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SUMMARY:Book Launch: A Natural Curiosity
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed Book Launch:\nA Natural Curiosity: The Story of the Bell Museum\nWith Don Luce and Barbara Coffin\, Hosted by Dr. George Weiblen\nWednesday\, April 20\, 2022\n7:00 PM – 8:30 PM\nHosted by the Bell Museum\nLive program on Zoom. Free. \nFor registration\, see Natural Curiosity Book Launch Tickets \n\n\nSince its humble start in 1872 as a one-room cabinet of curiosities\, the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum of natural history has become one of the state’s most important cultural institutions. From its conception as part of a state-mandated geological and natural history survey\, to its most recent ventures into technology\, environmental science\, and DNA sequencing\, the Bell Museum has informed\, explained\, and expanded our relationship to the natural world. Drawing on a wealth of materials unearthed during the museum’s recent move\, the gorgeously illustrated book\, A Natural Curiosity\, chronicles the remarkable discoveries and personalities that have made the Bell Museum what it is today. \nJoin us for a special evening book launch event with co-authors Barbara Coffin and Don Luce. Hosted by the Bell’s Science Director Dr. George Weiblen\, the event will feature brief presentations by the authors and a moderated discussion focused on the museum’s leadership and innovation in public education throughout its long history. \n\nTo order the book\, see University of Minnesota Press: A Natural Curiosity \n\nAbout the speakers \nDon Luce is Bell Museum Curator of Exhibits. For more than forty years he has curated most of the museum’s temporary exhibitions\, including Exploring Evolution\, The Lion’s Mane\, Wildlife Art in America\, and Audubon and the Art of Birds. He initiated the Bell’s traveling exhibitions program\, developed and expanded its natural history art collection\, and played a key role in the conception and design of the new museum’s permanent exhibit gallery\, Minnesota Journeys. \nBarbara Coffin has promoted the conservation and understanding of Minnesota’s natural world throughout her career. She is the former head of media productions and adult programs at the Bell Museum and played an important role in the design of the new museum’s exhibit galleries. She is executive producer of the Emmy Award–winning television documentary Minnesota: A History of the Land and coeditor of Minnesota’s Endangered Flora and Fauna (Minnesota\, 1988).
URL:https://rchs.com/event/book-launch-a-natural-curiosity/
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Whiteness in Plain View
DESCRIPTION:Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota\nwith author Chad Montrie\nHistory Revealed Series\nWednesday\, April 6\, 2022\n7:00 pm\nSponsored by the East Side Freedom Library and Minnesota Historical Society Press\, in partnership with the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to the book launch of Whiteness in Plain View: Racial Exclusion in Minnesota with author Chad Montrie. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n\nMinnesota is a paradox. Widely seen as a progressive stronghold of the Midwest\, the state also has some of the greatest racial disparities in the nation. Those disparities have their roots in Minnesota’s earliest days as a territory and in the decades that followed. From enslaved people brought to the territory by military officers to migrants traveling to the North Star State after the Civil War\, African Americans have long been present in Minnesota’s history. Yet while many came here looking to establish new lives\, they were often met with White resistance and attempts to exclude them.Whiteness in Plain View examines the ways White residents across Minnesota acted to intimidate\, control\, remove\, and keep out African Americans over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their methods ranged from anonymous threats\, vandalism\, and mob violence to restrictive housing covenants\, realtor deceit\, and mortgage discrimination\, and they were aided by local\, state\, and federal government agencies as well as openly complicit public officials. What they did was not an anomaly or aberration\, in some particular place or passing moment\, but rather common and continuous. Chapter by chapter\, the book shows that Minnesota’s overwhelming Whiteness is neither accidental nor incidental\, and that racial exclusion’s legacy is very much woven into the state’s contemporary politics\, economy\, and culture. \nProfessor Montrie will be engaged in conversation at the East Side Freedom Library by a panel of invited discussants. The ESFL team will create a hybrid format in which online audience members\, both via zoom and Facebook\, will be able to participate in the conversation.  Join us! \n \n\n\nChad Montrie is a professor in the history department at the University of Massachusetts\, Lowell. He is the author of four books\, including The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism. His article “In that Very Northern City: Recovering a Forgotten Struggle for Racial Integration in Duluth” appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of Minnesota History magazine. \n  \n\nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants. These programs focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: We Are Meant to Rise
DESCRIPTION:We Are Meant to Rise\nwith Carolyn Holbrook\, David Mura\, Suleiman Adan\, Marcie Rendon and Kevin Yang\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 13\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library.\nWe Are Meant to Rise is presented in partnership with More Than a Single Story and the University of Minnesota Press. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to join us for our first History Revealed for 2022 with a panel discussion of We Are Meant to Rise as we kick off our series\, “Making Minnesota” which will explore the often untold stories\, histories and experiences of the immigrant\, African American and Indigenous communities that make up our most diverse county. \nWe are Meant to Rise (published by the University of Minnesota Press) is a brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond\, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota. These writers bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in U.S. history\, with essays and poems that vividly reflect the traumas we endured in 2020. \nArising out of Carolyn Holbrook’s work with her organization\, More Than a Single Story\, We Are Meant to Rise merges the events of today\, the past year\, and the centuries before\, in works that are powerful testaments to the intrinsic and unique value of all who make up our community\, lifting up the often overlooked voices of BIPOC writers in Minnesota. \nWe are honored to have some of these writers join us in a panel discussion about their writing and experiences. Editors Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura will be joined by authors Suleiman Adan\, Marcie Rendon and Kevin Yang\, who will share their perspectives on the events of the past year\, from the Covid pandemic to the murder of George Floyd\, to the world-wide demands for racial justice\, and how those recent experiences tie into past histories. \nWe Are Meant to Rise contains works from authors with international reputations to those newly emerging; and features people from many cultures\, including Indigenous Dakota and Anishinaabe\, African American\, Hmong\, Somali\, Afghani\, Lebanese\, Korean\, Vietnamese\, Japanese\, Puerto Rican\, Colombian\, Mexican\, transracial adoptees\, mixed race\, and LGBTQ+ perspectives. \nAs editor David Mura says in the book’s introduction\, “Diversity is our strength. Each new voice who becomes part of America is our strength. The writers in this anthology provide us with individualized portraits of who we are\, and in doing so they can help us to know each other\, our neighbors\, our fellow citizens. These writers prove we are indeed more than a single story.” \nPanelist Bios \n \nCarolyn Holbrook is founder and director of More Than a Single Story\, as well as the founder of SASE: The Write Place. She is a writer\, educator\, and an advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her essay collection Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify (Minnesota\, 2020) received a Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is coauthor of Dr. Josie Johnson’s memoir Hope in the Struggle (Minnesota\, 2019)\, and her essays have been published widely\, in A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota\, as well as many other publications. She was the first person of color to win the Kay Sexton Award from the Minnesota Book Awards and the Friends of the St. Paul Public Libraries for contributions to Minnesota literature\, and was a “50 over 50” honoree in 2016. \n \nDavid Mura has written ten books\, including the memoirs Turning Japanese\, a New York Times Notable Book; Where the Body Meets Memory; and four poetry collections\, After We Lost Our Way\, a National Poetry Contest winner; The Colors of Desire\, which received the Carl Sandburg Award; Angels for the Burning; The Last Incantations; and A Stranger’s Journey: Race\, Identity\, and Narrative Craft in Writing. He teaches at VONA\, a writers’ conference for writers of color\, and has worked with Alexs Pate’s Innocent Classroom\, a program designed to improve relationships between teachers and students of color. \n \nSuleiman Adan is a writer\, educator\, and grassroots organizer in the Twin Cities. He works as a program manager with Reading and Math Inc. and is also a Quran/Arabic and Islamic studies teacher at the Northwest Islamic Community Center in Plymouth\, Minnesota. He is a project manager and board chair for the Global Alliance of Muslims for Equality\, an international NGO. \n \nMarcie Rendon\, White Earth citizen. Girl Gone Missing\, Soho Press\, second in the Cash Blackbear series was nominated for the Sue Grafton Memorial Award\, 2020. Murder on the Red River\, Soho Press\, received the Pinckley Women’s Debut Crime Novel Award 2018 and was a Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist 2018. Sinister Graves\, third in the Cash Blackbear series\, will be published by Soho in 2022. Rendon has children’s books\, plays\, short stories and poetry published. Her script\, Sweet Revenge had a staged reading at the Playwright Center in partnership with the Guthrie\, 2021. Rendon received the 2020 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award\, to honor a Minnesota artist who has made significant contributions to the state’s cultural life. She curated TwinCities Public Television’s Art Is… CreativeNativeResilience 2019. Diego Vazquez and Rendon received the 2017 Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for work with incarcerated women. \n \nKevin Yang is a multimedia storyteller born and raised in the Twin Cities who finds most of his inspiration unraveling his Hmong American experience with others. He creates in the mediums of spoken word poetry and documentary filmmaking. He represented Hamline University at the College Union Poetry Slam invitational and was a New Angle Documentary Fellow at Saint Paul Network. \nTo purchase We Are Meant to Rise and other History Revealed titles\, we hope you will visit our partner\, Subtext Books at 6 West Fifth Street in downtown Saint Paul\, or check out their website at https://subtextbooks.com/
