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Some Reflections Of My Life: An Account Of Mission Work Among The Cherokee, Abelone Larsen

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In 1892, at the invitation of a Danish immigrant who had married a Cherokee woman in what was then Indian Territory, the Danish Lutheran Church Association sent a student from Trinity Seminary in Blair, Nebraska, to investigate the possibility of doing mission work among the Cherokee. The student, Niels Laurits Nielsen, returned in the summer of 1893 and began working among the Cherokee, eventually founding a school and a church at Oaks, Oklahoma. The Oaks mission became one of the most important missions of the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church (later the UELC) and continues as an institution …

Nels C Nelson: Danish-American Archaeologist, Kathleen Nielsen Carlson

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There have been many Scandinavian immigrants who have left their hearts in the great American Southwest. Nels Christian Nelson, a Danish-American pioneer whom the Curator of the American Museum of Natural History chose "as one of the eight characters who shaped American archaeology"1 was one of them. What captivated this impoverished Danish teen-ager in the United States and finally in the arid high deserts of New Mexico? ·Perhaps a review of Mr. Nelson's life will paint a clearer picture of this adventuresome, intelligent Danish-American.

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Impediments To The Cultivation Of The Folk School Spirit In A North American Context: The Case Of Grand View College, Dennis Bielfeldt

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In the 1995-96 academic year Grand View College will

celebrate its first hundred years of life. In anticipation of

this milestone, suggestions have been made to designate

1994-95 the "Year of Grundtvig," and to formally observe

with the entire Grand View community the influence of

the great Dane upon the college and its educational philosophy.

What, after all, could be more fitting for a college

whose most recent Academic Mission Statement proudly

declares its founding "by Danish immigrants who sought

to give the educational vision and ideals of N.F.S.

Grundtvig an institutional presence?"

The Building Of Immanuel Lutheran Church In Kimballton, Iowa, Jeanette Lillehoj

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Coming into the small Iowa town of Kimballton from any direction, the spire of Immanuel Lutheran Church, which stands on a high point in the town, is clearly visible. The early Danish immigrants who built this church intended the church spire to be a beacon to those entering the town. The centennial of Immanuel Lutheran Church will be celebrated in 1997. To those Danish immigrants who were responsible for building this church, this article is dedicated.

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Benedicte Wrensted Danish Photographer In Idaho Rediscovered, Joanna Scherer

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In 1979 a book The American Image: Photographs from

the National Archives, 1860-1960 was published. It was

based on an exhibit of the same name, which opened at the

National Archives in Washington, D. C. in November, 1979.

In the forward James Rhoads, archivist of the United

States, tells about how the photos were selected.

Anders Kristian Andersen 1825-1920, Anders K. Andersen

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Richard Sandager was given this manuscript (written in

Danish by his grandfather) when he visited Denmark in

1965. He received it from A. Kristian Andersen, another

grandson of Anders Kristian Andersen, who lived on the

old family farm. He was a Representative to the Danish

Parliament in Copenhagen at that time.

N.F.S Grundtvig's Idea Of Folklore: Resurrecting Folk-Life Through The Living Word, Gregory Hansen

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In Danish settlements throughout the United States,

Jmmigrants often formed reading clubs within which their

members could read, discuss, and circulate recent Danish

publications. One such club, the "Tolvten" (The Dozen),

was founded in Chicago in 1897 and remained in existence

until 1977.

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Proposte D'Insegnamento Per Corsi Di Civiltà Italiana A Livello Universitario Negli Stati Uniti, Ilona Klein

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In an effort to initiate a dialogue on the teaching of Italian culture, the author describes her classroom experiences. She indicates which topics are successfully used in her syllabi, and defines the role of the teacher as a "cultural translator" in courses of culture and civilization.

Book Review: The Correspondence Of Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, Volume I, 1740-1747., Don Heinrich Tolzmann

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Representing· the first volume of the English translation of the correspondence of the Patriarch of American Lutheranism, this work contains 69 items to and from HMM in the time period of 17 40-4 7. Although accessible in a recent German edition (Die Korrespondenz. Heinrich Melchior Mühlenbergs: Aus der Anfangszeit des deutschen Luthertums in Nordamerika. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1986- ), this work is nonetheless a significant contribution to our understanding of the German-speaking element of the 18th century, which will be extraordinarily useful to the general reader as well as to scholars.

Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert

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Benjamin Franklin And Heinrich Zschokke, Donald H. Crosby

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History has not seen fit to couple the names of Benjamin Franklin and Heinrich Zschokke. To attempt to do so at this 1ate date, then, may well suggest dilettantism or even charlatanry. What can be said in defense of what might seem to be a whimsical coupling, one which flies in the face of time-tested historical judgment? To proceed logically: one begins, as an American, with a study of colonial history before, during, and after the Revolution, where one very quickly encounters the towering figure of Benjamin Franklin. Then, as a student of Swiss history and culture, one turns to …

A Swiss Phenomenon: Bauernmalerei (Peasant Painting), Walter Angst

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Ever since, some 50,000 years ago, the paleolithic Cro-Magnon aborigine of Altamira (a large cave near Santander in Northern Spain) painted magnificent pictures of wild animals on their cave walls, people of all kinds from many lands have used colorants to embellish the interiors of dwellings. The use of pigments mixed with various binders for decorating peoples' surroundings as an expression of the human desire for beauty has fluctuated throughout the centuries, but has never totally abated.

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Book Review: A Very Civil War: The Swiss Sonderbund War Of 1842., Sabine Jessner

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The Sonderbund war of 1847 was, as the author convincingly demonstrates, "a very civil war." Unlike the later North American sectional conflict, Switzerland's regional strife lasted but twenty-five days and cost fewer than a hundred lives. Yet these statistics belie the rancor that divided the opposing parties, the more than 150,000 men under arms on both sides, and the very imminent danger of international involvement.

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