Booknotes
Buchnotizen/Book Notes provides brief comments on recent books relating to German and German-American topics. Information as to price and ordering can be found at various Internet book sites, or at the nearest ... Read More...
WORK SPACES
By Sharon Hudgins
Long before the Covid-19 pandemic upended many aspects of our lives, I was accustomed to working at home. When I wasn’t doing research in Europe and Asia, or traveling overseas as a lecture... Read More...
Pride and Honor, Bait and Folly: Otto von Bismarck, Napoleon III, the Ems Dispatch and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71
By Robert A. Selig
“Welch eine Wendung durch Gottes Führung—What a Change through God’s Guidance” was the catchphrase that lid up the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin every 2 September since that memorable day in... Read More...
Hauntingly beautiful, silent, waiting…my town Rothenburg ob der Tauber
“While it’s a little cold outside, I had to get out of the house today. I’ve been doing a little work on my ‘walls’ project and thought I’d take you along on a walk around the neighborhood in part of a town whe... Read More...
Hurrying Slowly: The Mosel in 22 Days
Traversing the twists and turns along one of Germany’s most beautiful river valleys.
By Joe Gartman • Photographs Courtesy Patricia Gartman
In the small hours of a rainy night in Neumagen-Dhron, Germany, ... Read More...
Thanksgiving—The Fruits of Fall
by Peter Pabisch
The American Thanksgiving holiday represents not only the largest family festival of the year besides Christmas and, maybe Easter, it also occurs regularly toward the end of November (on the... Read More...
Village History Books Organize Records for Generations of Ancestors
By James M. Beidler
There are tens of thousands of villages and hamlets either in Germany or areas once part of the pre-World War I Second German Empire. For several thousands of those villages, books such a... Read More...
The Bodensee— Constancely Surprising
The lake where Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein meet.
By Wibke Carter
Photographs Courtesy Wibke Carter
“I really don’t know why the Germans go to Spain or Italy if they have this on thei... Read More...
SCHWINN The German “All-American” Company
German engineering and expertise led to the development and manufacturing of premier American bicycles.
By Eric Bryan
For many 20th century American children, an early sense of freedom came with riding a ... Read More...
BIEROCKS: A GERMAN-RUSSIAN TREAT IN AMERICA
By Sharon Hudgins
Bierocks. Sounds like a combination of a German beer festival and a rock concert. (That would actually be a good promo name for such an event!)
I had never heard of Bierocks until a German... Read More...