(Nearly) Everyone's an Immigrant

Michael Whaley, of The Free Congregation (formerly the Freie Gemeinde ) of Sauk County (Wisconsin), recently wrote to us at MKI: "W...

This image, showing the fondness families often have for their ancestors, is the cover of The Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin fro...

Our primary collection focus at the Max Kade Institute is German-language books published in North America, so this 1858 volume of Schiller...

Here is information on a course about the immigration experience of German-speaking peoples, offered by Prof. Johannes Strohschänk and Bill ...

Here is the striking logo of The Antigo [Wisconsin] Publishing Company, founded in 1898 by the Lutheran minister Rev. Albert Friedrich Wilh...

Recently donated to the MKI's library is this advertisement for Dr. August König's Hamburger Tropfen , a patent medicine said to be ...

Two interesting images recently stumbled upon -- click on them to enlarge! This one is attributed to Jürgen Eichhoff, the first director of ...

On July 15, 2012, a ceremony was held in the Town of Berlin, Marathon County, Wisconsin, to unveil a granite marker commemorating the Pomer...

Here we take a peek at Lustige Sachen für Mädchen zum Lachen. Vorträge für Jungfrauen [Humorous things/recitations to make young girls laug...

Among the extensive materials in the Frank and Herta Gross family papers is documentation related to the 500-plus care packages Frank sent t...

This humorous dialog, intended to be read aloud at Christian social gatherings, is from a book entitled Deutscher Humor I. Poesie und Prosa ...

Here are two advertisements from the Sheboygan Volksblatt , a weekly German-language paper published by the Central Labor Union and "d...

The following announcement was published by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction: Lodi high school in Wisconsin and its partne...

. . . would this German-American farce work so well. Here is one page from a 16-page Dialog by W. Heinecke, entitled "Sell war ä hard ...

Francis A. Hoffmann (1822-1903), was born in Herford, Kreis Minden, Westphalia, and fled the Prussian draft in 1840. He settled in Illinois ...

Researching 1860 U.S. Census data for Middleton, Wisconsin, I came across a place I had never heard of. A number of residents with German-...

The Max Kade Institute is collaborating with Pope Farm Conservancy in Middleton, Wisconsin, on researching the history of immigration and se...