Tag: Minnesota

• Notes from the heartland (Part 5: Home)

  

  I am home now after my road trip, a road trip long enough to permit some reflection. If you’ve read my previous posts, you won’t be surprised that I’ve been reflecting on our place in history. We Americans are living in a challenging time right now in terms of historical storytelling. Challenging but not unprecedented.…

  Jesse Rude

  November 11, 2025

  Miscellaneous

  Cherokee, Dakota, Dakota War, history, Ho-Chunk, identity, indigenous history, Iowa, Mankato, Minnesota, Minnesota history, Muscogee, musing, Native America, Nebraska, Oklahoma, settler colonialism, The U.S. Civil War, Trail of Tears, U.S. history, Winnebago, Wisconsin history

• Norway’s scattered children (part 2)

  

  One-third of Norway’s population left the country between 1825 and 1925 — nearly a million people. As a citizen of a country that has more often been the recipient of migrants, I can scarcely imagine the impact those departures would have had, both for individual families and for the nation as a whole. In a…

  Jesse Rude

  May 20, 2025

  Miscellaneous

  Øvrebø, Bjørn Enes, Crossings, emigration, Førde, freedom, Greibesland, Hansen, immigration, Memoar, Minnesota, musing, nasjonalbiblioteket, Norsk utvandrermuseum, Norway, Norwegian history, Norwegian National Library, politics, Restauration, St. Olaf College, Stavanger Maritime Museum, U.S. history, utvandring