire/ 20th century

Marty, Carl. “Es Chasgschichtli.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 44, 1924, pp. 78-79, ill.
Notes: Swiss-American author. From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: “b. 4-3-1873 in Gachnang, Switzerland, d. 1960 in Monroe, Wis. Came to Green County, Wisconsin, in 1887 to join his father and older brother. Returned to Switzerland in 1893 and visited his sister in Bucharest where he worked for 2 years as a bank employee with his brother-in-law. 1895 in Switzerland, 1896 in Wisconsin where he co-edited the Green County Herold. 1901 employed in cheese industry, 1907 owner of a cheese factory in Chicago which he built into a prosperous business. Contributed poetry to various Swiss-American periodicals. . . . Wrote works in Berner dialect with A. Rieder and P. Baehler.” — Illustrated by L. M. Hotter.
Abstract: Short story about a cheese export firm called Roethlisgerber & Berger takes place in Chicago. Begins: “Nid wyt vo wo d’ Riverstreet u d’ Southwaterstreet da z’ Tschiggago umge zaeme i heiche, het fruecher e waeltbikannti schwyzerische Chaeseexportfirma ihri Ablag gha.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Fiction/ Dialects/ Chicago (Ill.)

Marx, Henry. “Adolf Phillipp (1864-1936) the Most Successful German-American Playwright, also a Singer, Composer, Stage Director, Actor, and Theater Manager–A Tentative Appraisal.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds., 1977, pp. 43-47.
MKI P87-163
Theater & Drama/ Biographies/ Jews

Marx, Henry. “Germans in America, 1683-1983.” Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Newsletter, vol. 15, 1984, Feb., pp. 31-34.
MKI P87-125
German Americans/ History

Marzahn, Wolfgang. The Nobleman Among the Brothers: The Life of the Pomeranian Farmer, Christian, and Statesman Adolph von Thadden-Trieglaff. (Der Edelmann unter den Bruedern. Ein pommerscher Landwirt, Christ und Politiker. Aus dem Leben des Adolph Ferdinand von Thadden-Trieglaff). Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2006. xi, 75 pp., ill.
Notes: Translated from the German by Alma Ihlenfelds, transcribed by Peter Natzke. Donated by Royal Natzke.
Abstract: Biography of Pomeranian nobleman, Adolph von Thadden of Trieglaff in Kreis Greifenberg, 1796-1882. A devout Christian who cared for the welfare of his workers, von Thadden also was instrumental in converting Otto von Bismarck to Christianity. In the cause of religious freedom von Thadden held meetings on his estate which were attended by those (called “Old Lutherans”) who eventually moved to America and settled in Buffalo, NY, and in Milwaukee, Freistadt, Cedarburg, Grafton, Kirchhayn, and Lebanon, WI.
MKI P2006-8
Pomerania/ Lutherans

Masser, Charles, and Marcia Masser. “In Search of Mathias Masser.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 30, no. 2, Mar. 2005, pp. 3-8, ill.
Abstract: “Mathias Masser was born in Lossburg, Wuerttemberg. . . on August 3, 1732. . . . The focus of this document is the supporting information to prove this Mathias of Lossburg is indeed our Mathias of Berks County, Pennsylvania.”
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Palatines/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ 18th century/ Genealogy

Massirer, Van D. “The Franz Massirer Family: A Brief History.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 4, Winter 2009, pp. 319-234, ill.
Abstract: Franz Massirer was born in 1842, in the village of Polowce, Chortkov district, Galicia, Austria. Sometime near 1868 he married Katharina Margaretha Loess, and in 1892 the family immigrated to Texas. They traveled from Bremen aboard the steamship Darmstadt. They settled in the western part of McLennan County and also in the far eastern part of Coryell County, in central Texas. Article provides descriptions of life on the farm during the late 19th century.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Family history/ Massirer/ Austria/ Galicia/ Loess/ Farm life

Massman, John C. “Mathilda Tolksdorf and Daniel Shillock: A German-American Frontier Family Experience.” A Heritage Fulfilled: German-Americans: Die Erfuellte Herkunft. Clarence A. Glasrud, editorMoorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1984. 196-210
Abstract: Massmann’s paper provides a biographical sketch of Mathilda and Daniel Schillock, who lived in New Ulm and Minneapolis in the 19th century. The information is based largely on letters written by Mathilda.
MKI F615 G3 H48 1984
German Americans — Minnesota/ Assimilation/ Ethnic identity/ Biographies/ Letters/ Personal narratives/ Frontier and pioneer life

Massnick, Thomas Otto. “Marauding Tribesmen for Unity and Equality: The Forty-Eighters’ Creation of a German-American Genius Loci.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 45, 2010, pp. 77-93.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Examines the political and intellectual climate of the German-American community before and during the American Civil War, then analyzes the poetry of Caspar Butz and Konrad Krez to illuminate how German refugees from the Revolutions of 1848 and 1849 transferred their ideologies to the political arena in the United States.
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Butz, Caspar, 1825-1885/ Krez, Konrad, 1828-1897/ Political activity/ Forty-eighters/ Poetry

Matt, Joseph. “Der Deutsche Roemisch-Katholische Central-Verein: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der deutschen Katholiken in den Vereinigten Staaten.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 701-715.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
German Americans — Societies, etc./ Catholics/ History

Mattern, Susan. “Jacob Mattern, German Immigrant and Soldier.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 18, ill.
Abstract: Mattern was born in 1824 in Reiffelbach, Germany, and came to America in 1850. He volunteered for three tours of duty in the Civil War, serving in B Co., 45th Infantry, New York; E Co., 15th Heavy Artillery, New York; and I Co., 175th Infantry, New York.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ German Americans — New York (state)

Mattheier, Klaus J. “Sprachinselsoziolinguistik: Beobachtungen und Ueberlegungen and deutschsprachigen Sprachinseln,” 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. 38-61.
MKI PF 5925 G47 1993
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Dialects

Mattheisen, Donald J. “History as Current Events: Recent works on the German Revolution of 1848.” American Historical Review, vol. 88, no. 5, 1983, pp. 1219-1237.
Abstract: Hamerow called for a new history of the revolution that would come closer to the reality of 1848 because it would be based on foundations firmer than ideological expediency. His expectation has been fulfilled only in part. Even now the event is still too sensitive to escape partisan treatment. The various views of the revolution are reviewed.
MKI Forty-eighters box
Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849

Matthew, Stella M. “Pineapple Salaat.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, Spring 1999, pp. 12-14.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Short play in Pennsylvania German dialect.
MKI Periodicals
Theater & Drama/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Dutch

Mau, Johannes. Kaufet die Zeit aus! Ein Band neuer Predigten. Nebst einer homiletischen Einleitung: Prinzipielle Eroerterungen ueber eine neue, klare, verstaendliche Verkuendigung des Evangeliums. St. Louis, Mo.: Eden Publishing House, 1920. 96 pp.
Notes: Also on title page: Amtsbruedern zu Studienzwecken dargeboten von Johannes Mau, Pastor der Evangelischen Gemeinde bei Harvard, Neb. Kommissionsverlag Eden Publishing House.
Abstract: Partial contents: Die bleibende Wahrheit einer alten Prophezeiung, auch fuer Amerika und fuer dich. Lukas 19, 41-44 — Hilf den Hungernden und Notleidenden Deutschlands! Johannes 5, 1-9.
MKI P84-115
PIA/ Sermons/ Lutherans/ German Americans — Nebraska/ 20th century

Mauch, Christof. “America in Germany — Germany in America.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 32, Spring 2003, pp. 127-130.
Notes: Report of panel at the German Historikertag in Halle a.d. Saale, September 12, 2002.
Abstract: Reports on a panel that examined the German presence in America and the American presence in Germany. Andreas Daum examined the favorable public reputation enjoyed by Alexander von Humboldt in nineteenth-century America; Heike Bungert discussed the role ethnic festivals played in the “construction of a collective identity or ethnicity” for nineteenth-century German-Americans; Kathleen Conzen examined the distinctive subculture of German-speaking Catholics in America; Philipp Gassert focused on the field of American Studies in Germany; and Wilfried Mausbach analyzed German discourses about the war in Vietnam.
MKI P2003-35
America/ Germany/ 19th century/ Ethnic identity/ Festivals/ Catholics

Mauch, Christof. “German-Jewish Identities in America: From the Civil War to the Present.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 28, Spring 2001, pp. 107-113.
Notes: German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Report on conference at Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies (University of Wisconsin-Madison), October 2000.
MKI P2002-28 and MKI Periodicals
Jews, German/ America/ United States/ History

Mauch, Lisa J. “Guten Tag Zinzinnati: Local Author Chronicles German Heritage from Doris Day to Jerry Springer.” [Unknown], Oct. 22, 2003, DPH/WHP Life, pp. 1, 6.
Photocopy sent by B. Roba of Davenport, IA, Nov. 2003.
Profiles the book, German Heritage Guide to Greater Cincinnati Area, written by Don Heinrich Tolzmann.
MKI P2004-1
German Americans — Ohio/ Cincinnati (Ohio)/ Cultural contribution

Mauk, Margueretta Elisabeth Meier. “Kansas and Oklahoma, Then Landersdorf Again.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, Summer 2007, pp. 20-27, ill.
Notes: Second excerpt from the book Memories by Aunt Martha, self-published, 1976.
MKI Periodicals
Family history/ Bavaria/ German Americans — Kansas/ German Americans — Oklahoma

Mauk, Margueretta Elisabeth Meier. “Landersdorf, Bavaria: Early Memories.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 5-11, ill.
Notes: For part two, see Summer 2007 issue.
Abstract: Excerpt from the book Memories by Aunt Martha, self-published, 1976. Elisabeth Mauk was born Oct. 21, 1882 in Landersdorf, Bavaria, Germany, and came to America in 1891 when she was nine years old.
MKI Periodicals
Family history/ Bavaria/ German Americans — Kansas/ German Americans — Oklahoma

Max Kade German-American Center. “Proceedings of the fall symposium: Towards a survey of German-American museums, historic sites, archives and libraries in North America.” 10 pp.
Abstract: The purpose of the symposium was to form a “SGAS German Americana Inventory Committee” and to develop consensus on the development of on-line resources shared by the Max-Kade Institutes and Centers, and the Society of German-American Studies
MKI P96-2
German-American Studies/ German Americana

Max Kade Institute for Austrian – German – Swiss Studies. After Forty Contentious Years: The Two Germanys Since 1949. Conference Report. Los Angeles, California: The Max Kade Institute for Austrian – German – Swiss Studies, 1990.
Abstract: Five workshops: 1) Politics, the State and Collective Action (von Bredow, Roeder, Geyer); 2) Economic Change in the Two Germanys (Baylis, Gransow, Berghahn, Struewing); 3) The Changing Role of Women (Schuetze, Lemke, Moeller, Kuhrig; 4) Approaches to the History of National Socialism (Jarausch, Luedtke, Domansky, Kuettler); 5) Foreign Relations (Naimark, Basler, Steel).
MKI P90-13
Germany/ Politics/ Economic aspects/ Women/ National socialism

Maxeiner, James R. “J. L. Tellkampf: German Legal Scientist in the U.S. (1838-47) in an Age of Reform.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 50, 2015, pp. 1-43; ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Biography of the German jurist and Goettingen law instructor who traveled to the United States before the 1848 Revolution and played a significant role as professor and in the codification of United States civil law.
MKI Periodicals
Tellkampf, Johann Ludwig (John Louis), 1808-1876/ Lawyers

Maxwell, E. C. “Max Wieczorek.” American-German Review, vol. XVIII, no. 4, 1952, pp. 15-18.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ Artists/ German Americans

Mayer, Adam. “Schoweer in Amerika.” In Festschrift zur Hundertfuenfzigjahrfeier der Ansiedlungsgemeinden Neu-Altschowe (Batschka) in Jugoslawien, 1786-1936. Friedrich Konrath and Kornelius Weimann, eds. Novisad: Druckerei- und Verlags-A.-G., 1936, pp. 453-464.
Notes: “The Batschka, also called Batschau in original documents, belonged to Austro-Hungary until 1918 and is today the Vojodina province in northeastern Serbia”; donated by Michael Riegel (238-9692); photocopy.
Abstract: Includes: “Eine Stimme aus Kalifornien”and “Schoweer Kolonie in Cleveland (Ohio).” Also a listing of the names of “aus Schowe nach Amerika Ausgewanderten” between the years 1902 and 1929.
MKI P2005-21
Danube Swabians/ Emigration and immigration/ Immigrants, German/ German Americans — Ohio

Mayer, Elisabeth M. “Lutherische deutschsprachige Gottesdienste in Victoria, B.C., 1891-1982.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. VII, 1983, pp. 28-39.
MKI Periodicals
Lutherans

Mayer, Elizabeth M. “Deutsche Sprache in Michigan.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten, Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 41-63.
Abstract: This article deals with the history and present state of the German language in Michigan.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)/ Michigan

Mayer, Frank A. “[Review of] Peter Graf Kielmansegg, Horst Mewes, and Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt, eds. “Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, German emigres and American political thought after World War II.” Washington, D.C., and Cambridge: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. xviii, 208. Cloth $49.95.” German Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 2, May 1996, pp. 361-2.
Notes: Photocopy. MEM owns reviewed book: JA84 U5 H35 1995.
Abstract: Reviews a collection of essays from a 1991 University of Boulder conference. The intellectual contributions of Hannah Arendt, a political philosopher, and Leo Strauss, a political theorist, are analyzed. The essays then attempt to explain how their emigre experiences from Nazi Germany impacted upon the discipline of political science in America and the Federal Republic.
P2000-23
Book reviews/ Politics/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Mayer, Friedrich. “Aus den Erlebnissen eines Achtundvierzigers in Amerika.” Deutsch-Amerikanischer Jugendfreund, vol. 25, no. 1, Januar 1914, pp. 8-10, 12.
Notes: German-American author.
Abstract: Begins: “Ich kam als junger Pfarrer nach Jackson [Michigan]. Mein Gemeindlein war recht klein, es galt neue Glieder herbeizuziehen.” Mentions the presidential election of 1896; Mayer heard Theodore Roosevelt and Karl Schurz speak Recounting a conversation with a man from his home village, we learn about that man’s Civil War service and how he was present at the execution of the four alleged co-conspirators of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin.
MKI Periodicals
Forty-eighters/ Autobiography/ Immigrants, German/ Personal narratives/ Slavery/ Civil war, 1861-1865/ German Americans — Michigan

Mayer, Friedrich. “Der Waldpfarrer am Schoharie. Kulturhistorische Erzaehlung aus dem deutsch-amerikanischen Leben des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts.” Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger, vol. 1, 1913, pp. 370-377, 407-416, 471-477, 517-523, 560-565.
Abstract: Fictional eighteenth-century German-American story. Incomplete; continuation in another volume.
MKI Periodicals
Fiction/ Literature, German-American/ 18th century

Mayer-Kielmann, Michael. “From Germany to America: An Immigrant’s Journey 50 Years Ago.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 29, no. 2, Oct./Nov./Dec. 2011, pp. 72-73, ill.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
Abstract: The author describes his youth in Hannover, his wrestling with the bureaucracy of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and his arrival in America in 1961. He settled in Mesilla Park, near Las Cruces, New Mexico, to attend the local university, and was an officer in the U.S. Army.
MKI Periodicals
20th century/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Hannover (Germany)/ German Americans — New Mexico

McCabe, James D. Geschichte des Krieges zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich. Mit biographischen Skizzen der am Kampfe betheiligten Hauptpersonen. Carl Theodor Eben, trans. [Philadelphia, Pa.]: National Publikations-Compagnie und Jones, Junkin & Co., ©1871. 766 pp., ill.
Also on title page: Von James D. McCabe, Jr., Verfasser von “Paris bei Sonnenschein und Gaslicht.” “Leben Wilhelm’s, des Kaisers von Deutschland,” “Leben Napoleon’s III,” “Leben und Feldzüge des General R. E. Lee,” “Pflanzungen in der Wildniss,” u. s. w., u. s. w.” Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Carl Theodor Eben. Mit mehr als 100 schönen Holzschnitten und Karten illustrirt. On t.p. verso: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by J. R. Jones, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
Includes advertisments at the back of the book for other National Publishing Company books. Donated by Mayville [Wis.] Historical Society.

McCaffrey, Robert Paul. “Islands of Deutschtum: German Americans in Manchester, New Hampshire and Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1870-1942.” Doctoral Dissertation, University of New Hampshire, 1994.
https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/1790
Abstract: The history of the German-American communities of Manchester, New Hampshire and Lawrence, Massachusetts raises several important issues about German immigration to the United States. Comprising only a small percentage of the population of the two cities German immigrants founded a distinctive culture–islands of Deutschtum–as vibrant as those in the “German belt” of the Midwest. The historiography has generally concluded that German-Americans could not unite in common cause, and that World War I ended German culture in America. However, not only did Germans in Manchester and Lawrence unite, but they maintained Deutschtum through World War I into World War II.

Several factors led to the longevity of these islands of Deutschtum. Atypical of the majority of German immigrants, one-third of the Germans in Manchester and Lawrence came from Saxony and another seventeen percent came from Silesia. America’s pre-eminent textile cities attracted textile workers from the small towns of Saxony and Silesia. Many were acquainted or related to each other, and bonds of family and province existed. The small size of the German immigrant community also helped it survive. The immigrants and leaders knew each other, and first-generation leaders remained active into the 1920s and 1930s. Members of the second-generation continued Deutschtum into the 1940s. A family owned German-language newspaper supported their efforts from 1883 to 1942. The ability of German Protestants, Catholics, and Vereinsdeutschen to put aside old world animosities and unite in common causes helped preserve ethnicity. German Presbyterian churches and their members played influential roles in Deutschtum in Manchester and Lawrence. The Lutheran denomination, pre-eminent elsewhere in German-American communities, was small or nonexistent, and German Catholic parishes also played less important roles.

During World War I, German-Americans in the two cities maintained active and public expressions of Deutschtum, mostly unthreatened by the larger community. Paradoxically, although German culture proudly continued between the wars, the larger and dominant American culture slowly engulfed it. The shock of World War II submerged German identity, and migration out of the cities after the war finally ended the German enclaves and doomed German ethnicity.
German Americans — New Hampshire/ German Americans — Massachusetts

McClain, Meredith. “German Texans: Leaving Their Mark on the Lone Star State.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 24, no. 2, Summer 2003, pp. 152-155, ill.
Notes: Reproduced from Texas Heritage, Summer 2002.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ 19th century/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German

McClain, William H. “A salute to the German-American business enterprises of Baltimore.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 41st Report, 1990, pp. 13-15.
Abstract: Brief accounts of two of Baltimore’s oldest and highly esteemed German-American businesses: Glauber’s Fine Candies, Inc. and the Kirk Stieff Company, America’s oldest silversmiths.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Maryland/ Business & Industry

McClain, William H. “Salute to the German-American enterprises and institutions of Baltimore: part II.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 42nd Report, 1993, pp. 15-22.
Abstract: Accounts of Von Paris Moving and Storage, a Maryland business with German roots, and two of Baltimore’s Catholic institutions, Saint Joseph Hospital and the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, both of which owe their beginnings to groups of German nuns.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Maryland/ Business & Industry/ Catholics

McClinton, Rowena. “Converging Spiritualities: Observations of Anna Rosina Gambold, Moravian Missionary to the Cherokees, 1805-1821.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 45, 2010, pp. 61-75.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
MKI Periodicals
Moravians/ Native Americans/ 19th century/ Missions

McCormick, Dennis. “Prohibition Nearly Dries Up City’s Breweries.” Wisconsin State Journal, May 3, 2015 (A. p. [3].
Number 6 of 12 articles in a commemorative series celebrating the State Journal‘s 175 anniversary.
Summary of the brewers in Madison at the end of World War I and the banning of the sale of alcohol in the city of Madison in 1917, followed by the national Prohibition era in 1920.
MKI P2015-09
Madison (Wis.)/ Breweries/ History/ Prohibition

McDade, Thomas M. “Lurid Literature of the Last Century: The Publications of E. E. Barclay.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 80, 1956, pp. 452-464, ill.
Abstract: E. E. Barclay began publishing in New York in 1841. He moved to Cincinnati about 1846, and then to Philadelphia in 1849. “Many titles were issued in both English and German editions. When this happened, the illustrations bore both English and German captions to make a single plate available for both editions.”
MKI P2006-17
Publishing/ Pennsylvania/ German language/ 19th century/ Philadelphia (Pa.)

