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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.
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230923T143000
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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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SUMMARY:Family History Day: Resources
DESCRIPTION:Family History Resources at Ramsey County Historical Society and George Latimer Central Library\nSaturday\, September 23\, 2023\n1:00 pm – 2:00 pm\n\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nGeorge Latimer Central Library\nFamily History Resources Talk\nAndy Boss meeting room\n1:00-2:00 pm \nIn person. Free and open to all. No registration needed. \n\n\nLearn all about family history materials available at the Ramsey County Historical Society and George Latimer Central library with Mollie Spillman\, RCHS Curator/Archivist and Andrea Herman\, Latimer Librarian. We have many resources to get you started in your research. \nMollie Spillman has worked as the RCHS Curator/Archivist since 1994 and has been responsible for growing the collection\, preserving it and making it accessible to the public in a number of ways. \nAndrea Herman has been working at the Saint Paul Public Library since 1989 and has been answering reference questions at George Latimer Central Library since 1997. She is also coordinator for the Innovation Lab makerspace\, which includes digitization equipment. \nThe day will continue with : \nFamily History Digital Archiving\nAndy Boss meeting room\n2:30-5:00 pm \nFor more on the second program\, see https://rchs.com/event/family-history-day-digital-archiving/ \nIn person. Registration required for this portion\, limited to 10 registrants. For registration\, see the George Latimer Central Library Calendar.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/family-history-day-resources/
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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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Connecting to Collections- Preservation for Who? 
DESCRIPTION:Connecting to Collections: Preservation for Who?   \nChris Rico\, Nienow Cultural Consultants \nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, September 21\, 2023\n7:00 pm \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and Ramsey County Libraries-Roseville \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 \nJoin Public Historian\, Archaeologist\, and Conservator\, Christopher Rico (M.HSPH) for a focused discussion on the topic of representation and access in museum collections and how to care for and preserve your personal collections like a museum conservator. In this program\, Christopher will talk about some of the social and cultural issues connected to collecting institutes\, how these issues effect different communities\, and how it has led to the growth of grassroots community preservation initiatives and a growing need for the sharing of resources and knowledge in preservation techniques. \nMany museums and collecting institutions task themselves with adding to and maintaining their collections of 3-D objects\, books\, paper files\, and the digital and physical archives which accompany them. This task is often made a central pillar of a collecting institution’s mission as it is held that through this process\, knowledges may be preserved\, access to them expanded\, and through interpretation new understandings created. However\, being that this practice is historically rooted to empire and colonialism\, there is an undeniable effect on the way in which this mission has been conducted. Furthermore\, additional factors within institutions affect how collections are managed and what is deemed worthy of collection. Among other effects\, this results in the exclusion of certain communities within collections\, barriers to access\, and questions about the accuracy of knowledge provided by collections and their interpretation. In response to these issues\, the practices of community archiving and grassroots preservation have grown exponentially in recent decades\, creating a need for access to complex resources and knowledges often held by or provided exclusively to collecting institutions. \nChris Rico has a robust and diverse field of experience in heritage studies spanning over the last six years. He obtained his master’s degree at the University of Minnesota in Heritage Studies and Public History and has been working in various community development positions since. His breadth of experience includes extensive archival use\, processing\, and research experience\, community driven and engaged public history projects\, oral histories\, and preservation and special collections management.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-connecting-to-collections/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Whiteness in Plain View
DESCRIPTION:Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota\nChad Montrie & James Curry\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, August 10\, 2023\n7:00 pm \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library. \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 \nIn-person attendance: Due to the popularity of this program\, we have opened up in-person attendance at the East Side Freedom Library.\nSee below for the address and a map.\n \nThis event will feature two presentations\, one by James Curry and the other by Chad Montrie\, drawing on their respective interests and projects to address the construction and circulation of white supremacy narratives that poison historical memory and perpetuate racism in Minnesota.  Following the presentations\, James and Chad will have a brief conversation with one another\, and then open that up to questions and comments from the audience. \n\nChad Montrie is a professor in the History Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and has published five books\, including Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota and The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism.  This past year\, he was a Fulbright Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary\, based in the History Department and affiliated with the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. \n\nJames Curry is a producer\, director\, writer\, editor\, educator and author who has been active in film making for over 30 years. His short film westbound and documentary masterjam have won dozens of awards internationally in multiple categories. In 2021 he was awarded the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship for Film and in 2022 the Arthur C McWatt Fellowship where he was able to pursue social justice through the creation of an historical exhibit on Black Pioneers and the June release of a graphic novel based on his ancestor’s narrative called “Hate Stings. He is a descendant of the Curry family of Southside Minneapolis and the Chairperson of BR4R.org He teaches film and production at Augsburg University and continues to build community through partnerships with historical societies\, individuals and faith-based organizations. He’s presently involved in the development of a Black Heritage Trail in Hastings\, a People Power exhibit at the MN African American Heritage Museum and Gallery in September and a volume series on sung and unsung Black Minnesotan luminaries with MNHS slated for a 2026 semiquincentennial release. \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. \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-whiteness-in-plain-view-2/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Scandinavian Immigrants & the Civil War
DESCRIPTION:For Gud Og Vort Land:\nScandinavian Immigrants & the Civil War\nSaturday\, July 22\, 9:00 am-1:00 pm\nNorway House\n913 E Franklin Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN 55404 \nJoin us for a very special History Revealed as we explore the contributions of Scandinavian immigrants from Minnesota and Wisconsin during the Civil War. The motto of the Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment\, “For Gud Og Vort Land\,” (For God and Our Country)\, serves as the thread for this day of programming. Beginning with a tour of the Pioneer & Soldiers Cemetery led by Susan Hunter\, the the day continues with the story of the Fifteenth Wisconsin\, known as the “Norwegian Regiment.” The life and contributions of Colonel Hans Christian Heg and other Scandinavian soldiers from Minnesota and Wisconsin will be told by Odd Lovoll\, author of Colonel Hans Christian Heg and the Norwegian American Experience. \nSchedule\n9:00-10:00 am \n\nTour the Pioneer & Soldiers Cemetery with Susan Hunter\nPark at the Cemetery\, 2945 Cedar Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN 55407\nCost for the tour is $5.00\nPre-registration is preferred\nTickets are available at the Norway House website\n\n11:00 am-1:00 pm \n\nColonel Hans Christian Heg and the Norwegian American Experience with Odd Lovoll\nBook signing and discussion\nProgram will take place at Norway House\nFree and open to the public\, no registration required\nThe book will be available for purchase\nSee the Norway House website for more\n\nSusan Hunter is the founding member of the Friends of the Pioneer & Soldiers Cemetery. She is a historian and author of many articles about the cemetery. \nColonel Hans Christian Heg and the Norwegian American Experience is the first full-length biography of Colonel Heg examines the life of a Civil War hero while illuminating the experiences of Norwegian American immigrants who found both hardship and success in a new home. \nHans Christian Heg (1829–1863) was