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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Grace Holmes Carlson
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson\nA Conversation with Author Donna Haverty-Stacke\nand Greg Poferl\, Linda Leighton\, and Mary Wingerd\nHistory Revealed Series\nMarch 4\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Register Here\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nOn December 8\, 1941\, Grace Holmes Carlson\, the only female defendant among eighteen Trotskyists convicted under the Smith Act\, was sentenced to sixteen months in federal prison for advocating the violent overthrow of the government. After serving a year in Alderson prison\, Carlson returned to her work as an organizer for the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and ran for vice president of the United States under its banner in 1948. Then\, in 1952\, she abruptly left the SWP and returned to the Catholic Church. With the support of the Sisters of St. Joseph\, who had educated her as a child\, Carlson began a new life as a professor of psychology at St. Mary’s Junior College in Minneapolis where she advocated for social justice\, now as a Catholic Marxist. \nThe Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic\, Socialist\, Feminist is a historical biography that examines the story of this complicated woman in the context of her times with a specific focus on her experiences as a member of the working class\, as a Catholic\, and as a woman. Her story illuminates the workings of class identity within the context of various influences over the course of a lifespan. The long arc of Carlson’s life (1906–1992) ultimately reveals significant continuities in her political consciousness that transcended the shifts in her particular partisan commitments\, most notably her life-long dedication to challenging the root causes of social and economic inequality. In that struggle\, Carlson ultimately proved herself to be a truly fierce woman. \nDonna Haverty-Stacke\, Professor of History at Hunter College of the City University of New York\, is a historian of working-class and radical politics. She is interested in the intersection of that history with nationalism and collective memory\, national security and free speech\, gender identity\, and Catholic activism. Her first book was America’s Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism\,1867-1960 (NYU Press\, 2009) and her second\, which she discussed four years ago here at ESFL\, was Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution since the Age of FDR (NYU Press\, 2015). \nGreg Poferl is a lifelong labor and Catholic social activist and a generous collaborator at ESFL. Last year\, Greg wrote his memoir\, Turning Points: Never Give Up on Anyone\, Especially Yourself (East Side Freedom Library\, 2020). \nLinda Leighton is a lifelong labor activist who has played a major role in maintaining local memory of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters’ strikes. \nMary Wingerd is Emerita Professor of History at St. Could State University and the author of Claiming the City: Politics\, Faith\, and the Power of Place in St. Paul (Cornell University Press\, 2001) and North Country: The Making of Minnesota (Minnesota Historic al Society Press\, 2010). \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Hope in the Struggle
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nHope in the Struggle\nDr. Josie Johnson\nHistory Revealed Series\nFebruary 23\, 2021\nTuesday\, 7:00 pm\nwith Tish Jones and Peter Rachleff \nand in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nHope in the Struggle tells the story of how a Black woman from Texas became one of the most well-known civil rights activists in Minnesota\, detailing seven remarkable decades of fighting for fairness in voting\, housing\, education\, and employment. \nJosie Johnson will share her memoir about shouldering the cause of social justice during the darkest hours and brightest moments for civil rights in America\, and\, specifically\, in Minnesota. Hope in the Struggle shines light on the difference one person can make. For Josie Johnson\, this has meant making a difference as a Black woman in one of the nation’s whitest states. She will be joined by Peter Rachleff of the East Side Freedom Library. \nJosie’s story begins in a tight-knit community in Texas\, where the unfairness of the segregated South\, so antithetical to the values she learned at home\, sharpened a sense of justice that guides her to this day. From the age of fourteen\, when she went door to door with her father in Houston to campaign against the Poll Tax\, to the moment in 2008 when\, as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention\, she cast her vote for Barack Obama for president\, she has been at the forefront of the politics of civil rights. Her memoir offers a close-up picture of what that struggle has entailed\, whether working as a community organizer for the Minneapolis Urban League or lobbying for fair housing and employment laws\, investigating civil rights abuses or co-chairing the Minnesota delegation to the March on Washington\, becoming the first African American to serve on the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents or creating the university’s Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs with a focus on minority affairs and diversity. An intimate view of civil rights history in the making\, Hope in the Struggle is a uniquely inspiring life story for these current dark and divisive times\, a testament to how one determined soul can make the world a better place. \nBorn in 1930 in San Antonio\, Texas\, Josie R. Johnson has been an educator\, activist\, and public servant for more than seven decades. Along with her work for the Urban League and the University of Minnesota\, she has been office manager\, campaign manager\, and chief of staff for multiple political campaigns and public officials\, including campaign manager for the first African American lieutenant governor of Colorado\, and co-chair of the African American DFL Caucus in Minnesota. She holds degrees in sociology\, education\, and education administration. She lives in Minneapolis and continues to serve her community\, advocating for equal rights and social justice. \nTish Jones is the Founder & Executive Director of TruArtSpeaks. She is a poet\, organizer and educator from Saint Paul\, Minnesota and is currently serving as the Brave New Voices Leadership Fellow at Youth Speaks in San Francisco. She has performed at The Walker Art Center\, Intermedia Arts\, The Cedar Cultural Center and more. Her work can be found in the Minnesota Humanities Center’s upcoming anthology entitled\, Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press\, 2015)\, the 2011 and 2013 Saint Paul Almanac\, the Loft Literary Center’s Nation of Immigrants audio CD. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Sinking Middle Class
