History

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...

Tracing a brief history of the German Postal System and the House of Thurn and Taxis.By Robert A. Selig Hoch...

By Peter Pabisch The Vienna Woods form an area from the eastern end of the Alps which start around Genoa...