Today in history.
Contributors: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Norwegian Americans -- Middle West.
Other titles: May 17
Description: Presents information on the Kentucky Derby which began on May 17, 1875. May 17 is also Norwegian Constitution Day, celebrated by many Norwegian-American communities in the United States; experiences of Norwegian immigrants in the Middle West are described, in part with excerpts from oral history interviews. There is also a link to the song Paal paa Haugje, sung by Alf Nilsson in a 1939 field recording.
Notes: Title from HTML header (resource viewed on Jan. 15, 2003; last updated May 2001).
Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: The first Derby day; title: Norwegian independence.