Two Homelands: A Historian Considers His Life and Work

Odd S. Lovoll has spent his career chronicling the stories of Norwegian immigrants to the United States and Canada. He, too, was an immigrant at a young age, and like many international migrants returned to his homeland for a period during his young adult life before settling permanently in the United States. This personal connection has long informed his work, and now he turns his academic's eye to his own story.

In Two Homelands, Lovoll narrates the full arc of his life, beginning with mem...