Minnesota Historical Society Press imprint: 155 books
The Last Full Measure
The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Since its publication, Richard Moe's The Last Full Measure has garnered a reputation as the definitive history of the First Minnesota Regiment and one of a handful of classic regimental histories of the Civil War.
The First Minnesota Volunteers, the first regiment offered to President Lincoln...
They Played for the Love of the Game
Untold Stories of Black Baseball in Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A century before Kirby Puckett led the Minnesota Twins to World Series championships, Minnesota was home to countless talented African American baseball players, yet few of them are known to fans today. During the many decades that Major League Baseball and its affiliates imposed a strict policy of...
Unto A Good Land
The Emigrant Novels: Book II
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant...
A Good Time for the Truth
Race in Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In this provocative book, sixteen of Minnesota's best writers provide a range of perspectives on what it is like to live as a person of color in Minnesota. They give readers a splendid gift: the gift of touching another human being's inner reality, behind masks and veils and politeness. They bring...
The North Star State
A Minnesota History Reader
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Two hundred years of Minnesota history spring to life in this lively and captivating collection of essays. The North Star State encompasses the wide range of Minnesota's unique past—from the Civil War to the World Wars, from frontier life to the age of technological innovation, from Dakota and Ojibwe...
The Forest for the Trees
How Humans Shaped the North Woods
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
Author Jeff Forester describes how humans have occupied and managed the northern borderlands of Minnesota, from tribal burning to pioneer and industrial logging to evolving conceptions of wilderness and restoration forestry. On the surface a story of Minnesota's borderlands, The Forest for the Trees...
The First Minnesota Volunteers at Gettysburg, The 150th Anniversary
Excerpted from "The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers"
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The chapter on the First Minnesota's moment of supreme sacrifice at Gettysburg is the best thing of its kind that I have ever read. --James M. McPherson??This excerpted e-short would include a reworked introduction of the regiment, its call-up at Fort Snelling, the powerful chapter on the July 2-3, 1863 Battle at Gettysburg, and a revised prologue.
The WPA Guide to The Minnesota Arrowhead Country
The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
First published in 1941 as part of the American Guide Series, this lively book describes Minnesota's popular northern region. Special features include fifteen canoe trips; five maps; thirty-seven photographs; forty-seven city, town, and village profiles; four road tours; a chronology; a glossary;...
by Maud Hart Lovelace
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
This historical novel set at Old Fort Snelling in the 1830s is a rich and romantic re-creation of the early settlement period in Minnesota's history. Maud Hart Lovelace's careful research into the documents of the Historical Society, combined with her knowledge of the actual setting, enabled her to...
Stand Up!
The Story of Minnesota’s Protest Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
When the senatorial election of 2008 between Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman stretched on for a contentious six months, people throughout the country wondered about Minnesota's offbeat politics. But Minnesota has been and is now a seedbed for cultural and political movements that have...
The State We're In
Reflections on Minnesota History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
On the occasion of Minnesota's 150th anniversary of statehood, more than a hundred historians and other writers assembled to discuss the subjects they had been studying, thinking, and writing about. This book presents the best of that work, including nineteen essays on topics as varied as baseball...
by Annette Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
An overview of how Minnesotans of diverse backgrounds—soldiers, women, African Americans, and Native Americans—served their country during the Civil War. Excerpted from Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out (MHS Press, 2007).
Go If You Think It Your Duty
A Minnesota Couple's Civil War Letters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
During the American Civil War, James Madison Bowler and Elizabeth Caleff Bowler courted, married, became parents, and bought a farm. They attended dances, talked politics, and confided their deepest fears. Because of the war, however, they experienced all of these events separately, sharing them through...
by John Radzilowski
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Polish Americans have been part of Minnesota history since before the state's founding. Taking up farms along newly laid rail networks, Polish immigrants fanned across the countryside in small but important concentrations. In cities like Winona and St. Paul, Northeast Minneapolis and Duluth, as well...