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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.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-grasshoppers-in-my-bed/
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.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-the-bell-museum/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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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.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-daybreak-woman/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220519T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Swedish Foodways & Immigration
DESCRIPTION:Swedish Foodways & Immigration\nwith Patrice Johnson\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, May 19\, 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 \nFrom Spam to Tater Tot hotdish\, Minnesotans have their unique and diverse traditions centered around food. Join author Patrice Johnson as she explores how Swedish immigrant recipes and eating patterns help define our state’s cuisine and make mealtimes more interesting for all of us. \nPatrice Johnson is the author of Land of 10\,000 Plates: Stories and Recipes from Minnesota and Jul: Swedish American Holiday Traditions. She lives in Roseville\, Minnesota and teaches Nordic cooking classes throughout the Twin Cities and beyond.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-swedish-foodways-immigration/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Sunrise Over Wat Thamkrabok
DESCRIPTION:Sunrise Over Wat Thamkrabok\nwith Dr. Brian V. Xiong & Marlin L. Heise\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, May 12\, 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 \nWhen Thailand closed refugee camps in December 1992\, Wat Thamkrabok (called Tha Ka Bo or Vaj Loog Tsua by Hmong) became a Hmong settlement until the last wave of some 15\,000 Hmong refugees were resettled in the United States in 2004-2006. At a 2017 Wat Thamkrabok Reunion in Minnesota held at the East Side Freedom Library\, “The Past in the Present: An Exhibition and Reunion Celebration for Hmong Families from Wat Thamkrabok\,” hundreds of photos and many items left behind were displayed\, including marbles\, an armless Barbie doll\, two small wooden stools\, and a skirt later identified. \n“SUNRISE OVER WAT THAMKRABOK: A Photographic Legacy of the Last Hmong American Refugees” is a history told in photographs and stories that encompasses the experiences of Wat Thamkrabok former residents in Minnesota and across the United States. Dr. Brian V. Xiong & Marlin L. Heise will talk about the making of the book and will give insight into the conditions of crowded refugee existence and the lives of our Hmong neighbors before they came to America.  \nThis book is made possible by Minnesota Humanities Center Legacy Cultural Heritage & Identity Grant\, Hmong Archives Wat Thamkrabok Collections\, and Hmong Educational Resources Publisher. \nMarlin L. Heise began working with a high school student\, Chia Thao in May 1981\, fostering his connection with Hmong all over the world. In 1982 he lived in Ban Vinai with Chia Thao’s uncle and family. Marlin crossed the Mekong to Vientiane in early 1998 and became connected with Hmong college students that continues. After retiring\, he had the opportunity to become involved with the Hmong Archives as its chief volunteer for daily work since it became a nonprofit in February 1999. \nDr. Brian V. Xiong is a Hmong American scholar\, researcher\, and higher education professional. He is an in-demand\, highly sought-after presenter\, speaking regularly to various groups of diverse students\, faculty\, and staff on the importance of diversity\, equity\, inclusion\, access\, and equal opportunity in higher education. He has served at both\, public and private\, two-year community colleges and four-year universities. \nDr. Xiong holds a bachelor’s degree in Justice Administration and Sociology from Southwest Minnesota State University\, a master’s degree in Multicultural and Ethnic Studies from Minnesota State University-Mankato\, and a doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) from MSU-Mankato. Dr. Xiong is a former Page Scholar\, Wallin Scholar\, Cornwell Scholar\, Diversity & Equity Fellow\, Chief Diversity Officer & Affirmative Action\, and an Advisory Chief Diversity Officer for the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity. He is an active Executive Board member of numerous community services and nonprofit organizations. Dr. Xiong is the author of: \n\n A Clan of Our Own: Coming Out Experiences of Gay Hmong Men\nA New Journey: Hmong College Student Experiences\nPuag Thaum Ub: Hmoob Xeem\nMartha L. Zimmerman Paj Ntaub Collection\nSunrise Over Wat Thamkrabok\nHmong Teacher Experiences: Voices from the Field
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-sunrise-over-wat-thamkrabok/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: A Natural Curiosity
DESCRIPTION:A Natural Curiosity: The Story of the Bell Museum\nDon Luce\n\nThursday\, July 21\, 2022\n7:00 PM – 8:30 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\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 \n\nDon Luce is Bell Museum Curator of Exhibits. For more than forty years he has curated most of the museum’s temporary exhibitions\, including Exploring Evolution\, The Lion’s Mane\, Wildlife Art in America\, and Audubon and the Art of Birds. He initiated the Bell’s traveling exhibitions program\, developed and expanded its natural history art collection\, and played a key role in the conception and design of the new museum’s permanent exhibit gallery\, Minnesota Journeys.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-a-natural-curiosity/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220503T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Poor Farm
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: Geographies of the Ramsey County Poor Farm\, from Minnesota Territory to the New Deal\nwith Jack Acomb\, Eva Stromgren\, Marisa Williamson\, and Henry Yackel\, Macalester College Geography Department\, Prof. Jesse McClelland\nHistory Revealed Series\nTuesday\, May 3\, 2022\n7:00-8:30 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 East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to History Revealed: Geographies of the Ramsey County Poor Farm\, from Minnesota Territory to the New Deal\, a special presentation by Macalester College Geography students. \nRegister here to join this event on Zoom \nPoor farms were government-run homes for poor and vulnerable people that doubled as working farms. As a local response to extreme poverty\, poor farms spread across the US in the 19th Century up until the federalization of anti-poverty relief in the New Deal era. Minnesota’s first poor farm was founded by pioneer landholders in Ramsey County in 1854\, making it one of the first residential facilities in Minnesota Territory. Across four different sites\, the Ramsey County Poor Farm would shelter thousands of unpaid county residents while providing income to paid supervisors and workers and would provide nutrition to countless patients at the county hospital. Yet abuse and neglect at the Poor Farm – as well as ableist\, classist\, and anti-immigrant stigmatization of poor farm residents – kept this program a continual target of criticism. \nThe presentation explores the regulation of livelihood as a key mode of power in the colonial frontier. We seek to honor the often overlooked lives and ambitions of impoverished and marginalized people who lived and died on poor farms. We ask\, How might consideration of this often-overlooked institution and its residents shape ongoing popular debates about land\, dispossession\, welfare and belonging? \nPresenters are Jack Acomb\, Eva Stromgren\, Marisa Williamson\, and Henry Yackel – students in Geography at Macalester College. Jesse McClelland is their Professor. The presentation traces main archival findings for a practice-based advanced course\, Unearthing the Poor Farm: Local Geographies of Land\, Law and Livelihood\, which will be shared on a forthcoming website. \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.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-poor-farm/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220421T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Working to Assimilate
