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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Workers on Arrival
DESCRIPTION:Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America\nDr. Joe Trotter\nWith Dr. William Jones\nHistory Revealed Series\nFebruary 10\, 2021\nWednesday\, 6:00-7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nDr. Joe W. Trotter\, Jr. Giant Eagle Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University\, will discuss his book with moderator Dr. William Jones\, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota \nThis event is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota History Department\, the Labor and Working Class History Association\, the Ramsey County Historical Society\, and the East Side Freedom Library\, and it serves as a fundraiser for the East Side Freedom Library. It is part of two on-going series: the University of Minnesota History Department’s History Book Club and the “History Revealed” series co-sponsored by the Ramsey County Historical Society and the East Side Freedom Library. \nSince earning his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1980\, Dr. Trotter had had an enormous impact on the fields of African American and labor history. His books include Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat  (1985); Coal Class and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia\, 1915-1932 (1990); The Great Migration in Historical Perspective (1991); and several collections of essays and documents\, which have been central to the teaching of these fields. Workers On Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America  (2019) weaves Dr. Trotter’s research and writings into a single narrative which makes a compelling case for understanding the place of African Americans in U.S. history as producers\, as labor. \nFor this evening’s program\, Dr. Trotter will be engaged in conversation with another prominent historian of African American workers\, William P. Jones. A professor of history at the University of Minnesota and president of the Labor and Working Class History Association\, Dr. Jones is author of two award-winning books\, The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (2005) and The March on Washington: Jobs\, Freedom\, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (2013). He has been a guest on the PBS Newshour\, NPR’s “The Takeaway\,” and Democracy Now! and he has written for the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Nation\, and other publications. He is currently writing a book on public employees and the transformation of the U.S. economy after World War II. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Somewhere in the Unknown World
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nSomewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir\nKao Kalia Yang\nHistory Revealed Series\nJanuary 7\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nYoutube video recording: https://youtu.be/FzHJsrG6stY\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\n \nAs the country’s doors were closing and nativism was on the rise\, Kao Kalia Yang—herself a refugee from Laos—set out to tell the stories of the refugees to whom University Avenue is now home. Here are people who have summoned the energy and determination to make a new life even as they carry an extraordinary burden of hardship\, loss\, and emotional damage.  In Yang’s exquisite\, poetic\, and necessary telling\, the voices of refugees from all over the world restore humanity to America’s strangers and redeem its long history of welcome. \n \nKao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer. She holds degrees from Carleton College and Columbia University. Yang is the author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir winner of the 2009 Minnesota Book Awards in Creative Nonfiction/Memoir and Readers’ Choice\, a finalist for the PEN USA Award in Creative Nonfiction\, and the Asian Literary Award in Nonfiction. Her second book\, The Song Poet won the 2016 Minnesota Book Award in Creative Nonfiction Memoir\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Chautauqua Prize\, a PEN USA Award in Nonfiction\, and the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize. The story has been commissioned as a youth opera by the Minnesota Opera and will premiere in the spring of 2021. She is now writing a series of children’s books. \nFor this event\, before we open the virtual floor for questions and comments from audience members\, Yang will be joined in conversation by four readers of her book: \nSaymoukda Duanphouxay Vongsay is an award-winning Lao American poet\, playwright\, cultural producer\, and social practice artist. She is the author of the children’s book WHEN EVERYTHING WAS EVERYTHING (Full Circle Publishing) and is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Theater Mu. Visit her at www.SaymoukdaTheRefugenius.com and follow her @refugenius. \nThet-Htar Thet (she/her/hers) is a writer\, educator and activist originally from Yangon Myanmar. Now based in her home country\, Thet-Htar is focused on education reform and identity-driven writing as a consultant for UNESCO and a freelance creative nonfiction writer. \nSangay Taythi is a Tibetan refugee born in India who with his family immigrated to the United States in 1998.  He has been a community and labor organizer\, including the Students for a Free Tibet chapter at the University of Minnesota\, the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of Minnesota\, the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota\, the Tibetan National Congress and Tibetans for Black Lives and SEIU Healthcare Minnesota. \nNajaha Musse Najaha Musse is a 4th year medical student pursuing a doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine. Her family fled rural Ethiopia for a refugee camp in Nairobi Kenya\, and then settled in Minnesota where she began formal education in the 3rd grade. As the oldest in a family of 8 children\, she became the first in her family to graduate from high school and receive a college degree. While attending medical school\, Najaha has focused on social justice issues pertaining to educational access for disadvantaged students and social medicine.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/somewhere-in-the-unknown-world/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Turnout
