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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 ...
For example, the mythologized East as a destination served as the German's equivalent of America's Manifest destiny. Likewise, according to the book, the German people were impacted by the mythologized East in the same way that Americans have been affected by their own formative stories based on the mythical West. [1] [2]
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 ...
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.
Notable Forty-Eighter Hermann Raster wrote passionately against slavery and was very pro-Lincoln. Raster published anti-slavery pamphlets and was the editor of the most influential German language newspaper in America at the time. [75] He helped secure the votes of German-Americans across the United States for Abraham Lincoln.
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.
Pages in category "German explorers of North America" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G.
Popular books in the 19th century included Sheldon's In His Steps (1896). 20th century bestsellers included Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936), Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937), Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946), Harris' I'm OK – You're OK (1969), Woodward and Bernstein's All the President's Men (1974).