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  • The Memory of Mankind. The Story of Libraries Since the Dawn of History
    Don Tolzmann
    A message to readers from the compiler: Why Mifflin County, Pennsylvania? For a very selfish reason - Mifflin County is where the first known records of my third-great-grandfather were created. As of July 2025, I will celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the beginning of my search for David SCOTT, Sr.’s parents and siblings. The search is both wearing and energizing. I mean, what ...
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    50,88 €

  • Ohio Valley German Biographical Index
    Don H. Tolzmann
    This new compilation provides access to several major German-American works, heretofore unindexed, covering the German element in the Ohio Valley from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century. These works are Cincinnati in Wort und Bild (Burgheim), 1888; Deutsche Chronik in der Geschichte des Ohio-Thales und seiner Hauptstadt Cincinnati ins Besondere... (Klauprecht), 1...
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    25,82 €

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Ancestry
    Don H. Tolzmann / Don HTolzmann
    Abe Lincoln’s grandfather, Abraham, spelled his surname “Linkhorn.” Was this because he was German (or of German descent)? Or because of the influence of his German neighbors in Virginia? Or because of a spelling error? In the early 1900s, Mr. Learned took on the task of thoroughly investigating the Lincoln family origins, “unearth[ing] and exploit[ing] much original matter rel...
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    30,93 €

  • Germany and America, 1450-1700
    Don H Tolzmann
    Published in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America, this work vividly describes the German role in the discovery, exploration, and early settlement of America. Legend says that Tyrker accompanied Leif Ericson to the New World and thus, was the first German in North America. The first Germans to land in what would become the United States, arrived at...
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    36,44 €

  • German-Americana in Europe
    Don H Tolzmann
    If you are one of the sixty million Americans who trace their heritage to German-speaking lands, you are probably already familiar with Don Heinrich Tolzmann’s prolific dissemination of books on German-American history and genealogy. In this two-for-one reprint, Dr. Tolzmann has combined related books originally published by the Department of Historical Research of the Carnegie...
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    60,82 €

  • The Pennsylvania Germans
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann / James Owen Knauss
    This work was originally published by the Pennsylvania German Society in 1922 under the title Social Conditions Among the Pennsylvania Germans in the Eighteenth Century as Revealed in the German Newspapers Published in America. This informative work provides a descriptive analysis of the German American press of Pennsylvania, as well as a comprehensive survey of the German Amer...
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    27,06 €

  • German Pioneer Life
    Don H. Tolzmann / Don HTolzmann
    The first section of this two-part collection is a facsimile reprint of Benjamin Rush’s article 'An Account of the Manners of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania' (1910), which includes extensive notes by I. Daniel Rupp. Chapters include: early settlement of Pennsylvania by the Germans, farmers, mechanics and merchants, general characteristics, religious bodies, and culture ...
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    34,61 €

  • The Pennsylvania Germans
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    This book provides an introduction into the life and times of Germans who settled in Pennsylvania. The first permanent all-German settlement was established in America in October 1683 at Germantown, which is now a part of Philadelphia. Germantown would then become the German-American center into the 19th century. This book describes immigration from Germany and the hardships im...
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    27,76 €

  • Michigan’s German Heritage
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann / John Andrew Russell
    Today, German-Americans amount to 29% of Michigan’s population, thereby making them the state’s largest ethnic group. You would believe that any history of the state of Michigan would have to include the contributions of the German-American population, as they are nearly one-third of the state’s entire population. But in 1927, when this history was written, this was not the cas...
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    43,13 €

  • Americana Germanica
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    In the 1930s, Paul Ben Baginsky, a member of the German Department faculty of Brooklyn College, was working on a book then called 'The Development of the Notion of America in Germany' when it was stopped by the lack of bibliographic data to work from. It became clear that no more progress could be made without more adequate bibliographical foundations, and that’s exactly what B...
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    31,16 €

  • Maryland’s German Heritage
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    Today, German-Americans number 26% of the population of Maryland, thereby making them the largest ethnic group in the state. The foundations of this large German-American population were laid in the colonial times when large numbers of Germans from Pennsylvania migrated to Maryland. Originally published in 1913, Nead’s history, The Pennsylvania-German in the Settlement of Maryl...
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    39,87 €

  • Biography of Baron Von Steuben, the Army of the American Revolution and Its Organizer
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann / Rudolf Cronau
    Dr. Tolzmann continues his efforts to spotlight the historical contributions of German-Americans in this new edition of Rudolf Cronau’s landmark biography of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. A professional soldier in the army of Prussian King Frederick the Great, Steuben came to the American colonies in 1777 at the urging of Benjamin Franklin to act as an advisor to Gen. Ge...
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    25,38 €

  • Louisiana’s German Heritage
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    An old Creole expression in New Orleans is: 'It takes German people to do that!' This reflects the important role that German-Americans have had in the history of Louisiana. From the days of their first arrival in the early 1700s to the present time, German-Americans, who now number twelve percent of the state’s population, have played an important role in the social, cultural,...
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    24,18 €

  • German Americans in the Revolution
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    Considered the definitive history of the involvement of German-Americans in the American Revolution, this work was originally published in 1908 and has long been out of print. It focuses on Pennsylvania and surrounding colonies, where the colonial German element was concentrated, and contains extensive biographical information of value to genealogists and historians. Although o...
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    55,37 €

  • Cincinnati’s German Heritage
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    Abounding with biographical and historical data, this book is a definitive history of Cincinnati, one of America’s three major urban centers of German heritage (St. Louis and Milwaukee are the others). This volume traces, outlines, and discusses German immigration and settlement in the Greater Cincinnati area since the eighteenth century. It contains The Survival of an Ethnic C...
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    41,11 €

