"Organized into five topographical, geographic, and cultural sections--East, West, North, South, and Central--three dozen stories by Joe Holley and more than eighty complementary photographs by Peter Brown create a parallel narrative to reveal the collective, various, remarkably…
"Organized into five topographical, geographic, and cultural sections--East, West, North, South, and Central--three dozen stories by Joe Holley and more than eighty complementary photographs by Peter Brown create a parallel narrative to reveal the collective, various, remarkably…
The largest single immigration of Germans to the United States, and the most unusual, occurred in Texas around the middle of the nineteenth century. The organization formed to direct this German colonization of Texas became popularly known as the Adelsverein (The Society of Nobl…
"The diary begins with Solms's departure from the family castle on the Rhine, Rheingrafenstein, in May 1844, and ends on June 30, 1845, in New York as he embarks upon his return trip to Germany. It contains important historical data, and its personal nature allowed freedom in th…
