American Turner Topics

The official publication of the American Turners

You can view the issues of American Turner Topics on line at the Digital Collections of the IUPUI Library.  The most recent issue posted there was Aug. - Sep. - Oct. 2004.

Here's what they say in their introduction:

The American Turner Topics, published since 1936, is the newsletter of the American Turners. The Turner movement, begun in Germany in 1811, stresses physical fitness and German culture. German immigrants brought the movement to the United States in the 1840s and in 1850 established a national Turner association that is today known as the American Turners. The newsletter contains reports on the activities of the national organization and of individual Turner societies, obituaries of Turner members, and articles about Turner history and philosophy.