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SUMMARY:Sold Out - History Revealed - Forepaugh's
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT\nHistory Revealed – Forepaugh’s\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society and Forepaugh’s Restaurant\nForepaugh’s\, 276 Exchange St S\, St Paul\, MN 55102\nWednesday\, April 15\, 2026\n4:00 PM-6:00 PM\nTickets $165\nTICKETS \nWine by the glass or of course\, any non alcohol option \nFollow us into St. Paul’s past for an unforgettable evening of dinner and historical storytelling at Forepaugh’s Restaurant. Enjoy a beautifully crafted menu by Executive Chef\, Jeremy Wessing\, as we gather inside one of the city’s most iconic Victorian mansions\, where every room holds a story and every course connects you to its rich history. \nGuests will hear captivating tales of the Forepaugh family\, the home’s 19th-century origins\, and the legends that have lived on through generations. Whether you’re a history enthusiast\, a lover of grand old architecture\, or simply curious about St. Paul’s hidden stories\, this immersive experience promises charm\, warmth\, and a touch of mystery. Jeremy Wessing will present some specially prepared food and share their inspiration behind each dish. \nMENU\nCHOICE OF EACH COURSE\nFirst Course\nSalads \nCaesar Salad\nLittle Gem Salad \nSecond Course\nEntrées \nChicken\nSalmon\nShort Rib \nThird Course\nDessert \nMini Banana Cream Pie\nPanna Cotta \nAll non-alcoholic beverages are included.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-forepaughs-2/
LOCATION:Forepaugh’s\, 276 South Exchange St\, St. Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dining,History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed - Lissie
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed – Lissie\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society\nLandmark Center\, 75 West 5th Street\, Saint Paul\, MN 55102\nSuite 317\nWednesday\, March 11\, 2026\n6:00 PM-7:30 PM\nTickets – $25 \nTICKETS \nRCHS is excited and honored to host Lissie for an evening of conversation revolving around her work in music and television. The conversation will be moderated by Youa Vang followed by a Q&A to give attendees the opportunity to ask the artist questions. \nConversation moderated by Youa Vang\, followed by audience Q&A \nGuests will have a chance to win a copy of the anniversary edition of her debut album\, Catching a Tiger. \nLissie burst onto the scene at the dawn of the 2010s with her debut album Catching a Tiger\, immediately defying easy labels. A singer-songwriter known for her gentle melodies and luminous songwriting\, she pairs delicacy with an unmistakable inner strength. Raised in the American Midwest\, Lissie has taken her music around the world\, sharing stages with icons like Lenny Kravitz\, Tom Petty\, The Eagles\, and Florence and the Machine. Now rooted in Iowa and Minnesota\, she continues to tell deeply human stories through song and electrifying performances. \nYoua Vang is Vice President of RCHS. She is a freelance journalist in the Twin Cities for over 15 years and has written for The Current\, MSP Magazine\, MN Monthly\, Mn Artists and reports on music for MPR. In her free time\, she creates art with her sister under the name Third Daughter\, Restless Daughter. Vang lives in St. Paul with her family and their tiny dog. She is currently working on her first book about how she connects to being Hmong as a first-generation immigrant.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-lissie/
LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT - History Revealed – Debra J Stone and The House on Rondo
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT\nHistory Revealed – Debra J Stone and The House on Rondo\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society\nMississippi Market\, 622 Selby Avenue\, Saint Paul\, MN 55104\nThursday\, February 26\, 2026\n6:00 PM-7:30 PM\nFree event with registration\nREGISTER \nStep into the heart of St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood with Debra J Stone\, whose book The House on Rondo captures the love\, loss\, and legacy of a community disrupted but never erased. \nHear the personal stories that inspired the book\, learn about the history that shaped generations\, and join a conversation about remembrance\, healing\, and the power of storytelling. The House on Rondo centers around thirteen-year-old Zenobia as she witnesses the destruction of the Rondo neighborhood to build I-94 and gives a first-hand look at the effect of this displacement on a thriving community. The conversation will discuss the novel\, Stone’s personal connection to Rondo\, and her writing process and will be led by Youa Vang. \nDebra J Stone is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Arts Fellow in Literature\, essay\, poet and novel author. More of her work has been published by Blue Earth Review\, Indiana Review\, Green Mountains Review\, Under the Gum Tree\, and other literary journals. In 2021 her poem\, year-of- staying–in place\, was nominated Best of Net and Pushcart nominated. She is a board member of the Hennepin History Museum. Debra is married and resides in Minneapolis.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-debra-j-stone-and-the-house-on-rondo/
LOCATION:Mississippi Market Selby\, 622 Selby Avenue\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT History Revealed - Mary Lucia
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed – Mary Lucia\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society\nLandmark Center\, 75 West 5th Street\, Saint Paul\, MN 55102\nSuite 317\nWednesday December 10th\, 2025\n6:00 PM-8:30 PM\nSOLD OUT\nRCHS is excited and honored to host Mary Lucia for an evening of conversation revolving around her recently released memoir What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To. Hosted by Andrea Swensson and followed by a Q&A\, attendees will have the opportunity to ask the legendary Twin Cities DJ questions. What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To will be available to purchase that evening or bundle your ticket and book ahead of time to insure you get your copy. \nConversation moderated by Andrea Swensson \nBook signing will take place after conversation \nAbout What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To\nFor Mary Lucia\, becoming a rock DJ meant connecting with fans through a shared love of music and deep cuts. But for one listener\, that connection became a dangerous obsession\, catapulting Lucia into the terrifying three-year nightmare that she chronicles in this raw\, wry\, and profoundly courageous memoir. From the good\, bad\, and weird of growing up in her eccentric family to drugs\, death\, and dogs\, Lucia finally shares her life on her own terms in What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To. \nMary Lucia is a media broadcast personality\, writer\, actor\, and voiceover artist. She worked at The Current from 2005 to 2022 and was well known for her unconventional style and expansive music knowledge. She hosted the local music show Popular Creeps\, twice a Minnesota Music Award winner for Best Locally Produced Show\, and she was voted best FM radio personality by City Pages seven times. She is currently the program advisor at the University of Minnesota’s Radio K. \nAndrea Swensson is an author\, podcast host\, and music journalist in Minneapolis. She hosts the Official Prince Podcast and has written for numerous publications\, including NPR Music\, Pitchfork\, the Star Tribune\, City Pages\, and Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current\, where she previously hosted “The Local Show.” Her first book\, Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound\, also from the University of Minnesota Press\, won a 2018 Minnesota Book Award. Swensson also is the Editor for Ramsey County Historical Society.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-mary-lucia/
LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed – Oakland Cemetery - North
