The North Star State

The North Star State
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.

Slavery's Reach

Slavery's Reach
Author: Christopher Lehman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781681341354

A set of mutually beneficial relationships between southern slaveholders and Minnesotans kept the men and women whose labor generated the wealth enslaved.

Minnesota Politics and Government

Minnesota Politics and Government
Author: Daniel Judah Elazar
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780803267145

For the first time in decades, here is an in-depth look at Minnesota government and politics, providing a useful overview of the history, structure, and distinctive characteristics of the political system in the North Star State. Minnesota?s government is often held up as a role model for other states. Drawing on survey research, electoral analysis, interview data, and political experience, the authors examine contemporary politics in Minnesota, emphasizing in particular its long-standing moralistic dimension. Attention is given to the major components of the state?s political system: the constitution, legislature, courts, relationship to both the federal system and local governments, lobbying, elections, campaign finance, and public attitudes toward taxes and services. Equally important, the authors assess various enduring myths and views about Minnesota politics, including its legendary liberalism and citizen involvement in the political scene, and even consider how its new governor, former wrestler Jesse Ventura, fits into Minnesota?s traditions.

Minnesota Book of Days

Minnesota Book of Days
Author: Tony Greiner; Howard Mohr
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2009-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0873517415

A chronological compendium of remarkable and curious events in the history of the North Star State

North Star Country

North Star Country
Author: Milton C. Sernett
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-12-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780815629146

North Star Country is the story of the remarkable transformation of Upstate New York's famous 'Burned-over District;' where the flames of religious revival sparked an abolitionist movement that eventually burst into the conflagration of the Civil War. Milton C. Sernett details the regional presence of African Americans from the pre-Revolutionary War era through the Civil War, both as champions of liberty and as beneficiaries of a humanitarian spirit generated from evangelical impulses. He includes in his narrative the struggles of great abolitionists—among them Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, Beriah Green, Jermain Loguen, and Samuel May—and of many lesser-known characters who rescued fugitives from slave hunters, maintained safe houses along the Underground Railroad, and otherwise furthered the cause of freedom both regionally and in the nation as a whole. Sernett concludes with a compelling examination of the moral choices made during the Civil War by upstate New Yorkers—both black and white—and of the post-Appomattox campaign to secure freedom for the newly emancipated.

A Popular History of Minnesota

A Popular History of Minnesota
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.

You Know You're in Minnesota When...

You Know You're in Minnesota When...
Author: Berit Thorkelson
Publisher: Insiders' Guide (CT)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Minnesota
ISBN: 9780762738953

An entertaining collection of 101 quintessential places people events customs lingo and eats that help define the personality of the North Star State

North Star Numbers

North Star Numbers
Author: Kathy-jo Wargin
Publisher: Count Your Way Across the U.S.
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781585361878

Includes the numbers 1-12, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100.

Haunted Minnesota

Haunted Minnesota
Author: Charles A. Stansfield
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 0811700143

Includes - Arrowhead's Devil Dogs - Spirits of the Vikings - Phantom racehorse Dan Patch - The legend of the fearsome Windego - The ghost ship Minnesota

Only in Minnesota

Only in Minnesota
Author: Berit Thorkelson, Roxanne Kjarum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release:
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781610604642

Only in Minnesota is a pictorial tribute to all that makes the state unique. Combining the natural, historical, and cultural facets of life in Minnesota, it showcases the people and what they do for fun (the Uptown Art Fair, ice fishing), where they live (from the cities of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, and Rochester to smaller towns and rural regions in between), their favorite places (Mille Lacs, Split Rock Lighthouse), and more. More than 160 dazzling, four-color photographs, showing a variety of subjects--from farms and churches to tourist destinations and state parks; from nature scenes to city festivals and cultural events--are the focus of Only in Minnesota. These photographs are accented by lively captions and fun facts. The result is a homage to the Gopher state from a local author and photographer whose love for Minnesota comes through on every page. Roxanne Kjarum is a freelance photographer who shoots advertising for money and the natural world for love. Her first published work was in Sierra Club magazine in 1988; since then her photography has appeared in numerous publications, including MPLS.ST.PAUL Magazine, Lake Superior Magazine, and Metropolitan Home.