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Creating Minnesota

Author : Annette Atkins
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873516648
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Creating Minnesota written by Annette Atkins and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book. Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates a larger event, social trends, or politics during a period in our past. A three-act play about Minnesota's statehood vividly depicts the competing interests of Natives, traders, and politicians who lived in the same territory but moved in different worlds. Oranges are the focal point of a chapter about railroads and transportation: how did a St. Paul family manage to celebrate their 1898 Christmas with fruit that grew no closer than 1,500 miles from their home? A photo essay brings to life three communities of the 1920s, seen through the lenses of local and itinerant photographers. The much-sought state fish helps to explain the new Minnesota, where pan-fried walleye and walleye quesadillas coexist on the same north woods menu. In Creating Minnesota Atkins invites readers to experience the texture of people's lives through the decades, offering a fascinating and unparalleled approach to the history of our state.

They Chose Minnesota

Author : June Drenning Holmquist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Chose Minnesota written by June Drenning Holmquist and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ground-breaking research, this book describes the unique concerns of individual ethnic groups and delves into their personal Minnesota stories: farmers and factory workers, families and single people, idealists and pragmatists, people who were devout or irreligious -- those who cut ties with their homeland and formed part of Minnesota's ethnic saga.

A Popular History of Minnesota

Author : Norman K. Risjord
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873515320
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book A Popular History of Minnesota written by Norman K. Risjord and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.

Minnesota Book of Days

Author : Tony Greiner; Howard Mohr
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 0873517415
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Minnesota Book of Days written by Tony Greiner; Howard Mohr and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological compendium of remarkable and curious events in the history of the North Star State

A Guide to Family History Resources at the Minnesota Historical Society

Author : Minnesota Historical Society
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873514699
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (146 download)

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Book Synopsis A Guide to Family History Resources at the Minnesota Historical Society by : Minnesota Historical Society

Download or read book A Guide to Family History Resources at the Minnesota Historical Society written by Minnesota Historical Society and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is an essential tool for all genealogists researching Minnesota family, local, and state history. Highlighting the many holdings of the society, this unique handbook features a lengthy, annotated listing of resources in subject areas such as: biographical, census, naturalization, cemetery, school, religious, business, court, government, legal, military, and veterans' records; official state-wide death records and index, 1908-96; photographs, personal papers, oral histories, ethnic resources, and local and county histories; family histories, newspapers, directories, passenger ship lists, and publications of genealogical organizations; maps, atlases, and other geographical resources.

The North Star State

Author : Anne J. Aby
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873514446
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book The North Star State written by Anne J. Aby and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culled from the best of Minnesota History magazine, these essays on 200 years of Minnesota history encompass a wide range of its past, from frontier life to the age of technological innovation, from Dakota and Ojibwe history to the story of a Chinese family in St. Paul, from lumber workers' and truckers' strikes to the women's suffrage movement.

Minneapolis

Author : Tom Weber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681342603
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Minneapolis written by Tom Weber and published by . This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise history of Minneapolis, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see the City of Lakes--newly updated with reflections on the city at the center of a global social uprising. Minneapolis is Minneapolis because of the water--because of the Mississippi River, and St. Anthony Falls, and the beautiful lakes that dot the city's neighborhoods. Energized by the power of a magnificent waterfall that was harnessed with stolen technology, it became a major, even global, city. In this succinct and thought-provoking book, Tom Weber provides an urban biography of the City of Lakes. The confluence of the Mississippi and the Minnesota River is a sacred place for Dakota people, who have lived here for millennia. Since the city's beginnings in the 1850s, Minneapolis has experienced continual collapses and rebuilding. Some collapses were real, as when the Falls were nearly destroyed; some are metaphorical, as when corruption and the mob threatened to overtake the life of the city. Weber also explores the effects of the rebuilding and who was in charge: who was left in, and who was left out. In this updated paperback edition, a new conclusion recounts the context for and the worldwide reaction to the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in May of 2020. In the midst of a pandemic, the city was thrust into the global spotlight, and a spotlight was turned once again on the legacies of racism and inequality that brought Minneapolis to the breaking point. Cities, like people, are always changing, and the history of that change is the city's biography. This book illuminates the unique character of Minneapolis, weaving in the hidden stories of place, politics, and identity that continue to shape its residents' lives.

