Publications

The Swenson Center publishes an occasional newsletter, Swenson Center News. The Newsletter includes information about what is going on at the Center, as well as general interest articles on various Swedish-American topics. Swenson Center News is available to anyone interested, free of charge. Past issues have been scanned and are available to view here.

We also have the first and the sixth of our O. Fritiof Ander Lectures in Immigration History available for purchase:

The first lecture was given by John Bodnar in 1988 and is entitled Collective Memory and Ethnic Groups: The Case of Swedes, Mennonites, and Norwegians. Collective Memory is available for $2.00, including postage.

Dr. Nils William Olsson presented the sixth Ander lecture, Naming Patterns among Swedish- Americans, in 1994. The cost is $2.00, including postage.

Guide to the Swenson Center's microfilm holdings of Swedish-American newspapers (and a few Swedish-Canadian papers), for $1.50 including postage. This Guide can also be viewed online here.

Please make checks payable to "Swenson Center" and mail to the following address. Be sure to specify the title(s) that you would like to purchase.

Mailing address:
Swenson Center
Augustana College
639 38th St
Rock Island IL 61201-2296
USA

Tel: 309.794.7204
Fax: 309.794.7443
E-mail: sag@augustana.edu

Swedish periodicals currently published in North America:

- Vestkusten of California and Nordstjernan of New York have now merged
- Swedish Press (Vancouver BC)


Updated January 14, 2008