The Swedish colonial empire in North America, established in 1638 by a military party on the site of what is now Wilmington, Del., never extended farther than Trenton, N.J., and Cape Henlopen on ...

It had been a colonial empire. But it was only very short-lived ... Even though the colony was Swedish, the first expedition, in 1637 had been led by a Dutchman, Peter Minuit. Soon after reaching in ...

Hafström joined the Swedish Foreign Service in 1979 and worked as press secretary to the Minister of Justice soon after. He served as first secretary at the Swedish embassy in Tehran from 1982 to ...

Ahead of that occasion, and in conjunction with Bridgeton’s on-going sister city program with Eskilstuna, two 17-year-olds from Sweden heard from members of the New Sweden Colonial Farmstead ...

Yet 400 years ago, Sweden was a major military power. Indeed, it was even an empire, a fact that must make today’s Swedish leftists cringe. Under young King Gustavus Adolphus, a brilliant and ...