DESCRIPTION:Working to Assimilate: Irish Immigrants and Employment\nwith Jane Kennedy\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, April 21\, 2022\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 \nWe’ve heard the expression “Irish Need Not Apply\,” but what was it like in the mid- and late-19th century when Irish immigrants came to Minnesota/Ramsey County to seek employment? Were the Irish able to transfer the skills from their homeland to work opportunities here? This program captures Irish immigrant employment – its challenges and opportunities – at a time when the Irish were trying to gain a foothold in a new land. \nJane Kennedy lives in St. Paul\, MN. Her interest in exploring Irish immigration is linked to her family’s emigration in the 1880s from County Mayo\, Ireland. She has a B.A. in English and Journalism from St. Catherine University and an M.A. in Business Communications from the University of St. Thomas. Kennedy obtained Irish citizenship in 2016 (dual citizenship) following two visits to her grandfather’s homeland in the Belmullet Peninsula\, Co. Mayo. \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. \nImage: Irish woman spinning. Courtesy of Jane Kennedy and the Minnesota Historical Society.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-working-to-assimilate/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Invisible Warriors
DESCRIPTION:Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II\nwith Gregory S. Cooke and Jeremiah Ellis\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, April 14\, 2022\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 \nInvisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II\, share the untold story of 600\,000 Black women – “Rosie the Riveters” – who worked in factories and government offices during WWII\, including here at the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP). Prior to the war\, nationally more than 80 percent of employed Black women were locked in life-stifling jobs as sharecroppers and domestics\, according to Invisible Warriors creator and World War II historian\, Gregory S. Cooke.  After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor\, many women quit their jobs as domestics. \nJeremiah Ellis will talk about some of the women who worked at TCAAP\, and Greogory Cooke will share the making of his film\,  Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II in a brief discussion. After the discussion\, attendees are invited to view a special screen of the entire film of Invisible Warriors\, about 60 minutes long. \nThe film Invisible Warriors shares the stories of women in the Philadelphia area who became “Black Rosies.” One of the women featured in the film\, Ruth Wilson\, left her job as a domestic and received training at Bok Technical High School before working as a sheet metal specialist at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Wilson helped build the aircraft carrier\, USS Valley Forge.  For Wilson\, the job paid significantly more\, but it was also about patriotism\, helping her country win the war. “I did something to help the cause\, and I was doing something to help the boys. It just made me feel special.”  “Wilson’s resilience and determination typified the spirit of Black Rosies as they sought brighter futures for themselves and family members in a country dominated by systemic racism and gender discrimination\,” according to Cooke. \nThe Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II screening is sponsored by the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota. \n \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants. These programs focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-invisible-warriors/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event,Special Events
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Whiteness in Plain View
DESCRIPTION:Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota\nwith author Chad Montrie\nHistory Revealed Series\nWednesday\, April 6\, 2022\n7:00 pm\nSponsored by the East Side Freedom Library and Minnesota Historical Society Press\, in partnership with the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to the book launch of Whiteness in Plain View: Racial Exclusion in Minnesota with author Chad Montrie. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n\nMinnesota is a paradox. Widely seen as a progressive stronghold of the Midwest\, the state also has some of the greatest racial disparities in the nation. Those disparities have their roots in Minnesota’s earliest days as a territory and in the decades that followed. From enslaved people brought to the territory by military officers to migrants traveling to the North Star State after the Civil War\, African Americans have long been present in Minnesota’s history. Yet while many came here looking to establish new lives\, they were often met with White resistance and attempts to exclude them.Whiteness in Plain View examines the ways White residents across Minnesota acted to intimidate\, control\, remove\, and keep out African Americans over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their methods ranged from anonymous threats\, vandalism\, and mob violence to restrictive housing covenants\, realtor deceit\, and mortgage discrimination\, and they were aided by local\, state\, and federal government agencies as well as openly complicit public officials. What they did was not an anomaly or aberration\, in some particular place or passing moment\, but rather common and continuous. Chapter by chapter\, the book shows that Minnesota’s overwhelming Whiteness is neither accidental nor incidental\, and that racial exclusion’s legacy is very much woven into the state’s contemporary politics\, economy\, and culture. \nProfessor Montrie will be engaged in conversation at the East Side Freedom Library by a panel of invited discussants. The ESFL team will create a hybrid format in which online audience members\, both via zoom and Facebook\, will be able to participate in the conversation.  Join us! \n \n\n\nChad Montrie is a professor in the history department at the University of Massachusetts\, Lowell. He is the author of four books\, including The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism. His article “In that Very Northern City: Recovering a Forgotten Struggle for Racial Integration in Duluth” appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of Minnesota History magazine. \n  \n\nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants. These programs focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-whiteness-in-plain-view/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220317T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220317T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Tikkun Olam
