{"id":273,"date":"2020-08-10T07:58:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T07:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lookingforhumboldt.com\/?page_id=273"},"modified":"2020-08-14T19:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T19:07:36","slug":"reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lookingforhumboldt.com\/index.php\/reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"273\" class=\"elementor elementor-273\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-60cd1cd elementor-section-full_width qode_elementor_container_inner elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no\" data-id=\"60cd1cd\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column 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https:\/\/lookingforhumboldt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/800px-MO\u0308LLHAUSEN1861_2.012_Eingeborene_im_Thale_des_Colorado_2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lookingforhumboldt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/800px-MO\u0308LLHAUSEN1861_2.012_Eingeborene_im_Thale_des_Colorado_2-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lookingforhumboldt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/800px-MO\u0308LLHAUSEN1861_2.012_Eingeborene_im_Thale_des_Colorado_2-700x464.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df09ef8 elementor-hidden-phone elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"df09ef8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">REVIEWS<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0235811 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"0235811\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1911710 elementor-section-full_width qode_elementor_container_inner elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no\" data-id=\"1911710\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-51294ad\" data-id=\"51294ad\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6ebd31 elementor-widget elementor-widget-bridge_testimonials_carousel\" data-id=\"c6ebd31\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"bridge_testimonials_carousel.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='testimonials_c_holder clearfix '><div class=\"testimonials_c testimonials_c_carousel\" data-show-navigation=\"\" data-animation-speed=\"\" data-auto-rotate-slides=\"0\" data-number-per-slide=\"3\"><ul class=\"slides\"><li id=\"testimonials-c-17\" class=\"testimonial_content\"><div class=\"testimonial_content_inner\"><div class=\"testimonial_title_holder\"><h5>Eclectic<\/h5><\/div><div class=\"testimonial_text_holder\"><div class=\"testimonial_text_inner\" style=\"\"><p>Humboldt emerges as the star of the story: an impossibly erudite scientist who mapped and researched the American Southwest, dined with Thomas Jefferson, and won the praise of Ralph Waldo Emerson.<\/p><p class=\"testimonial_author\" style=\"\">Kirkus Reviews<span class=\"author_company_divider\"> - <\/span><span class=\"author_company\"><a href=\"#kirkus\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"testimonials-c-18\" class=\"testimonial_content\"><div class=\"testimonial_content_inner\"><div class=\"testimonial_title_holder\"><h5>Powerful<\/h5><\/div><div class=\"testimonial_text_holder\"><div class=\"testimonial_text_inner\" style=\"\"><p>The personal insights are just as powerful as the historical background and provide many thought-provoking moments.<\/p><p class=\"testimonial_author\" style=\"\">Midwest Book Review<span class=\"author_company_divider\"> - <\/span><span class=\"author_company\"><a href=\"#midwest\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"testimonials-c-16\" class=\"testimonial_content\"><div class=\"testimonial_content_inner\"><div class=\"testimonial_title_holder\"><h5>Lively<\/h5><\/div><div class=\"testimonial_text_holder\"><div class=\"testimonial_text_inner\" style=\"\"><p>A lively look at a most fascinating, but little understood, facet of U.S. history. Highly recommended.<\/p><p class=\"testimonial_author\" style=\"\">Customer Review<span class=\"author_company_divider\"> - <\/span><span class=\"author_company\"><a href=\"#customer\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6be3788 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"6be3788\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e0771e6 elementor-section-full_width qode_elementor_container_inner elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no\" data-id=\"e0771e6\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"kirkus\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-64ad312\" data-id=\"64ad312\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a907d3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1a907d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Kirkus Reviews<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7cbe160 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7cbe160\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A deeply personal account of the imprint Germans left on New Mexico and the United States at large. Schelby (Liberating the Future from the Past? Liberating the Past from the Future?, 2013, etc.) was born in Germany but on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain following World War II. She eventually made her way to New Mexico, a diverse, sprawling land with a colorful history that enchanted her. The author embarked on an eccentric quest to hunt down whatever traces of Germany had been left on the unfolding of the state\u2019s history, a hunt that often focused on the adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, a prodigiously talented Prussian \u2026Schelby\u2019s tour of New Mexican history is quirkily impressionistic. She provides lengthy discussions on the birth of the state\u2019s cultural diversity. When she reaches the first and second world wars, the author\u2019s focus turns toward the depredations Germans suffered at the hands of its American hosts. She meditates affectingly on the peculiar discomfort such a multicultural nation experiences with otherness: \u201cHow can it be that the U.S., such a great country populated with resilient, hard-working, and mostly decent people, is so insecure?\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-abfd639 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"abfd639\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Humboldt emerges as the star of the story: an impossibly erudite scientist who mapped and researched the American Southwest, dined with Thomas Jefferson, and won the praise of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Schelby openly intends her account to be a personal one sketched from an idiosyncratic perspective, and this has its limitations. In 1850, Germans made up less than a half-percent of New Mexico\u2019s population. However, what she surrenders in comprehensiveness is made up by a historical miniaturist\u2019s sensitivity\u2014she delves nimbly into the cultural nuances of this protean polity, unearthing elements of New Mexico\u2019s identity often overlooked in more formal portraits. Also, her vision for a more inclusive\u2014and cosmopolitan\u2014country is more heartfelt than bitter, the tough love of a genuine admirer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0a66e9b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0a66e9b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A delightfully eclectic history told with charm and thoughtfulness.