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  • Norwegian Newspapers in America

    Connecting Norway and the New Land

    by Odd S. Lovoll ...
    In the nineteenth century, the United States, "the land of newspapers," was also fast becoming the land of immigrants, with increasing numbers of Norwegians arriving amid the European influx. Already Skandinaven, published out of Chicago, kept newcomers and their Old World friends and family informed of political, religious, and social matters discussed in burgeoning Norwegian American communities ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Colonel Hans Christian Heg and the Norwegian American Experience

    by Odd S. Lovoll ...
    This first full-length biography of Colonel Heg examines the life of a Civil War hero while illuminating the lives of countless Norwegian American immigrants who found both hardship and success in a new home.Hans Christian Heg (1829–1863) was a Norwegian American abolitionist, journalist, antislavery activist, prison reformer, politician, and soldier. Best known for leading the Fifteenth Wisconsin ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Across the Deep Blue Sea

    The Saga of Early Norwegian Immigrants

    by Odd S. Lovoll ...
    Across the Deep Blue Sea investigates a chapter in Norwegian immigration history that has never been fully told before. Odd S. Lovoll relates how Quebec, Montreal, and other port cities in Canada became the gateway for Norwegian emigrants to North America, replacing New York as the main destination from 1850 until the late 1860s. During those years, 94 percent of Norwegian emigrants landed in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Norwegians on the Prairie

    Ethnicity and the Development of the Country Town

    by Odd S. Lovoll ...
    Against the broad backdrop of the expanding western frontier, noted Norwegian American scholar Odd S. Lovoll explores the country town through the lens of ethnicity in this pioneering study. Benson, Madison, and Starbuck, all located on the western Minnesota prairie, were settled primarily by Norwegians and served as urban centers—railroad hubs, destinations for trade, and social nexuses—for the ... Read more

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  • I Go to America

    Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson

    Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for NonfictionNear the end of her life, Mina Anderson penned a lively memoir that helped Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg create "Kristina," the central female character of his beloved emigrant novels, a woman who constantly yearns for her homeland. But Mina's story was quite different.Showcasing her previously untranslated memoir, I Go To America traces Mina's ... Read more

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  • The Civil War of 1812

    American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies

    by Alan Taylor ...
    In the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution, leading to a second confrontation that redefined North America. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor’s vivid narrative tells the riveting story of the soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and Indians who fought to determine the fate of a continent. Would revolutionary ... Read more

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  • A People's History of the Civil War

    Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

    "Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States did for the study of American history in general." — Library JournalHistorian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated ... Read more

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  • 366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency

    The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President

    Edited by Stephen A. Wynalda ...
    In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln’s decisions in office-including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his eleven-year-old son, Willie, ... Read more

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  • Abraham Lincoln

    by David Colbert ...
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    You're about to be an eyewitness to the ten crucial days in Abraham Lincoln's life, including:A tragic loss that sets a boy on a course for greatnessA career sacrificed to protest an unjust warA state resorting to treason to preserve slaveryA president who learns the most difficult decisions are made aloneAnd a promise made to every citizen that American's salves will be free.These days and five ... Read more

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  • The War of 1812

    Conflict for a Continent

    Series series Cambridge Essential Histories
    This book is a narrative history of the many dimensions of the War of 1812 - social, diplomatic, military and political - which places the war's origins and conduct in transatlantic perspective. The events of 1812–15 were shaped by the larger crisis of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. In synthesizing and reinterpreting scholarship on the war, Professor J. C. A. Stagg focuses on the war as a ... Read more

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  • The War That Forged a Nation

    Why the Civil War Still Matters

    More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations." In fact, five generations have passed, and Americans are still ... Read more

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