DESCRIPTION:Tikkun Olam: Jewish Women Serving Their St. Paul Community\nwith Kate Dietrick\, Gabrielle Horner\, and Janet Kampf\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, March 17\, 2022\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 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. \nFive women from St. Paul’s Jewish community—Hannah Austrian\, Sophie Wirth\, Annie Paper\, Gretta Freeman\, and Rhoda Redleaf embraced and helped resettle impoverished Jewish immigrants through education efforts\, job training\, and by providing relief. They also rallied for basic rights\, stepping up in times when progressive actions by women were often frowned upon. While their names may have been forgotten by most\, their work to make the world a better place still impacts the local community to this day. Their lives provide insights into Jewish immigrant life in the upper Midwest in the late nineteenth century. \nAuthors and historians Kate Dietrick\, Gabe Horner and Janet Kampf will present the stories of these women and the long-lasting effects that their efforts have had on the Jewish community. \nTo learn more\, see the Ramsey County History article in the Fall 2021 issue. \nImage: Boys at the Lake Rest Vacation Home\, established in 1911 was renamed Sophie Wirth Camp in 1926 to honor the work of Sophie Wirth. \nKate Dietrick is the archivist for the Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives at the University of Minnesota. She is a resident of St. Paul and a member of Mount Zion Temple. \nGabrielle Horner is a descendant of Italian\, German and English immigrants to St. Paul and is a lifelong resident. She is coauthor of A Grand History: The Summit Hill Neighborhood’s First 200 Years. \nJanet Kampf joined Mount Zion Temple in 1968 and is a member of The Women of Mount Zion Temple. She is the past chair and the current secretary-treasurer of Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-tikkun-olam/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220310T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220310T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Romanian Contributions
DESCRIPTION:Romanian Contributions to the Minnesota Landscape\nwith Vicki Albu\, Gina Popa & Dana Voller\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, March 10\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom 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 Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans in MN (HORA) will share information about Romania and Moldova’s history\, geography\, tourism and traditions. The presentation will also include information about the history of Romanian immigration to Minnesota and the current Romanian American community. \nImage: Early Romanian immigrants. Courtesy of HORA. \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. \nSpeakers: \n\nVicki Albu is a co-founder of Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans in Minnesota (HORA)\, Romanian Genealogy Society (RGS)\, and the Dakota County Genealogical Society. Her interests in genealogy and immigration led her to pursue a degree in History. She researched and wrote the screenplay for the award-winning documentary\, “A Thousand Dollars and Back: Recollections of Early Romanian Immigration to Minnesota.” \n\nGina Popa (HORA President) has dedicated her life to educating young minds. Her teaching career spans almost 4 decades working with students of all ages\, from pre-school to young adults\, in Europe and the United States. She currently teaches ESL (English as a Second Language) in St. Paul. In 2019 she was a finalist for the MN Teacher of the Year. \n\nAs a founder of HORA and its current president\, Gina believes that what brings Romanians together is the ACASA (at home) feeling that we are all longing for. “I think geography is relative. Romania is in our hearts and in our minds and it’s in our power to bring it here with us. That is HORA’s role\, to invite everyone to experience the unique Romanian culture\, history\, and traditions right here in Minnesota.” \n\nDana Voller (HORA vice-president) came to Minnesota and the US in 2003. She has a French and English teaching degree from the University of Pitesti\, Romania and a Masters in ESL from Hamline University\, Minnesota. Her first job was with Peace Corps\, Romania\, and that is where she discovered her passion about sharing her cultural and linguistic heritage. She is currently a learning and development consultant for Wells Fargo and HORA’s vice president. Dana has been happy and proud to volunteer and share her knowledge of Romanian history\, culture and language through the HORA language classes and events.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-romanian-contributions/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220217T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Scottie Primus Davis
DESCRIPTION:Scottie Primus Davis: A Story Forgotten to Time\nwith Mary K. Boyd\, Chester C. Owens Jr.\, Granvile T. O’Neal and Steve Trimble\nOther panelists may be announced. Moderated by Meredith Cummings\, RCHS Editor\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 17\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the 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 \nScottie Primus Davis spent her formative years in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, growing up under the tutelage of involved parents and well-respected “movers and shakers\,” including J. Q. Adams\, the Farr sisters\, Nellie Francis\, and others. So\, it wasn’t a surprise when the determined Davis became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Minnesota\, hired on as a no-nonsense English teacher\, and continued her lifelong learning\, completing a master’s degree from Harvard University. But now we have the honor of learning about the incomparable\, the unforgettable (Miss) Scottie Primus Davis. \nHistorian Steve Trimble\, author of an article in Ramsey County History magazine on Miss Scottie Primus Davis\, will be joined by educator Mary K. Boyd in a panel discussion moderated by RCHS Editor Meredith Cummings. \nImage: Scottie P. Davis in her graduation photo from the University of Minnesota. Photo courtesy of University of Minnesota archives and the Saint Paul Almanac. From Ramsey County History magazine. \n\n\n\nMary K. Murray Boyd is President and CEO of MKB & Associates\, Inc.\, an education and human services consulting business. Ms. Boyd has extensive experience in management\, leadership\, communications and coalition building\, serving in a variety of roles professionally and in the Saint Paul community. She held several positions in the Saint Paul Public Schools beginning as a teacher’s aide and retiring in 2001 as an Area Superintendent. Since retiring from Saint Paul Public schools\, Boyd has served in three interim positions\, Manager of Ramsey County Child Protection\, Director of Ramsey County Community Human Services Department’s Family and Children’s Services Division and Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Hamline University. She has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of St. Thomas and at the University of Minnesota. \nChester C. Owens Jr. is a retired business owner\, veteran\, historian\, community activist\, and student of Miss Scottie P. Davis in the late 1940s/early 1950s. He served in the U.S. Air Force. In the early 1960s\, he worked with the Northwest District Citizens Committee and the NAACP to desegregate the downtown shopping district in Kansas City\, Kansas\, and served as chairman of the NAACP’s Labor and Industry Committee from 1960 to 1963. In 1976\, Owens bought H.W. Sewing and Co.\, serving as president of the agency. In 1983\, he was elected to the City Council of Kansas City\, making him the first African American elected in the 20th century. Serving two terms on the council\, he also briefly served as deputy mayor in 1984. Owens retired as president of H.W. Sewing and Co. in 1998. Owens has also served on numerous boards and as president of the Northeast Business Association\, on the boards of Homeowner’s Task Force for the State of Kansas\, the Economic Opportunity Foundation\, and Sumner High School Alumni Association. He is also a member of Sigma Pi Phi and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternities. He is the recipient of numerous awards\, among which are the Kansas City\, Kansas Leadership Award in 1989\, of which he was the first ever recipient; the Kansas City Globe’s One Hundred Most Influential Citizens in 1990; the 2012 Outstanding Leadership Award presented by the Kansas House of Representatives;  the NAACP Civil Rights Award; and the Friends of Yates’ Black Man of Distinction Award. Owens has also been honored through the naming of the Chester C. Owens Sumner Alumni Room and The Chester Owens Jr. Construction Skills Training Center\, which houses a U.S. Department of Labor-run program called YouthBuild\, both named in 2011. \nMr. Owens will be joined by Granvile T. O’Neal\, an actor and fine arts professional based in Kansas City\, Kansas. O’Neal serves on the board of the Traditional Music Society and is curator for the Chester C. Owens Sumner Alumni Room\, which maintains artifacts\, memorabilia\, and historical information on Sumner High School. He also has numerous commercial\, voice overs\, and film credits. \nSteve Trimble is an author\, a historian\, and a frequent contributor to the Dayton’s Bluff District Forum. He is a member of the Ramsey County Historical Society Editorial Board\, and has written a number of articles for our magazine\, Ramsey County History\, including an article on Scottie Primus Davis in the Winter 2022 issue. Steve is a frequent lecturer\, author\, and book collector.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-scottie-primus-davis/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220210T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Harriet Scott
