German Immigrants in the United States 1848 to Present: Bibliography


Note: Call Numbers: MKI: Max Kade Institute; SHS: State Historical Society; MEM: Memorial Library; COLL: College Library


Deutsche Amerikaner in Kirche und Staat von 1626 bis zur Gegenwart. 1892. Cleveland, Ohio: Lauer & Mattill.
MKI 184 .G3 D485 1892.

Whole Issue on Germans in Wisconsin. 1989. Globus 21(1).
MKI P92-5/MEM.

Adams, Willi P. The German-Americans: An Ethnic Experience. American edition ed. translators La V. J. Rippley and Eberhard Reichmann. Bloomington, Indiana: Max Kade German-American Center; 46 p.
MKI E 184 .G3 A3 1983 / SHS Pam 93-1932.

Anderson, Harry H. and Frederick I. Olson. 1981. Milwaukee, at the gathering of the waters. Tulsa, Okla.: Continental Heritage Press.
MKI/MEM F 589 .M657 A52 1981.

Anneke, Mathilde F. 1983. Die gebrochenen Ketten: Erzaehlungen, Reportagen und Reden 1861-1873. Herausgeber Maria Wagner. Stuttgart: Hans-Dieter Heinz Akademischer Verlag; 226 p.
MKI PT 1802 .A63 A6 1983; 2nd copy P87-102.

Berninger, Dieter. 1987-1988. "Milwaukee's German-American Community and the Nazi Challenge of the 1930's." Wisconsin Magazine of History 71(2):p. 118-43.
MKI Periodicals/SHS.

Blaschke, Monika and Christiane Harzig, eds. 1990. Frauen wandern aus: Deutsche Migrantinnen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Bremen: Labor Migration Project; 217 p.
MKI new; SHS Pam 90-3693.

Brancaforte, Charlotte L., editor. The German Forty-Eighters in the United States. New York: Peter Lang; 305 pp.
MKI /SHS E 184 .G3 G354 1989.

Brancaforte, Charlotte L. 1998. Mathilde Franziska Anneke: An essay on her life. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Public Museum; 63 p.
MKI P98-14.

Bruncken, Ernest. 1896. "The Germans in Wisconsin Politics. I: Until the Rise of the Republican Party." Parkman Club Papers No.9225-38.
MKI P85-60 / SHS F9021 P24 v.1 Cutter.

Bruncken, Ernest. 1898. How the Germans Become Americans. Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin; 22 p.
PIA P90-10; SHS microfilm.

Conzen, Kathleen N. 1985. "German-Americans and the Invention of Ethnicity." Pp. 131-47 in America and the Germans. vol. 1, eds Trommler, Frank and Joseph McVeigh.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 A39 1985.

Conzen, Kathleen N. 1972. ""The German Athens": Milwaukee and the Accommodation of Its Immigrants 1836-1860. Dissertation." Univ. of Wisconsin.
MKI / MEM AWB C7669 K375.

Conzen, Kathleen N. 1976. Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836-1860: Accomodation and Community in a Frontier City. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 300 p.
MKI/SHS F589 .M6 C89 1976

Conzen, Kathleen N. 1981. "The Paradox of German American Assimilation." Yearbook of German-American Studies 16:153-60.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315.

Cronau, Rudolf. 1909. Drei Jahrhunderte Deutschen Lebens in Amerika: Eine Geschichte der Deutschen in den Vereinigten Staaten. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen);
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 C7 1909

Custer, Frank. 1985. "Madison's Early Germans Loved Parks, Beer, and Song." Madison Magazine 78-82.
MKI P85-123/SHS.

De Haas, Carl. 1848. North America Wisconsin Hints for Emigrants. 2nd ed. Elberfeld and Iserlohn: Julius Baedecker Verlag; 72 p.
MKI P88-67.

DuBois, Rachel D. and Emma Schweppe, eds. 1972. The Germans in American Life. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press;
MKI E 184 .G3 D8 1972 (B86-69) / SHS Microforms Room (1936 ed.).

Eichhoff, Juergen. 1971. "German in Wisconsin." The German Language in America, ed. Gilbert, Glenn G.
MKI/MEM PF 5925 .G4


Eichhoff, Juergen. 1970. "Wisconsin's German-Americans: From Ethnic Identity to Assimilation." German-American Studies 2(2):44-53.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315.

Eicke, Dieter and Joachim Reppmann. 1983. Amerika: Hoffnung and Sehnsucht: Aus alten Auswanderer-Rathgebern. Flensburg: Chamaeleon-Verlag;
MKI E184 G3 E3 1983; P87-67; SHS Pam 85-2044.

