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Nordics in America : the future of their past
Title:
Nordics in America : the future of their past
Author:
Lovoll, Odd Sverre.
Publication Information:
Northfield, Minn. : Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1993.
Physical Description:
xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Proceedings of a conference held November 6-7, 1992, at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, to inaugurate the King Olav V Chair in Scandinavian-American studies at the same institution.
Language:
English
Contents:
In defense of multiculturalism / by John Bodnar -- The founding of St. Olaf's School / by Joseph M. Shaw -- Swedish-American "college mania" in the nineteenth century / by Philip J. Anderson -- Tracing threads : N.F.S. Grundtvig, the Danish folk high school movement, and the Elderhostel experience / by John Mark Nielsen -- Training for the class struggle : Finnish immigrants and workers' education, 1899 to World War II / by A. William Hoglund -- Myth, history and the Norwegian-American Historical Association / by J.R. Christianson -- Interpreting the Finnish-American experience / by Peter J. Kivisto -- Swedish America : changing perceptions / by Byron J. Nordstrom.

(cont.) Collecting and preserving the Danish-American story / by John Mark Nielsen and Peter L. Petersen -- "The psychology is the action" : Ole Rølvaag's interpretation of immigrant life / by Kristoffer F. Paulson -- Images of America in Vilhelm Moberg's Soldat med brutet gevär / by Rochelle Wright -- As they tell it themselves : the testimony of immigrant letters / by H. Arnold Barton -- The wint(h)er of our discontent : a Danish-American tale / by Faith C. Ingwersen -- Norwegian-American painting in the context of the immigrant community and American art / by Marion John Nelson -- Vignettes from a Norwegian settlement / by Lloyd Hustvedt -- The story told in Denmark letters : correspondence from the old country / by Rudolf J. Jensen -- A chair in Scandinavian-American studies / by Odd S. Lovoll.
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