50 Years of the 917 and the 914 and 10 Years of the Porsche Museum
Courtesy Porsche Museum
Three jubilees, one big birthday and a dynamic “Heritage Experience”—2019 marked several high points for the Porsch... Read More...
A wonderland of medieval and modern sites to see in Nuremberg
By Phyllis Meras
One of my favorite childhood books was The Toys of Nuremberg. It was written in verse by an American, Lillian Baker Sturges, in... Read More...
By James M. Beidler
When history was primarily an academic pursuit profiling the “great men of the past,” collections of correspondence were one of the greatest primary sources used for insight into their li... Read More...
Von Peter Pabisch
Dreißig Jahre sind vergangen seit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer; bekanntlich ereignete sich dieses historische Datum am 9. November 1989 und folgte dem Ende des Eisernen Vorhangs in den Monat... Read More...
By James Ullrich
The Danube River winds along the valley, the water blueish and placid. There is a hint of autumnal chill in the air. The boats coming from Vienna go slower as they are going against the curr... Read More...
By Robert A. Selig
Geographer, naturalist, explorer, scientist, Romantic philosopher, and all-around polymath Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was born on 14 September 1769 in Berlin, capita... Read More...
Small steps, narrow alleys and pointed gables shape this Swabian university town.
By Wibke Carter • Photographs Courtesy Wibke Carter
The students of Tübingen are a special breed. They organize themselves i... Read More...
By James M. Beidler
Just as “time and place” are a set of cross-hairs that determine what records exist for a particular era and locality during the life of a particular ancestor, there are a fair number of ... Read More...
By Julian Mattocks • Photographs Courtesy Julian Mattocks
One black-and-white sketch in particular captivates my attention as I fascinatedly look through the drawings. Its focal point—a single tree in full b... Read More...
Wandering the B-500 through the country’s highest foothills.
By Don Heimburger
Photographs Courtesy Don Heimburger
It’s actually a bit hard to pronounce this rather lengthy 22-letter word with my limited... Read More...
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