DESCRIPTION:Settler Colonialism Seen Through the Life of Harriet Scott\nwith Jane Henderson\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 10\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the 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 \nScholars of institutionalized racism have used the term “settler colonialism” to characterize the development of the United States — and many other countries. While this has been a useful concept leading to the asking — and answering — of productive questions\, it has often\, perhaps too often\, been deployed at a level of abstraction that seems remote from the ways that indigenous people\, white people\, immigrants\, and African Americans have lived their lives and interacted with each other. \nJane Henderson’s research engages the conversation around American slavery in the North within the framework of the expansion of the U.S. nation state through the frontier.  Fort Snelling\, the first white American settlement in the Minnesota territory\, was also the site of the first Black community in the state.  Henderson’s research draws on letters of prominent military officials\, merchants\, and others involved in “Indian business.”  She probes the letters and records of Lawrence Talliaferro\, an Indian agent for the Federal Government tasked with administering  annuity payments to Dakota and Ojibwe peoples\, in exchange for claims to their land.  Talliaferro was one of the largest slave owners in the Minnesota territory.  Henderson uses these sources to trace the life of Harriet Robinson\, who was owned by Talliaferro and held at Fort Snelling. In 1836/37\, she met and married Dred Scott\, who 20 years later would earn a place in history by suing for his freedom\, his case reaching the U.S. Supreme Court.  Henderson uses Harriet (and Dred) Scott’s lives not only as pathways into reconstructing the lives of enslaved women and men at Fort Snelling but also to illuminate the shifting political economy of the region from centering the fur trade toward an economy based on the commodification of land\, the commercialization of trade\, and the exploitation of labor\, both enslaved and free.  Her presentation\, while centered on the previously little told story of an individual enslaved woman\, will raise important questions about the relationships between U.S. militarism\, slave labor\, genocide\, and emancipation on the frontier. \nImage: Harriet Robinson Scott\, from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated\, New York\, June 17\, 1857. \n \nJane Henderson grew up in the Twin Cities before earning a BA in Ethnic Studies and Spanish at the University of San Diego. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at UC-Berkeley\, and she has returned to Minneapolis to research her dissertation on Black place-making in Minnesota. \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.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-harriet-scott/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220120T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Making Minnesota - Saint Paul
DESCRIPTION:Making Minnesota: The Story of Saint Paul\nBill Lindeke\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 20\, 2022\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 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. \nBill Lindeke will explore this topic as it relates to the history of Saint Paul in the second program in the series. The first will be “We Are Meant To Be Here” on January 13\, 2022. More information on both these programs and the series will be coming soon. \nBill Lindeke is an urban geographer and writer who focuses on how our environments shape our lives. He wrote MinnPost’s “Cityscapes” column from 2014 to 2017\, has written articles on local food and drink history for City Pages and the Growler\, and has taught urban geography at the University of Minnesota and Metro State University. He writes a local urban blog at Twin City Sidewalks and is a member of the Saint Paul Planning Commission. He is the author of Minneapolis–Saint Paul: Then and Now and the coauthor of Closing Time: Saloons\, Taverns\, Dives\, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities with Andy Strdevant. His most recent book is St. Paul: An Urban Biography\, a concise history of St. Paul. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/ \nImage: Postcard titled “St. Paul\, 1856\,” describing the cover as an oil painting by S. Holmes Andrews. The first Minnesota Territorial Capitol building is in the center far background. From the RCHS Collection.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-making-minnesota-saint-paul/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Jean Follett
DESCRIPTION:A Little-Known Story: Jean Follett\, Women Artists\, and the St. Paul School of Art\nwith Melissa Rachleff Burtt\nHistory Revealed Series\nTuesday\, December 14\, 2021\n7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdeyhrDsiGtXe9f_bxxmOQk0vJTnhZ0xQ After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to our final “History Revealed” for 2021. \nJean Follett grew up on the East Side of St. Paul\, served in the U.S. military during World War II\, and moved to New York City\, where she played an active role in the development of the post-war art scene. In 1962\, Follett returned to St. Paul where she joined other local women in the contentious arguments around aesthetics\, the roles of art in society\, and the roles of gender and the places of immigrants in the art world. These arguments had swirled around the St. Paul School of Art (today the Minnesota Museum of Art\, or the “M”) since the Progressive Era (before World War I) and they continued through the Great Depression\, World War II\, and the Cold War years. \nMelissa’s focus on Jean Follett\, who has never received the attention her artistic work deserves\, provides a window into these arguments and their impact on the art world\, including the “applied arts\,” architecture\, engineering\, natural history (including the founding of the Science Museum)\, art museums\, and more\, from St. Paul to New York City. \nMelissa Rachleff is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Administration Program at NYU: Steinhardt\, where she concentrates on the nonprofit sector. In 2017 she curatedInventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City\, 1952-1965 for NYU Grey Art Gallery and wrote/edited the accompanying book\, which is co-published by the Grey and Prestel Publishing. Melissa began her career as the assistant curator at Exit Art and co-curated exhibitions on the intersection of visual art and documentation. She also worked on exhibits about under-examined artists at mid-career. As a program officer for the New York State Council on the Arts from 1999-2007\, Melissa was an advocate in supporting contemporary art projects done in collaboration with local communities. She has written about artist organizations for a variety of publications\, and her essay\, “Do It Yourself: A History of Alternatives” was published in Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces (MIT Press) in 2012. For the fiftieth anniversary of 1968\, Melissa curated Narrative & Counternarrative: (Re)Defining the Sixties for NYU’s Bobst Library.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-jean-follett/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211118T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Hazel Belvo
