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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 | : Norman K. Risjord |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780873515320 |
A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
Author | : Tom Weber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781681342603 |
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.
Author | : Dennis Brackin |
Publisher | : Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2010-03-12 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1610602692 |
A treasury of Twin Cities baseball history packed with photos from the archives. Major League Baseball came to the Minnesota prairie in the spring of 1961, and ever since, the Minnesota Twins have held a cherished place in the hearts of sports fans throughout the region. With Hall of Famers like Harmon Killebrew, Rod Carew, and Kirby Puckett and beloved characters from Billy Martin to Kent Hrbek to Joe Mauer, the history of the Twins encompasses highs and lows, heroes and goats, but always nonstop excitement. Minnesota Twins: The Complete Illustrated History provides an in-depth and entertaining look at the team, its players, its stadiums, and the memorable moments through the years. Illustrated with photos from the Star Tribune’s archives, it is the ultimate celebration of a beloved franchise.
Author | : June Drenning Holmquist |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Bill Lindeke |
Publisher | : Urban Biography |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781681342009 |
A concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota's capitol city.
Author | : Minnesota Historical Society |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780873514699 |
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.
Author | : Anne Gillespie Lewis |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0873517539 |
A concise history of Swedes in Minnesota and the enormous influence that they have had on our state's politics, history, and culture.
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 | : Richard Moe |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2009-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0873517393 |
The definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War.