History

This imposing site is one of the most important brickwork landmarks in northern Germany. By James DerheimPhotographs Courtesy James Derheim...

Why would free Germans sail to North America to become indentured servants and Redemptioners?By Robert A. Selig During the 18th...

Join our celebration of connections, continuity, and community. It’s been thirty years since we launched our premier issue in June/July...

Discover how a small country became a big chocolate producer.By Wibke Carter • Photographs Courtesy Wibke Carter If you ask...

By James M. Beidler Last issue’s column shared a number of German genealogy insights I gained from attending the Genealogy...

Johann Martin Ries‘ Betrachtungen zu Philadelphia am Vorabend der Amerikanischen Revolution By Robert A. Selig Die 1770er Jahre waren eine...

War guilt, reparations and the 1.00 (U.S. $) = 4.200 000 000 000 ReichsmarkBy Robert A. Selig That’s 4 trillion...

If there ever was a real-life role model for Karl May’s Old Shatterhand, pioneer Engelbert Krauskopf (1820-1881) of Fredericksburg, Texas,...

A film, a novel and a German-American artist.By Don Heinrich Tolzmann Mention “Frankenstein” and the 1931 Hollywood film starring Boris...