Author: Evelyn Fairbanks
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: minnesota, rondo, days
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1990-03-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0873512561
ISBN-13: 9780873512565

Evelyn Fairbanks grew up in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s along Rondo Avenue--the heart of St. Paul’s largest black neighborhood. Her book tells the warm and human stories she recalls from those years in the then-vibrant community that was doomed to disappear with the coming of the freeways in the 1960s. "It is important for me to tell these stories, because I want others to know some of the people, events, and places that made up my neighborhood."--Evelyn Fairbanks

Author: Vilhelm Moberg
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: book, novels, emigrant, moberg, vilhelm, emigrants
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1995-09-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0873513193
ISBN-13: 9780873513197

Book One introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their 3 young children, and 11 others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Smland in 1850.

Authors:F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dave Page,
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: fitzgerald, scott, stories, paul
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-09-24
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0873515129
ISBN-13: 9780873515122

For his keen social insight, glib sophistication, and breathtaking lyricism, F. Scott Fitzgerald stands as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. His biographers all note the importance of his boyhood in St. Paul, where, as he put it, he lived in "a house below the average on a street above the average." Fitzgerald?s sensitivity about wealth and position?later made evident in such classics as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night--was bred of his St. Paul family and associations. F. Scott Fitzgerald?s St. Paul is a city of winter dreams and ice palaces, lakes

Author: Frances Densmore
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: historical, society, minnesota, publications, customs, chippewa
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 1979-10-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0873511425
ISBN-13: 9780873511421

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

Author: John P. Williamson
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: books, borealis, dictionary, dakota, english
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 1992-10-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0873512839
ISBN-13: 9780873512831

John Williamson (1835-1917), son of missionary Dr. Thomas S. Williamson, grew up speaking both English and Dakota and spent most of his adult life on the Santee Reservation of northeastern Nebraska. In 1902 he made his contribution to the world’s collection of lexicons by producing this English-Dakota dictionary.

Author: Chia Vang
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: minnesota, people, hmong
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2008-01-15
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0873515986
ISBN-13: 9780873515986

Minnesota has always been a land of immigrants. Successive waves have each made their own way, found their place, and made it their home. The Hmong are one of the most recent immigrant groups, and their remarkable and moving story is told in Hmong in Minnesota.   Chia Youyee Vang reveals the colorful, intricate history of Hmong Minnesotans, many of whom were forced to flee their homeland of Laos when the communists seized power during the Vietnam War. Having assisted U.S. troops in the “Secret War,” Hmong soldiers and civilians were eligible to settle in the United States. Vang offers a