The database for Swedish-American historical newspapers has been updated with hundreds of new digitized titles. The update will provide new avenues of research into new titles, deepening our understanding of the Swedish-American media landscape as well as the everyday lives of Swedish-American labor activists, evangelicals, temperance activists, and much much more.
Hundreds of Swedish-language newspapers were published in North America from 1850 onward, catering to the continent’s Swedish immigrant communities. This free, searchable archive contains over 1.3 million digitized newspaper pages from Swedish American newspaper titles published across the United States and Canada between 1851 and 2007.
This collection contains 348 publications comprising 146,309 issues and 1,328,657 pages.
Swedish American Newspapers was created through a partnership of the Minnesota Historical Society, Kungliga biblioteket (National Library of Sweden), the American Swedish Institute, and the Swenson Swedish American Research Center at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois.
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