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Sahs Annual Report 2004: Obituaries

Swiss American Historical Society Review

An obituary for Charles E. Ziegler (1929-2004) written by Philip R. Gelzer on September 16, 2004.

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Response To Edmund Campion's Film Review Of Luther, Christian P. Stehr

Swiss American Historical Society Review

After the success of the film BONHOEFFER: AGENT OF GRACE, with over 13 million viewers on U.S. Public Television,63 the same German-American production partners (NFPteleart Berlin and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans) took up a much larger project in 1999: an epic movie about the historic Martin Luther. The goal was to portray Luther in such a way that he would appeal to the young generations of the 21 st century, while making them understand why the man showed up on countless top ten lists of millennial figures. This essentially meant taking Luther off his pedestal to tell the real-life story …

The End Of The Reformation In Valais, Theol. Gerda Altpeter, Margot Durrer

Swiss American Historical Society Review

At the time of the Reformation, Valais was under the jurisdiction of France, Savoy and Spanish Milan. In the last decade of the 16th century and then more intensely in the 17th century, it became a theater for the dynamics of this power. Valais stood in a close relationship with their Savoyard neighbors that had evolved from a relationship of competition into a more friendly union by the 16th Century. The first accord came in 1528 when the Duke of Savoy withdrew from the district of Saint-Maurice, (conquered in 1475). In 1536 Valais engaged with Bern in a concentrated battle …

Sahs Annual Report 2004

Swiss American Historical Society Review

41st SAHS ANNUAL MEETING

Embassy of Switzerland

2900 Cathedral Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

1. AGENDA FOR THE BUSINESS MEETING

2. REPORTS

A. Minutes of the Meeting,

B. President's Report

C. Nominating Committee Report

D. Special Report: New Glarus Committee

E. Membership Report

F. Treasurer's Report

G. Publications

3. PROGRAM FOR THE AFTERNOON MEETING

4. OBITUARIES

Sahs Annual Report 2004: Agenda

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Agenda for the Forty-First Annual SAHS Business Meeting

Sahs Annual Report 2004: Reports

Swiss American Historical Society Review

SAHS Annual Reports

A. Minutes of the Forty-First Annual Business Meeting

B. President's Report

C. Nominating Committee Report

D. Committee Report on the Swiss Center of North America in New Glarus, Wisconsin

E. Membership Report 2003-2004

F. Treasurer's Report

G. Report on Book Publications

Sahs Annual Report 2004: Program For The Afternoon Meeting

Swiss American Historical Society Review

SAHS Annual Report: Program for the Afternoon Meeting including presentations from Dr. Edmund J. Campion and Dr. Raoul Blindenbacher

Appendix: Swiss-American Organizations, Sites And Events

Swiss American Historical Society Review

A list of Swiss-American Organizations, sites and events organized by state.

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Strange Bedfellows: The Bolshevik-Molokanye Relationship, Jesse Adkins

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

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Hans Jorgen Pedersen: The Founder Of Danebod, Thorvald Hansen

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He served as pastor in a number of congregations. He was president of three Folk Schools, two of which he founded. He was a good businessman and was able to finance some of his undertakings. Yet he seemed never to stay at any one thing for very long. He easily became discouraged and he seems to have been that type of person for whom the grass is always greener somewhere else. Nonetheless, in the thirty years of his activity in America, Hans Jorgen Pedersen made a significant contribution to the life of the Danish Lutheran Church among the immigrants.

From The Farm To The Faculty: The Educational Odyssey Of Paulus Falck, Johan Windmuller

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During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, thousands of immigrants from Denmark settled in the American Midwest. Some of them brought with them educational concepts and religious convictions they hoped to pass on to future generations; to do so they created a variety of educational and religious institutions scattered across several Midwestern states. What follows is a study of Paulus Falck, who passed through several of these institutions.

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Written in the 1930s, Petersen, in his memoirs, tells the story of his life beginning with his childhood in Denmark in the 1860s and concludes in the 1890s when he married and became a settled citizen in Dannebrog, Nebraska. He is best known for his decade-long service as postmaster in Dannebrog and publisher of the Dannebrog News. But instead of telling about his career as postmaster and publisher, he relates, in great detail, events from his youth, his various jobs, his travels from place to place as his work directed him, and incidents that he witnessed. Nevertheless, his story is …

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The Faux Pas Of A Vert Galant: The Historiography Of Henry Iv's Military Leadership, Annette Finley-Croswhite

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Even though many modern historians agree that Henry IV was less than a brilliant military commander, a small but growing body of revisionist historians believe that his reputation deserves to be reassessed. While acknowledging his military innovations and battlefield successes, his critics see him primarily as an opportunist with a reckless streak who failed time and again to take full advantage of his victories. The revisionist school, however, believes that these interpretations are based on an inaccurate assessment of early modern warfare and its unique political, religious, and social components. Henry's modern defenders further note that his reputation has suffered …

Rudolf Steiner And The Jewish Question, Peter Staudenmaier

History Faculty Research and Publications

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The Danish Interest Conference, Thorvald Hansen

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On January 1, 1963 The American Evangelical Lutheran Church ceased to exist as a separate entity. The AELC was the new name that had been assumed by the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1954. Therefore, what really came to an end in 1963 was the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church, which hereinafter shall be referred to simply as the Danish Church.

Portrait Of A Peddler, Enok Mortensen

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Editors learn about potential articles in many ways. Last spring my wife and I were participating in "volunteer week" at the Danish Immigrant Archive - Dana College. During one of the twice daily breaks for coffee and kringle, Marilyn Juul Hanson, a volunteer from Cedar Falls, Iowa, shared some anecdotes about her great uncle, an itinerant peddler named Jergen Juul. When I expressed an interest in the story of Jergen Juul, Marilyn and her husband, Roger Hanson, a retired professor of physics at the University of Northern Iowa, gave me a copy of an article in English about the peddler …

The Medieval Holocaust: The Approach Of The Plague And The Destruction Of Jews In Germany, 1348-1349, Albert Winkler

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When the Black Death approached the German Empire in 1348, civic authorities in Germany tried to prevent the disease from striking their cities. No one knew what the Plague was, but there were unfounded rumors that the contagion was caused by Jews who were poisoning the water sources. Civic authorities soon tortured Jews for confessions, and the largest single persecution of Jews in Germany before the 1940s broke out. Jews were attacked in more than three hundred communities, their wealth was plundered, and many thousands were burned to death. The pogroms in Strasbourg and Basel are well-documented examples of what …