McDavid, Raven I., and Theodore Lerud. “German Relics in the English of South Carolina.” In Dialectology, Linguistics, Literature. Wolfgang W. Moelleken, ed. 1984, pp. 133-149.
Abstract: The author shows how several layers of German immigration to South Carolina have influenced the English language in that state.
MKI P 367 .D53 1984
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, English/ United States/ Dialects/ Dialects

McGinty, Ulrike. 150 Jahre Deutscher Verein, 1842-1992. [New York]: [Deutscher Verein], 1992. 54 pp.
Notes: Donation from Juergen Eichhoff; includes 4-page insert translation of the introduction [Vorwort by Erich H. Markel, translated by Klaus Wust]
MKI P2001-15
Societies, etc./ German Americans — New York (state)

McGraw, Peter A. “Amerikanische Hochschulschriften ueber deutsche Mundarten im Mittelwesten.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 229-265.
Abstract: The author compiles the results of several dissertations and M.A. theses published in the United States describing German dialects in the Midwest.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)/ Linguistics

McGraw, Peter Anthony. “The Koelsch dialect of Dane County, Wisconsin: Phonology, morphology and English influence.” University of Wisconsin, 1973. x, 246 pp.
Notes: Dissertation (Ph.D.); Kölsch; donated by Juergen Eichhoff.
MKI dissertations
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Foreign elements/ Language, English/ United States/ Language influence/ Bilingualism/ Languages in contact/ Wisconsin/ Linguistics/ Dialects

McGuire, James Patrick. “Along Hill Country Streams: The Riverscapes of Hermann Lungkwitz, 1813-1891.” Southwest Art, Dec. 1983, pp. 66-73.
Abstract: Hermann Lungwitz was a German romantic landscapist on the Texas frontier. Drawn or painted from the early 1850s until 1890, Lungwitz’s Texas riverscapes chronicle the wilderness beauty of the Pedernales, Guadalupe, Comal and Lano rivers.
MKI P87-62
Artists / German Americans — Texas

McKee, Gary E. “Newly Arrived Germans Didn’t Favor a War.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 34, no. 4, Winter 2012, pp. 233-234.
Notes: A three-part “Footprints of Fayette” series that appeared in the Fayette County Record, beginning Sept. 14, 2012.
Abstract: Part I: German Draft Resistance in 1860s. Part II: Troops, Cannon Sent to Enforce the Draft. Part III: Many Also Aided the Confederate Cause.
MKI Periodicals
19th century/ German Americans — Texas/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Texas — Fayette County

Meese, William A. “Abraham Lincoln und Wasserwege.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 8, 1908, pp. 81-99.
Abstract: “Indem ich diese wenigen Blaetter darbiete, beanspruche ich nicht, aus dem Leben unseres grossen Praesidenten etwas Neues mitzutheilen. Ich habe nur alles das gesammelt, was mir in Bezug auf Abraham Lincoln’s Persoenliche Beruehrung mit Wasserwegen und seine Verknuepfung mit der Gesetzgebung im Interesse von Wasserwegen errichbar war.”
MKI Periodicals
Statesmen/ Political influence/ 19th century

Mehrlaender, Andrea. “Review of Der Rothe Doktor von Chicago: Ein Deutsch-Ameikanisches Auswandererschicksal: Biographie des Doktor Ernst Schmidt, 1830-1900, Artz und Sozialrevolutionaer. (Axel W.-O. Schmidt, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2003. 602 pp.).” H-NET Book Review, Aug. 2004, p. 3.
Abstract: Biography of Dr. Ernst Schmidt, who was born in 1830 in the Bavarian town of Ebern, and trained as a medical doctor at the University of Wuerzburg. Forced to flee to Switzerland during the revolution of 1848/49, he eventually immigrated to Chicago in June 1857. In 1879 he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Chicago on a Socialist ticket, and later he was a member of a defense committee during the Haymarket Riot trial. The reviewer finds the book more of interest to family members of the doctor than to the general public.
MKI P2004-45
Book reviews/ German Americans — Illinois/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Biographies/ Haymarket Affair

Mehrlaender, Andrea. “Review of Michael Zimmer’s Diary: Ein Deutsches Tagebuch aus dem Amerikanischen Buergerkrieg.” H-NET Book Review, April 2003, pp. 3 pp.
Notes: Mehrländer, Bürgerkrieg.
MKI P2003-13
Book reviews/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Diaries

Meier, Emerenz. “Herkunft.” Die Glocke , 1906-1907.
Notes: Serialized story appeared in Die Glocke, Aug 1906-May 1907 (volume 1, nos. 6-2; and volume 2, nos. 2-3).
Vol. 1, no. 6: pp. 239-240; vol. 1, no. 7: pp. 278-280; vol. 1, no. 8: pp. 318-320; vol 1, no. 9: pp. 358-360; vol. 1, no. 10: pp. 398-400; vol. 1, no. 11: pp. 435-440; vol 1, no. 12: pp. 474-478; vol. 2, no. 2: pp. 86-92; vol. 2, no. 3: pp. 127-130.
[From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Meier, Emerenz, born 10-3-1874 in Schiefweg, Bavaria. 6th daughter of an innkeeper. Wrote some 40 short stories, sketches, and Novellen between 1891 and 1908. Contributed to Passauer Kalender 1893-1900. Came to America in 1904 (1906, according to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerenz_Meier) with her mother, following her father and 2 sisters. Contributed poems to various German-American periodicals, including Die Glocke. Her folk plays were performed in Germany.].
Abstract: Story is set in Bavaria; begins: “Itta stammte aus dem Elend.” Characters’ speech is written as dialect.
MKI P2009-18
Meier, Emerenz, 1874-1928/ Fiction/ Bavaria

Meier, Eugene B. “How Was the Acculturation of Children of Alt Lutheraner Descent in Wisconsin (1843-1915) Affected by the Relationship of Home and Market?: A Case Study. MS Thesis.” Northern Illinois Univ., 1977. 189 pp.
Abstract: Based on a study of the lives of Johann Schley and Ernst Schon, who settled near Mayville and Lebanon, Wisconsin.
MKI/SHS F 590 .G3 M43; shelved with MKI dissertations
Lutherans/ Education/ Assimilation/ Wisconsin

Meier, Heinrich. “Aus der Geschichte des Literarischen Vereins in New York.” Mitteilungen der Literarischen Gesellschaft Chicago, Illinois, vol. 5, no. 6, 25. März 1948, pp. 12-14.
Notes: Herausgegeben von F. K. Richter, Illinois Institute of Technology. See also MKI P88-138 for issues from 1950.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, German / New York / Periodicals, German-American/ Societies, etc.

Meier, Regula A. “Readings on Switzerland: An Introductory Guide.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 25, 1990, pp. 201-214.
Abstract: Epilogue to a special issue of the Yearbook of German-American Studies on “The United States and Switzerland: Aspects of an Enmeshment.” This bibliography includes 30 works from a more extensive bibliography by the Meiers entitled “World Bibliographies: Switzerland” and is arranged under the following headings: The Country, Languages, Economy, Society, History, Politics, Religion, and Culture.
MKI Periodicals
Switzerland/ Bibliographies/ Religion/ Language, German/ Dialects/ Economic aspects/ Politics

Meindl, Joerg. “Solving the Preacher’s Dilemma: Communication Strategies in Old Order Amish Sermons.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 123-138.
Notes: The Language and Culture of the Pennsylvania Germans: A Festschrift for Earl C. Haag. Edited by William D. Keel and C. Richard Beam.
Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: From the conclusion: “The analysis of Old Order Amish sermons shows that they are linguistically dynamic on the micro-level within strict sociolinguistic norms on the macro-level. The use of the two communication strategies metalinguistic remarks and self-translations successfully manage the ‘preacher’s dilemma’ and support the efficient performance of the speech event. The use of American English for the communication strategies is possible because the structure of Pennsylvania German includes more or less integrated American English elements and speakers are used to a certain amount of code switching. . . . Understanding communication strategies and their sociolinguistic factors in Old Order Amish communities use offers a broad field for future research with possible implications for many other multilingual speech communities.”
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Amish/ Religion/ Linguistics/ Sociolinguistics

Meiser, G. F. H. Liturgie fuer einen Kinder-Gottesdienst am heiligen Weihnachts-Abende. Columbus, Ohio: Verlags-Handlung der ev.-luth. Synode von Ohio und andern Staaten, 1882. 15 pp.
Notes: “Unsern Kinder gewidmet von G. F. H. Meiser, Pastor der ev.-luth. Martin Luther Kirche zu Youngstown, O.”; (J. L. Trauger, Agt.)
MKI P2002-43
PIA/ Children/ Christmas/ Liturgy

Melton, James Van Horn. “Colonial Germans and Slavery on the Eve of the American Revolution: the Case of Ebenezer.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, vol. 61, no. Fall, 2017, pp. 9-22.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Full-text available online.
Abstract: In November 1733 former subjects of the prince-archbishop of Salzburg, expelled on account of their Protestant Lutheran beliefs, traveled to the United States and settled on the Savannah River, founding the settlement of Ebenezer. In the early years of the Georgia colony, Ebenezer was the most successful settlement in the colony, more than the capital of Savannah, and its residents are remembered for their support of Georgia’s ban on the importation of enslaved Africans into the colony.
MKI Periodicals
Abolitionists/ Immigrants, Austrian/ Colonial period/ Georgia

Menke, David. “Is There a Future for Plattdeutsch?” Der Maibaum (Deutschheim Association Journal), vol. 7, no. 3, Fall 1999, pp. 1, 3-4.
MKI Periodicals (Miscellaneous)
Dialects/ Low German dialect/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Mennicke, Christopher August. “C. A. T. Selle’s Last Years.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 2, Summer 1997, pp. 36-43, ill.
Notes: Translated and edited by William H. Nielsen and George R. Nielsen.
MKI Periodicals
Selle, Christian August Thomas/ Lutherans/ Lutheran Church/ Autobiography

Mensendiek, C. William. “A Man For His Times: The Life and Thought of David Bowman Schneder, Missionary to Japan, 1887-1938.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 12, no. 4, Fall 2005, pp. 6-14, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Originally published in 1972 by the Tohoku Gakuin University in Sendai, Japan. Schneder was born in Bowmansville, Lancaster County, and his native tongue was Pennsylvania German.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania Germans/ Missions/ Schneder, David Bowman, 1887-1938/ Biographies

Menze, Ernest A. “Benjamin Franklin Seen with German Eyes: Selective Co-optations by German Authors.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 36, 2001, pp. 29-46.
Abstract: “This essay examine German perceptions of Benjamin Franklin’s life and work. The approach is that of an overview, letting a few representative writers come to word. Any retrospective of American influences on Germany over time will always be subject to a measure of bias, caused by the consequences of the Second World War. Notwithstanding the ‘many faces’ of Franklin that will be alluded to in the following, he is seen here in the main as anticipating an American pragmatism that differs markedly from the idealist preoccupations of German thought. The thesis of Franklin, endorsed here, as a teacher of democracy not heeded at a critical point in German history is informed by a decided partisanship on the author’s part for the American way as pioneered and lived by the Philadelphian sage. The flaws in Franklin’s character and conduct, so very much present in the critical eyes of his countrymen, tend to be overlooked by his European admirers in the light of his virtues and accomplishments.”
MKI Periodicals
America in German literature/ Franklin, Benjamin/ History

Mergele, Ed. “Grand Prize Beer and Howard R. Hughes.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 33, no. 3, Fall 2011, pp. 164-165.
Abstract: The author’s father and uncle were in the creamery business in 1933 when Prohibition ended. “Their old Comal Creamery had two big refrigeration rooms and they were the key to my father entering the beer distribution business.” They began with distribution of beer from Anheuser-Busch and Schlitz, later nearly all brands available in Texas (except for Pearl and Lone Star), and then won an award for distributing the most cases of Grand Prize Beer, which was founded by Howard Robard Hughes. The author met Howard Hughes at the award ceremony for his father, held in Houston.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Business & Industry/ Breweries

Merkel, Bernhard. “From Baden to Galena, Illinois: A Memoir.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, Summer 2003, p. 5.
Abstract: Bernhard Merkel and his family left Grossweier, Baden, Germany on October 11, 1854 when he was nine years old. Of the eight members of his family, four died on the journey or within the first few days of arriving in America.
MKI Periodicals
Personal narratives/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ German Americans — Illinois/ German Americans — Iowa/ Grossweier, Baden/ Ships/ Le Havre, France

Merkens, Albert. “Early Lutheran Settlers and Schools in Northern Illinois.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 68-74, 128-135, 180-186; 22 (1949): 37-42, 89-94, 1948.
Abstract: MKI has first 3 portions only.
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535
Lutherans/ Settlements/ Illinois/ Schools

Merrill, Peter. “German-American Popular Crafts in Pennsylvania and Elsewhere.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 5, Winter 1999 (II), pp. 16-19, ill.
Notes: Millersville University. Includes bibliographical references.
MKI Periodicals
Arts/ Crafts/ Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania Germans/ 19th century/ 20th century

Merrill, Peter C. “Anton Thormaehlen, Milwaukee Poet.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds. 1977, pp. 49-55.
MKI P87-163
Poetry/ Milwaukee (Wis.)

Merrill, Peter C. “Ernst Anton Zuendt and the German-American Theater.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 17, 1982, pp. 79-88.
Abstract: Zuendt, Ernst Anton, 1819-1897
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Theater & Drama/ Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Journalism/ Milwaukee (Wis.)

Merrill, Peter C. “Feodor von Luerzer: The American Odyssey of an Austrian Immigrant Artist.” Kansas Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 2, 1993, pp. [69-76].
Notes: Printed from URL: http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/3aa/3aa93.htm.
Abstract: Focuses on the life of Feodor von Luerzer, an Austrian-born landscape painter who immigrated to the United States in 1886. He worked chiefly in Milwaukee and Cleveland before settling in Duluth. Late in his career he spent a year in California and the last four years of his life he lived in Spokane, Washington, and nearby Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. This article seeks to bring together what is known about von Luerzer and his work.
MKI P2005-1
Artists/ Bibliographies/ Austria/ German Americans — Minnesota/ Luerzer, Feodor von, 1851-1913/ Paintings

Merrill, Peter C. “Friedrich Hassaurek’s The Secret of the Andes: An Exotic Romance by a Forty-Eighter.” In Papers from the St. Olaf Symposium on German-Americana. La Vern J. Rippley, and Steven M. Benjamin, eds. 1980, pp. 87-95.
Abstract: In this paper the author examines critically Hassaurek’s English-language novel. Hassaurek, Friedrich, 1832-1885
MKI P85-85
Literary criticism/ Forty-eighters/ Fiction

Merrill, Peter C. “From Babenhausen to Saugatuck: The Art and Architecture of Carl Hoermann.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 3, 1978, pp. 52-62.
Abstract: American artist-architect, native of Babenhausen, Bavaria, active in Chicago and Saugatuck, Michigan
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Michigan/ Artists / Architecture

Merrill, Peter C. “German-American artists and lithographers in early Cincinnati.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 44th Report, 2000, pp. 49-54.
Abstract: Brief account of German-American artists in 19th-century Cincinnati, including Frederick Eckstein (1787-1832), John Caspar Wild (1804-1846), and Godfrey Frankenstein (1820-1873).
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Ohio/ Cincinnati (Ohio)/ Artists

Merrill, Peter C. “German immigrant women in American art.” Migrationworld Magazine, vol. 26, no. 5, 1998, pp. 1-5.
Abstract: Different types of artistic activity of women artists from the German-speaking countries of Central Europe who have immigrated to America since the colonial period (painting, sculpture, etc.) will be considered here and a few representative artists in each category discussed. A list of the 90 German immigrant women artists identified by the author is given.
MKI P99-2
Women/ Immigrants/ Artists

Merrill, Peter C. “German Immigrants and the Theater in America.” Der Maibaum (Deutschheim Association Journal), vol. 5, no. 1, Spring 1997, pp. 7-8.
MKI Periodicals (Miscellaneous)
Theater & Drama/ German Americans/ Cultural contribution

Merrill, Peter C. “Hans Stoltenberg: Painter of Rural Wisconsin.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 27, 1992, pp. 90-97.
Notes: Biographical information about Hans Stoltenberg; illustrations of paintings.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Arts/ Paintings/ Artists

Merrill, Peter C. “Henry Vianden: Pioneer Artist in Milwaukee.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 22, 1987, pp. 137-148.
Abstract: Merrill’s article discusses the career of the visual artist, Henry Vianden.
MKI Periodicals
Artists / Milwaukee (Wis.)/ 19th century/ Biographies/ German Americans — Wisconsin

Merrill, Peter C. “Hugo Broich: portrait artist and photographer in early Milwaukee.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 42nd Report, 1993, pp. 39-42.
Abstract: Brief account of the career of Hugo Broich, a German immigrant who settled in Milwaukee to become a lithographer, photographer, and portrait painter. Includes a reprint of Broich’s advertisement in the 1985 edition of “Wright’s Milwaukee City Directory.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Artists

Merrill, Peter C. “Mathilde Schley’s Hunger for the Beautiful and Useful.” Voyageur, vol. 10, no. 1, 1993.
Notes: Voyageur, published in Green Bay, WI.
Abstract: Short article on Mathilde Schley, the Wisconsin-born daughter of German immigrants, who illustrates in her life and art the cultural development of a land that had been wilderness less than a century before her birth. Her standing as a regionalist painter may be due for reevaluation. Impressionist paintings.Schley, Mathilde G./
MKI P93-31
Women/ Artists/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Paintings

Merrill, Peter C. “Review of “The Mysteries of St. Louis: A Novel,” by Henry Boernstein. Translated by Friedrich Muench. A modern edition by Steven Rowan and Elizabeth Sims. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1990.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies. 1990, pp. 226-27.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Merrill, Peter C. “The Serial Novel in the German-American Press of the 19th Century.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, 1978, pp. 16-22.
Abstract: Merrill’s 7 page article discusses the importance of newspaper research for the study of German-American prose and focusses on the serialized novel, in particular the phenomenon of the “editor-novelist.” The following authors are discussed: Boernstein, Henry, 1805-1892/Ludvigh, Samuel G., 1801-1869/Ruppius, Otto, 1819-1864 /Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/Lexow, Rudolph/Hassaurek, Friedrich, 1832-1885/Winkler, Willibald/Brachvogel, Udo, 1835-1913
MKI Periodicals
Literature, German-American/ Fiction/ German-American press/ 19th century/ Journalism/ Prose

