# overview
Dr. Kamphoefner teaches in the fields of immigration, urbanization, and quantitative methods. He has published widely in the field of immigration and ethnicity, with articles in four languages and three books out in both German and English. One of the pioneers of transatlantic linkage studies with his monograph The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri (Princeton, 1987). Other research interests include bilingual education and the immigrant language transition.

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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5002 History And Philosophy Of Specific Fields

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3505 Human Resources And Industrial Relations

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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5002 History And Philosophy Of Specific Fields

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University of Missouri - (Columbia, Missouri, United States)

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University of Missouri - (Columbia, Missouri, United States)

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Germans in the Civil War: The letters they wrote home

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How Representative are Emigrant Letters? An Exploration of the German Case

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Book Review: The Germans in Missouri, 19001918: Prohibition, Neutrality, and Assimilation

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Whats New About the New Immigration? A Historians Perspective over Two Centuries

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THE SPIRIT OF 1848 - GERMAN IMMIGRANTS, LABOR CONFLICT, AND THE COMING OF THE CIVIL-WAR - LEVINE,B

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Forum: German Americans and their relations with African Americans during the mid-nineteenth century

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Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration, 1815-1914

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The Handwriting on the Wall: The Klan, Language Issues, and Prohibition in the German Settlements of Eastern Texas

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A German Hurrah: Civil War Letters of Friedrich Bertsch and Wilhelm Stangel, 9th Ohio Infantry

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MELTING POT SOLDIERS - THE UNIONS ETHNIC REGIMENTS - BURTON,WL

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CHAPTER I. At the Crossroads of Economic Development: Background Factors Affecting Emigration from Northwest Germany

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YANKEE DUTCHMAN - THE LIFE OF SIGEL,FRANZ - ENGLE,SD

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[Who went south? The choice of destination among German immigrants in the 19th century].

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German Texans: In the Mainstream or Backwaters of Lone Star Society?

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The first Polish Americans: Silesian settlements in Texas

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Who Went South? The German Ethnic Niche in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

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GERMAN-AMERICANS AND CIVIL-WAR POLITICS - A RECONSIDERATION OF THE ETHNOCULTURAL THESIS

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CHAPTER III. Transplanted Villages: The Effects of Chain Migration on Regional Distribution and Settlement Patterns of German-Americans

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APPENDIX A. Sources and Coding Procedures for Emigrant List Data

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GERMAN-AMERICAN BILINGUALISM - CUI-MALO - MOTHER TONGUE AND SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS AMONG THE 2ND GENERATION IN 1940

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Yankee Dutchman: The Life of Franz Sigel (review)

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Mischa Honeck We Are the Revolutionists: GermanSpeaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848. (Race in the Atlantic World, 17001900.) Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2011. Pp. xiii, 236. Cloth $69.95, paper $24.95

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German-Americans: Still Divided by the Reformation 500 Years Later?

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'IMMIGRANT MILWAUKEE, 1836-1860 ACCOMMODATION AND COMMUNITY IN A FRONTIER CITY' - CONZEN,KN

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Citizens in a Strange Land: A Study of German-American Broadsides and Their Meanings for Germans in North America, 1730-1830

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A GERMAN IN THE YANKEE FATHERLAND - THE CIVIL-WAR LETTERS OF KIRCHER,HENRY,A. - HESS,EJ

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The German-American Experience in World War I: A Centennial Assessment

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THE GERMAN PEASANTRY - CONFLICT AND COMMUNITY IN RURAL SOCIETY FROM THE 18TH TO THE 20TH CENTURIES - EVANS,RJ, LEE,WR

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German-Bohemians: The quiet immigrants - Rippley,LJ, Paulson,RJ

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Soziale und demographische Strukturen der Zuwanderung in deutsche Grosstdte des Spten 19. Jahrhunderts

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Westfalen in der Neuen Welt eine Sozialgeschichte der Auswanderung im 19. Jahrhundert

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CHAPTER VI. Westfalians and Other Immigrants: Chain Migration and Acculturation in Comparative Perspective

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Friedrichsburg, a Novel: Colony of the German Furstenverein.

