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A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
Author : Norman K. Risjord
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873515320
A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
Author : Annette Atkins
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : 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 : Tony Greiner; Howard Mohr
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0873517415
A chronological compendium of remarkable and curious events in the history of the North Star State
Author : Anne J. Aby
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 2002
Category : 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 : WILLIAM WATTS. FOLWELL
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781033571729
Author : Minnesota Historical Society
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2004
Category : 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 : Kathryn Strand Koutsky
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :
Enhanced by more than twelve hundred photographs, a history of the Minnesota State Fair includes recipes from 4-H groups, food stands, and blue ribbon-winning contestants.
Author : June Drenning Holmquist
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1981
Category : 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
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2021-05
Category : 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 : William Watts Folwell
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1921
Category : History
ISBN :
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.