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nTurnout: Making Minnesota the State That Votes\nJoan Growe and Lori Sturdevant\nHistory Revealed Series\nDecember 3\, 2020\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister here on Zoom\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nPlease note that registration emails will be shared to Ramsey County Historical Society and the East Side Freedom Library. If you do not wish to share your email\, contact events@rchs.com. \n\n\nIn Turnout\, the architect and chief promoter of Minnesota’s high voter turnout tells her story\, showing how hard work and cooperation made the state a leader in clean\, open elections. \nHigh voter turnout in Minnesota is no accident. It arose from the traditions of this state’s early Yankee and northern European immigrants\, and it has been sustained by wisely chosen election policies. Many of these policies were designed and implemented during the twenty-four-year tenure of Minnesota secretary of state Joan Anderson Growe. \nIn inspiring and often funny prose\, Growe recounts the events that framed her life and changed the state’s voting practices. She grew up in a household that never missed an election. After an astounding grassroots feminist campaign\, she was elected to the state legislature in 1972; two years later\, she was elected secretary of state\, the state’s chief elections administrator. As one of the nation’s leading advocates for reliable elections and convenient voting\, Growe worked with county officials to secure Election Day registration (used for the first time in 1974) as a Minnesota norm. She brought new technology into elections administration and promoted motor voter registration. And as an ardent feminist\, she has encouraged and inspired scores of other women to run for office. \nJoan Growe and co-author Lori Sturdevant will discuss the book and Ms. Growe’s time in office with a talk that is part political history and part memoir\, and a reminder to Minnesotans to cherish and protect their tradition of clean\, open elections. \n“No matter what issue you care about\, the right to vote is central. And the fight to protect that fundamental right is the single greatest fight of our time. That’s why we need a twenty-first-century civil rights movement devoted to claiming\, enforcing\, and defending the right to vote. Joan Anderson Growe has given us an excellent guide for that work.”\nfrom the Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton \n\n\nAbout the Authors: \n\n\n\nJoan Anderson Growe served as Minnesota’s secretary of state from 1975 to 1999. Widely known as an expert on voting and elections\, she has served as an official election observer in various foreign elections.\n\n\n \nLori Sturdevant\, a retired Star Tribune editorial writer\, is the author of several books of Minnesota history\, including Her Honor: Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Women’s Movement.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-turnout/
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Democracy in MN During WWI
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nDemocracy on Hold: Minnesota during the Great War\nGreg Gaut\nHistory Revealed Series\nNovember 11\, 2020\nWednesday\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister here on Zoom\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nPlease note that registration emails will be shared to Ramsey County Historical Society and the East Side Freedom Library. If you do not wish to share your email\, contact events@rchs.com. \nWhen thousands of Minnesotans went to Europe to “make the world safe for democracy” in WW I\, the legislature created the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety to govern the state for the duration of the war.  Led by John McGee\, a conservative lawyer\, it crushed any form of dissent\, labor organizing\, or German cultural expression. McGee organized the Home Guard as the commission’s main enforcement arm.  Composed of volunteers primarily from the business community\, Home Guard units helped defeat a Twin Cities transit workers strike\, conducted mass arrests of young men to check draft status (“slacker raids”)\, and physically harassed the campaign of Charles Lindbergh\, Sr\, the Nonpartisan League’s candidate for governor in 1918. Minnesota’s home front experience reminds us how easily “America first” patriotism can evolve into a dangerous\, intolerant nationalism\, how fragile civil liberties and the rule of law are in periods of great polarization\, and how tempting it can be for politicians to stir up hostility toward immigrants. \nGreg Gaut is emeritus faculty at Saint Mary’s University in Winona\, where he taught European and Russian history.  Since 2012\, he has worked as a historic preservation consultant\, preparing National Register of Historic Places nominations for buildings across the state from Worthington to Ely.  With his wife Marsha Neff\, he has contributed several articles to Minnesota History\, two of which won the Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians award for the best article on Minnesota’s built environment. A lover of libraries\, he has published Laird’s Legacy: A History of the Winona Public Library and Reinventing the People’s Library\, a history of the Arlington Hills Public Library\, now the East Side Freedom Library.  He is working on a book about the Minnesota home front during World War I. \nFeatured image: Black and white photograph of World War I soldiers from the Rainbow Division marching in a parade in downtown Saint Paul\, through an arch erected to commemorate those killed during the war. Photographer E.J. Stiefel. From the RCHS Collection.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/democracy-mn-wwi/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201001T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Suffrage at 100
