Migrant Artists on the Move between Central Europe and the United States around 1900
Introduces “Auf die Tour!,” a book investigating networks of (Jewish) migrant performers and sites of popular entertainment.
Between Fiction and Non-Fiction: ‘America’-related Literature in the Public Libraries of Southern Baden
Presents the image of America conveyed in literature available in the public libraries in southern Baden, esp. Lahr in late 19th c.
Migrant Knowledge at the #AHA23
Describes Migration- and Mobility-related events at #AHA23
‘Plant-like Women and Luxury Wives’ – American Women in Nineteenth-century German Travelogues and Guides
Looks at travelogues and guidebooks available in two Baden libraries in the 1890s to determine the knowledge of the USA, and particularly of American women, presented therein.
#MigKnow Notes 15
A roundup of recent work, relevant publications, resources, and calls for papers related to migrant knowledge.
‘I beg you again from my heart to help me find my sister’: RELICO and the Need for Knowledge
Examines letters written to RELICO during the war by individuals seeking to share knowledge with loved ones or to receive information about them. Contextualizing the letters allows us to better appreciate the personalized knowledge transfer that occurred on a mass scale.
Rübelmann’s Letters: Knowledge Transfer through Emigrant Correspondence
Analyzes the content of a collection of letters from a Baden emigrant to America to determine the knowledge he shared back home.
The Latest News from the Other Side: ‘America’ in the <em>Freiburger Zeitung</em> of 1876
Analyzes the news items pertaining to America from all issues of the Freiburger Zeitung of 1876 in the context of the press of that era.
Through the Information Jungle Towards the ‘Land of Freedom’: Images of ‘America’ in German Magazines in the 1870s and 1880s
Analyzes the knowledge of America presented in the popular late 19th-c. German magazines Die Gartenlaube and Deutscher Hausschatz.
A Cautionary Tale: Baden’s Late Nineteenth-Century Textbooks and Their Portrayal of America
Compares two textbooks for schoolchildren in Baden in the late nineteenth century and presents the ideas they conveyed about the US.
