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Katharina Morgan-Schmid From Schuepfheim: El Paso, Texas, 1918 Presumed Spy Affair, Frederick Schmid
Katharina Morgan-Schmid From Schuepfheim: El Paso, Texas, 1918 Presumed Spy Affair, Frederick Schmid
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In 1918, a female from Entlebuch, Switzerland who had already been living abroad for several years, including time in the USA,ended her journey with a trip in the United States. She had intended to return to her homeland, Switzerland , start a family, and write a book about the fascinating continent of North America.
Gottfried Keller And The Fictionalization Of Switzerland, Richard Hacken
Gottfried Keller And The Fictionalization Of Switzerland, Richard Hacken
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The Swiss author Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) was a major figure within the late nineteenth-century German-language literary movement known as "Poetic Reali sm" ("Poetischer Realismus") . The very name of the movement suggested that " Poetic Reali sts" had retouched or revi sed reality by "poetici zing" it. Keller 's arti stic technique , which was influential on other writers of his time, transmuted outwardly observable actuality aga in and again into poetically coherent inner realities .1 This article explores how and why Keller found it artistically and socially beneficial to turn the factual contours of the Swiss Confederation essenti ally …
Memories, Eva Becsei-Kilborn
Memories, Eva Becsei-Kilborn
Swiss American Historical Society Review
It was in the early 1990's that I first met Bob. He was teaching, first as a Soros Foundation Fellow and then as a Fullbright Professor at the Lajos Kossuth University in Debrecen, a city in eastern Hungary. It was only a couple of years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism. This was a time when it had finally become possible for Hungarians to travel freely in the world, but in practice very few of us were able to afford to do so.
Robert E. Bieder's Scholarly Publications
Robert E. Bieder's Scholarly Publications
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Postcards Of The Mind, Robert E. Bieder
Postcards Of The Mind, Robert E. Bieder
Swiss American Historical Society Review
You would think by Autumn one would know
That blue cornflowers close at night,
That raccoons call to each other down at Blossom Creek, .
That dry corn stalks speak of winter to the moon.
In Spring,
l stole swiftly through the flowers· and the corn
To see her,
Whom I chased that summer through the cornfields,
Chased her down the rows that whispered in the night,.
Until I caught her and we fell in love.
Foreword, Leo Schelbert
Foreword, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
On the one hand, no information seems- o be available about Robert E.
Bieder's background, hls parents and siblings, his growing up, his schooling
and his teenage years before college.On the other hand, there seems
no explanation in reach why Robert E. Bieder did not receive a permanent
academic appointment despite his productive research and publication,
and why, after two to three years at an institution, he was again on the
move. He seemed to be changing from position to position in the United
States as well as abroad.
The Return Of The Ancestors, Robert E. Bieder
The Return Of The Ancestors, Robert E. Bieder
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In 1971, an Iowa road crew accidentally unearthed an unmarked
cemetery. There were twenty-eight skeletons. Twenty-seven belonged to
whites, and state money quickly paid for their reburial. The other, a young
female Indian was packed in a box and shipped off to the University of
Iowa and the state archeologist. A local Indian by the name Running
Moccasins learned of the Incident and demanded that the woman's bones
be returned for proper burial.
Robert E. Bieder's Academic Career
Robert E. Bieder's Academic Career
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Reviews Of Two Books Of Robert E. Bieder, Roger L. Nichols, Juliet Clutton-Brock
Reviews Of Two Books Of Robert E. Bieder, Roger L. Nichols, Juliet Clutton-Brock
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.