Minnesota: A History, Paperback

Reducere. What do Paul Bunyan, Charles Lindbergh, and Jesse Ventura have in common? Minnesota, of courseIn A Popular History of Minnesota, historian Norman K...

Soldiers in the Union Army volunteered for many reasons--to reunite the country, to put down the southern rebellion. For most, however, slavery was...

First published in 1948, Mechanization Takes Command is an examination of mechanization and its effects on everyday life. A monumental figure in th...

Reducere. 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,...

DescriptionA lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film's unique ability to move usCinema is commonly hailed a...

Reducere. For millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power. In the 1820s, the newly...

Reducere. Winner of the Minnesota Book Award and the Red River Heritage Award The Haymakers is an epic--the history of man's struggle with nature as well as ...

Reducere. Northeastern Minnesota Book AwardBeneath the icy waters of Lake Superior lies a vast museum of maritime treasures, relics, and souls that in years ...

Reducere. Northeastern Minnesota Book AwardLake Superior's North Shore--the vast stretch between Duluth and Grand Portage--is nearly 150 miles long, with an ...

Reducere. With simplicity and charm, Grace Lee Nute tells the story of the Minnesota-Ontario border country west of the Boundary Waters--the region of the we...

Reducere. DescriptionIn June 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, a mob of over 10, 000 convened upon the police station, inflamed by the rumor that black circus work...

Reducere. Turn back the yellowing pages of Minnesota's past and explore the best of the state's worst moments, as chronicled in the Minneapolis Tribune and i...

Reducere. A tiny pair of beaded deerskin moccasins, given to a baby in 1913, provides the starting point for this thoughtful examination of the work of Dakot...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Small towns. Big heroes During World War II, men from Minnesota's smallest towns gave their lives for our country. Several were awarded the Disting...

Reducere. Award NameMinnesota Book AwardAward categoryNonfictionAmerican Indian cultural objects, like most objects, deteriorate over time. Precious and irre...

Reducere. Over the centuries, the Hmong have called many places home, including China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and most recently France, Australia, and the ...

Reducere. World War II was a total war, devouring the military and civilian resources of nations. Women in Minnesota--like women across the country--made bol...

Reducere. In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries promoted the translation of evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this mus...

Changing how we look at and think about the color grey Why did many of the twentieth century's best-known abstract painters often choose grey, freq...