Frederick C. Luebke

Born 1927-01-26 Reedsburg, WI (USA)

Died 2021-11-27

Long time UNL history professor and Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor of History, Luebke wrote many works on Nebraska, German immigration and the immigration history of the Great Plains. Papers and further biographical information in the Luebke Papers at UNL.

Places Lived

Lincoln, NE
Illinois
California
Oregon

Author Of

Nonfiction

Keywords

History; Nebraska History; Immigration History; Ethnic Germans

Education

Bachelor of Science, 1950, Concordia University, Illinois
Master of Arts, 1958, Claremont Graduate School, California
Ph.D., 1966, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Occupation

Professor of History
Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies
Editor
Acting Director
Charles J.Mach Professor Emeritus

Places Worked

University of Hanover
Center for Great Plains Studies
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Denver
Concordia College

Honors

John H. Ames Reading Series, Featured Reader, 19 March 1992
Nebraska 150 Books honor for A Harmony of the Arts and Nebraska: An Illustrated History, 2017
Charles J. Mach Professorship
Leland D. Case Award in Western History, 1981
Scholar in Residence, Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Italy, 1982
Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship, University of Stuttgart, West Germany, 1974-75
Courtesy appt. as Professor of Geography, UNL, 1978
Outstanding Teacher Award, UNL, 1983 For Grants and Fellowships
Addison Sheldon Memorial Award, 1996. Nebraska State Historical Society, for outstanding contributions to Nebraska History
Louise Pound-George Howard Distinguished Career Award, 1994
Career for Great Plains Studies award for best article in Great Plains Studies award for best article published in Great Plains Quarterly, 1995.
Honorary Member, Phi Beta Kappa, 1986
Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award, University of Nebraska, 1985
Leland D. Case Award in Western History,1981
Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship, University of Stuttgart, West Germany, 1974-75
Colonial Dames of America Award in American Colonial History, 1958

Associations

Editor of the Great Plains Quarterly, 1979-1984
Acting Chairman of the Department of History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1969-1973
Director of Graduate Studies in History, 1970-74
Member of the Nebraska State Historical Society
Member of the Organization of American Historians
James C. Olson, Nebraska Historian was Luebke's mentor during Luebke's Doctoral studies at UNL

Bibliography

The Origins of Thomas Jefferson's Anti-Clericalism. 1963.
German Immigrants and the Churches in Nebraska, 1889-1915. 1968.
Immigrants and Politics: The Germans of Nebraska, 1880-1900. 1969.
Bonds of Loyalty: German-Americans And World War I. 1974.
Ethnic Group Settlement on the Great Plains. 1977.
Regionalism and the Great Plains. 1984.
Germans in Brazil. 1987.
Germans in the New World: Essays in the History of Immigration. 1990.
A Harmony of the Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol. 1990.
Nebraska: An Illustrated History. 1995.

Work Represented in:
Historians and the American West. 1983.
Germans in America: Retrospect and Prospect. 1984.
Heart Land: Comparative Histories of the Midwestern States. 1988.

Works edited:
Immigrants and Politics: The Germans of Nebraska, 1880-1900. 1969.
Ethnic Voters and the Election of Lincoln. 1971.
Bonds of Loyality: Germans Americans and World War I. 1974.
The Great Plains: Environment and Cultures. 1979.
Ethnicity on the Great Plains. 1980.
Vision and Refuge, Essays on the Literature of the Great Plains. 1982.
Mapping the North American Plains: Essays in the History of Cartography. 1987.
Germans in Brazil: A Comparative History of Cultural Conflict During During World War I. 1987.
Germans in the New World: Essays in American Immigration History. 1990.
A Harmony of the Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol. 1990.
Nebraska: An Illustration History. 1995.
European Immigrants in the American West: Community Histories.
Ethnic Voters and the Election of Lincoln. 1971.
The Great Plains: Environment and Culture. 1979. (with Brian Blouet)
Ethnicity on the Great Plains. 1980
Vision and Refuge: Essays on the Literature of the Great Plains.1982. (with Virginia Faulkner)
Mapping the North American Plains: Essays in the History of Cartography. 1987.

Luebke's March 1992 Ames Reading Series presentation:

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