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The New Yorker Volks-Zeitung was a German-language daily (1878-1932), then a weekly (1932-1949) with a minor title change to Neue Volks-Zeitung. It was the voice of the local German socialists, centered then in the Lower East Side and in Yorkville. This Index contains approximately 27,000 abstracted obituaries, death notices, reported deaths and other biographical material. Entries include the deaths of workers-mainly ethnic Germans (but not exclusively) from the Greater New York area, associates of the German labor community, and socialist militants from the entire U.S. and the world. Local...

One-hundred fifty years after the Civil War, there are still untold stories. Over 11,000 surgeons served in the Union army; 10,400 were well behaved. The other 600 were in trouble for embezzlement, insubordination, rape, AWOL, desertion, surliness, stealing food, and a host of other misdeeds. One man was deemed, "Drunk, but not too drunk to operate." Another was hopping into the beds of women in the VD hospital. Yet another forged his own performance reports, reporting his own excellent character. A statistical study compares their incidence of malpractice with one of today's mid-West...