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed – Oakland Cemetery Walking Tours – North\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society \nOakland Cemetery\, 927 Jackson Street\, St. Paul\, MN 55117\nWednesday\, October 14\, 2026 \n1:00 PM-3:00 PM \n$10 \n\nRegister Here \n\nRamsey County Historical Society is hosting two walking tours of the historic Oakland Cemetery in St. Paul’s North End neighborhood. The tours will each focus on a different area of the cemetery\, with October 15 covering the North End and October 22 covering the South End. \nJoin experienced tour guide and historian Denise Dunnell Wells on a fascinating outdoor walking tour of Saint Paul’s famous Oakland Cemetery. The tour will feature the resting places of some of Saint Paul’s most famous and infamous personalities. Denise will give you an overview of the cemetery’s history\, discuss some of its legends\, and show us the final resting places of these citizens. \nNORTH TOUR 10/14/2026:\n\nTour is outside only – please wear walking shoes and dress for the weather.\nThere are some hills on the tour and prepare to be on your feet for up to two hours.\nThere are no restrooms in the cemetery.\nOakland Cemetery is located at 927 Jackson Street\, Saint Paul.\nPlease do not park in the parking lot or in front of the office.  It is fine to park along the roads in the cemetery\, just make sure that traffic can get by.\nWe will meet outside of the office.\n\nSOUTH TOUR 10/22/2025:\n\nTour is outside only – please wear walking shoes and dress for the weather.\nPlease be prepared to be on your feet for 90 minutes.\nThere are no restrooms in the cemetery.\nOakland Cemetery is located at 927 Jackson Street\, Saint Paul.\nWe will meet at the chapel\, which is located closer to the corner of Sycamore and Jackson street\nPlease park along the roads by the Chapel\, just make sure that traffic can get by.\n\n\nAbout Oakland Cemetery: \nOakland Cemetery is the Midwest’s oldest operating cemetery and has been a place of internment for many different groups in the Ramsey County community. There are lots for Civil War and Spanish-American War veterans\, firefighters\, and a variety of nationalities. The cemetery has a park-like quality with over 25\,000 trees and many walking paths. In its current era\, the cemetery has become a final resting area for many members of the Hmong community\, which has put our current landscape in conversation with the pioneers who made this area what it is.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-oakland-cemetery-north-4/
LOCATION:Oakland Cemetery\, 927 Jackson Street\, Saint Paul \, MN\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Tours
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SUMMARY:History Revealed - Minnesota History Day Students
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed – Minnesota History Day Students\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society \nSun Ray Library\, 2105 Wilson Avenue\, Saint Paul\, MN 55119\nThursday\, August 14\, 2025 \n5:30 PM-7:30 PM \nFree with registration\nRegister Here \nRamsey County Historical Society is excited to feature Ramsey County students who were finalists in the National History Day contest and traveled to Washington\, D.C. to present and compete against students from around the country. \nEach year there is a theme which students use as a prompt for their projects. This year’s theme was “Rights and Responsibilities in History.” Some of the topics chosen by students who will participate in our History Revealed panel are the Stonewall Uprising\, women’s reproductive rights\, and challenges to free speech. \nConversation moderated by Woodrow Kielas-Jensen.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-minnesota-history-day-students/
LOCATION:Sun Ray Library\, 2105 Wilson Avenue\, Saint Paul\, 55119\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed - Blkk Hand
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed – Blkk Hand\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society \nBlkk Hand Studio\, 2242 University Avenue West\, St. Paul\, MN 55114\nThursday\, July 31\, 2025 \n6:00 PM-7:00 PM conversation \nTintype photo sessions will take place after the conversation for those interested. Please note that the cost of the event does not include the cost of a tintype portrait; see rates below. \n$10 \n\nSOLD OUT\n\nRamsey County Historical Society presents History Revealed – Blkk Hand – Tintype Photography\, featuring a conversation with renowned artist\, Carla Alexandra Rodriguez. In her St. Paul studio\, Carla will share the stories behind her work and why she continues to uphold this traditional method of photography. Those interested in getting a portrait taken will be allowed to have one captured at the end of the event for a fee. \nCost\n4×5 tintype – $100\n5×7 tintype – $125\n8×10 tintype – $170 \nMore information here. \nCarla will schedule on site for this event\, so no need to book a session ahead of time. \nBlkk Hand \nBlkk Hand is a portrait studio and pop-up experience that specializes in a Civil War era photo-process called Tintype. Run by artist Carla Alexandra Rodriguez\, each image is chemically handmade\, one at a time\, a results in a one-of-a-kind image that has the potential to last generations. Rodriguez has been working with this process for over 11 years in the twin cities and beyond\, utilizing it for portraits as well as her personal art practice.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-blkk-hand/
LOCATION:Blkk Hand Studio\, 2242 University Avenue West\, St. Paul\, MN\, 55114\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed - Forepaugh's
DESCRIPTION:This event is sold out.\nHistory Revealed – Forepaugh’s\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society and Forepaugh’s Restaurant\nForepaugh’s\, 276 Exchange St S\, St Paul\, MN 55102\nThursday July 10th\, 2025\n2:00 PM-4:00 PM\nTickets $100\nMenu \nCourse 1 – Tuna carpaccio\nCourse 2 – Beet Fonduta or Gorgonzola Endive\nCourse 3 – Sweet Pea Agnolotti\nCourse 4 – Half Beef Wellington\nDessert – Mini chocolate cake \nDrinks \nWine by the glass or of course\, any non alcohol option \nPlease join Forepaugh’s and Ramsey County Historical Society for an afternoon of dining (inside or outside on the patio\, dependent on weather) and a tour of the full building that includes storytelling and the history behind the home that once belonged to Joseph Forepaugh and later became a restaurant. \nForepaugh’s Executive Chef\, Jeremy Wessing\, will present some specially prepared food and share their inspiration behind each dish. \n 
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LOCATION:Forepaugh’s\, 276 South Exchange St\, St. Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed - Rubinski Works
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed – Rubinski Works\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society \nThe Landmark Center\, 75 West 5th Street\, St. Paul\, MN 55102\nSuite 317\nThursday\, June 26\, 2025 \n6:00 PM-7:30 PM \n$10 \n\nRegister Here \n\nRamsey County Historical Society welcomes Rubinski Works\, aka Madison Holler\, for an evening of conversation on her artwork. Madison’s work centers around beautiful jewelry that honors her Anishinaabe ancestry. \n“Nature is a huge inspiration in my work\, so my roots in central Minnesota and in northern Minnesota (near my cabin on rainy lake) are engrained in my work\, always. From the landscape to the flora and fauna — these are my muses.” \nConversation moderated by Youa Vang. \nAbout Madison Holler: \nMadison R. Holler is the artist behind Rubinski Works\, operating on Wahpekute + Anishinaabewaki Land (Central Minnesota). \nOne-of-a-kind works are created by Madi with glass and metal seed beads on waxed thread. She also practices metal smithing techniques to construct abstract precious metal components for her work. \nMadison’s work explores the bridge between traditional craft and modern art practices. Her collections provide commentary on her shared Dutch\, Scandinavian\, and Anishinaabe heritage\, with an emphasis on storytelling and folklore. \nMadison has a vocational background in photography and graphic design\, as well as experience in fine art practices\, such as ceramics\, printmaking\, painting\, and illustration.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-rubinski/
LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed - Hmong Fellows
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed – Hmong Fellows\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society and the Center for Hmong Studies\nLandmark Center\, 75 West 5th Street\, St. Paul\, MN 55102\nSuite 317\nThursday\, May 22\, 2025 \n6:00 PM-8:00 PM \nThis event is sold out. Email us at events@rchs.com to be added to the waitlist. \n\nRegister Here \n\nIn partnership with the Center for Hmong Studies\, in 2024-25 Ramsey County Historical Society worked with four fellows to preserve the Hmong heritage and culture along with inspire future generations of Hmong Americans to know more about their ancestry. \nThe fellows centered their learning on preserving physical items\, storytelling\, film\, and fashion among other elements. \nLinda Lor\, Kalia Vue\, KaoLee Vang\, and Wone Vang will each share their work and experiences within the fellowship. \nConversation moderated by Youa Vang. \nThis fellowship is made possible by a grant from the Minnesota Historical Society. \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-hmong-fellows/
LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed - Selma 70