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Hazel Belvo
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society presents \n\nThe Spirit Tree: Hazel Belvo and the Art of Nature\nJulie L’Enfant\nNovember 18\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nIn partnership with the Roseville Library & the East Side Freedom Library\n \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nThe program is free and open to all.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n\nHazel Belvo has been an influential artist\, art educator\, and feminist leader for more than fifty years. Her prodigious output ranges from delicate drawings to monumental paintings exploring nature\, spirituality\, and the feminine psyche. She is best known for over four hundred works on the legendary Spirit Little Cedar Tree on the North Shore of Lake Superior whose ancient\, twisted form embodies the endurance and majesty of nature. In this talk Julie L’Enfant\, author of the new book Hazel Belvo: A Matriarch of Art\, will introduce Belvo’s eventful life and the many friendships and associations in the art world that fostered the evolution of her unique expressionist vision. \nJulie L’Enfant\, former professor of art history at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul\, is the author of seven books\, including The Gag Family: German-Bohemian Arts in America (2002)\, Pioneer Modernists: Minnesota’s First Generation of Women Artists (2011)\, both winners of Minnesota Book Awards\, and Nicholas R. Brewer: His Art and Family (2018). \nTo purchase the book\, see our partner\, Subtext Books: Hazel Belvo: A Matriarch of Art by Julie L’Enfant
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-hazel-belvo/
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: St Paul
DESCRIPTION:St. Paul: An Urban Biography\nBill Lindeke\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nOctober 21\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nNote new date! \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library and the East Side Freedom Library\n \n\nAuthor Bill Lindeke will share stories and research from his new book\, St. Paul: An Urban Biography\, a concise history of St. Paul\, featuring stories that are familiar\, surprising\, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota’s capital city. \nHow did the city of St. Paul come to be where and what it is\, and what does that show us about the city today? Bill Lindeke provides intriguing insights and helpful answers. He tells the stories of the Dakota village forced to move across the Mississippi by a treaty—and why whiskey sellers took over the site; the new community’s close ties to Fort Snelling and Winnipeg; the steamboats and railroads that created a booming city; the German immigrants who outnumbered the Irish but kept a low profile when the United States went to war; the laborers who built the domes over the state capitol and the Cathedral of St. Paul; the gangsters and bootleggers who found refuge in the city; the strong neighborhoods\, shaped by streets built on footpaths and wagon roads—until freeway construction changed so much; and the Hmong\, Mexican\, East African\, and Karen immigrants who continue to build the city’s strong traditions of small businesses. \nThis thoughtful investigation of place helps readers to understand the city’s hidden stories\, surrounding its residents in plain sight. \nBill Lindeke is an urban geographer and writer who focuses on how our environments shape our lives. He wrote MinnPost’s “Cityscapes” column from 2014 to 2017\, has written articles on local food and drink history for City Pages and the Growler\, and has taught urban geography at the University of Minnesota and Metro State University. He writes a local urban blog at Twin City Sidewalks and is a member of the Saint Paul Planning Commission. He is the author of Minneapolis–Saint Paul: Then and Now and the coauthor of Closing Time: Saloons\, Taverns\, Dives\, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-st-paul/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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SUMMARY:Twin Cities Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Twin Cities Book Festival 2021\nSaturday\, October 16\, 10:00 am-5:00 pm\nMinnesota State Fairgrounds \nFree admission \nJoin RCHS authors at the Fairgrounds for the Twin Cities Book Festival! We’ll have a selection of the books publiched by RCHS and some of our authors will be available for signing and discussion. RCHS will also have some great promotions! See below for the schedule of authors\, books\, and promotions. \nLink to more information: Twin Cities Book Festival at Minnesota State Fairgrounds \nSchedule of Authors & Books\n\n10:00 am: Festival begins\n11:00 am to noon: Dick Kronick and Jeanne Kosfeld\, author and illustrator of  Neighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book \n12:15 pm: Promotional giveaway drawing #1\nPurchase any Ramsey County Historical Society magazine or history book at our booth on October 6 and register for the opportunity to win your choice of a featured RCHS book AND a 1-year RCHS individual membership (includes 4 issues of the quarterly magazine Ramsey County History\, free general admission to Gibbs Farm\, 10% discounts\, and more!)\n12:30 to 1:30 pm: Jim Stolpestad\, author of Great Northern Iron: James J. Hills’s 109-Year Mining Trust and Custom House: Restoring A Saint Paul Landmark in Lowertown will have both books available.\n2:00 to 3:00 pm: Eileen McCormack\, with The Dutiful Son: Louis W. Hill Life in the Shadow of the Empire Builder \n4:45 – Promotional giveaway drawing #2\nPurchase any Ramsey County Historical Society magazine or history book at our booth on October 6 and register for the opportunity to win your choice of a featured RCHS book AND a 1-year RCHS individual membership (includes 4 issues of the quarterly magazine Ramsey County History\, free general admission to Gibbs Farm\, 10% discounts\, and more!)\n5:00 pm: Book Festival ends
URL:https://rchs.com/event/twin-cities-book-festival/
LOCATION:MInnesota State Fairgrounds\, 1265 Snelling Ave N\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55108\, United States
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Irvine Park Talk & Tour
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society presents \nIrvine Park Architectural History Tour\nTour of Irvine Park with Illustrator Jeanne Kosfeld and Architectural Historian Dick Kronick\nSeptember 14\, 2021\nTuesday\, 5:00-6:00 pm\n\nPlease meet at the Irvine Park gazebo at 4:45 pm\nTour begins promptly at 5:00 pm and lasts about an hour. \nRamsey County Historical Society presents an Irvine Park Architectural History Tour with Illustrator Jeanne Kosfeld and Architectural Historian Dick Kronick on Tuesday\, September 14\, 2021\, from 5:00-6:00 pm. \n\nTickets: $30.00\nRCHS members receive a 10% discount.\nPrice includes the tour and 1 copy of Neighborhood Architecture: Irvine Park\, Saint Paul – a coloring book\, which may be picked up at the start of the tour.\nRegistration required\, registrations are limited.\nTo register: Sept. 14 Irvine Park Talk & Tour Registration\n\n\nOptional Author/Illustrator Meet & Visit Dinner: \nFollowing the tour\, participants are invited to meet a short walk from the park at Waldmann Brewery & Restaurant (445 Smith Ave N\, St. Paul\, MN 55102) for an optional dinner with the author and illustrator. Dinner is NOT included in the ticket price (it’s on your own)\, but Waldmann will offer 1 complimentary beverage to all tour participants who do order dinner. This offer applies only to those who have pre-registered for the tour. \nItems of Note: \n\nLimited street parking is available within a few blocks of the park and near Waldmann Brewery & Restaurant. Be mindful NOT to park in areas marked for residents only. See Waldmann’s website under “Contact Us” for parking details and map\, or click: https://waldmannbrewery.com/contact-us-map-form-draft-with-event-link\nMasks are required to be worn throughout the event.\nBring an umbrella if the forecast calls for rain.\n\nPlease contact RCHS at events@rchs.com if concerned about the weather or to cancel your registration. There are no refunds\, but we will contact you about shipping your coloring book if you cannot attend. \nThank you to Waldmann Brewery & Restaurant for co-sponsoring this event.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: A Private Wilderness
