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- North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: Minnesota Historical Society Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- THE FUR TRADE
- The Story of the Grand Portage
- pp. 5-14
- BECOMING A STATE
- WAR
- A Minnesota Couple’s World War II Letters
- pp. 150-165
- TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRY
- The Technology that Launched a City
- pp. 188-196
- WOMEN
- POLITICS & LAW
- LABOR
- RACE & ETHNICITY
- Knute Nelson and the Immigration Question
- pp. 375-389
- MAKING HISTORY
- Mirrored Identities: The Moys of St. Paul
- pp. 413-432
- Searching for Florence
- pp. 454-462
- Contributors
- pp. 463-467
Additional Information
ISBN
9780873516877
Related ISBN(s)
9780873514446
MARC Record
OCLC
757650668
Pages
512
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No