History

North Country examines the relations between the Europeans and Native people from contact through the 1862 conflict, in the Great Lake Region and the land the became Minnesota. This book has excellent illustrations!

Using stories, Creating Minnesota, provides a fresh new look at Minnesota History.

Excellent resource to being your research on European immigration in Minnesota.

The guide is very useful for locating primary sources and secondary sources on the Nonpartisan League. Be aware, everything might not be locally available!

In order to reveal the nature and extent of this struggle for legitimacy and authority, To Be The Main Leaders of Our People reconstructs the political and social history of these Minnesota Ojibwe communities between the years 1825 and 1898. Ojibwe political concerns, the thoughts and actions of Ojibwe political leaders, and the operation of the Ojibwe political system define the work's focus.

Histories of Minnesota typically begin with seventeenth-century French fur traders exploring the western shores of Lake Superior. And yet, archaeology reveals that Native Americans lived in the region at least 13,000 years before such European incursions. Archaeology of Minnesota tells their story—or as much as the region’s wealth of artifacts, evidence of human activity, and animal and plant remains can convey.

How Did Minnesota Get Its Shape? Why is Isle Royale part of Michigan? What’s with that knob on top of Minnesota? And why doesn’t it include the entirety of Lake of the Woods? What about the bump on the western border? How long has the rivalry between Wisconsin and Minnesota actually existed? How were the boundaries mapped before GPS? Find the answers to these questions (and more) inside!

Somalis in the Twin Cities and Columbus seeks to understand the integration outcomes of refugees in the Midwest at local and state levels to show how communities struggle with political, social, and economic incorporation. While many immigration titles examine the Latino community, this book focuses on the black Muslim Somalis, providing an important understanding of the lives of this understudied and misunderstood group--before and after their arrival to the U.S. It is a timely look at the American policies that help and hinder immigrants settling in the U.S.