Merrill, Peter C. “Sunday reading: German-American authors in the Feuilleton of two Milwaukee newspapers, 1879-1885.” Schatzkammer, vol. 21, no. Nos. 1 & 2, 1995, pp. 31-37.
Notes: Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte.
Abstract: Investigates the “Sunday literary supplement of two Milwaukee newspapers, the Sonntagsblatt des Banner und Volksfreund and its successor, the Sonntagsblatt der Freien Presse” and seeks to answer three questions: “(1) In general, what sort of literature did the Feuilleton section offer its readers? (2) To what extent were works by German-American authors included? (3) Who were these authors and what can be reported about them?”
P2001-36
German-American press/ Newspapers, German-American/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Literature, German-American

Metcalf, Allan. “The Pacific Coast: End of the Line.” In Dialectology, Linguistics, Literature. Wolfgang W. Moelleken, ed. 1984, pp. 150-167.
Abstract: The author discusses features – lexical and phonological – of the English language that are particular to the Pacific Coast states.
MKI P 367 .D53 1984
Dialectology

Metraux, Guy Serge. “Social and Cultural Aspects of Swiss Immigration into the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Dissertation.” Yale University, 1949. 358 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: Swiss emigration in the nineteenth century was one of the consequences of the economic changes that took place in Switzerland as a result of industrial and agricultural crises. It was not provoked by political or religious persecutions. Swiss emigrants came to the United States in larger numbers than to other countries. Availability of land and opportunities for work in industry were the main attractions. It was, however, a relatively small immigration movement. Swiss immigrants were farmers, skilled workers, tradesmen and, in some cases, members of the liberal professions. Until the late 1870’s it was largely a family immigration. The educational level of immigrants was relatively high. Improved lands were usually selected by Swiss farmers who settled primarily in the Middlewestern states of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, while skilled workers settled in the Eastern states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The large Swiss immigration into California took place in the late nineteenth and during the first decades of the twentieth century. Until late in the century emigration was highly organized: emigration associations in Switzerland sponsored the foundation or “colonies” in different parts of the world. Immigrants joining such a colony had to subscribe to statutes and abide by certain rules of social organization. Features of Swiss communal organization were generally embodied in these statutes and constitutions. Vevay in Indiana (1802), New Glarus in Wisconsin (1845), Tell City in Indiana (1802), Bernstadt in Kentucky (1881) were originally colonies. The slow aggregation of Swiss people within one area as a consequence of the presence there of some one who would help them to establish themselves and whose letters and propaganda attracted people, led to the creation of “settlements.” Features of Swiss social organization survived there although there was no charter to give a formal character. Association and cooperation which were in evidence in “colonies” and “settlements” played a role among individual immigrants in the form of associations for welfare (benevolence and mutual aid), for sports (gymnastics and marksmanship), and art (singing). Among farmers there were also agricultural societies. Swiss immigration was associative and cooperative to an unusual degree, and these tendencies were brought from Switzerland where natural and economic conditions made these traits essential for survival.
MKI JV8281 M47 1949a; shelved with MKI dissertations
Switzerland/ Immigrants/ 19th century/ Settlements

Mettendorf, Ernst. “Der juengste General der Vereinigten Staaten.” German-American Journal, vol. 55, no. 2, Apr./May 2007, pp. 10-11.
Abstract: “Galusha Pennypacker war ein pausbaeckiger siebzehnjaehriger Rekrut im 97. Pennsylvania-Regiment, als im April 1861 der Buergerkrieg ausbrach.” Traces his rise through the ranks to General at the age of 20 in 1865.
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ United States/ History

Mettendorf, Ernst. “Die Teilnahme der Deutschen am amerikanischen Buergerkrieg.” German-American Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, July/Aug. 2000, pp. 10.
Abstract: Article on Germans’ participation in the Civil War.
MKI Periodicals (shelved on PIA bookshelf)
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Metzenthin-Raunick, Selma. “Johannes Christlieb Nathanael Romberg German Poet of Texas.” American German Review, vol. 12, no. 3, 1946, pp. 32-35.
Abstract: Biographical sketch, interpretation and a few poems included. Romberg, Johannes, 1808-1891
MKI P93-77
Literary criticism/ Texas/ Poetry/ Biographies/ Romberg, Johannes Christlieb Nathanael, 1808-1891

Metzger, Erika A. “Deutsche Lyrik in Amerika.” German-American Studies, vol. 9, 1975, pp. 2-10.
Notes: German-American author.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Literature, German-American/ Poetry/ Literary criticism/ Women authors

Metzger, Michael M. “”Das Dreikaiserjahr” in the German-American Press of Buffalo, New York.” 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. 119-129.
Abstract: This volume attempts to present a relatively broad spectrum of the broadly-defined German-American press’ activity.
MKI PN 4885 .G3 G467 1992
German-American press

Metzger, Michael M. “Deutschland und die Deutschen in den Werken Kurt Vonneguts.” In Die USA und Deutschland. Wolfgang Paulsen, ed. 1976, pp. 152-159.
Abstract: Kurt Vonneguts Werk wird als eine Vermischung verschiedener Kulturen dargestellt, bei der es nicht darauf ankommt, in Stereotypen zu verfallen.
MKI PT 123 .U6 A4 1976 / MEM PT 123 .U6 A4 1975
Stereotypes/ Germany in literature

Metzler, Wilhelm. “Die Mundart–Eine Zumutung.” 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. 467-473.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Palatines/ Dialects

Metzner, H. “Bilder aus der Geschichte der deutschen Einwanderung.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911, pp. 53-54, 122-124, 288-296.
Notes: Vortrag am 19. November 1910 im New York Turnverein.
Abstract: A narrative history of German immigration into the United States, spanning colonial times to the present.
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ History

Metzner, Henry. “A brief history of American Turners: Part I.” Der Blumenbaum, Sacramento German Genealogy Society, vol. 11, no. 3, 1994, pp. 104.
Notes: This partial summary is based on “History of the American Turners,” by Henry Metzner.
MKI Periodicals
Turners/ History

Meuller, Paul F. C. “German soldiers in the American Civil War.” Der Blumenbaum, Sacramento German Genealogy Society, vol. 10, no. 2, 1992, pp. 45-49.
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Soldiers

Meusberger, Josef Fidel. “Letters from America: A New Immigrant Writes Home.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 20, no. 3, Jan./Feb./Mar. 2002, pp. 125-128, ill.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
Abstract: Translations of letters written by Meusberger from Troy, New York, and Waukee, Iowa, to his family in Austria. In the letters he describes the journey from Bremen to New York and his experiences making a life for himself in America.
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Letters/ Austria/ German Americans — Iowa/ German Americans — New York (state)/ Meusberger, Josef Fidel/ Ships

Mews, Siegfried. “Von Karl May zu Karl Marx: Zuckmayers Bonanza-Millionaer Tabor.” In Die USA und Deutschland. Wolfgang Paulsen, ed. 1976, pp. 84-91.
Abstract: Eine Kritik des Stuecks “Das Leben des Horace A. W. Tabor” von Carl Zuckmayer. Zuckmayer fehle es an einer politisch-soziologischen Sicht auf die Probleme Amerikas (verglichen mit Brecht), sein Versuch mit Karl Marx und Wildwest Figuren Theater zu machen gelte als gescheitert.
MKI PT 123 .U6 A4 1976 / MEM PT 123 .U6 A4 1975
United States in literature/ Literary criticism/ Literature, German

Meyer, A. W. “Some German-Americanisms from the Middle West.” American Speech, vol. 2, Dec. 1926, pp. 134.
Notes: Photocopy donated by Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr.
MKI P2007-33
Language influence/ Language, English/ Language, German

Meyer, Ernst L. “Die letzte Kugel.” Die Welt, vol. 15, no. 4, October 1915, pp. 103-114.
Notes: Eine illustrirte Vierteljahrsschrift fuer deutsche Familien. Druck und Verlag: Publ. “Die Welt” Press Bldg., Lincoln, Neb.
Abstract: Story takes place in the Pacific Northwest; Seattle and Portland are mentioned, as well as Moses Lake, Washington: “Dreihundert Meilen östlich von Seattle, inmitten einer wüster, unbewohnbaren Einöde von ungeheurer Ausdehnung, liegt ein kleiner See, Moses Lake genannt; schmal, seicht, voll schleimartiger Vegetation, ein Aufenthaltstort buntbefiedeter Vögel.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Fiction/ Washington (State)

Meyer, Luciana Ranshofen-Wertheimer. “German-American Migration and the Bancroft Naturalization Treaties, 1868-1910. Dissertation.” The City University of New York, 1970. 291 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: The German states did not recognize the right of free expatriation and change of nationality to the American colonies after the Civil War. In addition, they demanded some form of military service from all their able-bodied male subjects. The government of a naturalized American citizen’s country of birth continued to regard the migrant as owing military service to his home state. The citizen then risked arrest and being forced into service to serve out his full term of duty. This treatment of naturalized American citizens caused much bitterness among German-Americans. Five naturalization treaties were signed in the post-Civil War period with Prussia, Bavaria, Baden, Wuerttemberg, and Hesse. The Prussian treaty has justly been called a fundamental breakthrough in international law in that it constituted the first formal recognition by a European power of the principle of expatriation and change of allegiance. The five treaties covered all German territory at the time with the exception of Austria. Questions with respect to emigration or immigration arising thereafter between the United States and these German states should have been amicably settled on the basis of these treaties. That this was not so is attested to by the fact that about five hundred controversial cases arose between 1868 and 1910 involving differences of interpretation or opinion between the United States and the German states. This dissertation analyzes the role of these so-called Bancroft naturalization treaties as a contributing source of those differences.
MKI JX4265 M49x; shelved with MKI dissertations
19th century/ Prussia/ Politics/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ German Americans/ Naturalization.

Meyer, Ruth Fritz. “John Fritz: Father of the Son.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 2, Summer 1995, pp. 65-79, ill.
Abstract: The life and ministry of Pastor John Fritz were rather typical of American Lutheranism during the 19th century as it faced numerous challenges, among which: How was the church to minister to newer immigrants in their mother tongue, and also to second- and third-generation Lutherans who understood only English?
MKI Periodicals
Fritz, John/ Biographies/ Religious life/ Lutherans

Meyers, Thomas J. “Stress and the Amish Community in Transition. Dissertation.” Boston University, 1983. 213 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: This study examines occupational stress in a sample of farm and factory workers in two Amish settlements in Northern Indiana. The research demonstrates that the cultural background of a respondent and structural differences in the workplace have an impact on the perception of stressors and on the nature of the mediating factors of social support and coping. In an analysis of the relationship between the stress process and psychological distress it is suggested that significant differences exist between farm and factory workers in terms of: the type of stressors encountered, specific others turned to for support, and coping strategies employed.
MKI BV8129 A6 M61; shelved with MKI dissertations
Amish/ Indiana/ Farming/ Business & Industry/ Employment.

Meynen, Emil, and Gottfried Pfeifer. “Die Ausweitung des Europaeischen Lebensraumes auf die Neue Welt – Die Vereinigten Staaten – Wanderungen zwischen zwei Kontinenten, insbesondere die deutsche Ueberseewanderung.” In Lebensraumfragen europaeischer Voelker. [Leipzig: Quelle & Meier, 1943], pp. 351-433.
Notes: Includes folded page with five demographics maps and graph: Hauptgruppen der fremdbuertigen laendlichen Bevoelkerung und ihrer Kinder im Jahre 1910 nach ihrer Herkunft und die Landwirtschaftszonen der Vereinigten Staaten. Bevoelkerung nach Atlas of Amerikan Agriculture, Part IX, Sect. I, Washington, D. C., 1919. One map is labeled, “Deutsches Reich.”
MKI P84-117
Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Immigrants, German

Mgebroff, Johannes ed. “Wie es in Texas vor 75 Jahren aussah.” Deutsch-Amerikanischer Jugendfreund, vol. 25, no. 7, Juli 1914, pp. 207-211.
Abstract: Mgebroff submitted this letter written by Julia von Wrede on September 1830 at Austin Kolonie, Texas.
MKI Periodicals
Letters/ German Americans — Texas

Michel, Father Matthew O. S. B. “Reminiscences about Count Berthold von Imhoff, Artist.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. IX, 1986, pp. 80-84.
Abstract: Count Berthold von Imhoff became well known for his paintings, to be found in a number of churches in Saskatchewan. He was born in Germany, where he studied art, specializing in religious subjects, and immigrated to the United States for graduate study before moving to Saskatchewan. His specialty was church decoration, though he left evidence of skill in portraits of historical personages and friends.
MKI Periodicals
Artists/ Paintings/ Churches/ German Canadians/ Immigrants, German

Michele, Tom. “Westfield Church Celebrates 150th Anniversary.” Baraboo News Republic, July 23, 2002 (State/Region), p. 4.
Westfield German Methodist Lutheran Church founded in 1852 (the 150th anniversary), present church building erected in 1877 (the 125th anniversary).
MKI P2002-92
Wisconsin/ Wisconsin — Sauk County/ Lutheran Church/ Churches/ History

Mickey, Robert G. “In Memorian J. William Frey, July 23, 1916 – August 21, 1989.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring 2015, pp. 15-17.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania Germans/ Autobiography/ 20th century/ Frey, J. William

Middelmann, Raoul F. “Two Letters, Two Worlds: Cultural Identity in the Making.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 2, Summer 1997, pp. 44-51.
Notes: Translated from letters originally written in German.
Abstract: “The following two letters, written some forty years apart, are of interest to historians, sociologists, theologians, and anyone else interested in the humanities. They were written by Carl Johann Holtermann–in 1890, a young German Lutheran pastor at Cole Camp, Missouri, and in 1931, a retired American Lutheran pastor at Rock Island, Illinois. A comparison between the two letters reveals how, over the period of forty years, Carl Johann had become Americanized in his outlook.”
MKI Periodicals
Assimilation/ Attitudes/ German Americans/ Letters/ Lutheran Church/ Immigrants, German

Mielke, Andreas. “First “seeds” and “fruits” — and the withering and blooming of the Germantown protest against slavery.” Schatzkammer, vol. 23, no. 1 & 2, 1997, pp. 1-30.
Abstract: Question of the abolition of slavery and the Germantown petition
MKI P98-13
Slavery

Mielke, Andreas. “Schwarze und weisse Sklaven: Zur Sklavenfrage in deutschen Gedichten des Achtzehnen Jahrhundert.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 19, 1984, pp. 67-84.
Notes: The article is written in German.
Abstract: Mielke’s article discusses the portrayal of slaves in 18th century German and German-American poetry. It organizes the arguments against slavery of the authors Gellert, Wieland, Lichtwers, Schubart, Claudius, Pfeffel into the following categories: rational, aesthetic, moral, emotional, and historico-political (not necessarily in that order) Included are poems by Pastorius (“Gegen die Negersklaverei”) and Pfeffel (“Lied eines Negersklaven im Beginn des amerikanischen Krieges” a.o.). It also discusses the German practice of selling men into service as soldiers and compares the two types of slavery.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Literature, German (US)/ 18th century/ Native Americans/ Stereotypes/ Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719/ Poetry/ Quakers/ Pennsylvania/ Prussia/ Slavery

Mikoletzky, Juliane. “[Review of] Stanley Nadel. “Little Germany: race, ethnicity, religion, and class in New York City, 1845-1880.” Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Pp. 242. Cloth $37.50.” German Studies Review, vol. 15, no. 2, May 1992, pp. 392.
Notes: MKI owns reviewed book: MKI F128.9 G3 N3313 1990.
Abstract: “In his detailed study, the author presents New York’s ‘Kleindeutschland’ during its formative period as the prototype of the immigrant communities characteristic for American cities in late nineteenth century.”
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews/ New York (N.Y.)/ German Americans — New York (state)

Mildenstein, Nicolaus. “Reise der Hoffnung / Voyage of hope [Part 1].” Infoblatt, vol. 5, no. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 5-7.
Notes: Part 2 is found in Vol. 5, No. 3 (Summer 2000).
Abstract: A step-by-step report of a 36-day sailing journey on the “Louis Napoleon” from Cuxhaven, Germany to New York in 1857. The trip was made by Nicolaus Mildenstein, his wife Auguste, born Mackeprang, and his brothers Heinrich and Georg, from Teschendorf, Fehmarn, Germany to Iowa. The letter is written by Mildenstein to his father, Hans Mildenstein.
MKI Periodicals
Atlantic crossing/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Mildenstein, Nicolaus. “Reise der Hoffnung / Voyage of hope : Part 2.” Infoblatt, vol. 5, no. 3, Summer 2000, pp. 17-21.
Notes: Part 1 is found in Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring 2000).
Abstract: Experiencing Castle Garden following a 36-day sailing journey from Cuxhaven, Germany to New York in 1857. The trip was made by Nicolaus Mildenstein, his wife Auguste, born Mackeprang, and his brothers Heinrich and Georg, from Teschendorf, Fehmarn, Germany to Iowa. The letter is written by Mildenstein to his father, Hans Mildenstein.
MKI Periodicals
Atlantic crossing/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Miles, Lion G. “The Iron Master and the Hessians.” Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, vol. 2, no. 1, 1981, pp. 17-30.
Abstract: A story about the iron works owned by John Jacob Faesch at Mt. Hope Plantation near Rockaway in Morris Co. NJ, and the employment of Hessian Prisoners of War.
MKI Periodicals

Miles, Lion G. “Johann Leibheit and the Convention Army.” Journal of Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, vol. 2, no. 1, 1981, pp. 31-44.
Abstract: Leibhart was a German Auxiliary soldier from Brunswick, Braunschweig. He was captured at Saratoga. He later married Polly Duffy and settled in Pompton, New Jersey.
MKI Periodicals

Miller, Charles H. “B. Traven, Continued.” New York Times Book Review, Nov. 20, 1966, p. 84.
Abstract: Traven was recently interviewed. Mystery and silence around him. He had intended to preserve his own privacy. Traven, who writes of the Americas, is better known in Europe. In Germany he is often called “the voice of Mexico”. The Germans claim Traven is one of them–but he denies it, and he has never written about the Germans, except by reference in the “Death Ship.” It seems wise to regard him for what his books prove him to be, an international author of obscure parentage who found his voice and freedom of expression in the Americas. Traven, B., 1890-1969
MKI P93-78
Biographies

Miller, Janice. “German Americans in Indianapolis During the Great War, 1914-1918.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 38, no. 3, December 2017, p. 3.
Abstract: Articles related to the upcoming SGAS 42nd Annual Symposium “World War I & Its Repercussions for German America: A Centennial Assessment” held in Indianapolis, IN, April 19-21, 2018
MKI Periodicals
History/ German-American Studies/ German Americans — Indiana

Miller, Joan. “Nazi Invasion!” American History Illustrated, vol. 21, no. 7, 1986, pp. 42-49.
Abstract: On German saboteurs landed in U.S. in 1942
MKI P86-144 / SHS E 171 .A574
World War, 1939-1945/ National socialism

Miller, Michelle M. “Cultural diversity and conflict in American agriculture: Intergenerational responses of a Wisconsin farm family.” University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1992. 59 pp.
Notes: Submitted towards Master of Science, Land Resources.
Abstract: “This research explores how agriculture is linked with human culture, examining the forces that impinge upon and change the relationship. The link between agriculture and culture is investigated through a social history of three generations of a Wisconsin farm family; the history is presented within the context of surrounding political and social changes and examines their effects on local culture.” Includes section on Wisconsin immigration history, focusing on Norwegian and German immigrants.
MKI dissertations
Agriculture/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Wisconsin/ Cultural differences/ Farming/ Farm life.

