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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Claiming the City
DESCRIPTION:Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism\nShelton Stromquist\nHistory Revealed\nThursday\, July 18\, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library. \n\nRegister Here \nHow workers fought for municipal socialism in the nineteenth century to make cities around the globe livable and democratic – and what the lessons are for today. \nFor more than a century\, “municipal socialism” has fired the imaginations of workers fighting to make cities livable and democratic. Prominent US labor historian\, Shelton Stromquist\, offers the first global account of the origins of this new trans-local socialist politics. He will present how and why cities after 1890 became crucibles for municipal socialism. Drawing on the colorful stories of local activists and their social-democratic movements in cities as diverse as Broken Hill\, Christchurch\, Malmö\, Bradford\, Stuttgart\, Vienna\, and Hamilton\, OH\, Prof. Stromquist shows how this new urban politics arose. \nLong governed by propertied elites\, cities in the nineteenth century were transformed by mass migration and industrialization that tore apart their physical and social fabric. Amidst massive strikes and faced with epidemic disease\, fouled streets\, unsafe water\, decrepit housing\, and with little economic security and few public amenities\, urban workers invented a local politics that promised to democratize cities they might themselves govern and reclaim the wealth they created. This new politics challenged the class power of urban elites as well as the centralizing tendencies of national social-democratic movements. Municipal socialist ideas have continued to inspire activists in their fight for the right of cities to govern themselves. \n\nShelton Stromquist is a historian specializing in labor and social history and a lifelong labor and civil rights activist. He is author or editor of seven books\, including Frontiers of Labor\, Reinventing “The People”\, and Labor’s Cold War. He is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Iowa. \nFrom the review by Jonathan Kissam\, November 16\, 2023: \n“In his new book Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism\, labor historian Shelton Stromquist describes these achievements as the culmination of decades of agitation around a program that was “essentially identical” to programs pursued by workers around the world. In the decades before the war\, the equivalent beacon for working-class parties around the world was Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, where the Social Democratic Party had won control of the city in 1910. With control of the mayor’s office\, the city council\, and the county council\, the Social Democrats “largely succeeded” in implementing important parts of their program: bringing the street cars and other city services under public ownership\, building public markets\, parks and swimming pools\, establishing free medical dispensaries and hospitals\, and providing free textbooks to schoolchildren. \nAs that list demonstrates\, the “municipal socialism” of the book’s title encompasses many things we take for granted today — though they are often under attack. Among the achievements of the labor government of Broken Hill\, Australia in 1900 were the paving of streets\, improvement of parks\, street lighting and a public library. In addition to expanding the public sector to meet the needs of working people\, municipal socialists agitated for government oversight to ensure safe and sanitary food and housing\, transparency in city government\, and expanded voting rights.” \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-claiming-the-city/
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SUMMARY:Partner Event: History Education\, Race\, and the Forging of Our National Identity
DESCRIPTION:Partner Event\nHistory Education\, Race\, and the Forging of Our National Identity\nwith Donald Yacovone\n\nSaturday\, March 9\, 2024 \n11:00 AM – 12:30 PM\nMinnesota History Center\n\n\n\nFor information see the MNHS page here \nSifting through an astounding array of textbooks from the colonial era through the 20th century\, Donald Yacovone reveals how Northern publishers perpetuated the pernicious myth of white supremacy through the teaching of American history. Yacovone’s newest book—Teaching White Supremacy—marshals a wealth of evidence to show how racial bias insidiously endured in our education system\, how it burrowed into the heart of our collective national identity\, and why the topic of race in education is still hotly contested today. Join us for an important reminder about the power of history to shape a nation\, for better or for worse. Public reception and book signings with Dr. Yacovone to follow. \nDonald Yacovone is a lifetime associate at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research and has written and edited nine books\, including Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity. He won an NAACP Image Award (with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.) for The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross and received the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal in 2013\, Harvard’s highest honor in African American studies.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/partner-event-history-education-race-national-identity/
LOCATION:Minnesota History Center\, 345 W. Kellogg Blvd\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Indian Wars Everywhere
