Describes the formation and eventual disappearance of German ethnic communities in the textile centers of New England. Contains chapters on patterns of German settlement in the US and New England, fac
This book looks at the many transatlantic bonds which have linked and still link Germany and the United States. German immigrants to the Americas brought with them a good deal of cultural baggage. The
Follen had to flee his native Germany, and then Switzerland because of his activity as a radical student, arriving in the US in 1824. He began teaching German at Harvard, and became a noted intellectu
In the context of the German literary tradition's fall from grace in the US due to World War I, Sammons (emeritus, German literature, Yale U.) presents a major monograph on the origins and contents of
Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany, republished in a new annotated edition, recounts Ika Hugel-Marshall's experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-Americ
