Women have faced many injustices, pain, and struggles over time. This thesis focuses on the methods by which women were oppressed in 1800s Germany vs. today. At first, I use a number of popular ...

August von Kotzebue's drama Bruder Moritz (1791) demonstrates the impact of non-European cultures on the German discourse and expresses a transcultural consciousness in German culture around 1800.

Image Source: NYC Treeman After World War I broke out in 1914, many German-Americans started embracing assimilation with an unprecedented eagerness. But throughout the 1800s, German immigrants were ...

What it’s about: A man many see as the father of the gay rights movement. Ulrichs was a journalist and lawyer who campaigned for gay rights in 1860s Germany, first under a pseudonym, and then his own ...

A 1,800-year-old silver amulet unearthed in a Roman-era German cemetery, bearing early Christian prayers, has been hailed as the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. The Latin ...

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