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9780873514439

The North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader

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  • ISBN13:

    9780873514439

  • ISBN10:

    0873514432

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-11-01
  • Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pr
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Summary

One hundred fifty years of Minnesota history spring to life in this lively and captivating collection of essays. The North Star State encompasses the wide range of Minnesota's unique past -- from the Civil War to the World Wars, from frontier life to the age of technological innovation, from Dakota and Ojibwe history to the story of St. Paul's black sleeping-car porters, from lumber workers and truckers' strikes to the women's suffrage movement. In addition to investigative articles by the state's top historians, editor Anne Aby has assembled captivating first-person accounts from key moments in Minnesota history, including George Nelson's reminiscences of his years in the early nineteenth-century fur trade; the diary of Emily Goodridge Grey, an early African American settler; and Jasper N. Searles's letters home from the Battle of First Bull Run. From the quintessential to the quirky, from the panoramic to the particular, these essays tell a fascinating history of our state.

Culled from the best of the award-winning Minnesota History magazine, the essays in

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Anne J. Aby
Foreword: Discovering the Universe of Home xv
Paul Gruchow
The Fur Trade
The Story of the Grand Portage
5(10)
Solon J. Buck
George Nelson's Fur Trade Reminiscences, 1802--1803
15(14)
Richard Bardon
Grace Lee Nute
Gift Giving in the Lake Superior Fur Trade
29(20)
Bruce M. White
Becoming a State
Territorial Imperative: How Minnesota Became the 32nd State
49(14)
Rhoda Gilman
The Sioux Sign a Treaty in Washington in 1858
63(20)
Barbara T. Newcombe
The Power of Whiteness or, the Life and Times of Joseph Rolette Jr.
83(26)
Bruce M. White
War
``Indeed We Did Fight'': A Soldier's Letters from the First Battle of Bull Run
109(11)
Edward G. Longacre
Myrick's Insult: A Fresh Look at Myth and Reality
120(12)
Gary Clayton Anderson
Anti-Germanism in Minnesota Schools, 1917-1919
132(18)
La Vern J. Rippley
A Minnesota Couple's World War II Letters
150(19)
John S. Sonnen
Technology and Industry
A Pioneer Businessman: The Letters of Wenzel Petran
169(12)
Carlton C. Qualey
The Historic and Geographic Importance of Railroads in Minnesota
181(7)
Richard V. Francaviglia
The Technology that Launched a City
188(11)
Alison Watts
Women
Farmers, Warriors, Traders: A Fresh Look at Ojibwe Women
199(14)
Priscilla K. Buffalohead
In or Out of the Historical Kitchen?: Minnesota Rural Women
213(13)
Glenda Riley
Organizing for the Vote: The Minnesota's Woman Suffrage Movement
226(17)
Barbara Stuhler
Politics and Law
The Origin of Minnesota's Nonpartisan Legislature
243(12)
Charles R. Adrian
The Minnesota Gag Law and the Fourteenth Amendment
255(17)
John E. Hartmann
The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Schism of 1948
272(13)
G. Theodore Mitau
Labor
Revolt of the ``Timber Beasts'': IWW Lumber Strike in Minnesota
285(17)
John E. Haynes
Father Haas and the Minneapolis Truckers' Strike of 1934
302(14)
Thomas E. Blantz
Labor, Politics, and African American Identity in Minneapolis, 1930-1950
316(19)
Jennifer Delton
Race and Ethnicity
Race and Segregation in St. Paul's Public Schools, 1846-1869
335(13)
William D. Green
Indian Education and Bureaucracy: The School at Morris, 1887-1909
348(27)
Wilbert H. Ahern
Knute Nelson and the Immigration Question
375(15)
Robert Zeidel
``Gentiles Preferred'': Minneapolis Jews and Employment 1920-1950
390(23)
Laura E. Weber
Making History
Mirrored Identities: The Moys of St. Paul
413(20)
Sherri Gebert Fuller
Walk a Century in My Shoes: Minnesota 1900-2000
433(21)
Annette Atkins
Searching for Florence
454(9)
Benjamin Filene
Contributors 463(6)
Index 469

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