German Americans

German Americans are the largest ethnic group in the United States, with over 50 million people. They are concentrated in the Midwest, and in eastern metropolitan areas

Bibliography

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• Tatlock, Lynne and Matt Erlin, eds. German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Reception, Adaptation, Transformation (2005)
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• Wittke, Carl. The German-Language Press in America (1957)
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• Wood, Ralph, ed. The Pennsylvania Germans. (1942)

See also

• Milwaukee

Online resources

• Catholic Encyclopedia article
• Reasons Germans Came to America
• “Deutsch-Athen Revisited: Writing the History of Germans in Milwaukee”, Dr. Anke Ortlepp, University of Cologne