Not Everyone Who Left Rural Norway Was Going to America
When we think about Norwegian emigration in the nineteenth century, the story is often reduced to a familiar sequence. A
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When we think about Norwegian emigration in the nineteenth century, the story is often reduced to a familiar sequence. A
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Read MoreSometimes I can’t read the damn thing, honestly. I have never claimed to be an expert at reading Gothic handwriting.
Read MoreHere is what ChatGPT tells me when I ask for a research strategy for a named individual in Norway.
Read MoreNordahl Brue has written something genuinely rare: a “genealogical biography” that functions equally well as a rigorously sourced work of
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