Through research, historical narratives, and storytelling, historian and author Joseph A. Amato demonstrates how Americans with mixed ancestry and common origins might produce truly extraordinary fami
Anne Green wrote weekly letters to her parents back in Minnesota, chronicling a familiar yet uncommon wartime story of patriotism, travel, homesickness, army procedures, off-duty hijinks, family bonds
In the middle of the Great Depression, photographers working for Franklin D. Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration (FSA) began traveling across America taking pictures of ordinary people and places
Ernest Oberholtzer (1884-1977) is one of the great unsung heroes of the American conservation movement of the twentieth century. Selected as one of the 100 influential Minnesotans of the twentieth cen
This book blends informative biographical detail with vignettes from the fiction of one of the greatest writers in twentieth-century America. Its first section tells the story of Fitzgerald's early li
The Minnesota Historical Society Press has returned this book to print; it was originally published in 1978. The book's treatment of Indian affairs under the presidency of Abraham Lincoln has stood th
The topics of the day fly fast and furious over Jim Northrup’s moccasin telegraph:The game wardens were playing catch and release with the Anishinaabeg spearers. one Shinnob went back for seconds. He
This bibliography documenting Minnesota's rich legacy of left-wing political radicalism includes 921 entries describing unique personal and institutional records and papers; rare leaflets, tracts, pam
The definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War. Since its publication, Richard Moe's The Last Full Measure has garnered a reputation as the definitive history of the First
Stories of the lives and times of nine African-American children and adults whose contributions to Minnesota's history span nearly two centuries, from the early 1800s to the present day.
During the summer and fall of 1938 Mary Inez Hilger, a sister of the Order of St. Benedict, lived on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota while she gathered data about housing
The story of Somalis in Minnesota begins with three words: sahan, war, and martisoor. Driven from their homeland by civil war and famine, one group of Somali sahan, pioneers, discovered well-paying jo
Considered the most authoritative history of the state, the four volume set was first published in the 1920s. Volume Two includes detailed accounts of Minnesota's role in the Civil War and the Dakota
In 1891 Minnesota established its first state park at Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi River. In the century that followed, Minnesotans and tourists from other states have enjoyed hiking
Forgetting Ireland is both a history and mystery, a story of western Ireland's Connemara coast and of Graceville, a small town in western Minnesota. In 1880, at the height of Ireland's second famine,
James J. Hill (1838-1916), the Empire Builder, created a vast railroad network across the northwestern United States. In this splendid biography, Martin, the first researcher to have access to Hill's
Provides fourteen easy lessons followed by more than one hundred tunes, many of which date back to the Revolutionary War. The authors present a brief history of the fife, its characteristics, and its
In the 1930s, anthropologist Hilger traveled to nine reservations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan to record traditional Chippewa methods of raising children. Her study captures the essential det
A unique cookbook that combines lively social history with mouth-watering recipes from the good old days. Gathering her data from old cookbooks, household guides, letters, diaries, and newspapers, the
The art of an exceptional photographer captures the artistry of the builder in these images of Finnish-American farmsteads built around the turn of the century in northern Minnesota. Wayne Gudmundson'
