In the context of the German literary tradition's fall from grace in the US due to World War I, Sammons (emeritus, German literature, Yale U.) presents a major monograph on the origins and contents of
Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany, republished in a new annotated edition, recounts Ika Hugel-Marshall's experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-Americ
Follen had to flee his native Germany, and then Switzerland because of his activity as a radical student, arriving in the US in 1824. He began teaching German at Harvard, and became a noted intellectu