DESCRIPTION:A Private Wilderness: The Journals of Sigurd F. Olson\nwith David Backes\n\n\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nAugust 19\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nDavid Backes will share the personal diaries of one of America’s best-loved naturalists\, revealing his difficult and inspiring path to finding his voice and becoming a writer. Written mostly during the years from 1930 to 1941\, Sigurd F. Olson’s journals describe the dreams and frustrations of an aspiring writer honing his skills\, pursuing recognition\, and facing doubt. Author of Olson’s definitive biography\, editor David Backes brings a deep knowledge of the writer to these journals\, providing critical context\, commentary\, and insights along the way.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFew writers are as renowned for their eloquence about the natural world\, its power and fragility\, as Sigurd F. Olson (1899–1982). Before he could give expression to The Singing Wilderness\, however\, he had to find his own voice. It is this struggle\, the painstaking and often simply painful process of becoming the writer and conservationist now familiar to us\, that Olson documented in the journal entries that Backes gathered. \nWritten mostly during the years from 1930 to 1941\, Olson’s journals describe the dreams and frustrations of an aspiring writer honing his skills\, pursuing recognition\, and facing doubt while following the academic career that allowed him to live and work even as it consumed so much of his time. But even as he speaks with immediacy and intensity about the conditions of his apprenticeship\, Olson can be seen developing the singular way of observing and depicting the natural world that would bring him fame—and also\, more significantly\, alert others to the urgent need to understand and protect that world. \nWhen Olson wrote\, in the spring of 1941\, “What I am afraid of now is that the world will blow up just as I am getting it organized to suit me\,” he could hardly have known how right he would prove to be. It is propitious that at our present moment\, when the world seems once more balanced on the precipice\, we have the words of Sigurd F. Olson to remind us of what matters—and of the hard work and the wonder that such a reckoning requires. \nSigurd F. Olson introduced generations of Americans to the importance of wilderness. He served as president of the Wilderness Society and the National Parks Association and as a consultant to the federal government on wilderness preservation. He earned many honors\, including the highest possible awards from the Sierra Club\, the National Wildlife Federation\, and the Izaak Walton League. The first of his many influential books was The Singing Wilderness (1956; reprint available from Minnesota). \n \nDavid Backes is author of A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson and editor of Olson’s The Meaning of Wilderness: Essential Articles and Speeches\, both from Minnesota. In 2015 he retired as professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin\, Milwaukee. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-a-private-wilderness/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210812T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210812T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Turning Points
DESCRIPTION:Turning Points\nwith Greg Poferl\n\n\n\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nAugust 12\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nOr you may watch the program live on Facebook\, on the East Side Freedom Library page. \nThe East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to our monthly “History Revealed” program featuring Greg Poferl and his memoir\, Turning Points: Never Give Up On Anyone\, Especially Yourself. \nWe are especially excited about this opportunity to provide our communities with a unique vantage point into our shared history\, while also providing an example about the value of self-reflection. Greg Poferl has been a committed and generous individual\, dedicated to fostering social justice from the workrooms of the U.S. Postal Service and the classrooms of Cretin-Derham Hall High School to protests at the School of the Americas and support for the struggles of workers and farmers in Central America. Greg has been integral to the development of the East Side Freedom Library\, from cleaning our bathrooms and thwarting squirrels and raccoons on our roof to mentoring middle and high school students in National History Day projects. \nGreg has written a memoir which provides insight into the history of St. Paul from the 1950s to the present while also providing us with a model of living a life rich with commitment\, from his family\, union\, and community\, to the world. . For a copy of Turning Points\, at $15 each\, please contact the East Side Freedom Library at 651-207-4926 or email: info@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org. \nTurning Points reflects on kids at play and growing up in St. Paul in the 1950s and 1960s\, and it moves on to stories about military service\, labor struggles and strikes\, directing youth in social justice theater projects\, peace and justice actions\, a sentence in federal prison\, teaching social studies\, and experiencing the overwhelming love of family. Please join Greg as he shares this book and his journey with us. \nFree and open to all.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-turning-points/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210722T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210722T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Perennial Kitchen at Gibbs Farm
DESCRIPTION:The Perennial Kitchen with Beth Dooley\nHistory Revealed & Gibbs Farm Evening Series\nThursday\, July 22\, 2021\n5:30-8:30 pm \nPurchase Tickets Here \nIn her new cookbook\, The Perennial Kitchen\, Beth Dooley shares recipes and resources that connect thoughtfully grown\, gathered\, and prepared ingredients to a healthy future—for food\, farming\, and humankind. \nJoin author Beth Dooley for light refreshments and an entertaining book talk on her new cookbook\, The Perennial Kitchen. James Beard Award–winning author Beth Dooley provides the context of food’s origins\, along with delicious recipes\, nutrition information\, and tips for smart sourcing. More than a farm-to-table cookbook\, this book expands the definition of “local food” to embrace regenerative agriculture\, the method of growing small and large crops with ecological services. Beth will share highlights of the book\, recipes and more. \nLight dinner will be supplied by Lakewinds Coop – vegetarian\, vegan\, and gluten-free choices will be available. \nReservations and tickets required\, see the Reservation Form here to order tickets – note that ticket prices include refreshments and your choice to buy a copy of The Perennial Kitchen at a special event discount! Tickets are $35.00 for the program and light dinner & beverages\, $50.00 for program\, light dinner\, beverages and a copy of The Perennial Kitchen. \nRefreshments from the Lakewinds Coop include:\n \n\nGrain Salad\nGreen Salad\nFresh Bread + Spreads\nFruit Forward Seasonal Dessert\nTicket Price Includes drinks:\nWine\, Local Beer\, Batch Mocktail\, and/or themed non-alcoholic beverages\n\nAbout The Perennial Kitchen \n\nKnowing how and where food is grown can add depth and richness to a dish\, whether a meal of slow-roasted short ribs on creamy polenta\, a steaming bowl of spicy Hmong soup\, or a triple ginger rye cake\, kissed with maple sugar\, honey\, and sorghum. Here James Beard Award–winning author Beth Dooley provides the context of food’s origins\, along with delicious recipes\, nutrition information\, and tips for smart sourcing. \nMore than a farm-to-table cookbook\, The Perennial Kitchen expands the definition of “local food” to embrace regenerative agriculture\, the method of growing small and large crops with ecological services. These farming methods\, grounded in a land ethic\, remediate the environmental damage caused by the monocropping of corn and soybeans. In this thoughtful collection the home cook will find both recipes and insights into artisan grains\, nuts\, fruits\, and vegetables that are delicious and healthy—and also help retain topsoil\, sequester carbon\, and return nutrients to the soil. Here are crops that enhance our soil\, nurture pollinators and song birds\, rebuild rural economies\, protect our water\, and grow plentifully without toxic chemicals. These ingredients are as good for the planet as they are on our plates. \nDooley explains how to stock the pantry with artisan grains\, heritage dry beans\, fresh flour\, healthy oils\, and natural sweeteners. She offers pointers on working with grass-fed beef and pastured pork and describes how to turn leftovers into tempting soups and stews. She makes the most of each season’s bounty\, from fresh garlic scape pesto to roasted root vegetable hummus. Here we learn how best to use nature’s “fast foods\,” the quick-cooking egg and ever-reliable chicken; how to work with alternative flours\, as in gingerbread with rye or focaccia with Kernza®; and how to make plant-forward\, nutritious vegan and vegetarian fare. Among other sweet pleasures\, Dooley shares the closely held secret recipe from the University of Minnesota’s student association for the best apple pie. Woven throughout the recipes is the most recent research on nutrition\, along with a guide to sources and information that cuts through the noise and confusion of today’s food labels and trends. \nBeth Dooley looks back into ingredients’ healthy beginnings and forward to the healthy future they promise. At the center of it all is the cook\, linking into the regenerative and resilient food chain with every carefully sourced\, thoughtfully prepared\, and delectable dish. \nBeth Dooley is author or coauthor of several cookbooks\, including Savoring the Seasons of the Northern Heartland\, The Northern Heartland Kitchen\, Minnesota’s Bounty\, The Birchwood Cafe Cookbook\, Savory Sweet: Simple Preserves from a Northern Kitchen\, Sweet Nature: A Cook’s Guide to Using Honey and Maple Syrup\, and The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen (Best American Cookbook\, James Beard Award\, 2018)\, all from Minnesota. In Winter’s Kitchen is her memoir about finding her place in the Midwestern food scene. She lives in Minneapolis. \nMette Nielsen’s photographs have illustrated numerous books\, newspapers\, and magazines. A talented master gardener\, she created the edible garden for the Birchwood Cafe in Minneapolis\, collaborated on The Birchwood Cafe Cookbook and Minnesota’s Bounty\, and was a coauthor of Savory Sweet and Sweet Nature. \n\n  \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-perennial-kitchen-at-gibbs-farm/
LOCATION:Gibbs Volunteer Interest Form
CATEGORIES:Adults Only Event,Book Event,Gibbs Events,History Revealed,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210710T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210710T133000
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SUMMARY:Begin with a Bee Book Event + Kid's Nature Investigation Tour
