Minnesota Historical Society Press imprint: 155 books
Think South
How We Got Six Men and Forty Dogs Across Antarctica
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
What does it take to move forty dogs, three sleds, twenty tons of food and gear, and six men from all over the world across nearly four thousand of the coldest miles on earth? Cathy de Moll, the executive director of the 1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, introduces the wild cast of characters...
by Rhoda R. Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
As the first of the MHS Express imprint, this short e-book will highlight the rifts and crises leading up to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota between the Dakota people and the U.S. government, as keenly represented by then-governor and later militia colonel Henry Sibley, and will weave together...
Eggs in the Coffee, Sheep in the Corn
My 17 Years as a Farmwife
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
The world turned upside down for city-bred Marjorie Douglas when, in 1943, her young husband moved her and their baby, Anne, from suburban St. Paul to a western Minnesota stock ranch to help his parents stave off financial disaster. With wit and wisdom Douglas's memoir describes a Midwestern way of life of 50 years ago.
The Girl in Building C
The True Story of a Teenage Tuberculosis Patient
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
In October 1943, sixteen-year-old Marilyn Barnes was told that her recent bout of pneumonia was in fact tuberculosis. She entered Ah-gwah-ching State Sanatorium at Walker, Minnesota, for what she thought would be a short stay. In January, her tuberculosis spread, and she nearly died. Her recovery...
A Short History of the Ford Plant
Industrial Archaeology and Economic Change in St. Paul
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
A short-form e-book original providing a brief history of the famed automobile assembly plant in St. Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood, 1925-2011. Based on an essay written for the Society for Industrial Archaeology.
Jacob's Well
A Case for Rethinking Family History
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Joseph A. Amato follows his own poor, obscure, and truly "mongrel" family through seven generations, revealing their place in the key events of America's past. Using powerful family traditions to clarify his personal connection to the larger stories of our nation, Amato advocates for the power of the history closest at hand in building personal identity and resisting mass culture.
Augie's Secrets
The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
There's an old Yiddish saying: two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. But two living people could keep a secret—as long as one of them was Augie.
Augie Ratner, the proprietor of Augie's Theater Lounge & Bar on Hennepin Avenue, was the unofficial mayor of Minneapolis's downtown...
Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born about 1839, was an expert gardener. Following centuries-old methods, she and the women of her family raised huge crops of corn, squash, beans, and sunflowers on the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota. When she was young, her...
The Old Way North
Following the Oberholtzer-Magee Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In the spring of 1912, Anishinaabe guide Billy Magee received a letter from future conservationist Ernest Oberholtzer asking Magee to accompany him on a journey. Soon after the two set off on a five-month canoe expedition following the old way north, a largely unmapped territory that would test both...
Sister Nations
Native American Women Writers on Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today. Editors Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe have gathered stories from across the nation that celebrate, record, and explore Native American women's roles in community. The result is a...
Curiosity's Cats
Writers on Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
"Each morning I would strike out for this temple of learning in the crisp autumn air . . . with a sense of purpose and the conviction that this was where I belonged."—Marilyn Stasio from "My Research Project"
Inspired partly by Richard Altick's The Scholar Adventurers,...
Lake Superior's Historic North Shore
A Guided Tour
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Lake Superior's North Shore—the vast stretch between Duluth and Grand Portage—is nearly 150 miles long, with an abundance of state parks, state and national forests, streams and rivers, and more than thirty distinct communities representing a broad range of ethnic and religious groups. Many visitors...
When I Was a Child
An Autobiographical Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the poverty-stricken Swedish region of Småland, young Valter, the son of a soldier, explores the world around him and watches his older brothers emigrate to America. In this novel of the life of a farm boy, first published in three volumes in 1946, Vilhelm...
A Gravestone Made of Wheat
The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
A Gravestone Made of Wheat is a poignant and lyrical story of land, love, and the American immigrant experience. Now an award-winning indie film distributed by 20th Century Fox. Available everywhere on DVD. http://www.sweetlandmovie.com/ Excerpted from the paperback original, Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories (Borealis Books, 2006), by Will Weaver.