DESCRIPTION:Indian Wars Everywhere\nStefan Aune\, PhD\, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies\, Williams College\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 18\, 2024\, 7:00 pm\n\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom- Register Here\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nFree and open to all. \n\nReferences to the Indian Wars\, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion\, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by paratroopers jumping from airplanes\, words and images referring to Indians have been indelibly linked with warfare. In “Indian Wars Everywhere\,” Stefan Aune shows how these resonances signal a deeper history\, one in which the Indian Wars function as a shadow doctrine that influences US military violence. The United States’ formative acts of colonial violence persist in the actions\, imaginations\, and stories that have facilitated the spread of American empire\, from the “savage wars” of the nineteenth century to the counterinsurgencies of the Global War on Terror. Ranging across centuries and continents\, “Indian Wars Everywhere” considers what it means for the conquest of Native peoples to be deemed a success that can be used as a blueprint for modern warfare.\nStefan Aune graduated from Macalester College in 2011 and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.  He is a historian of the global United States whose research examines the intersections of race\, colonialism\, and violence. He teaches courses in American Studies\, Native American and Indigenous Studies\, empire and US foreign policy\, critical theory\, environmental history\, and the history of violence. His writing has appeared in American Quarterly\, Pacific Historical Review\, and in the edited volume At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. He is currently finishing a book manuscript titled Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire\, which explores how the violence that accompanied US continental expansion has influenced global US militarism from the nineteneth century through the War on Terror. His research reflects on what it means for the conquest of Native peoples to be used as a blueprint for modern warfare. Prior to Williams\, Stefan spent three years as the Elihu Rose Scholar and a faculty fellow in the History Department at New York University.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Defying the Silence
DESCRIPTION:Defying the Silence: A Chronicle of Resilience that Saved the World-Renowned Minnesota Orchestra\nJulie Ayer\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, November 30\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn this extraordinary example of how to unionize in the arts\, Julie Ayer reveals how some of the world’s finest musicians went from sitting in the Minnesota Orchestra to standing in the picket line . . . and how their city rallied around them.  The lockout that began on October 1\, 2012\, became the longest and most infamous work stoppage in American orchestral labor history.  What came to pass was a struggle for the very identity of an orchestra that had been at the heart of the Minnesota arts scene since it was founded in 1903. But the musicians didn’t feel despair–they felt defiance. And Twin Cities music lovers were ready to defend the orchestra alongside them. \nWith thirty-six years as a violinist in the Minnesota Orchestra\, Julie Ayer is the perfect voice to chronicle this powerful book about Minnesota history. She pairs firsthand accounts from personal connections with meticulous research and an intimate understanding of the institution itself. \nIn the face of adversity\, the musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra did what they do best–they defied the silence and brought the music back. \n \nJulie Ayer is a professional violinist\, arts advocate\, historian\, and author. A passionate lifelong musician\, she spent her thirty-six-year professional career in the Minnesota Orchestra\, including their ground-breaking tour to Cuba in 2015. Julie also was a member of the Houston Symphony\, Santa Fe Opera Orchestra\, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. \nThroughout her career\, Ayer was involved in many orchestra committees\, including labor negotiations. Today\, Ayer is a member of Classica Chamber Players and plays regularly in the Twin Cities. She has presented workshops and spoken to a variety of groups\, including labor lawyers\, music students\, and colleagues. Julie has a master’s degree in music and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first book\, More Than Meets the Ear: How Symphony Musicians Made Labor History\, was reviewed in publications including the Boston Globe\, Star Tribune\, and International Musician.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Prairie Imperialists
DESCRIPTION:Prairie Imperialists: The Indian Country Origins of American Empire\nKatherine Bjork\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, October 19\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as an imperial power. It was when the United States first landed troops overseas and established governments of occupation in the Philippines\, Cuba\, and other formerly Spanish colonies. But such actions to extend U.S. sovereignty abroad\, argues Katharine Bjork\, had a precedent in earlier relations with Native nations at home. In Prairie Imperialists\, Bjork traces the arc of American expansion by showing how the Army’s conquests of what its soldiers called “Indian Country” generated a repertoire of actions and understandings that structured encounters with the racial others of America’s new island territories following the War of 1898. \nPrairie Imperialists follows the colonial careers of three Army officers from the domestic frontier to overseas posts in Cuba and the Philippines. The men profiled—Hugh Lenox Scott\, Robert Lee Bullard\, and John J. Pershing—internalized ways of behaving in Indian Country that shaped their approach to later colonial appointments abroad. Scott’s ethnographic knowledge and experience with Native Americans were valorized as an asset for colonial service; Bullard and Pershing\, who had commanded African American troops\, were regarded as particularly suited for roles in the pacification and administration of colonial peoples overseas. After returning to the mainland\, these three men played prominent roles in the “Punitive Expedition” President Woodrow Wilson sent across the southern border in 1916\, during which Mexico figured as the next iteration of “Indian Country.” \nWith rich biographical detail and ambitious historical scope\, Prairie Imperialists makes fundamental connections between American colonialism and the racial dimensions of domestic political and social life—during peacetime and while at war. Ultimately\, Bjork contends\, the concept of “Indian Country” has served as the guiding force of American imperial expansion and nation building for the past two and a half centuries and endures to this day. \nKatharine Bjork is Professor of History at Hamline University and author of In the Circle of Dance: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal. \nPlease check out our partner Subtext Books\, located in downtown St. Paul and online at: https://subtextbooks.com/ for this and other History Revealed titles.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Connecting to Collections- Preservation for Who? 
