Books by La Vern J. Rippley

1. Of German Ways (Minneapolis: Dillon Press, 1970), 301 pp.

2. The Columbus Germans (Baltimore: Fürst Printing, 1968), essentially a reprint of the article published by SHGM. [Reprinted in booklet form with new introduction by the author in 1998, published by Max Kade German-American Center, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and Indiana German Heritage Society, ISBN 1-8880788-12-8.
   
   
3. Excursion Through America by Nicolaus Mohr, translated by La Vern J. Rippley (Chicago: R.R. Donneley & sons, 1973), 398 pp.
   
   
4. The Russian-German Settlements in the United States of America by Richard Sallet, translated and annotated by La Vern J. Rippley and Armand Bauer (Fargo: Institute for Regional Studies, 1974), 207 pp.
   
   
5. The German-Americans (Boston: Twayne, 1976), 271 pp. Reprinted by University Press of America, 1984.
   
   
6. Research Possibilities in the German-American Field by Heinz Kloss, Translated and annotated by La Vern J. Rippley (Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1980), 242 pp.
   
   
7. Editor, The Autobiography of Theodore F. Straub (St. Paul: North Central Publishing, 1981), 386 pp.
   
   
8. Immigrant Wisconsin (Boston: Twayne, 1985), 222 pp.
   
   
9. German Place Names in Minnesota / Deutsche Ortsnamen in Minnesota (Northfield, MN: St. Olaf College, 1989), 106 pp. printed in Regensburg, Germany with Rainer Schmeissner.
   
   
10. The German Colonies on the Lower Volga, Their Origin and Early Development by Gottlieb Beratz, ed. by Adam Giesinger, translated by La Vern J. Rippley, Leona Pfeifer and Dona Reeves-Marquardt (Lincoln: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991), 370 pp.
    
    
11. The Germans in Michigan by Fritz Kurrek (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Translator-Adaptor with editorial suggestions from Eberhard Reichmann. (In process).
    
    
12. The Whoopee John Wilfahrt Dance Band. His Bohemian-German Roots (Northfield, 1992).
    
    
13. The German-American Experience -- with Eberhard Reichmann -- The Max Kade German-American Center Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, 1993.
    
    
14. German-Bohemians: The Quiet Immigrants ( New Ulm/Northfield: German-Bohemian Heritage Society, 1995), 279 pp.
    
    
15. Emigration and Settlement Patterns of German Communities in North America, ed. with Eberhard Reichmann (Indiana-Purdue at Indianapolis: Max Kade Center, 1995) 380 pp.
    
    
16. Noble Women, Restless Men. The Rippley (Rieple, Ripley, Ripli, Rippli) Family in Wisconsin, North Dakota, Minnesota and Montana (Northfield: St. Olaf College Press, 1996), 235 pp.
    
    
17. Waumandee, Wisconsin 1860-1960: An Affectionate Portrait (Northfield: St. Olaf College Press, 2003), 204 pp.

Rippley is also the author of over 140 articles in academic and popular journals, 160 academic papers and lectures at various sites & conferences as well as some 300 book reviews. He is the editor/publisher of the Newsletter of the Society for Germany American Studies and serves on its editorial board for the SGAS Yearbook.