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The experiences of the Muller family and the Kimballton community emerge out of the recollections of a variety of individuals. Some are members of the Muller family, some are current or former residents of Kimballton, and some are scholars interested in h
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This book contains excerpts from three published novels by Julie Jensen McDonald, all featuring the author's Danish-American heritage. The out of print novels are Amalie's Story, Petra, and The Sailing Out. Perfect bound, 6 x 9", 140 pages
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Now available in a beautifully designed package for a new generation of readers, Ole Edvart Rølvaag’s classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plains—a vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant experience and the conquest of the American continent. “The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America.”—The Nation Based in part on Ole Edvart Rølvaag’s own recollections as well of those of his wife’s family who
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After Adolf Hitler made plans to create a “model protectorate” out of Denmark, Winston Churchill predicted that the nation would become the Führer’s tame canary. Isolated from the Allies and fueled only by a sense of human decency and national pride, the Danes created an extraordinary resistance movement that proved a relentless thorn in the side of the Nazis. By 1945, they had published twenty-six million issues of illegal newspapers. They set up radio guides for Allied aircraft on the coasts a
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Jacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. The filth and degradation made the area a hell for the immigrants forced to live there. Riis was one of those immigrants, and, after years of abject poverty, when he became a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he exposed the shameful conditions of life with which he
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On a tall dune on the island of Fanø, the windmill stands watch and at its foot lies a red brick farmhouse. Here begins the tale of Karen Andersen, the miller's eldest child, who would fly with the lark but whose heart can never forget the mill. It is the golden age of sail when the men of Fanø roam the seas as masters of tall ships while the women stay home, bound by centuries of tradition.Sixteen-year-old Karen, dreams of marrying First Mate Peter Larsen. Her mother has other plans. She mistru
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Author: Solveig Sedlet. Solveig Sedlet's remarkable "Lives" take her from early 20th-century rural Denmark to post-World War II London to the United States. They span a village childhood, life under Nazi occupation, employment and emigration, marriage, and more. Highly readable! Paperback.
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Correspondence involving a spiritually and culturally uprooted Danish immigrant woman of the nineteenth century provides an insight into how difficult it was for her to see her family become Americanized. The book is an interesting acount of rural Iowa li
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Anne Ipsen's latest memoir describes a six year period starting in 1946 with the departure of Anne and her parents from Denmark, first as visitors to the USA, then in 1948 as immigrants. It is a sequel to A Child's Tapestry of War, the story of the author's childhood during the World War II occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany. Anne's parents are not typical immigrants fleeing from oppression but part of the post-war European Brain Drain. Both parents speak fluent English and Dr. Ipsen is a med
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