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nSuffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920\nStacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow\nHistory Revealed Series\nOctober 1\, 2020\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpfu-orT0vGt00wZt19hHO5Nd1u3cLld8K \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEditors & authors Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow will discuss their book\, Suffrage at 100\, which looks at women’s engagement in US electoral politics and government over the one hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. \nIn the 2018 midterm elections\, 102 women were elected to the House and 14 to the Senate—a record for both bodies. And yet nearly a century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment\, the notion of congressional gender parity by 2020—a stated goal of the National Women’s Political Caucus at the time of its founding in 1971—remains a distant ideal. In Suffrage at 100\, Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow brought together twenty-two scholars to take stock of women’s engagement in electoral politics over the past one hundred years. \nThis is the first wide-ranging collection to historically examine women’s full political engagement in and beyond electoral office since they gained a constitutional right to vote. The book explores why women’s access to\, and influence on\, political power remains frustratingly uneven\, particularly for women of color and queer women. Examining how women have acted collectively and individually\, both within and outside of electoral and governmental channels\, the book moves from the front lines of community organizing to the highest glass ceiling. \nEssays touch on: \n• labor and civil rights\n• education\n• environmentalism\n• enfranchisement and voter suppression\n• conservatism vs. liberalism\n• indigeneity and transnationalism\n• LGBTQ and personal politics\n• Pan-Asian\, Chicana\, and black feminisms\n• commemoration and public history\n• and much more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStacie Taranto is an associate professor of history at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She is the author of Kitchen Table Politics: Conservative Women and Family Values in New York.\nLeandra Zarnow is an assistant professor of history and affiliated faculty in the Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston. She is the author of Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-suffrage-at-100/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Closing Time 2020
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nBill Lindeke & Andy Sturdevant\, Closing Time: Saloons\, Taverns\, Dives\, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nSeptember 17\, 2020\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwocOipqDoiGdGdnOHk121NVwVcEePd5L-p\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nAn entertaining journey into the highs\, lows\, bright spots\, and dark corners of the Twin Cities’ most famous and infamous drinking establishments—history viewed from the barstool. \nIn 1838\, a rum trader named “Pig’s Eye” Parrant built a small shack in a Mississippi bluff that became the first business in the city of St. Paul: a saloon. Since then\, bars\, taverns\, saloons\, and speakeasies have been part of the cultural\, social\, and physical landscape of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Serving as neighborhood landmarks\, sites of political engagement\, welcoming centers for immigrants\, hotbeds of criminal activity\, targets of ire from church and state alike\, and\, of course\, a place to get a drink\, the story of the taverns and saloons of the Twin Cities is the story of the cities themselves. \nIn Closing Time\, Bill Lindeke and Andy Sturdevant dive into tales from famous and infamous drinking establishments from throughout Twin Cities history. Readers are led on a multigenerational pub crawl through speakeasies\, tied houses\, rathskellers\, cocktail lounges\, gin mills\, fern bars\, social clubs\, singles bars\, gastropubs\, and dives. Featuring beloved bars like Matt’s\, Palmer’s\, the Payne Reliever\, and Moby Dick’s\, the book also resurrects memories of long-forgotten establishments cherished in their day. Lindeke and Sturdevant highlight neighborhood dives\, downtown nightspots\, and out-of-the-way hideaways\, many of which continue to thrive today. Closing Time brings together stories of these spaces and the people who frequented them. \nBooks will be available for purchase at Subtext Books. \nBill Lindeke\, Ph.D.\, 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. \nAndy Sturdevant is an artist and writer living in Minneapolis. He has written about art\, history\, and culture for a variety of publications\, including City Pages\, Belt\, and Mpls.St.Paul. He currently writes a regular column for Architecture MN\, and for five years\, Andy wrote “The Stroll\,” a weekly column on Twin Cities neighborhoods\, art\, history\, and architecture in for MinnPost. He is the author of Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow and Downtown: Minneapolis in the ’70s. \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-closing-time-2020/