DESCRIPTION:This event is sold out.\nHistory Revealed – Selma 70\nExhibit Opening and Panel Conversation\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society\nLandmark Center\n75 West 5th Street\, St. Paul\, MN 55102\nRCHS Gallery\, Floor 1\nThursday\, April 24th\, 2025\nPanel Speakers:\nMary K. Boyd\nVanne Owens Hayes\nOtis Zanders\nModerated by Chad Roberts\n6:00 PM-8:00 PM\nFree event\, registration required \nRegister Here\n\n70 individuals\, representing more than a dozen local organizations\, traveled from Saint Paul\, Minnesota to Selma\, Alabama to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.” This journey wasn’t just about looking back. It was a call to action\, a reminder that the fight for civil rights and justice is ongoing. The pilgrims’ experiences\, their reflections\, and the lessons they brought back are captured in this Selma 70 exhibit. Through their eyes\, we explore not only the history of the Civil Rights Movement but also its lasting impact and the continuous struggle for equality and justice in our own times. \nJoin us for the opening of Ramsey County Historical Society’s NEW exhibit\, featuring a panel discussion with members of the group that made this impactful pilgrimage. This event is free\, but registration is required.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-selma-70/
LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits & Research,History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed - Vikings in the Attic
DESCRIPTION:This event is sold out.\nHistory Revealed: Vikings in the Attic with Eric Dregni\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society and Norway House \nNorway House\, 913 E Franklin Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN 55404\nThursday\, March 6th \n1:00 PM-2:30 PM \nFree event\, registration required \n\nRegister Here \n\nWho are these rather odd Scandinavians in our midst? \nJoin us for a presentation and Q&A with Eric Dregni at the Kaffebar at Norway House. In Vikings in the Attic\, Eric Dregni tracks down and explores the significant—often bizarre—historic sites\, tales\, and traditions of Scandinavia’s peculiar colony in the Midwest. Dregni reveals the little-known tales that lie beneath the surface of Nordic America and proves by example why generations of Scandinavian-Americans have come to love and cherish these tales and traditions so dearly. \nEric Dregni’s Norwegian relatives hail from the Lusterfjord\, at the end of the Sognefjord\, 127 miles up this waterway. With his wife Katy\, he moved to Trondheim as a Fulbright fellow in 2003. Thanks to two years on the Torskeklubben fellowship\, he wrote about his experiences there having their first baby\, surviving a dangerous dinner of rakfisk thanks to 80-proof aquavit\, and taking the “meat bus” to Sweden for cheap salami with a busload of knitting pensioners in the book In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream. \nHe has written twenty books\, including Never Trust a Thin Cook and Weird Minnesota. In the summer\, he is dean of the Italian Concordia Language Village\, Lago del Bosco. He’s a professor of English at Concordia University and lives in Minneapolis. \nThis event is sold out. You may email us at events@rchs.com to be added to the waitlist.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-vikings-in-the-attic-2/
LOCATION:Norway House\, 913 E Franklin Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55404\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241109T153000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: No Ordinary Dollhouse with Wendy Rossi
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: No Ordinary Dollhouse with Wendy Rossi\n \nGeorge Latimer Public Library\nSaturday\, November 9\, 2024\n2:00 pm-3:30 pm \nThis event is sold out. \nRegister Here\n\n\nJoin us Saturday\, November 9 for a wonderful conversation with Wendy Rossi\, as she discusses growing up at the two homes on Charles Avenue and Arundel Street in St. Paul at the height of World War II and the cherished items attached to memories of her childhood and loved ones. \n“Travel back in time with me to the 1940s. These were the war years\, although the US didn’t enter the conflict until December 1941. I was a little girl—born in 1938—oblivious to world events. I lived with my parents — June and Clarence Ham—in a St. Paul neighborhood known as Frogtown. Ours was a little house at 435 Charles Avenue. My maternal grandparents — Violet and Guy Metzger— lived just around the corner at 554 Arundel Street. I was the first child and the first granddaughter. As such\, I was indulged and remained “the only” in the family for several years. Gumpa Guy especially adored me. He built a dollhouse and presented it to me on my third birthday\, April 9\, 1941.” You can read Wendy Rossi’s article here. \nAbout Wendy Rossi \nWendy Ham Rossi’s family has a long history in St. Paul. Rossi attended public schools in the city and then taught elementary school here for thirty-seven years. She recently donated her dollhouse to Ramsey County Historical Society. RCHS is grateful for this addition to its collections.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-no-ordinary-dollhouse-with-wendy-rossi/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241024T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241024T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T044315
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T165742Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Architects on the Past\, Present\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: Architects on the Past\, Present of Future\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society \nThursday\, October 24\, 2024\n6:30 PM-8:00 PM \nThe Landmark Center\n75 West 5th Street\nSuite 317\nSt. Paul\, MN 55102 \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n\nRegister Here\n\n\n  \nJoin architects Alan Howell and James Garrett Jr. as they share their work and talk about the past\, present\, and future of architecture in Ramsey County and beyond. \nJames Garrett Jr. is a visual artist\, writer and architect who expresses the urban condition through the lenses of art and design. His work employs diverse media to explore complex theoretical topics from a unique\, ethno-experiential perspective. James is a 2019 American Institute of Architects National Young Architect Award recipient and a 2020 AIA MN Gold Metal recipient who currently serves on the Metropolitan Council Livable Communities & Transit Oriented Development Advisory Committees. James holds an A.B. degree in architecture from the College of Environmental Design at the University of California (Berkeley\, CA) and a Master of Architecture degree from Parsons School of Design (New York\, NY). \nAlan Howell is a registered architect in the state of Minnesota\, and has twenty-seven years of design/aviation-design experience and a decade of other interesting design experience to draw from as he assists and expands the Metropolitan Airports Commission’s Vision Statement To provide exceptional airport experiences so Minnesota thrives. In his role as Senior Airport Architect\, he is responsible for the conceptualization and implementation of new facilities\, major remodeled facilities\, and facility redevelopment/repurposing at all of MAC’s airports\, all with an interest and focus on sustainable practices and multi-department/multi-discipline coordination.  Born in Chicago\, and residing there for six weeks\, Alan spent his early-years in a first-ring-minneapolis suburb\, moved to the bucolic countryside at age eight\, and\, later\, graduated from the University of Minnesota IT/School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (now College of Design).  Alan has been a resident of the historic Selby-Dale neighborhood for roughly thirty-years\, and currently spends some of his time away from the office rehabilitating his 1890 queen-anne Victorian home (with hopes to add an ADU in 2025). \n \n\n\n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-architects-on-the-past-present-and-future/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Landmark Center Series
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241023T150000
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SUMMARY:Oakland Cemetery Tour - South