DESCRIPTION:Connecting to Collections: Preservation for Who?   \nChris Rico\, Nienow Cultural Consultants \nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, September 21\, 2023\n7:00 pm \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and Ramsey County Libraries-Roseville \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nJoin Public Historian\, Archaeologist\, and Conservator\, Christopher Rico (M.HSPH) for a focused discussion on the topic of representation and access in museum collections and how to care for and preserve your personal collections like a museum conservator. In this program\, Christopher will talk about some of the social and cultural issues connected to collecting institutes\, how these issues effect different communities\, and how it has led to the growth of grassroots community preservation initiatives and a growing need for the sharing of resources and knowledge in preservation techniques. \nMany museums and collecting institutions task themselves with adding to and maintaining their collections of 3-D objects\, books\, paper files\, and the digital and physical archives which accompany them. This task is often made a central pillar of a collecting institution’s mission as it is held that through this process\, knowledges may be preserved\, access to them expanded\, and through interpretation new understandings created. However\, being that this practice is historically rooted to empire and colonialism\, there is an undeniable effect on the way in which this mission has been conducted. Furthermore\, additional factors within institutions affect how collections are managed and what is deemed worthy of collection. Among other effects\, this results in the exclusion of certain communities within collections\, barriers to access\, and questions about the accuracy of knowledge provided by collections and their interpretation. In response to these issues\, the practices of community archiving and grassroots preservation have grown exponentially in recent decades\, creating a need for access to complex resources and knowledges often held by or provided exclusively to collecting institutions. \nChris Rico has a robust and diverse field of experience in heritage studies spanning over the last six years. He obtained his master’s degree at the University of Minnesota in Heritage Studies and Public History and has been working in various community development positions since. His breadth of experience includes extensive archival use\, processing\, and research experience\, community driven and engaged public history projects\, oral histories\, and preservation and special collections management.
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CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Whiteness in Plain View
DESCRIPTION:Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota\nChad Montrie & James Curry\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, August 10\, 2023\n7:00 pm \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn-person attendance: Due to the popularity of this program\, we have opened up in-person attendance at the East Side Freedom Library.\nSee below for the address and a map.\n \nThis event will feature two presentations\, one by James Curry and the other by Chad Montrie\, drawing on their respective interests and projects to address the construction and circulation of white supremacy narratives that poison historical memory and perpetuate racism in Minnesota.  Following the presentations\, James and Chad will have a brief conversation with one another\, and then open that up to questions and comments from the audience. \n\nChad Montrie is a professor in the History Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and has published five books\, including Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota and The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism.  This past year\, he was a Fulbright Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary\, based in the History Department and affiliated with the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. \n\nJames Curry is a producer\, director\, writer\, editor\, educator and author who has been active in film making for over 30 years. His short film westbound and documentary masterjam have won dozens of awards internationally in multiple categories. In 2021 he was awarded the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship for Film and in 2022 the Arthur C McWatt Fellowship where he was able to pursue social justice through the creation of an historical exhibit on Black Pioneers and the June release of a graphic novel based on his ancestor’s narrative called “Hate Stings. He is a descendant of the Curry family of Southside Minneapolis and the Chairperson of BR4R.org He teaches film and production at Augsburg University and continues to build community through partnerships with historical societies\, individuals and faith-based organizations. He’s presently involved in the development of a Black Heritage Trail in Hastings\, a People Power exhibit at the MN African American Heritage Museum and Gallery in September and a volume series on sung and unsung Black Minnesotan luminaries with MNHS slated for a 2026 semiquincentennial release. \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants. These programs focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home. \n 
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LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Italians on St. Paul's East Side
