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How Religion in Jefferson City Bound German Immigrants Together
How Religion in Jefferson City Bound German Immigrants Together
Written by Abby, Wyatt, Blaise, Jacob, Jim
Abby Kirtian
Apr 30, 2022
Old Munichburg: Through a Lens of the Past
Old Munichburg: Through a Lens of the Past
History can be discovered through many channels, but the objects left behind let us see through the eyes of the past. Throughout the 19th…
Blaise Ebisch
Apr 26, 2022
The Revitalization of Old Munichburg
The Revitalization of Old Munichburg
The History of Old Munichburg
Abby Kirtian
Apr 30, 2022
Tracing German Heritage on Main Street
Tracing German Heritage on Main Street
A photograph of the Boonville Business District taken in 1860
Abby Kirtian
May 1, 2022
Pro-Prohibition Sentiment in Missouri
Pro-Prohibition Sentiment in Missouri
The article below is clipped from The Word and Way, a newspaper published from 1896–1979 in Cole County, Missouri. It captures a glimpse of…
Blaise Ebisch
Apr 18, 2022
An Immigrant’s Journey
An Immigrant’s Journey
The story of Anna Henriette (Jette) Geisberg Bruns, a German immigrant woman who eventually settled in Jefferson City.
Wyatt Maze
May 2, 2022
This Time We Must Win
This Time We Must Win
This article from The Word and Way newspaper was 2 years before prohibition began in Missouri. The Word and Way is a Baptist newspaper, and…
Wyatt Maze
Apr 19, 2022
A Woman’s Perspective
A Woman’s Perspective
A discussion of letters written in the 1850’s by Anna Henriette (Jette) Geisberg Bruns, a German immigrant woman from Munster who moved to…
Wyatt Maze
May 2, 2022
Postcards, Popes, and Prussians
Postcards, Popes, and Prussians
Objects are a wonderful lens to view history through. A book or lecture can inform people about the past, but objects, items, and…
Jacob Mertes
May 2, 2022
Radicals of the Early Republic
Radicals of the Early Republic
German immigrants were a lot of things in the late-19th-early-20th Century of American development. However, one aspect of German…
Blaise Ebisch
May 2, 2022
About German Immigration to Missouri
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