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Lunch & Lecture at Seattle’s Swedish Club Northwest: Thursday, May 9, 2024
SAHS 2024 Spring Program: “Stories of the Past: How Swedish Americans Shape Their Heritage” presented by Jennifer Eastman Attebery. Join the Seattle’s Swedish Club Northwest and the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies (SASS) for a lunch and lecture featuring guest speaker and Society member Jennifer Eastman Attebery, Professor Emerita at Idaho State University. Attebery will share examples from her new book As Legend Has It: History, Heritage, and the Construction of Swedish American Identity (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023).
Clio’s Abode in Swedish America: Essays from the Journal of the Swedish-American Historical Society
Clio’s Abode in Swedish America consists of twenty-five articles previously published in the Swedish-American Historical Quarterly or its predecessor, the Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly. Intended to help celebrate the Society’s 75th anniversary, as well as to commemorate the transition of … Read More
Donation to The Philip J. Anderson Publications Endowment
The Swedish-American Historical Society seeks to raise at least $250,000 in additional funding to create the Philip J. Anderson Publications Endowment, building on the amount already pledged toward this goal. Income from the endowment will be used to supplement the … Read More
Swedish-American Borderlands: New Histories of Transatlantic Relations
Edited by Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021). Paper, 352 pp. Studies of Swedish American history and identity have largely been confined to separate disciplines, such as history, literature, or politics. Swedish–American Borderlands, edited by … Read More
Sacred Migrations: Borderlands of Community & Faith, Essays in Honor of Philip J. Anderson
Edited by Hauna Ondrey and Mark Safstrom, this Festschrift is a tribute for Philip. J. Anderson, longtime professor of church history at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, and president of the Swedish-American Historical Society for the past thirty years. … Read More
Swedish Chicago: The Shaping of an Immigrant Community, 1880-1920
By Anita Olson Gustafson. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018). Paper, 212 pp. Between 1880 and 1920, emigration from Sweden to Chicago soared, and the city itself grew remarkably. During this time, the Swedish population in the city shifted from … Read More
Scandinavians in the State House: How Nordic Immigrants Shaped Minnesota Politics
Klas Bergman (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2017). Paper, 310 pp. Beginning in the 1850s, thousands of immigrants from Nordic countries settled in Minnesota and quickly established themselves in the political life of their new home. These Norwegians, Swedes, … Read More
Land of Dreams: A Reporter’s Journey from Sweden to America
By Klas Bergman (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013) Paper, 286 pp. “Land of Dreams – A Reporter’s Journey from Sweden to America” is a personal and political retrospective on my many years in the United States, from my arrival in … Read More
Conrad Bergendoff’s Faith and Work – A Swedish-American Lutheran, 1895-1997
By Thomas Tredway (Published by the Augustana Historical Society in partnership with the Swedish–American Historical Society, 2013) Cloth, 497 pp. Conrad Bergendoff, a historian, theologian, ecumenist, educator and pastor, served as President of Augustana College from 1935-1962. The author, Thomas … Read More
Norwegians and Swedes in the United States: Friends & Neighbors
Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck – Editors (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012). Paper, 327 pp. Seventeen essays by scholars from the United States, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark explore interactions among Swedish and Norwegian immigrants to America, focusing … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
Swedish Recipes Old and New
By American Daughters of Sweden. (Chicago: American Daughters of Sweden, 1955; 21st Printing, 2008). Paper, 180 pp. A collection of classic recipes for Swedish and Swedish–American foods.
The Rise and Fall of New Sweden: Gov. Johan Risingh’s Journal
By Johan Risingh, edited by Stellan Dahlgren and Hans Norman, translated by Marie Clark. (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1988). Cloth, 303 pp. The Rise and Fall of New Sweden: Gov. Johan Risingh’s Journal, 1654-1655, in its Historical Context This … Read More
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 … Read More
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.
Swedish Passenger Arrivals New York
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 … Read More
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.
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: … Read More
Index to Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly and Swedish–American Historical Quarterly, 1950-2002
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 … Read More
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.
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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, … Read More
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, … Read More
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 … Read More