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APPENDIX B. Use of Census Data and Procedures of Matching with Emigrant Lists

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Robert P. Swierenga. Faith and Family: Dutch Immigration and Settlement in the United States, 18201920. (Ellis Island Series.) New York: Holmes and Meyer. 2000. Pp. xx, 362. $45.00

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German American Bilingualism: Cui malo? Mother Tongue and Socioeconomic Status among the Second Generation in 1940

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Arnold Krekel: A Republican for Immigrant Rights and Racial Equality

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Invisible Southerners: Ethnicity in the Civil War

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The Handwriting on the Wall: The Klan, Language Issues, and Prohibition in the German Settlements of Eastern Texas

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Germans for a Free Missouri: Translations from the St. Louis Radical Press, 1857-1862, and: A German in the Yankee Fatherland: The Civil War Letters of Henry A. Kircher (review)

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New perspectives on Texas germans and the confederacy

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Abandoned Villages. Emigration Process of the 19th Century using the Example of the German Villages Uerzig and Wolfshagen

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Immigrant Epistolary and Epistemology: On the Motivators and Mentality of Nineteenth-Century German Immigrants

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True Sons of the Republic: European Immigrants in the Union Army (review)

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German Language Persistence in Texas and Missouri

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APPENDIX C. Data and Calculation Procedures for Figure 1.1

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STATES OF PROGRESS, GERMANS AND BLACKS IN AMERICA OVER 300 YEARS, LECTURES FROM THE TRICENTENNIAL OF THE GERMANTOWN PROTEST AGAINST SLAVERY - MILLER,RM

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Germans and Texans: Commerce, migration, and culture in the days of the Lone-Star-Republic

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Liberal Catholicism and Its Limits: The Social and Political Outlook of the Louisville Katholischer Glaubensbote, 1866-86

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New perspectives on Texas Germans and the Confederacy

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CHAPTER IV. Native and Adoptive Americans: The Extent of Acculturation in Social Patterns and Agricultural Practices

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CHAPTER V. Detours and Shortcuts on the Way to a Farm: Occupational and Geographic Mobility from Westfalia to Missouri

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The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri

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GERMANS IN AMERICA - ASPECTS OF GERMAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS IN THE 19TH-CENTURY - MCCORMICK,EA

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The German-American Experience in World War I: A Reassessment

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ST-LOUIS GERMANS AND THE REPUBLICAN-PARTY, 1848-1860

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La Bahia Turnverein: Vereinsdeutsche in Kirchendeutsch Territory

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Language and Loyalty among German Americans in World War I

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The Quest of the Historical Jrnjakob: A Centennial Evaluation of an Immigrant Novel and the Real-Life Figure Behind It

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GERMANS FOR A FREE MISSOURI - TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ST-LOUIS RADICAL PRESS, 1857-1862 - PRIMM,JN

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The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, Patriotism, and Citizenship in Philadelphia's German Community, 1790 to 1830

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SCOPE AND MAKE-UP OF GERMAN-AMERICAN RETURN-MIGRATION

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News from the Land of Freedom: German Immigrants Write Home

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German Emigration Research, North, South, and East: Findings, Methods, and Open Questions

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Doughboys auf Deutsch: U.S. Soldiers Writing Home in German from France

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Auch unser Deutschland muss einmal frei werden: The Immigrant Civil War Experience as a Mirror on Political Conditions in Germany

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The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri.

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CHAPTER II. Poor But Not Destitute: Personal Characteristics and Motivating Factors

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Das Arkansas Echo: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South

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INTRODUCTION. Not Uprooting But Reunion: The Significance of Chain Migration in the Immigrant Experience

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Untersuchungen zum wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Hintergrund der deutschamerikanischen Urbanisierung im 19. Jahrhundert

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German-American Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective

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Deutsche im Amerikanischen Brgerkrieg Briefe von Front und Farm, 1861-1865

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An Immigrant Miller Picks Texas The Letters of Carl Hilmar Guenther

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Von Heuerleuten und Farmern die Auswanderung aus dem Osnabrcker Land nach Nordamerika im 19. Jahrhundert : Emigration from the Osnabrck region to North America in the 19th century

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Longer Than a Man's Lifetime in Missouri

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News from the Land of Freedom: German Immigrants Write Home

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Briefe aus Amerika: Deutsche Auswanderer schreiben aus der Neuen Welt, 1830-1930

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U.S. Army Center for Military History Internship

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United States Army - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; History; 4236 TAMU

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Weidemann, Erika Lee (2016-05). Ethnic Germans in the Soviet Union: The People of Chortitza, 1939-1949. Master's Thesis.

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Bare, Daniel Robert (2018-05). Protestant Fundamentalism in the Black Community, 1915-1940. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Saberian, Michael Reza (2004-12). Demographic study of military selection in the state of Ohio, 1917-1919. Master's Thesis.