Miller, Richard K. “Pennsylvania German Groundhog Lodges: The Origin of Pennsylvania German Groundhog Lodges.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, Winter 1999, p. 10.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: The first groundhog lodge was organized in 1933 by “several men from the [Pennsylvania German] farm, business, and professional communities in both Lehigh and Northampton Counties” as a way “to honor, preserve, protect, and perpetuate their besieged ethnic heritage.” Lists the 18 Groundhog Lodges as well as other independent Pennsylvania German Versammlings and societies.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Germans/ Folklore/ Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Pennsylvania/ Societies, etc./ Social aspects/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Miller, Wayne Charles. “German Americans. A Guide to the German-American Experience.” In A Handbook of American Minorities. Wayne Charles Miller. New York : New York Univ. Press, 1976, pp. 45-51.
MKI P85-32 / SHS Z 1361 .E4 M53
German Americans/ Culture

Minert, Roger P. “The Archival System of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 36, no. 1, July, August, September 2018, pp. 6-8.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society. Includes bibliographical references. Issue also includes a list of volumes in the author’s “German Immigrants in American Church Records,” p. 21.
Abstract: Church records in the U.S. can be very helpful in identifying the home town of immigrants. This article describes the network of nine ELCA Region Archives across the U.S., including a chart noting for each Region the states covered, mailing address and phone number, contact person with email address, and miscellaneous comments.
MKI Periodicals
Lutheran Church/ Archives/ Genealogy

Minert, Roger P. “Do you have German immigrant ancestors who settled in Indiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, the Dakotas, Michigan, Missouri or Ohio” If so, check GIACR!” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 36, no. 2, October, November, December 2018, pp. 58-59.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society. Includes a list of volumes in the author’s “German Immigrants in American Church Records,” p. 21.
Abstract: Church records in the U.S. can be very helpful in identifying the home town of immigrants. Article includes instructions for use and information about the collection of the records. An example of using a Reverse Alphabetical Index to identify a German place name is on p. 60.
MKI Periodicals
Archives/ Genealogy

Minert, Roger P. “French-Language Entries in German Documents.” Der Blumenbaum , vol. 35, no. 2, October, November, December 2017, pp. 66-67.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society. Excerpt of the article “Deciphering French Handwriting in German Documents” which appeared in German Genealogical Digest, Fall 1998.
Abstract: The practice of French-language record-keeping in Germany — French-language church book entries — French-language civil registry entries.
MKI Periodicals
French language/ Genealogy

Minert, Roger P. “German Immigrants in Illinois.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. XLIV, no. 1, December 2018, pp. 22-26.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Essay reprinted from “vols. 10-14 of the series ‘German Immigrants in American Church Records.”
Abstract: Overview of German immigration to the state.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois

Minert, Roger P. “German Immigrants in Iowa.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. XLIII, no. 2, March 2018, pp. 26-29.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. “Essay initially included in the introduction of the book ‘German Immigrants in American Church Records: Vol. 9, Iowa West Protestant’ ….”
Abstract: Overview of German immigration to the state.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa

Minert, Roger P. “German Immigrants in Nebraska.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. XLII, no. 3, June 2017, pp. 13-18.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. “Essay initially included in the introduction of the book ‘German Immigrants in American Church Records: Vol. 6, Nebraska Protestant’ ….”
Abstract: Overview of German immigration to the state.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Nebraska

Minert, Roger P. “A Guide to Terminology Related to the German Feudal System.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 20, no. 1, Jul./Aug./Sept. 2002, p. 29.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy

Minert, Roger P. “Professional Family History Researchers and Their Clients: Working Together for the Common Good.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 30, no. 1, Dec. 2004, pp. 3-9.
Abstract: Based on extensive experience as a professional Germanic family history researcher, Dr. Minert discusses how to locate and evaluate professional researchers, as well as what he considers to be the basic characteristics of a healthy client-researcher relationship.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Research

Minert, Roger P. “There once was a town.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall 2017, pp. 17-21.
Notes: Reprinted from German Genealogical Digest, Spring 1998. Includes bibliographical resources.
Abstract: After searching for a town subsequently incorporated into a military training area, the author discovers that many towns and villages have disappeared without a trace — for military purposes, expansions of civil infrastructure or businesses, or along the former East/West German border no-man’s land.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Research

Minert, Roger P., and Erin Clark-Collins. “The Evolution of Content in German Church Records: A Case Study.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 33, no. 1, Dec. 2007, pp. 2-13, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: An examination of the christening records of the Lutheran Parish of Grossgertach in Wuerttemberg was undertaken to answer the following questions: Did the amount of information recorded fluctuate over the years? Were the content and format of church records determined by individual pastors, or did those pastors react to requests or decrees from church or government officials? To what extent did stylistic or even artistic factors play in the keeping of church records? Did social, political, military, economic, or other events and conditions affect the keeping of church records over the years? Illustrated with examples from the original church records.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Marriage records/ Germany

Minuth, Fred R. “Der Doppelmission der deutschen Konsuln in Amerika.” Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger, vol. 1, 1913, pp. 217-220.
Abstract: “Unter diesem Titel veroeffentlichten in der April-Ausgabe die ‘Mittheilungen des Deutschamerikanischen Nationalbundes der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika’ einen Leitartikel, den wir mit steigendem Befremden gelesen haben. Der Artikelschreiber knuepft an eine in Berlin gehaltene Rede des preussischen Kulturministers an, in welcher der Minister die Ausland-Deutschen kritisiert und ihnen u.a. Mangel an Rassenstolz vorwirft. Diese Rede veranlasste den Artikelschreiber zu ganz merkwuerdigen Folgerungen in bezug auf die Pflichten der Konsuln des Deutschen Reichs.” [from introductory paragraph]
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Ethnic identity/ Political influence

Minuth, Fred R. “Der Kaiser und die Amerikaner.” Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger, vol. 1, 1913, pp. 21-26, 57-63, 113-119, 168-174, 211-216, 263-267.
Abstract: “Vielleicht ist der Tag nicht einmal fern, an dem die Stimme eines ehrlichen Mannes aus dem Volke das Ohr des Kaisers erreicht. Das dies geschehe, ist auch der Wunsch eines jeden Deutschen Amerikas, dessen Herz noch am alten Vaterlande haengt. Moegen die Ansichten ueber diesen Punkt vielleicht auch auseinandergehen: Tatsache ist es doch, dass ein starkes, nach innen und aussen gefestigtes Deutsches Reich die beste Gewaehr fuer den Fortbestand des Deutschtums in Amerika ist. Und darum haben auch wir ein hohes und berechtigtes Interesse an den Dingen, die sich im Reiche ereignen.” [from first section] Cultural study including articles on Andrew Carnegie and his philanthropy, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, and financial figure John Pierpont Morgan.
MKI Periodicals
Culture/ Cultural contribution/ German Americans/ Immigrants

Minuth, Fred R. “Der zehnte Konvent des Staats-Verbandes Deutscher Vereine von Indiana zu Michigan City, vom 30. August bis 2. September 1913.” Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger, vol. 1, 1913, pp. 418-427.
Abstract: “O meine deutschen Brueder jenseits des Ozeans, wie tief habe ich in jenen Tagen bedauert, dass keiner von euch in unserer Mitte weilte, als die Vertreter der Deutschen Vereine des Staates Indiana sich in der schoenen Stadt Michigan City, dicht an der Kueste des Michigan-Sees gelegen, zusammengefunden hatten, um Bericht zu erstatten ueber das gesamte Wirken der Deutschen des Staates Indiana im Interesse der Erhaltung und Foerderung deutschen Wesens, deutscher Sitten und deutscher Kultur im fremden Lande, fern von der alten Heimat!” [from introduction]
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Indiana/ German Americans — Societies, etc.

Minuth, Fred R. “Deutsche Kulturpioniere in Amerika.” Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger, vol. 1, 1913, pp. 11-21, 64-65, 120-122, 267-271, 304-307, 458-466, 499-512.
Abstract: 9 subjects: Karl Johannes Hexamer, Julius Goebel, Ernst Hexamer, Konrad Krez, W. A. Fritsch, Ferdinand H. Lohmann, Heinrich Arminius Rattermann, Joseph Keller, Pedro Reinhold Ilgen
MKI Periodicals
Biographies

Minuth, Fred R. “Echoklaenge aus der Deutschlandfahrt deutschamerikanischer Lehrer 1912.” Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger, vol. 1, 1913, pp. 161-167.
Abstract: On the German-American Teachers convention in Berlin, 1912. Includes personal reflections in English by Portland teacher Charles Schnabel.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ German Americans — Societies, etc./ Teaching/ Education

Minuth, Fred R. “Forstwirtschaft und Forstschutz in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika.” Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger, vol. 1, 1913, pp. 385-393.
Abstract: An account of American forestry and forest conservation, and as it relates to the Deutsch-Amerikanische National-Bund and its role in forest conservation.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Societies, etc./ National German-American Alliance/ Ecology

Minuth, Fred R. “Im Wunderlande Amerika. Eine Erzaehlung in Briefen.” Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger, vol. 1, 1913, pp. 230-236, 278-284, 325-329.
Abstract: A story made up of letters.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, German-American/ Fiction/ Letters

Miracle, Faith B. “Carl Sandburg and the Steichens: The Wisconsin Years.” Wisconsin Academy Review, vol. 34, no. 3, 1988, pp. 4-10.
Abstract: Biographical overview of Carl and Lilian Sandburg and Lilian’s brother Edward based on letters. Carl Sandburg worked for the Wisconsin Social-Democratic party for a number of years
MKI P88-88
Wisconsin/ Biographies / Milwaukee (Wis.)

Miracle, Faith B. “Carl Schurz: Raising the Breeze for Lincoln.” Wisconsin Academy Review, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring 1992, pp. 23-26, ill.
Abstract: Reprints excerpts from two letters written by Schurz to a school friend from Germany, Theodore Petrasch. The first letter provides an autobiographical sketch, while the second “reveals the prophetic admiration Schurz had for Lincoln. Both letters were written at a time when Schurz maintained a residence in Watertown but was stationed elsewhere.”
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Letters / Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Miracle, Faith B. “The Correspondence of Felix Pollak and Anais Nin.” Wisconsin Academy Review, vol. 37, no. 2, Spring 1991, pp. 9-13, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Pollak, Felix, 1909-1987/ Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977 — Correspondence/ Letters/ Austrian Americans — Wisconsin

Mitchell, Janet Savelkoul. “Priceless Reisepass Rescue.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter 2017, pp. 5-16.
Notes: Includes bibliographical resources.
Abstract: The author purchased a German passport from the beginning of the 20th century at a postcard show and describes how she researched the owner’s life before finding an appopriate place to donate the artifact.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Research/ German Americans — Minnesota/ History

Mitchell, Warren. “I’ve Had My DNA Tested– Now What?” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, Winter 2016, pp. 10-12; charts.
Abstract: Overview of the current DNA tests offered by three companies and how to consider and use the results for genealogical purposed.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Research

Mittelstaedt, Gerd. “Das Deutschkanadische Hilfswerk, Montreal.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. VII, 1983, pp. 178-183.
Abstract: “Das ‘Deutschkanadische Hilfswerk’ in Montreal ist eng verknuepft mit dem Namen Hans Omann, ueber den die Montrealer Monatszeitschrift Das Echo im Oktober 1982 folgendes schrieb: ‘Es fiele schwer im Montrealer deutschen Kultur — und Vereinsleben einen Mann zu finden, der derartig intensiv und erfolgreich in der Gemeinschaft wirkt wie Hans Omann. Die Liste vollbrachter Leistungen ist beeindruckend und ist, verbunden mit seiner Persoenlichkeit, das Fundament der Wertschaetzung, die ihm viele Deutschsprachige entgegenbringen.'”
MKI Periodicals
German Canadians/ Canada/ Social conditions/ Culture

Moehle, Vieregge Linda. “‘Germanizing’ commercial America.” 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. 213-224.
Abstract: This paper deals with the German language perpetuated by a specific group, yet not a group defined by ethnicity, religion, or region. This paper deals specifically with the German language and culture used and promoted by groups with nation-wide commercial interests in America. Commercialism and consumerism provide a favorable environment for the widespread reception and perpetuation of the German language and culture. While some elements of the German language’s phonetic, morphological, and orthographic idiosyncracies seem to be naturally attractive to the general American public, their reception is influenced greatly by image and popularity as well. These latter factors, in turn, are largely determined by the acceptability of certain stereotypes connected with current social and economic world trends
MKI PF 5925 G47 1993
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Dialects

Moehr, Jakob. “Auswanderung.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 37, 1917, pp. 66-70.
Notes: The author is identified as Chef des schweiz. Auswanderungsamtes, Bern; the article is taken “aus dem Separatabdruck aus dem “Buendner Monatsblatt” 1916.”
Abstract: Examines emigration from Switzerland; provides numbers for the years 1868 to 1915.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Immigrants, Swiss/ Emigration and immigration (Switzerland-US)

Moelleken, Wolfgang W. “Language Maintenance and Language Shift in Pennsylvania German: A Comparative Investigation.” Monatshefte, vol. 75, no. 2, 1983, pp. 172-186.
Abstract: A socio-linguistic survey conducted in various parts of Pennsylvania among sectarian and non-sectarian groups revealed major inter-group differences in their socio-linguistic behavior. In contrast, intra-group differences were found to be minimal. While the conservative Old Order Mennonites and the Old Order Amish still functioned in a triglossic trilingualism situation, the more moderate group of the Horning Mennonites showed a diglossic bilingualism, and the nonsectarians were already on the threshold of monolingualism. The differences observed show that a thorough analysis of each individual Pennsylvania German speech community is needed before language shift and maintenance phenomena pertaining to Pennsylvania German are posited.
MKI P86-31
Dialectology/ Language, English/ United States/ Dialects/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Mennonites/ Amish/ Language shift

Moelleken, Wolfgang W., and Karl-Heinz Wandt. “Das Problem der Informantenauswahl bei der Konzeption einer (sozio-) dialektgeographischen Untersuchung zum Pennsylvanien deutschen.” In Dialectology, Linguistics, Literature. Wolfgang W. Moelleken, ed. 1984, pp. 168-180.
Abstract: This article discusses the problem of informant selection for the dialectal research of Pennsylvania-German.
MKI P 367 .D53 1984
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialectology

Moelleken, Wolfgang Wilfried. “A new linguistic atlas of Pennsylvania German.” Monatshefte, vol. 80, no. 1, Spring 1988, pp. 105-114.
Notes: Monatshefte fuer deutschen Unterricht, deutsche Sprache und Literature.
Abstract: “In the Tagebuch of his trip to the North American frontier (1832-1834), Maximilian Fuerst zu Wied uses English terms for concepts typical of the American environment both directly and parenthetically with German words. There is also interference in the more subtle form of semantic borrowing.”
MKI P2001-35
Linguistics/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Moeller-Sahling, Folke-Christine. “Meta Schoepps literarische Veroeffentlichungen in Nordamerika.” Meta Schoepp: Helgoland, die Marine und das Leben. Arno Bammé, ed. Munich: Profil, 2001, pp. 75-98.
Notes: Möller, Veröffentlichungen.
MKI P2003-21
Women authors/ Jews, German/ Literature, German/ Schoepp, Meta

Mohr, Victor. “The history of Raphaels-Werk – An example of the care for the emigrant.” In: Jetzt wohnst du in einem freien Land; Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch, vol. 39, no. 3, 1989, pp. 354-362.
Abstract: Am Anfang des St. Raphaels-Vereins, wie das Raphaels-Werk bis 1976 geheissen hat, steht eine Betroffenheit. Die Betroffenheit eines Mannes angesichts der Gefahren und Risiken, denen Auswanderer im vergangenen Jahrhundert ausgesetzt waren. Es war die Zeit, in der Millionen von Menschen aus Europa aufbrachen, um — oft in abenteuerlicher Weise — in Uebersee, vor allem in den Vereinigten Staaten, eine neue Heimat zu suchen.
Die Geschichte des Raphaels-Werkes zeigt, dass Wanderung immer im Kontext steht mit weltweiten Entwicklungen und dass von den Beratungsorganisationen immer wieder eine neue und schoepferische Antwort auf diese Herausforderungen verlangt wird.
MKI JV 8014 .J47 1989
Emigration and immigration / Societies, etc./ History

Moltmann, Guenter. “Book Review of Ewa Morawska.” Amerikastudien / American Studies, Heft 4, 1985, pp. 476-478.
Abstract: Jahrgang 33
MKI P91-5
Book reviews

Moltmann, Guenter. “Die deutsche Auswanderung in ueberseeische Gebiete: Forschungsstand und Forschungsprobleme.” Der Archivar, vol. 32, 1979, pp. 57-66.
Abstract: “Die deutsche Auswanderung ueber See in andere Kontinente stellt eine Sonderfall innerhalb der umfassenderen internationalen Migrationsgeschichte dar. Neben der ueberseeischen Wanderung gab es auch die sogenannte “trockene Auswanderung” von Deutschland in andere europaeische Laender (besonders nach dem Osten, nach Ungarn und Russland), es gab umgekehrt Wanderungen aus Osteuropa nach Deutschland hinein, und schliesslich fanden und finden Wanderungen und Umsiedlungen von Bevoelkerungsteilen zwischen vielen Laendern Europas und der Welt statt. Deutsche Wanderungsvorgaenge waren nur Mosaiksteinchen im Gesamtbild zahlreicher mehr oder minder vergleichbarer internationaler Wanderungen, die es auf der Erde immer wieder gegeben hat.”
MKI P86-29
Emigration and immigration / Research

Moltmann, Guenter. “German Immigration to the United States As a Social Protest.” A Heritage Fulfilled: German-Americans: Die Erfuellte Herkunft. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1984, pp 225-28.
Abstract: Moltmann’s states that a large percentage of Germans emigrated as a means of social protest against the living conditions in Germany.
MKI F615 G3 H48 1984
German Americans — Minnesota/ Religion/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ Germany/ Social conditions

Moltmann, Guenter. “Schubarts “Kaplied” von 1787 und die Entstehung des weltlichen Auswandererliedes in Deutschland.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 22, 1987, pp. 21-38.
Abstract: Moltmann’s article justifies the use of songs for historical research and discusses “Kaplied” in terms of its becoming popular as a “song of emigrants.”
MKI Periodicals
18th century/ Music/ Germans/ Songs

Moltmann, Guenter. “Stand und zukuenftige Aufgaben der deutschen Ueberseewanderungsforschung mit besonderer Beruecksichtigung Hamburgs.” In Die deutsche und skandinavische Amerikaauswanderung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Kai Detlev Sievers, ed., 1981, pp. 15-34.
Abstract: “Um das weitgesteckte Thema in der gebotenen Kuerze sinnvoll zu eroertern, empfiehlt sich eine schwerpunktartige Behandlung: 1) allgemeine Forschungssituation, 2) Auswanderung von Hamburgern, 3) Hamburg als “Umschlagplatz” der Auswanderung, 4) Auswanderungsforschung in Hamburg.”
MKI P87-84 / MEM E 184 .G3 D54 1981
Emigration and immigration / Research/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

[Montfort, Thomas P.] “Shorty Brown’s Sonntagschule. Eine Geschichte aus dem Goldgraberleben.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 8, Aug. 1890, pp. 483-486.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt.
Abstract: Translation of a humorous story of life in a mining town, originally written in English by Thomas P. Montfort.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ United States — History/ Fiction

Moody, D. L. Dwight Lyman. Der Weg zu Gott und wie er zu finden ist. Chicago, Ill.: Bible Institute Colportage Association, c1912. 102 pp.
Notes: Copyrighted by Fleming H. Revell Company, 1884, 1893, 1912. Stamped: “This is the property of the Elim Bible School, No. 1532.”
Abstract: A translation of the author’s “The Way to God and How to Find It.”
MKI P84-122
PIA/ Sermons

Moore, Willard B. “Summary German-American Ethnicity As Strategy.” In A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1981, pp. 132-33.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981
German Americans — Minnesota/ Politics/ Schools/ Religion/ Assimilation/ Language, German (US)/ Ethnic identity/ Stereotypes/ Folklore

Moranda, Scott A. “The Story of German Settlement in the Forests and on the Prairies of 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. 123-144.
Abstract: “This essay first provides an abbreviated account of forest practices in German-speaking Europe in the nineteenth century before and after the commencement of emigration to Wisconsin and establishes the importance of forestlands for German collective identities, both local and national. Many of the examples pertain exclusively to the practices of the Bildungsbuergertum, or the educated middle classes, rather than to the peasants who made the journey to the United States. Nevertheless, they provide some context for discussing the importance of forests for Wisconsin Germans. Then follows an evaluation of some important texts by historians, immigrants, and land speculators that suggest a German preference for woodlands. Finally, the case of Cross Plains in Dane County is discussed briefly. Here, specific examples of settlement and land choice are provided and compared with what is presumed to be typical for immigrants. I argue that while a German notion of identities rooted in the landscape might have influence some Wisconsin settlers, the explanation for settlement patterns most likely lies in economic considerations.”
MKI F590 G3 W573 2006
Geography/ Wisconsin/ Farm life/ Land ethic/ Agriculture/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 19th century/ Cross Plains (Wis.)/ Wisconsin — Dane County

Moreno, Barry. “Castle Garden and the Old Immigration.” In Die Auswanderung nach Nordamerika aus den Regionen des heutigen Rheinland-Pfalz. Werner Kremp and Roland Paul, eds. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag , 2002, pp. 102-107.
MKI E 184 .P3 A87 2002
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ New York (N.Y.)

