"Early in the twentieth century, drawing upon the hundreds of letters written to his father by immigrants from Mecklenburg, Germany, Johannes Gillhoff created t

This is the true-life story of Sethma Caspers who danced her way though pre-war Europe in 1937. From a stint in the chorus of the Moulin Rouge, Sethma went on t

German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union troops. Yet little attention h