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: Oakland Cemetery Historic Walking Tour (South)\n \n927 Jackson St\, St Paul\, MN 55117\nWednesday October 23\, 2024\n1:00 pm-2:30 pm\n$10 per person \nSpace is limited to 20\, reserve today! \nRegister Here\nDay of Instructions: \nJoin experienced tour guide and historian Denise Dunnell Wells on a fascinating outdoor walking tour of Saint Paul’s famous Oakland Cemetery. The tour will feature the resting places of some of Saint Paul’s most famous and infamous personalities. It is all a matter of perspective! Denise will give you an overview of the cemetery’s history\, discuss some of its legends\, and show us the final resting places of these citizens. \n\nTour is outside only – please wear walking shoes and dress for the weather.\nThere are some hills on the tour and prepare to be on your feet for two hours.\nThere are no restrooms in the cemetery.\nOakland Cemetery is located at 927 Jackson Street\, Saint Paul.\nPlease park in the fenced-in lot that is off of Sims and Jackson\, by the Main Office.\nWe will meet at the chapel\, which is located closer to the corner of Sycamore and Jackson street\n\nIn case of severe weather\, or if you have other questions\, please check with RCHS at events@rchs.com \nPlease note that the North Tour is the original Oakland Cemetery tour previously hosted with Ramsey County Historical Society. The South tour is the supplemental tour. \nDenise Dunnell Wells \nDenise Dunnell Wells is a former Alexander Ramsey House docent and has led many popular tours of Irvine Park. She has been a history volunteer for over 25 years and currently serves as a volunteer and tour guide for both RCHS and MHS.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/oakland-cemetery-tour-south/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Tours
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240912T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240912T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T044315
CREATED:20240122T200942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240807T033413Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Deeper Blues
DESCRIPTION:Deeper Blues: The Life\, Songs\, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris\nwith Andrea Swensson\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society and Jazz88\nThursday\, September 12\, 2024\n6:30-8:30 pm \nSpringboard for the Arts \n262 University Ave West\, St. Paul\, MN 55103 \nTickets:\n$25 – General Admission\n$50 – General Admission with copy of Deeper Blues\n\nPurchase Here\n\n\nAll ticket sales are final. \nThere will be a reading from Andrea Swensson and appearance from Cornbread Harris\, followed by a book signing. \nThe emotional\, epic story of James “Cornbread” Harris—a self-proclaimed “blessed dude” and one of Minneapolis’s most influential musicians \nFollowing the extraordinary life story of James “Cornbread” Harris\, Andrea Swensson will return to History Revealed with the life of Harris and his wide-ranging influence. Deeper Blues is a unique history of Minnesota music that evolves into a heartfelt tale of reconciliation and forgiveness\, all to the tune of the legendary musician’s signature sound. A rich mix of present-day anecdotes and historical vignettes\, and featuring never-before-seen photographs and an afterword by Jimmy Jam\, Deeper Blues tells a singular story—one imprinted on the history\, heart\, and soul of the Minneapolis Sound. \n\nThrough conversations with Cornbread\, Jimmy Jam\, and many others\, Swensson reveals a story of perseverance and unfailing grace\, a firsthand account of making music in the face of racism and segregation\, and a hard-won acceptance of the personal sacrifices that are often required when dedicating one’s life to making music. As the man himself says\, “All of my hardships ended up to be blessings.” \nFrom the heart of the Minnesota blues comes the story of James “Cornbread” Harris Jr.\, the songwriter\, pianist\, and consummate bluesman whose seventy years making music helped to shape the Minneapolis Sound. “I am a blessed dude\,” Cornbread tells Andrea Swensson\, taking us along on his musical journey from a first “gig” entertaining his fellow soldiers during World War II to his subsequent years playing music for audiences across Minnesota. Following Cornbread’s extraordinary life story\, Deeper Blues is a unique history of Minnesota music that evolves into a heartfelt tale of reconciliation and forgiveness\, all to the tune of the legendary musician’s signature sound. \nCornbread’s career started in the 1950s\, when he played with the Augie Garcia Quintet and cowrote their hit “Hi Ho Silver.” A tireless entertainer\, he has been performing live ever since\, influencing an entire generation of musicians credited with putting Minneapolis on the map in the 1980s—including his long-estranged son\, Grammy-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer James “Jimmy Jam” Harris III. Going beyond the music\, Deeper Blues turns toward family\, atonement\, and peace when Cornbread reunites with Jimmy Jam after a five-decade separation and they perform together on stage. \nA rich mix of present-day anecdotes and historical vignettes\, animated by voices from Cornbread’s life and the Twin Cities music scene\, underscored by the bluesman’s original lyrics of heartache and hope\, and featuring never-before-seen photographs of Cornbread and Jimmy Jam\, Deeper Blues tells a singular story—one imprinted on the history\, heart\, and soul of the Minneapolis Sound. \nAndrea Swensson is an author\, podcast host\, and music journalist in Minneapolis. She hosts the Official Prince Podcast and has written for numerous publications\, including NPR Music\, Pitchfork\, the Star Tribune\, City Pages\, and Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current\, where she previously hosted “The Local Show.” Her first book\, Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound\, also from the University of Minnesota Press\, won a 2018 Minnesota Book Award.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-deeper-blues/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Walking Tour of H. Emil Strassburger (St. Paul West Side Neighborhood)
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: Walking Tour of H. Emil Strassburger (St. Paul West Side Neighborhood)\nwith Nicole Foss\nTHIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. \nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society \nSaturday\, August 10\, 2024\n9:00 am-10:30 am \nThe tour will begin at the David Wyrick statue titled “Overlook” at Prospect Terrace Park (corner of Prospect Boulevard and South Stryker Avenue\, on the bluff) and will have nine stops. Street parking is available and free.\n \nPlease wear comfortable shoes. Water will be provided for all guests. \nStops on tour: \n\nOverlook\nStrassburger House\nSchwarz House\nMortenson House\nBevans House\nHoulton House\nBeal House\nGrady Flats\nHeimbach House\n\nTickets:\n$10\nRCHS Members receive 20% discount on ticket price \n\nPurchase Here\n\n\nAll ticket sales are final. \nThis tour follows the homes designed by St. Paul Architect H. Emil Strassburger on St. Paul’s West Side neighborhood. \nRead about the homes before you attend. \nArchitectural Historian Nicole Foss grew curious about some of the old houses she passed on daily walks in her neighborhood. Curiosity led to research\, which evolved into our Winter 2024 cover story “Architect of St. Paul’s West Side: H. Emil Strassburger.” Very little has been published on the German immigrant Strassburger—until now. Most of the business blocks he designed in the late-nineteenth century are long gone\, but several residences still stand tall along the West Side bluff. Strassburger’s architectural contributions to this neighborhood are significant. Foss describes Strassburger’s work and his willingness to experiment with the styles of the day\, including the Richardsonian Romanesque style\, brick interpretations of Stick style with Eastlake embellishments\, and at least one exploration in Second Empire-inspired eclecticism. \nNicole Foss is a St. Paul-based architectural historian with a background in archaeology and museums. She has worked on historic preservation projects throughout Minnesota\, as well as in several other states\, and has a special fondness for St. Paul’s West Side neighborhood.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-walking-tour-of-h-emil-strassburger-st-paul-west-side/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240718T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240718T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Claiming the City
