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Walter, a 70-year old German-American retired teacher, travels from his hometown in Chicago to the Mississippi Delta. On the way he befriends an African-American family who share his interest in the importance of the harmonica in Blues music. Walter's conversations with them and his frequent inner-monologues communicate facts and figures about the history of the instrument, the Blues and exemplary Blues harmonica players. These are interwoven with historical events relevant for the freedom struggle of African Americans.

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​The Architectural Treasures of the Indiana State Library: The only guide to one of the most beautiful buildings in Indiana, as well as one of its best kept secrets! This 120-pg, pocket-sized guidebook is heavily illustrated and packed with the history, stories, and secrets of this classic building. 

German Cooking – Hoosier Style: Despite what you may have seen or heard, not all Germans wear lederhosen and dine exclusively on wurst, sauerkraut, and dumplings. The latest publication of IGHS features over a hundred recipes, both traditional and modern.

Operation Vittles: This delightful cookbook was compiled by the American Women in Blockade Berlin during the 1949 Berlin Airlift.  This reprint edition features a new forward by Col. (Ret) Jorg Stachel who experienced the blockade as a ten-year-old boy.

​Sommerfrüchte (Summer fruits from an American monastery garden or the Convent of the Benedictine Sisters of the Immaculate Conception at Ferdinand, Dubois County, IN, USA). 1898 / translated by Eberhard and Ruth Reichmann.

Hofmann, Annette American Turner Movement: A History from its Beginnings. IUPUI Max Kade German-American Center and Indiana German Heritage Society, 2010. 276 pp.

Adams, Willi Paul. The German-Americans. An Ethnic Experience. American edition by LaVern J. Rippley & Eberhard Reichmann. IGHS, 1993. 46pp., ill.

Fifty Years of Unrelenting German Aspirations in Indianapolis, 1848-1898. (Theodore Stempfel's 1898 Festschrift) Bilingual edition by G.R. Hoyt et al (eds.); IGHS, 1991. 158pp., 9x12 format, ill., index.  

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Holtmann, Antonius. A Lost American Dream. Civil War Letters (1862/63) of Immigrant Theodor Heinrich Brandes in Historical Contexts. Trans. by Eberhard Reichmann. IGHS, 2005. 109pp., ill

Krapf, Norbert (ed.). Finding the Grain. Pioneer German Journals and Letters from Dubois County, Indiana. Rev. & expanded edition. IGHS, 1997. 330pp., ill

Peake, Michael A.Indiana's German Sons. 32nd Volunteer Infantry - Baptism of Fire: Rowlett's Station 1861 IGHS, 2000. 72pp., ill.

​Reichmann, Eberhard (ed.) Hoosier German Tales - Small & Tall. (1991). 278pp., ill

Reichmann, Eberhard and LaVern J. Rippley, Joerg Nagler (eds.) Emigration and Settlement Patterns of German Communities in North America (1995), 414pp.

​Rippley, La Vern J. The Columbus Germans. (1998). [Columbus, OH]. Reprint edition, 52pp., ill.

Robinson, Gabrielle and Erwin Scherer. Life in Letters: a 19th Century correspondence between Bavaria and South Bend, Indiana. IGHS, 2006. 178pp., ill.

Selm, William L. Wegweiser: A self-guided tour of German-American Sites in Indianapolis. IGHS, 2008. 55p., ill.

Stempfel, Theodore. Artist's Life - Rudolf Schwarz and Karl Bitter. Illustrated reprint edition of the 1936 original, Eberhard Reichmann (ed.). IGHS, 2002. 56pp

Tolzmann, Don Heinrich (ed.). New Ulm in Word and Picture. J.H. Strasser's History of a German-American Settlement. Orig. publ. 1892. IGHS, 1997. 90pp., ill.

​Tolzmann, Don Heinrich (ed.).The German-American Forty-Eighters, 1848-1998. IGHS, 1998. 127pp., ill., index.

​Tolzmann, Don Heinrich (ed.). The Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, 1862: Capt. Jacob Nix's Eyewitness History. Bilingual edition. Orig. publ. 1891. Trans. by G. Steinhauser, D.H. Tolzmann and E. Reichmann. IGHS, 1994. 82pp., ill.

Wilk, Gerard. Edited by D.H. Tolzmann. Americans from Germany. Reprint Edition IGHS, 1995. 95pp., ill.,

Witter's Deutsch-Englische Schreib- und Lese-Fibel / German-English Primer. Orig. publ. 1881. Reprint edition by Eberhard Reichmann. IGHS, 1987. 102pp., ill. 

​Ziegler, James P. The German-Language Press in Indiana: a bibliography. IGHS, 1994. 70pp., ill., index.