Morgan, Keith N. “Muskau and America: Pueckler’s Influence on Charles Eliot and Regional Landscape Planning in the United States.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement, no. 4, 2007, pp. 66-87, ill.
Notes: Papers originally presented at the 2006 conference: “Pueckler and America” held in Bad Muskau; includes bibliographical references. Edited by Sonja Duempelmann.
Abstract: “Boston landscape architect Charles Eliot introduced America to the writings of Prince Ludwig Heinrich Hermann von Pueckler and to his estate at Muskau in Germany as a model for the reform of landscape architecture in the United States.”
MKI Periodicals
Landscape architecture/ Pueckler-Muskau, Hermann Fuerst von, 1785-1871

Morgan, Richard J. “The German Jesuits of the Old, Old, West.” German Life, vol. 4, no. 3, Oct./Nov. 1997, pp. 42-45, ill.
Abstract: “The American West of Hollywood was a 19th-century phenomenon. Well over 100 years earlier, this same land [and particularly the Arizona-Sonora borderlands] was pioneered by soldiers and missionaries under the rule of Spain. Curiously, among these early adventurers were Jesuit missionaries from Germanic states.”
P2007-25
Missions/ Jesuits/ Moravians/ German Americans — Arizona/ Native Americans

Morgenstern, Adolf. “1813-1913. Jahrhundertfeier zur Erinnerung an Deutschlands grosse Zeit, veranstaltet vom Deutsch-Amerikansichen Zentral-Verband Ohio, zu Dayton, Ohio. [Rede].” Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger, vol. 1, 1913, pp. 481-486.
Abstract: “Wie anders dagegen klangen die Neujahrsglocken dieses Jahres; hell und klar, jubelnd und freudig riefen sie dem deutschen Volke zu: Erwachet! und jauchzet in stolzem Gedenken der einzigen, der grossen Zeit, die sich jetzo zum hundertsten Male jaehrt.” [from speech at centennial celebration, commemorating the 1813 war of independence]
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Societies, etc./ Wars/ 19th century/ German Americans — Ohio

Morris, Fred. “Ein Spaziergang durch St. Louis. Nordamerikanische Reiserinnerungen.” In Bibliothek der Unterhaltung und des Wissens. Vol. 12. Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig: Union Deutsche Velagsgesellschaft, 1898, pp. 115-132, ill.
Notes: Entire book is in pamphlet file.
MKI P2002-41
America/ United States/ St. Louis (Mo.)

Moser, George F. “Tragik im amerikanischen Voelkerleben.” America-Herold Kalender, vol. 56, 1936, pp. 33-35.
Notes: Völkerleben.
Abstract: Schon in der ersten Periode des politischen Lebens der Vereinigten Staaten verfolgte die Regierung unverbrüchlich das Ziel, den Landebsitz der roten Ureinwohner des Landes im Interesse der Ausbreitung der weissen Siedlung stetig zu beschränken.
MKI P2014-7
History/ United States — History/ Native Americans

Most, Carl Heinz. “Das Deutschamerikanische Dorf St. Lucas, Iowa, und die Forschung ueber eine dort wohnende weitverzweigte Familie.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 10, Fall 1975, pp. 25-32.
Abstract: Most’s article discusses the genealogy of John H. Kuenen.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Genealogy/ Catholics/ Schools

Motsch, Markus F. “H. L. Mencken and German Kultur.” German-American Studies, vol. 6, Fall 1973, pp. 21-42.
Abstract: Motsch’s 22 page article consists of a biography of Mencken, a synopsis of his writings (re the necessity and importance of German “Kultur” in the U.S.) and their controversial reception, and an overview of his work as a literary critic. It also discusses Mencken’s linguistic work, which includes a history of the American language, as well as his fascination with Nietzsche and Goethe.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americans — Genealogy/ Biographies/ Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956/ Biographies/ Literary criticism

Mott, Josie. “Reise-Skizzen.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 21, no. 9, Sept. 1889, pp. 542-544.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt. —- Fred Dobler and daughter Emma, from Albany, New York, are mentioned in this article. This may be Albert F. Dobler, who was born in 1844 in Wuerttemburg, Germany, to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fink. After immigrating to America in 1848 with his family, Albert went to reside with his uncle, John Dobler, in the city of New York; thence to Nashua, N. H., and, in 1866, to Albany, N. Y. In 1865, having previously assumed his uncle’s name through legal procedure, Mr. Dobler assumed the management of his uncle’s brewery. . . . Mr. Dobler was married in 1870 to Miss Emma B. Mott, of Fairview, Pa., and they had at least two children: Emma C, who married Dr. A. F. Baldinger, of 670 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, and John F. Dobler, who attended school in Cleveland. Mr. Dobler’s family also included his niece, Miss Clara Mott, who was educated in St. Agnes’ Female Academy (Episcopal), of Albany. [Information found online in Nelson’s Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania . . . (1896).]
Abstract: First part of an account describing a journey by ship to Europe. The author is aboard the steamship Rhyneland, traveling with her uncle Fred Dobler and cousin Emma, who is from Albany, N. Y. As a religious person, Josie Mott writes “Mein groesstes Interesse conzentrirte sich um den Sontag, denn ich war neugierig, zu sehen, wie man auf einem Schiffe den Sonntag zubringe. . . .” Also provides a brief description of a July 4th celebration aboard the ship, and of their first stop, in Amsterdam. “Von hier gehen wir nach Brussel, und dann suedlich nach Koeln, um den sagenreichen Rhein einen Besuch abzustatten.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ German Americans — New York/ Travel/ 19th century/ Europe

Mott, Josie. “Reise-Skizzen.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 21, no. 10, Oct. 1889, pp. 579-589, ill.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt. —- Fred Dobler and daughter Emma, from Albany, New York, are mentioned in this article. This may be Albert F. Dobler, who was born in 1844 in Wuerttemburg, Germany, to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fink. After immigrating to America in 1848 with his family, Albert went to reside with his uncle, John Dobler, in the city of New York; thence to Nashua, N. H., and, in 1866, to Albany, N. Y. In 1865, having previously assumed his uncle’s name through legal procedure, Mr. Dobler assumed the management of his uncle’s brewery. . . . Mr. Dobler was married in 1870 to Miss Emma B. Mott, of Fairview, Pa., and they had at least two children: Emma C, who married Dr. A. F. Baldinger, of 670 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, and John F. Dobler, who attended school in Cleveland. Mr. Dobler’s family also included his niece, Miss Clara Mott, who was educated in St. Agnes’ Female Academy (Episcopal), of Albany. [Information found online in Nelson’s Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania . . . (1896).]
Abstract: Second part of an account describing a trip to Europe. The author visits Brussels, Koeln, and the Rhine.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ German Americans — New York/ Travel/ 19th century/ Germany/ Europe

Mott, Josie. “Reiseskizzen.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 21, no. 11, Nov. 1889, pp. 661-666, ill.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt. —- Fred Dobler and daughter Emma, from Albany, New York, are mentioned in this article. This may be Albert F. Dobler, who was born in 1844 in Wuerttemburg, Germany, to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fink. After immigrating to America in 1848 with his family, Albert went to reside with his uncle, John Dobler, in the city of New York; thence to Nashua, N. H., and, in 1866, to Albany, N. Y. In 1865, having previously assumed his uncle’s name through legal procedure, Mr. Dobler assumed the management of his uncle’s brewery. . . . Mr. Dobler was married in 1870 to Miss Emma B. Mott, of Fairview, Pa., and they had at least two children: Emma C, who married Dr. A. F. Baldinger, of 670 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, and John F. Dobler, who attended school in Cleveland. Mr. Dobler’s family also included his niece, Miss Clara Mott, who was educated in St. Agnes’ Female Academy (Episcopal), of Albany. [Information found online in Nelson’s Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania . . . (1896).]
Abstract: Third part of an account describing a trip to Europe. The author visits Heidelberg, Donaueschingen, Rheinfall bei Schaffhausen, Hohentwiel, Konstanz, Lindau, and Munich. She travels next to Innsbruck, and then into Italy.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ German Americans — New York/ Travel/ 19th century/ Germany/ Europe

Mott, Josie. “Reiseskizzen.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 21, no. 12, Dec. 1889, pp. 725-727.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt. —- Fred Dobler and daughter Emma, from Albany, New York, are mentioned in this article. This may be Albert F. Dobler, who was born in 1844 in Wuerttemburg, Germany, to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fink. After immigrating to America in 1848 with his family, Albert went to reside with his uncle, John Dobler, in the city of New York; thence to Nashua, N. H., and, in 1866, to Albany, N. Y. In 1865, having previously assumed his uncle’s name through legal procedure, Mr. Dobler assumed the management of his uncle’s brewery. . . . Mr. Dobler was married in 1870 to Miss Emma B. Mott, of Fairview, Pa., and they had at least two children: Emma C, who married Dr. A. F. Baldinger, of 670 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, and John F. Dobler, who attended school in Cleveland. Mr. Dobler’s family also included his niece, Miss Clara Mott, who was educated in St. Agnes’ Female Academy (Episcopal), of Albany. [Information found online in Nelson’s Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania . . . (1896).]
Abstract: Fourth part of an account of a trip to Europe. Descriptions of visits in Italy.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ German Americans — New York/ Travel/ 19th century/ Germany/ Europe

Mott, Josie. “Reiseskizzen.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 1, Jan. 1890, pp. 38-40.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt. —- Fred Dobler and daughter Emma, from Albany, New York, are mentioned in this article. This may be Albert F. Dobler, who was born in 1844 in Wuerttemburg, Germany, to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fink. After immigrating to America in 1848 with his family, Albert went to reside with his uncle, John Dobler, in the city of New York; thence to Nashua, N. H., and, in 1866, to Albany, N. Y. In 1865, having previously assumed his uncle’s name through legal procedure, Mr. Dobler assumed the management of his uncle’s brewery. . . . Mr. Dobler was married in 1870 to Miss Emma B. Mott, of Fairview, Pa., and they had at least two children: Emma C, who married Dr. A. F. Baldinger, of 670 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, and John F. Dobler, who attended school in Cleveland. Mr. Dobler’s family also included his niece, Miss Clara Mott, who was educated in St. Agnes’ Female Academy (Episcopal), of Albany. [Information found online in Nelson’s Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania . . . (1896).]
Abstract: Conclusion of an account of a trip to Europe. Descriptions of visits in Switzerland, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. The author concludes, “Aber so schoen es auch war, so reizend sich alles gezeigt hat, wir waren froh als wir wieder heim kammen. Heim, welch ein Zauberwort! Und Amerika ist eine Heimath, die ich mit keiner anderen vertauschen moechte.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ German Americans — New York/ Travel/ 19th century/ Germany/ Europe

Moulton, William G. “The short vowel systems of northern Switzerland: A study in structural dialectology.” Word, 1960, pp. 155-182.
Notes: Inscribed on cover: “With best wishes, Bill”; inscribed inside front cover, “Lester Seifert.”
MKI P2002-7
Linguistics/ Dialectology/ Switzerland

Mowers, Charlene Donchez. “Early Education in Bethlehem.” The ABCs of German American Education in Pennsylvania Prior to the Public School Movement of 1834: A Symposium, 2 pp.
Notes: June 30, 2007 at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, Pennsburg, PA.
Abstract: Abstract of a lecture given at the symposium.
MKI P2007-47
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Education/ Mennonites/ 18th century.

Mruck, Armin. “Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the German anti-Nazi resistance.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 42nd Report, 1993, pp. 59-63.
Abstract: This article is largely based on the “Breaker Reports,” documents held in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., which shed light on the relationship between the German anti-Nazi Resistance and the Roosevelt administration. It examines why the Resistance was unsupported by Roosevelt.
MKI Periodicals
National Socialism/ World War, 1939-1945/ Relations, Germany-US

Muehl, Siegmar. “A brief encounter between Friedrich Muench, German-American rationalist in Missouri, and Theodore Parker, New England transcendentalist.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 28, 1993, pp. 13-32.
Abstract: Correspondence between Muench and Parker and brief biographical sketch of Muench at the end. Muench, Friedrich, 1799-1881/Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
MKI Periodicals
Letters/ Biographies/ Muench, Friedrich, 1799-1881

Muehl, Siegmar. Friedrich Muench: Man of Letters on the Missouri Frontier, Reader and Source Book, 1990s (C0952). 3 pp.
Abstract: Finding aid lists the contents of three folders that are part of the German Heritage Archives at the State Historical Society of Missouri. From the introduction: “Siegmar Muehl translated and edited the writings of Friedrich Muench, scattered in various libraries throughout the U.S. Muench immigrated to the U.S. with the Giessen Emigration Society in 1834 and was a liberal thinker. He settled in Missouri, farmed, and wrote extensively. These papers contain translations as well as photocopies of Muench’s work.”
MKI P2005-32
Muench, Friedrich, 1799-1881/ German Americans — Missouri/ Agriculture/ Farming/ Rattermann, Heinrich Armin, 1832-1923

Muehl, Siegmar. “German Emigration to North America, 1817-18: The Gagern-Fuerstenwaerther Mission and Report.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 37, 2002, pp. 63-77.
Notes: Fürstenwärther.
Abstract: “In the year 1817, a young German aristocrat, Moritz von Fürstenwärther, arrived in the United States to…. report on the fate of the many German emigrants arriving in America at that time.” His report reveals a sometimes unflattering picture of the United States during its formative period, and it illuminates the hardships and difficult conditions faced by many German emigrants both during their journeys and upon their arrival in America.
MKI Periodicals
Fürstenwärther, Moritz von/ 19th century/ America/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Muehl, Siegmar. “The Lichtfreund Press: German-American Newspaper Publishing on the Missouri Frontier, 1843-55.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 185-202.
Abstract: Muehl’s article discusses the “Lichtfreund Press,” founded by Eduard Muehl in Cincinnati in 1840 and from 1843-1855 published in St. Louis.
MKI Periodicals
Missouri/ Newspapers, German-American/ Freethinkers/ Lutherans/ Biographies/ Muehl, Eduard, 1800-1854

Muehl, Siegmar. “New England’s early nineteenth-century ‘German Craze’: An era revisited.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 35, 2000, pp. 73-87.
Abstract: Examines the German selections in “Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature,” a fourteen-volume series edited by George Ripley and published in Boston. Muehl asks: “What impelled the translators to learn a language little know in New England at the time, and…how did they come by their knowledge of German?…What moved George Ripley to launch the project?…[and] how was the series received by the public?”
MKI Periodicals
Language, German (US)/ New England/ United States/ 19th century/ Literature, German

Muehl, Siegmar. “Shock of the new: Advising mid-nineteenth-century German immigrants to Missouri.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 33, 1998, pp. 85-102.
Abstract: Friedrich Muench, German Lutheran pastor, and one of the leaders of a Duden-inspired emigrant group, settled in 1834 on land neighboring Duden’s old property near Dutzow, Missouri. Muench’s native pluck, persistence and ingenuity enable him and his family not only to overcome early travails, but to create a model farm and vineyard in what was originally a forest wilderness. With the rise of German immigration to the US, Muench conceived the idea of writing a book to prepare prospective German emigrants so they might better adjust to the New World after they arrived.
MKI Periodicals
Life skills guides/ Immigrants, German/ Missouri/ Muench, Friedrich, 1799-1881

Muehl, Siegmar trans. “A Visit with Friedrich Muench.” Der Maibaum (Deutschheim Association Journal), vol. 9, no. 2, Summer 2001, pp. 5-9, ill.
Notes: First appeared in Freethought History, No. 6, 1993, ed. by Fred Whitehead; donated by Prof. Glenn G. Gilbert.
Abstract: “Friedrich Muench became a significant figure in German-American and Missouri history almost from the time he settled on land near Dutzow, Warren County, Missouri in 1834. . . . In December 1874, late in Muench’s life, Heinrich A. Rattermann, editor, journalist and 19th century German American historian, visited Friedrich Muench at his farm near Dutzow. Rattermann, at the time, was editor of Der Deutsche Pionier, a monthly journal published in Cincinnati. Rattermann’s account of the visit appeared in the April 1875 issue of the Pionier. The following translation of the article contains only a few minor editorial deletions.”
MKI Periodicals (Miscellaneous)
German Americans — Missouri/ Muench, Friedrich, 1799-1881/ Rattermann, Heinrich Armin, 1832-1923

Mueller, Hermann. “Die Geschichte des Deutsch-Amerikanischen Staats-Verband von Rhode Island.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 869-871.
Abstract: 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.

