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RE: Love Thy Neighbor: American Nativism against German Americans in 1918

in #explore19186 years ago

Anti-German sentiment in the US and in Philadelphia rose and fell with different issues over the centuries. German-speaking immigrants were the first Caucasians to protest slavery in 1688. The introduction and daily consumption of lager beer more than a century a a half later fed other negative stereotypes. And there was much, much more.