278: Web Resources and Links to Useful Sites

Week 1

General

• The German-Americans an Ethnic Experience by Willi Paul Adams
• Who are the German Americans?

Immigration

• Adams. Ch. 1: Seven Million Germans Were Once "Foreigners"
• Adams. Ch. 2: Why Germans Left Home
• Adams. Ch. 3: Whereto? Germans Joined Germans
• Adams. Ch. 4: Inequality: Incomes, Occupations, Social Structure
• Children's Exhibit
• Further Links on Immigration

Forty-eighters

• The German 1848 Revolution: Various Links
• The German 1848 Revolution: Online Article

Immigrant Experience: Letters, Diaries

• "Ferner thue ich euch zu wissen..." Die Briefe des Bauern Johann Heinrich zur Oesveste aus Amerika
• Memoirs of the Nohl Family. Trip Diary of Friedrich Nohl
• Short History of the Rasch Family from Silesia
• Immigrant women in Milwaukee
• Report by the German Immigrant
• Old Manuscripts, Verses

Civil War

• Germans in the American Civil War
• German-American Soldiers in the American Civil War
  
  

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Week 2

German-American contributions in general

• Introduction

Great German Americans

• List of famous German-Americans with Individual Description
• Carl Schurz: Biography | Links Page
• Friedrich Hecker: Biography | Links Page
• Thomas Nast: Biography
• Other Biographies: John Roebling | Francis Lieber

German Influence

• Adams. Ch. 5: Likes Attract! German Clubs and the Public Display of "Germanness"
• Adams. Ch. 6: German-American Churches and Schools
• Adams. Ch. 7: German or English
• Kindergarten | First Kindergarten in Watertown, WI | Watertown: 2nd site

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Week 3

German Women in America

• Milwaukee Women Yesterday
• Mathilde Franziska Anneke: Biography (English) | (German) | Archives
• Anna Ottendorfer
• Hannah Arendt

Late 19th century

• German Historical background
• American Historical background
• A short history of American Labor | Labor and the American Worker
• Socialist party | Photo of Victor Berger
• Haymarket Memorial | Haymarket Photos
• Ethnic Politics: German-Americans as Voters and Office-Seekers
• Xenophobia: American Nativism

Wisconsin in the 19th century

• Germans in Wisconsin | Photo documentation
• Some German Contributions to Wisconsin Life
• See also "Milwaukee Women Yesterday" (above); and Wisconsin today (week 4)

World War I

• World War I and US participation
• The treatment of German Americans: Primary Source

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Week 4

World War II

• World War II links

Post-World War II Era

• Adams. Ch. 11: Integration: The Ideals of Cultural Pluralism
• Adams. Ch. 10: American Laws Regulating Immigration and Asylum

Ethnic Studies

• Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies | The Institute's Resources in Ethnic Studies and Immigration History | Newsletter
• Other Ethnic Studies Links

The German Element Today

• Maps of where German Americans live: Map 1. Map 2
• German ancestry. Statistics compared to total US population
• German ancestry by order number (States) | in relation to state population
• People speaking German at home | related to foreign speaking | to state population

Wisconsin today

• Milwaukee: "America's Most German-American City"
• Gettelman Brewing Company, Milwaukee
• Wisconsin's Immigrant children
• German-American Collections in the Milwaukee Urban Archives
• Watertown Historical Society
• Wisconsin Sequicentennial
  
  

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