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Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immingrant Life and Minnesota's Urban Frontier
During the era of Swedish mass emigration to the United States-about 1.3 million Swedes arrived between 1850 and 1930-more members of this group made their homes in Minnesota than …
Jul: Swedish American Holiday Traditions
From sm rg sbord and St. Lucia processions to Christmas Eve gatherings with dear family and friends, Swedish American holiday traditions are linked through the generations by a …
Daughters of Arraweelo: Stories of Somali Women
Somali women tell their stories, sharing experiences of love, war, displacement, family, identity, and everyday life. After civil war broke out in Somalia in 1991, thousands of …
Black White Blue: The Assassination of Patrolman James Sackett
A white police officer is assassinated in a troubled St. Paul neighborhood. Thirty-six year later, two African American grandfathers are convicted in controversial trials that …
When I Was a Child
At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the poverty-stricken Swedish region of Sm land, young Valter, the son of a soldier, explores the world around him and watches his …
Girl in Building C
In October 1943, sixteen-year-old Marilyn Barnes was told that her recent bout of pneumonia was in fact tuberculosis. She entered Ah-gwah-ching State Sanatorium at Walker, …
The Thunder Before the Storm: The Autobiography of Clyde Bellecourt
Legendary activist and AIM co-founder Clyde Bellecourt tells "the damn truth" about the American Indian Movement as he lived it. The American Indian Movement burst onto the scene …
Black White Blue
On May 22, 1970, responding to a bogus emergency call to help a pregnant woman, St. Paul patrolman James Sackett was killed by a snipers bullet fired from a high-powered rifle.The …
Grass of the Earth
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 …
Little Crow
Government officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white …
History of Minnesota Volume 4
Considered the most authoritative history of the state, the four volume set was first published in the 1920s. Volume Four covers special topics on iron mining, public education, …