I had the pleasure of leading a small group of North American graduate students on a two-week archival seminar in 2013 and 2014, a then long-running GHI program that has since been discontinued. The idea was to familiarize students with Germany’s archival landscape as well as to give them an opportunity to learn a type of German handwriting called Kurrentschrift. Clelia Caruso organized the first of these, and I organized the second.

Seminar Reports

Handwriting and Print Primers

These old primers were published in the United States before World War I, when it was a common language. Besides Kurrentschrift, they taught how to read the printed German word, Frakturschrift.