Faust, Albert B. 1909. The German Element in the United States, with Special Reference to its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company;
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 F3 1909

Frank, Louis F., comp. 1971. German-American Pioneers in Wisconsin and Michigan: The Frank-Kerler Letters, 1849-1864. Milwaukee: Milwaukee County Historical Society;
MKI/SHS F 575 .G3 F813 (B84-75) / MEM F 575 .G3 F813.

Freeman, Samuel. 1972. The emigrant's hand book, and guide to Wisconsin, comprising information respecting agricultural and manufacturing employment. Milwaukee: Sentinel and Gazette Power Press ; 148 p.
MKI/SHS F 586 F85 1972.

Friesen, Gerhard K. and Walter Schatzberg, eds. The German Contribution to the Building of the Americas: Studies in Honor of Karl J. R. Arndt. Worcester, MA: Clark Univ. Press; 410 pp.
MKI/SHS E 29 .G3 G47

Fryxell, David A. 1983. "A Touch of Germany: German-Americans Celebrate Their Heritage Across America." Horizon 26(3):32-33.
MKI P84-56/SHS.

Furer, Howard, ed. 1973. The Germans in America 1607-1970: A Chronology and Fact Book. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications;
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 F88 1973


Galicich, Anne. The German Americans. New York: Chelsea House Publishers; 127 p.
MKI E 184 .G3 G15 1989.

Glaser, Wolfgang. 1986. Americans and Germans: A Handy Reader and Reference Book / Deutsche und Amerikaner: Ein Lese- und Nachschlagebuch. Graefelfing vor Muenchen: Verlag Moos & Partner;
MKI E 183.8 .G3 G52 1986; P87-89.

Gurda, John. 1996. ""America's Most German-American City" Milwaukee Looks Back on Its Legacy As the Deutsch-Athen." German Life 42-45.
MKI P97-42.

Haller, Charles R. 1993. Across the Atlantic and beyond: The migration of German and Swiss immigrants to America. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books; 324 p.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H23 1993.

Harzig, Christiane, Author. Familie, Arbeit und weibliche Oeffentlichkeit in einer Einwanderungsstadt: Deutschamerikanerinnen in Chicago um die Jahrhundertwende. St. Katharinen: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag; 336 p.
MKI/SHS HQ 1439 .C47 H37 1991.

Hawgood, John A. 1970. The Tragedy of German-America: The Germans in the United States of America during the Nineteenth Century--and After. Reprint. New York: Arno Press and the New York Times;
MKI/MEM E184.G3 H27 1970 .

Heilbut, Anthony. 1983. Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America, from the 1930's to the Present . New York: The Viking Press; 506 pp.
MKI/SHS E 184 .J5 H534 1983


[Heinrici, Max], ed. 1909. Das Buch der Deutschen in America. Philadelphia: Walthers Buchdruckerei;
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909


Heinzen, Karl P. 1867. Die Teutschen und die Amerikaner. 2nd ed. hrsg. Verein zur Verbreitung radikaler Prinzipien;
MKI E 184 .G3 H3 (B84-107) / SHS F 8399G .H47 (Cutter).

Helbich, Wolfgang J. 1988. "Alle Menschen sind dort gleich ...": die deutsche Amerika-Auswanderung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Duesseldorf: Schwann.
MKI/SHS E 184 G3 H45 1988 .

Helbich, Wolfgang J., Hrsg. 1985. "Amerika ist ein freies Land"--: Auswanderer schreiben nach Deutschland. Mitarbeit Ursula Boesing. Darmstadt: Luchterhand; 223 pp.
MKI E 184 .G3 A437 1985.

Helbich, Wolfgang J. 1987. "The Letters They Sent Home: The Subjective Perspective of German Immigrants in the Nineteenth Century." Yearbook of German-American Studies 22:1-20.
MKI peridodicals/SHS.

Hense-Jensen, Wilhelm. 1900. Wisconsin's Deutsch-Amerikaner bis zum Schluss des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Milwaukee: Deutsche Gesellschaft; 2 vols.
MKI/SHS F 590 .G3 H5

"Alte Baeume Verpflanzen Sich Schlecht." Brief Eines Deutschen Farmers Aus Nordamerika. 1983. Pp. 402 in Hessisches Auswandererbuch, hrsg. Herder, Hans.
MKI/MEM E 184 .G3 H52 1983.

