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Shuttle in Her Hand: A Swedish Immigrant Weaver in America

By Marion Tuttle Marzolf. (Chicago: Swedish-American Historical Society, 2010). Paper, 253 pp.

The Society's first historical novel tells the story of Lisa Lindholm, a single Swedish woman who emigrated to America in 1931 and her roles in Swedish and Swedish-American weaving and textile arts.

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Zorn in America: A Swedish Impressionist of the Gilded Age

By William and Willow Hagans. (Chicago: Swedish-American Historical Society, 2009). Cloth, 390 pp.

Anders Zorn (1860-1920), the famous Swedish artist, made seven trips to the USA. This book, complete with over 140 of his well-known paintings, etchings, and photographs, tells of these trips and much of Zorn's life and work.

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I Go to America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson

By Joy K. Lintelman. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009). Cloth, 294 pp.

This book, winner of the prestigious Minnesota Book Award (non-fiction), uses the life of Mina Anderson to describe much about the lives of Swedish American immigrant women of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

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The Old Country and the New: Essays on Swedes and America

By H. Arnold Barton. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007). Cloth, 293 pp.

This collection contains seventeen essays and seven editorials by H. Arnold Barton, the dean of Swedish immigration history, that were published in leading journals between 1974 and 2005. Some of these articles first appeared in the Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly or the Swedish-American Historical Quarterly.

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Why I Wrote the Novel About Swedish Immigrants

By Vilhelm Moberg. (Chicago: Swedish-American Historical Society, 2008). Paper, 24 pp.

In 1966, Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg flew to Chicago to give this address to the then-named Swedish Pioneer Historical Society. This booklet reprints that address, along with a new introduction by Philip J. Anderson that describes the background and context of this speech.

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The Creation of an Ethnic Identity: Being Swedish American in the Augustana Synod 1860-1917

By Dag Blanck. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2006). Cloth, 256 pp.

The Augustana Lutheran Synod was the largest of all Swedish-American organizations. The Synod carefully constructed an ethnic identity for its members during this time period to reflect the Synod's values and history.

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Swedish Recipes Old and New

By American Daughters of Sweden. (Chicago: American Daughters of Sweden, 1955). Paper, 180 pp.

A collection of classic recipes for Swedish and Swedish-American foods.

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Scandinavians in Old and New Lands: Essays in Honor of H. Arnold Barton

Edited by Philip J. Anderson, Dag Blanck, and Byron J. Nordstrom. (Chicago: Swedish-American Historical Society, 2004). Cloth, 302 pp.

This book contains 14 essays from noted scholars on both sides of the Atlantic in honor of Dr. H. Arnold Barton, the dean of Swedish immigration history and long-time editor of the Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly and, after 1982, the Swedish-American Historical Quarterly.

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Guide to Swedish-American Archival and Manuscript Sources in the United States

Edited by Wesley M. Westerberg. Kermit B. Westerberg, and Kristine B. Westerberg. (Chicago: Swedish-American Historical Society, 1983). Cloth, 600 pp.

This guide surveyed unpublished materials that relate to emigration from Sweden and to the history of Swedes in the United States, and that are located both within and outside repositories throughout the country.

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Scandinavian Immigrants and Education in North America

Edited by Philip J. Anderson, Dag Blanck, and Peter Kivisto. (Chicago: Swedish-American Historical Society, 1995). Cloth, 222 pp.

This book contains 13 essays from scholars that were presented at a conference of the same title held at the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, in April 1992.

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Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immigrant Life and Minnesota's Urban Frontier

Edited by Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001). Cloth, 367 pp.

The Minnesota History Center in St. Paul hosted a conference in October 1996 entitled "Swedish Life in the Twin Cities." This book contains 22 papers from that major conference.

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Ingrid: My Swedish-American Life and Adventures

By Ingrid Bergstrom. (Chicago: Swedish-American Historical Society, 2003). Paper, 184 pp.

This spirited and enthusiastic memoir tells the life and adventures of Ingrid Bergstrom. Ingrid and her husband Gösta emigrated to the United States after World War II, eventually settling in Chicago. They became involved with numerous Swedish-American organizations, several successful business ventures, and many fascinating adventures.

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A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840-1940

By H. Arnold Barton. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995). Cloth and Paper, 448 pp.

In this unique study, H. Arnold Barton outlines dilemmas created by the great migration of Swedes to the United States from 1840 to 1940 and the complex love-hate relationships that resulted between those who stayed and those who left.

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Clipper Ship and Covered Wagon: Essays from the Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly

Edited by H. Arnold Barton. (New York: Arno Press, 1979). Cloth, 255 pp.

This book contains 18 essays from different authors that first appeared in the Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly between 1959 and 1977.

