Minnesota Historical Society Press: 191 books
Shining Big Sea Water
The Story of Lake Superior
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
In 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...
The Historic St. Croix Valley
A Guided Tour
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Whether you enjoy skiing, antiquing, camping, or simply taking in the fall colors, the St. Croix Valley is a popular and affordable day trip or vacation destination for thousands of visitors every year. The quaint towns that dot the Minnesota and Wisconsin sides of this scenic 130-mile stretch of...
Warrior Nation
A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The Red Lake Nation has a unique and deeply important history. Unlike every other reservation in Minnesota, Red Lake holds its land in common—and, consequently, the tribe retains its entire reservation land base. The people of Red Lake developed the first modern indigenous democratic governance...
Honor the Grandmothers
Dakota and Lakota Women Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
In this poignant collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own quiet but uncompromising words. Growing up and living in Minnesota and the Dakotas, Stella Pretty Sounding Flute and Iola Columbus (Dakota) and Celane Not Help Him and Cecelia Hernandez Montgomery...
by Jon Hassler
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
From Publishers Weekly
?These seven gentle tales set in Minnesota and North Dakota and all written during the 1970s treat fans of novelist Hassler (A Green Journey; Jemmy) to the earliest fruits of his talent. Some are folksy portraits of small-town characters, while others are drier and more...
Women of Mayo Clinic
The Founding Generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The story of Mayo Clinic begins on the Minnesota prairie following a devastating tornado in 1883. It also begins with the women who joined the growing practice as physicians, as laboratory researchers, as developers of radium therapy and cancer treatments, and as innovators in virtually all aspects...
Secret Partners
Big Tom Brown and the Barker Gang
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Among the most dangerous criminals of the public enemies era was a man who has long hidden in history's shadows: Tom Brown. In the early 1930s, while he was police chief of St. Paul, Minnesota, Brown became a secret partner of the infamous Barker gang. He profited from their violent crimes, he protected...
Scoop
Notes from a Small Ice Cream Shop
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
"I was not prone to drastic actions. I did not rush into the unknown. After fifteen years as a more or less effective lawyer, I approached decisions with a certain caution. I not only weighed the pros and cons but also examined all likely consequences and reasonably foreseeable risks. Looking...
Food Will Win the War
Minnesota Crops, Cook, and Conservation during World War I
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays, vegetable gardens and chickens in every empty lot. When the United States entered World War I, Minnesotans responded to appeals for personal sacrifice and changed the way they cooked and ate in order to conserve food for the boys "over there." Baking...
by Erik Jonathan Rivenes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The story of Albert Alonzo "Doc" Ames is perhaps the greatest political scandal in Minnesota history. As mayor of Minneapolis, Ames exposed the city to national humiliation–and helped jump-start an era of reform.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Minneapolis was moving away...
I Go to America
Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Nonfiction
Near the end of her life, Mina Anderson penned a lively memoir that helped Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg create "Kristina," the central female character of his beloved emigrant novels, a woman who constantly yearns for her homeland....
Remembering The Good War
Minnesota's Greatest Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
World War II was the defining event for a generation of Americans. Remembering the Good War tells the stories of over one hundred Minnesotans—ordinary people who rose to duty at an extraordinary moment in our past. Here soldiers and sailors, housewives and farmers, "Rosies" and "Joes"...
Norwegians on the Prairie
Ethnicity and the Development of the Country Town
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Against the broad backdrop of the expanding western frontier, noted Norwegian American scholar Odd S. Lovoll explores the country town through the lens of ethnicity in this pioneering study. Benson, Madison, and Starbuck, all located on the western Minnesota prairie, were settled primarily by Norwegians...
Across the Deep Blue Sea
The Saga of Early Norwegian Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Across the Deep Blue Sea investigates a chapter in Norwegian immigration history that has never been fully told before. Odd S. Lovoll relates how Quebec, Montreal, and other port cities in Canada became the gateway for Norwegian emigrants to North America, replacing New York as the main destination...