They built German schools and churches, organized German clubs and printed German newspapers. They didn’t feel the need to speak English immediately, taking generations for their new language to ...

Most notably, as Pennsylvania Dutchman Douglas Madenford writes, “It was, of course, not fashionable to speak a Germanic language while we were at war with Germany.” ...

“Let’s go way back and think about how originally, this part of the continent was able to speak more than 300 indigenous languages,” she said. About 150 remain.

In no time at all, speaking a language other than English in public is going to feel like an act of political defiance. On Friday morning, The Wall Street Journal first reported that the president ...