An interesting lesson plan from the Wisconsin Historial Society that includes primary source material that shows the anti-German feelings in Wisconsin in World War I.

Read this harrowing account of a German-American farmer whose nativist neighbors suspected his alliegiance to the United States after the country entered the war against Germany in World War I.

Many if the early settlers in Milwaukee were of German ancestry. African-Americans also helped settle the area, and even pre-dated its founding. Some of the history of these two groups is presented here.