Minnesota Historical Society Press imprint: 155 books
Lincoln and the Indians
Civil War Policy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
"Lincoln and the Indians has stood the test of time and offers this generation of readers a valuable interpretation of the U.S. government's Indian policies—and sometimes the lack thereof—during the Civil War era. Providing a critical perspective on Lincoln's role, Nichols sets forth an especially...
Complicated Fun
The Birth of Minneapolis Punk and Indie Rock, 1974-1984 --- An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In the early 1970s, the Minneapolis music scene was no scene at all. Radio stations played Top 40 music; bars and clubs booked only rock cover bands and blues bands. Meanwhile, cities like New York, Detroit, and London were spawning fresh and innovative—and loud and raw—sounds by musicians creating...
Little Crow
Spokesman for the Sioux
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Government officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white population and a loss of hunting grounds, sought to exchange title to their homeland for annuities of cash and food, schools...
by Judith Koll Healey
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Weyerhaeuser name looms large in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, and Arkansas, attached to paper mills, cabinet factories, and vast tracts of land, both forested and cut over. Frederick Weyerhaeuser, the man who started the lumber empire, significantly shaped the American economy and landscape...
The Haymakers
A Chronicle of Five Farm Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Winner of the Minnesota Book Award and the Red River Heritage Award!
The Haymakers is an epic—the history of man's struggle with nature as well as man's struggle against machines. It relates the story of farmers and their obligations to their families, to the animals they fed, and to the...
Offstage Voices
Life in Twin Cities Theater
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In 1969, the Village Voice described Minneapolis as "America's second theater city after New York." In the forty-plus years since, the theatrical offerings of Minneapolis and St. Paul have only grown—everything from world-renowned venues to independent stages and innovative festivals—and...
Dakota Women's Work
Creativity, Culture, and Exile
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
A tiny pair of beaded deerskin moccasins, given to a baby in 1913, provides the starting point for this thoughtful examination of the work of Dakota women.
Mary Eastman Faribault, born in Minnesota, made them almost four decades after the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862. This and other ornately decorated...
by Frances Densmore
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Chippewa Customs, first published in 1929, remains an authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Chippewa (Ojibway) Indians of the United States and Canada.
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The Big Marsh
The Story of a Lost Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Under the corn and soybean fields of southern Minnesota lies the memory of vast, age-old wetlands, drained away over the last 130 years in the name of agricultural progress. But not everyone saw wetlands as wasteland. Before 1900, Freeborn County's Big Marsh provided a wealth of resources for the...
Trapping the Boundary Waters
A Tenderfoot in the Border Country, 1919-1920
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
On May 4, 1919, Charlie Cook set off for a year of adventure in the Minnesota-Ontario Boundary Waters. Soon abandoned by his comfort-loving companion, the restless World War I veteran spent an enlightening year learning—often the hard way—how to paddle and sail on windy lakes, hunt and fish for...
Leaving Rollingstone
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In 1959, Kevin Fenton was born on a family farm overlooking Rollingstone, Minnesota—a tight-knit village founded by Luxembourgers and so Catholic that the parish school was the only school in town. The farm, and Kevin's memory, is filled with the closeness of his large family. Dennis, the oldest...
We Carry Our Homes With Us
A Cuban American Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
On December 30, 1960, Marisella Veiga with her mother and two brothers boarded a plane from Havana to Miami. Her father fled a few months later, joining his family with a total of fourteen U.S. cents in his pocket and an understanding that he would never see his homeland again. Seeking a less competitive...
The Lynchings in Duluth
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
On the evening of June 15, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, three young black men, accused of the rape of a white woman, were pulled from their jail cells and lynched by a mob numbering in the thousands. Yet for years the incident was nearly forgotten. This updated, second edition of The Lynchings in Duluth...
Beneath The Surface
A Natural History of a Fisherman's Lake
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Each summer millions experience the beauty of America's lakes—the whirl of sights and sounds as boats cut through the water and birds call to each other from surrounding trees. Now biologist and ichthyologist Bruce M. Carlson takes nature lovers to the side of the lake that few will experience firsthand—a...