Mueller, Karl W. “Deutsch-Amerikanischer Verband von Californien.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 819-823.
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 — Other US states

Mueller, Theodore. “Milwaukee’s German Heritage.” Historical Messenger of the Milwaukee County Historical Society, vol. 22, no. 3, 1966, pp. 112-119, ill.
Notes: Photostatic copy.
MKI P84-80 / SHS F 587 .M6 H5/22
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ History/ Immigrants, German/ Turners/ Social life and customs/ Cultural influence

Mueller, Theodore. “Milwaukee’s German Heritage: “Das Deutsch-Athen Am Michigan See”.” Historical Messenger of the Milwaukee County Historical Society, vol. 24, no. 3, 1968, pp. 84-95, ill.
MKI P84-81 / F 587 .M6 H5/24
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Social life and customs/ Turners

Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt. “German-American Cultural Interaction in the Jacksonian Era: Six Unpublished Letters by Francis Lieber and John Pickering to Wilhelm von Humboldt.” Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, vol. 31, no. 1, 1998, pp. 1-11.
Abstract: The letters by the German-American writer and political scientist Francis Lieber (1798-1872) and the American lawyer and linguist John Pickering (1777-1846) to Wilhelm von Humboldt in Berlin, recently discovered and published here for the first time, produce new insight into the cultural interaction between Germany and the United States during an important period of American history. An assessment of these documents may open up new perspectives for German-American Studies.
P98-42
German-American Studies/ Relations, Germany-US/ Letters / Lieber, Francis, 1798-1872

Mueller, Wilhelm. “Amerikanisches Volksbildungswesen.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 10, 1910, pp. 163-167.
Abstract: “Der unermuedlich thaetige Schulmann Wilhelm Mueller hat unter obigen Titel [Amerikanisches Volksbildungswesen] die Welt mit einem neuen werthvollen Werke ueberrascht — ueberrascht, weil er durch den Tod seiner Lebensgefaehrtin im vorigen Jahre voellig gebrochen zu sein schien, waehrend dies vorliegende Buch durch die Klarheit der Darstellung in hoechst erfreulicher Weise die Fortdauer seiner geistigen Spannkraft bekundet.
Das Buch ist vom Verleger mit der folgenden Empfehlung ausgesandt worden: ‘Was wir von Amerika zu lernen haben?’…” (from introduction)
MKI Periodicals
Education/ German Americans/ Cultural contribution

Mueller, Wilhelm. “Der deutsche Protestantismus in Amerika.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 9, 1909, pp. 65-80.
Abstract: An historical account of German Protestantism in the United States, including the sections: “Die Entwicklung des Protestantismus Kirchenthums” and “Der deutsche Protestantismus und die Achtundvierziger.”
MKI Periodicals
Churches/ Religion/ Religious life/ German Americans/ Forty-eighters

Mueller, Wilhelm. “Die Flucht Karl Schurz’ und Kinkels Befreiung.” Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger, vol. 1, 1913, pp. 535-545.
Abstract: The story of the escape of Karl Schurz during the 1848 revolution.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees

Mueller, Wilhelm Frater Jocundus. Schabiade. Leben und Thaten des Fritz Schaebig. Eine erbauliche Historie in lustigen Reimen. 2nd ed. Milwaukee, Wis.: Caspar, 1886. 154 pp.
Notes: “Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1877, by Carl Doerflinger, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington”; on t.p.: “Haupt-Redakteur des New Yorker humoristischen Wochenblattes ‘Puck.'”
PIA MKI P2001-9
PIA/ Poetry/ Humor & Satire

Muensterberg, Hugo. “The Duty of Germans in America.” American-German Review, vol. 1, no. 3, 1899, pp. 288-290.
Notes: Address delivered April 18th at Boston, Mass., on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the Boston Turn Verein; portrait.
MKI Periodicals
History/ German Americans

Muensterberg, Hugo. “Eine deutsche Jahrhundertfeier.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 765-768.
Notes: In section “Nachtraege und Andere Artikel” ed. by Max Heinrici.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
Festivals

Mulfinger, George A. “Ferdinand Kuernbergers Roman “Der Amerikamuede,” dessen Quellen und Verhaeltnis zu Lenau’s Amerikareise.” German American Annals, vol. 1, n.s., 1903, pp. 315-346, 385-405.
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Fiction/ United States in literature

Muller, Rene, comp. N. E. Becker, 1842-1920: E Wormer Dichter an Amerika. Wormer Muselbeicher, 19. Wormeldange, Luxembourg; Grevenmacher, Luxembourg: Letzebuerger Guiden a Scouten; Dreckerei Erny Faber, [1987?] 165 pp., ill.
Notes: Donated by Jean Ensch, Institut Grand-Ducal, Section de linguistique, d’ethnologie et onomastique, Luxembourg, 2005.
Abstract: A celebration of Nicholas E. Becker, a dialect poet originally from Wormeldange, Luxembourg, who immigrated to Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. Includes information on emigration from Luxembourg, views of America (see:”‘Neu Luxemburg’ im Wisconsin”) and Brazil, biographical descriptions of Becker and examinations of his poems, many poems by various authors on the topic of emigration, and nicknames reprinted from Becker’s 1908 “Lexicon der eigenthuemlichen Bennenungen vieler Bewohner des Noerdlichen Theils, von Ozaukee Co(unty), Wis(consin) und Umgebung.”
MKI P2002-61
Luxembourg/ Poetry/ Port Washington (Wis.)/ Becker, Nicholas E, 1842-1920/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)

Murray, Joseph. “Proclamation.” Advance News, Sept. 27, 1989.
Abstract: October 6 proclaimed as German-American day by Joseph Murray, Mayor of the Manchester Township
MKI P92-38
Festivals/ German Americans

Musgrave, Marian E. “Deutsche und Deutschland in der schwarzen und weissen amerikanischen Literatur des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts.” In Die USA und Deutschland. Wolfgang Paulsen, ed. 1976, pp. 119-137.
Abstract: Am Beispiel verschiedener amerikanischer Autoren wird das Bild der Deutschen aus amerikanischer Sicht vorgefuehrt.
MKI PT 123 .U6 A4 1976 / MEM PT 123 .U6 A4 1975
Germany in literature/ Stereotypes/ Literature, American

Mustafa, Sam A. “‘Merchant culture’ in Germany and America in the late-eighteenth century.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 34, 1999, pp. 113-132.
Abstract: “The remarkable number of social, economic, and political similarities between German and American businessmen formed the bases for the earliest German-American commercial and diplomatic relationships. In the last two decades of the eighteenth century, commerce rapidly developed between the merchant houses of the Hanseatic cities of Bremen and Hamburg and their American counterparts in cities like Boston, New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. This blossoming business was not simply the result of capitalist impulses, but was nurtured by a striking cultural similarity that acted as a catalyst for trade, and transcended linguistic and national differences.”
MKI Periodicals
Business & Industry/ Relations, Germany-US/ 18th century

Naegele, Rainer. “Amerika als Fiktion und Wirklichkeit in Peter Handkes Roman “Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied.” In Die USA und Deutschland. Wolfgang Paulsen, ed. 1976. pp. 110-115. Abstract: Peter Handke geschildert als ein Autor, der zwischen Beschreibung der Innen- und Aussenwelt schreibt. MKI PT 123 .U6 A4 1976 / MEM PT 123 .U6 A4 1975 United States in literature/ Literature, German

Nagel, Daniel. “Von republikanischen Deutschen zu deutsch-amerikanischen Republikanern. Ein Beitrag zum Identitaetswandel der deutschen Achtundvierziger in den Vereinigten Staaten, 1850-1861.” Universitaet Mannheim, 2010. 488 pp.
Notes: Inauguraldissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie der Universitaet Mannheim. Includes bibliographical notes and references. MKI has copy in PDF [Library\Articles_from_Internet_and_other_sources].
Abstract: Contents: Einleitung (Der demokratische Republikanismus und die Achtundvierziger; Ethnische Identitaet und Oeffentlichkeit; Methode, Quellen und Historiographie) — Die Achtundvierziger in der Fremde (Die Achtundvierziger als Exilanten und Auswanderer, Die Achtundvierziger und ihre Begegnung mit Amerika) — Die Achtundvierziger und Europa (Das Scheitern der Revolutionaeren transatlantischen Exilpolitik 1850/52; Europaeische Interventions- und Revolutionshoffnungen 1853-1860) — Die Konfrontation mit der amerikanischen Politik (Das “Sklavenjagd-Gesetz”; Die Landreform und die demokratisch-republikanischen Achtundvierziger; Die Kolonisationsplaene Wilhelm Weitlings, ein Alternative zur Landreform? Die Plaene der Reform zur Landreform; Wilhelm Weitling und die nordamerikanische Republik) — Die Konstruktion einer deutsch-amerikanischen Identitaet (Karl Heinzen und die “Platform der teutschen Sozialisten”; Karl Heinzens Forderungen als Rueckgriff auf Franz Loeher; Der Konflikt zwischen Grauen und Gruenen; Der Konflikt zwischen Grauen und Gruenen im Rueckblick; Die Praesidentschaftswahl von 1852; Die Praesidentschaft von Franklin Pierce; Die Deutschen “Plattformen” des Jahres 1854) — Die Achtundvierziger und die Sklaverei (Das Kansas-Nebraska-Gesetz; Die Reaktion der Deutsch-Amerikaner auf das Kansas-Nebraska-Gesetz; Die Menschenrechte als Ausgangspunkt der Kritik an der Sklaverei; Die Auswirkungen der Sklaverei auf die Gesellschaft der Sklavenstaaten; Die politischen Auswirkung der Sklaverei; Die oekonomischen Auswirkungen der Sklaverei; Sklaverei und Korruption; Die Abschaffung der Sklaverei; Die kulturhistorische Mission der Deutsch-Amerikaner; Die Kolonisation befreiter Sklaven; Die Rassenproblematik) — Die nativistische Herausforderung (Die Temperenzbewegung und die Neuformierung der amerikanischen Parteien; Der Temperenzdiskurs der Achtundvierziger in den fruehen 1850er Jahren; Die Know-Nothings und die Achtundvierziger; Der Wandel des Temperenzdiskurses; Die Eskalation nativistischer Gewalt; Die Gruendung eines deutschen Staates als Reaktion auf den Nativismus? Die Suche nach neuen politischen Allianzen; Der Niedergang der Temperenzbewegung seit der Mitte der 1850er Jahre; Die Sonntagsgesetze; Der deutsche Sonntag und die Frage der Amerikanisierung; Deutsche Ethnizitaet und amerikanische Nationalitaet) — Die Republikanische Partei und die Achtundvierziger 1856-1861 (Die Ideologie der Republikanische Partei; Die Achtundvierziger und das Problem des Nativisimus; Die Achtundvierziger im Praesidentschaftswahlkampf von 1856; Die Republikaner und die deutsche Partei im Jahr 1856; Das Massachusetts-Amendment; Die Sklavereifrage im Vorfeld des Buergerkriegs; John Brown und der “Irrepressible Conflict”; Die Praesidentschaftswahl von 1860; Die Sezession und die Aufgabe der Deutsch-Amerikaner) — Zusammenfassung und Schluss (Die Konstruktion einer deutsch-amerikanischen Identitaet; Republikanismus und der Parteienwandel der 1850er Jahre) — Verzeichnis wichtiger Personen und Zeitungen — Bibliographie.
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German Americans/ United States — History/ 19th century/ Forty-Eighters/ Politics/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees/ Slavery/ Ethnic identity/ Anti-German sentiment/ Temperance.

Nagelbach, A. “The “Siebenbuerg” Saxons.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 3, 1995, pp. 18-22.
Abstract: The paper includes sections on history; Saxons in the United States, in Canada; the Nazi years 1933-44; about the economy in Transylvania; historical background to Transylvania; Saxon community life in the U.S. and Canada; Saxon immigration to the States.
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History/ Emigration and immigration/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Europe

Nagler, Joerg. “Deutschamerikaner und das “Liberal Republican Movement” 1872.” Amerikastudien / American Studies, Jahrgang 33, Heft 4, 1988, pp. 415-438.
Abstract: The Liberal Republican Movement of 1872 began as a critical wing of the Republican Party during the first term of President Ulysses Grant, and it soon grew to be a true party of opposition, independent by faction. The main goals of this political movement were to hinder the reelection of Grant, to facilitate the peaceful reintegration of the South, to suspend protective tariffs, and to reform the Civil Service. The Liberal Republican Movement was an early warning of the shift of a great portion of Republican voters to the Democratic Party in the 1870s and 1880s. This article examines the role of German-American ethnic leaders within the oppositional movement of 1872. Two questions are of specific concern to the author: First, why did the movement have such a strong attraction for German-Americans (at least for their ethnic leaders) that they left the Republican Party, which they had heretofore supported? Second, to what degree was the Liberal Republican Movement an expression of ethnic politics; i.e. how and to what degree were specifically ethnic interests, in this case German-American, addressed and dealt with?
MKI P91-5
German Americans/ Ethnic identity/ Political influence

Nagler, Joerg. “Ethnic Persistence and Transformation: A Response to Kathleen N. Conzen.” In Making Their Own America: Assimilation Theory and the German Peasant Pioneer. Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute. Kathleen N. Conzen 1990, pp. 38-44.
Abstract: Response to K.N. Conzen’s lecture. Essential question of transition and transformation, transition within the paradigms of the overall transformation from a rural economy to capitalism and the social components of ethnicity, class, and religion within this process
MKI P90-17
Immigrants, German/ Assimilation/ German influence/ Ethnic identity/ Ethnicity/ Social aspects

Nagler, Joerg. “From Emigrant to Immigrant: On the Situation of German Immigrants in the United States during the Second Half of the 19th Century.” Jetzt wohnst du in einem freien Land; Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch, vol. 39, no. 3, 1989, pp. 302-311.
Abstract: Etwa 16,7 Millionen Menschen wanderten auf der Suche nach Land und Arbeit in der zweiten Haelfte des 19. Jahrhunderts in die Vereinigten Staaten ein, mindestens jeder vierte von ihnen deutscher Herkunft. Von 1851 bis 1890 bildeten Deutsche das Hauptkontingent der Einwanderungsgruppen und stellten durchschnittlich auch mehr als ein Viertel der im Ausland gebuertigen amerikanischen Bevoelkerung. Hoehepunkte erreichte ihre Masseneinwanderung in den Jahren 1854 und 1882 mit 215 000 bzw. 250 000 Immigranten. Waehrend ihre Zahlen im Laufe des Sezessionskriegs zeitweilig under die Hunderttausendgrenze fielen, schwoll ihr Strom danach — mit Unterbrechungen durch die zyklisch auftretenden amerikanischen Wirschaftskrisen — bis kurz vor der Jahrhundertwende stetig wieder an.
MKI JV 8014 .J47 1989
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 19th century/ Immigrants, German

Nagler, Joerg. “Review of Amerikanische Einwanderungswerbung in Deutschland 1845-1914, by Ingrid Schoeberl. Von Deutschland nach Amerika: Zur Sozialgeschichte der Auswanderung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, vol. 6. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies. 1990, pp. 237-38.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Naimark, Norman. “About the Russians and About Us – The Question of Rape and Soviet – German Relations in the East Zone.” In After Forty Contentious Years: The Two Germanys Since 1949. The Max Kade Institute for Austrian – German – Swiss Studies. Los Angeles, California: The Max Kade Institute, Feb. 16-18, 1990.
Abstract: Followed by commentary by Gerhardt Basler (Institut fuer Internationale Politik und Wirtschaft, DDR) and Ronald Steel (University of Southern California)
MKI P90-13
Germany

Nath, Dorothea. “German American Records. (Gathered from Niles’ Weekly Register).” German American Annals, vol. 2, n.s., 1904, pp. 83-105.
MKI Periodicals

National German American Teachers’ Seminary. Zwanzigster Jahresbericht des Nationalen Deutsch-Amerikanischen Lehrerseminars und seiner Musterschule, der Deutsch-Englischen Akademie [Catalogue 1898-1899]. Milwaukee, Wis.: The Seminary, [1898]. 29 pp, ill.
Notes: On cover: National German American Teachers’ Seminary and German English Academy, Milwaukee, Wis. Catalogue 1898-1899. Photocopy, donated by Ethel-Maria Nikesch, 2006. Original in Historical Society Library Pamphlet Collection, 57- 823. In German and English.
Abstract: Inhalt: Kurze Berichte der Praesidenten der Anstalten. Seminar- und Schulnachrichten des Direktors.
MKI P2006-10
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Education/ Teaching/ National German-American Teachers’ Seminary/ German-English Academy/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Schools

Nationale Deutsch-Amerikanische Schul-Verein, editor. Korrespondenzblatt des Nationalen Deutsch-Amerikanischen Schul-Vereins. Vol. 1, no. 4, 1886, pp. 98-120.
Chicago, IL
MKI P89-86
PIA/ Educational/ Teaching/ Miscell. documents

Naumann, Frank. “Everything I Know to Date about the Samuel Naumann Family Immigration Experience of 1886.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 29, no. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 288-292, ill.
Abstract: This essay is a follow up to the “Friedrich Koeppe Diary” which appeared in the Summer 2007 issue of the Journal. Samuel and Rosina Naumann immigrated in 1886 on the same ship as Koeppe.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Diaries/ Saxony-Anhalt/ Atlantic crossing/ 19th century

Naumann, Jakob. Selections from My Journey to America, 1836-1843. Rev., Translated & illustrated by Anna Kemper Hesse ; [edited and] with a new introduction by A.E. Schroeder. Hermann, Mo.: Brush & Palette Club, 2000. [8], 79 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Notes: Contents: The decision — The journey begins — The voyage — The new country — Westward — To Pittsburg [sic] — A short sojourn in Cincinnati — To Philadelphia — To Missouri — The return — Additional comments about America — About Anna Kemper Hesse. Donated by J Tiedemann, 2014.
Abstract: Inspired by her grandmother’s recollections of “Uncle Naumann,” Anna Kemper Hesse selected and translated these writings from Jakob Naumann’s Reise nach den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, first published in Leipzig in 1850, which contradict some of the glowing reports of the “paradise” or utopian life to be found by German immigrants to the American frontier.
MKI P2014-10
Germans — Emigration and immigration — United States./ German Americans — History./ Hermann (Mo.) — History — 19th century — Sources./ My Journey to America.

