Saturday, June 14, 2014
611 Spring Garden St, Philadelphia
Join the German Society of Pennsylvania for presentations by Dr. Birte Pfleger (California State University Los Angeles), Lisa Minardi (University of Delaware), and our very own Dr. Bethany Wiggin (University of Pennsylvania).
- Dr. Birte Pfleger (Associate Professor, Department of History, California State University Los Angeles): The Other Germans: German-Speaking Veterans of the Revolutionary War, 1775-1840
- Lisa Minardi (Ph.D. student, History of American Civilization, University of Delaware and President, The Speaker’s House): From Pastor to Patriot:Frederick Muhlenberg, Lutheran Minister and First Speaker of the U.S. House
- Dr. Bethany Wiggin (Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania): Printer-Publisher Christoph Sauer (the Older), Separatism, and the Founding of the German Society of Pennsylvania