Tag: Norwegian National Library

• 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

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• 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

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  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