Neeff, Gotthold August. Vom Lande des Sternenbanners. Eine Blumenlese deutscher Dichtungen aus Amerika. Heidelberg; Ellenville, N.Y.: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung; Neeff’s German Authors Agency, 1905. xxiv, 239 pp., portrait frontispiece.
Illustrated cover. On title page: Verlags-Archiv Nr. 62. Stamped on title page: Northwestern University Library, Watertown, Wis.
[The poet and critic Gotthold August Neeff was born Aug. 10, 1869 in New York, and died July 20, 1909 in Ellenville, New York. He was the son of Rev. Gotthold Ludwig Neeff, and in 1866 he traveled to Germany with his parents. In Basel he studied theology, and from 1887 to 1889 he was in Davos, Switzerland, and on the Riviera for reasons of health. By 1892 he was on the West Coast. He then served as a Lutheran missionary in New Mexico and Arizona (1892-1898), then pastor in Nebraska (1898-1903), then was in Ellenville, N.Y., until his death. Founded the German Authors Agency.]. Poets (with selected poem titles) include Hugo Andriessen, Wilhelm Apel (“Herbstmorgen am Michigensee”), A. F. Augustin, Berthold A. Bär, Ewald F. Bargmann, E. Washington Baruck, Wilh. Heinrich Benignus, Gottlieb C. Berkemeier, Georg von Bosse, Udo Brachvogel (“Das deutsche Lied in Amerika”), Paul Brandner, Johannes Braun, Paul Carus, Friedrich Carl Castelhun (“An einen nach Deutschland zurückkehrenden Freund” and “Ein Maimorgen in San Francisco”), Hans Demuth (“An das amerikanische Volk”and “Prairiebild”), Martin Drescher, Max Eberhard (“Mein Vaterland”), Georg Edward, Amalia von Ende, Wilhlem Färber, Wilhelm Feistkorn (“In fremden Landen”), Edna Fern, H. H. Fick, Karl A. Fickeissen, Joseph E. Fischnaller, Kuno Francke (“Gruss Amerikas an Deutschland”), Ernst Franz Ludwig Gauss, Julius Göbel (“Zum Gedenktage George Washingtons”), Martha Gödel, Konstantin Grebner (“Der Kurier von Fort Yuma” and “Bernhard Laiboldt” [German soldier in the American Civil War]), M. Greenblatt (“Weihnachten in California”), Karl Gundlach (“Weihnachten am Michigansee” and “Trenton”), F. A. Harter (“Die Schlacht von Beverly-Ford” [American Civil War]), Richard Heine, Ernst Henrici, Johannes Hensen (“Auf der Prairie”), Adalbert von Heyne (“Die beraubte Mutter” and “Lonesome Horse”), A. W. Hildebrandt (“Meiner Frau” [mentions the Iroquois] and “Die Schlacht bei Oriskany”), Julius Hoffmann (“Herbstzauber am Lake Siskowit”), Friedrich von Holdt, Helmut P. Holler (“Heimweh”), Lutz Horn (“In der Prairie”), Hermann C. O. Huss, Friedrich Wilhlem Ihne (“Germania”), Pedro Ilgen, Oskar Illing, Anna Kirchstein (“Meine Heimat”), Karl Knortz, Georg Koob, Filibert Korndörfer, Laura Wilhelmine Krech, August Lange (“Die Auswanderer”), Ernst Eduard Lemcke (“Bismarck”), Georg Lober, Michael J. Lochemes (“Hendrik Hudson,” “Was sich die Prairieblumen erzählen,” and “Niagara”), F. H. Lohmann (“Die deutsche Sprache”), Karl E. G. Lorenz, Johannes Maass (“Wiedersehen” [mentions the shore of Lake Erie, in Buffalo, and wine from Florida], “Danksagungstag,” and “Muskokas Seen”), Elisabeth Mesch, Friedrich Michel (“Weltausstellungslied. Im Gebäude für Elektrizität”), Fred R. Minuth, O. F. Mordhorst (“Das Grab auf der Prärie”), Müller von Davenport, Wilhelm Müller (“Das Lied der neuen Welt,” “Ein königliches Geschenk,” and “Gouvernör van Twiller und die Yankees”), Hugo Münsterberg (“Reisebrief”), Gotthold August Neeff (“Wüstenlied” [set in the Arizona desert] and “Toms letzte Fahrt”), Sophie L. A. Neeff, Konrad Nies (“Deutsch-amerikanische Volkslieder,” “Unter texanischer Sonne,” “In heilfroher Stunde” [mentions San Diego Bay], and “Zur Gedenkfeier an die Errichtung des deutschen Reiches. Dem Vereine deutsch-amerikanische Journalisten und Schriftsteller, Milwaukee, 18. Januar 1910”), Anna Nill (“An meine Heimat”), Nikolaus Johannes Otto, U. Park [pseudonym for Hugo Bardenhewer], Rudolph Puchner (“An den Ufern des Winnebago” and “Oronta. Indianersage”), Joseph Rainer (“An einen Freund in der Heimat”), Heinrich A. Rattermann, Heinrich Rembe (“Heimat”), Ernst Richard (“Joseph Kneiskerns Hochzeit” and “Das Lied von Christian Schell. 1781”), Mathias Rohr (“Der Indianer im Armenhaus”), Lina Romberg, Gustav Rommel, Hermann Rosenthal (“In der Prairie” and “Erinnerung”), Johannes Rothensteiner (“Wie Acoma gewonnen ward,” “Die Kaktusblüte,” and “Die Rache der Indianerin”), Elisabeth Rudolph, Friedrich H. Sauer (“Heimweh”), Clemens A. Schlüter (“Der Dom zu New York” and “Die Brücke zu Brooklyn”), Ewald Schmitt, Heinrich Emil Schneider (“Die Deutschen von Boonville am Missouri” and “New Yorker Weltmesse 1909”), Georg M. A. Schöner (“Mackinac Island”), Wilhelm Otto Stepler, Hermann Stoll, Heinrich Christian Strack (“Grüss Gott!” “Nachtgelicht auf St. Georges Island,”and “Zum Gedächtnis Lincolns”), Johannes Wilhelm Theiss (“California,” and “Am Giessbach Oregons”), Curt Thiersch, Martha Töplitz, Carrie von Veltheim-Hülse, Georg Sylvester Viereck, Johann Bernhard Vinke, Hermann Weigand (“Der Ansiedler”), Karl Christian Wendel, Paul Wienand, Stanislaus v. Wiszcewsky (“Wandrers Heimweh”), and Friedrich A. Wyneken.
Donated by Prof. David M. Gosdeck, Martin Luther College Library, New Ulm, MN.

Neely, Robert trans. “Charles Fordtran.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 27, no. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 40-45, ill.
Abstract: Translation of a newspaper article originally published around 1900, date uncertain and newspaper unidentified. The first page of the original article is photocopied as well. The article concerns Charles Fordtran of Industry, Texas, who was born in 1801 in Minden, Westphalia. He first arrived in New York in 1830 and came to Texas in 1831. Discusses the earliest immigration of German-speaking individuals to Texas soil, the Civil War’s effects upon the German immigrants, and a general history of the town of Industry.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Newspapers/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans

Neff, Mary S. “A German-American Family’s Experience in Lee and Whiteside Counties, Illinois, from 1870.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 6, no. 4, Winter 2003, pp. 5-9.
Abstract: Christoffer Janssen Eggerichs and his wife Gesche Margarethe Menssen arrived in America from Hohenkirchen, Oldenburg, in 1870. Their daughter, Ulrike, married Gerhard Dirks (born in Cleverns, Oldenburg) in 1872. The article includes information on schools, churches, and German-American organizations that were part of their lives in Lee and Whiteside Counties.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ German Americans — Illinois/ Eggerichs/ Dirks/ Menssen

[Nehrling, H. “Die besten Hauspflanzen.” Germania Kalender [fuer das Jahr 1886], vol. [6], [1885], pp. 187-198.
Notes: Continued in the Kalender for 1887, where the article is clearly attributed to H. Nehrling. In this year, the author’s name is only found on the Inhalts-Verzeichnis. This is likely Heinrich / Henry Nehrling (1853-1929), an ornithologist and horticulturist, author of Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (Brumder 1891). Heinrich Nehrling’s son, Werner F. Nehrling, married Minna Francis Hoffmann, granddaughter of Francis A. Hoffmann, aka Hans Buschbauer.
Abstract: I. Das Geranium — II. Die Fuchsie — III. Der Gummibaum (Fiscus elastica) — IV. Die Ardisie (Ardisia crenulata).
PIA [Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder]
PIA/ Horticulture & Gardening

Nehrling, H. “Die besten Hauspflanzen.” Germania Kalender [fuer das Jahr 1887], vol. [7], [1886], pp. 123-132.
Notes: Continued from the Kalender for 1886. The author is likely Heinrich / Henry Nehrling (1853-1929), an ornithologist and horticulturist, author of Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (Brumder 1891). Heinrich Nehrling’s son, Werner F. Nehrling, married Minna Francis Hoffmann, granddaughter of Francis A. Hoffmann, aka Hans Buschbauer.
Abstract: V. Die Schildblume — VI. Die Vallote — VII. Die Clivie oder das Riemenblatt — VIII. Die Ruessellilie — IX. Der Agapanthus oder die Schmucklilie — X. Der Oleander — XI. Die Calla.
PIA [Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder]
PIA/ Horticulture & Gardening

Nehrling, H. “Die besten Hauspflanzen.” Germania Kalender [fuer das Jahr 1888], vol. [8], [1887], pp. 163-180, ill.
Notes: Continued from the Kalender for 1887. The author is likely Heinrich / Henry Nehrling (1853-1929), an ornithologist and horticulturist, author of Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (Brumder, 1891). Heinrich Nehrling’s son, Werner F. Nehrling, married Minna Francis Hoffmann, granddaughter of Francis A. Hoffmann, aka Hans Buschbauer.
Abstract: XII. Kakteen.
PIA [Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder]
PIA/ Horticulture & Gardening

Nehrling, Minna Frances Hoffman. “Memoirs of ‘Riverside Farm’.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 13, no. 4, June 1930, pp. 356-364, ill.
Notes: Minna Frances Hoffmann Nehrling married Werner Francis Nehrling, son of son of Heinrich / Henry Nehrling, author of Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (Brumder, 1891).
Abstract: The author is the granddaughter of Francis A. Hoffmann (1822-1903). Hoffmann was born in Herford, Kreis Minden, Westphalia, and fled the Prussian draft in 1840. After a successful career in Illinois a teacher, Lutheran minister, attorney, banker, organizer of the Illinois Republican Party, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, consul to the Kingdom of Hanover, and a land commissioner for a railroad company, he retired in 1875 to a farm along the Rock River in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, and devoted his time to writing articles on farming and horticulture for the German language press under the pen name Hans Buschbauer.
MKI P2010-4
Hoffmann, Franz Arnold, 1822-1903/ German Americans — Illinois/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Biographies/ Politics/ Agriculture/ Writing

Neitzel, Sarah C., and Terry K. Cargill. “”Stay at home and live with integrity”: Advice to German emigrants to the United States from the Journeymen’s Father.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 63-80.
Abstract: Neitzel and Cargill’s article discusses Father Adolph Kopling’s assessment of the social, economic and political tumults of the period leading up to the Civil War in the United States. Kopling was leader of the Journeymen’s Association (Gesellenverein) in Germany from 1847-1865.
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Civil War, 1861-1865

Nelsen, Frank C. “The German-American Immigrants–Struggle.” International Review of History and Political Science, vol. 10, no. 2, 1973, pp. 37-49.
MKI [currently in 48er Box]
Forty-eighters

Nelson, Jim. “History Set Straight on 1918 Anti-German Book Burning Here.” Baraboo NewsRepublic, May 5, 1983. pp. 1, 5, ill.
Photocopy.
Examines possible motives behind the book burning in an effort to “set the record straight.” A photograph of the aftermath of the burning, attributed to local photographer E. B. Trimpy, resides at the Wisconsin State Historical Society.
MKI P2004-15
Baraboo (Wis.)/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Anti-German sentiment/ World War, 1914-1918/ Wisconsin — Sauk County/ Teaching of German

Nelson, John. “Das Bild des Deutschen in amerikanischen Fernsehen.” In Die USA und Deutschland. Wolfgang Paulsen, ed. 1976, pp. 174-185.
Abstract: Eine Analyse der Deutschen im amerikanischen Fernsehen vom 15. bis zum 21. Maerz 1975. Zwischen wahnsinnigen Sadisten und brutalen Kriegeverbrechern.
MKI PT 123 .U6 A4 1976 / MEM PT 123 .U6 A4 1975
Stereotypes/ Image/ Germans

Nettl, Paul. “Christmas Music.” American-German Review, vol. XIII, no. 2, 1946, pp. 4-6.
Notes: Origins of Chrismas music; lyrics.
MKI Periodicals
Folk Songs, German/ Christmas/ Music

Nettl, Paul. “Hermann Broch.” American German Review, vol. 17, no. 6, 1951, p. 35.
Abstract: Hermann Broch, of Austrian origin, made many important contributions to the science of mathematics, and he also wrote novels. “Extradimensional” quality of his thinking and feeling–nourished by the ideas of Proust, Joyce and Kafka. Broch, Hermann, 1886-1951
MKI P93-79
Literary criticism

Neuberger, Hans. “Lyrik eines Deutschamerikaners.” American German Review, vol. 26, no. 4, 1960, p. 30.
Abstract: Poems of Hans Neuberger
MKI P93-80
Poetry/ Literature, German-American

Neuberger, Kevin. “‘Farm, so heisst in Amerika ein Gut’: Land and Agriculture in a Westerwald Settlement in 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. 163-188, ill.
Abstract: This essay promotes the argument that “given the harsh realities of rural life in the Westerwald, people moved to Wisconsin in the mid-nineteenth century to improve their economic circumstances and to avoid falling into the ranks of the desperate poor.” Examines the German immigrant community whose center was the village of Reeseville in Dodge County, Wisconsin, during the period from 1845 to 1880.
MKI F590 G3 W573 2006
Wisconsin/ Farm life/ Land ethic/ Agriculture/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 19th century/ Wisconsin — Dodge County

Neugart, Carl. “Deutsch-Amerikanischer Staats-Verband von Ohio.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 859-867.
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 — Ohio

Neumann, Rita. 1000 Tage Amerika. Zuhause in einer neuen Welt, oder, was ein Tourist nicht sieht. Allgemeine Literatur in der Blauen Eule, Bd. 10. Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 1987. 192 pp., ill.
The author tells of her three years spent living in America with her husband and two children during the early 1980s, in the form of letters to friends.
Partial contents: Umzug in die Neue Welt — Unser amerikanisches Haus und unser erster Sonntag — Auktion im Gartenclub von Moontownship — “Hummels” und Popcorn — Heimweh beim verrückten Anton — Was ist ein Debütantinnenball und was ist Quark? — Quilt komm von quillt! — Ein Kardinal, Harmonisten und schwäbischen Gedankengut in Pennsylvanien — Wie kommt der Rundfunk zu Geld? und mein erster amerikanischer Hausfreund — Babyshower — Was ist so besonders an Heidelberg/PA — Warum soll man in Amerika das metrische System einführen? — Was ist ein “volunteer”? — Amish People — Berliner Mauer oder was heisst hier Patriotismus — Was soll man denn zu Weihnachten schenken? — Wie die Amerikaner so bauen — Stadtgespräche — Eine deutsch-amerikanische Reise [visiting Germany with Americans] — Nachwort, geschrieben auf Koffern sitzend in einem leergeräumten Haus.

Neutsch, Cornelius. “Vom Westerwald nach Milwaukee. Die Auswanderung Heinrich Georgs im Jahr 1852.” 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. 42-48.
Abstract: Heinrich Georg was born 1821 in Langenaubach near Dillenburg, and emigrated in 1852 for economic reasons. He described the experiences during his journey to America in an extensive diary, which was published 1853 in Dillenburg.
MKI E 184 P3 A94 2009
Palatines/ German Americans/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ History/ Palatinate/ Georg, Heinrich/ Diaries

Neville, Joseph. “A German-American Couple in Wartime Germany, 1914-1915.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 31, no. 2, June 2010, pp. 11-14, ill.
Abstract: “On 15 July 1914, Dr. William G. Kleinstuber and his wife Ida left their home in Wilmington, Delaware, for an extended stay in Europe. Born in Offenbach am Main, Kleinstuber came to the United States and to Wilmington at the age of eleven. . . . The Kleinstubers were among several German Americans living in Wilmington who sailed for the Old Fatherland in 1914. . . . Wilmington’s press, particularly the Lokal-Anzeiger und Freie Presse and the Sunday Morning Star‘s column ‘News Notes of the German-Americans’ followed with special interest the activities of tourists who soon were caught up in the maelstrom of war that broke out in August.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ 20th century/ Germany/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans

Neville, Joseph B. Jr. “Apostles for the Old Fatherland: German-American Tourists and the Outbreak of World War I.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 47, 2012, pp. 9-99, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pp. 72-99).
Abstract: Explores the experiences and reports of German-American tourists who traveled to Germany following the outbreak of hostilities in the late summer of 1914, and how they became transmitters of a German perspective on that war after returning home. For “German-Americans who stayed at home, these tourists were eyewitnesses to what was happening in the Old Fatherland, and their accounts would carry the authoritativeness of not having been filtered through the ‘English press’ in the United States.” The author uses the experiences of German Americans from Wilmington, Delaware, as a case study.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Ethnic identity/ German Americans — Delaware/ 20th century/ Travel/ Newspapers, German-American/ 20th century

Neville, Joseph B. Jr. “Disloyal or Not? Four Deutschtexaner and the Great War.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 53, 2018, pp. 95-132 pp. : ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans

Neville, Joseph B. Jr. “German-America Writes ‘Home’: Its ‘Prevailing Mood’ and the Beginning of World War I.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 49, 2014, pp. 53-100; ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Examines letters sent primarily from German-Americans in the United States to Germany from August 1914 throughout the fall of that year, which were subsequently published in German newspapers,and which helped form a German perception of those of German heritage in the United States.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Letters

New Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold. “A Resolution to Celebrate the German-American Heritage: Joint Resolution Approved by President Reagan on August 18, 1987.” Pamphlet, 1987.
Notes: Joint resolution to designate October 6, 1987, as “German-American Day.”
MKI P90-20
Festivals/ German Americans

Newman, Carol. “From Small to Huge, Then Gone: Timeline Tracks Some of the Memorable Moments in Former Factory’s History.” Tri-County News / New Holstein Reporter, Feb. 14, 2008. pp. 16-17, ill.
Timeline marking important dates in the history of the Lauson Implement Company (later the Tecumseh Products Company) of New Holstein, Wisconsin. The parents of the Lauson brothers emigrated from Schleswig-Holstein in 1867 to Calumet County, Wisconsin.
MKI P2009-1
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Wisconsin — Calumet County/ Business & Industry/ Lauson/ New Holstein (Wis.)

