Minnesota Historical Society Press: 191 books
Sisterhood of War
Minnesota Women in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
In January 1966, navy nurse Lieutenant Kay Bauer stepped off a pan am airliner into the stifling heat of Saigon and was issued a camouflage uniform, boots, and a rifle. "What am I supposed to do with this?" she said of the weapon. "I'm a nurse."
Bauer was one of approximately...
A Peculiar Imbalance
The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Early Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In the 1850s, as Minnesota Territory was reaching toward statehood, settlers from the eastern United States moved in, carrying rigid perceptions of race and culture into a community built by people of many backgrounds who relied on each other for survival. History professor William Green unearths...
The Nearly Departed
Minnesota Ghost Stories and Legends
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Everyone loves a good ghost story.
Phantoms of the Paramount, Shadows on Third Avenue, the Legend of Ann Lake, Boy in the Red Cap. Veteran ghost hunter J. Michael Norman has uncovered almost three dozen stories of legitimate Minnesota eeriness to thrill readers. Norman, author of five nationally...
Brother of Mine
The Civil War Letters of Thomas and William Christie
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In 1861, as President Lincoln called for volunteers to defend the Union, Thomas Christie wrote to his father, voicing desires shared by many an enlistee: "I do want to 'see the world,' to get out of the narrow circle in which I have always lived, to 'make a man of myself,' and to have it to say...
Making Marriage
Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The debate over the meaning of marriage in the United States and specifically in Minnesota is not a recent development. From 1820 to 1845, when the first significant numbers of Americans arrived in the region now called Minnesota, they carried the belief that good government and an orderly household...
by Steve Werle
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
A new investigation of the meteoric rise, lifetime of achievements, and unique persona of "boy wonder" and perennial candidate Harold E. Stassen.
In ten unsuccessful runs at the U.S. presidency, Harold E. Stassen became infamous as a perennial candidate. But his lifetime of achievements,...
Making Waves
Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a wave of feminist activism and organizing broke on the shores of the Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin. Its impact has shaped and transformed the lives of women and men in this community, the nation, and the world. Beginning with one of the...
Italian Voices
Making Minnesota Our Home
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
A boardinghouse keeper finds her kitchen in a mess after Saturday-night revelry and refuses to cook on Sunday. An iron miner pries frozen ore from a car in 40-below temperatures. A grocer makes sausage, brews wine, and forages for mushrooms and dandelion greens. In Italian Voices, Minnesota's Italian...
by Hyman Berman, Linda Mack Schloff
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
The earliest arrivals were German Jews who came when the territory was newly created. By the 1880s they were joined by immigrants from eastern Europe. Many settled in small towns or walked the roads as peddlers. Some found homes in the Iron Range towns of Virginia and Hibbing, but the majority lived...
While the Locust Slept
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
In stark, haunting prose, first-time author Peter Razor recalls his early years as a ward of the State of Minnesota. Disclosing his story through flashbacks and relying on research from his own case files, Razor pieces together the shattered fragments of his boyhood into a memoir that reads as compellingly...
Finding Common Ground
The Art of Legislating in an Age of Gridlock
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Democracy has never been a quick or easy process by which to get things done. But many citizens are fed up with the current, extreme partisan gridlock at the national, state, and even local levels of government.
Dave Bishop spent most of his twenty years in the Minnesota House of Representatives...
The St. Paul Saints
Baseball in the Capital City
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
From Pig's Eye to a pig on the field, the long and rich legacy of the St. Paul Saints is central to the history of baseball in Minnesota. Celebrate the players, owners, managers, and fans— and the Saints' return to downtown St. Paul near the spot where the Olympic team first played in 1859.
Some...
Dred and Harriet Scott
A Family's Struggle for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
The landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford, in which the slave Dred Scott was denied freedom for himself and his family, raised the ire of abolitionists and set the scene for the impending conflict between the northern and southern states. While most people have heard of the Dred...
The Relentless Business of Treaties
How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The story of "western expansion" is a familiar one: U.S. government agents, through duplicity and force, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this framing, argues Martin Case, hides a deeper story. Land cession treaties were essentially...