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Letters from the Promised Land: Swedes in America, 1840-1914

By H. Arnold Barton. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1975). Paper, 348 pp.

This book contains an extensive collection of letters sent back to Sweden from Swedish immigrants in America during the time period of 1840-1914, telling their impressions of America, conditions in the areas of Swedish settlement, family news, and more.

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Peter Cassel and Iowa's New Sweden

Edited by H. Arnold Barton. (Chicago: Swedish-American Historical Society, 1995). Paper, 114 pp.

This book compiles articles from several sources on Peter Cassel and New Sweden, Iowa. Cassel led a group of Swedish immigrants to settle in the Iowa Territory in 1845, establishing the first Swedish settlement in Iowa and playing an important role in sparking further Swedish emigration to America.

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The Search for Ancestors: A Swedish-American Family Saga

By H. Arnold Barton. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979). Cloth, 178 pp.

Dr. Barton's own Swedish-American ancestors encountered many of the same events experienced by others in the mass emigration of Swedes to America. In uncovering his own Swedish roots, Barton traces not only the lives of his own ancestors, but the paths followed by many in the mass migration.

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Swedes in America: Intercultural and Interethnic Perspectives on Contemporary Research

Edited by Ulf Beijbom. (Växjö: Swedish Emigrant Institute, 1993). Cloth, 224 pp.

This book contains 19 essays from leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic that came from a 1991 symposium held in Växjö, Sweden, entitled "Swedes in America: New Perspectives."

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Images of Swedish-America

By Ulf Beijbom. (Växjö: Emigrant Institute Friendship Society, 2003). Cloth, 199 pp.

This book contains Swedish-American immigrant photographs from the "Dream of America" exhibit and other collections at the Swedish Emigrant Institute in Växjö, Sweden.

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On the Left in America: Memoirs of the Scandinavian-American Labor Movement

By Henry Bengston, translated by Kermit B. Westerberg, edited and with an introduction by Michael Brook. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999). Paper and Cloth, 237 pp.

Previously available only in a 1955 out-of-print Swedish edition, Henry Bengston tells his own story as well as that of a minority among Swedish immigrants actively involved in the radical left labor movement during the decades around the turn of the 20th century.

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Farm, Forge and Philosophy; Chapters from a Swedish Immigrant's Life

By Adolph Benson. (Chicago: Swedish Pioneer Historical Society, 1961). Cloth, 166 pp.

The memoir of a noted Swedish immigrant scholar and author, Adolph Burnett Benson (1881-1962), who was born in Skåne and eventually became a professor at Yale.

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From Isolationism to Involvement, the Swedish Immigrant Press in America, 1914-1945

By Finis H. Capps. (Chicago: Swedish Pioneer Historical Society, 1966). Cloth, 238 pp.

This book examines the changes in the Swedish immigrant press from the start of World War I in Europe in 1914 to the end of World War II in 1945, and the transition from an isolationist standpoint in 1914 to support for American involvement in World War II.

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Wheat Flour Messiah: Eric Jansson of Bishop Hill

By Paul Elmén. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997). Paper, 240 pp.

Here is the definitive biography of Eric Jansson, the founder of a religious sect in Sweden who led his followers to emigrate to Illinois and establish the utopian communalistic society called Bishop Hill.

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Bethany in Kansas: the History of a College

By Emory Lindquist. (Lindsborg, Kansas: Bethany College, 1975). Cloth, 309 pp.

The history of Bethany College, founded in 1881 in the most Swedish of all Kansas towns, Lindsborg. Written by a well-known historian and scholar who also served at one time as president of Bethany College.

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Swedish American Genealogist

Edited by Nils William Olsson. (Vol. XI, No. 1, March 1991). Paper, 127 pp.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Swedish American Genealogist, this double-sized edition was issued. It contains 12 articles on a variety of topics.

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Olof Stille in New Sweden

By Fritz Nordström and Peter Stebbins Craig. (Winter Park, Florida: SAG Publications, 1987). Paper, 56 pp.

This publication combines two articles from the Swedish American Genealogist on Olof Stille and his family in colonial America. The first article, "Olof Stille of New Sweden," was written by Fritz Nordström and appeared in Vol. VI, No. 3, in September 1986. Peter Stebbins Craig wrote the second article, "The Stille Family in America 1641-1772," which originally appeared in Vol. VI, No. 4, December 1986.

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Swedish Passenger Arrivals in New York 1820-1850

By Nils William Olsson. (Chicago: Swedish Pioneer Historical Society, 1967). Cloth, 391 pp.

