Although German Americans number almost 43 million and are the largest ethnic group in the United States, scholars of American literature have paid little atten

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. This book

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Of all European cities, Americans today are perhaps most curious about Berlin, whose position in the American imagination is an essential component of nineteent

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