Table of Contents
Foreword Donna R. Gabaccia vii
Preface and Acknowledgments xv
Chapter 1 Friends and Neighbors?: Patterns of Norwegian-Swedish Interaction in the United States Dag Blanck 5
Chapter 2 Norwegians and Swedes in America: Some Comparisons H. Arnold Barton 21
Culture
Chapter 3 Preserving a Cultural Heritage across Boundaries: A Comparative Perspective on Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt and Nordmanns-Forbundet Odd S. Lovoll 37
Chapter 4 Freedom, Identity, and Double Perspectives: Representations of the Migrant Experience in the Novels of Vilhelm Moberg and O. E. Rølvaag Ingeborg Kongslien 54
Chapter 5 "Är Du Svensk?"-"Norsk! Norsk!": Folk Humor and Cultural Difference in Scandinavian America James P. Leary 67
Chapter 6 Long after the Immigrant Language Shift: Swedish and Norwegian in Heritage Communities Angela Folk 85
Chapter 7 Writing History Together: Norwegian American and Swedish American Historians in Dialogue Mark Safstrom 107
Conflict
Chapter 8 "We Are Norwegians and Swedes Now, Not Scandinavians": The Impact of Norwegian Independence on Scandinavian American Politics in the Midwest JørnBrøndal 125
Chapter 9 An End to Brotherhood? Swedes and Norwegians in America Discuss the 1905 Union Dissolution Ulf Jonas Björk 139
Chapter 10 "The Sociological Factor Is Not to Be Underestimated": Swedes, Norwegians, and American Lutheran Merger Negotiations, 1920-60 Mark Granquist 154
Chapter 11 A Question of Conscience: Minnesota's Norwegian American Lutherans and the Teaching of Evolution Kurt W. Peterson 17?
Community
Chapter 12 Journeymen or Traditional Emigrants? Norwegian and Swedish Engineers and Architects in North America, 1880-1930 Per-Olof Grönberg 197
Chapter 13 Corncobs to Classmates: Swedish Americans at a Norwegian American College Joy K. Lintelman 219
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. Anderson 236
Chapter is Norwegians and Swedes in Willmar, Minnesota, in the Early Twentieth Century: Neighbors, Friends, Schoolmates, and Lovers Byron J Nordstrom 258
Chapter 16 The Basis for Pan-Scandinavian Cooperation in Minneapolis-St. Paul: Nordic Involvement in American Politics Prior to 1930 David C. Mauk 275
Chapter 17 Scandinavianism in the Rocky Mountain West: Pragmatic and Programmatic Jennifer Eastman Attebery 295
Notes on Contributors 308
Index 311
Image Credits 329
