The front page of Hem-Vännen, Saturday 25 June 1887. The Swenson Swedish American Research Center is pleased to announce the launch of the Swedish American Newspapers Project. In collaboration with the Minnesota Historical Society, Kungliga Biblioteket (the National Library of Sweden), and the American Swedish Institute, 348 Swedish-American newspapers totaling more than 1.3 million pages have been fully digitized and made searchable online. Many of the original newspapers re

The Swedish American Historical Society will host a special evening honoring the Swenson Center's Director, Dag Blanck, celebrating the festschrift Migration, Modernity, and Meaning: Studies of Sweden and America, Essays in Honor of Dag Blanck. Location: Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60640. Date/Time: Saturday, October 3, 2026. 5pm. The evening will bring together friends, colleagues, and members of the SAHS community to reflect on Dag's

The Swenson Center wishes to congratulate the two scholars chosen to receive the 2026 Dagmar & Nils William Olsson Visiting Scholars Award, Magdalena Naum and Christine Ekholst! Magdalena Naum is an Associate Professor of Historical Archaeology at Lund University, Sweden. Her research focuses on Swedish and Danish colonial history, with particular emphasis on colonial collecting and the production of knowledge, settler colonialism and settler interactions with Indigenous peop

Jill Seaholm, Head of Genealogical Services at the Swenson Center, will be leading yet another tour of Sweden in 2027! The dates for the 2027 tour will be Friday, July 23 through Wednesday, August 4. Space on the tour will be limited, so join the tour's mailing list today to ensure that you are the first to know when registration opens! About the tour Join our Head of Genealogical ​Services, Jill Seaholm, and visit Swedish sights of historical and emigration significance. T

The Swenson Center's annual Julbord Dinner will be held on Monday, Dec.2, from 5:00-6:30pm in the Gävle Room of the Gerber Center for...

Speaker: Dr. Kim Khavar Fahlstedt Title: "Warner Oland: Sweden's Forgotten Movie Star" Friday, November 1, 7pm Location: Augustana's...

A major grant from the Swedish foundation Riksbankens jubileumsfond in Stockholm has been awarded to a group of trans-Atlantic libraries...

We are excited to introduce our new Head of Collections, Janette Foss Garcia! Janette comes to the Swenson Center with extensive...