Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967) was a Swedish-American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and another for one of his multi-volume biographies of Abraham Lincoln. He was a towering figure in twentieth-century … Read More
The celebrated Swedish author, Vilhelm Moberg, was known on both sides of the Atlantic for his epic, four-part novel (The Emigrants, Unto a Good Land, The Settlers, and The Last Letter Home) chronicling the lives of Karl Oscar and Kristina … Read More
Collection and preservation of documents was one of the original purposes of the Swedish-American Historical Society (initially Swedish Pioneer Historical Society) set forth in its 1948 constitution, but it was not until fourteen years later, in 1962, that an archives … Read More