Image Source: NYC Treeman After World War I broke out in 1914, many German-Americans started embracing assimilation with an unprecedented eagerness. But throughout the 1800s, German immigrants were ...

Women have faced many injustices, pain, and struggles over time. This thesis focuses on the methods by which women were oppressed in 1800s Germany vs. today. At first, I use a number of popular ...

A 1,800-year-old silver amulet unearthed in a Roman-era German cemetery, bearing early Christian prayers, has been hailed as the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. The Latin ...

What it’s about: A man many see as the father of the gay rights movement. Ulrichs was a journalist and lawyer who campaigned for gay rights in 1860s Germany, first under a pseudonym, and then his own ...

In the last half of the 1800s, Columbus was a rapidly growing place. Ohio's capital city had been a modest town of about 18,000 people at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. By the turn of the 20th ...