DESCRIPTION:Local Author Phyllis Root will be visiting Gibbs Farm with her new book Begin with a Bee all about the fascinating Rusty Patched Bumblebee!\nThis event is FREE and open to the public\, but space is limited\, so make sure to pre-register HERE or by calling the Gibbs Farm office at 651-646-8629. By pre-registering for the book event\, you also get free admission to the Gibbs Farm site. \nPhyllis Root will read from the book and share her writing and research process. This gorgeous and educational picture book is great for all ages and while everyone is welcome on the nature investigation tour it will be geared for kids 4-8. Younger children may need some help participating from their grown-up! \nAfter the reading\, meet the author\, ask a question\, and buy a copy of Begin with a Bee or Plant a Pocket of Prairie. \nPlus: \n\nJoin a kid focused 20-minute nature investigation tour offered at 11:45 and 12:15.\nChat with Master Naturalists (and Gibbs Farm Volunteers) Kathy Robbins and Cathy Croghan about all things prairie related.\nGrab self-guided tour information and explore the prairie and gardens with your group.\nCheck out the historic Gibbs Farmhouse on a guided history tour. (offered at 12:00\, 1:00 or 2:00)\nVisit the farm animals!\nBring a snack or a picnic to enjoy.\n\nGibbs Farm is an 8-acre site that includes a restored prairie\, gardens historic and replica buildings. This event will take place outside and will be set up to allow social distancing between groups. Masks need to be worn at all times while inside and when on a tour. \nProgram will start at 11:00\, check in begins at 10:30. \nPart of the History Revealed series of programs.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/begin-with-a-bee-book-event-kids-nature-investigation-tour/
LOCATION:Gibbs Volunteer Interest Form
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Book Event,Children's Events,Community Events,Gibbs Events,Tours
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210622T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210622T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Tulsa Race Massacre
DESCRIPTION:The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre\nKarlos K. Hill\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nTuesday\, June 22\, 2021\, 7:00 pm\nNew registration link: Rescheduled Registration Link\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \n\n\n\nJoin us for this very special History Revealed program with Karlos K. Hill\, author of the new book\, The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History\, on the centennial of the event in Tulsa\, OK.  \nOn the evening of May 31\, 1921\, and in the early morning hours of June 1\, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the African American Greenwood District of Tulsa\, Oklahoma. In the course of some twelve hours of mob violence\, white Tulsans reduced one of the nation’s most prosperous black communities to rubble and killed an estimated 300 people\, mostly African Americans. This richly illustrated volume\, featuring more than 175 photographs\, along with oral testimonies\, shines a new spotlight on the race massacre from the vantage point of its victims and survivors. \nHistorian and Black Studies professor Karlos K. Hill presents a range of photographs taken before\, during\, and after the massacre\, mostly by white photographers. Some of the images are published here for the first time. Comparing these photographs to those taken elsewhere in the United States of lynchings\, the author makes a powerful case for terming the 1921 outbreak not a riot but a massacre. White civilians\, in many cases assisted or condoned by local and state law enforcement\, perpetuated a systematic and coordinated attack on Black Tulsans and their property. \nDespite all the violence and devastation\, black Tulsans rebuilt the Greenwood District brick by brick. By the mid-twentieth century\, Greenwood had reached a new zenith\, with nearly 250 Black-owned and Black-operated businesses. Today the citizens of Greenwood\, with support from the broader community\, continue to work diligently to revive the neighborhood once known as “Black Wall Street.” As a result\, Hill asserts\, the most important legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the grit and resilience of the Black survivors of racist violence. \nThe 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History offers a perspective largely missing from other accounts. At once captivating and disturbing\, it will embolden readers to confront the uncomfortable legacy of racial violence in U.S. history. \n \nKarlos K. Hill is Associate Professor and Chair of the Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory.\nImage of Professor Hill from https://www.ou.edu/cas/afam/faculty-staff\n \n \nAn additional book for families and children grades 3-6\, Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford\, illustrated by Floyd Cooper\, is available from Lerner Publications at https://lernerbooks.com/shop/show/20776 \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-tulsa-race-massacre/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event,Presentation,Publishing,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210617T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210617T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Irvine Park
DESCRIPTION:Neighborhood Architecture: Irvine Park\nJeanne Kosfeld and Richard Kronick\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nJune 17\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link \nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library\n \n\nTwin Cities-based illustrator Jeanne Kosfeld and author Richard Kronick have together transformed a simple sketchbook featuring pen and ink drawings into a brief storytelling of the Irvine Park neighborhood’s unique 172-year history. The author and illustrator will share the history and the architecture of Irvine Park’s fanciful Queen Anne-style homes\, simple clapboard houses\, and elaborate French Second Empire-style mansions\, and the story of the area and its inhabitants. \nWhat began as a casual sketch outing in Saint Paul’s charming Irvine Park neighborhood during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic became Neighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book. Twin Cities-based illustrator Jeanne Kosfeld and author Richard Kronick have together transformed a simple sketchbook featuring pen and ink drawings into a brief storytelling of the Irvine Park neighborhood’s unique 172-year history. Artists of all ages and abilities can colorize their own imagined versions of these historic edifices. \nNeighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book will be available from RCHS in April.\nNeighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book will be available in softcover with 18 house sketches\, brief histories of the homes’ owners and architecture; and an architectural style guide and glossary at the end of the 48-page book. $18.99 regular price\, $15.00 for RCHS members. Shipping will be additional. \nTo order books\, use the order form here. \nAbout the Illustrator: Artist Jeanne Kosfeld paints primarily with water-based media\, but her large body of work also includes print and board game design and public sculpture. She started her career as a newspaper illustrator and cartoonist. Along her creative path\, she led the design department at the University of Alaska\, where she was also an adjunct faculty member. In Minnesota\, she worked as the creative director at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts for eighteen years. \nKosfeld has won several awards\, and her work resides in many public and private collections. She has been honored with artist-in-residences around the globe. \nAbout the Author: Richard Kronick has been a full-time freelance writer since 1985\, specializing in architecture and engineering. He is the co-author with Rick Harrison and Greg Yoko of a 2010 book on suburban planning titled Prefurbia: Reinventing the Suburbs from Disdainable to Sustainable. Kronick has written over one hundred articles and reviews on the built environment and has planned and led more than sixty architecture tours in the Twin Cities\, the Midwest\, and Italy. He is a member of the board of directors of the nonprofit Preserve Minneapolis (PM) and is editor-in-chief of PM’s MinneapolisHistorical.org\, a guide to the city’s architecture. He often lectures and teaches continuing education courses on the history of architecture and is an expert on the Prairie School architects Purcell & Elmslie.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-irvine-park/
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation,Publishing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210520T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210520T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Historic Ballparks
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nHistoric Ballparks of the Twin Cities\nStew Thornley\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nMay 20\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library \nFrom the rickety to the palatial\, ballparks have grown up with and defined baseball in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Some old-timers have vivid memories of cheering for Willie Mays and Roy Campanella at Nicollet and Lexington. Others marveled at a majestic Killebrew home run at the Met. Many a lucky resident celebrated two world championships in the Metrodome and witnessed one of the greatest pitching performances in World Series history. More recently\, fans have enjoyed the return of sunshine and even raindrops at Target Field. Described by City Pages as “the most respected local baseball historian\,” Stew Thornley leads a tour of where we—as well as our grandparents and now our children—discovered baseball. \nStew Thornley has been researching Minnesota baseball history for more than forty years. He is an official scorer for Minnesota Twins home games and is a member of the Major League Baseball Official Scoring Advisory Committee.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-historic-ballparks/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210515T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210515T133000
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SUMMARY:Irvine Park Coloring Book Walking Tours
