Jon Gjerde

Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America

Offers a series of fresh perspectives on America's encounter with Catholicism in the nineteenth-century. While religious and immigration historians ha...

From Peasants to Farmers

The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West

This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West a...

Norwegians in Minnesota

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Historical Resources Evaluation St. Paul District Locks and Dams on the Mississippi River and Two Structures at St. Anthony Falls

Locks and Dams in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Northern Iowa

This project has been sponsored by the St. Paul district of the United States Army Corps of Engineers as a planning tool to facilitates its obligation...

Race and the Early Republic

Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic

By 1840, American politics was a paradox—unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradat...

Major Problems in American Immigration History

Collects essays and documents that explore themes such as the political and economic forces which cause immigration; the alienation and uprootedness t...

Peasants to Bourgeoise

The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West

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Optimal Climate Policy Under the Possibility of a Catastrophe

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Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America

Offers one of the first comparative treatments of Protestant and Catholic history in nineteenth-century America....