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Immigration, Relocation, and Internal Migration Within the United States

This guide has been created for students taking ENGL285, Becoming American in the Long 19th Century and HIST236, American Immigration in Historical Perspective.

Books: Scandinavian Immigration to the United States

The Divided Heart: Scandinavian immigrant experience through literary sources by Dorothy B. Skardal
Call Number: E 184.S18 S52 1974
ISBN: 0803208405
Publication Date: 1974
Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 by Karen V. Hansen
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 1306156025
Publication Date: 2013
In Their Own Words: letters from Norwegian immigrants by Solveig Zempel
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 0816618585
Publication Date: 1990
New Land, New Lives: Scandinavian immigrants to the Pacific Northwest by Janet E. Rasmussen; Janet Elaine Guthrie
Call Number: F 855.2.S18 R37 1993
ISBN: 0295972882
Publication Date: 1993
Norway to America by Ingrid Semmingsen
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 0816681708
Publication Date: 1978
Norwegian migration to America, 1825-1860 by Theodore Christian Blegen
Call Number: E 184.S2 B62
Publication Date: 1969
Scandinavians in Michigan by Jeffrey W. Hancks
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 0870137751
Publication Date: 2006

Books: Polish Immigration to the United States

Wheeling's Polonia: reconstructing Polish community in a West Virginia steel town by William Hal Gorby
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1949199398
Publication Date: 2020
America's Polish heritage; a social history of the Poles in America. by Joseph Anthony Wytrwal
Call Number: E 184.P7 W9
Publication Date: 1961

Archives and Libraries

Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History: Poland
Library of Congress
Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History: Scandinavian
Library of Congress
Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center
Digital collections include the archives of the journal Swedish American Genealogist starting in 1981 (with a four year moving embargo on the past four years), and a collection of Swedish American newspapers 91857-2007).