Dr. Olsson compiled lists of all known Swedish passenger arrivals in New York for the period 1820-1850, as well as a surprisingly large amount of personal information on many of the immigrants.

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Swedish Passenger Arrivals in the United States 1820-1850

By Nils William Olsson and Erik Wikén. (Stockholm: Kungliga Biblioteket, 1995). Paper, 628 pp.

In a revised and expanded volume, the authors compiled lists of more than 5,000 Swedes who arrived at U.S. ports between 1820 and 1850, including biographical information (such as place of origin in Sweden) for a surprisingly large number of these early immigrants.

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Faces of Utopia: a Bishop Hill Family Album

By Nancy Lindberg Pinzke. (Chicago: privately published, 1982). Paper, 48 pp.

A collection of family photographs from the famous Bishop Hill, Illinois, utopian community.

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Index to the Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly and the Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 1950-2002, Volumes 1-53

By Kevin Proescholdt. (Chicago: Swedish-American Historical Society, 2003). Paper, 210 pp.

This cumulative index, covering more than a half-century of the Quarterly's publication, consists of three main parts: author entries, subject and keyword entries, and a listing of all 560+ books reviewed in the Quarterly during this time.

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The Rise and Fall of New Sweden: Gov. Johan Risingh's Journal, 1654-1655, in its Historical Context

By Johan Risingh, edited by Stellan Dahlgren and Hans Norman, translated by Marie Clark. (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1988). Cloth, 303 pp.

This book translates the journal of the last Swedish governor of the New Sweden colony along the Delaware River in colonial America.

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Trans-Atlantica: Essays on Scandinavian Migration and Culture

By Franklin D. Scott. (New York: Arno Press, 1979). Cloth, 316 pp.

This book includes 23 essays on this topic written by Dr. Scott between 1944 and 1978 that first appeared in leading journals such as the Journal of Modern History and the Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly, as well as chapters from books such as World Migration in Modern Times.

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Sweden: The Nation's History

By Franklin D. Scott (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988). Paper, 686 pp.

This is a revised edition of the original 1977 book, a modern history of Sweden in the English language.

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Scandinavians and America, Essays Presented to Franklin D. Scott

Edited by H. Arnold Barton. (Chicago: Swedish Pioneer Historical Society, 1974). Paper, 110 pp.

This book re-prints a special double issue of the Quarterly from 1974 (nos. 3-4) that honored Dr. Franklin D. Scott upon his retirement as the editor of the Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly.

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Wertmüller: Artist and Immigrant Farmer

By Franklin D. Scott. (Chicago: Swedish Pioneer Historical Society, 1963). Cloth, 173 pp.

This book describes the accomplished Swedish painter, Adolph Ulric Wertmüller (1751-1811), who painted not only Marie Antoinette in Europe but George Washington in America. Wertmüller emigrated to America in 1794 and eventually became a gentleman farmer near the Delaware River 20 miles south of Philadelphia.

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American-Swedish Handbook, 13th ed.

Edited by Holly Johnson. (Minneapolis: Swedish Council of America, 2004). Paper, 553 pp.

This book contains listings of nearly 1,000 Swedish-American and Scandinavian-American organizations and offices, including embassies, consulates, publications, and national and educational organizations in the United States, Canada, and Sweden.

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The Hedstroms and the Bethel Ship Saga

By Henry C. Whyman. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992). Cloth, 183 pp.

Brothers Olof and Jonas Hedstrom played important roles in Swedish immigration history and in Swedish Methodism in America. Olof operated the Bethel Ship in New York harbor, a floating chapel that welcomed Swedish immigrants to America. He directed many Swedish immigrants to Victoria, Illinois, where his brother Jonas worked as a Swedish Methodist evangelist and pastor to the arriving immigrants.

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Olof Wijk's North American Diary of 1829

By Olof Wijk, translated by Mikael Grut, notes by Nils William Olsson. (Winter Park, Florida: SAG Publications, 1998). Paper, 54 pp.

This book translates the diary of Swedish visitor Olof Wijk (1786-1856) from his 1829 trip to North America, a trip that occurred well before the start of the mass migration.

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A Swedish City Directory of Boston, 1881

By Eric Wretlind. (Winter Park, Florida: SAG Publications, 1986). Paper, 78 pp.

Boston was an important center for New England Swedish immigrants. This book re-prints a Swedish city directory of Boston that first appeared in 1881, including extensive biographical notes for many of the listed people by Nils William Olsson.

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Swedish Emigrant Ballads

By Robert L. Wright. (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1965). Cloth, 209 pp.

This book compiles many of the songs and ballads sung by and familiar to Swedish emigrants during the period of the great migration. It contains the words and English translations of 40 songs and ballads, as well as the melodies for 18 of them.

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