Herder, Hans, hrsg. 1983. Hessisches Auswandererbuch: Berichte, Chroniken und Dokumente zur Geschichte hessischer Einwanderer in den Vereinigten Staaten 1683-1983. Ein hessischer Beitrag zum 300. Jahrestag der ersten deutschen Einwanderung in Amerika. Frankfurt a/M: Insel Verlag;
MKI/MEM E 184 .G3 H52 1983

Hoeveler, Diane L., ed. 1979. Milwaukee women yesterday. [Milwaukee, WI]: University of Wisconsin Board of Regents; 86 p.
MKI P88-137/SHS Pam 79-996.

Holtmann, Antonius, ed. 1995. "Ferner thue ich euch zu wissen..." Briefe des Johann Heinrich zur Oesveste aus Amerika (1834-1876). Bremen: Temmen; 175 p.
MKI/ SHS E184.G3 Z87 1995.

Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. The German American family album. New York: Oxford University Press; 127 p.
MKI / SHS E184.G3 H65 1995.

Jacobi, C. H. 1 Feb 1924. "Reminiscences of Early Days in Watertown." Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, WI) [Photocopy].
MKI P85-134.

Kamphoefner, Walter D., Wolfgang J. Helbich, and Ulrike Sommer, Editors. News from the land of freedom: German immigrants write home. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press; 645 p.
MKI/SHS E184.G3 B7513 1991.

Keller, Phyllis. 1979. States of Belonging: German-American Intellectuals and the First World War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press; 324 pp.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 K39.

Keresztesi, Michael and Gary Cocozzoli, eds. 1980. German-American History and Life: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale;
MKI/SHS Z 1361 .G37 K47 / MEM REFERENCE E 184 .G3 K45.

Kerl, Otto. "Forty-Eight Years in Dane County: The Experiences of a German Pioneer of Dane County." 39 p.
MKI P98-4.

Kirschbaum, Erik. 1986. The Eradication of German Culture in the United States: 1917-1918. Stuttgart: Hans-Dieter Heinz, Akademischer Verlag Stuttgart;
MKI E 184 .G3 K48 1986; P87-50; SHS Pam 90-3238.

Kuyper, Susan J. 1980. "The Americanization of German Immigrants: Language, Religion and Schools in Nineteenth Century Rural Wisconsin. Dissertation." Univ. of Wisconsin.
MKI theses / MEM AWB K97803 S863 / SHS Microforms Room.

Lacher, J. H. A. 1925. The German element in Wisconsin. Milwaukee: Steuben Society of America.
MKI P84-105; P91-49 /SHS Pam 88-2303.

Levine, Bruce. The migration of ideology and the contested meaning of freedom: German-Americans in the mid-nineteenth century. Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute; 24 p.
MKI P97-37; 2nd copy on Periodicals shelf: German Historical Institute.

Luebke, Frederick C. 1974. Bonds of Loyalty: German-Americans and World War I. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois Press; 366 pp.
MKI/SHS D 620 .L83

Luebke, Frederick C. 1978. "The Germans." Pp. 64-90 in Ethnic Leadership in America. ed. Higham, John.
MKI P86-99 / MEM HM 141 .E86.

Luebke, Frederick C. Germans in the New World: Essays in the history of immigration. Urbana: University of Illinois Press; 198 p.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 L9 1990.

Marschalck, Peter. 1973. Deutsche Ueberseewanderung im 19. Jahrhundert, ein Beitrag zur sozialogischen Theorie der Bevoelkerung . Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Verlag;
MKI JV 8010 .M34 1973; P84-78 / MEM JV 8010 .M34.

Marx, Henry. 1984. "Germans in America, 1683-1983." Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Newsletter 15:31-34.
MKI P87-125.

Merrill, Peter C. 1997. German-American artists in early Milwaukee: A biographical dictionary. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies; 165 p.
MKI/Art Library N 6538 G47 M465 1997.

Moltmann, Guenter. 1982. Germans to America: 300 Years of Immigration 1683 to 1983. Stuttgart: Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations;
MKI E 184 .G3 G33 1982 / SHS E 184 .G3 G33 1982.

Mueller, Theodore. 1968. "Milwaukee's German Heritage: "Das Deutsch-Athen Am Michigan See"." Historical Messenger of the Milwaukee County Historical Society 24(3):84-95.
MKI P84-81 / SHS F 587 .M6 H5/24.

Niers, Gert, author. Frauen schreiben im Exil : zum Werk der nach Amerika emigrierten Lyrikerinnen Margarete Kollisch, Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss, Vera Lachmann. Frankfurt am Main; New York: Peter Lang; 209 p.
MKI/MEM PT 553 .N54 1988 .

