H. B. Simonsen Interviews

This collection includes a set of interviews with Danish Americans associated with Grundtvigian organizations and events in the United States. The interviewer was Henrik Bredmose Simonsen, a Danish historian, who has worked with Danish American church history since the 1980s. His research resulted in the book: Kampen om danskheden: tro og nationalitet i de danske kirkesamfund i Amerika (The Struggle for Danishness: Faith and Nationality in the Danish Church Communities in America), published by the University of Aarhus in 1990. The interviews would appeal to those with an interest in the lives of immigrants in rural communities in the American Midwest during the 20th century. Of course, they will be more interesting to people with a Danish background, especially to those connected to, or curious about, the so-called Grundtvigians and their institutions and traditions in the United States.