DESCRIPTION:Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism\nShelton Stromquist\nHistory Revealed\nThursday\, July 18\, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library. \n\nRegister Here \nHow workers fought for municipal socialism in the nineteenth century to make cities around the globe livable and democratic – and what the lessons are for today. \nFor more than a century\, “municipal socialism” has fired the imaginations of workers fighting to make cities livable and democratic. Prominent US labor historian\, Shelton Stromquist\, offers the first global account of the origins of this new trans-local socialist politics. He will present how and why cities after 1890 became crucibles for municipal socialism. Drawing on the colorful stories of local activists and their social-democratic movements in cities as diverse as Broken Hill\, Christchurch\, Malmö\, Bradford\, Stuttgart\, Vienna\, and Hamilton\, OH\, Prof. Stromquist shows how this new urban politics arose. \nLong governed by propertied elites\, cities in the nineteenth century were transformed by mass migration and industrialization that tore apart their physical and social fabric. Amidst massive strikes and faced with epidemic disease\, fouled streets\, unsafe water\, decrepit housing\, and with little economic security and few public amenities\, urban workers invented a local politics that promised to democratize cities they might themselves govern and reclaim the wealth they created. This new politics challenged the class power of urban elites as well as the centralizing tendencies of national social-democratic movements. Municipal socialist ideas have continued to inspire activists in their fight for the right of cities to govern themselves. \n\nShelton Stromquist is a historian specializing in labor and social history and a lifelong labor and civil rights activist. He is author or editor of seven books\, including Frontiers of Labor\, Reinventing “The People”\, and Labor’s Cold War. He is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Iowa. \nFrom the review by Jonathan Kissam\, November 16\, 2023: \n“In his new book Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism\, labor historian Shelton Stromquist describes these achievements as the culmination of decades of agitation around a program that was “essentially identical” to programs pursued by workers around the world. In the decades before the war\, the equivalent beacon for working-class parties around the world was Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, where the Social Democratic Party had won control of the city in 1910. With control of the mayor’s office\, the city council\, and the county council\, the Social Democrats “largely succeeded” in implementing important parts of their program: bringing the street cars and other city services under public ownership\, building public markets\, parks and swimming pools\, establishing free medical dispensaries and hospitals\, and providing free textbooks to schoolchildren. \nAs that list demonstrates\, the “municipal socialism” of the book’s title encompasses many things we take for granted today — though they are often under attack. Among the achievements of the labor government of Broken Hill\, Australia in 1900 were the paving of streets\, improvement of parks\, street lighting and a public library. In addition to expanding the public sector to meet the needs of working people\, municipal socialists agitated for government oversight to ensure safe and sanitary food and housing\, transparency in city government\, and expanded voting rights.” \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-claiming-the-city/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240620T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240620T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T044315
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Finding Moses Dickson
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: Finding Moses Dickson\nwith Karen Sieber\nThursday\, June 20\, 2024\, 7:00 pm\nPlease register for the Zoom event here: \nRegister Here\n \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library. \nNew documentation places Moses Dickson\, one of the most well-known leaders of the Underground Railroad\, living in Minnesota during the 1850s. Despite being one of the most influential Black figures of the nineteenth century\, there has always been a gap in knowledge about the abolitionist’s whereabouts in the 1850s\, a period in which he was known to have led countless individuals to freedom and organized a massive slave rebellion. In celebration of Juneteenth\, historian Karen Sieber\, Director of the Finding Moses Initiative\, will give a talk on Dickson and his time in Minnesota and will provide insight into how Dickson’s story connects to both the local and the national Black freedom movements. She will also discuss a new initiative being launched around Dickson to examine the people\, places\, and moments of the nineteenth-century Black Midwest\, a collaboration between scholars across state lines. \nKaren Sieber is an award-winning scholar of riots and resistance\, Black history\, and labor history in the United States. She is best known as the creator of Visualizing the Red Summer\, part of the AP African American Studies curriculum\, and for her work in the Gayle King CBS documentary Tulsa 1921: An American Tragedy. Her work has appeared in Jacobin\, Yahoo\, MSN\, Minnesota History\, The Conversation\, PBS\, Smithsonian\, American Historical Association\, Labor\, and in the book Where Are the Workers?: Labor’s Stories at Museums and Historic Sites. For more on her work visit www.ksieber.com.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-finding-moses-dickson/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240523T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240523T143000
DTSTAMP:20260417T044315
CREATED:20240301T191945Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow
DESCRIPTION:The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi\nwith Elin Anna Labba\nThursday\, May 23\, 2024\, 1:00 pm\nPlease note 1:00 pm time: Elin Anna Labba will be joining us from Sweden.\n \nIn partnership with Norway House and the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library. \nRegister Here \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nFree and open to all. \n\n\n\nThe deep and personal story—told through history\, poetry\, and images—of the forced displacement of the Sámi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today\nIn a remarkable blend of historical reportage\, memoir\, and lyrical reimagining\, Elin Anna Labba travels to northern Norway and Sweden\, the lost homeland of her ancestors\, to tell of the forced displacement of the Indigenous Sámi in the early twentieth century. Through stories\, photographs\, letters\, and joik lyrics\, she gathers a chorus of Sámi expression that resonates across the years\, evoking the nomadic life they were required to abandon and the immense hardship they endured. \n\nMore than a hundred years have passed since the Sámi were forcibly displaced from their homes in northern Norway and Sweden\, a hundred years since Elin Anna Labba’s ancestors and relations drove their reindeer over the strait to the mainland for the last time. The place where they lived has remained empty ever since. We carry our homes in our hearts\, Labba shares\, citing the Sámi poet Áillohaš. How do you bear that weight if you were forced to leave? In a remarkable blend of historical reportage\, memoir\, and lyrical reimagining\, Labba travels to the lost homeland of her ancestors to tell of the forced removal of the Sámi in the early twentieth century and to reclaim a place in history\, and in today’s world\, for these Indigenous people of northern Scandinavia. \nWhen Norway became a country independent from Sweden in 1905\, the two nations came to an agreement that called for the displacement of the Northern Sámi\, who spent summers on the Norwegian coast and winters in Sweden. This “dislocation\,” as the authorities called it\, gave rise to a new word in Sámi language\, bággojohtin\, forced displacement. The first of the sirdolaččat\, or “the displaced\,” left their homes fully believing they would soon return. Through stories\, photographs\, letters\, and joik lyrics\, Labba gathers a chorus of Sámi expression that resonates across the years\, evoking the nomadic life they were required to abandon and the immense hardship and challenges they endured: children left behind with relatives\, reindeer lost when they returned to familiar territory\, sorrow and estrangement that linger through generations. \n\nTo order The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow from our partner\, Subtext Books\, see the page here. \n\n  \n \n\nElin Anna Labba is a Sámi journalist and was previously editor-in-chief of the magazine Nuorat. She received Sweden’s August Prize for Best Nonfiction as well as the prestigious Norrland Literature Prize.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-the-rocks-will-echo-our-sorrow/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240516T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240516T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T044315
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Why We Left
