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9780870201738: Germans in Wisconsin

Synopsis

This work traces Wisconsin's German population from the territorial days to the arrival of the intellectual "49ers", and the devastating effect of the World Wars on German American culture. Today's ethnic culture bears little relationship to Germany, but has instead become distinctly "Wisconsin".

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About the Author

Richard H. Zeitlin was born in New York City in 1945. He did his undergraduate work at Queens College and earned both a master's degree and a doctorate in history at the University of Wisconsin, the latter in 1973. He worked for Old World Wisconsin, the State Historical Society's outdoor ethnic musuem, between 1973 and 1977. He served as director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum on Madison's Capitol Square until his death in December of 2008.

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