An excavator handles demolition material Feb. 1 at a 19th century homestead on Whitman Street in Norway. The half-acre lot is slated to be the site of 12 to 18 affordable housing units proposed by ...

The United States declared its independence from England in 1776. Norway declared its independence from Denmark in 1814. In the 1820s, artistic institutions in these up-and-coming countries were be… ...

I went to hear her talk about a historical figure I’ve written about on this site before — Hans Nielsen Hauge (pronounced “HOW-geh”), the early 19th-century Norwegian lay revivalist.

But in the middle of the 19th century, Norway was gripped with a series of public debates that later became known as the Norwegian Porridge Feud. Really. Before we get into the debate, ...

A Norwegian man using a metal detector found centuries-old pendants, ... This is the gold find of the century in Norway. ... no similar discovery has been made since the 19th century, ...

The life stories of 19th-century Norwegian immigrant Elisabeth Koren and her husband, Ulrik Vilhelm Koren, are now a part of the history collection of Luther College in Decorah.

The mostly candlelit interior had a huge open stone oven, known in 19th-Century Norway as a grue, used as both a cooking and heating source.The wooden seating was pretty to look at, but hard, high ...