History & Culture
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by David Howarth
Here is one of the most exciting escape narratives to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organize and...
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War and Innocence by Hanna Aasvik Helmersen
A young girl's life in occupied Norway (1940-1945) War and Innocence is Hanna Aasvik Helmersen's moving account based on her childhood memories of Norway during WWII. It is the remarkable story of a young girl's experience with the suddenness of...
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Viking, from Norway To America by Rasmus Elias Rasmussen
Rasmussen's diary recounts the historic journey made by twelve courageous seamen aboard Viking and includes his personal experiences during and after the Fair (1893 Chicago World's Fair). Viking was the first Viking ship to sail in nearly 1,000 years, showing...
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Viking Wars By Max Adams
Viking Wars By Max Adams is a history of Britain in the violent and unruly era between the first Scandinavian raids in 789 and the final expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954. In 865, a great Viking army...
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Viking Folktales by Jake Jackson
Character-forming moral fables, Viking and Nordic folk and fairy tales take the magic of the natural world and combine it with the practical common sense of the everyday. Good folk are rewarded for their hard work, the honest and the...
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Vesterheim Magazine Vol. 22, No. 2 2024 - The 200th Anniversary of the Restauration Sailing
Vesterheim is published twice a year, featuring in-depth articles focusing on the museum's priceless collections of artifacts, Norwegian-American history and culture, and up-to-date information on all museum events, classes, tours, and education opportunities. This issue's theme is "The 200th Anniversary of...
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Vesterheim Magazine Vol. 20, No. 2 2022- Traditional Tunes Today
Vesterheim is published twice a year, featuring in-depth articles focusing on the museum's priceless collections of artifacts, Norwegian-American history and culture, and up-to-date information on all museum events, classes, tours, and education opportunities. The magazine is a benefit to Vesterheim...
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Vesterheim Magazine Vol 21 No. 1 2023 – Staying in Touch
Vesterheim is published twice a year, featuring in-depth articles focusing on the museum's priceless collections of artifacts, Norwegian-American history and culture, and up-to-date information on all museum events, classes, tours, and education opportunities. Articles in this issue include Norwegian-American Press:...
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Traditional Norwegian Food by Bodil Nordjore
Traditional Norwegian Food by Bodil Nordjore. "With this book, I wish to convey some of the fundamentals of traditional Norwegian to the Norwegian immigrant community in the United States." So begins Traditional Norwegian Food by Bodil Nordjore. This book is...
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There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather by Linda Åkeson McGurk
A Scandinavian Mom’s Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids - from Friluftsliv to Hygge. As a new mom in small-town Indiana, Swedish-born Linda Åkeson McGurk came to realize that the parenting philosophies of her native country and her...
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The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World by Arthur Herman
From a New York Times best-selling historian and pulitzer prize finalist, this sweeping epic melds a compelling historical narrative of war, enterprise, and adventure with cutting-edge archaeological and DNA research. PB.
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The Symra Literary Society: Continuity and Change 1905-2025 by Marvin G. Slind
In 1905, local publishers and intellectual leaders in Decorah, Iowa, founded a Norwegian literary journal, “Symra.” Named after a Norwegian wildflower, it was intended to serve as a focus for literary life in Norwegian America. The journal was well received,...
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The Sledge Patrol by David Howarth
In 1943, a group of brave Danish and Norwegian hunters carried out one of the most dramatic operations of World War II. Using dogsleds to patrol a stark 500-mile stretch of the Greenland coast, their wartime mission was to guard...
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The Rømmegrøt Diet by Rolf Svanoe
Reflections on the Norwegian Immigrant Story. This booklet tells the story of Norwegian emigration to the United States through the lens of food. Rømmegrøt is a delicious creamy porridge beloved by many. Through personal stories, the author shows what life...
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The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow by Elin Anna Labba
The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi The deep and personal story—told through history, poetry, and images—of the forced displacement of the Sámi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today. Starkly poetic and emotionally...
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The Princess and the Boat Boy, Heroes of the Primstav by Lucy Tokheim
Lucy is bringing out her first comic book! It is her retelling of the legend of St. Sunniva, the first patron saint of Norway. The Norwegian primstav calendar also made its way into this entirely hand-drawn story. 36 pages, black...
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