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The Swedish–American Historical Society was founded in 1949 to record "the achievements of the Swedish pioneers" in North America. It has published numerous books since then and also publishes a scholarly journal titled the Swedish–American Historical Quarterly, formerly the Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly. [1] [2]
The Swedish-American Historical Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1948 to "Record the Achievements of the Swedish Pioneers." The society publishes the academic journal The Swedish-American Historical Quarterly; Articles. The Swedish Emigration to America; The Emigrant Routes to the Promised Land in America
Swedish Americans. The language spread of Swedish in the United States according to U. S. Census 2000. Graves of Swedish American pioneer siblings Niels Truhlsen (grandfather of Stanley M. Truhlsen) and Anna Truedsdotter Hansen in Blair, Nebraska. [2] Swedish Americans ( Swedish: Svenskamerikaner) are Americans of Swedish descent.
The American Swedish Historical Museum is the oldest Swedish-American museum in the United States. It is located in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park in South Philadelphia , on part of a historic 17th-century land grant originally provided by Queen Christina of Sweden to settlers of New Sweden .
New Sweden ( Swedish: Nya Sverige) [1] was a colony of the Swedish Empire along the lower reaches of the Delaware River between 1638 and 1655 in present-day Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the United States. [2] Established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great power, New Sweden formed part of the Swedish ...
The American Swedish Institute ( ASI) is a museum and cultural center in the Phillips West neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The organization is dedicated to the preservation and study of the historic role Sweden and Swedish Americans have played in US culture and history. The museum complex includes the Swan Turnblad ...
The Swedish American Museum in Chicago was founded by Kurt Mathisson in 1976. It moved to its current location on 5211 North Clark Street in 1987. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden was present at the museum's founding and at its move to its new home. [1] The museum is housed in a 24,000-square-foot (2,200 m 2 ), three-story building and has a ...
In 1985, Professor H. Arnold Barton was awarded the Charlotta Medal in recognition of his contributions to the Swedish Emigrant Institute at Växjö, Småland, Sweden. Barton was named "Swedish-American of the Year" in 1988 by the Royal Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and by the two Swedish District lodges of the Vasa Order of America.