DESCRIPTION:Italians on Saint Paul’s East Side\nJohn Andreozzi\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, July 20\, 2023\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nItalians have had a significant presence in St. Paul.  Although there were only a few as the City began to grow in the 1850s\, within five decades their numbers had grown substantially. Many settled in Railroad Island and Swede Hollow on the East Side. They had been farmers in Italy\, but in St. Paul they worked on the railroads that surrounded their neighborhood\, as well as the city’s public works department\, while some were self- employed as peddlers or operators of confectionery and grocery stores. \n\nSt. Paul Italians founded institutions in Railroad Island that offered protection from bigotry and facilitated the assimilation process. The Dante Alighieri society formed in 1883\, was the first Italian group in the state. The Christ Child Center\, a Catholic settlement house which offered a variety of programs\, was located in a building erected by Italians. East Side Italians established Saint Ambrose church in 1915\, and they became known for their processions honoring patron saints. \nJohn Andreozzi was born in Lackawanna\, NY\, and has worked as a teacher\, clinical social worker\, community organizer\, and ethnic historian.  He has been studying Italian American history for more than fifty years\, and he holds Master’s Degrees in Sociology and Social Work. In 1985\, he moved to the Twin Cities to work at the Immigration History Research Center and Archives.\, and he became an organizer of Festa Italiana MN.  John has written two books and several scholarly articles on the experiences of Italians in the United States\, and he maintains a website at Italian-American-Experience.org. \nHis presentation is part of our series “Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants.” \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day. programs which focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Nature's Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:Nature’s Crossroads: The Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota:\nA Wide-Ranging Environmental and Historical Study of the Evolution of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul Area\nWith George Vrtis and Christopher W. Wells \nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, June 22\, 2023\n7:00 pm \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe industrial and commercial development of the Twin Cities transformed the landscape\, dispossessed the original Native inhabitants\, and had consequences which reached far beyond the geographic borders of the Metro Area.  Join Chris Wells and George Vrtis as they describe the environmental history of our region.  \nMinnesota’s Twin Cities have long been powerful engines of change. From their origins in the early nineteenth century\, the Twin Cities helped drive the dispossession of the region’s Native American peoples\, turned their riverfronts into bustling industrial and commercial centers\, spread streets and homes outward to the horizon\, and reached well beyond their urban confines\, setting in motion the environmental transformation of distant hinterlands. As these processes unfolded\, residents inscribed their culture into the landscape\, complete with all its tensions\, disagreements\, contradictions\, prejudices\, and social inequalities. These stories lie at the heart of Nature’s Crossroads. The book features an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars who aim to open new conversations about the environmental history of the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota. \nAbout the Editors \nGeorge Vrtis is an environmental historian and professor of history and environmental studies at Carleton College. He is the coeditor of Mining North America: An Environmental History since 1522. His research interests include mining and resource use\, urban environments\, and protected areas and wilderness. \nChristopher W. Wells is an environmental historian and professor of environmental studies at Macalester College. His is the author of Car Country: An Environmental History and Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader. His research focuses on the ways that technology—and especially technological systems—have reshaped the American environment\, mediating and structuring people’s relationships with the natural world. \nFor more\, see:\nhttps://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/northland-outdoors/new-book-explores-minnesotas-environmental-history\nhttps://minnesotareformer.com/2023/03/08/book-excerpt-twin-cities-grew-thanks-to-dakota-ojibwe-land-connections-to-national-markets/
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Hormel Strike of 1985-1986
DESCRIPTION:The Hormel Strike of 1985-1986: Historical Perspectives\nPeter Rachleff\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, May 18\, 2023\n7:00 pm \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn August 1985 the nation’s attention turned to Austin\, Minnesota\, where 1\,700 meatpacking workers prepared to launch a strike against the George A. Hormel Company in what was widely seen as the most significant labor-management conflict since the Professional Air Traffic Controllers’ strike of 1981\, and as a harbinger of the change in the direction of American labor relations since the election of Ronald Reagan. From coast-to-coast\, from factory floors to corporate boardrooms\, from the front pages to the drinking fountains\, it was seen as history in the making. In 1993\, the story would become the subject of Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award-winning documentary\, “American Dream.”\nHow did a small town in southern Minnesota come to occupy such a large place in our country’s labor history? What roles have meat-packing unions and the labor movement played in the Minnesota economic and political landscape? How have those roles impacted the influence of Minnesota’s labor movement on our nation’s economic and political landscape? And\, now\, thirty-seven years later\, what impact might this history have on the emergence of a new labor movement\, based in very different industries and led by workers who are very different from those meat-packing workers? \nJoin Peter Rachleff\, former Macalester College history professor\, Emeritus Co-Executive Director and co-founder of the East Side Freedom Library\, in an exploration of these and related questions. Professor Rachleff is the author of Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement (1993).
