Book Description
A chronological compendium of remarkable and curious events in the history of the North Star State
Author : Tony Greiner; Howard Mohr
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,90 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 : Norman K. Risjord
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,89 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 : 23,4 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 : WILLIAM WATTS. FOLWELL
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781033571729
Author : Doug Hoverson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release :
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1452913374
A visual history of MInnesota beers and breweries traces the evolution of the state's beer industry, from the 1849 construction of the first brewery to the growth of small-town enterprises that gave way to large companies of regional and national prominence, offering a comprehensive list of Minnesota breweries as well as more than three hundred illustrations of beer and breweriana.
Author : Theodore Christian Blegen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816607549
The acclaimed history is brought up to date through placement of the political, economic, social, and cultural developments since 1963 within the larger context of national and international events
Author : William Watts Folwell
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 50,29 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.
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN : 0793359449
Author : Michael A. Lerner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674040090
In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsuccessful, in New York City. In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city, Lerner describes a battle between competing visions of the United States that encompassed much more than the freedom to drink.
Author : Anne J. Aby
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 10,19 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.