DESCRIPTION:The Sinking Middle Class\nA conversation with historian David Roediger\nHistory Revealed Series\nFebruary 11\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom and streamed on Facebook\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegistration: Zoom Registration Page\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n“Middle class” is an ideologically shaped and deployed term in American culture and politics. Activist-scholar David Roediger makes clear in his pointed and persuasive polemic\, this obsession with the middle-class is relatively new in US politics. It began with the attempt to win back so-called “Reagan Democrats” by Bill Clinton and it was accompanied by a pandering to racism and a shying away from meaningful wealth redistribution that continues to this day. \nDrawing on rich traditions of radical social thought\, Roediger disavows the thinly sourced idea that the United States was\, for much of its history\, a “middle-class” nation and the still more indefensible position that it is one now. The increasing immiseration of large swathes of middle-income America\, only accelerated by the current pandemic\, nails a fallacy that is a major obstacle to progressives. \n \nDavid Roediger taught in the 1990s at the University of Minnesota and now teaches American Studies at the University of Kansas. His books include Seizing Freedom\, The Wages of Whiteness\, How Race Survived U.S. History\, and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness and Working toward Whiteness. His book The Production of Difference (with Elizabeth Esch) recently won the International Labor History Association Book Prize. He is past president of the American Studies Association and of the Working-Class Studies Association. \nProfessor Roediger will be joined in conversation by: \nAugust Nimtz\, Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. August has been an activist in progressive movements in the Twin Cities (and beyond) since the 1970s with a particular emphasis on solidarity with the people of Cuba. \nKieran Knutson\, President of Communications Workers of America Local 7250 (Minnesota AT&T). Kieran has been a long time activist at the intersection of the racial justice and labor movements. \nMegan Brown\, Assistant Professor in the Masters in Advocacy and Political Leadership (MAPL) program at Metropolitan State University. A geographer by training and trade\, Megan has recently found her way to St. Paul. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Workers on Arrival
DESCRIPTION:Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America\nDr. Joe Trotter\nWith Dr. William Jones\nHistory Revealed Series\nFebruary 10\, 2021\nWednesday\, 6:00-7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nDr. Joe W. Trotter\, Jr. Giant Eagle Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University\, will discuss his book with moderator Dr. William Jones\, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota \nThis event is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota History Department\, the Labor and Working Class History Association\, the Ramsey County Historical Society\, and the East Side Freedom Library\, and it serves as a fundraiser for the East Side Freedom Library. It is part of two on-going series: the University of Minnesota History Department’s History Book Club and the “History Revealed” series co-sponsored by the Ramsey County Historical Society and the East Side Freedom Library. \nSince earning his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1980\, Dr. Trotter had had an enormous impact on the fields of African American and labor history. His books include Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat  (1985); Coal Class and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia\, 1915-1932 (1990); The Great Migration in Historical Perspective (1991); and several collections of essays and documents\, which have been central to the teaching of these fields. Workers On Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America  (2019) weaves Dr. Trotter’s research and writings into a single narrative which makes a compelling case for understanding the place of African Americans in U.S. history as producers\, as labor. \nFor this evening’s program\, Dr. Trotter will be engaged in conversation with another prominent historian of African American workers\, William P. Jones. A professor of history at the University of Minnesota and president of the Labor and Working Class History Association\, Dr. Jones is author of two award-winning books\, The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (2005) and The March on Washington: Jobs\, Freedom\, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (2013). He has been a guest on the PBS Newshour\, NPR’s “The Takeaway\,” and Democracy Now! and he has written for the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Nation\, and other publications. He is currently writing a book on public employees and the transformation of the U.S. economy after World War II. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Winter Carnival
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nSt. Paul’s Winter Carnival: 135 Years of Fun…and Counting!\nKate Roberts\nHistory Revealed Series\nJanuary 21\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nYoutube Video: https://youtu.be/1cXk0X-1qkE\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library \nKate Roberts\, Senior Exhibit Designer from the Minnesota Historical Society\, will share some of the history\, stories and trivia of the Saint Paul Winter Carnival. \nCelebrating 135 years in 2021\, the Saint Paul Winter Carnival was founded by city leaders to combat the notion that St. Paul was\, in the words of a New York correspondent\, “another Siberia\, unfit for human habitation.” Known for its parades\, Vulcans\, Klondike Kates and Ice Palaces\, the Saint Paul Winter Carnival has a history that includes contributions by architects\, performers\, bouncing girls\, and prominent citizens. Join us for this fun and fascinating online presentation! \nFeatured image: Winter Carnival Ice Palace.
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CATEGORIES:All Ages,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Somewhere in the Unknown World
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nSomewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir\nKao Kalia Yang\nHistory Revealed Series\nJanuary 7\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nYoutube video recording: https://youtu.be/FzHJsrG6stY\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\n \nAs the country’s doors were closing and nativism was on the rise\, Kao Kalia Yang—herself a refugee from Laos—set out to tell the stories of the refugees to whom University Avenue is now home. Here are people who have summoned the energy and determination to make a new life even as they carry an extraordinary burden of hardship\, loss\, and emotional damage.  In Yang’s exquisite\, poetic\, and necessary telling\, the voices of refugees from all over the world restore humanity to America’s strangers and redeem its long history of welcome. \n \nKao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer. She holds degrees from Carleton College and Columbia University. Yang is the author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir winner of the 2009 Minnesota Book Awards in Creative Nonfiction/Memoir and Readers’ Choice\, a finalist for the PEN USA Award in Creative Nonfiction\, and the Asian Literary Award in Nonfiction. Her second book\, The Song Poet won the 2016 Minnesota Book Award in Creative Nonfiction Memoir\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Chautauqua Prize\, a PEN USA Award in Nonfiction\, and the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize. The story has been commissioned as a youth opera by the Minnesota Opera and will premiere in the spring of 2021. She is now writing a series of children’s books. \nFor this event\, before we open the virtual floor for questions and comments from audience members\, Yang will be joined in conversation by four readers of her book: \nSaymoukda Duanphouxay Vongsay is an award-winning Lao American poet\, playwright\, cultural producer\, and social practice artist. She is the author of the children’s book WHEN EVERYTHING WAS EVERYTHING (Full Circle Publishing) and is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Theater Mu. Visit her at www.SaymoukdaTheRefugenius.com and follow her @refugenius. \nThet-Htar Thet (she/her/hers) is a writer\, educator and activist originally from Yangon Myanmar. Now based in her home country\, Thet-Htar is focused on education reform and identity-driven writing as a consultant for UNESCO and a freelance creative nonfiction writer. \nSangay Taythi is a Tibetan refugee born in India who with his family immigrated to the United States in 1998.  He has been a community and labor organizer\, including the Students for a Free Tibet chapter at the University of Minnesota\, the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of Minnesota\, the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota\, the Tibetan National Congress and Tibetans for Black Lives and SEIU Healthcare Minnesota. \nNajaha Musse Najaha Musse is a 4th year medical student pursuing a doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine. Her family fled rural Ethiopia for a refugee camp in Nairobi Kenya\, and then settled in Minnesota where she began formal education in the 3rd grade. As the oldest in a family of 8 children\, she became the first in her family to graduate from high school and receive a college degree. While attending medical school\, Najaha has focused on social justice issues pertaining to educational access for disadvantaged students and social medicine.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/somewhere-in-the-unknown-world/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Sinclair Lewis
