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| Format | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Wood, Ralph |
| Title, Analytic | Journalism among the Pennsylvania Germans |
| Author, Monographic | Wood, Ralph |
| Title, Monographic | The Pennsylvania Germans |
| Date of Publication | 1942 |
| Location in Work | 131-164 |
| Abstract | For Pennsylvania Germans much of the credit for softening the shock of transition from German to English must go to the newspapers. Without them a much larger percentage of the population than was actually the case would have been condemned to illiteracy, or at least to an inadequate knowledge of state, national and international affairs. By the newspapers of the Pennsylvania Germans is meant primarly the German ones, for the period going far into the nineteenth century, and for the twentieth century the English ones. The newspapers and the almanacs were first predominately German, but gradually, as Pennsylvania German education became all English, they were supplanted by English periodicals. The English newspapers have, in varying degree, and according to the particular bias of each paper, taken over the education and enlightenment on things Pennsylvania German that used to be almost the exclusive sphere of the German newspapers. |
| Call Number | MKI/SHS F 160 .G3 W66 |
| MKI Terms | Pennsylvania Germans/ Journalism/ Newspapers/ Newspapers, German-American/ German Americans -- Pennsylvania |