a Norwegian American abolitionist\, journalist\, antislavery activist\, prison reformer\, politician\, and soldier. Best known for leading the Fifteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment on the Union side during the Civil War\, Heg died of wounds received at the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863. \nWhile Heg’s achievements earned him a statue on the Wisconsin state capitol grounds\, behind his public persona was a life emblematic of his generation. Heg’s family hailed from Lier\, Norway; economic as well as religious challenges led them\, like so many others\, to leave their homeland for the promise of a better life. Heg himself trod multiple paths: joining in the California Gold Rush\, pursuing a political career in support of the Free Soil Party and then the newly formed Republican Party\, and taking up the role of Wisconsin state prison commissioner. Like his fellow immigrants\, he made a living and nurtured a family at the same time that he was defining what it meant to be both Norwegian and American. \nHeg’s remarkable leadership of the Fifteenth Wisconsin\, the “Norwegian regiment\,” is the stuff of legends. But this book is more than a biography of one man: it is the story of a generation of immigrant citizens who contributed politically\, economically\, and socially to the American Midwest and beyond. \nOdd S. Lovoll is the author of several books on the Norwegian American immigrant experience\, including Norwegians on the Prairie\, Norwegian Newspapers in America\, and Across the Deep Blue Sea. He was born in Sande\, in Møre og Romsdal\, Norway\, and immigrated to the United States in 1946. Lovoll was educated at the University of Bergen and the University of Oslo before receiving an M.A. from the University of North Dakota and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He taught for three years at Minnesota and then spent 30 years as a professor of history at St. Olaf College in Northfield\, Minnesota\, where he is professor emeritus. Lovoll also served for 20 years as publication editor for the Norwegian-American Historical Association. In 1986\, Lovoll was decorated with the Knight’s Cross First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit by King Olav V of Norway\, and in 2001 he was inducted into the Scandinavian Hall of Fame at Norsk Høstfest\, North America’s largest Scandinavian festival. He lives in Northfield\, Minnesota.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-scandinavian-immigrants-the-civil-war/
LOCATION:Norway House\, 913 E Franklin Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Special Events,Tours
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Italians on St. Paul's East Side
DESCRIPTION:Italians on Saint Paul’s East Side\nJohn Andreozzi\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, July 20\, 2023\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 \nItalians have had a significant presence in St. Paul.  Although there were only a few as the City began to grow in the 1850s\, within five decades their numbers had grown substantially. Many settled in Railroad Island and Swede Hollow on the East Side. They had been farmers in Italy\, but in St. Paul they worked on the railroads that surrounded their neighborhood\, as well as the city’s public works department\, while some were self- employed as peddlers or operators of confectionery and grocery stores. \n\nSt. Paul Italians founded institutions in Railroad Island that offered protection from bigotry and facilitated the assimilation process. The Dante Alighieri society formed in 1883\, was the first Italian group in the state. The Christ Child Center\, a Catholic settlement house which offered a variety of programs\, was located in a building erected by Italians. East Side Italians established Saint Ambrose church in 1915\, and they became known for their processions honoring patron saints. \nJohn Andreozzi was born in Lackawanna\, NY\, and has worked as a teacher\, clinical social worker\, community organizer\, and ethnic historian.  He has been studying Italian American history for more than fifty years\, and he holds Master’s Degrees in Sociology and Social Work. In 1985\, he moved to the Twin Cities to work at the Immigration History Research Center and Archives.\, and he became an organizer of Festa Italiana MN.  John has written two books and several scholarly articles on the experiences of Italians in the United States\, and he maintains a website at Italian-American-Experience.org. \nHis presentation is part of our series “Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants.” \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. programs which 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.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-italians-on-st-pauls-east-side/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Nature's Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:Nature’s Crossroads: The Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota:\nA Wide-Ranging Environmental and Historical Study of the Evolution of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul Area\nWith George Vrtis and Christopher W. Wells \nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, June 22\, 2023\n7:00 pm \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library. \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 \nThe industrial and commercial development of the Twin Cities transformed the landscape\, dispossessed the original Native inhabitants\, and had consequences which reached far beyond the geographic borders of the Metro Area.  Join Chris Wells and George Vrtis as they describe the environmental history of our region.  \nMinnesota’s Twin Cities have long been powerful engines of change. From their origins in the early nineteenth century\, the Twin Cities helped drive the dispossession of the region’s Native American peoples\, turned their riverfronts into bustling industrial and commercial centers\, spread streets and homes outward to the horizon\, and reached well beyond their urban confines\, setting in motion the environmental transformation of distant hinterlands. As these processes unfolded\, residents inscribed their culture into the landscape\, complete with all its tensions\, disagreements\, contradictions\, prejudices\, and social inequalities. These stories lie at the heart of Nature’s Crossroads. The book features an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars who aim to open new conversations about the environmental history of the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota. \nAbout the Editors \nGeorge Vrtis is an environmental historian and professor of history and environmental studies at Carleton College. He is the coeditor of Mining North America: An Environmental History since 1522. His research interests include mining and resource use\, urban environments\, and protected areas and wilderness. \nChristopher W. Wells is an environmental historian and professor of environmental studies at Macalester College. His is the author of Car Country: An Environmental History and Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader. His research focuses on the ways that technology—and especially technological systems—have reshaped the American environment\, mediating and structuring people’s relationships with the natural world. \nFor more\, see:\nhttps://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/northland-outdoors/new-book-explores-minnesotas-environmental-history\nhttps://minnesotareformer.com/2023/03/08/book-excerpt-twin-cities-grew-thanks-to-dakota-ojibwe-land-connections-to-national-markets/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-natures-crossroads/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Hormel Strike of 1985-1986
DESCRIPTION:The Hormel Strike of 1985-1986: Historical Perspectives\nPeter Rachleff\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, May 18\, 2023\n7:00 pm \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library. \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 \nIn August 1985 the nation’s attention turned to Austin\, Minnesota\, where 1\,700 meatpacking workers prepared to launch a strike against the George A. Hormel Company in what was widely seen as the most significant labor-management conflict since the Professional Air Traffic Controllers’ strike of 1981\, and as a harbinger of the change in the direction of American labor relations since the election of Ronald Reagan. From coast-to-coast\, from factory floors to corporate boardrooms\, from the front pages to the drinking fountains\, it was seen as history in the making. In 1993\, the story would become the subject of Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award-winning documentary\, “American Dream.”\nHow did a small town in southern Minnesota come to occupy such a large place in our country’s labor history? What roles have meat-packing unions and the labor movement played in the Minnesota economic and political landscape? How have those roles impacted the influence of Minnesota’s labor movement on our nation’s economic and political landscape? And\, now\, thirty-seven years later\, what impact might this history have on the emergence of a new labor movement\, based in very different industries and led by workers who are very different from those meat-packing workers? \nJoin Peter Rachleff\, former Macalester College history professor\, Emeritus Co-Executive Director and co-founder of the East Side Freedom Library\, in an exploration of these and related questions. Professor Rachleff is the author of Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement (1993).