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Black Women's Struggle for the Right to Vote
DESCRIPTION:Black Women’s Struggle for the Right to Vote\nA Conversation with Dr. Martha S. Jones\nWednesday\, August 12\, 2020\, 7:00 PM\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\nOnline event – Facebook & Youtube:\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1586684121516628/ \nTo pre-order the book (out in September) from our partner\, Subtext Books\, see https://subtextbooks.com/books/pre-order-vanguard-by-martha-jones \nAmidst all the turmoil of 2020\, it has been easy to forget that this year marks the centennial of the Women’s Suffrage amendment. It has unfortunately also been easy to take the given narrative for all there is to know. In her new book\, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers\, Won the Vote\, and Insisted on Equality for All\, Martha Jones challenges the standard story that the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. She details how African American women defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot\, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all people. \nVanguard rests on careful scholarship\, but is written with a wide readership in mind. It is being hailed by scholars and public intellectuals across the country. Jones “is as bold and necessary to our understanding of ourselves as the women in this important work\,”writes Tressie McMillan Cottom. “Martha S. Jones reminds her readers that Black women stand as America’s original feminists\,” adds Erica Armstrong Dunbar. Henry Louis Gates\,Jr.\, points out that “at a moment when our very democracy is under assault\, Vanguard reminds us to look for hope in those most denied it. \nProfessor Jones is a Professor of History\, Johns Hopkins University and a public historian\, frequently writing for broader audiences at the Washington Post\, the Atlantic\, USAToday\, Public Books\, the Chronicle of Higher Education\, and Time\, the curatorship of museum exhibitions including“Reframing the Color Line” and “Proclaiming Emancipation” in conjunction with the William L. Clements Library\, and museum\,film and video productions with the Smithsonian’s NationalPortrait Gallery\, the Charles Wright Museum of African American History\, PBS\, The American Experience\, the Southern Poverty Law Center\, Netflix\, and Arte (France.)
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-black-womens-vote/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Exploring the Historical Roots of Racism in Minnesota
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: Exploring the Historical Roots of Racism in Minnesota\nA conversation with Bill Green\, Christopher Lehman\, and Marty Case\nModerated by Peter Rachleff\n \nThursday\, July 9\, 2020\, 7:00 pm\nFacebook Event \nPremiere on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/EastSideFreedomLibrary/videos/904936243330741/)\, YouTube (https://youtu.be/OK64iOMWcQg). \nIn the past year\, local historians have published three eye-opening books\, each of which\, grounded in careful research\, explore the roles played by racism in the development of Minnesota. Marty Case’s The Relentless Business of Treaties explores how the U.S.\, territorial\, and state governments\, and their leaders\, stole land from the indigenous people who had lived here for centuries. Chris Lehman’s Slavery’s Reach reveals the power and influence exerted by wealthy southern slaveholders in the early years of the “North Star State\,” and the cooperation extended to them by the state’s founders. Bill Green’s Children of Lincoln tracks the journeys away from abolition and racial equality trod by the new state’s leaders in the immediate post-Civil War years. \nThese three historians undertook their research and wrote their books independently of each other. Each of them has spoken about his book at ESFL. Now\, we are able to bring them together for a conversation about the connections and implications of their conclusions. Given the heightened concern over racism being expressed in our communities\, this is a timely conversation for them—and for us—to have. Please join us. \nClick “Going” and share on Facebook!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-exploring-the-historical-roots-of-racism-in-minnesota/
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: She Voted
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nKate Roberts & Michelle Witte\, She Voted: Her Fight\, Our Right\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, March 5\, 2020\n7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nShe Voted: Her Fight\, Our Right is an exhibit opening September 26\, 2020\, at the Minnesota History Center\, St. Paul \nOn August 26\, 1920\, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution–upholding women’s right to vote–was signed into law. A new exhibit\, developed in partnership with the League of Women Voters Minnesota\, explores how Minnesota women shifted the political landscape before and after this landmark moment. \nJoin MNHS exhibit developer Kate Roberts and League of Women Voters-MN executive director Michelle Witte in conversation about how this exhibit is coming together. How do you tell this important story in a format that appeals to visitors ranging from politically active voters to fourth-graders on a school field trip? How do you make sure that all visitors understand who was at the table and who wasn’t before\, during\, and after the fight for this amendment? And how do you make good on the exhibit’s goal of preparing each visitor to take action to shape our future? \n2020 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2020 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-she-voted/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Transpacific Antiracism
