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Author: Norman K. Risjord
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780873515320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
Author: Anne J. Aby
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780873514446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCulled from the best of Minnesota History magazine, these essays on 200 years of Minnesota history encompass a wide range of its past, from frontier life to the age of technological innovation, from Dakota and Ojibwe history to the story of a Chinese family in St. Paul, from lumber workers' and truckers' strikes to the women's suffrage movement.
Author: Annette Atkins
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2009-11-16
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 0873516648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book. Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates a larger event, social trends, or politics during a period in our past. A three-act play about Minnesota's statehood vividly depicts the competing interests of Natives, traders, and politicians who lived in the same territory but moved in different worlds. Oranges are the focal point of a chapter about railroads and transportation: how did a St. Paul family manage to celebrate their 1898 Christmas with fruit that grew no closer than 1,500 miles from their home? A photo essay brings to life three communities of the 1920s, seen through the lenses of local and itinerant photographers. The much-sought state fish helps to explain the new Minnesota, where pan-fried walleye and walleye quesadillas coexist on the same north woods menu. In Creating Minnesota Atkins invites readers to experience the texture of people's lives through the decades, offering a fascinating and unparalleled approach to the history of our state.
Author: Norman K. Risjord
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2009-10-28
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0873516915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
Author: Kenneth Carley
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2006-03
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780873515641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lavishly illustrated, richly detailed book presents for the first time a comprehensive picture of Minnesota's involvement in the Civil War.
Author: Kate Roberts
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780873515948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fabulous showcase of individuals, events, and inventions that have made Minnesota.
Author: Norman K. Risjord
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780873515900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Shining Big Sea Water, historian Norman K. Risjord offers a grand tour of Lake Superior's remarkable history, taking readers through the centuries and into the lives of those who have traveled the lake and inhabited its shores. Through lively, informative chapters, Risjord begins with the lake's cataclysmic geological birth, then explores the lives of native peoples along the shore before European contact and during the fur trade, showing how Superior functioned as a "blue-water highway" for Indians, early explorers, industries, and settlers. He outlines the development of such cities as Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; Ashland, Wisconsin; and Two Harbors, Minnesota, and tells the fascinating histories of life-saving lighthouses and famous shipwrecks. In the final chapter, Risjord looks to the future, offering a clear-eyed account of the environmental and economic challenges faced by America's largest freshwater lake. Interspersed throughout the book are handy tips for travelers, highlighting historically significant sites that illustrate key pieces of Lake Superior's natural and human history, including national lakeshores in the United States and provincial parks in Canada. Norman K. Risjord is the author of several books, including A Popular History of Minnesota and Wisconsin: The Story of the Badger State. He is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Author: Curt Brown
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781681340807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA story of trauma, tragedy, and perseverance in a year that proved to be a turning point in the making of modern America.
Author: Mary Hockenberry Meyer
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781681340340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA book to inspire Minnesotans of all ages to learn about and reflect on the ten plants, chosen by experts and citizens, that have most impacted our state.
Author: Richard O. Davies
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780873514514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2004 Minnesota Book Award Winner The Midwestern small town has long held an iconic place in American culture--from the imaginings of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon. But the reality is much more complex, as the small town has been a study in transition from its very inception. In A Place Called Home, editors Richard O. Davies, Joseph A. Amato, and David R. Pichaske offer the first comprehensive examination of the Midwestern small town and its evolving nature from the 1800s to the present. This rich collection, gleaned from the best writings of historians, novelists, social scientists, poets, and journalists, features not only such well-known authors as Sherwood Anderson, Carol Bly, Willa Cather, Hamlin Garland, Langston Hughes, Garrison Keillor, William Kloefkorn, Sinclair Lewis, Susan Allen Toth, and Mark Twain but also many lesser known and exceptionally talented writers. Five chronological sections trace the founding, growth, and decline of the Midwestern town, and introductory comments illuminate its ever-changing face. The result is a wide-ranging collection of writings on the community at the heart of America.