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-the-hormel-strike-of-1985-1986/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: An Interrupted Childhood\, Part Two
DESCRIPTION:An Interrupted Childhood:\nOral Histories of Polish WWII Survivors in Minnesota\, Part Two\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, April 6\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the Minnesota Polish Medical Society\, the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library.\n \nIn conjunction with a photographic exhibition in Landmark Center\, March 5-April 30\, 2023 \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 stories of three Polish survivors of WWII will be shared – oral histories of their experiences as refugees\, and that of other Polish immigrants to Minnesota. In conjunction with the photo exhibition\, “An Interrupted Childhood” shown at Landmark Center and at the Minnesota State Capitol\, join us and learn the stories of Maria\, Wiktor\, and Adam\, shared histories that shed light on the forgotten children of WWII. Adam Han-Gorski will be the survivor in attendance at this program. \nIf you have missed Part One of this program it will be available on the RCHS YouTube channel. \nWWII shaped the course of Polish history in the 20th century and redefined its borders. It started in September 1939 when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Poland. The two invaders effectively dismembered the country. Poland suffered immense losses; nearly six million Polish citizens\, including three million Polish Jews\, were killed. \nThe stories of WWII survivors Adam\, Anatol\, Leonard\, Magdalena\, Maria\, Walter\, and Wiktor are part of the MPMS project An Interrupted Childhood: Polish WWII Survivors in Minnesota. During this phase of the Kalejdoskop Polski MN project\, we collected the oral histories and photographs of Polish Minnesotans who have been through the horrors of the war: a forced laborer in the Third Reich\, deportees to Siberia\, a Polish Army Cadet\, a Volhynia Massacre survivor\, and a Holocaust survivor. These stories represent different fates of Poles during WWII and its aftermath. The collected narratives teach us lessons of suffering\, survival\, resilience\, and gratitude are truly humbling and inspiring. \nThis two-part program and exhibition represents part two of the Kalejdoskop Polski MN project initiated in 2020 by the Minnesota Polish Medical Society that aims to document the stories of contemporary Polish immigrants and refugees who settled in Minnesota. The lead artist for Kalejdoskop Polski MN is Grzegorz Litynski\, a professional documentary photographer (www.litynski.com). This body of work forms a traveling photographic exhibition. Katarzyna Litak curates the exhibition. \nExhibition Organizer & Curator: Katarzyna Litak\, MD\, is MPMS President\, Kalejdoskop Polski\, MN project manager\, exhibition designer\, and curator. She conducted oral interviews for the project. Originally from Poland\, she continued medical training at the University of Minnesota. She is also a practicing physician. \nHistory Witness: Adam Han-Gorski was born to a Jewish family in Lwów\, Poland (now Ukraine)\, in 1940. Adam survived ghettos in Jaworów and Kraków and was saved by his Polish nanny Katarzyna. At age five\, he reunited with his parents\, who survived the Holocaust. After the war\, the family was forcibly relocated from Lwów\, which became part of the Soviet Union\, to Upper Silesia\, Poland. Later Adam lived in Israel\, Austria\, Germany\, and the United States. Adam became a renowned violinist and a concertmaster who performed with many orchestras worldwide\, including the Minnesota Orchestra. \nOral histories will be shared from:  \nMaria was born in Tiutków\, Poland (now Ukraine)\, in 1939. In June 1940\, Maria was deported with her mother and brother by Soviet Security forces (NKVD) to a work camp in Siberia when she was 18 months old. She was separated from her mother during the deportation and stayed behind with her aunt. Tiutków (Ukrainian name: Тютьків\, Tiutkiw) is a village in the Tarnopol region\, around 100 miles southwest of Lviv. It is located in Volhynia and became a part of the Soviet Union in 1945. After the war\, Maria was deported to Poland from the village where she grew up. It was now a part of the Soviet Union. She grew up behind the Iron Curtain. Therefore\, she could not reunite with her mother and brother Anatol in the United States until March 1957\, when she was 18 \nWiktor was born in Warsaw in 1938. After the Germans and the Soviets jointly invaded Poland\, Wiktor’s family moved out of Warsaw because Wiktor’s father was threatened with arrest by the Nazis. Wiktor spent the whole German occupation in a small village in eastern Poland. After the war\, the family returned to Warsaw. Wiktor became a television documentary filmmaker. In 1980\, he became involved in the Solidarity movement. After martial law was imposed in December 1981\, he lost his job and was pushed out of the country by the communists with a one-way passport. Since 1983\, Wiktor has lived with his family in Minnesota. \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-an-interrupted-childhood-part-two/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Strike!