Newman, Carol J. “A Turn for the Future.” The Country Gazette, Jan./Feb. 2000, pp. 18-19, 44, ill.
Notes: Donated by the author, Jan. 2004.
Abstract: Historical overview of the Wisconsin Turnerverein movement with a focus on Camp Brosius in Elkhart Lake, Sheboygan County.
MKI P2004-5
Physical education/ History/ Turners/ Wisconsin — Sheboygan County

Newman, Nancy. “”Gleiche Rechte, gleiche Pflichten und gleiche Genuesse”: Henry Albrecht’s utopian vision of the Germania Musical Society.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 34, 1999, pp. 83-111.
Abstract: The Germania Musical Society is widely acknowledged to have been one of the most important traveling orchestras to visit the United States in the 19th century. It was an orchestra of about two dozen men who traveled widely in the United States and Canada between 1848 and 1854. This article emphasizes one of its members, Henry Albrecht, and his political life related to the Revolution of 1848.
MKI Periodicals
Music/ Politics/ Revolution, 1848-1849

Newtown, George. “James Fenimore Cooper, Frontier Mythology, and the New Ulm Apologists.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 21, 1986, pp. 97-106.
Abstract: Newtowne’s article discusses the conflict between the German settlers of New Ulm and the American Indians who lived on the land. It focusses on the Germans’ use of frontier mythology to justify settling the land. It describes Cooper’s use of the myth of the “Noble Savage” as well as the process of mythicizing American Indians as noble or ignoble savages.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
New Ulm (Minn.)/ Myths/ 19th century/ Native Americans/ Stereotypes/ Minnesota

Nickisch, Craig W. “German and National Policy: The West Point Experience.” 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. 76-82.
Abstract: Papers from a conference sponsored by the Dept. of German and the Max Kade Institute for German American Studies of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, held at the University April 1983
MKI PF 3068 .U6 T4 1988
Language, German (US)/ Teaching

Nicolay, C. L. “Berlin, a German Settlement in Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada.” German American Annals, vol. 5, n.s., 1907, pp. 105-121.
MKI Periodicals
Canadian Germans

Nicolini, Marcus. “Deutsch in Texas [Translation].” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 3, Fall 2005, pp. 292-296.
Notes: Translation by Karen Morgan.
Abstract: Examines the history of the German language as spoken in Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Language, German (US) — Dialects

Niefer, H. Die Erhaltung des Deutschtums in den Vereinigten Staaten. St. Louis, Mo; Chicago, Ill.: Eden Publishing House, 1913. 14 pp.
Notes: On cover: Vortrag von Pastor H. Niefer. Milwaukee, Wis. — “Rede, gehalten A. E. Meyer (Chicago) bei Einweihung des Bismarckdenkmals in Riverview Park am 25. Mai 1913” (pp. 13-14) — Donated by the German Society of Pennsylvania, 2015.
Abstract: I. Inwieweit ist es wünschenswert? II. Inwieweit ist es möglich?
MKI P2019-01
German Americans/ Cultural influence/ Cultural contribution/ United States

Niemeyer, Paul. Gesundheitslehre. Auszuege u.s.w. aus den “Aerztlichen Sprechstunden”. Extra-Praemie des “Herold,” 6. Milwaukee, Wis.: Herold, n.d. 361 pp.
MKI P88-50
PIA/ Medicine & Health/ Reference

Niers, Gert. “Aspekte deutschamerikanischer Gegenwartsliteratur.” Schatzkammer, vol. 21, no. Nos. 1 & 2, 1995, pp. 51-63.
Notes: Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte.
Abstract: “Das Konzept deutschamerikanische Literatur (egal, ob der Autor in Amerika oder im deutschprachigen Europa geboren wurde, ob er freiwillig oder als Emigrant in die Vereinigten Staaten kam) setzt eine bestimmte geistige Haltung des Autors, auch eine geistig-emotionale Landschaft, in und aus der heraus das jeweilige Werk entstanden ist, voraus. Insofern bedarf es nicht der Festlegung auf Deutsch oder Englisch als der Sprache der literarischen Ausfuerhung. Das heisst zugleich: bei diesem Literaturkonzept geht es nicht vordringlich um sprachlich-formale, sondern um inhaltsbezogenen Kriterien. Eine so verstandene deutschamerikanische Literatur reflektiert die deutschamerikanische Erfahrung asl amerikanische Erfahrung und wird damit nicht nur zu einem amerikanischen Kulturzeugnis ersten Ranges, sondern zu einem Dokument menschlicher Existenz schlechthin.”
P2001-36
Literature, German-American

Niers, Gert. “Einige Bemerkungen zu Goethes Amerika-Bild in den beiden Willhelm-Meister-Romanen.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 1979, pp. 46-59.
Abstract: Niers’ 13 page article is divided into the following sections: Goethe und Amerika; Traumland Amerika; Nach Amerika und Zurueck; Philanthropischer Despotismus; Amerika als Moeglichkeit des Neubeginns; Blick nach Pennsylvania; and Wandern und Auswandern.
MKI Periodicals
United States in literature/ Wars/ United States/ Travel

Niers, Gert. “German and German-American studies. An integration attempt.” Schatzkammer, vol. 23, no. 1 & 2, 1997, pp. 93-104.
Abstract: German-American Studies is a complementary discipline which may carry German out of the German department into other parts of academia and bring back from other departments new insights and perhaps also new students. It can be easily integrated into existing forms of German instruction without threatening the German or other foreign language programs. It could create a counterbalance to the erosion of German programs by approaching German language and culture as a legitimate American phenomenon
MKI P98-13
German-American Studies

Niers, Gert. “In memoriam Peter M. Lindt.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, 1977, pp. 23-24.
Abstract: Niers’ 2 page obituary notes the death of Peter M. Lindt, President of the Social Scientific Society for Intercultural Relations, Inc., and provides a brief history of the man’s life and works.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ Obituaries

Niers, Gert. “Pruegelknaben der Nation.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 14, no. 4, 1979, inside and outside back covers.
Abstract: Niers’ 2 page article reviews Frederick C. Luebke’s book Bonds of Loyalty: German Americans and World War I (Northern Illinois University Press).
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans

Niers, Gert. “Review of ‘Amerika im austro-amerikanischen Gedicht 1938-1978,’ by Mimi Grossberg. Wien: Bergland Verlag, 1978.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, 1978, pp. 128.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews

Niers, Gert. “Review of Margarete Kollisch’s ‘Wege und Einkehr. Ausgewaehlte Gedichte’ and ‘Unverlorene Zeit. Ausgewaehlte Gedichte und Betrachtungen.'” German-American Studies, vol. 9, Spring 1975, pp. 68-70.
MKI / SHS E 184. G3 G315
Book reviews

Niers, Gert. “Review of “Maria Berl Lee: Schaumwein aus meinem Krug. Gedichte, Prosa, Dramatik.” (Bergland Verlag: Wien).” German-American Studies, vol. 9, Spring 1975, pp. 70.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Niers, Gert. “Review of Mimi Grossberg’s ‘Gedichte und Kleine Prosa,’ ‘Kleinkunst aus Amerika,’ ‘Oesterreichs Literarische Emigration in den Vereinigten Staaten,’ ‘Oesterreichische Autoren in Amerika’ und ‘Die K.u.K. Armee in der Oesterreichischen Satire.'” German-American Studies, vol. 9, Spring 1975, pp. 71-74.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews

Nies, Konrad. “Zweck und Ziel dieser Zeitschrift.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1970, pp. 104-105.
Abstract: This is a reprint of Nies’ article in the first issue of “Deutsch-Amerikanische Dichtung,” published in 1888 in Omaha and New York.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, German-American/ Poetry/ Literary criticism/ Periodicals, German-American

Nigg, John. Festschrift zum Silbernen Jubilaeum der Gemeinde Windthorst, Texas, 1892-1917. S.l.: s.n., 1917? 58 pp., ill.
Notes: On title page: Gewdimet seinen Pfarrkindern, Freunden und Bekannten von Hochw. Pater Frowin Koerdt O. S. B., Pfarrer der Gemeinde
MKI P84-49
PIA/ Texas/ History/ Catholic Church

Nighswander, J. M. “Status and Use of PA German/Dutch in the Markham District of the Region of York, Ontario, Canada.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, Winter 1999, pp. 21-22.
Notes: Millersville University.
MKI Periodicals
German Canadians/ Language, German (Canada) — Dialects/ Mennonites/ German language — Dialects/ Pennsylvania-German dialect

Nikesch, Ethel-Maria. “Muttersprache and Fatherland: A Study of Nineteenth-Century German-American Schools and Textbooks with Reference to Pedagogical Application at the ‘Realschul’ Level.” Paedagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe, 2006. 155 pp., ill.
Notes: Paedagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe, Wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit zum Thema. Fach: Geschichte. 1. Prueferin: Prof. Dr. Liebig. 2. Prueferin: Dr. Teichmann. Abgabetermin: 24. Oktober 2006. Donated by Ethel-Maria Nikesch.
Abstract: This paper focuses on the Lutheran schools and the German-English Academy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, examining and comparing their schoolbooks in terms of educational approaches. The first part addresses immigration to the United States, specifically to Wisconsin and Milwaukee, and describes the atmosphere in 19th-century immigrant Milwaukee. The second part examines specific educational theories of the parochial schools, presenting their goals, curriculum, and textbooks. The next section focuses on the German-English Academy, its history, goals, and curriculum, followed by an analysis of four textbooks published by the Academy. The textbooks for both schools are examined in terms of method, content, values, and importance of German as mother tongue. The final chapter presents ideas for utilizing these primary sources in today’s classrooms in a unit on German immigration to the U.S.
MKI P2007-4
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Schools/ German-English Academy/ Education/ Textbooks.

Nikesch, Ethel-Maria. Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung in the Midwest: Post-War German Immigrants Recall Their Experiences. [Moorhead, Minn.]: [Concordia College], 2006. 39 pp.
Notes: Senior thesis submitted for the History Research Class 410, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, April 2006. Includes bibliographical references. Donated by Ethel-Maria Nikesch.
Abstract: “German immigrants who came to the United States after WWII brought with them their Holocaust past and feelings of co-responsibility that resulted in feelings of embarrassment, shame, and in some cases even guilt. They dealt with these challenges in different ways until they found a new identity as German-Americans. . . . The following three questions . . . are addressed in this paper based on interviews with post-WWII German Americans in the Midwest: How were the German immigrants’ relationships with Americans? How were they confronted with and how did they deal with the Holocaust? In which ways have they shaped a German-American identity?”
MKI P2006-9
History/ Middle West/ World War, 1939-1945 — German Americans/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ Ethnic identity/ Personal narratives

Noblitt, Harding C. “German Allegiance to the Democratic Party.” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1981, 123-26.
Abstract: Noblitt’s paper suggests subjects for further study re German-Americans’ involvement in Minnesota politics, especially in the Democratic Party.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981
German Americans — Minnesota/ Political activity

Noderer, Evelyn. “German Christmas celebration.” The German Connection, vol. 13, no. 1, 1989, pp. 6-7.
Abstract: Christmas in Germany: Advent, Nicholas day, Christkind, Weihnachtsmann, Christmas tree, Christkindlesmarkt.
MKI periodicals
Germany/ Social life and customs/ Christmas

Nohlen, Walter. “Die Suedwestdeutsche Presse und die Amerikanische Revolution 1775/76.” In USA–Universitaet Tuebingen. Volker Schaeffer, and Uwe Jens Wandel, bearb. 1976, pp. 13-27.
Abstract: Hier soll der Versuch unternommen werden, darzustellen, wie sich die Amerikanische Revolution dem zeitgenoessischen Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenleser, d.h. den Gebildeten, in Sueddeutschland darbot. Dabei soll es, die in der zeitgenoessischen Presse vorhandenen Auffassungen ueber die Ereignisse, die Beurteilungen und Kommentare herausarbeiten.
MKI P85-126 / MEM LF 3132.5 .U17
Revolution, 1775-1783/ America in German literature/ Journalism/ Newspapers/ Foreign public opinion/ United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Foreign public opinion, German

Nokkentved, Christian D. “Transatlantic Connections: The Lloyd Family and Switzerland.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 25, 1990, pp. 93-108.
Abstract: Nokkentved’s article discusses the Lloyd family’s interest in Swiss history and institutions. It summarizes their two books on Switzerland.
MKI Periodicals
Switzerland

Nollendorfs, Cora Lee. “Alexander R. Hohlfeld and the Wisconsin Project on Anglo-German Literary Relations: Defining the Role of a German Department in America.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 155-161.
Abstract: Nollendorfs’s article discusses the dissertations completed under the Wisconsin Project.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Literature, German (US)/ Language, German (US)/ Bibliographies

Nollendorfs, Cora Lee. “Alexander von Humboldt centennial celebrations in the United States: Controversies concerning his work.” Monatshefte, vol. 80, no. 1, Spring 1988, pp. 59-66.
Notes: Monatshefte fuer deutschen Unterricht, deutsche Sprache und Literature.
Abstract: “The Centennial anniversary of Humboldt’s birth was widely celebrated in the U.S. in 1869, and his contributions in the natural sciences were given widespread praise. The problem speakers faced concerned the philosophical basis and impact of his work and his personal religious persuasion. Critics accused him of atheism and materialism, while supporters defended him against these charges.”
MKI P2001-35
United States/ Science

Nollendorfs, Cora Lee. “Alice Cholmondeley’s “Christine” and the Image of Germany in America in 1917.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 19, 1984, pp. 121-132.
Abstract: Nollendorfs’ article argues for the study of national images in literature, “of how and why they function,” as a fruitful endeavor for literary scholars. Focusing on the novel “Christine” by Alice Cholmondeley, it discusses the portrayal of Germany and Germans in American literature in 1917, as well as the career of the author, also known as Elizabeth Russell. Nollendorfs makes use of various best seller lists to chart the book’s popularity.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Germany in literature/ United States/ World War, 1914-1918/ Women authors/ Stereotypes/ Image

Nollendorfs, Cora Lee. “Dr. G. Bloede vs. Far West: The Philosophical Debate in Christian Essellen’s Atlantis.” 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. 57-67.
Abstract: This volume attempts to present a relatively broad spectrum of the broadly-defined German-American press’ activity.
MKI PN 4885 .G3 G467 1992
German-American press

Nollendorfs, Cora Lee. “The First World War and the Survival of German Studies: With a Tribute to Alexander R. Hohlfeld.” 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. 176-196.
Abstract: Papers from a conference sponsored by the Dept. of German and the Max Kade Institute for German American Studies of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, held at the University April 1983.
MKI PF 3068 .U6 T4 1988
Language, German (US)/ Teaching

Nollendorfs, Cora Lee. “Staking out a broader field for German-American Studies: The discipline and its place within academia.” Monatshefte, vol. 86, no. 3, 1994, pp. 346-349.
Abstract: German-American Studies should concern themselves with all aspects of the overlapping and mutual influencing of the two cultures. We should include not only the influence of German culture on the development of America, but also the influence of American culture on Germany. Cross-cultural and comparative topics mus be part of G-A Studies’s agenda. What should a degree in German-American Studies at the undergraduate or graduate level prepare a student for? German-American scholars will include historians, political scientists, linguists, literary scholars, Germanists, and representatives from many other fields. Other useful models for an undergraduate program are the recently- instituted ethnic studies programs. Their interest in studying the meeting of two cultures, as well as their multi-dimensional, interdisciplinary subject matter make their experiences relevant to those which German-American Studies programs will also face.
MKI P99-9
German-American Studies/ Cultural influence/ Teaching

Nollendorfs, Cora Lee, Brent O. Peterson, and Joseph C. Salmons. “German-American Studies: Definition and Outlook.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 1, 1994, pp. 2-3.
Abstract: What is German-American studies and where is it headed? This report reviews three central issues 1) the definition of the field and its academic status; 2) practical considerations relevant to the advancement of research in German-American studies; and 3) the role of the SGAS in German-American studies and ways to further its mission
MKI Periodicals
German-American Studies

Nollendorfs, Valters. “A symposium on German-American Studies; The field, the boundaries, and the cultivators of German-American Studies.” Monatshefte, vol. 86, no. 3, 1994, pp. 319-331.
Abstract: Overview of background and suggestions to broaden the field
MKI P99-9
German-American Studies

Nolte, Marlene A. “The Immigrants: Why They Came.” German-American Genealogy, Fall 2000, pp. 21-23.
Abstract: This article examines the social and political influences that were in part responsible for the wave of German immigration to the United States in the nineteenth century.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)

Nolte, Marlene A. “The immigrants: Why They Came–Switzerland.” German-American Genealogy, Spring 2001, pp. 20-22.
Abstract: Information about the “immigrant’s typical experience” and research implications concerning ship manifests.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Switzerland

Nolten, Linda. “The German Free Congregations of Wisconsin with special emphasis on the Sauk City congregation.”unpublished. 12 pp.
Notes: Student paper for German 610, Prof. Juergen Eichhoff, dated May 13, 1983.
MKI P2001-24
Freethinkers/ Sauk City (Wis.)/ Forty-eighters/ Wisconsin.

Nolting, Matth. “From Fehmarn, Germany to Preston, Iowa: The Immigrant Story of Matth Nolting, 1890-1984.” Infoblatt, vol. 9, no. 2, Spring 2004, pp. 5-8, ill.
Abstract: Matth Nolting was born in Burg auf Fehmarn (an island in the Baltic Sea) in 1890 and immigrated to the U.S. in 1906 at 16 years of age. He wrote this narrative in 1977.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ German Americans — Iowa/ Personal narratives

Nommensen, B. P., editor. Evangelisch-Lutherischer Krankentrost. Milwaukee: B. P. Nommensen. 1. Jahrg., Nr. 1 (Juli 1898) – 6. Jahrg., Nr. 4 (Maerz 1906) [Incomplete holdings]. Herausgegeben von Pastor B. [Bendix] P. Nommensen, 1231 Kinnickinnic Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.
Erscheint vierteljaehrlich und kostet pro Jahr 5 Cents. —- Donated by Christel Haeck, Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary Library, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Prayers and songs to comfort the sick. MKI owns: 1. Jahrg. Nr. 1, July 1898 (2 copies); 1. Jahrg., Nr. 2, Oktober 1898 (2 copies); 1. Jahrg., Nr. 3, Januar 1899 (3 copies); 1 Jahrg., Nr. 4, April 1899 —- 2. Jahrg., Nr. 3, Januar 1900; 2. Jahrg., Nr. 4, April 1900 (2 copies) —- 3. Jahrg., Nr. 1, July 1900; 3. Jahrg., Nr. 2, Oktober 1900 (2 copies); 3. Jahrg., Nr. 3, April 1901; 3. Jahrg., Nr. 4, August 1901 —- 4. Jahrg., Nr. 1, Januar 1902; 4. Jahrg., Nr. 2, April 1902; 4. Jahrg., Nr. 3, August 1902 (3 copies); 4. Jahrg., Nr. 4, Oktober 1903 —- 5. Jahrg., Nr. 4, Oktober 1904 (3 copies) —- 6. Jahrg., No. 1, Januar 1905 (3 copies); 6. Jahrg., No. 2, April 1905 (3 copies); 6. Jahrg., No. 3, Juli 1905 (2 copies); 6. Jahrg., No. 4, Maerz 1906 (4 copies).
MKI Periodicals
Periodicals/ Lutherans/ Prayers/ Sick — Prayer-books and devotions

Norris, Tim. “Tracing the German flavor: Sure, Milwaukee has strong German roots, but what does that heritage mean today?” Milwaukee Journal, June 24, 1990, pp. ?-42.
Notes: 8.5 x 11 photocopy. Photography by Karen Sherlock.
Abstract: Article attempts to define the significance of German heritage, especially in the Milwaukee area. Quotes from Henry Geitz, Director emeritus of Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, and Juergen Eichhoff, German linguistics professor.
MKI P2000-22
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Ethnic identity

Northrup, Mary. “Famous German Americans.” Cobblestone, vol. 22, no. 5, May 2001, pp. 36-39, ill.
Notes: German Americans issue; intended for readers ages 9-14.
Abstract: Brief profiles of John Jacob Astor, Levi Strauss, Margarethe Meyer Schurz, Albert Einstein, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Werner von Braun.
P2003-5
German Americans — Biography

Norton, Sydney. “German Immigrant Abolitionists: Fighting for a Free Missouri.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 51, 2016, pp. 83-107, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references (pp. 104-107).
Abstract: Discusses the origins of German immigrant abolitionism; the progressive newspapers of Hermann, Missouri (a center for antislavery activity in the state), particularly Carl Strehly and Eduard Muehl’s Hermanner Wochenblatt; Arnold Krekel (“emancipator, educator, and self-made man”); growth, social volatility, and political unrest in antebellum St. Louis; Henry and Augustus Boernstein, radical German journalists in St. Louis; the German immigrant as soldier: Franz Sigel, Peter Osterhaus, and the Turners; and Missouri Germans and Reconstruction.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Missouri/ Slavery/ Abolitionists/ Newspapers/ Forty-eighters/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Norton, Sydney. “German Immigrant Abolitionists [theme issue]: Fighting for a Free Missouri.” Der Maibaum (Deutschheim Association Journal), vol. 25, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2016, pp. 26 p. ; ill. + wrapper.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and exhibition list.
Abstract: This special issue consists of the catalog to the exhibit presented at Saint Louis University (February – May 2016) and Deutschheim State Historic Site (September 2016 – February 2017).
MKI P2018-09
German Americans — Missouri/ Slavery/ Abolitionists

Nuetzel, Daniel. “Case loss and morphosyntactic change in Haysville East Franconian.” 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. 307-321.
Abstract: Languages in the final stages of language death are prone to severe morphological loss. It is claimed that languages with SOV word order which undergo such loss in their case inflection gradually assume SVO work order. In this paper, the author shows that the moribund East Franconian dialect of Haysville, Dubois County, Indiana, has lost most case distinctions within its nominal and pronominal systems without significantly changing its SOV word order.
MKI PF 5925 G47 1993
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Linguistics/ Research/ Indiana/ Dialects

Nuetzel, Daniel. “Haysville East Franconian.” [5] pp.
Abstract: Examples of infinitives, stem-changing verbs, past tense, subjunctive, die “flektierenden Konjunktionen,” and word order.
MKI P2002-11
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Linguistics/ Research/ Indiana/ Dialects