Last year, she was here in Iowa, working to keep a language alive. This year, she’ll be across the river in Nebraska for the same reason. Julia Westlake, a filmmaker from Hamburg, Germany, came to ...

GARDEN CITY, Kan. -- Tina Fehr struggled to find the right English words to say how much happier she would be if her three boys could go to a German school and learn about Jesus. The 33-year-old ...

Listen to this episode of A People's History Of Kansas City, a new podcast from KCUR 89.3. For more stories like this one, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play and Stitcher. Gene Beckman ...

In the 1830s, a wave of immigrants from northern Germany settled in the area of Cole Camp, Missouri, bringing with them their farming skills and the dialect of Plattdüütsch. Now residents are working ...

A 1983 routine cleaning at Boerne High School in Texas yielded a rare and precious find: a thick, ornate Bible wrapped in cloth and written in low German. Now it will soon be seen online. Here's a ...

NEW ULM — Pat Kretsch remembers a time when German could be heard on nearly every carefully manicured street in New Ulm, from the merchants peddling their wares to the homes where German-Bohemians ...