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nSinclair Lewis: His Life\, Work and Relevance\nPatrick Coleman\nHistory Revealed Series\nNovember 19\, 2020\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library \nSinclair Lewis’s Main Street turned 100 years old this October. It was a publishing phenomenon that changed American Letters forever. In recognition of that event\, and to acknowledge this most famous son of Minnesota\, the Minnesota Historical Society will open an exhibit on Lewis in April of 2021. Patrick Coleman has been working on that exhibit and will share some of his thoughts on Lewis’s life and writings. There are still many rewards and lessons to be found in Lewis’s writings\, Coleman believes.\n\nPatrick Coleman has been the Acquisition Librarian at the Minnesota Historical Society for the past four decades. In that curatorial position he has been responsible for adding over 100\,000 volumes to the library\, making it the premier place for scholarship on all Minnesota topics. He is especially proud of the MHS library’s growth in the previously neglected area of Minnesota’s cultural history; fiction\, poetry\, fine press\, and artist’s books. \nColeman writes\, lectures\, Tweets and blogs on topics related to Minnesota’s culture and history. He served as the President of the Library of Congress’s Minnesota Center for the Book\, presided over the Minnesota Book Awards for several years. He has served on the boards of Coffee House Press and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts\, Friends of the University of Minnesota Library\, and the Minnesota Humanities Commission\, among others. Coleman received the Kay Sexton Award in 2009 for his contributions to Minnesota’s community of the book. Currently\, he serves as an Executive Leadership Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Integrative Leadership. \nHis current research focus concerns Sinclair Lewis and an upcoming exhibit at the Minnesota Historical Society to commemorate the 100 anniversary of the publication of Lewis’s Main Street. \nHis avocational interest include Irish literature (collecting one of few complete sets of the Cuala Press\, run by the sisters of W. B. Yeats\,) wilderness canoeing\, cross-country skiing\, and backpacking. He is a proud father and grandfather. \n\n\nFeatured image: Photo of Sinclair Lewis\, autographed to W. S. Leeds\, c. 1922. Courtesy of the Local History Center at The Post Washington Public Library
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CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Women's Suffrage in Minnesota
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nWomen’s Suffrage in Minnesota\nMichelle Witte\nHistory Revealed Series\nOctober 22\, 2020\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister here on Zoom\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library \nThe passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 expanded voting rights for women and opened up an entire new century of civic engagement. Come learn more about Women’s Suffrage in Minnesota\, and how our voting rights continue to expand – and be challenged – today. \nMichelle Witte\, Executive Director of the League of Women Voters Minnesota\, will share with us some of the unique history related to the “Votes for Women” movement here in our State\, and how the League of Women Voters continues to live out the mission of empowering voters and defending democracy as a nonpartisan\, civic engagement organization\, with 35 community-based chapters here in Minnesota. She’ll also be happy to answer your questions about our 2020 election. \nMichelle Witte is the Executive Director of the League of Women Voters Minnesota\, and also served as an elected school board member with South Washington County Schools.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/womens-suffrage-minnesota/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201001T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201001T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Suffrage at 100
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nSuffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920\nStacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow\nHistory Revealed Series\nOctober 1\, 2020\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpfu-orT0vGt00wZt19hHO5Nd1u3cLld8K \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEditors & authors Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow will discuss their book\, Suffrage at 100\, which looks at women’s engagement in US electoral politics and government over the one hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. \nIn the 2018 midterm elections\, 102 women were elected to the House and 14 to the Senate—a record for both bodies. And yet nearly a century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment\, the notion of congressional gender parity by 2020—a stated goal of the National Women’s Political Caucus at the time of its founding in 1971—remains a distant ideal. In Suffrage at 100\, Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow brought together twenty-two scholars to take stock of women’s engagement in electoral politics over the past one hundred years. \nThis is the first wide-ranging collection to historically examine women’s full political engagement in and beyond electoral office since they gained a constitutional right to vote. The book explores why women’s access to\, and influence on\, political power remains frustratingly uneven\, particularly for women of color and queer women. Examining how women have acted collectively and individually\, both within and outside of electoral and governmental channels\, the book moves from the front lines of community organizing to the highest glass ceiling. \nEssays touch on: \n• labor and civil rights\n• education\n• environmentalism\n• enfranchisement and voter suppression\n• conservatism vs. liberalism\n• indigeneity and transnationalism\n• LGBTQ and personal politics\n• Pan-Asian\, Chicana\, and black feminisms\n• commemoration and public history\n• and much more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStacie Taranto is an associate professor of history at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She is the author of Kitchen Table Politics: Conservative Women and Family Values in New York.\nLeandra Zarnow is an assistant professor of history and affiliated faculty in the Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston. She is the author of Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-suffrage-at-100/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Sterling Club