DESCRIPTION:Strike!: Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law\nDr. William D. Green\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, March 23\, 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 program will focus on Dr. Green’s new book which recreates twenty days in April 1970 when a then-illegal strike by Minneapolis’s public school teachers marked a singular moment of cultural upheaval—and forever changed the city’s politics\, labor law\, educational climate\, and the right to collective bargaining. \nWhen viewed from our turbulent times\, the Minneapolis of fifty years ago might seem serene\, but Minneapolis schoolteachers of the day remember it quite differently. It was\, author William D. Green said of their recollections\, as if they’d been through war. Since the inception of public education in Minnesota\, teachers were expected to pursue their vocation out of civic spirit\, with low wages\, no benefits\, and no job security. Strike! describes the history and circumstances leading to the teachers’ extraordinary action\, which pitted the progressive and conservative teachers’ unions against each other—and both against the all-powerful school district\, a hostile governor and state legislature\, and a draconian Minnesota law. Capturing the intense emotions and heated rivalries of the strike\, Green profiles the many actors involved\, the personal and professional stakes\, and the issues of politics\, law\, and the business of education. \nInformed by interviews\, firsthand accounts\, news reports\, and written records\, Strike! brings to life a pivotal moment not just for Minneapolis’s teachers but for the city itself\, whose government\, school system\, and culture would\, in a complex but inexorable way\, change course for good. \n \nWilliam D. Green is the M. Anita Gaye Hawthorne Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and professor of history at Augsburg University. He is author of The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota\, 1860–1876 and Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota\, 1865–1912 (both winners of the Hognander Minnesota History Award) and Nellie Francis: Fighting for Racial Justice and Women’s Equality in Minnesota\, all published by Minnesota. He is vice president of the Minnesota Historical Society. \n“At a time when teacher strikes\, education reform\, and public sector unionism are once again at the center of public debate\, we need this deeply researched and sharply narrated account of the 1970 Minneapolis teacher strike more than ever. And no one is better prepared to tell that story than the renowned historian\, professor\, and former superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools\, Bill Green.” —William P. Jones\, author of The March on Washington: Jobs\, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights  \n“Teachers’ unionism and teachers’ strikes emerged as central topics in American industrial relations in the past decade. William D. Green weaves personal experience with scholarly research to explore the roots of these developments half a century ago. The result facilitates a conversation between the past and the present\, which sheds new light on both.” —Peter Rachleff\, co-executive director\, East Side Freedom Library \n“An inspiring read that shows the hard-fought gains for schools. A frustrating read that shows how many of the problems facing schools have new names and new decorations but are at the core the same as they’ve always been. William D. Green’s book is an important and enthralling history that could not feel more relevant to today.” —Tom Rademacher\, author of It Won’t Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching  \nPlease check out our partner Subtext Books\, located in downtown St. Paul and online at: https://subtextbooks.com/ for these and other History Revealed titles.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-strike/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: An Interrupted Childhood\, Part One
DESCRIPTION:An Interrupted Childhood:\nOral Histories of Polish WWII Survivors in Minnesota\, Part One\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, March 2\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the Minnesota Polish Medical Society.\n \nIn conjunction with a photographic exhibition in Landmark Center\, March 5-April 30\, 2023 \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 stories of three Polish survivors of WWII will be shared – oral histories of their experiences as refugees\, and that of other Polish immigrants to Minnesota. In conjunction with the photo exhibition\, “An Interrupted Childhood” shown at Landmark Center and at the Minnesota State Capitol\, join us and learn the stories of Magdalena\, Walter\, and Anatol\, shared histories that shed light on the forgotten children of WWII. Adam Han-Gorski will be the survivor in attendance at this program. \nThis is part one of a two part presentation\, the second part will be on April 6\, 2023\, also on Zoom. Please join us for one or both parts of this very important program. \nAdditionally\, please join the exhibition contributors for a concert by violinist Adam Han-Gorski at the Exhibition Opening on Sunday\, March 5\, 2023\, 2:00-4:00 at Landmark Center. For more information on the opening and this concert\, please see the Landmark Center calendar at https://www.landmarkcenter.org/events/. \nWWII shaped the course of Polish history in the 20th century and redefined its borders. It started in September 1939 when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Poland. The two invaders effectively dismembered the country. Poland suffered immense losses; nearly six million Polish citizens\, including three million Polish Jews\, were killed. \nThe stories of WWII survivors Adam\, Anatol\, Leonard\, Magdalena\, Maria\, Walter\, and Wiktor are part of the MPMS project An Interrupted Childhood: Polish WWII Survivors in Minnesota. During this phase of the Kalejdoskop Polski MN project\, the collected the oral histories and photographs of Polish Minnesotans who have been through the horrors of the war: a forced laborer in the Third Reich\, deportees to Siberia\, a Polish Army Cadet\, a Volhynia Massacre survivor\, and a Holocaust survivor. These stories represent different fates of Poles during WWII and its aftermath. The collected narratives teach us lessons of suffering\, survival\, resilience\, and gratitude are truly humbling and inspiring. \nThis two-part program and exhibition represents part two of the Kalejdoskop Polski MN project initiated in 2020 by the Minnesota Polish Medical Society that aims to document the stories of contemporary Polish immigrants and refugees who settled in Minnesota. The lead artist for Kalejdoskop Polski MN is Grzegorz Litynski\, a professional documentary photographer (www.litynski.com). This body of work forms a traveling photographic exhibition. Katarzyna Litak curates the exhibition. \nExhibition Organizer & Curator: Katarzyna Litak\, MD\, is MPMS President\, Kalejdoskop Polski\, MN project manager\, exhibition designer\, and curator. She conducted oral interviews for the project. Originally from Poland\, she continued medical training at the University of Minnesota. She is also a practicing physician. \nHistory Witness: Adam Han-Gorski was born to a Jewish family in Lwów\, Poland (now Ukraine)\, in 1940. Adam survived ghettos in Jaworów and Kraków and was saved by his Polish nanny Katarzyna. At age five\, he reunited with his parents\, who survived the Holocaust. After the war\, the family was forcibly relocated from Lwów\, which became part of the Soviet Union\, to Upper Silesia\, Poland. Later Adam lived in Israel\, Austria\, Germany\, and the United States. Adam became a renowned violinist and a concertmaster who performed with many orchestras worldwide\, including the Minnesota Orchestra. \nOral Histories will be shared from the following (they will not be in attendance):\nMagdalena was born in Kraków\, Poland in 1925. During WWII\, Magdalena lived in Kraków until she was arrested in a street roundup on the way home from school in 1941. Magdalena was 16 when she was sent to Germany as a forced laborer. In 1945\, after the war\, she met Eugeniusz (Eugene) Świderski\, a Polish officer who spent five years in a POW camp in Germany. They married and lived in France. In the 1950s\, the family emigrated to the United States with their daughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth Seidner\, Magdalena’s daughter\, was the history witness. \nAnatol was born in 1934 in Tiutków\, Poland (now Ukraine). In June 1940\, at age five\, he was deported with his mother and sister by the Soviet Security forces (NKVD) to a work camp in Siberia. He was released with his mother from the camp in the winter of 1941/42. On their way to the Polish army formed under General Anders\, Anatol separated from his mother and spent nine months in Soviet Russia alone. On the brink of death from starvation\, his mother found him in a Polish orphanage in Iran. With Polish troops\, he and his mother went from Iran to Lebanon before they immigrated to the United States after the war. \nWalter was born in Burdykowszczyzna\, Poland (now Belarus) in\, in 1926. In September 1939\, the Soviet Army invaded eastern Poland\, and the brutal occupation began. In February 1940\, Walter’s family was sent by NKVD to a Soviet work camp near Arkhangelsk in the Arctic Circle. Two years later\, Walter and his family were released from the work camp and journeyed to Uzbekistan to the Polish Army under General W. Anders. As a teenager\, Walter completed military training for Young Soldiers in Egypt and participated in the legendary Monte Cassino battle in 1944. After the war\, he lived in Great Britain and then emigrated to Minnesota in 1961. \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-an-interrupted-childhood-part-one/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Call Him Jack
