Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
Archaeology of Minnesota
The Prehistory of the Upper Mississippi River Region
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Histories of Minnesota typically begin with seventeenth-century French fur traders exploring the western shores of Lake Superior. And yet, archaeology reveals that Native Americans lived in the region at least 13,000 years before such European incursions. Archaeology of Minnesota tells their story—or...
This Is Not Florida
How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
On July 7, 2009, Al Franken was sworn in as Minnesota's junior U.S. senator-eight months after Election Night. In the chill of November 2008, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman led by a slim 215 votes, a margin that triggered an automatic statewide recount of more than 2.9 million ballots. Minnesota's...
A Measure of Success
The Influence of Curriculum-Based Measurement on Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Simple in concept, far-reaching in implementation, Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) was developed in the 1980s as an efficient way to assess the progress of struggling students, including those with disabilities. Today, there are few areas of special education policy and practice that have not been...
Degrees of Freedom
The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
He had just given a rousing speech to a crammed assembly in St. Paul, but Frederick Douglass, confidant to the Great Emancipator himself and conscience of the Republican Party, was denied a hotel room because he was black. This was Minnesota in 1873, four years after the state had approved black suffrage—a...
Taconite Dreams
The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota’s Iron Range, 1915-2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
The Iron Range earned its name honestly: it was once among the world’s richest iron ore mining districts. The Iron Range propelled the U.S. steel industry in the late nineteenth century, and iron mining sustained generations in the region with work and a strong economy. But long before most other parts...
The Great Minnesota Cookie Book
Award-Winning Recipes from the Star Tribune's Holiday Cookie Contest
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Eighty delicious, imaginative recipes from the Star Tribune’s beloved annual cookie contest, with mouth-watering pictures and bakers’ stories
It’s cold in Minnesota, especially around the holidays, and there’s nothing like baking a batch of cookies to warm the kitchen and the heart....
Myths of the Rune Stone
Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend that held tremendous power in one corner of Minnesota, helping to define both a community’s and a state’s identity for decades.
In 1898, a Swedish...
The Children of Lincoln
White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
How white advocates of emancipation abandoned African American causes in the dark days of Reconstruction, told through the stories of four Minnesotans
White people, Frederick Douglass said in a speech in 1876, were “the children of Lincoln,” while black people were “at best his stepchildren.”...
Miles Lord
The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
This is the story of Miles Lord (1919–2016), who rose from humble beginnings on Minnesota’s Iron Range to become one of the most colorful and powerful judges in the country, described as “an unabashed Prairie populist” and “a live-wire slayer of corporate behemoths.” He cut a wide swath through...
The Wedding Heard 'Round the World
America's First Gay Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
On September 3, 1971, Michael McConnell and Jack Baker exchanged vows in the first legal same-sex wedding in the United States. Their remarkable story is told here for the first time—a unique account of the passion and energy of the gay liberation movement in the sixties and seventies. At the...
by Bill Holm
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
“The ground bass is failure; America is the key signature; Pauline Bardal is the lyrical tune that sings at the center; Minneota, Minnesota, is the staff on which the tunes are written.” So begins the masterful title piece from Bill Holm’s first book of essays, The Music of Failure. This collection...
The Fighting Frenchman
Minnesota’s Boxing Legend Scott LeDoux
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Scott LeDoux’s face read like a roadmap of boxing’s last golden era—eye thumbed by Larry Holmes, brow gashed by Mike Tyson, ears stung by none other than Muhammad Ali. “George Foreman hit me so hard,” LeDoux said, “my ancestors in France felt it.” The only man to step into the ring with...
by Larry Millett
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Sherlock Holmes is bored between cases at 221B Baker Street. So when King Oskar II of Sweden—who has heard of the discovery of the Kensington Rune Stone by a farmer in Minnesota—asks to engage his services, Holmes jumps at the chance to decipher the runes and determine whether the find is real or...
White Birch, Red Hawthorn
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
“This is conquered land.” The Dakota woman’s words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great-great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors’ homestead,...