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-the-hormel-strike-of-1985-1986/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Call Him Jack
DESCRIPTION:Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson\, Black Freedom Fighter\nA Conversation with Authors Yohuru Williams and Michael Long\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 23\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nAccording to Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, Jackie Robinson was “a sit-inner before the sit-ins\, a freedom rider before the Freedom Rides.” According to Hank Aaron\, Robinson was a leader of the Black Power movement before there was a Black Power movement. According to his wife\, Rachel Robinson\, he was always Jack\, not Jackie―the diminutive form of his name bestowed on him in college by white sports writers. And throughout his whole life\, Jack Robinson was a fighter for justice\, an advocate for equality\, and an inspiration beyond just baseball. \nFrom prominent Robinson scholars Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long comes CALL HIM JACK\, an exciting biography that recovers the real person behind the legend\, reanimating this famed figure’s legacy for new generations\, widening our focus from the sportsman to the man as a whole\, and deepening our appreciation for his achievements on the playing field in the process. \nSpeakers \n \nDr. Yohuru Williams is Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul\, Minnesota. The former chief historian of the Jackie Robinson Foundation\, he appeared in Ken Burns’s “Jackie Robinson” and was one of the hosts of “Sound Smart\,” the History Channel’s popular YouTube program. His educational videos on civil rights\, social movements\, and other historic events have garnered over 1 million views. He is the author of numerous books\, including Teaching Beyond the Textbook\, and he has appeared on a variety of media outlets\, including ABC\, CNN\, MSNBC\, HISTORY\, BET\, CSPAN\, and NPR. \n \nMichael G. Long is the author or editor of books on civil rights\, religion\, and politics\, including Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography\, which was selected as a best book of the year by Publishers’ Weekly; Gay Is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny; Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life after Baseball; Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, Homosexuality\, and the Early Gay Rights Movement; and Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall. Long also served as an expert historian for Ken Burns’s documentary on Jackie Robinson. He lives in Pennsylvania with his family. \nPlease check out our partner Subtext Books\, located in downtown St. Paul and online at: https://subtextbooks.com/ for these and other History Revealed titles.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-call-him-jack/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Martin Luther King's Vision
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.’s Vision of Freedom in American Memory\nDr. Walter Greason\nHistory Revealed Series\nNew Date: Thursday\, January 19\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe study of Martin Luther King\, Jr.’s life and legacy offers important lessons about radical democracy in the 21st century. These principles have never been more urgently needed than in the aftermath of the 2022 election cycle. Our observation of the King Holiday and this presentation give us the opportunity to have a rich conversation between the past and the present and to get to know a new member of the Twin Cities historians’ community. \nFeatured image: Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous\, “I Have a Dream\,” speech during the Aug. 28\, 1963\, march on Washington\, D.C.\, August 28\, 1963. \n \nDr. Walter Greason is Professor and Chairperson of the History Department at Macalester College\, and he has just been named to the DeWitt Wallace Endowed Chair in History.  He is a dedicated teacher and a prolific scholar.  His books include The Path to Freedom: Black Families in New Jersey; Cities Imagined: The African Diaspora in Media and History (with Julian Chambliss); Suburban Erasure: How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey; Industrial Segregation (with David Goldberg); The American Economy (with William Gorman); Stories of Slavery in New Jersey (with Rick Geffken); and Finding your Blind Spots: Eight Guiding Principles for Overcoming Implicit Bias in Teaching. Dr. Greason is a lifelong civil rights activist and educator. His most recent projects explore the history of Black education\, hip hop\, and architecture in the United States.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-martin-luther-kings-vision/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:Immigration\, Identity & the Arts: The Song Poet
DESCRIPTION:NEA Big Read\nImmigration\, Identity and the Arts: The Song Poet\nwith Kao Kalia Yang\n\nSaturday\, November 12\, 1:00-2:00 pm\nHistory Revealed \nPart of the NEA Big Read series launched by American Composers Forum and East Side Freedom Library\, the “Immigration\, Identity\, and the Arts” series ss part of the NEA Big Read\, featuring Minnesota immigrant communities and NEA Big Read book “The Best We Could Do” by Thi Bui. \nPresented with the Ramsey County Historical Society\, Historic Saint Paul and the Minnesota Opera\, this event will feature Minnesota author and Hmong-American Kao Kalia Yang to discuss her book\, The Song Poet\, and her collaboration with Jocelyn Hagen about their opera presented by Minnesota Opera this Spring. \nRegister here \nA father’s love\, a family’s journey.\nThe first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage\, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere opera. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as an immigrant. With his poetry\, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family\, polishing their reality so that they might shine.  \nKao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer. She is the author of the memoirs The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir\, The Song Poet\, and Somewhere in the Unknown World. Yang is also the author of the children’s books A Map Into the World\, The Shared Room\, The Most Beautiful Thing\, and Yang Warriors. She co-edited the ground-breaking collection What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Native Women and Women of Color. Yang’s work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Chautauqua Prize\, the PEN USA literary awards\, the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize\, as Notable Books by the American Library Association\, Kirkus Best Books of the Year\, the Heartland Bookseller’s Award\, and garnered four Minnesota Book Awards. Kao Kalia Yang lives in Minnesota with her family\, and teaches and speaks across the nation. \n  \n\n \nAmerican Composers Forum believes that music is a medium that can help us connect as humans\, tell stories\, and share experiences. East Side Freedom Library has long hosted study groups\, partnerships\, and community events that lift up the stories of its neighborhood in the name of justice. Together\, we will host several cultural events and conversations examining the theme of “Immigration\, Identity\, and the Arts\,” to amplify the voices\, stories\, and music of immigrant artists and community members wrestling with this theme. Included in our events will be discussion of\, and inspiration from\, Thi Bui’s graphic memoir\, The Best We Could Do. Supported by the NEA’s Big Read project\, this book aligns greatly with our theme\, and resonates with so many members of our community. We are planning parallel in-person and virtual options to accommodate health and accessibility considerations. All events are free and open to the public. \nNEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/immigration-identity-the-arts-the-song-poet/
LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story\nDocumentary Film Screening & Discussion\nwith Filmmakers Randy Croce\, Tom O’Connell\, and Anna Kuharjec\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, November 10\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe East Side Freedom Library\, Ramsey County Historical Society\, and Roseville Public Library invite you to a special session of History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story. This event will include a screening and discussion of a new documentary film.\n\nThe Farmer-Labor movement founded the most successful third-party in U.S. political history. This progressive movement elected candidates and advanced political change in Minnesota from 1917 until its merger with the Democrats in 1944\, to form the DFL\, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. The documentary portrays this history through the voices of Farmer-Labor leaders and their descendants\, as well as contemporary historians and activists. Animated segments bring the personal stories of Farmer-Labor men and women to life\, while songs from the period convey the spirit of the movement. \nWhile the movement’s ideas and achievements still affect Minnesota’s political and social fabric\, its history is largely unknown. The documentary addresses that awareness gap and points out how Farmer-Labor goals and the challenges still resonate today. \nPlease join filmmakers Randy Croce\, Tom O’Connell\, and Anna Kuharjec for a conversation after the screening. \nRandy Croce has been a documentary photographer and video producer since 1976. His PBS broadcast shows include Clouded Land\, If Stone Could Speak and Who built Our Capitol? He worked at the U of M Labor Education Service\, where he produced shows with workers and their unions. \nTom O’Connell is a retired professor of Political Studies from Metropolitan State University and served as founding chairperson of ESFL’s Board of Directors. He has taught and written about social movements with a special focus on MInnesota’s Farmer-Labor and Progressive Populist History. \nAnna Kuharjec has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois and is teaching in the History program of the Dougherty Family College of the University of St. Thomas. \nFree and open to all. \n\nThis presentation is part of our 2022 series “Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants.” \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, programs which focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-the-farmer-labor-movement-a-minnesota-story/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Vikings in the Attic
DESCRIPTION:Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America\nwith Eric Dregni\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, October 20\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nGrowing up with Swedish and Norwegian grandparents with a dash of Danish thrown in for balance\, Eric Dregni thought Scandinavians were perfectly normal. Who doesn’t enjoy a good\, healthy salad (Jell-O packed with canned fruit\, colored marshmallows\, pretzels\, and even olives) or perhaps some cod soaked in drain cleaner as the highlights of Christmas? In Vikings in the Attic\, Dregni tracks down and explores the significant—and quite often bizarre—historic sites\, tales\, and traditions of Scandinavia’s peculiar colony in the Midwest. It’s a legacy of the unique—shots of turpentine for the common cold—but also one of poor immigrants living in sod houses while their children attend college\, the birth of the co-op movement\, and government agents spying on Scandinavian meetings hoping to nab a socialist or antiwar activist. \n \nEric Dregni is the author of 20 books including Vikings in the Attic\, Weird Minnesota\, Never Trust a Thin Cook\, Let’s Go Fishing!\, For the Love of Cod\, and Impossible Road Trip. He wrote about his 15-year experience running one of the Concordia Language Villages in You’re Sending Me Where? Dispatches from Summer Camp. As a Fulbright fellow to Norway\, he survived a dinner of rakfisk (fermented fish) thanks to 80-proof aquavit\, took the “meat bus” to Sweden for cheap salami with a busload of knitting pensioners\, and compiled the stories in In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream. \nHe is Professor of English\, Journalism\, & Italian at Concordia St. Paul and\, in the summer\, dean of the Italian Concordia Language Village\, Lago del Bosco. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three kids. \nMaking Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants\nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day. programs which focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-vikings-in-the-attic/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Shared Community: Chicano Studies
