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Book A List of Five Hundred Books by Scandinavians and about Scandinavia

Download or read book A List of Five Hundred Books by Scandinavians and about Scandinavia written by American-Scandinavian Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Swedish Americans of Minnesota

Download or read book A History of the Swedish Americans of Minnesota written by Algot E. Strand and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Historical Review

Download or read book The American Historical Review written by John Franklin Jameson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.

Book Minnesota History Bulletin

Download or read book Minnesota History Bulletin written by Theodore Christian Blegen and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 2-6 include the 19th-23d Biennial reports of the Society, 1915/16-1923/24 (in v. 2-3 as supplements, in v. 4-6 as extra numbers).

Book Biennial Report of the Minnesota Historical Society  Saint Paul  to the Legislature of Minnesota

Download or read book Biennial Report of the Minnesota Historical Society Saint Paul to the Legislature of Minnesota written by Minnesota Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Scandinavian

Download or read book The American Scandinavian written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Scandinavian Review

Download or read book The American Scandinavian Review written by Henry Goddard Leach and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 14, no. 5 (May 1926) is special issue devoted to John Ericsson.

Book Norwegian Newspapers in America

Download or read book Norwegian Newspapers in America written by Odd S. Lovoll and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2010 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at the Norwegian-language press, celebrating the tireless writers, editors, and publishers whose efforts helped guide Norwegian immigrants on their path to becoming Norwegian Americans.

Book Minnesota History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Theodore Christian Blegen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Minnesota History written by Theodore Christian Blegen and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 6 includes the 23d Biennial report of the Society, 1923/24, as an extra number.

Book Myths of the Rune Stone

    Book Details:
  • Author : David M. Krueger
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2015-10-01
  • ISBN : 1452945438
  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book Myths of the Rune Stone written by David M. Krueger and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend that held tremendous power in one corner of Minnesota, helping to define both a community’s and a state’s identity for decades. In 1898, a Swedish immigrant farmer claimed to have discovered a large rock with writing carved into its surface in a field near Kensington, Minnesota. The writing told a North American origin story, predating Christopher Columbus’s exploration, in which Viking missionaries reached what is now Minnesota in 1362 only to be massacred by Indians. The tale’s credibility was quickly challenged and ultimately undermined by experts, but the myth took hold. Faith in the authenticity of the Kensington Rune Stone was a crucial part of the local Nordic identity. Accepted and proclaimed as truth, the story of the Rune Stone recast Native Americans as villains. The community used the account as the basis for civic celebrations for years, and advocates for the stone continue to promote its validity despite the overwhelming evidence that it was a hoax. Krueger puts this stubborn conviction in context and shows how confidence in the legitimacy of the stone has deep implications for a wide variety of Minnesotans who embraced it, including Scandinavian immigrants, Catholics, small-town boosters, and those who desired to commemorate the white settlers who died in the Dakota War of 1862. Krueger demonstrates how the resilient belief in the Rune Stone is a form of civil religion, with aspects that defy logic but illustrate how communities characterize themselves. He reveals something unique about America’s preoccupation with divine right and its troubled way of coming to terms with the history of the continent’s first residents. By considering who is included, who is left out, and how heroes and villains are created in the stories we tell about the past, Myths of the Rune Stone offers an enlightening perspective on not just Minnesota but the United States as well.

Book The World s Work

Download or read book The World s Work written by Walter Hines Page and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of our time.

Book Images of America in Scandinavia

Download or read book Images of America in Scandinavia written by Poul Houe and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of Images of America in Scandinavia, the first comprehensive study of its kind, is as multifaceted, complex, and overwhelming as America or the United States, itself. It concerns the nature and function, reality and fiction of such images in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden past and present. The book is intended to be a source of solid information as well as a starting point for further inquiries into its cultural territory. Part of its focus is on images of America rooted in printed sources, but, in addition, general surveys of other cultural signs of America in the Scandinavian countries present a broader picture and provide some of the background for the predominantly literary images. Issues such as government and politics, popular and vanguard music and art, and socio-cultural institutions intermittently come to the fore. Framing the volume's three pairs of national surveys is an introductory chapter, which addresses the entire subject from a bird's-eye view, and a concluding chapter, which, by contrast, delves into the cross-fire of sentiments defining people whose images of America, are both American and Scandinavian. The discussion of America as perceived in Scandinavia sheds new light on intriguing inter-Scandinavian cultural distinctions and borderlines. Countless books and articles, methods and theories, have been devoted to the study of national and cultural identity. Still, the exchanges between such identities and the images they engender - so indispensable for the participants in a global culture - remain clouded by many misconceptions. Images of America in Scandinavia whose editors and authors all have Scandinavian backgrounds, will contribute an improved understanding of the cultural interplay between Scandinavia and the United States of America.

Book The Swedish American Historical Quarterly

Download or read book The Swedish American Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Museum Work

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book Museum Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 3, 4, and 8.