The series was started by Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages in 1953, and it published scholarship in Germanic languages for more than fifty years, covering array of topics including medieval and literature, theater, linguistics, philology, onomastics, and the history of ideas... ..…

Americans, however, were willing and eager to strike the heart of Germany to end the war, and they faced the reality that British manpower would form the bulk of troop strength Europe for at least one or two years as Washington raised its army. ..…