Growing Up Lutheran
What does it mean?

The Lutheran Experience is captured through memories and pictures of Lutherans who grew up in the40's through the 60's. This book is like an old-fashioned Lutheran Church basement hotdish. Just the right ingredients and a generous salt for gentle humor!

by Janet Letnes Martin
    Suzann (Johnson) Nelson

Reckless Courage
The true Story of a Norwegian Boy Under Nazi Rule
by William Fuller with Jack Haines

Full of engaging anecdotes and inspirational stories Reckless Courage portrays the warmth, humor, and persistence of a Norwegian family during the German occupation of World War II. The book centers on the exploits of young Gunnar Heynes, working as a errand boy at a hotel housing German officers.

I Go To America
Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson
by Joy K. Lintelman

An intimate and detailed portrait of young Swedish women who chose to emigrate to the United States in the nineteenth century - why they left, what they found, and how they survived in Minnesota.

Letters from the Promised land
Swedes in America 1840 - 1914
by H. Arnold Barton

Swedish immigrants tell their own stories in this collection of letters, diaries and memoirs - a perfect book for those interested in history, immigration, or just the daily lives of early Swedish-American Settlers.

Norwegians on the Prairie
Ethnicity the deveopment of the country town
by Odd Lovoll

A pioneer study of Norwegian Americans - one of Minnesota's major ethnic groups - and their social, cultural, political, and religious development in the state's small towns and agricultural communities.

The Shetand Bus
A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Sdventure
by David Howarth

THE OCCUPATION OF WESTERN EUROPE AND SCANDINAVIA OF 1940 CRIPPLED Bretain's ability to gather intelligence information. After the Germans invaded Norway, many Norwegians knew that small boats were constantly sailing from the Shetland Island to land weapons, supplies, and agents to rescue refugees.  In The Shetland Island Bus, David Howarth, who was second in command of the Shetland base, recounts the hundreds of trips made by fishing boats in the dark of Arctic winter to resist the Nazi onslaught.

The Shetland Bus is the amazing true-life account of storms, attacks, danger and the heroic efforts of brave men.

Swedes in Minnesota
by Anne Gillespie Lewis

Also Avaibable:
Germans in Minnesota and Norwegians in Minnesota

No ethnic group is so identified with a single state as the Swedes are with Minnesota. Anne Gillespie Lewis explores how this came to be and what impact Swedes have had on the state they would make their own. She discusses churches, lodges, Swedish-language newspapers, and entertainments, and she profiles individuals and groups of immigrants and their descendants. Though anecdotes, letters, and interviews from the immigrants themselves and from their grandchildren, she tells the story of the great Swedish migration. For the many Minnesotans of Sweidsh ancestry, Lewis provides a remarkably concise portrait of an ethnic group striving to become American while struggling to maintain its ties to tradition.

A Stretch on the River
A novel of adventure on a Mississippi River towboat
by Richard Bissell

Bill Jouce, the son of a wealthy family, has gone to work on a Mississippi River towboat to avoid being drafted. Richard Bissell's autobiographical novel, first published in 1950, is an energetic, rowdy, and delightful account of a typical trip up the river, accurately re-creating a colorful era of tow boating on America's major waterway.

Memories of New Ulm
by Rudolf Leonhart
Translated from german and edited by Don Heinrich Tolzmann

In 1861 Rudolf Leonhart accepted a teaching position in the German-American community of New Ulm, Minnesota, Unknowingly, it placed him in the midst of one of the most significant events in American history-the U.S.-Dakota Conflict of 1862.

Leonhart wrote his reminiscences, Erinncrugen an New-Ulm, in 1880. Filled with humor and keen observations, Memories of New Ulm stands as one of the few lengthy descriptions of these events. It gives us an eyewitness account into life on the frontier, the two battles of New Ulm, and the retreat to Mankato. This is its first publication in an English translation.

Assault in Norway
Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Program
by Thomas Gallagher

     Commando raid into occupied Norway in 1942.
TargetL anb impregnable factory stockpiled with "heavy water."

