In a recent study published in Cell, researchers investigated the history of Scandinavia for the period from the Roman period (between 1.0 CE and 400.0 CE) to the present, spanning over 2,000 years.

Two recent books chart the global reach of Scandinavian societies. Every nation harbors its own myths of world-historical greatness—even Iceland. No one is a more enthusiastic advocate for this tiny ...

Reductionism is a major flaw of Americans’ approach to learning about world history. Outside of a few standout European powers that continually pop up (England, Germany, Russia, etc.), cultures of the ...

A new study reported in the journal Cell on January 5 captures a genetic history across Scandinavia over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. This look back at Scandinavian history is ...

We are a land of immigrants — from the indigenous peoples who came from Asia via the Bering Strait or from Polynesia on rafts, to the pioneers from the British Empire, to Scandinavians, Italians, ...

The New Sweden Centre took visitors back to the 1630s during their first annual New Sweden Days Scandinavian Celebration. Re-enactors dressed in period clothing, demonstrated colonial activities and ...

The Nordic Heritage Museum has for years conducted an oral history project in an effort to collect and share the life histories of Scandinavian immigrants and their descendants in the Northwest.

In the year 870, Ivar the Boneless of Denmark (his nickname also has been interpreted as “the Snake” or “the Detested”) captured the Anglo-Saxon King Edmund. Ivar, who had already made a name for ...

LONDON/NEW YORK, January 30: The History Channel will debut in Scandinavia on February 1, reaching approximately one million households in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Since The History ...

From a museum dedicated to the rowdy escapades of the Vikings to an institution focused on the chilling history of leprosy, Norway is filled with museums devoted to different aspects of its unique ...