DESCRIPTION:Irvine Park Walking Tour and Book Release Event for\nNeighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book\nSaturday\, May 15\, 2021\nTwo sessions: 11:15 am and 12:30 \nJeanne Kosfeld and Richard Kronick have created a unique first book featuring the lovely Irvine Park neighborhood. Readers may color or paint eighteen sketches of old homes while learning about the area’s history and architecture. \nFor tour registrations\, see our secure form here. \nRCHS will host a COVID-safe kickoff event for the coloring book and short tour of the Irvine Park neighborhood on Saturday\, May 15\, 2021. \nTickets are $30 each or $27 for members and include a copy of the coloring book\, which will be distributed at the end of the tour. \n\nThe first tour begins at 11:15 am followed by a second tour at 12:30 pm.\nTours are limited to sixteen people\, two people per registration.\nMasks are required to be worn throughout the event.\nPlease meet ten minutes before the start of the tour at 223 Walnut Street.\nPark at the Alexander Ramsey House lot\, 265 Exchange Street South.\nRain date: June 5\, 2021.\n\nPlease contact RCHS at events@rchs.com if concerned about the weather or to cancel your registration.\nThere are no refunds\, but we will contact you to get a mailing address to ship your coloring book. \nExtra copies of Neighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book are available in softcover with eighteen house sketches\, brief histories of the homes’ owners and architecture; and an architectural style guide and glossary at the end of the forty-eight-page book. Cost is $20; $18 for RCHS members.\nOrder at https://rchs.com/publishing/books/. \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/irvine-park-coloring-book-walking-tours/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,Publishing,Special Events,Tours
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210506T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013216
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Alvin Karpis and the Barker Gang
DESCRIPTION:Alvin Karpis and the Barker Gang in Minnesota\nDeborah Frethem & Cynthia Schreiner Smith\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nMay 6\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the White Bear Lake Area Historical Society. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nFrom their home base in Minnesota\, the Karpis-Barker Gang cut a swath of crime and terror across the Midwest in the early 1930s. They kidnapped two important businessmen and held them for exorbitant ransoms. They stole payrolls and robbed banks as the bullets flew. Corrupt police and wily crime bosses helped Alvin Karpis and the Barker brothers\, Freddie and Doc\, every step of the way. Who were these men and women? What made them into killers and kidnappers? How did their reckless lifestyles lead to their downfall? From Ma Barker to Volney Davis to Edna Murray the Kissing Bandit\, authors Deborah Frethem and Cynthia Schreiner Smith delve into the crimes\, personalities and motivations of one of the most successful and infamous gangs in American history.\nCynthia Schreiner Smith is an actor/writer/producer born and raised in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, where she still lives in a suburb outside the city. This is her first book\, but she he has published short pieces on St. Paul history in the St. Paul Almanac in 2012 and 2014. Since 1998\, she has worked as a tour guide for “Down in History Tours” in St. Paul\, researching and writing scripts for its historical tours. She is best known there for performing the St. Paul Gangster Tour as Barker-Karpis gang member Edna Murray\, the Kissing Bandit. Cynthia and her husband\, Bick Smith\, are co-owners of CyBick Productions\, producing corporate videos and short films. In 2011\, they produced Gangsterland\, a documentary-style movie about 1930s gangsters in St. Paul.\nDeborah Frethem previously published Ghost Stories of St. Petersburg\, Clearwater\, and Pinellas County with The History Press in 2007\, Haunted Tampa: Spirits of the Bay in 2013 and Haunted Ybor City in 2014. She has also written scripts for historical tours in Minnesota and Florida and conducted these tours for more than twenty years. She has a bachelor’s degree in history from Olaf College and has served as tour manager for “Down in History Tours” in St. Paul. She is currently a writer and storyteller\, living on a boat in the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-alvin-karpis-and-the-barker-gang/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210423T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210423T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013217
CREATED:20210330T144239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210330T144239Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: From Hurt to Healing
DESCRIPTION:The East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society Present\n\nFrom Hurt to Healing: An Intergenerational Activity Book\n\nJan Mandell and Mariana Morgan-Sawyer\nHistory Revealed Series\nApril 23\, 2021\nFriday\, 6:30 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nHow do we move from hurt to healing? The murder of George Floyd and the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic brought together young people and elders in a three-month Zoom conversation focused on healing from trauma. Elders shared stories of how they persevered in their racial justice struggles when they were young\, and young people asked questions\, listened\, and led mind-body medicine breathing tools they were practicing to heal from their stress and burn-out in the aftermath of intensive activism responding to the traumatic events of 2020. \nIn From Hurt to Healing: An Intergenerational Activity Book\, there are coloring pages of community elders including blocks of texts and inspirational quotations where they share their wisdom and experiences for moving from hurt to healing as well as beautifully hand drawn coloring pages of breathing tools with directions and other healing practices such as humming\, hair braiding\, and dancing. There are word searches and writing prompts to encourage intergenerational dialogue and includes the wisdom of the St. Paul Rondo community with coloring pages of the Selby Avenue Jazz Fest\, Rondo Days\, and other local festivals. \nJoin some of the creators of From Hurt to Healing and members of the ESFL community in an exploration of how this coloring activity book can promote cross-generational connection and healing from trauma. From Hurt to Healing: An Intergenerational Activity Book\, a collaboration between Every Body’s In and Irreducible Grace Foundation (IGF)\, two black-led non-profits in the Rondo Community of St. Paul\, MN\, is available now! Books can be ordered on the Irreducible Grace website.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Booth Girls
DESCRIPTION:Booth Girls: Pregnancy\, Adoption\, and the Secrets We Kept\nKim Heikkila\, PhD\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nApril 8\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nBooth Girls is a thoughtful\, multigenerational story of contested motherhood\, equal parts biography\, oral history\, history\, and memoir. \nKim Heikkila’s mother had a secret: in 1961\, two years before her marriage\, she became pregnant. After several months hidden in her parents’ attic bedroom\, she gave birth to a daughter at the Salvation Army’s Booth Memorial Hospital\, a home for unwed mothers in St. Paul\, and surrendered her for adoption. \nKim’s older sister reunited with her birth family in the 1990s. Kim’s mother wrote about these experiences\, but after she died\, Heikkila still had questions. Using careful research and sensitive interviews with other “Booth girls\,” she tells the stories of the Booth hospital and the women who passed through it—and she learned more about her own experience as an adoptive mother. \nKim Heikkila\, PhD\, is an independent scholar and president of Spotlight Oral History. She has also taught courses on US history\, US women’s history\, the Vietnam War\, and the 1960s at colleges and universities in the Twin Cities area. She is the author of Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
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CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210304T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Grace Holmes Carlson
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson\nA Conversation with Author Donna Haverty-Stacke\nand Greg Poferl\, Linda Leighton\, and Mary Wingerd\nHistory Revealed Series\nMarch 4\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Register Here\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nOn December 8\, 1941\, Grace Holmes Carlson\, the only female defendant among eighteen Trotskyists convicted under the Smith Act\, was sentenced to sixteen months in federal prison for advocating the violent overthrow of the government. After serving a year in Alderson prison\, Carlson returned to her work as an organizer for the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and ran for vice president of the United States under its banner in 1948. Then\, in 1952\, she abruptly left the SWP and returned to the Catholic Church. With the support of the Sisters of St. Joseph\, who had educated her as a child\, Carlson began a new life as a professor of psychology at St. Mary’s Junior College in Minneapolis where she advocated for social justice\, now as a Catholic Marxist. \nThe Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic\, Socialist\, Feminist is a historical biography that examines the story of this complicated woman in the context of her times with a specific focus on her experiences as a member of the working class\, as a Catholic\, and as a woman. Her story illuminates the workings of class identity within the context of various influences over the course of a lifespan. The long arc of Carlson’s life (1906–1992) ultimately reveals significant continuities in her political consciousness that transcended the shifts in her particular partisan commitments\, most notably her life-long dedication to challenging the root causes of social and economic inequality. In that struggle\, Carlson ultimately proved herself to be a truly fierce woman. \nDonna Haverty-Stacke\, Professor of History at Hunter College of the City University of New York\, is a historian of working-class and radical politics. She is interested in the intersection of that history with nationalism and collective memory\, national security and free speech\, gender identity\, and Catholic activism. Her first book was America’s Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism\,1867-1960 (NYU Press\, 2009) and her second\, which she discussed four years ago here at ESFL\, was Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution since the Age of FDR (NYU Press\, 2015). \nGreg Poferl is a lifelong labor and Catholic social activist and a generous collaborator at ESFL. Last year\, Greg wrote his memoir\, Turning Points: Never Give Up on Anyone\, Especially Yourself (East Side Freedom Library\, 2020). \nLinda Leighton is a lifelong labor activist who has played a major role in maintaining local memory of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters’ strikes. \nMary Wingerd is Emerita Professor of History at St. Could State University and the author of Claiming the City: Politics\, Faith\, and the Power of Place in St. Paul (Cornell University Press\, 2001) and North Country: The Making of Minnesota (Minnesota Historic al Society Press\, 2010). \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210223T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Hope in the Struggle
