Thirty Years War Created a “Lost Generation” History August 31, 2020By James Beidler The subject of the Thirty Years War, which was then Europe’s most devastating conflict and remained regarded...
Pride and Honor, Bait and Folly: Otto von Bismarck, Napoleon III, the Ems Dispatch and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 History June 23, 2020By Robert A. Selig “Welch eine Wendung durch Gottes Führung—What a Change through God’s Guidance” was the catchphrase that lid...
Village History Books Organize Records for Generations of Ancestors History June 23, 2020By James M. Beidler There are tens of thousands of villages and hamlets either in Germany or areas once part...
When You Know the Who, But Not the Exact Where, of Photos History May 7, 2020By James M. Beidler When you’re the German Life genealogy columnist, all sorts of requests come your way, though the...
Regensburg’s New Museum of Bavarian History History January 4, 2020To make a long story short. By Jackie Guigui-Stolberg • Photographs Courtesy Jackie Guigui-Stolberg The history of Bavaria is a...
22 February 1770: Christopher Seider becomes the first (German-) American “martyr to the noble cause” History January 4, 2020By Robert A. Selig “Große Ereignisse werfen ihre Schatten voraus,“ says a German proverb: “Great events cast their shadows ahead”....
Books, Website Offer Help in Finding German Archives History January 4, 2020By James M. Beidler There’s a concept in genealogy that is one of the most crucial mistakes to avoid as...
Porsche Museum Marks Milestones Culture November 12, 201950 Years of the 917 and the 914 and 10 Years of the Porsche Museum Courtesy Porsche Museum Three jubilees,...
Nuremberg History November 12, 2019A wonderland of medieval and modern sites to see in Nuremberg By Phyllis Meras One of my favorite childhood books...
Project Looks for Letters to and from German Immigrants to Understand Common People History November 12, 2019By James M. Beidler When history was primarily an academic pursuit profiling the “great men of the past,” collections of...
