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German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States who are of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. [1] The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered ...
Löher was a German visitor to the United States who published the book Geschichte und Zustände der Deutschen in Amerika (History and Conditions of the Germans in America) in 1847. [4] Löher seemingly placed the crucial vote only in Pennsylvania to make German the official language of that state, not the United States as a whole.
The closing of the immigration possibilities in America is covered by Wyman in his 1968 book Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941. [3] Wyman continues to document this aspect of World War II history in The Abandonment of the Jews , which covers the period of 1941–1945, when America and the Allies fought against Germany and ...
Below is a list of literary magazines and journals: periodicals devoted to book reviews, creative nonfiction, essays, poems, short fiction, and similar literary endeavors. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Because the majority are from the United States , the country of origin is only listed for those outside the U.S.
Attention is given to population statistics in the book. Faust clearly proceeded with the intention of understating the total proportion of persons of German heritage in the United States at the time of the 1900 census, and his estimate falls short of some previous reckonings, giving 18,000,000 as against 20,000,000 of English descent, 13,000,000 of Irish descent and 14,000,000 of other stocks.
This category is for groups of notable individuals from notable families of German ancestry and American nationality. Subcategories This category has the following 71 subcategories, out of 71 total.
Karl J. R. Arndt and May E. Olson, The German Language Press of the Americas, Volume I: "History and Bibliography, 1732 to 1955", 3rd revised edition, 1976. Carl Wittke, The German Language Press in America, 1957. Obituary of Anna Ottendorfer at The New York Times. This source disagrees with the Zeydel and Bergquist biographies on Anna ...
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Prize winner and author of 57 books [116] Isaac Meyer Wise, author and rabbi [117] Victoria Wolff (1903–1992), German born American writer and screenwriter [118] Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist [119] Anzia Yezierska, novelist [120]