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nHope in the Struggle\nDr. Josie Johnson\nHistory Revealed Series\nFebruary 23\, 2021\nTuesday\, 7:00 pm\nwith Tish Jones and Peter Rachleff \nand in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nHope in the Struggle tells the story of how a Black woman from Texas became one of the most well-known civil rights activists in Minnesota\, detailing seven remarkable decades of fighting for fairness in voting\, housing\, education\, and employment. \nJosie Johnson will share her memoir about shouldering the cause of social justice during the darkest hours and brightest moments for civil rights in America\, and\, specifically\, in Minnesota. Hope in the Struggle shines light on the difference one person can make. For Josie Johnson\, this has meant making a difference as a Black woman in one of the nation’s whitest states. She will be joined by Peter Rachleff of the East Side Freedom Library. \nJosie’s story begins in a tight-knit community in Texas\, where the unfairness of the segregated South\, so antithetical to the values she learned at home\, sharpened a sense of justice that guides her to this day. From the age of fourteen\, when she went door to door with her father in Houston to campaign against the Poll Tax\, to the moment in 2008 when\, as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention\, she cast her vote for Barack Obama for president\, she has been at the forefront of the politics of civil rights. Her memoir offers a close-up picture of what that struggle has entailed\, whether working as a community organizer for the Minneapolis Urban League or lobbying for fair housing and employment laws\, investigating civil rights abuses or co-chairing the Minnesota delegation to the March on Washington\, becoming the first African American to serve on the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents or creating the university’s Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs with a focus on minority affairs and diversity. An intimate view of civil rights history in the making\, Hope in the Struggle is a uniquely inspiring life story for these current dark and divisive times\, a testament to how one determined soul can make the world a better place. \nBorn in 1930 in San Antonio\, Texas\, Josie R. Johnson has been an educator\, activist\, and public servant for more than seven decades. Along with her work for the Urban League and the University of Minnesota\, she has been office manager\, campaign manager\, and chief of staff for multiple political campaigns and public officials\, including campaign manager for the first African American lieutenant governor of Colorado\, and co-chair of the African American DFL Caucus in Minnesota. She holds degrees in sociology\, education\, and education administration. She lives in Minneapolis and continues to serve her community\, advocating for equal rights and social justice. \nTish Jones is the Founder & Executive Director of TruArtSpeaks. She is a poet\, organizer and educator from Saint Paul\, Minnesota and is currently serving as the Brave New Voices Leadership Fellow at Youth Speaks in San Francisco. She has performed at The Walker Art Center\, Intermedia Arts\, The Cedar Cultural Center and more. Her work can be found in the Minnesota Humanities Center’s upcoming anthology entitled\, Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press\, 2015)\, the 2011 and 2013 Saint Paul Almanac\, the Loft Literary Center’s Nation of Immigrants audio CD. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210211T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Sinking Middle Class
DESCRIPTION:The Sinking Middle Class\nA conversation with historian David Roediger\nHistory Revealed Series\nFebruary 11\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom and streamed on Facebook\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegistration: Zoom Registration Page\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n“Middle class” is an ideologically shaped and deployed term in American culture and politics. Activist-scholar David Roediger makes clear in his pointed and persuasive polemic\, this obsession with the middle-class is relatively new in US politics. It began with the attempt to win back so-called “Reagan Democrats” by Bill Clinton and it was accompanied by a pandering to racism and a shying away from meaningful wealth redistribution that continues to this day. \nDrawing on rich traditions of radical social thought\, Roediger disavows the thinly sourced idea that the United States was\, for much of its history\, a “middle-class” nation and the still more indefensible position that it is one now. The increasing immiseration of large swathes of middle-income America\, only accelerated by the current pandemic\, nails a fallacy that is a major obstacle to progressives. \n \nDavid Roediger taught in the 1990s at the University of Minnesota and now teaches American Studies at the University of Kansas. His books include Seizing Freedom\, The Wages of Whiteness\, How Race Survived U.S. History\, and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness and Working toward Whiteness. His book The Production of Difference (with Elizabeth Esch) recently won the International Labor History Association Book Prize. He is past president of the American Studies Association and of the Working-Class Studies Association. \nProfessor Roediger will be joined in conversation by: \nAugust Nimtz\, Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. August has been an activist in progressive movements in the Twin Cities (and beyond) since the 1970s with a particular emphasis on solidarity with the people of Cuba. \nKieran Knutson\, President of Communications Workers of America Local 7250 (Minnesota AT&T). Kieran has been a long time activist at the intersection of the racial justice and labor movements. \nMegan Brown\, Assistant Professor in the Masters in Advocacy and Political Leadership (MAPL) program at Metropolitan State University. A geographer by training and trade\, Megan has recently found her way to St. Paul. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210210T180000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Workers on Arrival
DESCRIPTION:Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America\nDr. Joe Trotter\nWith Dr. William Jones\nHistory Revealed Series\nFebruary 10\, 2021\nWednesday\, 6:00-7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nDr. Joe W. Trotter\, Jr. Giant Eagle Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University\, will discuss his book with moderator Dr. William Jones\, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota \nThis event is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota History Department\, the Labor and Working Class History Association\, the Ramsey County Historical Society\, and the East Side Freedom Library\, and it serves as a fundraiser for the East Side Freedom Library. It is part of two on-going series: the University of Minnesota History Department’s History Book Club and the “History Revealed” series co-sponsored by the Ramsey County Historical Society and the East Side Freedom Library. \nSince earning his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1980\, Dr. Trotter had had an enormous impact on the fields of African American and labor history. His books include Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat  (1985); Coal Class and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia\, 1915-1932 (1990); The Great Migration in Historical Perspective (1991); and several collections of essays and documents\, which have been central to the teaching of these fields. Workers On Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America  (2019) weaves Dr. Trotter’s research and writings into a single narrative which makes a compelling case for understanding the place of African Americans in U.S. history as producers\, as labor. \nFor this evening’s program\, Dr. Trotter will be engaged in conversation with another prominent historian of African American workers\, William P. Jones. A professor of history at the University of Minnesota and president of the Labor and Working Class History Association\, Dr. Jones is author of two award-winning books\, The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (2005) and The March on Washington: Jobs\, Freedom\, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (2013). He has been a guest on the PBS Newshour\, NPR’s “The Takeaway\,” and Democracy Now! and he has written for the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Nation\, and other publications. He is currently writing a book on public employees and the transformation of the U.S. economy after World War II. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210107T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Somewhere in the Unknown World
