Minnesota Historical Society Press

Reducere. Northern Lights Revised Second Edition: The Stories of Minnesota's Past, Hardcover

Reducere. Minnesota Book AwardStripped of its original Tiffany light fixtures, lamps, and stained-glass panels, a Lowry Hill mansion was returned to its orig...

Reducere. Wild rice has always been essential to life in the Upper Midwest and neighboring Canada. In this far-reaching book, Thomas Vennum, Jr., uses travel...

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

Reducere. Greyhound buses and vintage suitcases, whitewashed cottages and wildlife souvenirs, fishing camps and bathing beauties adorn the pages of Minnesota...

Reducere. Fort Snelling, a foundational place in the story of Minnesota, was built 200 years ago at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, a...

Reducere. The potential benefits of wild plants for human health and well-being are wide-ranging. But, knowing which plants to use, and how, for edible and m...

Award NameMinnesota Book AwardAward categoryHistory/Biography"Let's eat out "Minnesotans have always loved to, in the opulent dining rooms of fancy...

Reducere. During the 1970s and '80s, photographer Charles Chamblis captured the vibrant social and artistic life of the Twin Cities African American communit...

Reducere. Throughout the twentieth century, department stores ruled the retail landscapes of downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul. More than just shopping cente...

Reducere. DescriptionWhile African Americans comprise just five percent of the total population of Minnesota today, the state boasts many successful, creativ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Photographer: Allen BeaulieuForeword by: Dez DickersonIntroduction by: Jim WalshPhotographer Allen Beaulieu worked with Prince from...

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. The modern Norwegian-American Christmas is a warm and regenerative family holiday for millions of Americans whose ancestors came from Norway--celeb...

Reducere. DescriptionWhy was Minnesota, a land known for its stoic farmers, reasonable politics, and comfortable casseroles, a hotbed of the wacky and wild w...

Reducere. After serving in World War II, John Glanton returned home to Minnesota and began taking his camera around the streets, parks, clubs, restaurants, a...

Reducere. Is Chinese identity personal, national, cultural, political? Does it migrate, become malleable or transmuted? What is authentic, sacred, kitsch? Us...

Reducere. ``Johann Kohl was an educated, urbane, and well-trained German geographer, ethnologist, and popular writer. During his visit with the Lake Superior...

In the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, Minneapolis resident Walter R. Scott produced a series of books profiling the African American community of the Twin ...

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

Reducere. Drawing together a century of widely scattered scientific and technical reports, as well as 25 years of first-hand experience in the field, Scott A...

Reducere. "Paul Maccabee's John Dillinger Slept Here is not just one of the best books ever written about Minneapolis-St. Paul, it is one of the best books o...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the summer of 1979, while disco was dying and new wave and punk were rising from the underground, two twenty-something guys were thro...

"Because of their relative stability, streets offer an incomparable framework for looking at the urban past and comparing it to the present, " writ...

Reducere. Every spring, the state of Minnesota--from urban metropolises to remote Canadian borderlands--is riveted by the spectacle of the boys' high school ...

Charles Eastman (1858-1939) straddled two worlds in his life and writing. The author of Indian Boyhood was raised in the traditional Dakota (Sioux)...

Reducere. The Weyerhaeuser name looms large in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, and Arkansas, attached to paper mills, cabinet factories, and vast tracts of...

Perhaps your museum's archives have run out of space, or its public programs have outgrown their facility. Perhaps a generous donor or an energetic...

Northeastern Minnesota Book AwardTravelers in the Boundary Waters find much to draw the eye, not least of which is a profusion of wildflowers at ev...

Reducere. Explore the natural history, ecological contributions, and cultural significance of manoomin (wild rice), and savor complementary wild foods and lo...

Reducere. The Midwest is home to streams and lakes and even inland seas, and these assorted freshwater sources offer up much bounty, from classic panfish and...

Reducere. In this collection of more than 200 stunning and storied photographs, ranging from daguerreotypes to studio portraits to snapshots, historian Bruce...

Reducere. Woven into a northland year are food rituals that sustain us and connect us to our region, our climate, and one another. Meat raffles. Fish frys. P...