DESCRIPTION:101 Years of The Sterling Club: A Window into the Black Experience in Minnesota\nJeremiah Ellis\nWith special guest Former Sterling Club President Levi Brady\n\nThursday\, September 24\, 2020\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the Roseville Library\nLive Zoom Presentation – presentation will be recorded\n \nRegister in advance for this meeting:\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lc-yurT8uGNOTDIQM34UZ1cADwOpzglyy \n\nAfter registering\, participants will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n\nHistorian and author Jeremiah E. Ellis will present the history and the stories behind the Sterling Club\, and African-American club in Saint Paul that recently celebrated its 100th Anniversary. The Sterling Club emerged from injustices toward Black men in Ramsey County. In 2020\, renewed calls for racial justice have been catalyzed by the experiences of Black men in Minnesota. Similar patterns of racial discrimination along the Club’s century ring true today. This conversation looks at the hundred years of Club history including first hand accounts of members and rarely seen pictures from the local African American community. Jeremiah Ellis will share about the Club history\, more recent activities and connect the history to experiences of being a Black man in Minnesota. Jeremiah Ellis will be joined by Sterling Club’s Former President\, Levi Brady. \n\nIn 1919\, a group of mostly mid-career gentlemen from St. Paul’s African American community incorporated a social club of their own. The Sterling Club welcomed visiting dignitaries\, gathered for formal balls\, and celebrated individual and collective accomplishments – and they also mobilized against discrimination and created community cohesion. The men\, and women\, of the Sterling Club worked alongside civic leaders to highlight and address racist practices\, helped heal a community torn apart by the construction of the interstate\, served as a haven from discrimination\, and mentored young people within the community. Over the decades\, many of St. Paul’s social clubs have come and gone\, but the Sterling Club continues to stand strong. \n\nJeremiah Ellis’s great grandparents owned The Booker T. Restaurant on Rondo Avenue before its destruction for Interstate 94. Jeremiah is Secretary of the Board for the African American Interpretive Center of Minnesota which is dedicated to sharing black Minnesota history through exhibitions and events. Jeremiah’s research into Saint Paul’s historic Black community\, titled St. Paul’s Distinct Leadership Tradition: A Century of The Sterling Club\, was published by the Ramsey County Historical Society in Ramsey County History magazine last year. Jeremiah parents his elementary age son in Saint Paul with his wife. \n\nFeatured image: The Sterling Club’s original Clubhouse\, begun in 1924 at 315 North Dale Street\, was designed by Sterling Club member\, Clarence W. Wigington. Photo by Arthur H.P. Rhodes\, courtesy of the Sterling Club archives.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-the-sterling-club/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Recent Archaeology
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: Recent Archaeology Findings In Ramsey County: Public Digs with the Metro County Historical Society Collaborative\nDr. Jeremy Nienow\nOnline Event – Zoom\nThursday\, July 23\, 7:00-8:00 PM\nIn partnership with the Roseville Library \nArchaeologist Jeremy Nienow will discuss some of the findings from recent archaeological digs at sites throughout Ramsey County. A project of the Metro County Historical Society Collaborative\, a group of historical societies from throughout the Metro area including the Ramsey County Historical Society\, the Maplewood Area Historical Society and others\, this series of digs included Gibbs Farm and areas along Fish Creek. Members of the public were able to participate in unearthing findings and learning how archaeology is done. Dr. Nienow will discuss some of the results and talk about how archaeology of this type can help shed light on Native Peoples and early historic settlement. He will be joined by Bob Jensen of the Maplewood Area Historical Society. \nRegister for the program on Zoom. \nHistory Revealed ONLINE\nFor past History Revealed videos\, see https://www.rchs.com/news/history-revealed-online/.\nPlease check out our partner\, Subtext Books for online ordering or curbside pickup of History Revealed titles.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-recent-archaeology/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200305T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200305T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: She Voted
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nKate Roberts & Michelle Witte\, She Voted: Her Fight\, Our Right\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, March 5\, 2020\n7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nShe Voted: Her Fight\, Our Right is an exhibit opening September 26\, 2020\, at the Minnesota History Center\, St. Paul \nOn August 26\, 1920\, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution–upholding women’s right to vote–was signed into law. A new exhibit\, developed in partnership with the League of Women Voters Minnesota\, explores how Minnesota women shifted the political landscape before and after this landmark moment. \nJoin MNHS exhibit developer Kate Roberts and League of Women Voters-MN executive director Michelle Witte in conversation about how this exhibit is coming together. How do you tell this important story in a format that appeals to visitors ranging from politically active voters to fourth-graders on a school field trip? How do you make sure that all visitors understand who was at the table and who wasn’t before\, during\, and after the fight for this amendment? And how do you make good on the exhibit’s goal of preparing each visitor to take action to shape our future? \n2020 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2020 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-she-voted/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Three Jewish Writers
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nPanel Discussion\, Three Jewish Writers: William Hoffman\, Norman Katkov and Max Shulman\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 20\, 2020\n7:00 pm\nRoseville Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nRCHS Editor Meredith Cummings will emcee a fascinating discussion on three Jewish writers who made their homes in Saint Paul\, but who were national figures – William Hoffman\, Norman Katkov and Max Shulman. \nWilliam Hoffman (1914-1990) was a very well-known author whose works included “Tales of Hoffman\,” “Mendel\,”  “Neighborhood House: A Brief History of the First 75 Years\, 1897-1972” and writing for the Saint Paul Jewish News\, and other publications. \nNorman Katkov (1918-2009) authored short stories and tv scripts (Wild Wild West\, Bonanza\, Ben Casey\, and others)\, plus “A Little Sleep\, A Little Slumber\,” “The Judas Kiss\,” “Millionaires Row” and other books and novels. \nMax Shulman (1919-1988) was a screenwriter for “The Many Lives of Dobie Gillis\,” and many films\, including “The Tender Trap.” His books include “Barefoot Boy with Cheek\,” “The Feather Merchant\,” “Rally Round the Flag Boys!” and many short stories. \nReadings from their writings\, video clips of their films and TV episodes\, the stories of their lives as told by family members\, and the history of their neighborhoods in Saint Paul will be part of the discussion. \nPanel Members: \n\nMeredith Cummings\, RCHS Editor and panel emcee\nJon Hoffman\, son of author William Hoffman\nPaul D. Nelson\, historian and co-author of “Three Jewish Writers” in Ramsey County History magazine\, Fall 2019 issue.\nSteve Trimble\, historian and co-author of “Three Jewish Writers” in Ramsey County History magazine\, Fall 2019 issue.\nDaniel Shulman\, son of author Max Shulman\n\nFor a link to the recent article\, see: Ramsey County History magazine\, Volume 54-3\, Fall 2019 \nFeatured image photograph and design courtesy of Summit Images\, LLC – Robert Muschewske and Leaetta Hough. \n2020 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2020 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-three-jewish-writers/