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nSomewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir\nKao Kalia Yang\nHistory Revealed Series\nJanuary 7\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nYoutube video recording: https://youtu.be/FzHJsrG6stY\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\n \nAs the country’s doors were closing and nativism was on the rise\, Kao Kalia Yang—herself a refugee from Laos—set out to tell the stories of the refugees to whom University Avenue is now home. Here are people who have summoned the energy and determination to make a new life even as they carry an extraordinary burden of hardship\, loss\, and emotional damage.  In Yang’s exquisite\, poetic\, and necessary telling\, the voices of refugees from all over the world restore humanity to America’s strangers and redeem its long history of welcome. \n \nKao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer. She holds degrees from Carleton College and Columbia University. Yang is the author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir winner of the 2009 Minnesota Book Awards in Creative Nonfiction/Memoir and Readers’ Choice\, a finalist for the PEN USA Award in Creative Nonfiction\, and the Asian Literary Award in Nonfiction. Her second book\, The Song Poet won the 2016 Minnesota Book Award in Creative Nonfiction Memoir\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Chautauqua Prize\, a PEN USA Award in Nonfiction\, and the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize. The story has been commissioned as a youth opera by the Minnesota Opera and will premiere in the spring of 2021. She is now writing a series of children’s books. \nFor this event\, before we open the virtual floor for questions and comments from audience members\, Yang will be joined in conversation by four readers of her book: \nSaymoukda Duanphouxay Vongsay is an award-winning Lao American poet\, playwright\, cultural producer\, and social practice artist. She is the author of the children’s book WHEN EVERYTHING WAS EVERYTHING (Full Circle Publishing) and is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Theater Mu. Visit her at www.SaymoukdaTheRefugenius.com and follow her @refugenius. \nThet-Htar Thet (she/her/hers) is a writer\, educator and activist originally from Yangon Myanmar. Now based in her home country\, Thet-Htar is focused on education reform and identity-driven writing as a consultant for UNESCO and a freelance creative nonfiction writer. \nSangay Taythi is a Tibetan refugee born in India who with his family immigrated to the United States in 1998.  He has been a community and labor organizer\, including the Students for a Free Tibet chapter at the University of Minnesota\, the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of Minnesota\, the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota\, the Tibetan National Congress and Tibetans for Black Lives and SEIU Healthcare Minnesota. \nNajaha Musse Najaha Musse is a 4th year medical student pursuing a doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine. Her family fled rural Ethiopia for a refugee camp in Nairobi Kenya\, and then settled in Minnesota where she began formal education in the 3rd grade. As the oldest in a family of 8 children\, she became the first in her family to graduate from high school and receive a college degree. While attending medical school\, Najaha has focused on social justice issues pertaining to educational access for disadvantaged students and social medicine.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/somewhere-in-the-unknown-world/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Turnout
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nTurnout: Making Minnesota the State That Votes\nJoan Growe and Lori Sturdevant\nHistory Revealed Series\nDecember 3\, 2020\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister here on Zoom\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nPlease note that registration emails will be shared to Ramsey County Historical Society and the East Side Freedom Library. If you do not wish to share your email\, contact events@rchs.com. \n\n\nIn Turnout\, the architect and chief promoter of Minnesota’s high voter turnout tells her story\, showing how hard work and cooperation made the state a leader in clean\, open elections. \nHigh voter turnout in Minnesota is no accident. It arose from the traditions of this state’s early Yankee and northern European immigrants\, and it has been sustained by wisely chosen election policies. Many of these policies were designed and implemented during the twenty-four-year tenure of Minnesota secretary of state Joan Anderson Growe. \nIn inspiring and often funny prose\, Growe recounts the events that framed her life and changed the state’s voting practices. She grew up in a household that never missed an election. After an astounding grassroots feminist campaign\, she was elected to the state legislature in 1972; two years later\, she was elected secretary of state\, the state’s chief elections administrator. As one of the nation’s leading advocates for reliable elections and convenient voting\, Growe worked with county officials to secure Election Day registration (used for the first time in 1974) as a Minnesota norm. She brought new technology into elections administration and promoted motor voter registration. And as an ardent feminist\, she has encouraged and inspired scores of other women to run for office. \nJoan Growe and co-author Lori Sturdevant will discuss the book and Ms. Growe’s time in office with a talk that is part political history and part memoir\, and a reminder to Minnesotans to cherish and protect their tradition of clean\, open elections. \n“No matter what issue you care about\, the right to vote is central. And the fight to protect that fundamental right is the single greatest fight of our time. That’s why we need a twenty-first-century civil rights movement devoted to claiming\, enforcing\, and defending the right to vote. Joan Anderson Growe has given us an excellent guide for that work.”\nfrom the Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton \n\n\nAbout the Authors: \n\n\n\nJoan Anderson Growe served as Minnesota’s secretary of state from 1975 to 1999. Widely known as an expert on voting and elections\, she has served as an official election observer in various foreign elections.\n\n\n \nLori Sturdevant\, a retired Star Tribune editorial writer\, is the author of several books of Minnesota history\, including Her Honor: Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Women’s Movement.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-turnout/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201001T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Suffrage at 100
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nSuffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920\nStacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow\nHistory Revealed Series\nOctober 1\, 2020\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpfu-orT0vGt00wZt19hHO5Nd1u3cLld8K \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEditors & authors Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow will discuss their book\, Suffrage at 100\, which looks at women’s engagement in US electoral politics and government over the one hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. \nIn the 2018 midterm elections\, 102 women were elected to the House and 14 to the Senate—a record for both bodies. And yet nearly a century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment\, the notion of congressional gender parity by 2020—a stated goal of the National Women’s Political Caucus at the time of its founding in 1971—remains a distant ideal. In Suffrage at 100\, Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow brought together twenty-two scholars to take stock of women’s engagement in electoral politics over the past one hundred years. \nThis is the first wide-ranging collection to historically examine women’s full political engagement in and beyond electoral office since they gained a constitutional right to vote. The book explores why women’s access to\, and influence on\, political power remains frustratingly uneven\, particularly for women of color and queer women. Examining how women have acted collectively and individually\, both within and outside of electoral and governmental channels\, the book moves from the front lines of community organizing to the highest glass ceiling. \nEssays touch on: \n• labor and civil rights\n• education\n• environmentalism\n• enfranchisement and voter suppression\n• conservatism vs. liberalism\n• indigeneity and transnationalism\n• LGBTQ and personal politics\n• Pan-Asian\, Chicana\, and black feminisms\n• commemoration and public history\n• and much more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStacie Taranto is an associate professor of history at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She is the author of Kitchen Table Politics: Conservative Women and Family Values in New York.\nLeandra Zarnow is an assistant professor of history and affiliated faculty in the Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston. She is the author of Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-suffrage-at-100/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200812T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200812T200000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Black Women's Struggle for the Right to Vote
DESCRIPTION:Black Women’s Struggle for the Right to Vote\nA Conversation with Dr. Martha S. Jones\nWednesday\, August 12\, 2020\, 7:00 PM\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\nOnline event – Facebook & Youtube:\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1586684121516628/ \nTo pre-order the book (out in September) from our partner\, Subtext Books\, see https://subtextbooks.com/books/pre-order-vanguard-by-martha-jones \nAmidst all the turmoil of 2020\, it has been easy to forget that this year marks the centennial of the Women’s Suffrage amendment. It has unfortunately also been easy to take the given narrative for all there is to know. In her new book\, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers\, Won the Vote\, and Insisted on Equality for All\, Martha Jones challenges the standard story that the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. She details how African American women defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot\, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all people. \nVanguard rests on careful scholarship\, but is written with a wide readership in mind. It is being hailed by scholars and public intellectuals across the country. Jones “is as bold and necessary to our understanding of ourselves as the women in this important work\,”writes Tressie McMillan Cottom. “Martha S. Jones reminds her readers that Black women stand as America’s original feminists\,” adds Erica Armstrong Dunbar. Henry Louis Gates\,Jr.\, points out that “at a moment when our very democracy is under assault\, Vanguard reminds us to look for hope in those most denied it. \nProfessor Jones is a Professor of History\, Johns Hopkins University and a public historian\, frequently writing for broader audiences at the Washington Post\, the Atlantic\, USAToday\, Public Books\, the Chronicle of Higher Education\, and Time\, the curatorship of museum exhibitions including“Reframing the Color Line” and “Proclaiming Emancipation” in conjunction with the William L. Clements Library\, and museum\,film and video productions with the Smithsonian’s NationalPortrait Gallery\, the Charles Wright Museum of African American History\, PBS\, The American Experience\, the Southern Poverty Law Center\, Netflix\, and Arte (France.)