DESCRIPTION:A Shared Community: Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota\nwith Dionicio Valdes\, PhD\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, September 8\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom \nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nDr. Valdes will take us on an examination of the birth and 20th century history of the Chicano Studies Department at the University of Minnesota\, with particular attention to the role played by the political turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s throughout the nation and in the Twin Cities.  He will focus on the creative ongoing tensions between advocates of distinct visions\, both within the academic world and within the Twin Cities community\, that created the Department and have supported it for more than half a century. \n \nProfessor Dionicio Valdes directed the U of M’s Ph.D. program in Chicano/Latino Studies and taught in it for 23 years before moving to Michigan State University.  He has been a very active and respected scholar. His publications include El Pueblo Mexicano en Detroit y Michigan: A Social History(private printing\, 1981); Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes Region\, 1917-1970(University of Texas Press\, 1991); Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press\, 2000); Mexicans in Minnesota (MinnesotaHistorical Society Press\, 2006); and Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement Before the UFW: Puerto Rico\, Hawai’i\, and California (University of Chicago Press\, 2011). \nMaking Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants\nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day. programs which focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-shared-community-chicano-studies/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Black\, Brown & Red Power
DESCRIPTION:Black\, Brown and Red Power in the Twin Cities: Parallels\, Intersections and Self-Determination in a Liberal Haven\nDr. Jimmy Patino\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, August 18\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe Twin Cities evolved in a unique and dynamic historical conjuncture in the long 1960s as a site in which African American\, American Indian and Mexican American communities were concentrated in an otherwise overwhelmingly white state. The emergence of Black Power\, the American Indian Movement\, and the Chicano Movement parallel and overlapping in a shared urban site speaks to the socio-political context of racialized injustice within a labor friendly and liberal progressive state. This presentation explores the direct and indirect overlap of these constituent communities’ struggles against police violence\, inter-residential violence related to concentrated poverty\, and physical and cultural displacement. These dynamic movements built infrastructure to confront these shared forms of repression\, but through their particular racialized communities: The Way organization in the Black community\, Centro Cultural Chicano in the Mexican community\, and in several independent schools in the American Indian community. These institutions—also evident in the emergence of the Black Patrol\, the AIM Patrol and the Brown Berets in addressing police violence—emerged independently to address the overlapping racial capitalist context and highlighting its differential articulation. However\, there were points of convergence and direct interaction\, culminating in the struggle for ethnic studies at the University of Minnesota\, among others. \n \nJimmy Patiño is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota.  His book Raza Sí\, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego was published in 2017. He has also written on Mexican American desegregation\, African American and Latina/o/x critical thought in hip-hop culture\, and is currently writing on ideas about solidarity and anti-capitalist thought across Black\, Brown and Red Power Movements.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-black-brown-red-power/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220609T203000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220512T203000
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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: 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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220406T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220406T203000
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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: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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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: We Are Meant to Rise
DESCRIPTION:We Are Meant to Rise\nwith Carolyn Holbrook\, David Mura\, Suleiman Adan\, Marcie Rendon and Kevin Yang\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 13\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library.\nWe Are Meant to Rise is presented in partnership with More Than a Single Story and the University of Minnesota Press. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to join us for our first History Revealed for 2022 with a panel discussion of We Are Meant to Rise as we kick off our series\, “Making Minnesota” which will explore the often untold stories\, histories and experiences of the immigrant\, African American and Indigenous communities that make up our most diverse county. \nWe are Meant to Rise (published by the University of Minnesota Press) is a brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond\, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota. These writers bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in U.S. history\, with essays and poems that vividly reflect the traumas we endured in 2020. \nArising out of Carolyn Holbrook’s work with her organization\, More Than a Single Story\, We Are Meant to Rise merges the events of today\, the past year\, and the centuries before\, in works that are powerful testaments to the intrinsic and unique value of all who make up our community\, lifting up the often overlooked voices of BIPOC writers in Minnesota. \nWe are honored to have some of these writers join us in a panel discussion about their writing and experiences. Editors Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura will be joined by authors Suleiman Adan\, Marcie Rendon and Kevin Yang\, who will share their perspectives on the events of the past year\, from the Covid pandemic to the murder of George Floyd\, to the world-wide demands for racial justice\, and how those recent experiences tie into past histories. \nWe Are Meant to Rise contains works from authors with international reputations to those newly emerging; and features people from many cultures\, including Indigenous Dakota and Anishinaabe\, African American\, Hmong\, Somali\, Afghani\, Lebanese\, Korean\, Vietnamese\, Japanese\, Puerto