articulations of Norwegian ethnicity in the pageant, the content of which focused on a Norwegian immigrant's participation in the Civil war, was a species of romantic nationalism, or "national consciousness built upon past traditions and myths" (94).
Whereas Immigrant Milwaukee is organized as a chronicle fleshed out by statistics and newspaper accounts of German immigrant-community development in a Midwest city, Ethnicity on Parade is structured around an event that marked the development of a group of immigrants who by and large settled in the rural Midwest. The structure can partly be explained by the respective authors' use of primary sources. Ethnicity on Parade concentrates mainly on the documents associated with the pageant, including the script for and newspaper coverage of Pageant of the Northmen. A promotional flier promises "wonderful collections of old Norse relics and those from pioneer days in America--actually thousands of articles of historic value and interest" (Schultz 8). As Schultz indicates, t
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