CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A museum filled with Norwegian American history has a new addition to its campus in Our Town Decorah. Beth Hoven Rotto is a guest curator for an exhibition beginning Aug.

On July 4, 1825, 52 Norwegians, many of them Quakers seeking religious freedom, boarded a ship named Restauration in Stavanger, Norway. They arrived in New York City on Oct. 9, 1825, laying the ...

The Norwegian-American Historical Association is pleased to name Anna M. Peterson, Luther College assistant professor of history, as the Association’s new editor. For the past decade Peterson has been ...

Mar. 30—THOMPSON, N.D. — Sitting in the pews in many churches throughout the Midwest, members of the congregation view paintings of Biblical scenes behind the altar every Sunday, but they may know ...

“The Great Plain Drinks the Blood of Christian Men and Is Satisfied.” The title of the last chapter of O.E. Rolvaag’s novel Giants in the Earth foreshadows a haunting conclusion to a story of ...

Vesterheim in Decorah, Iowa houses one of the largest collections of Norwegian-American artifacts, so when the cultural institution was looking to revamp its campus it, naturally, selected Norway- and ...

Two hundred years ago this month, a Norwegian vessel docked in New York, beginning an extraordinary exodus of up to a third of Norway’s population over the next century, creating a diaspora that ...