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Home | What It Means to Be AmericanHome | What It Means to Be American Sections Home Journeys Encounters Ideas Identities Engagements Artifacts Imperfect Union Conversations Places About About Sponsors          Connect Zócalo on Twitter National Museum of American History on Twitter Twitter #WIMTBA Zócalo on Facebook National Museum of American History on Facebook         The 21-Year-Old Norwegian Immigrant Who Started Life Over by Homesteading Alone on America’s Prairie In 1903 Mina Westbye Moved to North Dakota to Live a Life ‘So Quiet You Almost Feel Afraid’ by Sigrid Lien In the photograph a young woman sits all alone on the prairie. The sky is big, the horizon low. She is in front of a modest building: a tiny shack of planked wood, covered with tar paper. A flat, seemingly endless landscape of grassland recedes in the background. The house is small and humble, but the young woman presents herself and her world with deliberate dignity. Her name is Mina Westbye, she was born in 1879 in Trysil, Norway, and … The Postage Stamps That Flew Amelia Earhart Across the World In the 1930s, Collectors—Including FDR—Helped American Explorers Achieve Their Dreams  by Sheila A. Brennan Americans looking to bankroll adventures in the early 20th century had to get creative. Expeditions were not cheap, and even wealthy individuals needed financial assistance to pay for equipment and crews. But two notable explorers got especially imaginative by relying on an early version of crowdfunding that piggybacked on a budding American craze: collecting stamps. Antarctic explorer Navy Rear Admiral Richard Byrd and transatlantic pilot Amelia Earhart made thousands for their journeys by selling postmarked souvenir envelopes and stamps that … The Communal, Sometimes Celibate, 19th-Century Ohio Town That Thrived for Three Generations Quaint, rural, and hardworking, Zoar, Ohio, is the kind of place that wasn’t supposed to thrive in America.  The … The Ornery, Freethinking Astrophysicist Who Helped Start the Space Race When the young physicist Fritz Zwicky arrived in America in 1925, the universe was a tidy place. Some educated people … The Feed When Americans Bought the Illusion of ‘Indoor-Outdoor Living’ The Woolen Shoes That Made Revolutionary-Era Women Feel Patriotic When Newspaper ‘Stereotypes’ Got Americans Laughing at the Same Jokes The Crusading Newsman Who Taught Americans to Give to the Poor Was Leland Stanford a ‘Magnanimous’ Philanthropist or a ‘Thief, Liar, and Bigot?’ Identities How Jack Benny Revolutionized Radio by Being the Butt of His Own Jokes Read More Identities How America Invented ‘Young Adult’ Fiction for a New Kind of Teenager Read More Ideas The 1919 Murder Case That Gave Americans the Right to Remain Silent Read More Looking Back at Four Years of “What It Means to Be American” Since its launch on April 14, 2014, the “What It Means to Be American” project has convened 12 events in … Journeys Encounters Ideas   Identities Engagements Artifacts   Places Imperfect Union Conversations   Events About Sponsors Terms Of Use   |   Privacy Policyenusen-UShttps://whatitmeanstobeamerican.org

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