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The state we're in : reflections on Minnesota history
Title:
The state we're in : reflections on Minnesota history
ISBN:
9780873517737
Publication Information:
St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2010.
Physical Description:
337 p. ; 23 cm.
General Note:
Conference papers.
Contents:
Welcome to Minnesota : the state we're in / Annette Atkins -- State history in regional perspective / James H. Madison -- State history in local perspective / Paula M. Nelson -- Memory. Remembering our past / Gregory Schroeder -- The myth of the "forgotten" treaty : traditions about the St. Peters Treaty of 1837 / Bruce White -- The U.S.-Dakota War in public memory and public space; Mankato's journey toward reconciliation / Melodie Andrews -- Telling river stories : the Mississippi River runs through all of us / Patrick Nunnally -- The Maples : is this land my land? / Nora Murphy -- The flood / Marge Barrett -- Up north. Duluth ; The history of Duluth as I recall it / Louis Jenkins -- Kosher with a modern tinge : two generations of Jewish women in Virginia, Minnesota, 1894-1945 / Linda Mack Schloff -- The stone tomahawk : Ojibwe tradtion, resourcefulness, and survival in Northeastern Minnesota / Linda LeGarde Grover -- "We had this opportunity" : African Americans and the Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota / Barbara W. Sommer -- The case of the inept forger / Michael Zalar -- Identity. Early Catholic Minnesota : new sources and new questions / Tangi Villerbu -- "To sound my trumpet" : Henry Hastings Sibley, Minnesota, and the rise of a national identity / J. Thomas Murphy -- The Christie Brothers' Civil War : a reflection of Minnesota's experience / Hampton Smith -- Baseball at Native American boarding schools in Minnesota : a history / David J. Laliberte -- Method. The public side of history : museums, the recent past and possible future / Steven Penick -- Thawing a frozen moment : a photograph and the diary that brought it to life / Emily F. Ganzel -- Embracing compiled cookbooks as historical documents / Traci M. Nathans-Kelly -- Looking forward : mid-nineteenth-century predictions for Minnesota's future / Bill Wittenbreer -- Eden / Matt Callahan.
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