  • Amana
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann / William Robertson Perkins
    Amana (the Society of True Inspiration) was a settlement of German pietists in Iowa, consisting of seven old-fashioned villages along the Iowa River. The founders were German mystics who believed in divine inspiration, and who traced their religious ancestry back to the pietists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They opposed Lutheran formalism, refused to take oaths a...
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    22,37 €

  • Early German-American Newspapers
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    The purpose of this work is to make Daniel Miller’s history of the German-American press, from its beginnings in the early eighteenth century to 1830, accessible to those interested in German-American history. As Miller provides a basic introductory survey of the press of this period, this work is essential for those seeking information on German-American history in the eightee...
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    23,65 €

  • German Pioneers in Early California
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann / Erwin Gustav Gudde
    California has more German-Americans than any state in the Union, according to the 1990 U.S. Census. Close to five million Californians claim German heritage. This translates into roughly 17% of the state’s population. ...
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    13,53 €

  • Outbreak and Massacre by the Dakota Indians in Minnesota in 1862
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann / Marion P. Satterlee / Marion PSatterlee
    Much has been written about the 1862 Sioux Uprising, or Dakota Conflict, in Minnesota, as its impact was dramatic. An immediate result was the flight of nearly 40,000 people from their homes, and an est. 1000 deaths. For many years the value of this work has been recognized by the descendants of those who perished during the conflict. It will aid descendents attempting to ident...
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    20,28 €

  • Ohio’s German Heritage
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    This brief survey traces the basic outlines of German immigration and settlement in the history of Ohio. As the largest ethnic element in the state, German-Americans have exerted a profound influence on Ohio’s history. Five basic periods in Ohio German history are identified and discussed in this work: The Colonial Period (before the American Revolution); The New Republic (unti...
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    14,18 €

  • German-American Achievements
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    This is a concise survey of the role that America’s largest ethnic group, the German-Americans, has played in American history from the 17th century to the present. The term 'German-American' in this volume refers to immigrants and their offspring from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other German-speaking areas of Europe. Hence, the term 'German' is used in a linguistic, cult...
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    26,67 €

  • Cincinnati Germans After the Great War
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    One of the stereotypes surrounding the home front during and immediately after World War I is that Germanophobia eradicated German-American culture as we know it. To be sure, owing to the 'guilt by association' reaction to the U.S. entry into the conflict against the Kaiser, many communities substituted Anglo names for Germanic-sounding cuisine, streets, insurance companies, an...
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    33,44 €

  • German Regiment Among the French Auxiliary Troops of the American Revolutionary War
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann / HARattermann
    The Royal German Regiment Zweibrucken, led by Prince Christian von Zweibrucken, is the focal point of this publication, which is based upon a heretofore unpublished manuscript by H.A. Rattermann found among the papers in the Rattermann Collection at the University of Illinois-Urbana by the noted German-American authority, Don Heinrich Tolzmann, who also edited the manuscript fo...
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    19,66 €

  • German Element in the Ohio Valley
    Gustav Koerner / Gustav Philipp K'Orner / Gustav Philipp K’Orner / Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    In 1880 Gustav Koerner (1809-96), one-time Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois and confidant of Abraham Lincoln, published a comprehensive history of Germans in America entitled 'Das deutsche Element in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika, 1818-48.' Dr. Don Heinrich Tolzmann has here translated and edited selected chapters from Koerner covering the states of Kentucky, Ohio, and...
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    27,62 €

  • German Element in the Northeast
    Gustav Koerner / Gustav Philipp K'Orner / Gustav Philipp K’Orner / Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    In 1880 Gustav Koerner (1809-96), one-time Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois and confidant of Abraham Lincoln, published a comprehensive history of Germans in America entitled 'Das deutsche Element in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika, 1818-48.' For the work at hand, Don Heinrich Tolzmann translated and edited selected chapters from Koerner covering the states of Pennsylvan...
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    35,09 €

  • Wisconsin’s German Element
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann / JHALacher
    J. H. A. Lacher’s treatise on the German element of Wisconsin, originally published by a division of the Steuben Society of America in 1925, is still the standard introduction to its subject. It has now been edited for republication by German-American authority Don Heinrich Tolzmann. The first section of the work focuses on Wisconsin’s rich German religious establishment: Catho...
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    18,84 €

  • German Element in St. Louis
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann / William Godfrey Bek
    As a result of the nineteenth-century German emigration to the United States, St. Louis, Missouri, along with Milwaukee and Cincinnati, would become constituted as the great 'German triangle' of the Midwest. In 1893, Ernst Kargau, a reporter and editor for various German-American newspapers, published a German language commemorative history of St. Louis’ German population entit...
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    43,18 €

  • Covington's German Heritage
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    Covington, Kentucky, is one of the three major centers in German-American heritage and is located directly across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. This book provides a survey history of the area's German heritage. Chapter topics include: the German Pioneer ...
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    16,87 €

  • The First Germans in America
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    The first permanent German settlement in America was at Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1683. But most people do not realize that Germans first arrived in America in 1608, settling at Jamestown, Virginia, and, within a few years, Germans began joining the Du ...
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    20,22 €

  • German Immigration to America
    Don Heinrich Tolzmann
    'In 1708, representatives of the first major wave of German immigrants arrived upon American shores. By that time, Germans had already been coming to America for a century, but this was the date associated with the first major wave-the first of many that ...
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    31,27 €


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