Title:
The North Star State : a Minnesota history reader / edited by Anne J. Aby ; foreword by Paul Gruchow.
ISBN:
9780873514439
9780873514446
Publication Information:
St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2002]
©2002
Physical Description:
xxv, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Foreword : discovering the universe of home / Paul Gruchow -- Story of the Grand Portage / Solon J. Buck -- George Nelson's fur trade reminiscences, 1802-1803 / edited by Richard Bardon and Grace Lee Nute -- Gift giving in the Lake Superior fur trade / Bruce M. White -- Territorial imperative : how Minnesota became the 32nd state / Rhoda Gilman -- Sioux sign a treaty in Washington in 1858 / Barbara T. Newcombe -- Power of whiteness or, the life and times of Joseph Rolette Jr. / Bruce M. White -- "Indeed we did fight" : a soldier's letters from the first battle of Bull Run / Edited by Edward G. Longacre -- Myrick's insult : a fresh look at myth and reality / Gary Clayton Anderson -- Anti-Germanism in Minnesota schools, 1917-1919 / La Vern J. Rippley -- A Minnesota couple's World War II letters / John S. Sonnen -- A pioneer businessman : the letters of Wenzel Petran / edited by Carlton C. Qualey -- Historic and geographic importance of railroads in Minnesota / Richard V. Francaviglia -- Technology that launched a city / Alison Watts -- Farmers, warriors, traders : a fresh look at Ojibwe women / Priscilla K. Buffalohead -- In or out of the historical kitchen : Minnesota rural women / Glenda Riley -- Organizing for the vote : the Minnesota's woman suffrage movement / Barbara Stuhler -- Origin of Minnesota's nonpartisan legislature / Charles R. Adrian -- Minnesota gag law and the fourteenth amendment / John E. Hartmann -- Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party schism of 1948 / G. Theodore Mitau -- Revolt of the "timber beasts" : IWW Lumber Strike in Minnesota / John E. Hynes -- Father Haas and the Minneapolis Truckers' Strike of 1934 / Thomas E. Blantz -- Labor, politics, and African American identity in Minneapolis, 1930-1950 / Jennifer Delton -- Race and segregation in St. Paul's public schools, 1846-1869 / William D. Green -- Indian education and bureaucracy : the school at Morris, 1887-1909 / Wilbert H. Ahern -- Knute Nelson and the immigration question / Robert Zeidel -- "Gentiles preferred" : Minneapolis Jews and employment 1920-1950 / Laura E. Weber -- Mirrored identities : the Moys of St. Paul / Sherri Gebert Fuller -- Walk a century in my shoes : Minnesota 1900-2000 / Annette Atkins -- Searching for Florence / Benjamin Filene.
Summary:
Culled 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.
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Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy035/2002010099.html
OCLC Number:
ocm50129272
Availability:
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