Contents
1. Introduction
Sidebar / A Note about German Pronunciation
2. Nineteenth-Century German
Immigration and Settlement
Sidebar / Grays vs. Greens
Side Stories
A German State in the Upper Mississippi Valley
Gustav Körner
3. The Journey to Illinois
Side Stories
Cornelius Schubert: Diary of a Journey
1868 New York Immigration Commission Report on the Leibnitz
4. Rural and Urban Living
Side Stories
Observations of Industrial Working Conditions
Chicago’s Brewing Industry
5. Nativism, Politics, and the Civil War
Side Stories
Friedrich Hecker
Lincoln, Liberty, and the Know Nothings
The Haymarket Affair
6. Cultural and Institutional Life
Sidebar / Georg Bunsen
Side Story
On the Shift from German to English
7. World War I and Its Aftermath
Side Stories
Protecting English, Promoting Americanism: Better Speech Week
The Hanging of Robert Prager
8. Heritage and Linguistic Landscape Today
Side Story
German Effects on English in the Midwest
Notes
Select Annotated Bibliography
Index