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CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: When the Stones Came to Town
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nFred Case\, with Eric Dregni\, When the Stones Came to Town: Rock ‘n’ Roll Photos from the 1970s\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 13\, 2020\n7:45 pm\nWaldmann’s Brewery & Restaurant\nReservations requested: Reservation Form. Free and open to all. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nStunning images of some of the greatest musicians from rock ’n’ roll history\, including both onstage action and behind-the-scenes candids. \nPhotographer Fred Case was on the scene in the Twin Cities during the 1970s whenever the top rock and blues musicians came through town. With his camera in hand\, Case photographed such legends as Chuck Berry\, Bo Diddley\, John Mayall\, Leon Russell\, Richie Havens\, the Who\, Steppenwolf\, the Grateful Dead\, Small Faces\, Elton John\, Linda Ronstadt\, Captain Beefheart\, Alice Cooper\, Elvis Costello\, Miles Davis\, and the Rolling Stones. His images capture the stars in action onstage at storied Minneapolis venues ranging from the Guthrie to the Depot (First Avenue)\, the Labor Temple to Jay’s Longhorn\, the Minneapolis Auditorium to Parade Stadium. The photographer also hung out with many of the musicians and took behind-the-scenes snapshots of backstage antics. Case’s own wild adventures chasing his music heroes\, beginning in his teenage years\, led to many fascinating—and some questionable—experiences. \nIn When the Stones Came to Town\, Case recollects witnessing\, photographing\, and occasionally getting to know these music icons and gives readers an up-close-and-personal look at the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle. These photos\, many of them never seen before in print\, highlight the vibrant music scene of the Twin Cities during this pivotal era. \nFred Case is a longtime photographer who has shot hundreds of musicians\, traveled the world\, and rubbed elbows with the great and near-great. He lives in Minneapolis. \nEric Dregni is the author of more than fifteen books\, including Weird Minnesota\, Let’s Go Fishing\, and The Life: Vespa \nIt’s RCHS Day at Waldmann Brewery & Wurstery!\nOn the second Thursday of each month\, 10% of all sales to RCHS members and their guests will be donated to the Ramsey County Historical Society! \nRCHS members and supporters are encouraged to come and enjoy a lunch/dinner/drink at Waldmann throughout the day\, or time your dinner so that you can stay for the presentation immediately after. So come on in and raise a toast to history and support RCHS! \nMention that you are a member\, supporter or friend of RCHS to your server\, and they will make sure that your tab is counted toward Waldmann’s support. \n2020 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2020 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-when-the-stones-came-to-town/
LOCATION:Waldmann Brewery & Wurstery\, 445 Smith Ave\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Waldmann's Events
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Transpacific Antiracism
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nYuichiro Onishi\, Transpacific Antiracism\, Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America\, Japan\, and Okinawa\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 6\, 2020\n7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nTranspacific Antiracism introduces the dynamic process out of which social movements in Black America\, Japan\, and Okinawa formed Afro-Asian solidarities against the practice of white supremacy in the twentieth century. Yuichiro Onishi argues that in the context of forging Afro-Asian solidarities\, race emerged as a political category of struggle with a distinct moral quality and vitality. \nThis book explores the work of Black intellectual-activists of the first half of the twentieth century\, including Hubert Harrison and W. E. B. Du Bois\, that took a pro-Japan stance to articulate the connection between local and global dimensions of antiracism. Turning to two places rarely seen as a part of the Black experience\, Japan and Okinawa\, the book also presents the accounts of a group of Japanese scholars shaping the Black studies movement in post-surrender Japan and multiracial coalition-building in U.S.-occupied Okinawa during the height of the Vietnam War which brought together local activists\, peace activists\, and antiracist and antiwar GIs. Together these cases of Afro-Asian solidarity make known political discourses and projects that reworked the concept of race to become a wellspring of aspiration for a new society. \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase and signing during the presentation. \nYuichiro Onishi is Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-transpacific-antiracism/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Nicholas R. Brewer
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nJulie L’Enfant\, The Celebrity Portraits of Nicholas R. Brewer\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 23\, 2020\n7:00 pm\nRoseville Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nNicholas R. Brewer (1857-1949) is a Minnesota artist best known today for his landscapes\, but in his own lifetime his wide reputation rested mainly on his portraits. He painted many prominent Minnesotans. His circuit exhibitions in the 1920s and 1930s also featured portraits of some of the most famous men and women of his day. This presentation will focus on portraits of Joseph Jefferson\, the comic actor who played Rip Van Winkle in theaters across the world; Ignace Paderewski\, the Polish pianist and politician; and the girl who starred in a sensational movie about the Armenian Massacres of World War One\, Aurora Mardiganian. These paintings\, little known today\, show Brewer’s intimate engagement with his era’s cultural and political events. \nJulie L’Enfant is the author of seven books\, including The Gag Family: German-Bohemian Artists in America (2002)\, Pioneer Modernists: Minnesota’s First Generation of Women Artists (2011)\, both of which won Minnesota Book Awards; Other Realities: The Art of Paul S. Kramer (2013); and\, with co-author Jaden Hansen\, Persistence of Vision: The Art of Bettye Olson (2017). \nA new softcover edition of Julie’s latest book\, Nicholas R. Brewer: His Art and Family (Afton Press\, 2019)\, will be available for purchase and signing. \nImage credit: Nicholas Brewer with his portrait of actress Margaret Anglin as her character in the play In the Wilderness. Mary Ann Walton collection. \n2020 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2020 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-nicholas-r-brewer/
LOCATION:Ramsey County Library – Roseville\, 2180 Hamline Ave N\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Moving Up\, Moving Out
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nDr. Will Cooley\, Moving Up\, Moving Out: The Rise of the Black Middle Class in Chicago\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 9\, 2020\n7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nIn Moving Up\, Moving Out\, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the twentieth century\, while accentuating the resilience of upwardly-mobile African Americans. Cooley examines how class differences created fissures in the black community and produced quandaries for black Chicagoans interested in racial welfare. While black Chicagoans engaged in collective struggles\, they also used individualistic means to secure the American Dream. Black Chicagoans demonstrated their talent and ambitions\, but they entered through the narrow gate\, and whites denied them equal opportunities in the educational institutions\, workplaces\, and neighborhoods that produced the middle class. African Americans resisted these restrictions at nearly every turn by moving up into better careers and moving out into higher-quality neighborhoods\, but their continued marginalization helped create a deeply dysfunctional city. African Americans settled in Chicago for decades\, inspired by the gains their forerunners were making in the city. Though faith in Chicago as a land of promise wavered\, the progress of the black middle class kept the city from completely falling apart. In this important study\, Cooley shows how Chicago\, in all of its glory and faults\, was held together by black dreams of advancement. Moving Up\, Moving Out will appeal to urban historians and sociologists\, scholars of African American studies\, and general readers interested in Chicago and urban history. \nWill Cooley is professor of history at Walsh University in North Canton\, Ohio. \n2020 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2020 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-moving-up-moving-out/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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