Moral clarity rarely emerges from comfort. It comes from the willingness to name what is wrong, even when doing so risks alienating congregants, donors, or political allies.

German civil society leaders, including women who lived through World War II, issue a rare and urgent message to Americans. Drawing parallels to 1930s Germany, they warn that democracy can collapse ...

While growing up on his father's farm near the Cole County community of Millbrook, Paul Joseph Kirchner likely heard neighbors and relatives discussing news of the Great War in Europe, which many ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Halloween is just around the corner, and the German American Heritage Center (GAHC) is hosting several events in Davenport for those who like the spookier side of history. GAHC's ...

Book I: settlers and citizens -- A nation of immigrants -- Redcoats, bluecoats and turncoats -- Dreams of a Germania-in-America -- Forty-Eighters and Know-Nothings -- "I fights mit sigel" -- Carl ...