Received the George Hartleb Memorial Award for excellence in the field of German American Studies from the National Council of the Steuben Society of America

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Author and Presenter Dr. Peter Lubrecht was awarded the George Hartleb Memorial Award for Excellence in German American Studies by the National Steuben Society in 2018.

An avid researcher, with an interest in the Civil War, history, and German and American history. Lubrecht has been lecturing about German American contributions to American Culture locally and nationally. Peter is originally from New York City, where he appeared in, and was a part of, an experimental theater program conducted by the New York Public Schools, under whose aegis he studied acting with Harold Jackson of the Harlem Renaissance,. He was on NPR as a guest at age nine. He is an adjunct professor of Writing and Humanities at Sussex County Community College; however he also taught at Lehman University Graduate School and Lincoln Center (Performing Arts in the English Classroom), Jersey City University, Bergen, Morris and Passaic Community Colleges. His BA, MA and PhD are all from New York University. His books include: The New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War. The Hussars of the Union Army (History Press; 2011) and Germans in New Jersey: A History (History Press; 2013); New Jersey Hessians: Truth and Lore; (History Press 2016) Liebe Kück: A German Soldier’s Story of the Great War, and Carl Schurz American Statesman (Fonthill Media America through Time series) .

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