DESCRIPTION:Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America’s First Immigrants\nJoanna Brooks\n\nHistory Revealed Special Event\nThursday\, May 16\, 2024\, 7:00 pm\n\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nFree and open to all \n\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, Ramsey County Libraries and Norway House. \nA grounded\, tender\, and mournful reckoning with the catastrophes that launched poor\, white Anglos into their role as itinerant foot soldiers for modern imperialism—now in paperback (May 2024) with a new preface. \nWhy We Left reveals the dislocation\, violence\, and deforestation that propelled seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration\, offering a powerful restorying of the journey to our present moment of precarity and rootlessness. Following American folk ballads back across the Atlantic\, Joanna Brooks shares a scholarly and personal account of the intergenerational traumas that shape the history of white Anglos on Turtle Island. \nJoanna Brooks’s ancestors were among the early waves of emigrants to leave England for North America. For generations\, they lived hardscrabble lives\, eking out subsistence in one place after another as they continually moved west in search of a better life. Why\, Brooks wondered\, did her people and countless other poor English subjects abandon their homeland for such unremitting hardship? The question leads her on a journey through an obscure dimension of American history. \nShe will share folk ballads such as “Edward\,” which reveals the influence of deforestation on the dislocation of early Anglo-American peasant immigrants\, and “The House Carpenter’s Wife\,” which emphasizes the impact of economic instability and the colonial enterprise on women. From these ballads\, tragic and heartrending\, Brooks uncovers an archaeology of the worldviews of America’s earliest immigrants. This tenth-anniversary edition includes a new preface and develops a haunting historical perspective on the ancestors we thought we knew. \nJoanna Brooks is an award-winning scholar and writer whose work tends to catastrophes of human belonging in American history. The author or editor of ten books on race\, religion\, colonialism\, and social movements\, her writing has been featured in global media\, including the BBC\, NPR\, the Daily Show\, CNN\, MSNBC\, and the Washington Post. \nWhy We Left is published by the University of Minnesota Press. \nRCHS is committed to presenting the stories and histories of all in our community\, and we are pleased to bring you tonight’s program. To that end\, in 2022\, we are working to bring you programs focused on our series\, “Making Minnesota” which will explore the often untold stories\, histories and experiences of the some of the world-wide immigrant\, African American and Indigenous communities that make up our most diverse county.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-why-we-left/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240418T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240418T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T044315
CREATED:20240126T174831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240415T171346Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Never Trust a Thin Cook
DESCRIPTION:Never Trust a Thin Cook and Other Lessons from Italy’s Culinary Capital\nA Celebration of St. Paul’s Sister City: Modena\, Italy\nWith Eric Dregni\nThursday April 18\, 2024\, 3:30-4:30 pm\nBook Signing 4:30-5:00 pm\nConcordia Library\nIn Person Event\nFree \nRegister Here\n \nEric Dregni will share his food-obsessed chronicles of his three years in Italy\, celebrating Saint Paul’s sister city\, Modena. He will be available to sign his books after the program. \nI simply want to live in the place with the best food in the world. This dream led Eric Dregni to Italy\, first to Milan and eventually to a small\, fog-covered town to the north: Modena\, the birthplace of balsamic vinegar\, Ferrari\, and Luciano Pavarotti. Never Trust a Thin Cook is a classic American abroad tale\, brimming with adventures both expected and unexpected\, awkward social moments\, and most important\, very good food. \nParmesan thieves. Tortellini based on the shape of Venus’s navel. Infiltrating the secret world of the balsamic vinegar elite. Life in Modena is a long way from the Leaning Tower of Pizza (the south Minneapolis pizzeria where Eric and his girlfriend and fellow traveler Katy first met)\, and while some Italians are impressed that “Minnesota” sounds like “minestrone\,” they are soon learning what it means to live in a country where the word “safe” doesn’t actually exist—only “less dangerous.” Thankfully\, another meal is always waiting\, and Dregni revels in uncorking the secrets of Italian cuisine\, such as how to guzzle espresso “corrected” with grappa and learning that mold really does make a good salami great. \nWhat begins as a gastronomical quest soon becomes a revealing\, authentic portrait of how Italians live and a hilarious demonstration of how American and Italian cultures differ. In Never Trust a Thin Cook\, Eric Dregni dishes up the sometimes wild experiences of living abroad alongside the simple pleasures of Italian culture in perfect\, complementary proportions. \nEric Dregni is associate professor of English at Concordia University in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, and dean of the Italian Concordia Language Village\, Lago del Bosco. He is the author of several books\, including In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream\, Minnesota Marvels: Roadside Attractions in the Land of Lakes\, and Midwest Marvels: Roadside Attractions across Iowa\, Minnesota\, the Dakotas\, and Wisconsin\, all published by the University of Minnesota Press.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-never-trust-a-thin-cook/
LOCATION:Concordia Library\, 1282 Concordia Ave.\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55104\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Dakhóta Iápi
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed Special Program\nDakhóta Iápi (Dakota Language): Its History and Future\nwith Šišókaduta (Joe Bendickson)\, Dr. Rev. Clifford Canku Sr. and Heather Menefee\nModerated by Meredith Cummings\, RCHS editor\nThursday\, March 21\, 2024\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library. \nLive presentation on Zoom- Register Here\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nFree and open to all. \nIn 2023\, Dakhóta language scholars from the University of Minnesota\, with their instructor Šišókaduta (Joe Bendickson)\, worked with Ramsey County Historical Society to write a brief history of Dakhóta iápi (language) in three parts. The piece begins with an early history of the language following settler coloni­zation and extending through the boarding school era. It continues with a collaborative segment highlighting current language initia­tives and the positive effects these have for both the Dakhóta and non-Indigenous communities in establishing themselves in Minnesota history. The article culminates with words of encourage­ment to Dakhóta language teachers and second-language learners from Dr. Rev. Clifford Canku Sr.\, one of the few remaining first-language Dakhóta speakers and a holder of traditional knowledge. \nŠišókaduta\, and graduate student Heather Menefee will participate in a panel discussion about the history of the language and current language revitalization efforts. \nImage: From Ramsey County History magazine. \nDr. Rev. Clifford Canku\, Sr. is the author and editor\, along with Michael Simon\, of The Dakota Prisoner of War Letters: Dakota Kaskapi Okicize Wowapi (2012). With Nicolette Knudson and Jody Snow\, he is also a creator of Tokaheya Dakota Iapi Kin/Beginning Dakota (2010). Canku earned a BA from the University of Minnesota at Morris\, and a master of divinity from the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary in Iowa. He has retired after many years as a professor of Dakhóta studies at North Dakota State University and as a Presbyterian minister. He continues to serve as a teacher\, elder\, and minister of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakhóta Oyáte from his home at Kaksíza Háŋska. \nŠišókaduta (Joe Bendickson) is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakhóta Oyáte of Lake Traverse Reservation. He worked as a Dakhóta language instructor at the University of Minnesota for many years until recently\, when he began a full-time position as linguistic director and editor at Dakhóta Iápi Okhódakičhiye (DIO)\, a 501c3 nonprofit organization of dedicated Dakhóta community members\, language learners\, and speakers. DIO recently released Dakhód Iápi Wičhóie Wówapi\, the first Dakhóta language dictionary app with 28\,699 audio recordings. \nHeather Menefee is a student of Šišókaduta\, a staff member at Dakhóta Iápi Okhódakičhiye\, and a PhD candidate in history at Northwestern University. She has also worked as the teaching assistant for the Dakota Language Program at UMN\, where she continues to study the language and support other learners. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-dakhota-iapi/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Special Events
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Heart of the Heartland
