North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader

North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader

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An engaging history of Minnesota, told in compelling essays by the state’s finest historians and writers.

Two hundred 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.

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An engaging history of Minnesota, told in compelling essays by the state’s finest historians and writers.

Two hundred 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.

About the Author

Bruce White is an award-winning historian and anthropologist with long experience in research and writing. White holds an M.A. in history from McGill University in Montreal and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Minnesota. He directs Turnstone Historical Research, based in Saint Paul. Through his company, White consults and does research for Indian tribes and government agencies. He testified in federal court in the landmark 1994 Mille Lacs treaty hunting and fishing rights case and continues to testify in other cases relating to Indian treaties.

White is the author of numerous books and articles about Minnesota and Native American history, including Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota, for which he and co-author Gwen Westerman received a Minnesota Book Award in 2013 and a Hognander Minnesota History Award in 2014. His other books include We Are At Home: Pictures of the Ojibwe People and The Trade at Grand Portage: Trade Patterns at the Great Carrying Place.

Details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Minnesota Historical Society Press; 1st edition (November 1, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 484 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0873514432
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0873514439
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.95 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.75 x 9.25 inches

Additional information

Weight 1.66 lbs
Dimensions 9.12 × 6.06 × 1.39 in

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