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C33 - Cry ‘Havoc!’ and Let Slip die Hunde of War: The Persistent Pulse of German-American Community and Culture in the American Civil War Era
In the 1850s and through the American Civil War, German-Americans carried with them cultural markers of their German identity expressed through language (used in various media such as conversations, newspapers, correspondences, journals, and poetry), music, and food while assimilating and adjusting to American culture to fabricate a distinct German-American identity.
C33 - Cry ‘Havoc!’ and Let Slip die Hunde of War: The Persistent Pulse of German-American Community and Culture in the American Civil War Era
In the 1850s and through the American Civil War, German-Americans carried with them cultural markers of their German identity expressed through language (used in various media such as conversations, newspapers, correspondences, journals, and poetry), music, and food while assimilating and adjusting to American culture to fabricate a distinct German-American identity. By researching the German-American perspective using their own primary sources and native language, we can better understand global and multicultural understandings of American identity and the Civil War while giving the German-Americans of history much-needed analytical attention after decades of overall othering and neglect observed especially in twentieth-century historiography.
