Author: Curt BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9781681340807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A story of trauma, tragedy, and perseverance in a year that proved to be a turning point in the making of modern America.
Minnesota, 1918
Author: Curt BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9781681340807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A story of trauma, tragedy, and perseverance in a year that proved to be a turning point in the making of modern America.
Minnesota, 1918
Author: Curt BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9781681341477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A story of trauma, tragedy, and perseverance in a year that proved to be a turning point in the making of modern America.
The Progressive Era in Minnesota, 1899-1918
Author: Carl Henry ChrislockPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This thought-provoking study of the Progressive movement traces its rise and decline in Minnesota, its link with the Granger, Farmers Alliance, Populist, and Nonpartisan League traditions, and the tragic divisions created by World War I.
The Great Influenza
Author: John M. BarryPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101200979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
#1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart." At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.
The Fires of Autumn
Author: Francis M. CarrollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In the fall of 1918, devastating forest fires swept across a major portion of northeastern Minnesota. Drawing on both published survivors' accounts and on trial testimony never publicized, the authors bring to light this saga of destruction, resurrection, and resilience in the face of adversity.
Minnesota Mayhem
Author: Ben WelterPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 161423504X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This true crime history recounts more than a century of crime, deviousness, and disaster in the North Star State. In Minnesota Mayhem, local historian and author Ben Welter explores the best of the state's worst moments. Culled from the archives of the Minneapolis Tribune and its successor newspapers, these stories and photos range from the catastrophic to the chillingly curious and the simply strange. Among the true tales told in these pages, Welter recounts the career of a successful con man in 1871; an 1881 fire that destroyed the State Capitol; a flu outbreak that killed more than 10,000 Minnesotans in 1918; the arrest of Frank Lloyd Wright at a Lake Minnetonka cottage in 1926; an arrested stripper who claimed wardrobe malfunction in 1953; and the 1977 murder of a wealthy matron in Duluth.
Lost Minnesota
Author: Jack El-HaiPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452904641
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Tells the stories behind 89 of the lost buildings and landmarks of Minnesota, from rural and small-town Minnesota, as well as from the state's metropolitan and suburban areas.
The Last Full Measure
Author: Richard MoePublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873514064
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Since its publication, Richard Moe's The Last Full Measure has garnered a reputation as the definitive history of the First Minnesota Regiment and one of a handful of classic regimental histories of the Civil War. The First Minnesota Volunteers, the first regiment offered to President Lincoln after the fall of Fort Sumter, served in virtually every major battle fought in the eastern theater during the first three years of the Civil War. This is the story of the Army of the Potomac during that period: the initial enthusiasm dashed by sudden defeat at Bull Run; the pride at being shaped into an army by George McClellan and the frustration with his--and his successors'--inability to defeat Robert E. Lee; and, finally, the costly battle of Gettysburg, the decisive battle in which the First Minnesota played a crucial, and tragic, role. Drawing on a wide array of letters, diaries, and personal reminiscences, Moe tells the story anew through the experiences of the men who lived it. As James MacGregor Burns notes in his foreword, "Like Tolstoy's War and Peace, this work sticks close to the men in battle, and hence, like Tolstoy, the author keeps close to the human size of war." Praise for The Last Full Measure "Richard Moe, in this wonderfully told regimental history, manages to rescue that which Civil War studies so often neglects: the people."--Ken Burns, co-producer of The Civil War "Exceptional . . . a vigorous, haunting celebration of the Men."--The New York Times Book Review "Regimental history at its best."--Publishers Weekly "Highly recommended. . . . Thoroughly researched and excellently incorporating the soldier's-eye view of the war. . . . The best volume of Civil War historiography to appear in some time."--Booklist "A tribute to the men who helped save the Union. . . . If ever a regiment deserved to be remembered, it is the First Minnesota. . . . Richard Moe has a passion for history. He clearly also has a talent for writing it."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
Growing Up on a Minnesota Farm
Author: Beverly JacksonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738518619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
With nearly 100 vintage images and personal stories, [this book] relives the era [1930-1970] of this major agricultural revolution and takes the reader on a journey that will define a time of momentous change.
Marven of the Great North Woods
Author: Kathryn LaskyPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152168261
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
When his Jewish parents send him to a Minnesota logging camp to escape the influenza epidemic of 1918, ten-year-old Marven finds a special friend.