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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticKamphoefner, Walter D.
Title, AnalyticThe Uses of Immigrant Letters
Journal TitleBulletin of the German Historical Institute
Date of PublicationFall 2007
Issue ID41
Location in Work137-140
ISSN1048-9134
Abstract[W]orkshop participants set out to evaluate the editing and other work done with immigrant letters in the past, and to assess the uses that scholars--within and outside the historical profession--might make of such letters. Topics included aspects of immigrant correspondence that deserve greater attention, the impact of changing communication, archival practices, contextualization of letters, letters as "the real guidebooks" for immigrants, cultural history approaches to immigrant letters, and the linguistic potential of letter evidence.
NotesConference at the GHI, May 18-19, 2007
Call NumberMKI Periodicals
MKI TermsImmigrants, German/ Letters/ Conferences