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The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
Pages in category "German American". The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . German Americans. List of German Americans. Pennsylvania Dutch.
The number of German Americans has remained constant. From 1850 to 1970 German was the most widely used language in the United States after English. In the 1990 U.S. census, 58 million Americans claimed sole German or part-German descent, demonstrating the persistence of the German heritage in the United States.
1. Sept. 2023 · The five states with the highest concentration of Americans with German Ancestry were Wisconsin (37.81%), North Dakota (36.93%), South Dakota (35.74%), Nebraska (32.38%), and Iowa (32.26%). Full data sortable by state is listed in the Demographics section of the Wikpedia article on German Americans . This file may be updated upon the publishing ...
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. [78] According to the 2020 United States Census, there were 39,940,338 Black and African Americans in the United States ...
The German American National Congress ( German: Deutsch Amerikanischer National Kongress) (also known as DANK) is a national German-American nonprofit organization in the United States founded in 1959. [1] It was established to unite Americans of Germanic descent, while preserving their heritage and traditions. [2]
At the same time, as this period in American history coincided with the rise of the newly unified German Empire, some German Americans, especially those living in urban areas, felt a certain amount of pride that their once fragmented ancestral homeland was coming into its own on the international scene. But only two generations later, the events of World War I compelled many to remove the ...