DESCRIPTION:Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson\, Black Freedom Fighter\nA Conversation with Authors Yohuru Williams and Michael Long\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 23\, 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 \nAccording to Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, Jackie Robinson was “a sit-inner before the sit-ins\, a freedom rider before the Freedom Rides.” According to Hank Aaron\, Robinson was a leader of the Black Power movement before there was a Black Power movement. According to his wife\, Rachel Robinson\, he was always Jack\, not Jackie―the diminutive form of his name bestowed on him in college by white sports writers. And throughout his whole life\, Jack Robinson was a fighter for justice\, an advocate for equality\, and an inspiration beyond just baseball. \nFrom prominent Robinson scholars Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long comes CALL HIM JACK\, an exciting biography that recovers the real person behind the legend\, reanimating this famed figure’s legacy for new generations\, widening our focus from the sportsman to the man as a whole\, and deepening our appreciation for his achievements on the playing field in the process. \nSpeakers \n \nDr. Yohuru Williams is Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul\, Minnesota. The former chief historian of the Jackie Robinson Foundation\, he appeared in Ken Burns’s “Jackie Robinson” and was one of the hosts of “Sound Smart\,” the History Channel’s popular YouTube program. His educational videos on civil rights\, social movements\, and other historic events have garnered over 1 million views. He is the author of numerous books\, including Teaching Beyond the Textbook\, and he has appeared on a variety of media outlets\, including ABC\, CNN\, MSNBC\, HISTORY\, BET\, CSPAN\, and NPR. \n \nMichael G. Long is the author or editor of books on civil rights\, religion\, and politics\, including Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography\, which was selected as a best book of the year by Publishers’ Weekly; Gay Is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny; Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life after Baseball; Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, Homosexuality\, and the Early Gay Rights Movement; and Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall. Long also served as an expert historian for Ken Burns’s documentary on Jackie Robinson. He lives in Pennsylvania with his family. \nPlease check out our partner Subtext Books\, located in downtown St. Paul and online at: https://subtextbooks.com/ for these and other History Revealed titles.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-call-him-jack/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Martin Luther King's Vision
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.’s Vision of Freedom in American Memory\nDr. Walter Greason\nHistory Revealed Series\nNew Date: Thursday\, January 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 study of Martin Luther King\, Jr.’s life and legacy offers important lessons about radical democracy in the 21st century. These principles have never been more urgently needed than in the aftermath of the 2022 election cycle. Our observation of the King Holiday and this presentation give us the opportunity to have a rich conversation between the past and the present and to get to know a new member of the Twin Cities historians’ community. \nFeatured image: Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous\, “I Have a Dream\,” speech during the Aug. 28\, 1963\, march on Washington\, D.C.\, August 28\, 1963. \n \nDr. Walter Greason is Professor and Chairperson of the History Department at Macalester College\, and he has just been named to the DeWitt Wallace Endowed Chair in History.  He is a dedicated teacher and a prolific scholar.  His books include The Path to Freedom: Black Families in New Jersey; Cities Imagined: The African Diaspora in Media and History (with Julian Chambliss); Suburban Erasure: How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey; Industrial Segregation (with David Goldberg); The American Economy (with William Gorman); Stories of Slavery in New Jersey (with Rick Geffken); and Finding your Blind Spots: Eight Guiding Principles for Overcoming Implicit Bias in Teaching. Dr. Greason is a lifelong civil rights activist and educator. His most recent projects explore the history of Black education\, hip hop\, and architecture in the United States.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-martin-luther-kings-vision/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Activist Roots of the Everyday
DESCRIPTION:The Activist Roots of the Everyday: Histories of African American Activism in the Twin Cities\nAdam Bledsoe\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, December 8\, 2022\, 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.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n\nThis presentation looks at how our everyday spaces are created from the political efforts of everyday people. Dr. Adam Bledsoe will examine the activism of different African American organizations and individuals throughout the 20th century and how their actions have led to the establishment of institutions we encounter on a daily basis. The presentation argues that by studying the analyses and political struggles of those who came before us\, we can better understand ourselves and the places in which we find ourselves.\n\n\n\n\nAdam Bledsoe was born and raised in the Twin Cities and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography\, Environment & Society at the University of Minnesota. His intellectual interests are concerned with Black Diasporic political struggles.\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. programs which 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. \n\nFeatured image: Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis\, Wikimedia Commons\, credited to Andy Witchger\, dated July 2016.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-activist-roots-of-the-everyday/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:Immigration\, Identity & the Arts: The Song Poet
DESCRIPTION:NEA Big Read\nImmigration\, Identity and the Arts: The Song Poet\nwith Kao Kalia Yang\n\nSaturday\, November 12\, 1:00-2:00 pm\nHistory Revealed \nPart of the NEA Big Read series launched by American Composers Forum and East Side Freedom Library\, the “Immigration\, Identity\, and the Arts” series ss part of the NEA Big Read\, featuring Minnesota immigrant communities and NEA Big Read book “The Best We Could Do” by Thi Bui. \nPresented with the Ramsey County Historical Society\, Historic Saint Paul and the Minnesota Opera\, this event will feature Minnesota author and Hmong-American Kao Kalia Yang to discuss her book\, The Song Poet\, and her collaboration with Jocelyn Hagen about their opera presented by Minnesota Opera this Spring. \nRegister here \nA father’s love\, a family’s journey.\nThe first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage\, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere opera. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as an immigrant. With his poetry\, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family\, polishing their reality so that they might shine.  \nKao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer. She is the author of the memoirs The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir\, The Song Poet\, and Somewhere in the Unknown World. Yang is also the author of the children’s books A Map Into the World\, The Shared Room\, The Most Beautiful Thing\, and Yang Warriors. She co-edited the ground-breaking collection What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Native Women and Women of Color. Yang’s work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Chautauqua Prize\, the PEN USA literary awards\, the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize\, as Notable Books by the American Library Association\, Kirkus Best Books of the Year\, the Heartland Bookseller’s Award\, and garnered four Minnesota Book Awards. Kao Kalia Yang lives in Minnesota with her family\, and teaches and speaks across the nation. \n  \n\n \nAmerican Composers Forum believes that music is a medium that can help us connect as humans\, tell stories\, and share experiences. East Side Freedom Library has long hosted study groups\, partnerships\, and community events that lift up the stories of its neighborhood in the name of justice. Together\, we will host several cultural events and conversations examining the theme of “Immigration\, Identity\, and the Arts\,” to amplify the voices\, stories\, and music of immigrant artists and community members wrestling with this theme. Included in our events will be discussion of\, and inspiration from\, Thi Bui’s graphic memoir\, The Best We Could Do. Supported by the NEA’s Big Read project\, this book aligns greatly with our theme\, and resonates with so many members of our community. We are planning parallel in-person and virtual options to accommodate health and accessibility considerations. All events are free and open to the public. \nNEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/immigration-identity-the-arts-the-song-poet/
LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story\nDocumentary Film Screening & Discussion\nwith Filmmakers Randy Croce\, Tom O’Connell\, and Anna Kuharjec\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, November 10\, 2022\, 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.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe East Side Freedom Library\, Ramsey County Historical Society\, and Roseville Public Library invite you to a special session of History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story. This event will include a screening and discussion of a new documentary film.\n\nThe Farmer-Labor movement founded the most successful third-party in U.S. political history. This progressive movement elected candidates and advanced political change in Minnesota from 1917 until its merger with the Democrats in 1944\, to form the DFL\, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. The documentary portrays this history through the voices of Farmer-Labor leaders and their descendants\, as well as contemporary historians and activists. Animated segments bring the personal stories of Farmer-Labor men and women to life\, while songs from the period convey the spirit of the movement. \nWhile the movement’s ideas and achievements still affect Minnesota’s political and social fabric\, its history is largely unknown. The documentary addresses that awareness gap and points out how Farmer-Labor goals and the challenges still resonate today. \nPlease join filmmakers Randy Croce\, Tom O’Connell\, and Anna Kuharjec for a conversation after the screening. \nRandy Croce has been a documentary photographer and video producer since 1976. His PBS broadcast shows include Clouded Land\, If Stone Could Speak and Who built Our Capitol? He worked at the U of M Labor Education Service\, where he produced shows with workers and their unions. \nTom O’Connell is a retired professor of Political Studies from Metropolitan State University and served as founding chairperson of ESFL’s Board of Directors. He has taught and written about social movements with a special focus on MInnesota’s Farmer-Labor and Progressive Populist History. \nAnna Kuharjec has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois and is teaching in the History program of the Dougherty Family College of the University of St. Thomas. \nFree and open to all. \n\nThis presentation is part of our 2022 series “Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants.” \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\, programs which 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.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-the-farmer-labor-movement-a-minnesota-story/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Vikings in the Attic
DESCRIPTION:Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America\nwith Eric Dregni\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, October 20\, 2022\, 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.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nGrowing up with Swedish and Norwegian grandparents with a dash of Danish thrown in for balance\, Eric Dregni thought Scandinavians were perfectly normal. Who doesn’t enjoy a good\, healthy salad (Jell-O packed with canned fruit\, colored marshmallows\, pretzels\, and even olives) or perhaps some cod soaked in drain cleaner as the highlights of Christmas? In Vikings in the Attic\, Dregni tracks down and explores the significant—and quite often bizarre—historic sites\, tales\, and traditions of Scandinavia’s peculiar colony in the Midwest. It’s a legacy of the unique—shots of turpentine for the common cold—but also one of poor immigrants living in sod houses while their children attend college\, the birth of the co-op movement\, and government agents spying on Scandinavian meetings hoping to nab a socialist or antiwar activist. \n \nEric Dregni is the author of 20 books including Vikings in the Attic\, Weird Minnesota\, Never Trust a Thin Cook\, Let’s Go Fishing!\, For the Love of Cod\, and Impossible Road Trip. He wrote about his 15-year experience running one of the Concordia Language Villages in You’re Sending Me Where? Dispatches from Summer Camp. As a Fulbright fellow to Norway\, he survived a dinner of rakfisk (fermented fish) thanks to 80-proof aquavit\, took the “meat bus” to Sweden for cheap salami with a busload of knitting pensioners\, and compiled the stories in In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream. \nHe is Professor of English\, Journalism\, & Italian at Concordia St. Paul and\, in the summer\, dean of the Italian Concordia Language Village\, Lago del Bosco. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three kids. \nMaking Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants\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. programs which 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.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-vikings-in-the-attic/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Gichigami Hearts
DESCRIPTION:Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong\nLinda Legarde Grover\nHistory Revealed Series\nMonday\, October 10\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIndigenous Peoples’ Day\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. \nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nAward-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior \nLong before there was a Duluth\, Minnesota\, the massive outcropping that divides the city emerged from the ridge of gabbro rock running along the westward shore of Lake Superior. A great westward migration carried the Ojibwe people to this place\, the Point of Rocks. Against this backdrop—Misaabekong\, the place of the giants—the lives chronicled in Linda LeGarde Grover’s book unfold\, some in myth\, some in long-ago times\, some in an imagined present\, and some in the author’s family history\, all with a deep and tenacious bond to the land\, one another\, and the Ojibwe culture. \nLinda will also be sharing highlights from her new poetry book\, The Sky Watched\, Poems of Ojibwe Lives. \n\n\nLinda LeGarde Grover is professor emeritus of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe. Her books The Road Back to Sweetgrass\, Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year\, and In the Night of Memory\, all from Minnesota\, have earned numerous awards\, including the Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award; Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards for Poetry\, Memoir\, and Fiction; and a Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. Her book of stories The Dance Boots was the winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. \nMaking Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants\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. programs which 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.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-gichigami-hearts/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Shared Community: Chicano Studies
