Traces of Minnesota's Past
Author | : Minnesota Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1975* |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Minnesota Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1975* |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Annette Atkins |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2009-11-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0873516648 |
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.
Author | : Gwen Westerman |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0873518837 |
An intricate narrative of the Dakota people over the centuries in their traditional homelands, the stories behind the profound connections that hold true today.
Author | : Anne J. Aby |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780873514446 |
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.
Author | : Norman K. Risjord |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2009-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0873516915 |
A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
Author | : Hillary Wackman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-05 |
Genre | : Minnesota |
ISBN | : 9780873514453 |
Surveys the history of Minnesota from the Ice Age through the end of the twentieth century, with "Investigations" which encourage the examination of primary source documents and use of proper historical methods.
Author | : Peg Meier |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780873516396 |
Life stories of ordinary people of Minnesota, through the form of letters, diaries, & photographs. Every day life from the beginning of the 19th century to the dawn of World War II.
Author | : Elizabeth Johanneck |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2010-05-13 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1614231958 |
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.
Author | : Mary Lethert Wingerd |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816648689 |
In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.-Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of thirty-eight Dakotas on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota--the largest mass execution in American history. The following April, after suffering a long internment at Fort Snelling, the Dakota and Winnebago peoples were forcefully removed to South Dakota, precipitating the near destruction of the area's native communities while simultaneously laying the foundation for what we know and recognize today as Minnesota. In North Country: The Making of Minnesota, Mary Lethert Wingerd unlocks the complex origins of the state--origins that have often been ignored in favor of legend and a far more benign narrative of immigration, settlement, and cultural exchange. Moving from the earliest years of contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the western Great Lakes region to the era of French and British influence during the fur trade and beyond, Wingerd charts how for two centuries prior to official statehood Native people and Europeans in the region maintained a hesitant, largely cobeneficial relationship. Founded on intermarriage, kinship, and trade between the two parties, this racially hybridized society was a meeting point for cultural and economic exchange until the western expansion of American capitalism and violation of treaties by the U.S. government during the 1850s wore sharply at this tremulous bond, ultimately leading to what Wingerd calls Minnesota's Civil War. A cornerstone text in the chronicle of Minnesota's history, Wingerd's narrative is augmented by more than 170 illustrations chosen and described by Kirsten Delegard in comprehensive captions that depict the fascinating, often haunting representations of the region and its inhabitants over two and a half centuries. North Country is the unflinching account of how the land the Dakota named Mini Sota Makoce became the State of Minnesota and of the people who have called it, at one time or another, home.
Author | : Kathryn Strand Koutsky |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780873514521 |
A virtual romp through Minnesota's dining spots, this rich history also features a priceless collection of recipes for dishes made famous through the years. 1,000 illustrations, many in color.