Norwegians and Swedes in the United States: Friends and Neighbors

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Contents Foreword Donna R. Gabacciavii Preface and Acknowledgments xv Context Chapter 1  Friends and Neighbors?: Patterns of Norwegian-Swedish Interaction in the United States Dag Blanck5 Chapter 2  Norwegians and Swedes in America: Some Comparisons H. Arnold Barton21 Culture Chapter 3  Preserving a Cultural Heritage across Boundaries: A Comparative Perspective on Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt and Nordmanns-Forbundet Odd S. Lovoll37 Chapter 4  Freedom, Identity, and Double Perspectives: Representations of the Migrant Experience in the Novels of Vilhelm Moberg and O. E. Rølvaag Ingeborg Kongslien54 Chapter 5  “Är Du Svensk?”—“Norsk! Norsk!”: Folk Humor and Cultural Difference in Scandinavian America James P. Leary67 Chapter 6  Long after the Immigrant Language Shift: Swedish and Norwegian in Heritage Communities Angela Falk85 Chapter 7 Writing History Together: Norwegian American and Swedish American Historians in Dialogue Mark Safstrom107 Conflict Chapter 8  “We Are Norwegians and Swedes Now, Not Scandinavians”: The Impact of Norwegian Independence on Scandinavian American Politics in the Midwest Jørn Brøndal125 Chapter 9 An End to Brotherhood? Swedes and Norwegians in America Discuss the 1905 Union Dissolution Ulf Jonas Björk139 Chapter 10  “The Sociological Factor Is Not to Be Underestimated”: Swedes, Norwegians, and American Lutheran Merger Negotiations, 1920–60 Mark Granquist154 Chapter 11 A Question of Conscience: Minnesota’s Norwegian American Lutherans and the Teaching of Evolution Kurt W. Peterson170 Community Chapter 12  Journeymen or Traditional Emigrants? Norwegian and Swedish Engineers and Architects in North America, 1880–1930 Per-Olof Grönberg197 Chapter 13  Corncobs to Classmates: Swedish Americans at a Norwegian American College Joy K. Lintelman219 Chapter 14 A Scandinavian Enclave on Lake Superior’s North Shore: Settlement Patterns and Community Building among Norwegians, Swedes, and Swede Finns in Hovland, Minnesota, 1888–1932 Philip J. Anderson236 Chapter 15  Norwegians and Swedes in Willmar, Minnesota, in the Early Twentieth Century: Neighbors, Friends, Schoolmates, and Lovers Byron J. Nordstrom258 Chapter 16  The Basis for Pan-Scandinavian Cooperation in Minneapolis–St. Paul: Nordic Involvement in American Politics Prior to 1930 David C. Mauk275 Chapter 17 Scandinavianism in the Rocky Mountain West: Pragmatic and Programmatic Jennifer Eastman Attebery295 Notes on Contributors 308 Index311 Image Credits 329 ...