North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader

Contributors

Contributors Charles R. Adrian is a professor of political science at the University of California at Riverside. His books include American Politics Reappraised: The Enchantment of Camelot Dispelled (McGraw-Hill, 1974), Governing Urban America (McGraw-Hill,1977),and State and Local Politics (Wadsworth,1999). Wilbert H. Ahern is the Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the University of Minnesota,Morris.His articles documenting the history of Indian schools in Minnesota and the Dakotas have appeared in Enthnohistory,Journal of Ethnic History, and Tribal College Journal. His essay on the Morris School included in this collection received the Solon J.BuckAward for best article published in Minnesota History in 1984. Gary Clayton Anderson is a professor of history atTexas A& M University and the author of several books including Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux (MHS, 1986) and Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley,1650–1862 (MHS,1997),and co-editor of Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 (MHS,1988). Annette Atkins is a professor of history at Saint John’s University in Collegeville , Minnesota, and author of Harvest of Grief: Grasshopper Plagues and Public Assistance in Minnesota,1873–78 (MHS,1984) and We Grew Up Together:Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America (Illinois, 2001). Her article,“Walk a Century in My Shoes,”was the keynote of theWinter 1999–2000 special issue of Minnesota History. Richard Bardon, M.D.,was a prominent Duluth physician and a native of the Lake Superior country. He was president of the St. Louis County History Society and a frequent contributor to Minnesota Medicine. Thomas E. Blantz, C. S. C.,is a professorof history at the University of Notre Dame.He is the author of A Priest in Public Service:Francis J.Haas and the New 463 Deal (Notre Dame,1982) and George N.Shuster:On the Side of Truth (Notre Dame, 1993).His article “Father Haas and the Minneapolis Truckers’ Strike of 1934” received the Solon J.Buck Award in 1970. Solon J. Buck was superintendent of the Minnesota Historical Society from 1914 to 1931 and founding editor of Minnesota History Bulletin (later Minnesota History).His books included The Granger Movement:A Study of Agricultural Organization and Its Political,Economic and Social Manifestations,1870–1880 (Harvard ,1913),TheAgrarian Crusade:A Chronicle of the Farmerin Politics (Yale,1920), and Stories of Early Minnesota (Macmillan, 1925). He died in 1962.The award for the best article published each year in Minnesota History is named in his honor. Priscilla K. Buffalohead is a lecturer at Augsburg College and educator for the Native American Indian Education Program in Anoka-Hennepin School District 11,for which she has authored the student booklets Plants and Their Uses by the Chippewa Indian People and contributed to Ojibway Family Life in Minnesota. Her article on Ojibwe women included in this collection received the Solon J.Buck Award in 1983. Jennifer A. Delton is an assistant professor of history at Skidmore College and author of Making Minnesota Liberal: Civil Rights and the Transformation of the Democratic Party (Minnesota,2002). Benjamin Filene is an exhibit curator at the Minnesota Historical Society and authorof Romancing the Folk:Public Memory andAmerican Roots Music (North Carolina, 2000),winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for outstanding print,broadcast,and news media coverage of music.“Searching for Florence” was cited as a notable essay of the year in Best American Essays 1999. Richard V. Francaviglia is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington,where he serves as director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography. His many books include Main Street Revisited:Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America (Iowa, 1996), From Sail to Steam: Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500–1900 (Texas,1998),and The Cast Iron Forest:A Natural and Cultural History of the North American Cross Timbers (Texas,2000). Sherri Gebert Fuller is project manager for museum collections at the Minnesota Historical Society.Her essay,“Mirrored Identities:The Moys of St. Paul,” received the Theodore C.Blegen Award for the best article published in Minnesota History by an MHS staJ member in 2000. Contributors 464 Rhoda R. Gilman is the author of many books and articles on Minnesota history ,including The Red RiverTrails:Oxcart Routes between St.Paul and the Selkirk Settlement,1820–1870 (MHS,1979) and The Story...