Introduction: An expansive and expanding field / Cora Lee Kluge and Mark L. LoudenForced out of Hitler's Reich : five eminent Madisonians / Jost Hermand -- Elvis and other Germans : some reflections and modest proposals on the study of German-American ethnicity / Walter D. Kamphoefner -- "That species of property" : Francis Lieber's encounter with slavery and race / Hartmut Keil -- Sealsfield's Das Kajütenbuch : the half-unfolded spring of German and American literature / Hugh Ridley -- Taking stock : the disappearance of German-American literature? / Lorie A. Vanchena -- German-American dialects on different paths to extinction : examples from Haysville, Indiana and New Ulm, Minnesota / Daniel Nützel -- Performing the American myth by speaking German : changing meanings of ethnic identity between the wars / Steven Hoelscher -- Situating natural hazards in German-American studies / Uwe Lübken -- Advancing German-American studies in the digital age : opportunities for collaboration / Louis A. Pitschmann.
Cora Lee Kluge and Mark L. Louden: Introduction: An expansive and expanding field
Jost Hermand: Forced out of Hitler's Reich : five eminent Madisonians
Walter D. Kamphoefner: Elvis and other Germans : some reflections and modest proposals on the study of German-American ethnicity
Hartmut Keil: "That species of property" : Francis Lieber's encounter with slavery and race
Hugh Ridley: Sealsfield's Das Kajütenbuch : the half-unfolded spring of German and American literature
Lorie A. Vanchena: Taking stock : the disappearance of German-American literature?
Daniel Nützel: German-American dialects on different paths to extinction : examples from Haysville, Indiana and New Ulm, Minnesota
Steven Hoelscher: Performing the American myth by speaking German : changing meanings of ethnic identity between the wars
Uwe Lübken: Situating natural hazards in German-American studies
Louis A. Pitschmann.: Advancing German-American studies in the digital age : opportunities for collaboration