Historic Homes of Minnesota

Author : Roger G. Kennedy
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873515573
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Historic Homes of Minnesota written by Roger G. Kennedy and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Houses of Minnesota is the engaging story of the evolution of architectural styles in Minnesota from 1830 to 1914--from the influence of the early French traders along the Mississippi and St. Croix to the emergence of the school of Frank Lloyd Wright. Through photographs and colorfully informative text, internationally known historian Roger Kennedy helps readers understand the unique styles of Minnesota's first homes, including the Mower House in Arcola, the first large house on the St. Croix; Alexander Ramsey's "Mansion House" in St. Paul, influenced by Pennsylvania Dutch virtues; the whimsical Charles C. Clement house in Fergus Falls, clearly Norse in spirit; and the Purcell House in Minneapolis, a fine example of the Prairie School design. On a broad plane these architectural eras reflected social customs, politics, commerce, religion, and literature. On a personal level they often revealed the national origin and character of the families that made the house a home. In short, this is in large measure a history of the people. Kennedy has considered their heritage and traditions as carefully as he has examined the architecture they created, and he offers a fresh, wholistic approach to the study of our state's great houses.

Minnesota 150

Author : Kate Roberts
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873515948
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Minnesota 150 written by Kate Roberts and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fabulous showcase of individuals, events, and inventions that have made Minnesota.

A History of Minnesota

Author : William Watts Folwell
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Minnesota written by William Watts Folwell and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 covers Minnesota's early development from the days of French exploration and trade with American Indians through territorial times to the eve of statehood in 1857. Volume 2 continues the story from 1858 to 1865, with emphasis on the state's participation in the Civil War and the Sioux Uprising (Dakota Conflict) of 1862. Volume 3 completes the chronological record with a comprehensive picture of Minnesota politics from 1865 to 1925. Volume 4 focuses on special topics such as iron mining, public education, the Chippewa (Ojibway), election procedures, and a dozen outstanding Minnesotans. Includes a consolidated index to Volumes 1-4.

A Place Called Home

Author : Richard O. Davies
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873514514
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book A Place Called Home written by Richard O. Davies and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2004 Minnesota Book Award Winner The Midwestern small town has long held an iconic place in American culture--from the imaginings of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon. But the reality is much more complex, as the small town has been a study in transition from its very inception. In A Place Called Home, editors Richard O. Davies, Joseph A. Amato, and David R. Pichaske offer the first comprehensive examination of the Midwestern small town and its evolving nature from the 1800s to the present. This rich collection, gleaned from the best writings of historians, novelists, social scientists, poets, and journalists, features not only such well-known authors as Sherwood Anderson, Carol Bly, Willa Cather, Hamlin Garland, Langston Hughes, Garrison Keillor, William Kloefkorn, Sinclair Lewis, Susan Allen Toth, and Mark Twain but also many lesser known and exceptionally talented writers. Five chronological sections trace the founding, growth, and decline of the Midwestern town, and introductory comments illuminate its ever-changing face. The result is a wide-ranging collection of writings on the community at the heart of America.

Josie Dances

Author : Denise Lajimodiere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681342078
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Josie Dances written by Denise Lajimodiere and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ojibwe girl practices her dance steps, gets help from her family, and is inspired by the soaring flight of Migizi, the eagle, as she prepares for her first powwow.

Ojibwe in Minnesota

Author : Anton Treuer
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873517954
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Ojibwe in Minnesota written by Anton Treuer and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2010 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling, highly anticipated narrative traces the history of the Ojibwe people in Minnesota, exploring cultural practices, challenges presented by more recent settlers, and modern day discussions of sovereignty and identity.

Minnesota, 1918

Author : Curt Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681340807
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Minnesota, 1918 written by Curt Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of trauma, tragedy, and perseverance in a year that proved to be a turning point in the making of modern America.

St. Paul

Author : Bill Lindeke
Publisher : Urban Biography
ISBN 13 : 9781681342009
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book St. Paul written by Bill Lindeke and published by Urban Biography. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota's capitol city.

Hidden History of the Minnesota River Valley

Author : Elizabeth Johanneck
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614231958
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of the Minnesota River Valley written by Elizabeth Johanneck and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveled by mammoth-hunters and motorcyclists alike, the Minnesota River Valley shows the traces of a unique legacy: where else are you going to find a political party with ideals based on honest conversation and gymnastics? Not all of it is as lovely as the natural scenery it accompaniesMankato was the site of the largest mass execution in United States historybut its heritage demands contemplation. Discover the valleys most enterprising characters, from Fort Snelling bootleggers like Pierre Pigs Eye Parrant to the Granite Falls lawyer behind Prohibition, Andrew Volstead. With a guide like Johanneck, you might meet some familiar figures in surprising circumstances as she steals up behind Dr. Mayo at the grave he was robbing for medical research or catches FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in a moment of unguarded correspondence.

Everyone's Country Estate

Author : Roy Willard Meyer
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873512664
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Everyone's Country Estate written by Roy Willard Meyer and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1891 Minnesota established its first state park at Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi River. In the century that followed, Minnesotans and tourists from other states have enjoyed hiking, picnicking, fishing, camping, canoeing, and skiing at Itasca and Minnesota's 64 other state parks. This helpful guide to the past in the parks will be welcomed by people who regularly visit a favorite Minnesota park, people who have set out to visit every park, and people who are newly discovering the parks' wonders.