DESCRIPTION:A Shared Community: Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota\nwith Dionicio Valdes\, PhD\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, September 8\, 2022\, 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. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nDr. Valdes will take us on an examination of the birth and 20th century history of the Chicano Studies Department at the University of Minnesota\, with particular attention to the role played by the political turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s throughout the nation and in the Twin Cities.  He will focus on the creative ongoing tensions between advocates of distinct visions\, both within the academic world and within the Twin Cities community\, that created the Department and have supported it for more than half a century. \n \nProfessor Dionicio Valdes directed the U of M’s Ph.D. program in Chicano/Latino Studies and taught in it for 23 years before moving to Michigan State University.  He has been a very active and respected scholar. His publications include El Pueblo Mexicano en Detroit y Michigan: A Social History(private printing\, 1981); Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes Region\, 1917-1970(University of Texas Press\, 1991); Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press\, 2000); Mexicans in Minnesota (MinnesotaHistorical Society Press\, 2006); and Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement Before the UFW: Puerto Rico\, Hawai’i\, and California (University of Chicago Press\, 2011). \nMaking Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants\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. programs which 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.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-shared-community-chicano-studies/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Black\, Brown & Red Power
DESCRIPTION:Black\, Brown and Red Power in the Twin Cities: Parallels\, Intersections and Self-Determination in a Liberal Haven\nDr. Jimmy Patino\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, August 18\, 2022\, 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.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe Twin Cities evolved in a unique and dynamic historical conjuncture in the long 1960s as a site in which African American\, American Indian and Mexican American communities were concentrated in an otherwise overwhelmingly white state. The emergence of Black Power\, the American Indian Movement\, and the Chicano Movement parallel and overlapping in a shared urban site speaks to the socio-political context of racialized injustice within a labor friendly and liberal progressive state. This presentation explores the direct and indirect overlap of these constituent communities’ struggles against police violence\, inter-residential violence related to concentrated poverty\, and physical and cultural displacement. These dynamic movements built infrastructure to confront these shared forms of repression\, but through their particular racialized communities: The Way organization in the Black community\, Centro Cultural Chicano in the Mexican community\, and in several independent schools in the American Indian community. These institutions—also evident in the emergence of the Black Patrol\, the AIM Patrol and the Brown Berets in addressing police violence—emerged independently to address the overlapping racial capitalist context and highlighting its differential articulation. However\, there were points of convergence and direct interaction\, culminating in the struggle for ethnic studies at the University of Minnesota\, among others. \n \nJimmy Patiño is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota.  His book Raza Sí\, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego was published in 2017. He has also written on Mexican American desegregation\, African American and Latina/o/x critical thought in hip-hop culture\, and is currently writing on ideas about solidarity and anti-capitalist thought across Black\, Brown and Red Power Movements.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-black-brown-red-power/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Indigenous History
DESCRIPTION:Land Acknowledgments\, Land Back\, and the 10\,000 Lakes: Indigenous History in Minnesota\nDr. Jacob Jurss\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, August 11\, 2022\, 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.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nWhat do land acknowledgments and debates over land back reveal about the making of Minnesota? Increasingly popular\, land acknowledgments can be heard at the start of meetings to introductions of large sporting events\, but what does this acknowledgment signify? Whose land is being acknowledged? How did relationships to this land transform over time? What is the connection of the land back movement? Indigenous history is Minnesota history. Today within the physical boundaries of the State of Minnesota exist seven Ojibwe band reservations\, four Dakota communities\, as well as thousands of Indigenous individuals living in small towns to large urban communities. Understanding how this modern-day configuration came to be is an important element of understanding the making of Minnesota. \nFrom early interactions between Dakota and Ojibwe Native nations to recent calls for economic\, social\, and environmental justice for Indigenous communities\, Land Acknowledgments\, Land Back\, and the 10\,000 Lakes: Indigenous History in Minnesota will survey the early history of interactions between Indigenous nations through the treaty era with the United States through the contemporary moment seeking to better understand how our collective past continues to shape our future. \n \nDr. Jacob Jurss is an adjunct professor of United States and Indigenous history at the University of St. Thomas and Metropolitan State University and was a member of the St. Thomas Land Acknowledgment committee. His recently published article in The American Indian Quarterly “Relations Across the Land: Ojibwe and Dakota Interactions in the Indigenous Borderlands of the Western Great Lakes” explores the history of intertribal diplomacy and his currently book project is Bountiful Boundaries: Western Great Lakes Indigenous Borderlands and American Statecraft. \nMaking Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants\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. programs which 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.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-indigenous-history/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Grasshoppers in My Bed
DESCRIPTION:Grasshoppers in My Bed: Lillie Belle Gibbs\, Minnesota Farm Girl\, 1877\nTerry Swanson and Peggy Stern\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, August 4\, 2022\, 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.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nJoin author Terry Swanson and illustrator Peggy Stern as they present their new historical fiction book\, Grasshoppers in My Bed\, based on the journal of 11-year- old Lillie Gibbs of Gibbs Farm. \nIt is 1876—Christmas day—which just happens to be the eleventh birthday of Lillie Belle Gibbs. Her mother and father present her with a new journal. Now she must decide how to fill the pages. \nGrasshoppers in her bed\, a smudge pot to keep the mosquitos at bay\, the one-room schoolhouse across the road\, popping corn in the Victorian parlor\, hired hands who work on the farm half the year\, and her best friend\, Minnesota Mae Hendrickson\, all make appearances. \nUsing clues Lillie left behind through writings as a child and an adult\, this important work of historical fiction is filled with stories and illustrations detailing a year in the ordinary life of a real Minnesota farm girl from the 1870s. \nGrasshoppers in My Bed: Lillie Belle Gibbs – A Minnesota Farm Girl – 1877 is available through the Ramsey County Historical Society or other local vendors.\nRCHS Member price: $18.00\nRegular Price: $20.00\nTo order\, see the form here. \nFor more information on the book\, see the post here. \nTerry Swanson is a Minnesota historian who has specialized in public history in the Twin Cities area since 1990. She was director of collections\, education\, and programs at the American Swedish Institute from 1997 to 2005. She worked as program and site manager at Ramsey County Historical Society’s (RCHS) Gibbs Farm from 2007 to 2016. Since retiring in 2017\, she has worked as a historical consultant and with Investigate MN\, a partnership between local libraries and museums (including RCHS) designed for school-age children to boost academic achievement and help close the achievement gap. \nPeggy Stern is a former site interpreter at Gibbs Farm where\, under the direction of the then-program and site manager Terry Swanson\, she handcrafted murals and signage to enhance the venue. Their working relationship eventually developed into a collaboration for this book. Stern holds a degree in fine art from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls and has continued her art education at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and at both Minnetonka and White Bear Centers for the Arts. In addition to illustration\, her main areas of interest are drawing\, painting\, and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited at various Twin Cities locations including\, most recently\, the Northern Lights Exhibition. \nFeatured image by Peggy Stern.
