Author: Olga Lakela
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: minnesota, editions, archive, flora, northeastern
Number of Pages: 558
Published: 1965-12-28
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0816658080
ISBN-13: 9780816658084
A Flora of Northeastern Minnesota was first published in 1965. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. A manual for the identification of the ferns, fern allies, flowering plants, trees, shrubs, and herbs of Minnesota’s Arrowhead region, this volume lists 113 botanic families and describes 1,300 species, with keys for identification. There are 80 line drawings of plant species and 419 maps showing distribution.
Authors:Martin Schwabacher, Patricia K. Kummer,
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books
Keywords: minnesota, states, celebrate
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-03
List price: $42.79
ISBN-10: 0761427163
ISBN-13: 9780761427162
Author: Minnesota Historical Society
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: book, borealis, minnesota, guide, wpa
Number of Pages: 539
Published: 1985-05
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0873511859
ISBN-13: 9780873511858
In the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, the federal government put thousands of unemployed writers to work in the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Out of their efforts came the American Guide series, the first comprehensive guidebooks to the people, resources, and traditions of each state in the union.The WPA Guide to Minnesota is a lively and detailed introduction to the state and its people. Much has changed since the book’s first publication in 1938 when, as the authors noted, some Minnesotans could "clearly recall . . . the sight of bro
Author: David Taylor
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: minnesota, people, americans, african
Number of Pages: 101
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0873514203
ISBN-13: 9780873514200
While making up a smaller percentage of Minnesota’s population compared to national averages, African Americans have had a profound influence on the history and culture of the state from its earliest days to the present. In African Americans in Minnesota, author David Vassar Taylor chronicles the rich history of Blacks in the state through careful analysis of census and housing records, newspaper records, and first-person accounts. He recounts their triumphs and struggles over the past 200 years in a clear and concise narrative. Major themes covered include settlement by Blacks du
Authors:Jon Gjerde, Carlton C. Qualey,
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: minnesota, people, norwegians
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 2002-05-15
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0873514211
ISBN-13: 9780873514217
The images of the Vikings professional football team, the stereotype of the ’Norwegian bachelor farmer’, and even Minnesotan’s speech patterns proclaim the Norwegian heritage of Minnesota. But the Norwegian settlers have contributed much more to the state, as authors Carlton C Qualey and Jon A Gjerde make clear. The Norwegians, who first arrived in territorial days, created lasting farming settlements, especially in the Red River Valley. Their Lutheran churches continue to dot the landscape. But their experience was also urban, as they entered the trades and industries of the
Authors:Kathleen Conzen, Bill Holm,
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pre
Keywords: minnesota, people, germans
Number of Pages: 102
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0873514548
ISBN-13: 9780873514545
A concise history of Germans in Minnesota including immigration patterns, the Catholic and Lutheran churches, cultural organizations, businesses, and politics, especially in the World War I years. Minnesota is often associated with its Scandinavian heritage, but in fact Germans are the largest single immigrant group in Minnesota history and were the largest ancestry group in the 2000 census. Author Kathleen Neils Conzen tells the story of German Americans and their profound influence on Minnesota history and culture. Conzen recounts their triumphs and struggles over the last 150 years in a cle
Author: John Radzilowski
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: minnesota, people, poles
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2005-02-15
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0873515161
ISBN-13: 9780873515160
Polish Americans have been part of Minnesota history since before the state’s founding. Taking up farms along newly laid rail networks, Polish immigrants fanned across the countryside in small but important concentrations. In cities like Winona and St. Paul, Northeast Minneapolis and Duluth, as well as on the Iron Range, Polish American workers helped drive a growing industrial and agricultural economy--and established their own cultural identity within the state. Polish Americans, many of them political refugees, created and sustained a wide range of community institutions from churches