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nYuichiro Onishi\, Transpacific Antiracism\, Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America\, Japan\, and Okinawa\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 6\, 2020\n7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nTranspacific Antiracism introduces the dynamic process out of which social movements in Black America\, Japan\, and Okinawa formed Afro-Asian solidarities against the practice of white supremacy in the twentieth century. Yuichiro Onishi argues that in the context of forging Afro-Asian solidarities\, race emerged as a political category of struggle with a distinct moral quality and vitality. \nThis book explores the work of Black intellectual-activists of the first half of the twentieth century\, including Hubert Harrison and W. E. B. Du Bois\, that took a pro-Japan stance to articulate the connection between local and global dimensions of antiracism. Turning to two places rarely seen as a part of the Black experience\, Japan and Okinawa\, the book also presents the accounts of a group of Japanese scholars shaping the Black studies movement in post-surrender Japan and multiracial coalition-building in U.S.-occupied Okinawa during the height of the Vietnam War which brought together local activists\, peace activists\, and antiracist and antiwar GIs. Together these cases of Afro-Asian solidarity make known political discourses and projects that reworked the concept of race to become a wellspring of aspiration for a new society. \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase and signing during the presentation. \nYuichiro Onishi is Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-transpacific-antiracism/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Moving Up\, Moving Out
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nDr. Will Cooley\, Moving Up\, Moving Out: The Rise of the Black Middle Class in Chicago\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 9\, 2020\n7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nIn Moving Up\, Moving Out\, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the twentieth century\, while accentuating the resilience of upwardly-mobile African Americans. Cooley examines how class differences created fissures in the black community and produced quandaries for black Chicagoans interested in racial welfare. While black Chicagoans engaged in collective struggles\, they also used individualistic means to secure the American Dream. Black Chicagoans demonstrated their talent and ambitions\, but they entered through the narrow gate\, and whites denied them equal opportunities in the educational institutions\, workplaces\, and neighborhoods that produced the middle class. African Americans resisted these restrictions at nearly every turn by moving up into better careers and moving out into higher-quality neighborhoods\, but their continued marginalization helped create a deeply dysfunctional city. African Americans settled in Chicago for decades\, inspired by the gains their forerunners were making in the city. Though faith in Chicago as a land of promise wavered\, the progress of the black middle class kept the city from completely falling apart. In this important study\, Cooley shows how Chicago\, in all of its glory and faults\, was held together by black dreams of advancement. Moving Up\, Moving Out will appeal to urban historians and sociologists\, scholars of African American studies\, and general readers interested in Chicago and urban history. \nWill Cooley is professor of history at Walsh University in North Canton\, Ohio. \n2020 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2020 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-moving-up-moving-out/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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SUMMARY:Courthouse Art Project Update & Input Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join RCHS\, artists\, and community members for an update and input meeting at the East Side Freedom Library to discuss the art project for the Ramsey County Courthouse/Saint Paul City Hall Council Chambers. \nWe are in the midst of a period in which historical monuments\, markers\, and murals have become focal points of community discussions across the country. These conversations have come to the fore in Saint Paul\, and the City and County governments requested that RCHS lead an effort to add new artwork to the Council Chambers of the Saint Paul City Hall – Ramsey County Courthouse. The goals for this project include commissioning new\, original artwork that interprets the same overarching themes in the 83-year-old murals currently on display in the Council Chambers—celebrating the people and progress of Saint Paul and Ramsey County. \nFour new pieces of art are being commissioned\, with two new pieces displayed concurrently with original murals in the Council Chambers for a period of several months. The city and county will determine a rotation schedule that will ensure that each of the original murals and new pieces is exhibited over the course of a year. Interpretive panels will be added that provide additional context about the existing murals as well as each of the new pieces. Through an open application process\, twenty artists submitted proposals\, and a citizens’ task force