Migration and HERitage: Gender Mining the 19th-Century German-American Press

How did women make—and become—the news in the German-American press? This book reexamines the nineteenth-century German-language press as a central medium of migrant communication and a transregional infrastructure of textual circulation. A defining feature of this media landscape was reprinting: articles, fiction, and advertisements were copied, adapted, and redistributed across regional and national boundaries. To analyze how gender operated within this textual ecosystem of exchange, the ...