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"The Norwegian immigrant as treated in the Norwegian-American novel; a dissertation…Master of Arts…Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago" 1928.
Introduction
Backgrounds
Reaction of the mid of immigrant to American surroundings
First impressions. "Heimweh." Relations with people here. American scenery. The prairie. Pioneer reactions. Reaction to American cultural life. Social life of the Norwegian-American. Attitude toward politics and government. The church in the life of the Norwegian-American. Amalgamation.
A lecture titled "Lawyers in the Civil War," delivered before the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (1961), and an outline of an address, "Whatever Happened to Ole," given before Det Norske Nationalforbund in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1963). Anderson was a member of the Federal Trade Commission and served as Governor of South Dakota from 1950 to 1954.
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Article: "Lawyers In the War", delivered before the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. February 14, 1961. Mentions lawyers in the cabinet of Abraham Lincoln, including Edwin M. Stanton, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Senator William Fessenden, Edward Bates, Caleb B. Smith,and Montgomery Blair. Confederate cabinet members who were lawyers included Alexander Stephens, Robert Toombs, Robert M.T. Hunter, Judah P. Benjamin, John C. Breckendridge, Christopher Memminger, Thomas Bragg, Thomas Hill Watts, George Davis, Stephen R. Mallory and John Henninger Reagan. Four lawyers who served in the Union army would later become president, including Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester Arthur and Benjamin Harrison. 7 members of the Supreme Court served in the armed forces during the Civil War - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stanley Matthews, William B. Woods and John M. Harlan fought for the Union, Edward B. White, Lucius Q.C. Lamar and Horace H Lurton fought in the ranks of the Confederacy.
Article: "Whatever Happened to Ole?" delivered before Det Norske Nationalforbund i Minneapolis, Minnehaha Park, Minneapolis Minnesota July 14, 1963.
A volume consisting of letters of tribute addressed to Mr. Holstad on his retirement as Executive Secretary of the Lutheran Welfare Society. Mr. Holstad, a Norwegian-born businessman in Minneapolis, was active in church, community and Norwegian-American affairs.
"Documentation of Traditional Music in Northern Wisconsin and Michigan," final report of an ethnic music project conducted at Northland College, Ashland, Wisconsin.
In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and “The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today,” Lovoll interviews Andreas Rhude.
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