History

By James M. Beidler There are tens of thousands of villages and hamlets either in Germany or areas once part...

By James M. Beidler When you’re the German Life genealogy columnist, all sorts of requests come your way, though the...

To make a long story short. By Jackie Guigui-Stolberg • Photographs Courtesy Jackie Guigui-Stolberg The history of Bavaria is a...

By Robert A. Selig “Große Ereignisse werfen ihre Schatten voraus,“ says a German proverb: “Great events cast their shadows ahead”....

By James M. Beidler There’s a concept in genealogy that is one of the most crucial mistakes to avoid as...

A wonderland of medieval and modern sites to see in Nuremberg By Phyllis Meras One of my favorite childhood books...

By James M. Beidler When history was primarily an academic pursuit profiling the “great men of the past,” collections of...

Von Peter Pabisch Dreißig Jahre sind vergangen seit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer; bekanntlich ereignete sich dieses historische Datum am...

By Robert A. Selig Geographer, naturalist, explorer, scientist, Romantic philosopher, and all-around polymath Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was...