Padrutt, Berdina E. 198? Berdina remembers: recollections of rural Wisconsin in the 1920's. Darlington, WI: Southwest Graphics (printer); 63
MKI CT 275 .P18 A3 1990/SHS Pam 90-422.

Pickle, Linda S. Contented among strangers: Rural German-speaking women and their families in the nineteenth-century Midwest. Urbana: University of Illinois Press; xii, 311 p.
MKI/COLL/SHS F358.2 .G3 P53 1996.

Piltz, Thomas, ed. Die Deutschen und die Amerikaner: Eine Dokumentation = The Americans and the Germans: A Documentary. Muenchen: H. Moos; 244 p.
MKI/SHS E183.8 .G3 D39 1977 .

Pochmann, Henry A. 1961. German Culture in America: Philosophical and Literary Influences 1600-1900. asst. Arthur R. Schultz et al. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press; 865 p.
MKI E 169.1 .P596 1957 / SHS/MEM E 169.1 .P596 (1957 printing).

Pochmann, Henry A. and Arthur R. Schultz, comp. and ed. 1982. Bibliography of German Culture in America to 1940. Revised and corrected ed. Millwood, NY, etc.: Kraus International Publications; 778 pp.
MKI/SHS Z 1361 .G37 P6 1982 / MEM Ref. Z 1361 .G37 P6 1982.

Reichmann, Eberhard, La V. J. Rippley, and Jörg Nagler, eds. 1995. Emigration and settlement patterns of German communities in North America. Indianapolis, IND: Max Kade German-American Center//Indiana University-Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis; 380 p.
MKI /SHS E 184.G3 E46 1995.

Reppmann, Joachim. Freiheit, Bildung und Wohlstand fuer alle: Schleswig-Hosteinische Achtundvierziger in den USA 1847-1860. Wyk auf Foehr: Verlag fuer Amerikanistik; 266 p.
MKI new.

Rippley, La V. J. The German-Americans. Lanham, MD, etc.: University Press of America; 271 pp.
MKI E 184 .G3 R48 1984; P87-131; COLL/SHS.

Rippley, La V. J. 1985. The Immigrant Experience in Wisconsin. Boston: Twayne Publishers;
MKI/SHS F 590 .A1 R56 1985

Schalk, Adolph. The Germans in America. Chicago, IL: Claretian Publication; 48 p.
MKI P97-4/SHS Pam 75-347.

Schelbert, Leo and Hedwig Rappolt, eds. 1977. Alles ist ganz anders hier. Auswandererschicksale in Briefen aus zwei Jahrhunderten. Olten und Freiburg i. B., Switzerland: Walter Verlag;
MKI E 184 .G3 A38 1977 / SHS E 184 .G3 A38


Schroeder, Adolf E. 1983. "Eden on the Missouri: Immigrant Women on the Western Frontier." Yearbook of German-American Studies 18197-215.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315.

Schroeder, Adolf E. Hold Dear, as Always: Jette, a German Immigrant Life in Letters. ed.//ed.//trans. Adolf E. Schroeder, Carla Schulz-Geisberg, and Adolf E. Schroeder. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press; 309 p.
MKI /SHS F 475 .G3 B787 1988.

Schurz, Carl. The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. New York, NY: The McClure Company; 3 v.
MKI E 664 .S39 S3 1907.

Seifert, Lester W. J. 1993. "The Development and Survival of the German Language in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin." Pp. 322-37 in The German language in America, 1683-1991, editor Salmons, Joseph C. Madison, Wisconsin: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, UW-Madison.
MKI/MEM PF 5925 G47 1993.

Seifert, Lester W. J. 1983. "Some German Contributions to Wisconsin Life." Yearbook of German-American Studies 18:173-84.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315 and P92-18.

Shukert, Elfrieda B. and Barbara S. Scibetta. The War Brides of World War II, 1942-1952. Novato, CA: Presidio Press;
MKI /SHS D810 .W7 S535 1988 .

Sollbach, Gerhard E. 1992. Reise des schwaebischen Schulmeisters Gottlieb Mittelberger nach Amerika 1750-1754. Wyk auf Foehr: Verlag f. Amerikanistik; 110 p.
MKI/SHS F 160 .G3 S65 1992.

Stuecher, Dorothea D. 1990. Twice removed: The experience of German-American women writers in the 19th century. New York: Peter Lang; 230 pp.
MKI /MEM PT 3907 .S78 1990.