LOCATION:Ramsey County Library – Roseville\, 2180 Hamline Ave N\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Research
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200206T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Transpacific Antiracism
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nYuichiro Onishi\, Transpacific Antiracism\, Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America\, Japan\, and Okinawa\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 6\, 2020\n7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nTranspacific Antiracism introduces the dynamic process out of which social movements in Black America\, Japan\, and Okinawa formed Afro-Asian solidarities against the practice of white supremacy in the twentieth century. Yuichiro Onishi argues that in the context of forging Afro-Asian solidarities\, race emerged as a political category of struggle with a distinct moral quality and vitality. \nThis book explores the work of Black intellectual-activists of the first half of the twentieth century\, including Hubert Harrison and W. E. B. Du Bois\, that took a pro-Japan stance to articulate the connection between local and global dimensions of antiracism. Turning to two places rarely seen as a part of the Black experience\, Japan and Okinawa\, the book also presents the accounts of a group of Japanese scholars shaping the Black studies movement in post-surrender Japan and multiracial coalition-building in U.S.-occupied Okinawa during the height of the Vietnam War which brought together local activists\, peace activists\, and antiracist and antiwar GIs. Together these cases of Afro-Asian solidarity make known political discourses and projects that reworked the concept of race to become a wellspring of aspiration for a new society. \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase and signing during the presentation. \nYuichiro Onishi is Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-transpacific-antiracism/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200123T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Nicholas R. Brewer
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nJulie L’Enfant\, The Celebrity Portraits of Nicholas R. Brewer\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 23\, 2020\n7:00 pm\nRoseville Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nNicholas R. Brewer (1857-1949) is a Minnesota artist best known today for his landscapes\, but in his own lifetime his wide reputation rested mainly on his portraits. He painted many prominent Minnesotans. His circuit exhibitions in the 1920s and 1930s also featured portraits of some of the most famous men and women of his day. This presentation will focus on portraits of Joseph Jefferson\, the comic actor who played Rip Van Winkle in theaters across the world; Ignace Paderewski\, the Polish pianist and politician; and the girl who starred in a sensational movie about the Armenian Massacres of World War One\, Aurora Mardiganian. These paintings\, little known today\, show Brewer’s intimate engagement with his era’s cultural and political events. \nJulie L’Enfant is the author of seven books\, including The Gag Family: German-Bohemian Artists in America (2002)\, Pioneer Modernists: Minnesota’s First Generation of Women Artists (2011)\, both of which won Minnesota Book Awards; Other Realities: The Art of Paul S. Kramer (2013); and\, with co-author Jaden Hansen\, Persistence of Vision: The Art of Bettye Olson (2017). \nA new softcover edition of Julie’s latest book\, Nicholas R. Brewer: His Art and Family (Afton Press\, 2019)\, will be available for purchase and signing. \nImage credit: Nicholas Brewer with his portrait of actress Margaret Anglin as her character in the play In the Wilderness. Mary Ann Walton collection. \n2020 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2020 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-nicholas-r-brewer/
LOCATION:Ramsey County Library – Roseville\, 2180 Hamline Ave N\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200109T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Moving Up\, Moving Out
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nDr. Will Cooley\, Moving Up\, Moving Out: The Rise of the Black Middle Class in Chicago\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 9\, 2020\n7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nIn Moving Up\, Moving Out\, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the twentieth century\, while accentuating the resilience of upwardly-mobile African Americans. Cooley examines how class differences created fissures in the black community and produced quandaries for black Chicagoans interested in racial welfare. While black Chicagoans engaged in collective struggles\, they also used individualistic means to secure the American Dream. Black Chicagoans demonstrated their talent and ambitions\, but they entered through the narrow gate\, and whites denied them equal opportunities in the educational institutions\, workplaces\, and neighborhoods that produced the middle class. African Americans resisted these restrictions at nearly every turn by moving up into better careers and moving out into higher-quality neighborhoods\, but their continued marginalization helped create a deeply dysfunctional city. African Americans settled in Chicago for decades\, inspired by the gains their forerunners were making in the city. Though faith in Chicago as a land of promise wavered\, the progress of the black middle class kept the city from completely falling apart. In this important study\, Cooley shows how Chicago\, in all of its glory and faults\, was held together by black dreams of advancement. Moving Up\, Moving Out will appeal to urban historians and sociologists\, scholars of African American studies\, and general readers interested in Chicago and urban history. \nWill Cooley is professor of history at Walsh University in North Canton\, Ohio. \n2020 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2020 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-moving-up-moving-out/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191210T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Slavery's Reach
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nChristopher Lehman\, Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nDecember 10\, 2019\nTuesday\, 7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nWhen American slavery was legal\, Minnesota’s residents sold real estate to investors who enslaved African Americans in the South. This presentation looks at Minnesota’s communities and institutions that benefited from plantation money\, the enslavers who bought the land\, and the slaves whose labor made the money for investment possible. \nDr. Christopher P. Lehman is a professor of ethnic studies at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. He has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Center for African and African American Research. His articles have appeared in  Minnesota History magazine\, and he is the author of the book Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State. \n2019 History Revealed Programs\nFor 2019 History Revealed programs\, see https://www.rchs.com/news/history-revealed-2019/\nNew programs are being added.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-slaverys-reach/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191121T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Ordnance Plant