organized by RCHS selected four artists for these projects. We invite you to meet them\, learn about their work\, and express your own perspectives about what you would like to see on the walls. Please come and share your ideas. \nOver the next five months RCHS and the Task Force will develop interpretive panels and create online materials that provide more information on the existing and new art. Additional materials will be provided that articulate the wide variety of perspectives on the existing artwork and generally how discriminatory\, controversial\, or otherwise problematic public art from the past is addressed today. As this discussion continues to unfold here and around the country\, there is value in recognizing and presenting these varied perspectives. \nFor bios of the selected artists\, and more information on the project\, see https://www.rchs.com/news/courthouse_chamber_artists/ \nFree and open to all. \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/courthouse-art-project-update-meeting/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Slavery's Reach
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nChristopher Lehman\, Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nDecember 10\, 2019\nTuesday\, 7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nWhen American slavery was legal\, Minnesota’s residents sold real estate to investors who enslaved African Americans in the South. This presentation looks at Minnesota’s communities and institutions that benefited from plantation money\, the enslavers who bought the land\, and the slaves whose labor made the money for investment possible. \nDr. Christopher P. Lehman is a professor of ethnic studies at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. He has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Center for African and African American Research. His articles have appeared in  Minnesota History magazine\, and he is the author of the book Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State. \n2019 History Revealed Programs\nFor 2019 History Revealed programs\, see https://www.rchs.com/news/history-revealed-2019/\nNew programs are being added.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-slaverys-reach/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191107T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Relentless Business of Treaties
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nMartin Case\, The Relentless Business of Treaties\nThursday\, November 7\, 2019\n7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No registration needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nThe story of “western expansion” is a familiar one: US government agents\, through duplicity and force\, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this framing\, argues Martin Case\, hides a deeper story. Land cession treaties were essentially the act of supplanting indigenous kinship relationships to the land with a property relationship. And property is the organizing principle upon which US society is based. \nUS signers represented the relentless interests that drove treaty making: corporate and individual profit\, political ambition\, and assimilationist assumptions of cultural superiority. The lives of these men illustrate the assumptions inherent in the property system—and the dynamics by which it spread across the continent. In this book\, for the first time\, Case provides a comprehensive study of the treaty signers\, exposing their business ties and multigenerational interrelationships through birth and marriage. Taking Minnesota as a case study\, he describes the groups that shaped US treaty making to further their own interests: interpreters\, traders\, land speculators\, bureaucrats\, officeholders\, missionaries\, and mining\, timber\, and transportation companies. \n \nMartin Case\, freelance researcher and writer\, was a key participant in the development of Why Treaties Matter\, a collaboration of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council\, the Minnesota Humanities Center\, and the Smithsonian Institute\, published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. \n2019 History Revealed Programs\nFor 2019 History Revealed programs\, see https://www.rchs.com/news/history-revealed-2019/\nNew programs are being added.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-relentless-business-of-treaties/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191003T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191003T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Under Ground
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nMegan Marsnik: Under Ground\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nOctober 3\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nLike many stories of revolution and uprising\, Under Ground has passionately-spirited\, colorful protagonists and deeply-hated antagonists. It chronicles shootouts at labor rallies\, guns transported to and from secret bunkers\, fights in brothels\, police corruption\, xenophobia\, and false imprisonment. It features a cast of historical figures including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn\, Mother Jones\, Big Bill Haywood\, and socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs. It is about courage and consequences. But unlike most novels written about the labor movement in the U.S.