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Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for NonfictionNear the end of her life, Mina Anderson penned a lively memoir that helped Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg create Kristina, the …
This is an engaging, richly detailed biography of a family of Norwegian immigrant homesteaders in eastern North Dakota in the late 1800s. Educator and world traveler Aagot Raaen …
Lincoln and the Indians has stood the test of time and offers this generation of readers a valuable interpretation of the U.S. governments Indian policiesand sometimes the lack …
Since its publication, Richard Moes The Last Full Measure has garnered a reputation as the definitive history of the First Minnesota Regiment and one of a handful of classic …
Two hundred years of Minnesota history spring to life in this lively and captivating collection of essays. The North Star State encompasses the wide range of Minnesotas unique …
Against the broad backdrop of the expanding western frontier, noted Norwegian American scholar Odd S. Lovoll explores the country town through the lens of ethnicity in this …
In the nineteenth century, the United States, the land of newspapers, was also fast becoming the land of immigrants, with increasing numbers of Norwegians arriving amid the …
A boardinghouse keeper finds her kitchen in a mess after Saturday-night revelry and refuses to cook on Sunday. An iron miner pries frozen ore from a car in 40-below temperatures. A …
The Voyageur is the authoritative account of a unique and colorful group of men whose exploits, songs, and customs comprise an enduring legacy. French Canadians who guided and …
The chapter on the First Minnesota's moment of supreme sacrifice at Gettysburg is the best thing of its kind that I have ever read. --James M. McPherson??This excerpted e-short …