A Guide to Family History Resources at the Minnesota Historical Society
A Guide to Family History Resources at the Minnesota Historical Society

Author: Minnesota Historical Society

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780873514699

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This guide is an essential tool for all genealogists researching Minnesota family, local, and state history. Highlighting the many holdings of the society, this unique handbook features a lengthy, annotated listing of resources in subject areas such as: biographical, census, naturalization, cemetery, school, religious, business, court, government, legal, military, and veterans' records; official state-wide death records and index, 1908-96; photographs, personal papers, oral histories, ethnic resources, and local and county histories; family histories, newspapers, directories, passenger ship lists, and publications of genealogical organizations; maps, atlases, and other geographical resources.

Chinese in Minnesota
Chinese in Minnesota

Author: Sherri Gebert Fuller

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Published: 2009-06-26

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 0873517296

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"Sherri Gerbert Fuller provides us with a rare look at Chinese immigrant lives and aspirations in Minnesota, proudly reclaiming their voices as part of our great American heritage. I was delighted to read this book."--Iris Chang, author of "The Chinese in America " Minnesota's first Chinese settlers, fleeing racial violence in California, established scores of businesses after they arrived in the late 1870s. Newspapers eagerly published reports of their activities, including New Year's festivities, marriages, and restaurant and laundry openings. Beginning in 1882 federal laws banning Chinese immigration and denying citizenship put particular pressure on the community. Sherri Gebert Fuller relates the story of the Chinese from these early days to the 1960s when a new wave of immigrants, including students, businessmen, and professionals from China and Taiwan, began to bring new energy and issues to the community and a flourishing of ties between Minnesota and China.

Minnesota in the Civil War
Minnesota in the Civil War

Author: Kenneth Carley

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

Published: 2006-03

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780873515641

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This lavishly illustrated, richly detailed book presents for the first time a comprehensive picture of Minnesota's involvement in the Civil War.

Creating Minnesota
Creating Minnesota

Author: Annette Atkins

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

Published: 2009-11-16

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 0873516648

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Winner 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.

Mni Sota Makoce
Mni Sota Makoce

Author: Gwen Westerman

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 0873518837

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An intricate narrative of the Dakota people over the centuries in their traditional homelands, the stories behind the profound connections that hold true today.

A History of Minnesota
A History of Minnesota

Author: William Watts Folwell

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Published: 1921

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13:

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Volume 1 covers Minnesota's early development from the days of French exploration and trade with American Indians through territorial times to the eve of statehood in 1857. Volume 2 continues the story from 1858 to 1865, with emphasis on the state's participation in the Civil War and the Sioux Uprising (Dakota Conflict) of 1862. Volume 3 completes the chronological record with a comprehensive picture of Minnesota politics from 1865 to 1925. Volume 4 focuses on special topics such as iron mining, public education, the Chippewa (Ojibway), election procedures, and a dozen outstanding Minnesotans. Includes a consolidated index to Volumes 1-4.

Sights, Sounds, Soul
Sights, Sounds, Soul

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781681340647

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A photographic celebration of musicians, artists, and everyday scenes from the Twin Cities African American community of the 1970s and '80s by a renowned local photographer.