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society presents \n\nThe Spirit Tree: Hazel Belvo and the Art of Nature\nJulie L’Enfant\nNovember 18\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nIn partnership with the Roseville Library & the East Side Freedom Library\n \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nThe program is free and open to all.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n\nHazel Belvo has been an influential artist\, art educator\, and feminist leader for more than fifty years. Her prodigious output ranges from delicate drawings to monumental paintings exploring nature\, spirituality\, and the feminine psyche. She is best known for over four hundred works on the legendary Spirit Little Cedar Tree on the North Shore of Lake Superior whose ancient\, twisted form embodies the endurance and majesty of nature. In this talk Julie L’Enfant\, author of the new book Hazel Belvo: A Matriarch of Art\, will introduce Belvo’s eventful life and the many friendships and associations in the art world that fostered the evolution of her unique expressionist vision. \nJulie L’Enfant\, former professor of art history at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul\, is the author of seven books\, including The Gag Family: German-Bohemian Arts in America (2002)\, Pioneer Modernists: Minnesota’s First Generation of Women Artists (2011)\, both winners of Minnesota Book Awards\, and Nicholas R. Brewer: His Art and Family (2018). \nTo purchase the book\, see our partner\, Subtext Books: Hazel Belvo: A Matriarch of Art by Julie L’Enfant
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-hazel-belvo/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Lost St. Paul Mansions
DESCRIPTION:Lost St. Paul Mansions\nwith Larry Millett\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, November 11\, 2021\n7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n\nScores of mansions that once stood on the bluffs around downtown St. Paul and in other parts of the city have been demolished over the years. Larry Millett will offer a slide presentation showcasing some of the grandest and most fascinating of these long lost homes. \nLarry Millett\, a native of Minneapolis\, is a graduate of St. John’s University\, Collegeville\, Minnesota (BA\, English\, 1969) and the University of Chicago (MA\, English\, 1970). He spent much of his career as a writer\, reporter and editor for the St. Paul Pioneer Press\, joining the newspaper in 1972. In 1984\, he won a Knight Fellowship to the University of Michigan to study architectural history and theory. When he returned to St. Paul in 1985\, Millett became the newspaper’s first architecture critic. He held that post until his retirement from the Pioneer Press in June of 2002. While at the Pioneer Press\, Millett and fellow reporter Don Boxmeyer also served for several years as clue writers for the annual Winter Carnival medallion hunt. \nMillett has written articles for many publications\, including Architecture\, Inland Architect\, Architecture Minnesota and Minnesota History magazines. \nHe has also written fourteen works of non-fiction and nine mystery novels. His non-fiction books are: \n\nMetropolitan Dreams: The Scandalous Rise and Stunning Fall of a Minneapolis Masterpiece\, University of Minnesota Press\, 2018. The story of the legendary Metropolitan Building\, razed in 1962 as part of the Gateway Center urban renewal project.\nHeart of St. Paul: A History of the Pioneer and Endicott Buildings\, Minnesota Museum of American Art\, 2016. An illustrated history of two historic office buildings in downtown St. Paul.\nMinnesota Modern: Architecture and Life at Midcentury\, University of Minnesota Press\, 2015. An illustrated study of the Midcentury Modern style of architecture that shaped Minnesota after World War II. Minnesota Book Award winner.\nMinnesota’s Own: Preserving Our Grand Homes\, Minnesota Historical Society Press\, 2014. A profusely illustrated book featuring the stories of 22 great Minnesota houses built between 1865 and 1950.\nOnce There Were Castles: Lost Mansions and Estates of the Twin Cities\, University of Minnesota Press\, 2011. The book includes descriptions and photographs of  more than 90 lost mansions in the Twin Cities area. It is in its fourth printing.\nAIA Guide to Downtown St. Paul\, Minnesota Historical Society Press\, 2010. An illustrated guide to important buildings and places in Minnesota’s capital city.\nAIA Guide to Downtown Minneapolis\, Minnesota Historical Society Press\, 2010. An up-to-date guide to the architecture of downtown Minneapolis and nearby areas.\nAIA Guide to St. Paul’s Summit Avenue and Hill District\, Minnesota Historical Society Press\, 2009. A first-ever guide to St. Paul’s largest historic district.\nAIA Guide to the Minneapolis Lake District\, Minnesota Historical Society Press\, 2009. A guide to Minneapolis’s signature residential precinct.\nAIA Guide to the Twin Cities: The Essential Source on the Architecture of Minneapolis and St. Paul\, Minnesota Historical Society Press\, 2007. This is the first complete guidebook to Minneapolis and St. Paul architecture. It contains over 1\,500 entries.\nMurder Has a Public Face: Crime and Punishment in the Speed Graphic Era\, Minnesota Historical Society Press\, 2008. A look at four prominent murder cases in the Upper Midwest in the decade after World War II\, when tabloid-style press coverage in the Twin Cities reached its zenith. Includes numerous photographs. \nStrange Days\, Dangerous Nights: Photographs from the Speed Graphic Era\, Minnesota Historical Society Press\, 2004. A collection of over 200 black-and-white pictures taken in the 1940s and 1950s by photographers for St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch. Includes detailed captions that tell the story behind each image. It is in its third printing.\nTwin Cities Then and Now\, Minnesota Historical Society Press\, 1996. A book of comparative photographs showing how the Twin Cities have changed over time.\nLost Twin Cities\, Minnesota Historical Society Press\, 1992. This book\, now in its eighth printing\, won an International Book Award from the American Institute of Architects. It also served as the basis for three popular videos made by Twin Cities Public Television.\n The Curve of the Arch: The Story of Louis  Sullivan’s Owatonna Bank\, Minnesota Historical Society Press\, 1985. A critically acclaimed study of one of Sullivan’s most famous buildings and the three men behind it.\n\n Millett has also written an essay on the history of architecture in Minnesota for MNopedia\, an on-line encyclopedia published by the Minnesota Historical Society. The essay can be found at mnopedia.org/three-thousand-years-building-minnesota. \nMillett’s mystery novels\, which feature Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson as well as St. Paul saloonkeeper and part-time detective Shadwell Rafferty\, are: \n\nRafferty’s Last Case\, University of Minnesota Press\, Spring 2022.\nSherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma\, University of Minnesota Press\, 2017.\nStrongwood: A Crime Dossier\, University of Minnesota Press\, 2014.\nThe Magic Bullet\, University of Minnesota Press\, 2011.\nThe Mystery of the Jeweled Cross (chapbook)\, Minnesota Center for the Book Arts\, 2002.\nThe Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes\, Viking Penguin\, 2002.\nSherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance\, Viking Penguin\, 2001.\nSherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery\, Viking Penguin\, 1999.\nSherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders\, Viking Penguin\, 1998.\nSherlock Holmes and the Red Demon\, Viking Penguin\, 1996.\n\nOther published works of fiction include “The Adventure of the American Drifter\,” a short story in Strand Magazine\, Oct-Jan. 2016; “The Opera Thief\,” a short story in the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories\, MX Publishers (London\, 2015; and “The Brewer’s Son\,” a short story in Twin Cities Noir\, an anthology published by Akashic Books (New York\, 2006).
