Language is constantly changing and adapting. For the German language, one of the most significant moments of change came 25 years ago with the introduction of the German spelling reform. The ...

This article is adapted from the author's remarks at the tenth annual dinner of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, at which he was honored for distinguished scholarship in German history and for ...

Chances are, if you live in Texas, especially Central Texas, the news of the world was once published in German not far from where you live. In fact, an ancestor of the Austin American-Statesman, home ...

Terre Haute boasted at least one German language newspaper almost continuously from 1859 until 1918. Though it is uncertain precisely when the first local German newspaper was founded, Frederick ...

With over 100 million speakers, German is one of the most important languages in the world for science and medicine, commerce, industry, culture and the arts. German-speakers occupy a prominent place ...

It has always been a lovely building – four stories of limestone and intricate detail. What made it so wrong was that it represented a brief but ugly chapter in Cincinnati history. The Renaissance ...

Apostrophes aren’t used to show possession in German in most cases, but the highest authority on the language is changing that. Here’s the scoop on the English ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ - and why critics ...