\, this novel is told from the perspective of a strong\, immigrant woman\, who reminds us that there are things worth dying for\, but more importantly\, there are things to live for. \nCentering on a young woman named Katka\, a Slovenian immigrant who gets involved in the Iron Range miners’ strike of 1916\, Under Ground is the first novel that we are highlighting as part of our History Revealed series. Inspired by real people and historical events\, expertly researched\, with a strong sense of place and character\, the novel not only covers the strike of 1916\, but also labor history\, women on the Iron Range and immigration in the early 1900s. \nMegan Marsnik is the granddaughter of Slovenian immigrants\, the daughter of union activists\, and a union member herself. She was born and raised in Biwabik\, a small town on Minnesota’s Iron Range settled primarily by Eastern European and Scandinavian immigrants. Marsnik earned her MFA in writing and poetics from Naropa University in Boulder\, CO\, where she won the Jack Kerouac Award for outstanding prose. She teaches creative writing and philosophy to high school students in Minneapolis. “Under Ground\,” her debut novel\, is steeped in Minnesota history and is this year’s Star Tribune summer serial. \n2019 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2019 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-under-ground/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Children of Lincoln 1860-1876
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nWilliam D. Green: The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota\, 1860-1876\nHistory Revealed Series\nSeptember 5\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nFramed around four white champions of African Americans in Minnesota\, The Children of Lincoln reveals a little known but critical chapter in the state’s history as it intersects with the broader account of race in America. It reveals a pattern of racial paternalism\, describing how even “enlightened” white Northerners would come to embrace policies that reinforced a notion of black inferiority.\n\nWilliam D. Green is professor of history at Augsburg University and author of The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota\, 1860-1876\, which is a finalist for the Minnesota Non-Fiction category of the 2019 Minnesota Book Awards\, to be awarded in April. He is also the author of Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota\, 1865–1912 (winner of the Hognander Minnesota History Award) and A Peculiar Imbalance: The Rise and Fall of Racial Equality in Minnesota\, 1837–1869\, both published by University of Minnesota press. He is vice president of the Minnesota Historical Society.\n2019 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2019 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-children-of-lincoln-1860-1876/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Queer Voices
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nQueer Voices Panel Discussion\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nAugust 1\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nJoin us at the East Side Freedom Library for a panel discussion and readings from the new publication\, Queer Voices. \nSince its beginnings in 1993\, the Queer Voices reading series has featured both emerging and established Minnesota-based writers of the LGBTQIA+ community. With a track record of more than twenty years\, the series has become a national model and one of Minnesota’s most important literary institutions. It is reputed to be the longest-running curated queer reading series in the country. \nIn this volume\, series curators John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins and facilitator Lisa Marie Brimmer present the finest poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction pieces by the presenters. Their work\, generated and performed in a powerful space of understanding\, explores the material of life without internal or external censorship. Living\, loving\, working\, learning\, playing\, reflecting\, knowing\, inventing\, and being—these magnificent queer voices affirm the importance of civil literacy and the power of vulnerability. \nThe following contributors will be part of the panel\, other editors and contributors will be joining us:\nStephanie Chrismon\nChristina Glendenning\nBronson Lemer\nNasreen Mohamed\nMichael Kiesow Moore\nWilliam Reichard\nMorgan Grayce Willow \nBooks will be available for purchase. \n2019 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2019 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-queer-voices/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Peoples Library
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nGreg Gaut\, Reinventing the Peoples Library\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nJuly 18\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nAuthor Greg Gaut will present his new book\, Reinventing the People’s Library\, which traces the history of the Arlington Hills Library\, one of three Carnegie Libraries in Saint Paul\, and its reinvention as the East Side Freedom Library. More than the history of a building\, the book is the story of the East Side community\, the history of immigration in Saint Paul\, and the role that libraries have played in the development of Minnesota. \nGreg Gaut earned his doctorate from the University of Minnesota and taught history at St. Mary’s University in Winona until his retirement in 2011. Since then he has focused on historic preservation\, preparing nominations for the National Register of Historic Places and for landmark status under local preservation ordinances. He has written articles for Minnesota History magazine and has twice won the David Gebhard Award for best article on Minnesota’s built environment. He has also written Laird’s Legacy: A History of the Winona Public Library. \n2019 History Revealed Programs\n\nSee the History Revealed 2019 information page for updates and a list of programs.\nOr check our Calendar for these and other programs at the Gibbs Farm\, and more!
