Listen to this episode of A People's History Of Kansas City, a new podcast from KCUR 89.3. For more stories like this one, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play and Stitcher. Gene Beckman ...

Whether you’re asked to portray an artistic German Expressionist, an inebriated Oktoberfest attendee, or a nefarious James Bond villain, the ability to do a German accent can help you land roles. From ...

Few children, other than Amish and similar communities, have learned to speak anything more than a handful of words and phrases. The retired director of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies at ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This bibliography continues and supplements one that was published by Wolfgang Viereck, Orbis 16 (1967), 549-568; 17 (1968), 532-535. Journal ...

Perry County, Mo. • One hundred eighty years ago, 665 Lutherans set across the ocean in five sailing ships from Saxony in Germany, seeking a better life in a new world. One ship was lost at sea.

C. Richard Beam and Jennifer L. Trout have edited a new book memorializing a late contributor to the study of the regional dialect: “Dorathy V. Eberly Fry: Pennsylvania German Teacher and Storyteller.

A road trip through Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state leads to German and Italian cuisine, dialects and a surprising number of music festivals. The author encountered accordion music and other ...

This is the third of a three-part series on local Volga German history. Much of the information in all three columns comes from work and research done by Emma Hermann Thieme and Frederick Zitzer, ...