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  • Across the Deep Blue Sea

    The Saga of Early Norwegian Immigrants

    by Odd S. Lovoll ...
    Across the Deep Blue Sea investigates a chapter in Norwegian immigration history that has never been fully told before. Odd S. Lovoll relates how Quebec, Montreal, and other port cities in Canada became the gateway for Norwegian emigrants to North America, replacing New York as the main destination from 1850 until the late 1860s. During those years, 94 percent of Norwegian emigrants landed in ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Colonel Hans Christian Heg and the Norwegian American Experience

    by Odd S. Lovoll ...
    This first full-length biography of Colonel Heg examines the life of a Civil War hero while illuminating the lives of countless Norwegian American immigrants who found both hardship and success in a new home.Hans Christian Heg (1829–1863) was a Norwegian American abolitionist, journalist, antislavery activist, prison reformer, politician, and soldier. Best known for leading the Fifteenth Wisconsin ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Norwegian Newspapers in America

    Connecting Norway and the New Land

    by Odd S. Lovoll ...
    In the nineteenth century, the United States, "the land of newspapers," was also fast becoming the land of immigrants, with increasing numbers of Norwegians arriving amid the European influx. Already Skandinaven, published out of Chicago, kept newcomers and their Old World friends and family informed of political, religious, and social matters discussed in burgeoning Norwegian American communities ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Norwegians on the Prairie

    Ethnicity and the Development of the Country Town

    by Odd S. Lovoll ...
    Against the broad backdrop of the expanding western frontier, noted Norwegian American scholar Odd S. Lovoll explores the country town through the lens of ethnicity in this pioneering study. Benson, Madison, and Starbuck, all located on the western Minnesota prairie, were settled primarily by Norwegians and served as urban centers—railroad hubs, destinations for trade, and social nexuses—for the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Two Homelands

    A Historian Considers His Life and Work

    by Odd Lovoll ...
    Odd S. Lovoll has spent his career chronicling the stories of Norwegian immigrants to the United States and Canada. He, too, was an immigrant at a young age, and like many international migrants returned to his homeland for a period during his young adult life before settling permanently in the United States. This personal connection has long informed his work, and now he turns his academic's eye ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Norwegian American Women

    Migration, Communities, and Identities

    Edited by Betty A. Bergland, Lori Ann Lahlum ...
    The history of Norwegian settlement in the United States has often been told through the eyes of prominent men, while the women are imagined in the form of O. E. Rølvaag's fictionalized heroine Beret Holm, who made the best of life on the frontier but whose gaze seemed ever fixed on her long-lost home. The true picture is more complex. In an area spanning the Midwest and rural West and urban areas ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Finns in Minnesota

    by Arnold Alanen ...
    Series series People of Minnesota
    The first Finnish immigrants arrived in Red Wing in 1864, the vanguard of thousands who eventually and resolutely placed Minnesota second among the states in terms of Finnish population. Today we may recognize Minnesota's "Finnishness" in the popular sauna, in the characteristic tenacity known as sisu, or in place names and cultural markers that link to homeland. The newest contribution to the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • I Go to America

    Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson

    by Joy K. Lintelman ...
    Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for NonfictionNear the end of her life, Mina Anderson penned a lively memoir that helped Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg create "Kristina," the central female character of his beloved emigrant novels, a woman who constantly yearns for her homeland. But Mina's story was quite different.Showcasing her previously untranslated memoir, I Go To America traces Mina's ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Danes in Wisconsin

    Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Frederick Hale ...
    Series series People of Wisconsin
    Wisconsin Territory's first Dane arrived in 1829, and by 1860 the state's Danish-born population had reached 1,150. Yet these newcomers remained only a small segment of Wisconsin's increasingly complex cultural mosaic, and the challenges of adapting to life in this new land shaped the Danish experience in the state. In this popular book, now revised and expanded with additional historical photos ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Norwegians and Swedes in the United States

    Friends and Neighbors

    Edited by Philip J. Anderson, Dag Blanck ...
    To early American immigrants, nineteenth-century newcomers from the Scandinavian peninsula likely seemed all of a type. to immigrants hailing from Norway and Sweden, however, differences in language, culture, and religion sorted them into distinct groupings: not Scandinavian, but Norwegian or Swedish—and proud of their lineage.How did these differences affect relationships in the new world? In ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • They Sang for Norway

    Olaf Oleson's Immigrant Choir

    by Ane-Charlotte Five Aarset ...
    They were brothers from Norway's "Red County." One was a guerrilla leader, the other a president of a singing association. One emigrated to America, the other stayed home to fight for Norwegian independence. Both had an impact on their nation's history. This is the story of the one who left.Olaf Martin Oleson was among the hundreds of thousands of Norwegians who emigrated to the United States ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Civil War of 1812

    American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies

    by Alan Taylor ...
    In the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution, leading to a second confrontation that redefined North America. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor’s vivid narrative tells the riveting story of the soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and Indians who fought to determine the fate of a continent. Would revolutionary ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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