Read MN 2023: Minnesota History
READ MINNESOTA 2023: 30% OFF BOOKS FROM UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
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Gunflint Falling Blowdown in the Boundary Waters Cary J. Griffith 2023 Fall
- Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster
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Grace & Grit A History of Ballet in Minnesota Georgia Finnegan 2022 Fall
- A complete history of ballet in Minnesota by a professional dancer and creative force in the Twin Cities artistic community
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Dreaming Our Futures Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers Brenda J. Child and Howard Oransky, Editors 2023 Fall
- A beautiful collection of the art and life stories of regional Native painters
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The King of Skid Row John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis James Eli Shiffer 2023 Fall
- The story of a much different Minneapolis, through the words and photographs of one of its most colorful characters—now in paperback
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Blood in the Tracks The Minnesota Musicians behind Dylan's Masterpiece Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik 2023 Spring
- The story of the Minneapolis musicians unexpectedly summoned to re-record half of the songs on Bob Dylan's most acclaimed album
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Too Much Sea for Their Decks Shipwrecks of Minnesota’s North Shore and Isle Royale Michael Schumacher 2023 Spring
- Shipwreck stories from along Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale
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Blue Guitar Highway Paul Metsa 2023 Spring
- The singular Minnesota musician tells his story of making music, from folk outpost to pop paradise to stages shared with stars from Seeger to Springsteen
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Latin Art in Minnesota Conversations and What’s Next William G. Franklin, Editor 2023 Spring
- A richly illustrated and personal presentation of the lives and careers of twelve Latin American artists in Minnesota
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Eastcliff History of a Home Karen Fults Kaler 2022 Fall
- An illustrated tour of this historic mansion on the Mississippi River, now the official home of the president of the University of Minnesota—and the most-visited public residence in the state
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From Lapland to Sápmi Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture Barbara Sjoholm 2023 Spring
- A cultural history of Sápmi and the Nordic countries as told through objects and artifacts
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Making the Carry The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater Timothy Cochrane 2022 Fall
- An extraordinary illustrated biography of a Métis man and Anishinaabe woman navigating great changes in their homeland along the U.S.–Canada border in the early twentieth century
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Break Point Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX Sheri Brenden 2022 Fall
- How two teenage girls in Minnesota jump-started a revolution in high school athletics
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Not the Camilla We Knew One Woman’s Path from Small-town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army Rachael Hanel 2022 Fall
- The mystery of how an ordinary Minnesota girl came to be, briefly, one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States
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Boathouses of Lake Minnetonka Karen Melvin and Melinda Nelson 2022 Fall
- A fascinating chapter of Lake Minnetonka history
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Great Houses of Summit Avenue and the Hill District Karen Melvin, Paul Clifford Larson, Bette Hammel, Melinda Nelson and Dave Kenney 2022 Fall
- A lavishly illustrated record of the architectural—and preservation—wonders of the most elegant neighborhoods of St. Paul
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Winter’s Children A Celebration of Nordic Skiing Ryan Rodgers 2021 Fall
- The story of Nordic skiing in the Midwest—its origins and history, its star athletes and races, and its place in the region’s social fabric and the nation’s winter recreation
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Nellie Francis Fighting for Racial Justice and Women’s Equality in Minnesota William D. Green 2020 Fall
- The life and work of an African American suffragist and activist devoted to equality and freedom
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Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis Jim Walsh 2020 Fall
- A veteran Twin Cities journalist and raconteur summons the life of the city after reporting and recording its stories for more than thirty years
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The Wedding Heard ’Round the World America’s First Gay Marriage Michael McConnell 2020 Fall
- Forty-four years after two men married in a legal ceremony in Minnesota, the Supreme Court has decided the question first raised by these gay pioneers
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Degrees of Freedom The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912 William D. Green 2020 Spring
- The true story, and the black citizens, behind the evolution of racial equality in Minnesota
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Walking the Old Road A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe Staci Lola Drouillard 2019 Fall
- The story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village—and a vital chapter of the history of the North Shore
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The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings 2019 Fall
- A documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history
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Professor Berman The Last Lecture of Minnesota’s Greatest Public Historian Hy Berman 2019 Fall
- Behind the scenes of Minnesota history, by way of the engaging life story of the state’s best-known and beloved political observer
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The Lost Brothers A Family’s Decades-Long Search Jack El-Hai 2019 Fall
- The dread, the drama, and the hope of a break in one of the country’s oldest active missing-child investigations
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Gunflint Burning Fire in the Boundary Waters Cary J. Griffith 2019 Spring
- The story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota history—the blaze, the firefighters’ battle, the human toll
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Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade Timothy Cochrane 2018 Fall
- The journals of two clerks of the American Fur Company recall a lost moment in the history of the fur trade and the Anishinaabeg along Lake Superior’s North Shore
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Torn in Two The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man’s Survival on the Open Sea Michael Schumacher 2018 Fall
- A gripping tale of one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history and of remarkable survival against all odds
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The Crusade for Forgotten Souls Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Institutions, 1946-1954 Susan Bartlett Foote 2018 Spring
- The stirring story of the reform movement that laid the groundwork for a modern mental health system in Minnesota
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The Infamous Harry Hayward A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis Shawn Francis Peters 2018 Spring
- A fascinating tale of seduction, murder, fraud, coercion—and the trial of the “Minneapolis Monster”
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Voices of Rondo Oral Histories of Saint Paul’s Historic Black Community 2017 Fall
- A look at the historic Rondo neighborhood of Saint Paul through the eyes of thirty-three former residents—back in print