3 janvier 2022
digitalhistory, « Jana Keck: Encoding Text Reuse, Genre, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century German-American Newspapers », Digital History Berlin, ID : 10670/1.h9mwqb
German-language newspapers flourished during the era of transatlantic mass migration in the long nineteenth century, when approximately 6 million German-speaking people migrated to North America. Already in 1732, Benjamin Franklin had published the first German-language newspaper in the U.S.: Die Philadelphische Zeitung. However, the news organ folded after only a few issues. Hundred years later, transatlantic mass migration, technical innovations in print, increasing literacy rates and the g...