SWEDISH-AMERICAN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY: 2005

January 2005 - Byron J. Nordstrom, Editor

Robert Douglas: The Swedes and Sudanese in Minnesota: Geographical Commonalities of Old and New Immigration
James M. Kaplan: My Search for Birger Sandzén
James M. Kaplan: Birger Sandzén on Art, Music, and Transcendence
H. Arnold Barton: Remigration to Sweden in European Perspective
Book Review: Holmes, Vernon Alfred. America’s Backdoor. Reviewed by Joy Lintelman
Book Review: Nichol, Todd W., ed. Crossings: Norwegian-American Lutheranism as a Transatlantic Tradition. Reviewed by Margaret Hayford O’Leary
Book Review: Setterdahl, Lilly. Swedes in Moline, Illinois, 1847-2002. Reviewed by Robert Douglas

Dag Blanck: Introduction
Eva St. Jean: "Letters from the Promised Land": Interpreting Ambiguities in Immigrant Letters
Jennifer Eastman Attebery: "Peasant Letters" Revisited: The Immigrant Letter from a Folklorist’s Perspective
Britt Liljewall: Emigration, Literacy, and Networks, or Letters from the Lost Land
Joy Lintelman: Between the Mundane and the Memorable: The Letters of Single and Married Swedish Immigrant Women
Maria Erling: The Connections Correspondence Made
Ulf Jonas Björk: Perhaps There is Someone Who Wants to Know How We Live:Public immigrant Letters in Swedish-American Newspapers
Solveig Zempel: "My Book, I have Neglected You Sorely": Reading the Kravik-Lokensgaard Diaries

Ulf Jonas Björk with Yngve Turesson and Mariann Tiblin: Swedish-American Bibliography 2004
Index to Vol. LVI
Book Review: Dickson, Charles. Scandinavian-American Genealogical Sources. Reviewed by Marita Karlisch
Book Review: Anderson, Philip J., Dag Blanck, and Byron J. Nordstrom, eds. Scandinavians in Old and New Lands: Essays in Honor of H. Arnold Barton. Reviewed by Kevin Proescholdt
Book Review: Gradén, Lizette. On Parade: Making Heritage in Lindsborg, Kansas. Reviewed by Larry Danielson