The Uses of Immigrant Letters

Conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.
May, 18-19, 2007

Convener:
Wolfgang Helbich (Bochum), Anke Ortlepp (GHI)

final Program (pdf file)
List of Participants (pdf file)

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Participants and Papers

Bruce Elliott
The 2003 Carleton Conference: Limits and Opportunities

Wolfgang Helbich
Karl Larsen, 1860-1931; Pioneer of Modern Immigrant Letters Editions

David Fitzpatrick
Editing emigrant letters: a utilitarian perspective

Walter Kamphoefner
The Real Guidebooks: Advice on Immigration in Letters back to Germany

Susannah U. Bruce
War in Ink and Blood. Exploring the Motivations of Irish Catholic Volunteers in the Union Army, 1861-1865 through their letters

Stephan Elspaß
Immigrant letters as a source for reconstructing language histories ‘from below’ and how (social) historians can profit from this

Maria Irene Moyna
Back at the Rancho: Sociolinguistic Variation among Spanish-speakers in post-Annexation California, 1848-1900

Joe Salmons
What immigrant letters can tell us about English in German-American communities

Suzanne Sinke
Engendered texts: evaluating gender as a category in nineteenth-century immigrant letters

Volker Depkat
Approaching Immigrant Letters as Acts of Transatlantic Communication

David Gerber
Exploring the Surfaces and Depths of Immigrant Personal Correspondence; or What Did Kate Bond Want to Say?

Ursula Lehmkuhl
The Reconstruction of Life Histories from Immigrant Letter

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