DESCRIPTION:The Heart of the Heartland: Norwegian American Community in the Twin Cities\nDavid C. Mauk\nHistory Revealed Special Event\nThursday\, February 15\, 2024\, 1:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, Ramsey County Libraries and Norway House \n\nLive presentation on Zoom. Register Here.\nPlease note 1:00 CST program time – Prof. Mauk will be joining us from Norway.\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nFree and open to all. \n\nAn in-depth look at the Norwegian American community of Minneapolis–St. Paul and its deep and complex role in the economic\, political\, and cultural life of the Twin Cities over more than 170 years. \nSince the earliest days of European settlement in the region\, tens of thousands of Norwegians have found their way to Minnesota. Many early arrivals settled in the cities\, while others who initially chose the countryside departed for urban settings after they had become accustomed to the ways of their adopted home. The growing Twin Cities became home to Norwegian immigrants and their migrating compatriots alike. \nThese Norwegian Americans took up employment in a range of fields. They also assembled in churches and charitable organizations\, carrying on homeland traditions even as they took on prominent roles in the larger urban community. Minnesotans of Norwegian descent in the twenty-first century may not speak their ancestral tongue\, but they lovingly uphold many cultural practices of their ancestral home. \nThe Heart of the Heartland brings together personal interviews\, demographic research\, and archival exploration to inform stories of assimilation\, ascendency\, and collaboration among Minnesota’s Norwegian Americans and their neighbors over 170 years. \nFrom the Minnesota Historical Society Press\, co-published with the Norwegian American Historical Association. \nDavid C. Mauk is the author of The Colony that Rose from the Sea: Norwegian Maritime Migration and Community in Brooklyn\, 1850-1910 and numerous articles about Norwegian American ethnicity. Now retired\, he taught American studies at the University of Oslo.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-heart-of-the-heartland/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240213T210000
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SUMMARY:WWII History Round Table: The Viking Battalion
DESCRIPTION:The Dr. Harold C. Deutsch WWII History Round Table & History Revealed\nThe Viking Battalion: Norwegian American Ski Troopers in World War II \nwith Olaf Minge\, Dr. Kyle Ward and Erik Brun\nTuesday\, February 13\, 2024\nAt the Minnesota History Center\nProgram: 7:00 pm\nStudent Outreach: 5:45 pm\nParticipate in informal conversations with the authors and veterans on the program topic. \nRound Table admission is free • Parking $6/$4 MNHS members \nMinnesota History Center \nRound Table admission is free;\nParking $6/$4 MNHS members \nThe Minnesota History Center’s Market House Grab-n-Go will be open from 4–7 pm on Round Table evenings. Join us for a quick sandwich\, snack\, or beverage before the programs start. \nJoin the WWII History Round Table and RCHS  for a very special evening as authors and collaborators of The Viking Battalion\, Erik Brun\, Kyle Ward\, and Olaf Minge\, share a collection of biographies of the veterans from the 99th Battalion. The battalion was formed by Norwegian-Americans for ground operations in Norway\, which was later reconsidered. They showed great valor in the battles of Europe. \nHidden in the crevasses of World War II history is the story of the 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate*). A small unit that rarely gets any attention\, it is part of a fascinating story. Alongside battalions of Austrian\, Greek\, Filipino and Japanese Americans\, the Army decided to create an all Norwegian American battalion\, originally trained at Camp Hale\, Colorado\, along with the 10th Mountain Division\, with the original mission of liberating Norway. Their exploits during training brought them enough notoriety that members of the 99th were recruited to start the First Special Service Force and a branch of the OSS. Although they were not initially sent to Norway\, they would fight in Normandy\, across France and Belgium\, helped entrap the Germans at Aachen\, protected the city of Malmedy during the Battle of the Bulge (where they stopped an attack by Skorzeny and a SS Panzer Division)\, helped liberate Buchenwald\, guarded the Nazi treasures found in Merkers mine and finally served as the Honor Guard for King Haakon VII on his triumphant return to Norway. \nThe Viking Battalion: Norwegian American Ski Troopers in World War II tells the story of the 99th Infantry Battalion through an anthology of rarely\, if ever\, previously seen memoirs\, journals\, letters and newspaper articles written by or about the Viking soldiers. \n“What is engaging about this book is that you get to hear the authentic voices of the soldiers through their memoirs\, journal entries\, and letters. Some are long\, some are short\, but all are worth reading for the insights you get into the minds of the ordinary soldier and what catches his eye.” ― The Norwegian American \nPresenters & Editors\nErik Brun is the son of Christian Magnus From Brun\, a Norwegian immigrant and a rifleman in Company C\, 99th Infantry Battalion (separate*). Erik completed a thirty-year career as an Army Logistics Officer serving as a battalion commander and Group Support Operations Officer (SOO). He holds an MBA and Master’s Degree in Public History focused on researching the battalion’s saga and served as the president of the 99th Infantry Battalion Education Foundation from 2014 to 2023. \nOlaf Minge is the grandson of Captain Raymond K. Minge\, the Doctor attached to the 99th Infantry Battalion. He has been active in international service programs with a particular focus on clean water projects in Haiti. He has served on the board of several organizations\, including a regional chapter of the Norwegian American Chamber of Commerce. Olaf has been a Director of IT for a global Fortune 50 company. Olaf lives in Saint Paul\, Minnesota. \nKyle Ward is the Director of Social Studies Education and teaches classes about World War II\, at Minnesota State University\, Mankato. He earned his Ph.D. from Indiana State University and has written other books on military history and historiography. \n*The 99th  Infantry Battalion was created separate from any other formal military organization. They didn’t belong to a specific division or regiment\, at least not until January 1945 when they helped to create the 474th  Infantry Regiment (which oddly enough\, was also separate). This classification allowed for the higher command to plug them in anywhere they wanted\, which is what makes this unit so unique in their World War II involvements. They got to see and experience a lot more because of this classification\, for better or worse. This was also a title that the Veterans of this unit were very proud of. \nParking & Visitor Information for MNHS
URL:https://rchs.com/event/wwii-history-round-table-the-viking-battalion/
LOCATION:Minnesota History Center\, 345 W. Kellogg Blvd\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Special Events
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Indian Wars Everywhere
DESCRIPTION:Indian Wars Everywhere\nStefan Aune\, PhD\, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies\, Williams College\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 18\, 2024\, 7:00 pm\n\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom- Register Here\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nFree and open to all. \n\nReferences to the Indian Wars\, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion\, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by paratroopers jumping from airplanes\, words and images referring to Indians have been indelibly linked with warfare. In “Indian Wars Everywhere\,” Stefan Aune shows how these resonances signal a deeper history\, one in which the Indian Wars function as a shadow doctrine that influences US military violence. The United States’ formative acts of colonial violence persist in the actions\, imaginations\, and stories that have facilitated the spread of American empire\, from the “savage wars” of the nineteenth century to the counterinsurgencies of the Global War on Terror. Ranging across centuries and continents\, “Indian Wars Everywhere” considers what it means for the conquest of Native peoples to be deemed a success that can be used as a blueprint for modern warfare.\nStefan Aune graduated from Macalester College in 2011 and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.  He is a historian of the global United States whose research examines the intersections of race\, colonialism\, and violence. He teaches courses in American Studies\, Native American and Indigenous Studies\, empire and US foreign policy\, critical theory\, environmental history\, and the history of violence. His writing has appeared in American Quarterly\, Pacific Historical Review\, and in the edited volume At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. He is currently finishing a book manuscript titled Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire\, which explores how the violence that accompanied US continental expansion has influenced global US militarism from the nineteneth century through the War on Terror. His research reflects on what it means for the conquest of Native peoples to be used as a blueprint for modern warfare. Prior to Williams\, Stefan spent three years as the Elihu Rose Scholar and a faculty fellow in the History Department at New York University.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-indian-wars-everywhere/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Defying the Silence
