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The newspapers and magazines followed the settlement patterns of the Swedish ethnic group, and the center for the Swedish American press became Chicago, where according to one estimate, 187 Swedish-language periodicals were published.
- Svenska Amerikanaren
Herman Roos and Nels Anderson, who had founded Svenska...
- Swedish American Newspapers
Hundreds of Swedish-language newspapers were published in...
- Svenska Amerikanaren
Feb 9, 2018 · Over 300,000 newspaper pages from 32 different Swedish-American newspaper titles published across the United States between 1859 and 2007 are now available online.
StateCity Of PublicationTitleDates On MicrofilmCAEUREKAVESTERNNOV 9 1907 - JUN 30 1909CALOS ANGELESCALIFORNIA JOURNALENFEB 26 - OCT 8 1896CALOS ANGELESCALIFORNIA POSTENJAN 9 1907 - JAN 2 1908CALOS ANGELESCALIFORNIA VECKOBLADJAN 6 1910 - DEC 24 1971Svenska Amerikanaren Tribunen är en svensk-amerikansk veckotidning som utgavs i Chicago och lästes av svenska emigranter. Två konkurrerande tidningar har burit titeln Svenska Amerikanaren, båda med rötterna i 1870-talet, men de båda tidningarna slogs samman 1936 under titeln Svenska Amerikanaren Tribunen ( ISSN 0888-2045 ).
Published in Minneapolis between 1885 and 1940, Svenska Amerikanska Posten (the Swedish American Post) was one of the largest and most popular Swedish-language newspapers in the United States. It catered to an urban, secular segment of the Swedish American community.
Svenska amerikanaren (the Swedish American) was started in Chicago in 1866 by a group of well-to-do Swedes associated with the secularly oriented social club Svea, who wished for a secular, liberal Swedish language newspaper to serve as a competitor to the Lutheran Augustana Synod-affiliated Hemlandet.
During the course of his life, Mattson founded several Swedish newspapers in Chicago and Minneapolis, including the Minnesota Stats Tidning. In 1870, Mattson was asked to run for Secretary of State. Scandinavian influence in Minnesota was growing, and the Republican Party sought Swedish and Norwegian candidates for office.
