Tag: Norwegian Americans

• Notes from the heartland (Part 4: Nebraska)

  

  Starting out from Fort Worth yesterday, my canine companion and I traced the Chisholm Trail up to where it peters out near Salina, Kansas. From there we headed due north on a lonely stretch of US 81 into the endless plains of southern Nebraska. Between the Platte and Elkhorn rivers, the terrain changes to gently…

  Jesse Rude

  November 10, 2025

  Family history

  Chisholm Trail, Cuming County Nebraska, Dane County Wisconsin, Deerfield, dissenters, grasshoppers, Hauge, Haugean Lutherans, Johnson, Koshkonong Prairie, locusts, Methodism, Nebraska, Norwegian Americans, Reiner, Smith, Willerup, Wisner

• Norway’s scattered children (part 1)

  

  Two hundred years ago this year, a small ship set sail from Stavanger, Norway bound for New York City with 52 passengers and crew. This was Norway’s “Mayflower moment”.* Who could have guessed that over the coming century the number of migrants from Norway to the United States would reach nearly a million?  The Norwegian…

  Jesse Rude

  May 19, 2025

  Miscellaneous

  American Midwest, assimilation, Crossings, diaspora, emigration, ethnicity, food culture, history, identity, immigration, Livsreise, musing, nasjonalbiblioteket, Norway, Norway House, Norwegian American Historical Association, Norwegian Americans, Norwegian National Library, Norwegian-American, Norwegian-American Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library, Restaurasjonen, social history, Sons of Norway, St. Olaf, Stavanger, symbolic ethnicity, Vesterheim