Virtual Lecture: “New York’s German-Language Press in Times of Peace and War (late 19th Century to 1918)”

The presentation examines New York City’s thriving German-language press on the eve of World War I, looking at three representative newspapers: the bourgeois New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, the socialist New Yorker Volkszeitung, and the William Randolph Hearst-owned New Yorker deutsches Journal. Peter Conolly-Smith teaches at the City University of New York, Queens College.
Contact Antje Petty (apetty@wisc.edu) to receive a Zoom link.