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nMark Haidet\, The Twin Cities Ordnance Plant During World War II\nHistory Revealed Series\nNovember 21\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nRamsey County Roseville Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nHistorian Mark Haidet will tell the story behind the building of The Twin Cities Ordnance Plant and its key role in helping the United States and its Allies win World War II.  The rapid transformation of northwestern Ramsey County from farm fields in 1941 into an industrial complex employing more than 25\,000 men and women at its peak in 1943 was called a miracle. \nMark Haidet worked for the Minnesota Historical Society for 36 years – 10 years as a historian and 26 years in the Development Office.  As Director of Development for the program’s first 16 years\, he built a comprehensive program and led three major campaigns for the Minnesota History Center\, Mill City Museum and the Greatest Generation Project.  He closed his career with three years at the State Fair Foundation where he completed the campaign to build the Fair’s new History & Heritage Center.  Now retired\, Mark is helping others as a free-lance historian and fund-raising consultant. \n\n\nMain image: Inspection at the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant\, 1942. Courtesy of Hennepin County Library.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCourtesy of Hennepin County Library\n\n\n2019 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2019 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-ordnance-plant/
LOCATION:Ramsey County Library – Roseville\, 2180 Hamline Ave N\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191107T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Relentless Business of Treaties
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nMartin Case\, The Relentless Business of Treaties\nThursday\, November 7\, 2019\n7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No registration needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nThe story of “western expansion” is a familiar one: US government agents\, through duplicity and force\, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this framing\, argues Martin Case\, hides a deeper story. Land cession treaties were essentially the act of supplanting indigenous kinship relationships to the land with a property relationship. And property is the organizing principle upon which US society is based. \nUS signers represented the relentless interests that drove treaty making: corporate and individual profit\, political ambition\, and assimilationist assumptions of cultural superiority. The lives of these men illustrate the assumptions inherent in the property system—and the dynamics by which it spread across the continent. In this book\, for the first time\, Case provides a comprehensive study of the treaty signers\, exposing their business ties and multigenerational interrelationships through birth and marriage. Taking Minnesota as a case study\, he describes the groups that shaped US treaty making to further their own interests: interpreters\, traders\, land speculators\, bureaucrats\, officeholders\, missionaries\, and mining\, timber\, and transportation companies. \n \nMartin Case\, freelance researcher and writer\, was a key participant in the development of Why Treaties Matter\, a collaboration of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council\, the Minnesota Humanities Center\, and the Smithsonian Institute\, published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. \n2019 History Revealed Programs\nFor 2019 History Revealed programs\, see https://www.rchs.com/news/history-revealed-2019/\nNew programs are being added.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-relentless-business-of-treaties/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Streetcars-CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED: John Diers\, 1\,100 Streetcars: The Rise and Fall of the Twin City Rapid Transit Company\nWe apologize\, but the Thursday\, Oct. 24 program at the Roseville Library has been cancelled.\nHistory Revealed Series\nOctober 24\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nRamsey County Roseville Library\nFree and open to all. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed in 2018\, featuring the best of local history authors\, historians and archaeologists talking about a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nIn 1920 for a nickel fare the 1\,100 streetcars of the Twin City Rapid Transit Company carried 238 million riders on a 500-mile system that stretched from Lake Minnetonka to the St. Croix River. With over 4\,000 workers it was among the largest employers in the Twin Cities; turning a profit for its shareholders\, and regarded as among the finest street railway systems in the transit industry. Thirty-four years later it surrendered to the automobile. Its streetcars were gone\, replaced by buses—its assets looted by an unscrupulous management. From streetcars to freeways this is the story of the decline and fall of the late\, great Twin City Rapid Transit Company. \n \nJohn Diers is a writer-historian and the author of two books; Twin Cities by Trolley and St. Paul Union Depot (University of Minnesota Press) and articles on transit and transportation subjects in a number of historical and transportation journals\, among them Ramsey County History. He was with the Metropolitan Transit Commission in the Twin Cities and general manager of transit systems in Wisconsin and New York. \nThank you to the Ramsey County Roseville Library for their support of this program. \nFor more information and a list of upcoming 2019 History Revealed programs\, see the 2019 History Revealed page. \nArticle by John Diers\, The Force That Shaped the Neighborhoods: 1890–1953: Sixty-three Years of Streetcars in St. Paul and Millions of Dollars in Investments. Published in Ramsey County History magazine\, Spring 2005\, Vol. 40\, #1.\nLink to PDF of J. Diers article \nSave
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-streetcars-cancelled/
LOCATION:Ramsey County Library – Roseville\, 2180 Hamline Ave N\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Library Programs,Presentation
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Under Ground
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nMegan Marsnik: Under Ground\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nOctober 3\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nLike many stories of revolution and uprising\, Under Ground has passionately-spirited\, colorful protagonists and deeply-hated antagonists. It chronicles shootouts at labor rallies\, guns transported to and from secret bunkers\, fights in brothels\, police corruption\, xenophobia\, and false imprisonment. It features a cast of historical figures including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn\, Mother Jones\, Big Bill Haywood\, and socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs. It is about courage and consequences. But unlike most novels written about the labor movement in the U.S.\, this novel is told from the perspective of a strong\, immigrant woman\, who reminds us that there are things worth dying for\, but more importantly\, there are things to live for. \nCentering on a young woman named Katka\, a Slovenian immigrant who gets involved in the Iron Range miners’ strike of 1916\, Under Ground is the first novel that we are highlighting as part of our History Revealed series. Inspired by real people and historical events\, expertly researched\, with a strong sense of place and character\, the novel not only covers the strike of 1916\, but also labor history\, women on the Iron Range and immigration in the early 1900s. \nMegan Marsnik is the granddaughter of Slovenian immigrants\, the daughter of union activists\, and a union member herself. She was born and raised in Biwabik\, a small town on Minnesota’s Iron Range settled primarily by Eastern European and Scandinavian immigrants. Marsnik earned her MFA in writing and poetics from Naropa University in Boulder\, CO\, where she won the Jack Kerouac Award for outstanding prose. She teaches creative writing and philosophy to high school students in Minneapolis. “Under Ground\,” her debut novel\, is steeped in Minnesota history and is this year’s Star Tribune summer serial. \n2019 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2019 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-under-ground/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190926T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: George Bonga
