9 B.C.: Pagan Germanic tribes check advancing Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, ending northward spread of Roman civilization, bounding the Roman Empire by the Danube and Rhine. c.700 A.D.

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 5 (Mar., 1926), pp. 601-616 (16 pages) The Saxons were the latest of all the German tribes to enter the orbit of medieval civilization. They were neither ...

Back in the first millennium A.D., waves of human migration across Europe created an elaborate genetic puzzle that ...

So how did the German tribes like the Visigoths and etc defeat the Romans? They don't appear to have superior technology which would explain it otherwise. And in my imagination, the only thing that ...

There is no better a material cultural tie between Rhineland natives who settled the Pennsylvania Dutch Country than the medieval orange roof tiles that still protect our ancestral homes and buildings ...

How would you prepare for battle? If you were a Germanic warrior from Northern Europe during the Roman period, you may have sniffed some narcotics. A team of three Polish researchers, including ...

Students of the fall semester German 2020 course won second and third prizes in the national contest First Encounters (organized by the American Association of Teachers of German) in which learners ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Thanks to Netflix you’re about to learn a whole lot more about German history. This week the streaming giant released Barbarians, a six-episode historical drama all about ...