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Charting Family Relationships among German Hungarian Immigrants in St. Louis
Purpose. The Excel spreadsheet linked below is part of my ongoing effort to enumerate the German Hungarians living in St. Louis in the twentieth century—and, equally important, to show the relationships between them. Each person listed on the spreadsheet is immediately related to at least one other person on the sheet, either as a spouse,…
St. Louis’s “Satellite Cities”
Excerpted from my book-in-progress, provisionally titled Aliens in the Crucible: St. Louis, Xenophobia, and a 1908 Immigrant Suicide. The book examines the political and cultural effects of turn-of-the-century xenophobia in a city that Walter Johnson calls “the crucible of American history.” In addition to swelling the populations of St. Louis’s riverside industrial neighborhoods, immigrants increasingly…
News Article About the Book
Regan Mertz at KCRG in Columbia has written an excellent article about The Names of John Gergen. I appreciate the article’s detail and accuracy. https://krcgtv.com/news/local/author-found-100-year-old-schoolwork-turned-book-spoke-historical-society-benjamin-moore-john-gergen-hungary-germany-st-louis-missouri-biography-history-world-war-one-social-20th-century-america-immigration-midwest-industrialization-factories-book-award
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Immigrant Identities in St. Louis, 1903-1935 