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CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event,Publishing
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Bell Museum
DESCRIPTION:A Natural Curiosity: The Story of the Bell Museum.\nDon Luce\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, July 21\, 2022\, 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.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \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. \n\nTo order the book\, see University of Minnesota Press: A Natural Curiosity \nDon Luce was Bell Museum Curator of Exhibits. For more than forty years he 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.
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CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220714T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Daybreak Woman
DESCRIPTION:Daybreak Woman\nJane Lamm Carroll\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, July 14\, 2022\, 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.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nA remarkable woman’s life spans nearly a century of peace\, invasion\, war\, exile\, return\, and astonishing change.Join us as historian Jane Lamm Carroll share her extraordinary work\, Daybreak Woman. Daybreak Woman\, also known as Jane Anderson Robertson\, was born at a trading post on the Minnesota River in 1810 and lived for ninety-two years in Minnesota\, Wisconsin\, Michigan\, Canada\, and South Dakota. The daughter of an Anglo- Canadian trader and a Scots-Dakota woman\, she witnessed seismic changes.For her first five decades\, Daybreak Woman was nurtured and respected in the multi-ethnic society that thrived for generations in the region. But in the last forty years of the nineteenth century\, this way of life was swamped and nearly annihilated as the result of Euro-American colonization and the forced exile of most Dakota and Euro-Dakota people from Minnesota after the US–Dakota War of 1862. Dakota and Euro-Dakota people struggled to reestablish their communities in the face of racial violence\, injustice\, calls for their mass extermination\, abject poverty\, disease\, starvation\, and death. Daybreak Woman and her children survived these cataclysmic events and endured to rebuild their lives as Anglo- Dakota people in an anti-Indian world.In this extraordinary biography\, historian Jane Lamm Carroll uses the life of one mixed-heritage woman and her family as a window into American society\, honoring the past’s complexity and providing insights into the present. \n\nAdvance Praise:“In this deft biography\, Jane Lamm Caroll guides us through a life rooted in the vital and expansive kinship networks that determined belonging\, opportunity\, conflict\, and resilience for Dakota and mixed-ancestry community members in nineteenth-century Mni Sota Makoce. In a journey from the height of the fur trade\, through the devastating war of 1862\, and onward to the turn of a new century\, we see the ways in which women’s labor — cultural\, spiritual\, economic\, diplomatic\, and domestic — built and rebuilt worlds of meaning that persisted despite great upheaval and change. This is a vibrant and engrossing book.”Catherine J. Denial\, author of Making Marriage: Husbands\, Wives\, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country“The research in Daybreak Woman is rich\, dense\, and inclusive\, and Jane Lamm Carroll writes a story that is highly personal and engaging. Learning about the lives of so many Dakota and Anglo-Dakota individuals and families forces readers to re-think what we thought we knew about the history of Mni Sota Makoce.”Colette Hyman\, author of Dakota Women’s Work: Creativity\, Culture\, and Exile\n\n“Daybreak Woman\, a gripping American drama\, is history made real.” CHOICE \nExcerpt in Minnesota History magazine \n\n\nJane Lamm Carroll is professor of history and women’s studies at St. Catherine University and contributing author and coeditor of Liberating Sanctuary: 100 Years of Women’s Education at the College of St. Catherine. \nAvailable November 2020 from Minnesota Historical Society \n\n$18.95 paper\, ISBN: 978-1-68134-166-8256 pages\,  6 x 9 inches\, 20 b/w photos\, notes\, index\, bibliography$9.99 e-book\, ISBN: 978-1-68134-167-5 \nMaking Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants\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. programs which 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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CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Dejsiab
DESCRIPTION:Dejsiab: From My Liver to Yours\nwith Mai Neng Vang\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, June 9\, 2022\, 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.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n“Dejsiab: From My Liver to Yours” is a one of a kind poetry book that explores colonialism\, patriarchy\, hope\, and healing through a critical Hmong womxn’s lens. Author Mai Neng Vang will share her poems and process. \n“Through the years\, I’ve come to realize that healing is not a linear process – there are no definitive steps to take before one can say they have healed from their traumas. More than this\, healing looks different for everyone\, but regardless of how we heal or how long it takes us to heal\, healing is so necessary for us to reconcile with the generations of trauma and hurt that our ancestors\, mothers\, sisters\, aunties have endured…The poems found in this book are a series of love letters: love letters to who I was\, from who I am\, for who I will become. As a reader\, you bear witness to the struggles\, the joys\, and the thoughts that I have as someone who is constantly becoming. In this way\, we\, too\, are having a heart-to-heart throughout this book. I hope that you find relevance and solace in my words and are able to draw strength and dejsiab from these pages.” – Mai Neng Vang\, Author. \nImage: Front cover illustrated by: Peevxwm Lauj
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-dejsiab/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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