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CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event,Special Events
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: St Paul
DESCRIPTION:St. Paul: An Urban Biography\nBill Lindeke\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nOctober 21\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nNote new date! \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library and the East Side Freedom Library\n \n\nAuthor Bill Lindeke will share stories and research from his new book\, St. Paul: An Urban Biography\, a concise history of St. Paul\, featuring stories that are familiar\, surprising\, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota’s capital city. \nHow did the city of St. Paul come to be where and what it is\, and what does that show us about the city today? Bill Lindeke provides intriguing insights and helpful answers. He tells the stories of the Dakota village forced to move across the Mississippi by a treaty—and why whiskey sellers took over the site; the new community’s close ties to Fort Snelling and Winnipeg; the steamboats and railroads that created a booming city; the German immigrants who outnumbered the Irish but kept a low profile when the United States went to war; the laborers who built the domes over the state capitol and the Cathedral of St. Paul; the gangsters and bootleggers who found refuge in the city; the strong neighborhoods\, shaped by streets built on footpaths and wagon roads—until freeway construction changed so much; and the Hmong\, Mexican\, East African\, and Karen immigrants who continue to build the city’s strong traditions of small businesses. \nThis thoughtful investigation of place helps readers to understand the city’s hidden stories\, surrounding its residents in plain sight. \nBill Lindeke is an urban geographer and writer who focuses on how our environments shape our lives. He wrote MinnPost’s “Cityscapes” column from 2014 to 2017\, has written articles on local food and drink history for City Pages and the Growler\, and has taught urban geography at the University of Minnesota and Metro State University. He writes a local urban blog at Twin City Sidewalks and is a member of the Saint Paul Planning Commission. He is the author of Minneapolis–Saint Paul: Then and Now and the coauthor of Closing Time: Saloons\, Taverns\, Dives\, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-st-paul/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210928T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Archaeology at Fort Snelling
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society presents \nConducting Archaeological Construction Monitoring at Upper Post Fort Snelling \nJeremy Nienow\, PhD\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nSeptember 28\, 2021\nTuesday\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the Friends of Fort Snelling \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nThe program is free and open to all.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n\n\nJoin archaeologist Jeremy Nienow\, Ph.D.\, RPA of Nienow Cultural Consultants\, as he discusses his company’s ongoing archaeological work at Fort Snelling’s Upper Post. Nienow Cultural Consultants (NCC) has been completing archaeological survey\, evaluation\, and now construction monitoring for the Upper Post Flats project for the past several years.  Dr. Nienow will briefly discuss the process leading up to the current monitoring activities\, how his team does their work on a regular basis\, and the types of archaeological materials they have encountered while working out at the Fort this year. \nPresented by Jeremy Nienow\, Ph.D.\, RPA. Jeremy is a Registered Professional Archaeologist focused on historical archaeology in the Upper Midwest. He has 30 years of archaeological experience and is the owner of Nienow Cultural Consultants LLC.\n \n \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-archaeology-at-fort-snelling/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210819T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: A Private Wilderness
DESCRIPTION:A Private Wilderness: The Journals of Sigurd F. Olson\nwith David Backes\n\n\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nAugust 19\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nDavid Backes will share the personal diaries of one of America’s best-loved naturalists\, revealing his difficult and inspiring path to finding his voice and becoming a writer. Written mostly during the years from 1930 to 1941\, Sigurd F. Olson’s journals describe the dreams and frustrations of an aspiring writer honing his skills\, pursuing recognition\, and facing doubt. Author of Olson’s definitive biography\, editor David Backes brings a deep knowledge of the writer to these journals\, providing critical context\, commentary\, and insights along the way.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFew writers are as renowned for their eloquence about the natural world\, its power and fragility\, as Sigurd F. Olson (1899–1982). Before he could give expression to The Singing Wilderness\, however\, he had to find his own voice. It is this struggle\, the painstaking and often simply painful process of becoming the writer and conservationist now familiar to us\, that Olson documented in the journal entries that Backes gathered. \nWritten mostly during the years from 1930 to 1941\, Olson’s journals describe the dreams and frustrations of an aspiring writer honing his skills\, pursuing recognition\, and facing doubt while following the academic career that allowed him to live and work even as it consumed so much of his time. But even as he speaks with immediacy and intensity about the conditions of his apprenticeship\, Olson can be seen developing the singular way of observing and depicting the natural world that would bring him fame—and also\, more significantly\, alert others to the urgent need to understand and protect that world. \nWhen Olson wrote\, in the spring of 1941\, “What I am afraid of now is that the world will blow up just as I am getting it organized to suit me\,” he could hardly have known how right he would prove to be. It is propitious that at our present moment\, when the world seems once more balanced on the precipice\, we have the words of Sigurd F. Olson to remind us of what matters—and of the hard work and the wonder that such a reckoning requires. \nSigurd F. Olson introduced generations of Americans to the importance of wilderness. He served as president of the Wilderness Society and the National Parks Association and as a consultant to the federal government on wilderness preservation. He earned many honors\, including the highest possible awards from the Sierra Club\, the National Wildlife Federation\, and the Izaak Walton League. The first of his many influential books was The Singing Wilderness (1956; reprint available from Minnesota). \n \nDavid Backes is author of A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson and editor of Olson’s The Meaning of Wilderness: Essential Articles and Speeches\, both from Minnesota. In 2015 he retired as professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin\, Milwaukee. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-a-private-wilderness/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210812T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Turning Points
