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… ...

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 ...

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.