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nJoel Brown\, The Story of George Bonga and the Fur Trade Era\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nSeptember 26\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nRamsey County Roseville Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nJoel Brown will present and reenact the story of George Bonga\, a legendary fur trader. George Bonga was born to an African-American father and an Ojibwe mother\, and is believed to be one of the first people of Africn-American descent born in Minnesota. Mr. Brown will also touch on the early days of the territory and the history of fur trading in Minnesota from the mid 1600s to the mid 1800s\, when Quebecois was the common language. Joel Brown will present in an authentic costume of the fur trading era. This is sure to be a fascinating and informative presentation. \n2019 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2019 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-george-bonga/
LOCATION:Ramsey County Library – Roseville\, 2180 Hamline Ave N\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Children of Lincoln 1860-1876
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nWilliam D. Green: The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota\, 1860-1876\nHistory Revealed Series\nSeptember 5\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nFramed around four white champions of African Americans in Minnesota\, The Children of Lincoln reveals a little known but critical chapter in the state’s history as it intersects with the broader account of race in America. It reveals a pattern of racial paternalism\, describing how even “enlightened” white Northerners would come to embrace policies that reinforced a notion of black inferiority.\n\nWilliam D. Green is professor of history at Augsburg University and author of The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota\, 1860-1876\, which is a finalist for the Minnesota Non-Fiction category of the 2019 Minnesota Book Awards\, to be awarded in April. He is also the author of Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota\, 1865–1912 (winner of the Hognander Minnesota History Award) and A Peculiar Imbalance: The Rise and Fall of Racial Equality in Minnesota\, 1837–1869\, both published by University of Minnesota press. He is vice president of the Minnesota Historical Society.\n2019 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2019 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-children-of-lincoln-1860-1876/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190822T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Thank You for Shopping
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nKristal Leebrick\, Thank You for Shopping: The Golden Age of Minnesota Department Stores\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nAugust 22\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nRamsey County Roseville Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nThroughout the twentieth century\, department stores ruled the retail landscapes of downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul. More than just shopping centers\, stores like Dayton’s\, Powers\, Donaldson’s\, Young-Quinlan\, the Emporium\, and the Golden Rule were centers of social life. From the legendary Dayton’s Christmas and spring flower displays to celebrating a special occasion at Schuneman’s River Room\, the department store was a destination for generations of Minnesotans\, within the Twin Cities and beyond. \nThank You for Shopping author Kristal Leebrick presents the history and stories behind Minnesota’s great department stores\, offering a lively trip back to the glory days. \nDaytons catalog page\nKristal Leebrick has worked for more three decades as a writer and editor for community newspapers\, trade magazines and book publishers. She is the author of Dayton’s: A Twin Cities Institution as well as several nonfiction juvenile books\, and for eight years she served as editor of the Park Bugle\, the local monthly newspaper that covers the Como Park and St. Anthony Park neighborhoods of St. Paul. \n2019 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2019 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-thank-you-for-shopping/
LOCATION:Ramsey County Library – Roseville\, 2180 Hamline Ave N\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190801T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Queer Voices
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nQueer Voices Panel Discussion\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nAugust 1\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nJoin us at the East Side Freedom Library for a panel discussion and readings from the new publication\, Queer Voices. \nSince its beginnings in 1993\, the Queer Voices reading series has featured both emerging and established Minnesota-based writers of the LGBTQIA+ community. With a track record of more than twenty years\, the series has become a national model and one of Minnesota’s most important literary institutions. It is reputed to be the longest-running curated queer reading series in the country. \nIn this volume\, series curators John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins and facilitator Lisa Marie Brimmer present the finest poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction pieces by the presenters. Their work\, generated and performed in a powerful space of understanding\, explores the material of life without internal or external censorship. Living\, loving\, working\, learning\, playing\, reflecting\, knowing\, inventing\, and being—these magnificent queer voices affirm the importance of civil literacy and the power of vulnerability. \nThe following contributors will be part of the panel\, other editors and contributors will be joining us:\nStephanie Chrismon\nChristina Glendenning\nBronson Lemer\nNasreen Mohamed\nMichael Kiesow Moore\nWilliam Reichard\nMorgan Grayce Willow \nBooks will be available for purchase. \n2019 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2019 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-queer-voices/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190725T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190725T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Floating Bethel
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nChristine Podas-Larson\, The Floating Bethel\nHistory Revealed Series\nJuly 25\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nRamsey County Roseville Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nChristine Podas-Larson\, author of the recent article in Ramsey County History magazine\, “Eliza Edgerton Newport and St. Paul’s Floating Bethel\, 1891-1903” will talk about the history of Saint Paul’s “Floating Bethel\,” a refuge for the working poor that was docked off Sibley Street on the Mississippi. Community leader and St. Paul resident Eliza Newport was well-educated and well-connected\, and she led many charitable organizations and community efforts at the end of the 19th century. Drawn to the work of the Bethel Association\, and in conjunction with other community leaders\, Eliza developed places where the poor and transient of the city could meet\, get food\, basic needs\, and have a safe place to stay. This culminated in the Floating Bethel\, a riverboat hotel & bathhouse on the Mississippi River that served the “floating class\,” river and railroad workers and their families. Over thirteen years it provided educational\, vocational\, and religious instruction for the guests. On July 5\, 1893 the Floating Bethel had a devastating fire. The legacy of the Floating Bethel lives on today through the Bethel Hotel\, a transitional housing program for men run by Union Gospel Mission Twin Cities. \nChristine Podas-Larson will present the history of the Floating Bethel\, and the work and life of her great-grandmother\, Eliza Newport in this fascinating presentation on the early years of Saint Paul. \n\nChristine Podas-Larson is the founder of Public Art Saint Paul\, where she was the organization’s Executive Director for many years. She is also the great-granddaughter of Eliza Edgerton Newport. \n2019 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2019 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-floating-bethel/
