Swiss American Historical Society

With members primarily in the United States, Canada, and Switzerland, the SAHS fosters contact between both sides of the Atlantic and serves as a link between Swiss Americans, Swiss, and Americans in an effort to promote cultural awareness and mutual understanding.

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the establishment of a number of historical societies in the United States, representing various immigrant groups.

The Society immediately set forth to prepare and publish several works increasing awareness of the Swiss in the United States.

[4] However, due to several factors, including the Great Depression throughout the 1930s, the Society began to decline in membership and activity.

Beginning in 1963, with the involvement of Dr. Lukas F. Burckhardt, SAHS member and cultural counselor at the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, Alfred Zehnder, Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States, and Heinz K. Meier, the Society began to be revitalized.

The journal includes book reviews, articles of interest to Swiss Americans, and summaries of Society proceedings.

Presentations at meetings explore a variety of topics related to the history of Swiss-American immigrants.

Konrad Basler, The Dorkilon Emigrants: Swiss Settlers and Cultural Founders in the United States – A Personal Report, 1996.

Rohrbach, Lewis B. CG (2003) "The 1710 Von Graffenried Settlement Of New Bern, North Carolina," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Page, H. Dwight (2010) "The Tercentenary of New Bern," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Ferraro, Nicholas (2014) "The Extraordinary Life of John Sutter," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Winkler, Albert (2014) "Henry Wirz and the Tragedy of Andersonville: A Question of Responsibility," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Siber, Elizabeth M. (2004) "Experience and Enlightenment: Character Portrait in Letters of Johann Caspar Lohbauer," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Armknecht, Megan (2016) "How Louisa May Alcott's 1870 Visit to Switzerland Helped Her Become a "Literary Lion"," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Aregger, Manfred (2007) "From Escholzmatt, Canton Lucerne, to Chicago, Illinois: The Emigration of the Family Marbacher," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Schmid, Frederick (2019) "Katharina Morgan-Schmid From Schuepfheim: El Paso, Texas, 1918 Presumed Spy Affai r," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Brightenburg, Cindy (2019) "Swiss-American Missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Nineteenth Century," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Winkler, Albert (2007) "The Approach of the Black Death in Switzerland and the Persecution of Jews, 1348-1349," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Hostettler, Paul (2014) "The Use of the Terms Piemontese, Waldenses, and Exiles in the Bernese Council Manuals of the 17th Century," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

2 , Article 2 Lindberg, James T. (2018) "Mapping the State: Cartographic Representations of Switzerland, 1530-1865," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Kessler, Mario (2012) "Ernst Engelberg (1909-2010): Historian And Anti-Nazi Activist," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Fair-Schulz, Laura L. M. and Herman, William E. (2017) "Privilege as Blind Spot: Carl Jung, The Red Book, and the"Collective Unconscious"," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Swiss in the World Marabello, Thomas Quinn (2023) "The Centennial of the Treaty of Lausanne: Turkey, Switzerland, the Great Powers and a Soviet Diplomat’s Assassination," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Champion, Brian (2011) "Heidi And Seek: Cases Of Espionage And Covert Operations In Switzerland, 1795-1995," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Gander-Wolf, Heidi (2014) "Once a Swiss Winegrower Colony Named CHABAG in Russia Now a Modern Winegrowing Center Called SHABO in the Ukraine," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Means, Robert S. (2016) "Neutral Ground: Switzerland and Some British Poets of the Great War," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Holenstein, Elmar (2015) "Asian Values-Swiss Values?," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Herman, Bryan K. and Fair-Schulz, Axel (2017) "A Chasm Between Two Vanguards: Near Encounters of Russian Emigre Marxists and Dadaism in Switzerland," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Page, Dwight (2017) "Zurich and the Birth of French Surrealism," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.

Peter-Kubli, Susanne (2020) "Two Early Nineteenth Century Overseas Emigrants From Näfels, Kanton Glarus, Switzerland: Walter Marianus Hauser and the Colony at Red River, Canada," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol.