Lyonel Feininger’s Watercolor Eutin I: Reflections on the Origins, Composition, and Vision

For the German version of this work, see “Lyonel Feiningers Aquarell ‘Eutin I’. Überlegungen zur Entstehung, Komposition und Vision,” in Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde (Eutin) 41 (2007): 138–145. Permission to use the image was granted by the La Vera Pohl Collection, The Wriston Art Galleries, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin

Review of: Transatlatic echoes: Alexander von Humbolt in World Literature and Cosmos and Colonialism: Alexander von Humbult in Cultural Criticism.

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James H. Lane and the Origins of the Kansas Jayhawk

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Abraham Lincoln and the German Immigrants: Turners and Forty-Eighters

This is an excerpt from the book, Abraham Lincoln and the German Immigrants: Turners and Forty-Eighters, published in Lawrence, KS by the Society of German-American Studies

The Early Date of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus

This is the author's expanded version of the article published in Academia Letters. The DOI and citation refer to the original published version.Christopher Marlowe was responsible for the first significant literary transformation of the German Faust Book of 1587. Thus, a propagandistic pamphlet about a demonic magician became genuine dramatic literature. The focus of the present article is a short period when this major transformation took place. Because the first edition of the English Faust Book has been lost, it is difficult to reconstruct when and how Marlowe completed his Faustus. But evidence of a significant combination of mistakes in the first printing of the English Faust Book, the text of Marlowe’s stage play, and the contemporary Faustus ballad make it possible to reconstruct and date Marlowe’s masterpiece in the period of 1588 or early 1589

Who Was the Historical Faustus? Interpreting an Overlooked Source

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The ‘Myth’ and Reality of Rescue from the Holocaust: The Karski–Koestler and Vrba–Wetzler Reports.

This is the author's accepted manuscript. See also: Von Ungarn nach Auschwitz: Die verschwiegene Warnung at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6817. An English translation of the Vrba-Wetzler report may be found at http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/auschproto.html.Reliable information about the progress of the Holocaust was not readily available before the end of the Second World War. It has been argued that the Allies could not have saved more Jews under the given circumstances. The analysis of two important first-hand reports of 1942 and 1944 suggest, however, a different interpretation. These reports were dramatic in their impact and instrumental in bringing about rescue efforts. If these documents had not been subject to restrictions and delays in reaching a wide readership, they could have been even more effective in mobilizing public opinion in support of rescue missions

Which Faustus Died in Staufen? History and Legend in the "Zimmerische Chronik"

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Albert Bloch and the Blue Rider: The Munich Years

This is the online version of the book; the images of Albert Bloch’s paintings are included only in the printed edition. The printed edition is available from Jayhawk Ink at http://www.kubookstore.com/p-126860-albert-bloch-and-the-blue-rider-munich-years.aspxAlbert Bloch, together with Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, participated in one of the most significant art shows of the twentieth century, the Blue Rider exhibition of Munich in 1911–1912. Subsequently this American artist from St. Louis also exhibited with Paul Klee. During the decade from 1910 to 1920 Bloch contributed to at least forty European exhibitions. The present publication provides an overview of this period of Bloch’s career. Thanks to an original photographic record of 140 paintings from that period, we are able to recover the evolution of his art in the context of a most innovative period of modern art