The Finnish writer Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel.

The Finnish people maintain a healthy relationship with ... t be allowed to build a pool (a bizarrely common occurrence in American suburbia), Finns focus on quality of life issues that service ...

The strike helped in dividing Finnish migrants into two hostile groups, conservatives and radicals, which disagreed vehemently on the question of how Finns should be seen by “Americans”, an often ...

Three generations of Finnish-Americans recount how they coped with harsh realities by creating their own institutions: churches, temperance halls, socialist halls, and cooperatives.