The Heart of the Heartland

From 1850 to 2020, Minnesota's urban Norwegian American community expanded and contracted, as did the complexity of its economic, political, and cultural activities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region. In The Heart of the Heartland, personal interviews, demographic research, and archival exploration inform stories of assimilation, ascendency, and collaboration among Minnesota's Norwegian Americans and their neighbors over the past 170 years. The resulting narrative traces not only Twin Cities business, industrial, neighborhood, and cultural histories but also the significant and varied roles Norwegian Americans have played in the region's development--