Last year, she was here in Iowa, working to keep a language alive. This year, she’ll be across the river in Nebraska for the same reason. Julia Westlake, a filmmaker from Hamburg, Germany, came to ...

HANOVER? When Don and Dorian Bisping are at home, they almost always speak to each other in Low German, the language of their ancestors. Like many Lutherans in north-central Kansas, they stopped ...

GARDEN CITY, Kan. -- Tina Fehr struggled to find the right English words to say how much happier she would be if her three boys could go to a German school and learn about Jesus. The 33-year-old ...

In the 1830s, a wave of immigrants from northern Germany settled in the area of Cole Camp, Missouri, bringing with them their farming skills and the dialect of Plattdüütsch. Now residents are working ...

Parents and students are once more rallying behind the German language program at Arlington Public Schools, the future of which is unclear. When students returned to school on Monday, Aug. 30, those ...

A 1983 routine cleaning at Boerne High School in Texas yielded a rare and precious find: a thick, ornate Bible wrapped in cloth and written in low German. Now it will soon be seen online. Here's a ...

MARATHON – At noon Sunday, 150 central Wisconsinites skipped the Packers game for some folk dancing, trilingual singing and a dinner with red cabbage and sauerbraten. The Pommerscher Verein, a group ...