Rican\, Colombian\, Mexican\, transracial adoptees\, mixed race\, and LGBTQ+ perspectives. \nAs editor David Mura says in the book’s introduction\, “Diversity is our strength. Each new voice who becomes part of America is our strength. The writers in this anthology provide us with individualized portraits of who we are\, and in doing so they can help us to know each other\, our neighbors\, our fellow citizens. These writers prove we are indeed more than a single story.” \nPanelist Bios \n \nCarolyn Holbrook is founder and director of More Than a Single Story\, as well as the founder of SASE: The Write Place. She is a writer\, educator\, and an advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her essay collection Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify (Minnesota\, 2020) received a Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is coauthor of Dr. Josie Johnson’s memoir Hope in the Struggle (Minnesota\, 2019)\, and her essays have been published widely\, in A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota\, as well as many other publications. She was the first person of color to win the Kay Sexton Award from the Minnesota Book Awards and the Friends of the St. Paul Public Libraries for contributions to Minnesota literature\, and was a “50 over 50” honoree in 2016. \n \nDavid Mura has written ten books\, including the memoirs Turning Japanese\, a New York Times Notable Book; Where the Body Meets Memory; and four poetry collections\, After We Lost Our Way\, a National Poetry Contest winner; The Colors of Desire\, which received the Carl Sandburg Award; Angels for the Burning; The Last Incantations; and A Stranger’s Journey: Race\, Identity\, and Narrative Craft in Writing. He teaches at VONA\, a writers’ conference for writers of color\, and has worked with Alexs Pate’s Innocent Classroom\, a program designed to improve relationships between teachers and students of color. \n \nSuleiman Adan is a writer\, educator\, and grassroots organizer in the Twin Cities. He works as a program manager with Reading and Math Inc. and is also a Quran/Arabic and Islamic studies teacher at the Northwest Islamic Community Center in Plymouth\, Minnesota. He is a project manager and board chair for the Global Alliance of Muslims for Equality\, an international NGO. \n \nMarcie Rendon\, White Earth citizen. Girl Gone Missing\, Soho Press\, second in the Cash Blackbear series was nominated for the Sue Grafton Memorial Award\, 2020. Murder on the Red River\, Soho Press\, received the Pinckley Women’s Debut Crime Novel Award 2018 and was a Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist 2018. Sinister Graves\, third in the Cash Blackbear series\, will be published by Soho in 2022. Rendon has children’s books\, plays\, short stories and poetry published. Her script\, Sweet Revenge had a staged reading at the Playwright Center in partnership with the Guthrie\, 2021. Rendon received the 2020 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award\, to honor a Minnesota artist who has made significant contributions to the state’s cultural life. She curated TwinCities Public Television’s Art Is… CreativeNativeResilience 2019. Diego Vazquez and Rendon received the 2017 Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for work with incarcerated women. \n \nKevin Yang is a multimedia storyteller born and raised in the Twin Cities who finds most of his inspiration unraveling his Hmong American experience with others. He creates in the mediums of spoken word poetry and documentary filmmaking. He represented Hamline University at the College Union Poetry Slam invitational and was a New Angle Documentary Fellow at Saint Paul Network. \nTo purchase We Are Meant to Rise and other History Revealed titles\, we hope you will visit our partner\, Subtext Books at 6 West Fifth Street in downtown Saint Paul\, or check out their website at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-we-are-meant-to-rise/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed
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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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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Turning Points
DESCRIPTION:Turning Points\nwith Greg Poferl\n\n\n\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nAugust 12\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nOr you may watch the program live on Facebook\, on the East Side Freedom Library page. \nThe East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to our monthly “History Revealed” program featuring Greg Poferl and his memoir\, Turning Points: Never Give Up On Anyone\, Especially Yourself. \nWe are especially excited about this opportunity to provide our communities with a unique vantage point into our shared history\, while also providing an example about the value of self-reflection. Greg Poferl has been a committed and generous individual\, dedicated to fostering social justice from the workrooms of the U.S. Postal Service and the classrooms of Cretin-Derham Hall High School to protests at the School of the Americas and support for the struggles of workers and farmers in Central America. Greg has been integral to the development of the East Side Freedom Library\, from cleaning our bathrooms and thwarting squirrels and raccoons on our roof to mentoring middle and high school students in National History Day projects. \nGreg has written a memoir which provides insight into the history of St. Paul from the 1950s to the present while also providing us with a model of living a life rich with commitment\, from his family\, union\, and community\, to the world. . For a copy of Turning Points\, at $15 each\, please contact the East Side Freedom Library at 651-207-4926 or email: info@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org. \nTurning Points reflects on kids at play and growing up in St. Paul in the 1950s and 1960s\, and it moves on to stories about military service\, labor struggles and strikes\, directing youth in social justice theater projects\, peace and justice actions\, a sentence in federal prison\, teaching social studies\, and experiencing the overwhelming love of family. Please join Greg as he shares this book and his journey with us. \nFree and open to all.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-turning-points/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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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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