The Soviet soldier never saw him. Neither did the one after that, or the next, or the hundreds who followed. Simo Häyhä ...

With a childlike twinkle returning to his eyes, 77-year-old Arthur Saarinen remembers climbing the chinaberry trees as a toddler on the way to his grandfather's Alachua County home. He recalls having ...

You may think of Embarrass as the town that often posts the cold-weather records in the winter, but it has a unique slice of Minnesota history available for visitors to the area: the Finnish Homestead ...

On this day in aviation history, March 6, 1918, the Finnish Air Force (FAF) was officially established, making it one of the ...

This text was translated from Finnish to English language in June 2012. It originally appeared in Kapinatyöläinen #2 in 1989, but is here translated from the collection of Ari Vakkilainen's anarchist ...

TOIMI, Minn. — Walking into Toimi School is like taking a walk back in time. The two-room schoolhouse, built by and for Finnish immigrants in the unincorporated community of Toimi in 1913, is filled ...