60 https://www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fuer-geschichtswissenschaft/podcast/alle-folgen/folge-16 de Universität Bremen Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:35:25 +0100 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:35:25 +0100 Universität Bremen content-533967 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:29:25 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fuer-geschichtswissenschaft/podcast/alle-folgen/folge-16#c533967 <p>In this episode, I talk with Andrew Torget about the connection between Bremerhaven and Galveston, German migration to Texas, and the role of Texas Germans’ in the American Civil War (1861–1865). The two port cities were important engines of regional development and played a significant role in the transatlantic migration of the nineteenth century. Andrew and I use this traditional connection between Bremen and Texas as a starting point for a transatlantic conversation about Texas German history.</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>Picture 1: “Treue der Union”-Monument, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treue_der_Union_Monument#/media/File:Treue_der_Union_Monument.jpg">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treue_der_Union_Monument#/media/File:Treue_der_Union_Monument.jpg</a></p> <p>Picture 2: From the Old to the New World, in: Harper's Weekly, New York 1874, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Americans#/media/File:Germans-emigrate-1874.jpg">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Americans#/media/File:Germans-emigrate-1874.jpg</a></p> <p>Song: Turkey in a Straw, 1942.</p> Content