Thuemmel, A. R. 1848. Die Natur und das Leben in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika, in ihrer Licht und Schattenseite nach den Schilderungen von Augenzeugen und den Briefen ausgewanderter Landsleute. Erlangen: Palm'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung;
MKI/SHS E 166 .T53

Tolzmann, Don H. 1977. German-Americana: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press;
MKI/SHS Z 1361 .G37 T64.

Tolzmann, Don H., ed. 1995. German-Americans in the world wars. Vol. 1-4. Muenchen: Saur; 7 vol.
MKI/SHS E184.G3.G32 1995 v.1-3 (1995); v. 4 pt. 1-4 (1995-1996) .

Totten, Christine M. 1983. Roots in the Rhineland: America's German Heritage in Three Hundred Years of Immigration 1683-1983. New York: German Information Center;
MKI E 184 .G3 T67 1983; P87-24 / SHS E 184 .G3 T67 1983.

Trefousse, Hans L. 1982. Carl Schurz: A Biography. Knoxville, TN: Univ. of Tennessee Press;
MKI/SHS E 664 .S39 T7 1982

Trommler, Frank and Joseph McVeigh, eds. 1985. America and the Germans: An Assessment of a Three Hundred Year History. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press; 2 vols.
MKI E 184 .G3 A39 1985 (B86-4) / SHS E 184 .G3 A39 1985.

Wagner, Maria, hrsg. 1985. Was die Deutschen aus Amerika berichteten 1828-1868. Stuttgart: Hans-Dieter Heinz, Akademischer Verlag Stuttgart;
MKI/SHS E184.G3 W37 1985; P87-49.

Wallach, Martha K. 1978. "German Immigrant Women." Pp. p. 99-106 in Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13 No. 4.
MKI Periodicals/SHS .

Wallach, Martha K. 1985. "Women of German-American Fiction: Therese Robinson, Mathilde Anneke, and Fernande Richter." Pp. 331-42 in America and the Germans. vol. Vol. 1, eds. Trommler, Frank and Joseph McVeigh.
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 A39 1985

Wallman, Charles J. 1990. The German-Speaking Forty-Eighters: Builders of Watertown, Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin: The Max Kade Institute for German American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MKI F 589 .W285 W35 1990; P90-19/ SHS Pam 96-325.

Walz, John A. 1936. German Influence in American Education and Culture. Philadelphia: Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation;
MKI LA 205 .W3 (B84-249) / MEM IK83 .W17 Cutter.

Wandel, Joseph. 1979. The German Dimension of American History. Chicago: Nelson-Hall;
MKI E 184 .G3 W35 / SHS Pam 79-1034.

Ward, Robert E. 1985. A Bio-Bibliography of German-American Writers 1670-1970. White Plains, NY: Kraus International Publications; 377 pp.
MKI Z 1229 .G3 W35 1985 / MEM Ref. PT 3901 .W35 1985.

Wells, Robert W. Wisconsin in the Civil War. Milwaukee, WI: The Milwaukee Journal; 102 p.
MKI P94-39/COLL E 537 W4/ SHS Pam 75-1997.

Wittke, Carl F. 1952. Refugees of Revolution: The German Forty-Eighters in America. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press;
MKI/MEM E 184 .G3 W5 (B85-4) / SHS F8399G .W83 Cutter.

Wust, Klaus G. and Heinz Moos, eds. Three Hundred Years of German Immigrants in North America. 1683-1983. Their Contributions to the Evolution of the New World / Dreihundert Jahre Deutsche Einwanderer in Nordamerika. 1683-1983. Ihre Beitraege zum Werden der Neuen Welt"300 Jahre Deutsche in Amerika" Verlags-GmbH; 186
MKI E 184 .G3 T48 1983.

Zeitlin, Richard H. 1977. Germans in Wisconsin. Madison, WI: Wisconsin State Historical Society; 30 pp.
MKI P84-201 and F 590 .G3 Z4 1977/ SHS Pam 77-1433.

Zimmerman, Jeffrey A. 1996. "The Recycling of America's German-Athens: Architecture, Public Culture, and Ethnic Identity in Late Twentieth-Century Milwaukee." SGAS newsletter 17(2):12-16.
MKI shelf.

Zucker, Adolf E., ed. 1950. The Forty-eighters. Political Refugees of the German Revolution of 1848. New York: Columbia University Press;
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 Z8 and 48ers Box (B84-268) / MEM F83 .Z8 (Cutter).


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