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1) Course objectives. GER
3500 is intended to serve as an introduction to German-American
Studies, which can be defined as the scholarly study of the history, language, literature, and
culture of the German element of the Americas. The course will be taught in English and a
knowledge of German is not required. Since German-American Studies is an interdisciplinary
field, the course should be of interest to students concentrating in such diverse areas as languages
and linguistics, history, anthropology, sociology, and ethnic studies. The course has been planned
to make extensive use of slides, sound recordings, videos, and films. Students will be expected
to choose a topic for individual research and to present their findings to the class in a 20-minute
oral report.
2) Grades. Each of the following
components will determine 1/3 of the semester average: a
midterm test; a test covering material discussed during the second half of the semester; the
student's individual research project and oral report. Excessive unexplained absence may result
in a penalty deduction.
3) Required texts
Adams, Willi Paul. The German-Americans. An Ethnic Experience.
American Edition by LaVern J. Rippley and Eberhard Reichmann.
Indianapolis: Max Kade German-American Center, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., 1993.
Rippley, LaVern J. The German-Americans. Lanham, MD: Univ. Press of America, 1984.
Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. "German-American Studies: History and Development,"
Monatshefte, vol. 80, no. 3 (Fall 1988). (A copy will be placed on reserve).
4) Course Outline. The course
will devote attention to the following specific topics:
* German-American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline.
* Who Are the Germans? The origin of the German-speaking people and the changing political
geography of central Europe.
* Waves of Immigration. Factors in European history which influenced German migration to
America. The search for religious freedom, political freedom, and for economic and social
opportunity. The Reformation. The Napoleonic era and Congress of Vienna. 1848. War,
economic distress, and persecution as factors in emigration from Europe during the 20th century.
* The History of Settlement. Settlement in America during the colonial period, the 19th century,
and the 20th century.
* The German Language in America. German-American dialects; German influence on English,
English influence on German. German place names and family names in the U.S.
* The German-Americans in Four Wars: The War of Independence, the Civil War, World War I,
and World War II.
* Religious Denominations and Religious Communities in German-American Life. The
Lutheran and Reformed Churches. The United Brethren, Mennonites, Amish, Hutterites, and
Moravian Brethren. German Jews and Reformed Judaism. German-Americans and the Catholic
Church.
* German-American Regional Communities. Pennsylvania, Virginia, Missouri, and Texas.
German-American urban communities. Milwaukee: a case study of a German-American urban
community.
* German-American Literature, Theater, and the Press.
* German-American Clubs and Associations. Choral groups and musical societies. Gymnastics
groups. Associations based on place of origin in Europe.
* German Immigrant Contributions to American Art. Classic and modern Pennsylvania German
folk art. Other German-American folk artists. German-American artists of the western frontier.
American art and the German academies.
* German Immigrant Contributions to American Music. German-American folk songs. German
composers, conductors, and performers in America.
* Other German Contributions to American Culture. Architecture, film, philosophy, theology,
science, technology, and the food industry.
* The German Impact on American Daily Life. German vs. Puritan observance of Sunday. Beer
vs. Prohibition, Germans and the American labor movement. Cultural diversity in America.
Germans and American radicalism.
* Researching Your German-American Roots.
5) A Selective Bibliography of
German-American Studies
a) Bibliographies
Pochmann, Henry A. and Arthur R. Schultz. Bibliography of German Culture in America to
1940. Madison: The Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1953.
Schultz, Arthur R. German-American Relations and German Culture in America: A Subject
Bibliography, 1941-1980. Millwood, NY: Kraus International Publications, 1984 (2 vols.).
Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. German-Americana: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow
Press, 1975.
WEB-wise: The Society for German-American Studies has the International Bibliography of German Americana on the WWW b) General Surveys
Adams, Willi Paul. The German-Americans. An Ethnic Experience. American Edition by LaVern J. Rippley and Eberhard Reichmann. Indianapolis: Max Kade German-American Center, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., 1993.
O'Connor, Richard. The German-Americans: An Informal Survey. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.,
1968.
The Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of
Harvard Press, 1980.
Rippley, LaVern J. The German-Americans. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984
(reprint of 1976 edition).
Tolzmann, Don Heinrich, ed. German Achievements in America: Rudolf Cronau's Survey
History.Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1995.
Totten, Christine M. Roots in the Rhineland: America's German Heritage in Three Hundred
Years of Immigration. New York: German Information Center, 1983 [reprint forthcoming].
c) History
Battinger, Lucy F. The Germans in Colonial Times. New York: Russell and Russell, 1968.
