By the mid-1800s, German immigrants had brought their chopped beefsteak dish with them to the New World. In 1837, New York’s Delmonico’s restaurant offered a Hamburg steak on its first menu. At 10 cents, it was one of the most expensive items, twice the cost of pork chops and roas...
German immigrants were an important subset of American culture from before the Revolution, but they made their greatest impact beginning in the 1840s and 1850s, when over a million migrated to the U.S., primarily to escape political upheaval. Once here, these immigrants made important ...
In the 1850s, many of Indiana's native-born Protestant population perceived the traditions and customs of German immigrants, specifically those concerning drinking alcoholic beverages and beer, as a threat to their "American way of life." They believed that the Germans' public drinking habits and...
Most of these books are about German and Swiss immigrants who settled in the Carolinas, Georgia, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. There are many different kinds of resources here. For example, there are historical essays about the impact of Germans on the settle...
By the mid-1800s, German immigrants had brought their chopped beefsteak dish with them to the New World. In 1837, New York’s Delmonico’s restaurant offered a Hamburg steak on its first menu. At 10 cents, it was one of the most expensive items, twice the cost of pork chops and roas...
1.(used with a pl. verb)The descendants of German and Swiss immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania in the 1600s and 1700s. 2.The dialect of High German spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch. Also calledDutch,Pennsylvania German. See Note atall. ...
It was settled largely by German immigrants in the mid-1800s. German descendants at one time comprised as much as one-third of the population of Columbus. Restoration began in 1959 and the Historic District was established in 1963. German Village was the FIRST historic district in the U.S....
FOR REASONS STILL NOT clear, boatloads of German immigrants made Texas their home in the 1800s. What they thought they would find similar to their cold, richly forested homeland in the hellaciously hot, mesquite-scrub, rattlesnake-filled Texas Hill Country is lost to history. Worse, they ...
Although Dutch Lutherans arrived in America in the 1620s, German Lutheran and German Reformed immigrants did not begin arriving in Pennsylvania until the first decade of the 18th century. By 1740, many had also settled in South Carolina and Georgia. Although the German Lutherans initially chose ...
One of those German immigrants, Friedrich Hecker, was the well-known revolutionary leader, who had fled with thousands of other ’48ers who had made Missouri their new home… Dorris Keeven-Franke Missouri Germans German settlement in Missouri ...