{"id":2282,"date":"2014-07-08T20:05:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2014-07-08T20:05:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T20:05:54","slug":"chronicling-americas-historic-german-newspapers-and-the-growth-of-the-american-ethnic-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2014\/07\/08\/chronicling-americas-historic-german-newspapers-and-the-growth-of-the-american-ethnic-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicling America\u2019s Historic German Newspapers and the Growth of the American Ethnic Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2283\" style=\"width: 567px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/07\/scranton-resize.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2283  \" alt=\"Scranton Wochenblatt. Courtesy of Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Image provided by: Penn State University Libraries.\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/07\/scranton-resize.jpg\" width=\"567\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scranton Wochenblatt. Courtesy of Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Image provided by: Penn State University Libraries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Extra!\u00a0 Extra!\u00a0 German Immigrants in the United States<\/p>\n<p>Were Germans the most influential group in the ethnic press?\u00a0 For a time, yes!\u00a0 In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Germans came to the United States in droves.\u00a0 For decades, Germans were the largest non-English-speaking immigrant group in America.\u00a0 Between 1820 and 1924, over 5.5 million German immigrants arrived in the United States, many of them middle class, urban, and working in the skilled trades, and others establishing farming communities in the West.\u00a0 Their numbers and dedication to maintaining their language and culture made Germans the most influential force in the American foreign-language press\u2014in the 1880s, the 800 German-language newspapers accounted for about 4\/5 of non-English publications, and by 1890, more than 1,000 German newspapers were being published in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Germans were the first non-English-speaking group to publish newspapers in America.\u00a0 At least until the First World War, these newspapers were critical for maintaining German American identity.\u00a0 For many German immigrants, the emphasis was on the first part of that identity\u2014they were Germans first, and sought to become Americans without relinquishing their German-ness.\u00a0 The group established a pattern that other immigrant groups followed later.\u00a0 They came to America, settled into cultural enclaves, and constructed microcosms of their society in the new country. Maintaining their language and printing newspapers in their native language was critical to that process.\u00a0 Some of the many German-language newspapers published in the United States may now be found in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Chronicling America<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neh.gov\/divisions\/preservation\/featured-project\/chronicling-americas-historic-german-newspapers-and-the-grow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extra!\u00a0 Extra!\u00a0 German Immigrants in the United States Were Germans the most influential group in the ethnic press?\u00a0 For a time, yes!\u00a0 In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Germans came to the United States in droves.\u00a0 For decades, Germans were the largest non-English-speaking immigrant group in America.\u00a0 Between 1820 and 1924, over 5.5 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archives-in-the-news","7":"category-cool-site-of-the-month"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}