Reducere. Much of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War and the resulting exile that sent the ma...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1838, a rum trader named "Pig's Eye" Parrant built a small shack in a Mississippi bluff that became the first business in the city of...

Reducere. From 21A, the one-man show that launched a career and a whole new perspective on riding the bus, to a sneak peek at the new Minnesota Public Radio-...

Reducere. Gardening in a northern clime has its own unique set of challenges. Yet, despite the shorter growing season, gardening remains a popular passion fo...

Reducere. Five Fur Traders of the Northwest captures the day-to-day life of the fur trader during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Long ou...

Reducere. The history of Norwegian settlement in the United States has often been told through the eyes of prominent men, while the women are imagined in the...

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. For Jewish and non-Jewish customers alike, the Lincoln Del was a Minneapolis version of Cheers--at the Del everybody knew your name. Folks hardly m...

Reducere. Spells are conjured, herbs collected, and potions concocted in this fascinating history of the practices and beliefs of Norway's folk healers at ho...

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,...

Reducere. Before the Twin Cities established themselves as a hotbed for stand-up comedy, producing some of the biggest names in comedy history, the local sce...

Reducere. Forgetting Ireland is both a history and mystery, a story of western Ireland's Connemara coast and of Graceville, a small town in western Minnesota...

Reducere. Local foods have garnered much attention in recent years, but the concept is hardly new: indigenous peoples have always made the most of nature's g...

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

Baking bread at home has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years. It can be therapeutic and build community. It is cost-effective and sustainable. And...

Reducere. The elusive Canada lynx bears kittens in Minnesota's northeastern woods. In the far southeastern part of the state, the succulent Leedy's roseroot ...

Reducere. " Here] we listen to stories of individual settlers and . . . watch and interact with them as each community evolves through the decades." Ann M. L...

Reducere. This tale of two sisters courageously homesteading on the prairie in 1907 provides a lively portrait of frontier life.``Interesting in its spirit a...

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

Odd S. Lovoll has spent his career chronicling the stories of Norwegian immigrants to the United States and Canada. He, too, was an immigrant at a ...

Reducere. An intimate and detailed portrait of young Swedish women who chose to immigrate to America in the nineteenth century--why they left, what they foun...

Reducere. From the mid-1830s to the 1860s, the missionaries sent to Minnesota by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) wrote thous...

Reducere. Chippewa Customs, first published in 1929, remains an authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, econom...

Reducere. Dayton's was in its prime, the new Nicollet Mall was full of people, the Foshay Tower was still king, and the IDS Center was beginning its rise. Bu...

Reducere. In recent years, Minnesota has developed one of the most vibrant and original beer scenes in the nation. Home to more craft breweries per capita th...

Reducere. The Voyageur is the authoritative account of a unique and colorful group of men whose exploits, songs, and customs comprise an enduring legacy. Fre...

Reducere. Split Rock Lighthouse is a Minnesota icon: a handsome structure perched atop a cliff on Lake Superior's North Shore, gorgeous in every weather, a l...

Reducere. Manitous lived in human form among the Ojibway in the early days, after Kitchi-Manitou (the Great Mystery) created all things and Muzzu-Kummik-Quae...

Reducere. From the 1960s R&B scene in New York City to the Minneapolis Sound of the 1980s, Pep Willie has been up close and personal with some of the most ex...

Reducere. Kids of all cultures journey through time with the Ojibwe people as their guide to the Good Path and its universal lessons of courage, cooperation,...

Reducere. DescriptionThe American Indian Movement burst onto the scene in the late 1960s as indigenous people across the country began to demand what is righ...

Reducere. Hiding in a lake under lily pads after fleeing U.S. soldiers, a Dakota woman was given a vision over the course of four days instructing her to bui...

Reducere. From the rocky, mist-enshrouded shores of Norway to the bustling streets of Minneapolis, O. E. Rolvaag lyrically chronicles the experiences of Nils...

Reducere. I am a powerful waterfall. I listen. I pay attention. I have a long memory. You might find it hard to believe, but I have moved through time. My Mi...

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...

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 ...