DESCRIPTION:Turning Points\nwith Greg Poferl\n\n\n\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nAugust 12\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nOr you may watch the program live on Facebook\, on the East Side Freedom Library page. \nThe East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to our monthly “History Revealed” program featuring Greg Poferl and his memoir\, Turning Points: Never Give Up On Anyone\, Especially Yourself. \nWe are especially excited about this opportunity to provide our communities with a unique vantage point into our shared history\, while also providing an example about the value of self-reflection. Greg Poferl has been a committed and generous individual\, dedicated to fostering social justice from the workrooms of the U.S. Postal Service and the classrooms of Cretin-Derham Hall High School to protests at the School of the Americas and support for the struggles of workers and farmers in Central America. Greg has been integral to the development of the East Side Freedom Library\, from cleaning our bathrooms and thwarting squirrels and raccoons on our roof to mentoring middle and high school students in National History Day projects. \nGreg has written a memoir which provides insight into the history of St. Paul from the 1950s to the present while also providing us with a model of living a life rich with commitment\, from his family\, union\, and community\, to the world. . For a copy of Turning Points\, at $15 each\, please contact the East Side Freedom Library at 651-207-4926 or email: info@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org. \nTurning Points reflects on kids at play and growing up in St. Paul in the 1950s and 1960s\, and it moves on to stories about military service\, labor struggles and strikes\, directing youth in social justice theater projects\, peace and justice actions\, a sentence in federal prison\, teaching social studies\, and experiencing the overwhelming love of family. Please join Greg as he shares this book and his journey with us. \nFree and open to all.
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CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210720T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Labor Movement in 1934 & Today
DESCRIPTION:What the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters’ Strikes Can Suggest About Meeting the Challenges Faced by Today’s Labor Movement\nTuesday\, July 20\, 2021\n7:00 pm – 9:00 pm\nInitial Speakers:\nPeter Rachleff\, Professor and founder of the East Side Freedom Library\nKieran Knutson\, President of CWA 7250\nDavid Van Deusen\, President Vermont AFL-CIO \n\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \n\nThe 1934 July Minneapolis Teamsters’ strikes were part of a mass movement of workers in the United States that brought the greatest unionization in the history of the United States. We invite you to watch John DeGraaf’s compelling film\, “Labor’s Turning Point\,” and then engage with a panel which will discuss the strike’s relevance to the challenges facing working people and the labor movement today. \nThe panelists will include ESFL’s Peter Rachleff\, David Van Deusen\, President of the Vermont AFL-CIO\, and Kieran Knutson\, President of CWA Local 7250 (AT&T workers\, Minnesota). \nHelp us explore what we can learn from the Minneapolis Teamsters’ strikes in 1934 and their impact throughout the local and regional labor movements. \nRegister to join this event on Zoom. \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-labor-in-1934-today/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Welcoming the Dear Neighbor
DESCRIPTION:Welcoming the Dear Neighbor?: Housing Inequality and Race in Ramsey County\nDr. Rachel Neiwert and Dr. Kristine West\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nJuly 8\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \n\nAn interdisciplinary group of St. Catherine University faculty\, staff\, and students have partnered with the Mapping Prejudice project to learn more about the history of housing inequality and race in Ramsey County during the twentieth century. \nDr. Rachel Neiwert\, associate professor of history\, and Dr. Kristine West\, associate professor of economics will share what they have been learning about this history in our community.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-welcoming-the-dear-neighbor/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210624T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Reviving An 1850s Saloon
DESCRIPTION:Reviving an 1850s Lager Beer Saloon–Do’s and Don’ts\nTom Schroeder\n\n\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nJune 24\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nSome say business and historic preservation don’t mix. ‘Not so\,’ says Tom Schroeder\, developer and owner of Waldmann Brewery in St. Paul–‘You just have to give it a good shake.’ In this ‘kiss and tell’ description of his discovery\, restoration and ultimate reopening in 2017 of a Territorial Period lager beer saloon near downtown St. Paul–Tom provides a candid retelling of the story of Waldmann: what went well and what didn’t\, how politics and good intentions collide\, the surprising role of our preservation bureaucracy and ultimately how no good deed goes unpunished. \nTom Schroeder\, Waldmann’s owner\, will present numerous images\, historic context and notable vignettes from the story of Waldmann itself.\nFor more on Waldmann Brewery\, see https://waldmannbrewery.com/ \nPast History Revealed Programs\nVideos of some of our past History Revealed programs are available on the RCHS & Gibbs Farm Youtube channel.\nRamsey County Historical Society Youtube Channel \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-reviving-an-1850s-saloon/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event,Waldmann's Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210622T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Tulsa Race Massacre
DESCRIPTION:The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre\nKarlos K. Hill\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nTuesday\, June 22\, 2021\, 7:00 pm\nNew registration link: Rescheduled Registration Link\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \n\n\n\nJoin us for this very special History Revealed program with Karlos K. Hill\, author of the new book\, The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History\, on the centennial of the event in Tulsa\, OK.  \nOn the evening of May 31\, 1921\, and in the early morning hours of June 1\, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the African American Greenwood District of Tulsa\, Oklahoma. In the course of some twelve hours of mob violence\, white Tulsans reduced one of the nation’s most prosperous black communities to rubble and killed an estimated 300 people\, mostly African Americans. This richly illustrated volume\, featuring more than 175 photographs\, along with oral testimonies\, shines a new spotlight on the race massacre from the vantage point of its victims and survivors. \nHistorian and Black Studies professor Karlos K. Hill presents a range of photographs taken before\, during\, and after the massacre\, mostly by white photographers. Some of the images are published here for the first time. Comparing these photographs to those taken elsewhere in the United States of lynchings\, the author makes a powerful case for terming the 1921 outbreak not a riot but a massacre. White civilians\, in many cases assisted or condoned by local and state law enforcement\, perpetuated a systematic and coordinated attack on Black Tulsans and their property. \nDespite all the violence and devastation\, black Tulsans rebuilt the Greenwood District brick by brick. By the mid-twentieth century\, Greenwood had reached a new zenith\, with nearly 250 Black-owned and Black-operated businesses. Today the citizens of Greenwood\, with support from the broader community\, continue to work diligently to revive the neighborhood once known as “Black Wall Street.” As a result\, Hill asserts\, the most important legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the grit and resilience of the Black survivors of racist violence. \nThe 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History offers a perspective largely missing from other accounts. At once captivating and disturbing\, it will embolden readers to confront the uncomfortable legacy of racial violence in U.S. history. \n \nKarlos K. Hill is Associate Professor and Chair of the Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory.\nImage of Professor Hill from https://www.ou.edu/cas/afam/faculty-staff\n \n \nAn additional book for families and children grades 3-6\, Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford\, illustrated by Floyd Cooper\, is available from Lerner Publications at https://lernerbooks.com/shop/show/20776 \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-tulsa-race-massacre/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event,Presentation,Publishing,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210617T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210617T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Irvine Park
