History & Memory: In German-Russian Country

Preface by Thomas D. Isern with essays by Jessica Clark, Thomas D. Isern, Carol Just, Debra Marquart, and Steve C. Martens. North Dakota State University Press, 2025. 136 pages, softcover.

Dr. Tom Isern, Distinguished Professor of History at NDSU and editor of the Heritage Guide Series, writes in the preface:

“The German-Russian survival on the northern plains and its emergent consciousness in the late twentieth century, as described in the chapters to follow—where we see some folk drawing a veil, but others casting it down—are brought to a critical head by the course of events in the homeland. A tree cut off from the roots dies unless it has runners to grow and are tended where they are. This volume, then, is a gesture toward that sort of heritage husbandry. As we tend our orchard here, let us, who know our own history, lend both remembrance and assistance to those still embroiled in it.”