Tonight: From Germans to Americans: Ethnicity, Class, and the Experience of Battle in the Civil War
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A Knowledge on Tap Presentation
Wednesday, March 22
7 p.m.
Torrent Brewing Company
Presented by Dr. Lawrence McDonnell, Iowa State University Department of History
Dr. McDonnell considers how military service and the experience of battle during the Civil War made Germans into Americans but also made them into a politically radicalized working class.
This event is part of the “German Iowa and the Global Midwest” series.