DESCRIPTION:Neighborhood Architecture: Irvine Park\nJeanne Kosfeld and Richard Kronick\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nJune 17\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link \nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library\n \n\nTwin Cities-based illustrator Jeanne Kosfeld and author Richard Kronick have together transformed a simple sketchbook featuring pen and ink drawings into a brief storytelling of the Irvine Park neighborhood’s unique 172-year history. The author and illustrator will share the history and the architecture of Irvine Park’s fanciful Queen Anne-style homes\, simple clapboard houses\, and elaborate French Second Empire-style mansions\, and the story of the area and its inhabitants. \nWhat began as a casual sketch outing in Saint Paul’s charming Irvine Park neighborhood during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic became Neighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book. Twin Cities-based illustrator Jeanne Kosfeld and author Richard Kronick have together transformed a simple sketchbook featuring pen and ink drawings into a brief storytelling of the Irvine Park neighborhood’s unique 172-year history. Artists of all ages and abilities can colorize their own imagined versions of these historic edifices. \nNeighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book will be available from RCHS in April.\nNeighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book will be available in softcover with 18 house sketches\, brief histories of the homes’ owners and architecture; and an architectural style guide and glossary at the end of the 48-page book. $18.99 regular price\, $15.00 for RCHS members. Shipping will be additional. \nTo order books\, use the order form here. \nAbout the Illustrator: Artist Jeanne Kosfeld paints primarily with water-based media\, but her large body of work also includes print and board game design and public sculpture. She started her career as a newspaper illustrator and cartoonist. Along her creative path\, she led the design department at the University of Alaska\, where she was also an adjunct faculty member. In Minnesota\, she worked as the creative director at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts for eighteen years. \nKosfeld has won several awards\, and her work resides in many public and private collections. She has been honored with artist-in-residences around the globe. \nAbout the Author: Richard Kronick has been a full-time freelance writer since 1985\, specializing in architecture and engineering. He is the co-author with Rick Harrison and Greg Yoko of a 2010 book on suburban planning titled Prefurbia: Reinventing the Suburbs from Disdainable to Sustainable. Kronick has written over one hundred articles and reviews on the built environment and has planned and led more than sixty architecture tours in the Twin Cities\, the Midwest\, and Italy. He is a member of the board of directors of the nonprofit Preserve Minneapolis (PM) and is editor-in-chief of PM’s MinneapolisHistorical.org\, a guide to the city’s architecture. He often lectures and teaches continuing education courses on the history of architecture and is an expert on the Prairie School architects Purcell & Elmslie.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-irvine-park/
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation,Publishing
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association
DESCRIPTION:The Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association of Minnesota\nAnna Peterson\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nJune 10\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\n \n\n\nDuring the fight for women’s suffrage\, Minnesota was home to one of the only ethnic suffrage organizations in the country. The Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association (SWSA) operated from 1907 to 1919 and used cultural connections to garner support for women’s suffrage at the state and national levels.  Its leaders played on ethnic afficilitation and identity to lobby Scandinavian-American legislators and members of the general public to vote for women’s enfranchisement.  The SWSA had members from all walks of life\, serving to counter anti-suffragist claims that suffragists were only elite\, society women who did not represent the typical American woman. This talk will detail the history of the SWSA and the ways in which its membership’s varied ethnic and class backgrounds “spiced up” the women’s suffrage movement.\n\nAnna M. Peterson is associate professor of history at Luther College in Decorah\, IA. She also serves as editor for the Norwegian-American Historical Association. Her many publications include two articles on the Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association published in Minnesota History and The Journal of American Ethnic History.\n\n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-scandinavian-woman-suffrage-association/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Research & Restoration
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nResearch + Restoration: Using History to Inspire Your Home’s Rehabilitation\nElyse Jensen\, Mollie Spillman and Rich Arpi\nHistory Revealed Series\nJune 8\, 2021\nTuesday\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with Rethos: Places Reimagined\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nJoin Irvine Park homeowner and restorer Elyse Jensen\, RCHS Curator Mollie Spillman and RCHS Research Associate Rich Arpi in a panel discussion. They will share insights on how you can research the history of your home or property\, to help you make choices that are functional\, but also respect your home’s history. \nRestorer Elyse Jensenwill talk about the research they did on their home in Irvine Park to guide their rehab & design projects. Using archival data\, old newspapers\, stories from former owners\, etc.\, they were able to make choices that preserved and renovated their home and also kept the historic nature of the house and the neighborhood. Their experience can help inspire & teach other homeowners about using research to explore their homes’ histories & futures. \nRCHS Curator Mollie Spillman and Research Associate Rich Arpi will provide insights on what the RCHS Collection has to offer homeowners looking to research their property\, including building permits\, plat maps\, survey photos and more. They will share the process of how to go about researching your home\, and where to go for assistance. \nZoom registration is required:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tdOGtqDMvHN0ixtsvyNy8CmQ4f7PUkMbU \nFor past History revealed programs\, see History Revealed Online. \nFeatured image: The Ohage House in the Irvine Park neighborhood of St. Paul\, undergoing restoration\, date unknown (built in 1889). From the RCHS Collection.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-research-restoration/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event,Special Events
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