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-peoples-library/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Cultures Coming Together
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nKrista Finstad Hanson: Cultures Coming Together in St. Paul: 100 Years of Immigration and Resettlement\nHistory Revealed Series\nJune 6\, 2019\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nLearn about 100 years of immigration history to St. Paul\, Minnesota. In 2019\, the International Institute of Minnesota is celebrating 100 years of service to the existing ethnic groups and new groups of refugees\, immigrants\, and asylees in our community. By uncovering the history of this non-profit agency\, historian Krista Finstad Hanson will shine a light on the history of immigration to St. Paul\, the worldwide crises and US government policy behind the waves of new immigrants or refugees\, and the impact immigration has had on our community. \n \nKrista Finstad Hanson is the author of two travel guides to museums in historic houses: Minnesota Open House and Wisconsin’s Historic Houses and Living History Museums. She has also written a children’s science textbook\, The Great Barrier Reef: A Natural Wonder. Her writings focus on architectural history\, travel\, and homes\, and since 1992 she has written for such a number of local and national publications. \nFeatured image courtesy of International Institute of Minnesota\, 1920 Christmas party at the International Institute.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-cultures-coming-together/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Diesel Heart
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nMelvin Carter Jr.: Diesel Heart\nwith Marvin R. Anderson\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nMay 7\, 2019\nTuesday\, 7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nFull of humor\, toughness\, hard work\, and surprising vulnerability\, this book shows the bitter weight of racism and the power of principled resistance.\n\nThe doctors gathered around\, passing the stethoscope from hand to hand\, taking turns listening to my chest. Finally\, the lead doctor said\, “Now\, that’s what I call a heartbeat!”\nI snapped\, “Whaddaya mean?”\n“It’s like hearing a diesel engine inside a Mustang body\,” he said. \nMelvin Whitfield Carter Jr.\, the father of St. Paul’s current mayor\, is a true son of Rondo\, the city’s storied African American neighborhood. He was born in a city divided along racial lines and rich in cultural misunderstanding. Growing up in the 1950s and ’60s\, he witnessed the destruction of his neighborhood by the I-94 freeway—and he found his way to fighting and trouble. \nBut Carter turned his life around. As a young man\, he enlisted in the US Navy. He used his fighting ability to survive racist treatment\, winning boxing matches and respect. And as an affirmative action hire in the St. Paul Police Department\, facing prejudice at every turn\, this hardworking\, talented\, and highly principled officer fought to protect the people of the city he calls home. \nDiesel Heart is the story of a leader who created a powerful family legacy by standing up for what is right\, even in the face of adversity. Marvin R. Anderson will be joining Melvin Carter in an informal\, engaging and enlightening conversation\, sharing Mr. Carter’s story and the history of a neighborhood and a city during a turbulent time. \nCopies of Diesel Heart will be available for purchase and signing. \nMelvin Whitfield Carter Jr. served as an officer in the St. Paul Police Department for twenty-eight years. He is the founder and executive director of Save Our Sons. \nMarvin Roger Anderson was raised in Saint Paul’s Rondo neighborhood before leaving to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta\, Georgia\, and then received his J.D. from Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. After serving int he Peace Corp\, he was an ordinance drafter for the city of Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights before earning his Master of Arts from the University of Minnesota’s School of Library Science. He was appointed State Law Librarian in 1980. Anderson’s tenure as State Law Librarian spanned 22 years and included many accomplishments including the “Everybody Wins” reading program\, which paired volunteer legal practitioners with elementary school students to encourage a life-long love of reading.
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LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Presentation
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190312T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Modern Bonds
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nElizabeth Duclos-Orsello\, Modern Bonds: Redefining Community in Early 20th C Saint Paul\nTuesday\, March 12\, 2019\n7:00 pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\nIf you missed the presentation\, you can watch it at the following links:\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/EastSideFreedomLibrary/videos/601328617047594/\nYouTube (somewhat better quality): https://youtu.be/MSZaVKkHuEw \nFree and open to all. No reservations needed. \nJoin RCHS for History Revealed\, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians\, authors and archaeologists\, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County. \nWhat does “community” mean and how did it come to signify everything from close friends to the entire world? Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello returns to St. Paul to talk about her new book\,  Modern Bonds: Redefining Community in Early Twentieth Century St. Paul\,  which considers how community was reconceptualized in the first decades of the twentieth century. Using St. Paul as an example\, she mines a wide range of materials to show how everyday practices and materials — fiction\, photography\, architecture\, public parks\, the winter carnivals — unite and divide citizens across lines of gender\, class\, and race\, while remaking the definition of “community.” Duclos-Orsello makes sense of the complex set of activities\, policies and practices that not only gave birth to modern America but continue to shape life today.  In this interactive lecture/discussion she will share key ideas and examples from the book with the goal of opening up conversations and motivating action in the here and now as much as offering a new synthesis of cultural\, social and intellectual history of the early 20th century. \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. \nElizabeth Ann Duclos-Orsello is professor and chair of interdisciplinary studies and coordinator of American studies at Salem State University.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-modern-bonds/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs
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