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-de4d75c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"de4d75c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6>June 2017<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4ce406d elementor-section-full_width qode_elementor_container_inner elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no\" data-id=\"4ce406d\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"midwest\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fe1c84b\" data-id=\"fe1c84b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c55c2a8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c55c2a8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Midwest Book Review<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-829f927 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"829f927\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Looking for Humboldt &amp; Searching for German Footprints in New Mexico and Beyond is a powerful blend of memoir, travelogue, and New Mexico genealogical exploration covering the author\u2019s quest to find her roots. In the process of forging new paths to historical understanding and making a new home, Erika Schelby creates a history that blends New Mexico\u2019s heritage with her own: \u201cTo make a home along the Rio Grande, I had to look, listen, pull back the layers of history, put things in a frame of reference, and fill in some of the empty spaces. This book is a record of doing this.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0b1f23f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0b1f23f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The first notable aspect of Looking for Humboldt is its wide-ranging blend of geopolitics, geography, history, and personal exploration. One simply doesn\u2019t expect maps, biographies of early explorers, and historical references in a personal, selective discussion of events that tie into one life. This satisfying approach, however, personalizes the broader notion of \u2018history\u2019 and brings with it a flavor of early German immigrant experiences and a sense of juxtaposing the familiar with the unexpected, expressed in a delightful quote that served as the author\u2019s own source of inspiration for viewing new concepts and processing them based on her own perceptions: \u201cThe real problem of a critique of our own cultural models is to ask, when we see a unicorn, if by any chance it is not a rhinoceros\u201d (Eco, 1988)\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-de0c4ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"de0c4ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In adopting this approach to personal history, geography, and New Mexican culture in general and the figure of Humboldt in particular, Schelby\u2019s coverage documents movements, the turbulence of social and political events in the state, early experiences of Germans in the New Mexico Territory, and the evolution of social, political and legal processes affecting German immigrants in America: \u201cThe Nebraska Supreme Court upheld the verdict 4:2, stating that the harmful effects of letting immigrants educate their children in their mother tongue was hostile to our own safety. Well, the one- room schoolteacher was a fighter, and so was his attorney, Arthur Mullen. The case went up all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States. Meyer won. In his decision, Justice McReynolds explained to the Nebraska courts, \u201cMere knowledge of the German language cannot reasonably be regarded as harmful\u201d (Meyer v. Nebraska, 1923).\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-582ea1c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"582ea1c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Given the 46 million present yet invisible Americans of German descent in this country, and the effects of Brexit, this documentary should be of special interest to more than a few. She neatly traverses the line between personal experience and historical reference, including healthy doses of each to the point that a reader looking for a more linear production that is either history or memoir alone might find themselves immersed in more than they\u2019d bargained for on either end. By that point (not too far into Schelby\u2019s journey), it should be more than evident that this book is not a singular production.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9dafb28 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9dafb28\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The personal travelogues, references, and insights are just as powerful as the historical background and provide many thought-provoking moments: \u201cSummers in southern New Mexico are very hot, but winters are usually mild, often more like early spring. When passing near the Trinity test site where the first atom bomb was exploded, I have the eerie notion that here is an axis of our contemporary world.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0b67f81 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0b67f81\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The result is neither fish nor fowl, but a satisfying mixture of cultural experience and heritage and New Mexican history that will attract readers of both history and autobiography, especially recommended as a powerful \u2018must have\u2019 acquisition for any collection strong in New Mexican literature or German immigrant experiences in America.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ac5244 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ac5244\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6>Diane Donovan &#8211; Senior Reviewer |\u00a0 July 2017<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1083e9a elementor-section-full_width qode_elementor_container_inner elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no\" data-id=\"1083e9a\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"customer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ce0adcf\" data-id=\"ce0adcf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c8af14 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7c8af14\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Customer Review<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-de8ec0d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"de8ec0d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 &#8211; A fresh look at the history of our western frontier<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61234d8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"61234d8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In popular media\u2019s representation of the American West, and even in the history books, the contributions of many groups are glossed over, and in some cases, even omitted, and while many of these groups have been people of color, some have not. The Germans are but one example. In her book, Looking for Humboldt &amp; Searching for German Footprints in New Mexico and Beyond, German-American author Erika Schelby fills in some of the blanks. An in-depth look at the contributions of Germans to American development, Schelby\u2019s work goes far beyond the story of Alexander von Humboldt, the man who put New Mexico and the American southwest on the map\u2014an actual map that he presented to Thomas Jefferson\u2014and looks at the intricate and often conflicting relationships among the European powers before the twentieth century and how they impacted the development of the United States.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be73c60 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"be73c60\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Seen through the eyes of someone who came to age in a different cultural and educational environment, Looking for Humboldt gives a much-needed fresh perspective on the country\u2019s history that will enhance our understanding of past and current events.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a66fdc1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a66fdc1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>This is not a dry recitation of events, people, and dates, but a lively look at a most fascinating, but little understood, facet of U.S. history. Highly recommended. 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