The ethnic element of the American Civil War tends to focus on the impact German and Irish immigrants had on the Union war effort.  More recently, Richard Rosen has expanded the ethnic contribution to include Northern and Southern Jews.  Anders Bo Rasmussen’s latest monograph focuses on the role Scandinavian settlers—Swedish, Norwegian and Danish—played in the Civil War.  Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship and American Empire, 1848-1870 demonstrates that  immigrants from Sweden, Norway and Denmark embraced their new home in the Midwest and eagerly supported the nascent Republican Party. Rasmussen states in his introduction that his book fits in the historiography Read more