(Reprint of 1901 ed.)
Diamond, Sandor A. The Nazi Movement in the U.S. 1924-1941. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ.
Press, 1974.
Faust, Albert Bernhardt. The German Element in the United States, 2 vols., Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1909; reprint editions by Steuben Society (1927), and Arno Press & New York Times (1969).
Reichmann, Eberhard, LaVern J. Rippley and Joerg Nagler (eds.).
Emigration and Settlement Patterns of German Communities in North America. Indianapolis:
Max Kade German-American Center, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., 1995. Tolzmann, Don
Heinrich, ed. The German-American Forty-Eighters
1848-1998. Indianapolis: Max Kade German-American Center, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.,
1998.
Trommler, Frank and Joseph McVeigh, eds. America and the Germans. An Assessment of a
Three-Hundred-Year History, 2 vols., Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.
Wittke, Carl F. German-Americans ad the World War. Columbus, OH: Ohio State
Archeological and Historical Society, 1936.
Zucker, Adolf E. The Forty-Eighters: Political Refugees of the German Revolution of 1848.
New York: Russell and Russell, 1967.
d) Selected Regional Studies
Conzen, Kathleen Neils. Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836-1860: Accommodation and Community in
a Frontier City. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1976.
Glatfelter, Charles H. The Pennsylvania Germans: A Brief Account of their Influence on
Pennsylvania. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1990.
Hoyt, Giles, R. "Germans," in: Peopling Indiana. The Ethnic Experience, ed. by Robert M.
Taylor and Connie R. McBirney. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1996, 146-181.
Jordan, Terry G. German Seed in Texas Soil. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1966.
Lich, Glenn E. The German Texans. San Antonio: The Univ. of Texas, Institute of Texan
Cultures at San Antonio, 1981.
Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. Cincinnati's German Heritage. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1994.
________, ed. Michigan's German Heritage. John Andrew Russell's History of the German
Influence in the Making of Michigan. Reprint of 1927 edition. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1994.
________, ed. Maryland's German Heritage: Daniel Wunderlich Nead's History. Reprint of
1913 edition. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books.
Wood, Ralph. The Pennsylvania Germans. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1942.
Wust, Klaus G. The Virginia Germans. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1962.
e) Religious Groups
Barry, Coleman James. The Catholic Church and German-Americans. Washington, D.C.:
Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1953.
Durnbaugh, Donald F. "Radical Pietism as the Foundation of German-American Communitarian
Settlements," in Emigration and Settlement Patterns of German Communities in North America,
ed. by Eberhard Reichmann, LaVern J. Rippley and Joerg Nagler. Indianapolis: Max Kade
German-American Center, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., 1995, 31-54.
f) The German Language in America
Gilbert, Glenn G., ed. The German Language in America. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1971.
Salmon, Joseph C. The German Language in America, 1683-1991.
Madison: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1993.
Witter, C. Witter's German-English Primer and New German Reader for Public Schools. Rev.
edition, St. Louis, 1881; reprint edition by Eberhard Reichmann. Indianapolis: Indiana German
Heritage Society, 1987.
g) The German-American Press
Geitz, Henry, ed. The German-American Press. Madison: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1992.
h) Immigrant Letters
Kamphoefner, Walter D., Wolfgang Helbig and Ulrike Sommer, eds., trans. Susan Carter Vogel.
News from the Land of Freedom. German Immigrants Write Home. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press,
1991.
i) Biography
Haller, Charles R. Distinguished German-Americans. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1992.
Merrill, Peter C. German Immigrant Artists in America. A Biographical Dictionary. Lanham,
MD: The Scarecrow Press, 1997.
Gerard Wilk. Americans from Germany. Reprint edition by Don Heinrich Tolzmann.
Indianapolis: Max Kade German-American Center, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., and Indiana
German Heritage Society, 1995.
j) German Names
Bahlow, Hans. Dictionary of German Names. Translated by Edda Gentry. Madison: Max Kade
Institute for German-American Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1993.
Jones, George F. German-American Names. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2nd
edition, 1995.
k) German-American Genealogy
Riemer, Shirley J. The German Research Companion. Sacramento: Lorelei Press, 1997.
Thode, Ernest. Address Book for Germanic Genealogy. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.,
1992.
l) German-American Life, Clubs and Organizations
Lachner, Bert, ed. Heimat North America. English/German Edition. Glen Ellyn, IL: Landmark
Books Unlimited, 1997.
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