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Members of the American Association of Teachers of German listserv have been sharing resources dealing with German heritage and influence in the United States. Here are some of them:

The Society for German-American Studies is “an international professional organization dedicated to encouraging and advancing the scholarly study of the history, language, literature, and culture of the German element in the Americas.” Their website is available at http://sgas.org/

The German Society of Maryland is for “anyone interested in learning about and preserving the German heritage in Maryland.” Their website is available at http://www.germansociety-md.com/default.htm

The German-American Heritage Foundation “aims to highlight the history of our ancestors as well as the impact they and the coming generations of German-Americans had in shaping the USA.” Their website is available at http://www.gahmusa.org/

The German National Tourist Office and the German Information Center USA have put together the German Originality website, about German American heritage, available at http://www.germany.travel/en/ms/german-originality/home.html

An online book, The German Americans: An Ethnic Experience by Willi Paul Adams, Lavern J. Rippley, and Eberhard Reichmann, is available at http://maxkade.iupui.edu/adams/toc.html

The German-American Heritage Museum in Washington DC celebrates, displays, and commends the achievements of American immigrants from German-speaking countries. Their website is available at https://washington.org/find-dc-listings/german-american-heritage-museum

Spurensuche is a website dedicated to the German-speaking communities in Chicago and the Midwest. Their website is available at http://www.spurensuchemidwest.org/

The Goethe-Institut’s German Roots website explores people from the German-speaking world in American history. Explore it at https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/kul/sup/deu.html

About.com’s German Language site has an alphabetical list of famous German-Americans with very short biographical sketches of each person, available here: http://german.about.com/library/blfam_geramABC.htm