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German Immigration Tricentennial: First German Settlers Land in America. 1683-1983. Immigration. German immigration began in the 17th century and continued into the late 19th century at a rate exceeding that of any other country. Working with William Penn, Franz Daniel Pastorius established "Germantown" near Philadelphia in 1683.
Links for Researchers and Travellers. · Germans to America. Resources. Nearly 43 million Americans about 1-in-6 U.S. residents identified their ancestry as German in the Census 2000. As opposed to first and second-generation Americans, for whom integration and Americanization was of primary interest, more recently third, fourth and later ...
Because the 1848 revolutions in Europe failed to bring democracy to Germany, several thousand fugitives left for America in addition to the nearly 750,000 other Germans who immigrated to America in the following years. While a mere 6,000 Germans had entered the United States in the 1820s, nearly one million did so in the 1850s, the first great influx from Germany. Despite annual fluctuations ...
How German Is American? SETTLING IN AMERICA According to the U.S. Census conducted in 2000, 42.8 million Americans identified themselves as being of German ancestry, representing 15.2% of the total U.S. population. By comparison, the next largest group, Irish Americans, comprised 10.8% of the population, while African Americans and Americans of English background each…
30. Apr. 2024 · For a brief historical overview of German immigration and how it affected American culture and society, see Still Waters: The Impact of German Immigration to the Unites States. "The Germans in America" was part of a larger project to create, in cooperation with partners in Europe and the United States, a Transatlantic Digital Library dealing with themes of common European-American interest and ...
++Reasons for blurs/muted audio: This channel was renamed in Oct 2021. All references to the old name have been removed.++October 6th is German-American Day ...
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Drawing on much recent scholarship as well as on his own extensive research on German immigration to the U.S. and on the German-American experience, Walter Kamphoefner has produced an important new book on German immigrants in the U.S. It is an updated history of German-Americans and necessary reading for anyone interested in why Germans moved to North America, how they adapted to it, and how ...