LOCATION:Ramsey County Library – Roseville\, 2180 Hamline Ave N\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190718T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190718T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Peoples Library
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nGreg Gaut\, Reinventing the Peoples Library\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nJuly 18\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nAuthor Greg Gaut will present his new book\, Reinventing the People’s Library\, which traces the history of the Arlington Hills Library\, one of three Carnegie Libraries in Saint Paul\, and its reinvention as the East Side Freedom Library. More than the history of a building\, the book is the story of the East Side community\, the history of immigration in Saint Paul\, and the role that libraries have played in the development of Minnesota. \nGreg Gaut earned his doctorate from the University of Minnesota and taught history at St. Mary’s University in Winona until his retirement in 2011. Since then he has focused on historic preservation\, preparing nominations for the National Register of Historic Places and for landmark status under local preservation ordinances. He has written articles for Minnesota History magazine and has twice won the David Gebhard Award for best article on Minnesota’s built environment. He has also written Laird’s Legacy: A History of the Winona Public Library. \n2019 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2019 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-peoples-library/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190627T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190627T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Leavenworth Expedition
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nGary Brueggemann: The Long Legacy of the Leavenworth Expedition (1819-20)\nHistory Revealed Series\nJune 27\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nRamsey County Roseville Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nTwo hundred years ago the largest expedition to enter present-day Minnesota launched the development of an American military establishment near the meeting of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers that proved to be a great turning point in Minnesota history. Never before in history had so many non-natives in one group traveled so far up the Mississippi – more than 530 miles north of St. Louis and over 200 miles upriver from Prairie du Chien\, the northernmost settlement on the Mississippi in 1819. And never before had so many people from so many places made such a large “Cantonment” in that part of the wilderness. \nIncluded among the 128 members of this historic expedition were the first non-Indigenous women and children to enter present-day Minnesota\, and the former New York lawyer and politician and war hero who led them\, – the “polished gentleman” destined for fame but also misery – Commander Lieutenant Colonel Henry Leavenworth. The group’s adventurous story\, which included the tragic deaths of dozens of soldiers and extraordinary hardships for everyone\, is a significant chapter in Minnesota history; yet it is one of the lesser known ones remembered today – and when it is remembered its legacy is largely underappreciated and the details of the story greatly condensed. \nMinnesota historian and author Gary Brueggemann  has been extensively researching this interesting and important story and will share what he has uncovered in a special pictorial presentation. \nGary Brueggemann is a lifetime resident of St. Paul’s West 7th neighborhood\, and he credits his love of history to his father\, who inspired his son with tales about his own childhood growing up along the river below the Randolph Ave. bluff. Gary received undergraduate and graduate degrees from University Of Wisconsin – River Falls. Now retired\, in 1978 Gary developed the first-ever college accredited course on St. Paul history for Inver Hills Community College\, where he served as a history professor. \nPhoto of Colonel Henry Leavenworth\, Wikimedia Commons\, in the public domain.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-the-leavenworth-expedition/
LOCATION:Ramsey County Library – Roseville\, 2180 Hamline Ave N\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190606T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190606T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Cultures Coming Together
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nKrista Finstad Hanson: Cultures Coming Together in St. Paul: 100 Years of Immigration and Resettlement\nHistory Revealed Series\nJune 6\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nLearn about 100 years of immigration history to St. Paul\, Minnesota. In 2019\, the International Institute of Minnesota is celebrating 100 years of service to the existing ethnic groups and new groups of refugees\, immigrants\, and asylees in our community. By uncovering the history of this non-profit agency\, historian Krista Finstad Hanson will shine a light on the history of immigration to St. Paul\, the worldwide crises and US government policy behind the waves of new immigrants or refugees\, and the impact immigration has had on our community. \n \nKrista Finstad Hanson is the author of two travel guides to museums in historic houses: Minnesota Open House and Wisconsin’s Historic Houses and Living History Museums. She has also written a children’s science textbook\, The Great Barrier Reef: A Natural Wonder. Her writings focus on architectural history\, travel\, and homes\, and since 1992 she has written for such a number of local and national publications. \nFeatured image courtesy of International Institute of Minnesota\, 1920 Christmas party at the International Institute.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-cultures-coming-together/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190523T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Black Baseball & Rondo
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nFrank M. White\, Black Baseball & The Rondo Neighborhood\nHistory Revealed Series\nMay 23\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nRamsey County Roseville Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nAuthor and historian Frank M. White will discuss the overall picture of baseball and sports in the Rondo neighborhood. He will highlight some of the athletes from that neighborhood and will also place the history of baseball in context\, recognizing some of the landmarks and locations of significance in Rondo that were instrumental in the community and in developing sports in the area. \nFrank M. White is a former athlete\, coach\, official\, and sports administrator. He currently coordinates the RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) program for the Minnesota Twins. His exhibit\, They Played for the Love of the Game\, was developed with the Ramsey County Historical Society in 2010. Frank is also the author of articles\, including for Ramsey County History magazine\, and They Played for the Love of the Game\, Minnesota Historical Society Press.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-black-baseball-rondo/
LOCATION:Ramsey County Library – Roseville\, 2180 Hamline Ave N\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs
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