Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings
Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Minnesota
Author: Publisher: Somerset Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Minnesota's Major Historic Sites
Author: June Drenning HolmquistPublisher:
ISBN: 9780873510738
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Josie Dances
Author: Denise LajimodierePublisher:
ISBN: 9781681342078
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
An Ojibwe girl practices her dance steps, gets help from her family, and is inspired by the soaring flight of Migizi, the eagle, as she prepares for her first powwow.
Creating Minnesota
Author: Annette AtkinsPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873516648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Winner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book. Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates a larger event, social trends, or politics during a period in our past. A three-act play about Minnesota's statehood vividly depicts the competing interests of Natives, traders, and politicians who lived in the same territory but moved in different worlds. Oranges are the focal point of a chapter about railroads and transportation: how did a St. Paul family manage to celebrate their 1898 Christmas with fruit that grew no closer than 1,500 miles from their home? A photo essay brings to life three communities of the 1920s, seen through the lenses of local and itinerant photographers. The much-sought state fish helps to explain the new Minnesota, where pan-fried walleye and walleye quesadillas coexist on the same north woods menu. In Creating Minnesota Atkins invites readers to experience the texture of people's lives through the decades, offering a fascinating and unparalleled approach to the history of our state.
National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
Author: Mary Ann NordPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873517458
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A county-by-county guide to Minnesota's more than 1,500 holdings on the National Register of Historic Places, the country's official list of historic properties.
How to Hide an Empire
Author: Daniel ImmerwahrPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.
Everyone's Country Estate
Author: Roy Willard MeyerPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873512664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
In 1891 Minnesota established its first state park at Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi River. In the century that followed, Minnesotans and tourists from other states have enjoyed hiking, picnicking, fishing, camping, canoeing, and skiing at Itasca and Minnesota's 64 other state parks. This helpful guide to the past in the parks will be welcomed by people who regularly visit a favorite Minnesota park, people who have set out to visit every park, and people who are newly discovering the parks' wonders.
The National Register of Historic Places Minnesota Checklist
Author: Twin Cities Picture Show
Author: Dave KenneyPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873517555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
A lively illustrated history that reveals how the movie business has fascinated, scandalized, and socialized the Twin Cities and its people.