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Lesson plan designed to help students in grades seven through twelve learn about German immigration to the Upper Midwest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
As part of the American Memory Fellows Program, Mary Alice Anderson and Kim Penrod developed "German Immigrants: Their Contributions to the Upper Midwest," a U.S. history unit for middle or high school classes. The students use online primary source materials to explore German immigration in the upper Midwest during the late 1800s and early 1900s. This unit can also be used in a German class to give the students practice in describing people. The Learning Page, a service of the U.S. Library of Congress, provides the unit online. The online materials are part of the Library of Congress American Memory Collection.
German-Americans make up one of the largest ethnic groups in the United States, yet their very success at assimilating has also made them one of the least visible. What were their experiences? What cultural baggage did they bring with them, and how did it affect their lives in America? How did the German-speaking immigrants differ among themselves, and how did these differences influence their behavior and reactions?
Discusses reasons German people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes activities.
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
"The purpose of [this index] is to provide access to German-American historical sources which focus on the Upper Midwest. This includes coverage of several states, including Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. It complements the Ohio Valley German Biographical Index and its supplement, which provide coverage of other Midwestern states. Altogether, almost 6000 names are indexed in the UMGBI. This index is arranged alphabetically. The amount of information varies from extensive biographical articles, biographical notices, obituaries, to brief references. [This book] facilitates access to these sources, and provides biographical indexing on a geographical scale to the German element in the area which is nowhere else available. It is hoped that this work will be of assistance to all those who are interested in locating biographical references to German-Americans in the Upper Midwest"--Pref.
This book shows the interplay between the major groups traveling the roads and waterways of the Upper Mississippi Valley during the crucial decades of 1830 - 1860. It's a lively, extensively-illustrated account which will help Americans everywhere better understand their diverse heritage.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,3, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: The Germans are the largest ethnic group in the United States and especially in Chicago. Peculiarly, their influence seems to have vanished. Every other ethnic group left stronger traces of their existence than the Germans. I decided to take a look at the development of the German- American community or in fact to pursue the question as to whether there is a German- American identity.
"Once We Were Strangers is both an immigrant family saga and a scholarly exploration of larger social, political, and economic events of the day with a particular emphasis on German American and Kansas history. Starting out in the small village of Ebhausen in the Black Forest of the Kingdom of Württemberg in what is now Germany, the book chronicles the fortunes of the Lodholzes, who journey across the Atlantic eventually to settle on the plains of the Kansas Territory, in Marshall County. The narrative is based on close to 200 family letters and documents. It is a family saga full of hardship, endurance, joys and sorrows. Interwoven with the history of westward expansion, of German emigration, and of Kansas, the story chronicles, through the pens of ordinary people, an intimate view of the sweep of American history from the 1850s to the nominal end of the frontier in 1890"--