By 1942, German scientist seemed to have an insurmountable head start over their Allied counterparts in developing an operational atomic bomb. Allied hopes of stalling the Nazi nuclear program rested on sabotaging a fortress-like factory where "heavy water" was produced and stockpiled.
A suicidal mission, by any estimation.
But a brave team of Norwegian exiles, trained in Britain by Special Operations Executive, infiltrated their homeland. And after hiding in the frozen wilds and eking out existence, they launched one of the war's most daring commando raids.
    Basing his gripping narrative in a large part on interviews with the commandos themeselves, Thomas Gallaggher here recounts in vivid detail the planning and execution of Operation Gunnerside.

A Bride for Anna's Papa
A novel of finnish immigration
by Isabel R. Marvin

Thirteen-year-old Anna Kallio often thinks about the way life was before her mother died. Now responsible for running the house and caring for her nine-year old brother, Matti, she has no time for school or playing with friends. And, she worries about her fatgher, who works in the dangerous iron mines.
     When Anna and Matti realize how lonely their father is, they play to find him a new wife, even trying to arrange a match with one of the "mail order" brides arriving from Finland. The results are different from anything that Anna expected.
Set in 1907 in northern Minnesota's iron-mining range. A Bride for Anna's Papa is a vivid story of the courage it takes not only to survive but also to enjoy life in a rugged fontier community.

The Indian's Revenge
by Reverend Alexander Berghold
Edited by Don Heinrich Tolzmann

The Indian's Revenge; or, Days of Horror: Some Appalling Events in the History of the Sioux tells about a classic chapter of American history -- the 1862 Sioux uprising in Minnesota known as the Dakota Conflict. Rev. Alexander Berghold, the parish priest in New Ulm, Minnesota, wove together first-hand accounts of the uprising and its aftermath with the skill of a historian and the moral insight of a theologian. His work, published in 1891, looks squarely at the causes of the Dakota Conflict and relates harrowing stories of its impact on both white settles and Native Americans.

German-Americana
Selected essays by Don Heinrich Tolzmann

Tolzmann consists of more than thirty essays by one of the foremost historians of the German-American experience. Topics cover the German heritage of places ranging from the Greater Cincinnati area, Hermann, Missouri, to New Ulm, Minnesota, and persons from the H.L. Mencken and John A. Roebking to John Kay of the band Steppenwolf.

New Ulm, Minnesota
Translated & Edited by Don Heinrich Tolzmann

This work consist of a translation from German of two works published in the nineteenth century by J.H. Strasser that deal with the history of New Ulm, Mn. The first was a narrotine history, "New Ulm in Wortund Bild" (1892) and the secound was a chronology, Chronligl der Stadt New Ulm, Mn (1899). Taken together, they provide a basic referance source of the history of New Ulm

Among the Sioux of Dakota
by D.C. Poole

In 1869 the federal government sent Captain D.C.  Poole to Whetstone Agency, near Yankton, Dakota Territory, to serve as agent to the Brule and Oglala bands of the Sioux or Lakota people. There he witnessed and recorded their first experiment with reservation life-a stressful time of enforced social and cultural change. In these memoirs, first published in 1881 and never before made widely available, Poole depicts the daily life of the agency and the problems of the agent. Despite his lack of insight into American Indian culture, he also created a valuabble record of Sioux customs and beliefs.

A German Town
A History of New Ulm, Mn.
by Daniel J. Hoisingtor

"The city of New Ulm presents this history of the town in recognition of its 150th anniversary. The city holds a unique place in American history. Founded by German settlers, many were members of the only colony organized by Turners in the United States. In 1862, its embattled citizens defended their homes during the Dakota Conflict, suffering the destruction of nearly three-quarters of the town

Building Community, Keeping the Faih
by Fred W. Peterson

The German Catholic immigrants who founded St. John the Baptist parish on the central Minnesota prairie effected a remarkable transfer of tradition to their new environment. Fred W. Peterson reveals how they inherited folk culture, aesthetic values, and religious beliefs which were directly embodied in the brick farmhouses, dairy farms, and churches they built between 1858 and 1915. Building Community, Keeping the Faith is compelling reading for students of architecture, religion, immigration, and ethnicity -- indeed for anyone interested in the complex influence European culture exerted on the development of America.

War and Innocence
A young Girls Life in Occupied Noray (1940 - 1945)
by Hanna Aasvik Helmersen