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Frontier Mother
From a bundle of letters written in the 1860s and 1870s and preserved in Norway, this book presents at first hand the story of a frontier housewife and mother. The writer reveals herself freely, effectively, and with gusto. Through her eyes we see and feel the experiences of an immigrant crossing the vast Atlantic, of the trek inland to the American Midwest, the founding of a frontier home, the rearing of a large family. Through Svendsen's words we visualize not only a pioneer home, with all the details of frontier rural life, but also the transition that immigrants experienced from their initial unfamiliarity with new speech and new customs to full participation in American life. Her letter...
Land of Their Choice
Land of Their Choice was first published in 1955. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This collection of "American letters" that immigrants wrote to friends and relatives in the lands they had left tells a little-known human story that is part of the larger saga of America. It constitutes a kind of composite diary of everyday people at the grass roots of American life. The letters published here, written by Norwegian immigrants in the middle of the nineteenth century, are truly representative of a great body of historical material - litera...
Lifestyle Changes
Change is inevitable, and each person handles each event differently, some with more difficulty than others. In Lifestyle Changes, psychologist Vera Maass draws on 25 years of practice experience - and a lifetime filled with changes, growth, and challenges - to present a clinician's guide to working with clients who are facing a fundamental change in their lifestyle. Each chapter explores a different event and its potential impacts on the client's current lifestyle, focusing on positive ways to respond and adapt to the situation. Through a mix of case examples, personal vignettes, sample clinician/client dialog, and engaging language, Lifestyle Changes provides an accessible and practical resource for practitioners that maximizes the potential for positive growth out of each experience.
Working in America
Presents an overview of the history of American labor using excerpts from primary source documents, short biographies of influential people, and more.
Norwegian Migration to America
Companion volume to Norwegian Migration to America, 1825-1860. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Childhood on the Farm
As the United States transformed itself from an agricultural to an industrial nation, thousands of young people left farm homes for life in the big city. But even by 1920 the nation’s heartland remained predominantly rural and most children in the region were still raised on farms. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg retells their stories, offering glimpses—both nostalgic and realistic—of a bygone era. As Riney-Kehrberg shows, the experiences of most farm children continued to reflect the traditions of family life and labor, albeit in an age when middle-class urban Americans were beginning to redefine childhood as a time reserved for education and play. She draws upon a wealth of primary sources—n...
Live Well
Primarily letters to her parents in Hallingdal, Norway, written between 1892 and 1923 by Sigrid Gjeldaker Lillehaugen who immigrated to the United States where she joined her husband Tosten in Minnesota, and in 1888 homesteaded in Dakota Territory.
Race, Gender, and Work
An outgrowth of Boston's Economic Literacy Project of Women for Economic Justice, this new edition traces the economic and social histories of working women in America. The history documents the paid and unpaid work done by American Indian, Chicana, European American, African American, and Puerto Rican women from each group's cultural beginnings (pre-colonialization) to the most contemporary analysis of present day wage statistics. The appendices supply US census sources, occupational categories, and labor force participation rates from 1900 to 1980. Includes statistical tables. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Homesickness
Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity, what children feel at summer camp, but in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a powerful emotion. When gold miners in California heard the tune "Home, Sweet Home," they sobbed. When Civil War soldiers became homesick, army doctors sent them home, lest they die. Such images don't fit with our national mythology, which celebrates the restless individualism of colonists, explorers, pioneers, soldiers, and immigrants who supposedly left home and never looked back. Using letters, diaries, memoirs, medical records, and psychological studies, this wide-ranging book uncovers the profound pain felt by Americans on the move from the coun...
