The Gingerbread Man History November 17, 2022There’s more to a Lebzelter than just honey dough specialties.by Jackie Guigui-StolbergPhotographs Courtesy Hans Hipp With a tired groan and...
HH, HB, HL? History July 18, 2022Exploring the Hanseatic League and the history behind three unique German license plates.By Robert A. Selig These days the easiest...
New Ulm, Minnesota History April 28, 2022The town is full of German heritage and continues to be a German Oasis in the west.By Don Heinrich Tolzmann...
Friedrich Franck von la Roche (1757-1805) History April 28, 2022Tracing a mysterious German-American life from Warthausen to Yorktown to Philadelphia and Austerlitz.By Robert A. Selig As I was preparing...
Booknotes History April 28, 2022By Don Heinrich Tolzmann The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740, by Adelaide L. Fries originally appeared in 1905. It has often...
1770 German “Elector Bible” History March 3, 2022This 250-year-old German Bible, once the cherished possession of a German immigrant family, is now part of the German-American Heritage...
Ostalgie Culture March 3, 2022Who feels nostalgia for life in former East Germany? by Jackie Guigui-Stolberg Photographs Courtesy Jackie Guigui-Stolberg “What did you eat?”...
The “Do’s and Don’ts” of Visiting Your Ancestral Heimat History March 3, 2022By James M. Beidler Let’s get one thing clear first: Heimat in German simply means “homeland” but often is used...
English Spoken, American Understood History March 3, 2022A century of Americans in Dresden, 1816-1917Robert A. Selig The June 1910 issue of the Woman’s Home Companion featured an...
Franconia’s Great Famine of 1771-1772 History January 4, 2022Recounted through the eyes of Johann Ulrich Sponsel, Lutheran Minister of Burgbernheim.By Robert A. Selig Zur Nachricht auf folgende Zeilen...