DESCRIPTION:Defying the Silence: A Chronicle of Resilience that Saved the World-Renowned Minnesota Orchestra\nJulie Ayer\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, November 30\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \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. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn this extraordinary example of how to unionize in the arts\, Julie Ayer reveals how some of the world’s finest musicians went from sitting in the Minnesota Orchestra to standing in the picket line . . . and how their city rallied around them.  The lockout that began on October 1\, 2012\, became the longest and most infamous work stoppage in American orchestral labor history.  What came to pass was a struggle for the very identity of an orchestra that had been at the heart of the Minnesota arts scene since it was founded in 1903. But the musicians didn’t feel despair–they felt defiance. And Twin Cities music lovers were ready to defend the orchestra alongside them. \nWith thirty-six years as a violinist in the Minnesota Orchestra\, Julie Ayer is the perfect voice to chronicle this powerful book about Minnesota history. She pairs firsthand accounts from personal connections with meticulous research and an intimate understanding of the institution itself. \nIn the face of adversity\, the musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra did what they do best–they defied the silence and brought the music back. \n \nJulie Ayer is a professional violinist\, arts advocate\, historian\, and author. A passionate lifelong musician\, she spent her thirty-six-year professional career in the Minnesota Orchestra\, including their ground-breaking tour to Cuba in 2015. Julie also was a member of the Houston Symphony\, Santa Fe Opera Orchestra\, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. \nThroughout her career\, Ayer was involved in many orchestra committees\, including labor negotiations. Today\, Ayer is a member of Classica Chamber Players and plays regularly in the Twin Cities. She has presented workshops and spoken to a variety of groups\, including labor lawyers\, music students\, and colleagues. Julie has a master’s degree in music and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first book\, More Than Meets the Ear: How Symphony Musicians Made Labor History\, was reviewed in publications including the Boston Globe\, Star Tribune\, and International Musician.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-defying-the-silence/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Prairie Imperialists
DESCRIPTION:Prairie Imperialists: The Indian Country Origins of American Empire\nKatherine Bjork\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, October 19\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \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. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as an imperial power. It was when the United States first landed troops overseas and established governments of occupation in the Philippines\, Cuba\, and other formerly Spanish colonies. But such actions to extend U.S. sovereignty abroad\, argues Katharine Bjork\, had a precedent in earlier relations with Native nations at home. In Prairie Imperialists\, Bjork traces the arc of American expansion by showing how the Army’s conquests of what its soldiers called “Indian Country” generated a repertoire of actions and understandings that structured encounters with the racial others of America’s new island territories following the War of 1898. \nPrairie Imperialists follows the colonial careers of three Army officers from the domestic frontier to overseas posts in Cuba and the Philippines. The men profiled—Hugh Lenox Scott\, Robert Lee Bullard\, and John J. Pershing—internalized ways of behaving in Indian Country that shaped their approach to later colonial appointments abroad. Scott’s ethnographic knowledge and experience with Native Americans were valorized as an asset for colonial service; Bullard and Pershing\, who had commanded African American troops\, were regarded as particularly suited for roles in the pacification and administration of colonial peoples overseas. After returning to the mainland\, these three men played prominent roles in the “Punitive Expedition” President Woodrow Wilson sent across the southern border in 1916\, during which Mexico figured as the next iteration of “Indian Country.” \nWith rich biographical detail and ambitious historical scope\, Prairie Imperialists makes fundamental connections between American colonialism and the racial dimensions of domestic political and social life—during peacetime and while at war. Ultimately\, Bjork contends\, the concept of “Indian Country” has served as the guiding force of American imperial expansion and nation building for the past two and a half centuries and endures to this day. \nKatharine Bjork is Professor of History at Hamline University and author of In the Circle of Dance: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal. \nPlease check out our partner Subtext Books\, located in downtown St. Paul and online at: https://subtextbooks.com/ for this and other History Revealed titles.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-prairie-imperialists/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Oakland Cemetery Walking Tour 2023
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: Oakland Cemetery Historic Walking Tour \nThursday\, October 12\, 2023\n1:00 am-2:30 pm \nTo register: Oakland Cemetery Walking Tour 2023 \nSpace is limited to 20\, reserve today! \nJoin experienced tour guide and historian Denise Dunnell Wells on a fascinating outdoor walking tour of Saint Paul’s famous Oakland Cemetery. The tour will feature the resting places of some of Saint Paul’s most famous and infamous personalities. It is all a matter of perspective! Denise will give you an overview of the cemetery’s history\, discuss some of its legends\, and show us the final resting places of these citizens. \n\nTour is outside only – please wear walking shoes and dress for the weather.\nThere are some hills on the tour and prepare to be on your feet for two hours.\nThere are no restrooms in the cemetery.\nOakland Cemetery is located at 927 Jackson Street\, Saint Paul.\nPlease park in the fenced-in lot that is off of Sims and Jackson\, by the Main Office.\nWe will meet at the green cement block at the beginning of the parking lot.\n\nIn case of severe weather\, or if you have other questions\, please check with RCHS at events@rchs.com \nDenise Dunnell Wells\nDenise Dunnell Wells is a former Alexander Ramsey House docent and has led many popular tours of Irvine Park. She has been a history volunteer for over 25 years and currently serves as a volunteer and tour guide for both RCHS and MHS.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-oakland-cemetery-walking-tour-2023/
LOCATION:Oakland Cemetery\, 927 Jackson Street\, Saint Paul \, MN\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Tours
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230923T170000
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SUMMARY:Family History Day: Digital Archiving
DESCRIPTION:Family History Resources at Ramsey County Historical Society and George Latimer Central Library\nSaturday\, September 23\, 2023\n2:30 pm – 4:30 pm\n\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nGeorge Latimer Central Library\n\n\nFamily History Digital Archiving\nAndy Boss meeting room\n2:30-5:00 pm \nIn person. Registration required\, limited to 10 registrants. For registration\, see the George Latimer Central Library Calendar. \nLibrarians Anders Oftelie and Andrea Herman will give a brief talk on best practices for preserving family history\, then registrants will have the opportunity to make digital copies of their memories. \nOnly attendees who register will get a chance to digitize their documents. \nRegistrants will be limited to 5 documents each due to time constraints. \nThe following formats are acceptable: paper\, hard copy photographs\, negatives\, and slides. No other formats will be allowed.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/family-history-day-digital-archiving/
LOCATION:George Latimer Central Library\, 90 W 4th St\, Saint Paul \, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Research
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