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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Architects on the Past\, Present\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: Architects on the Past\, Present of Future\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society \nThursday\, October 24\, 2024\n6:30 PM-8:00 PM \nThe Landmark Center\n75 West 5th Street\nSuite 317\nSt. Paul\, MN 55102 \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n\nRegister Here\n\n\n  \nJoin architects Alan Howell and James Garrett Jr. as they share their work and talk about the past\, present\, and future of architecture in Ramsey County and beyond. \nJames Garrett Jr. is a visual artist\, writer and architect who expresses the urban condition through the lenses of art and design. His work employs diverse media to explore complex theoretical topics from a unique\, ethno-experiential perspective. James is a 2019 American Institute of Architects National Young Architect Award recipient and a 2020 AIA MN Gold Metal recipient who currently serves on the Metropolitan Council Livable Communities & Transit Oriented Development Advisory Committees. James holds an A.B. degree in architecture from the College of Environmental Design at the University of California (Berkeley\, CA) and a Master of Architecture degree from Parsons School of Design (New York\, NY). \nAlan Howell is a registered architect in the state of Minnesota\, and has twenty-seven years of design/aviation-design experience and a decade of other interesting design experience to draw from as he assists and expands the Metropolitan Airports Commission’s Vision Statement To provide exceptional airport experiences so Minnesota thrives. In his role as Senior Airport Architect\, he is responsible for the conceptualization and implementation of new facilities\, major remodeled facilities\, and facility redevelopment/repurposing at all of MAC’s airports\, all with an interest and focus on sustainable practices and multi-department/multi-discipline coordination.  Born in Chicago\, and residing there for six weeks\, Alan spent his early-years in a first-ring-minneapolis suburb\, moved to the bucolic countryside at age eight\, and\, later\, graduated from the University of Minnesota IT/School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (now College of Design).  Alan has been a resident of the historic Selby-Dale neighborhood for roughly thirty-years\, and currently spends some of his time away from the office rehabilitating his 1890 queen-anne Victorian home (with hopes to add an ADU in 2025). \n \n\n\n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-architects-on-the-past-present-and-future/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Landmark Center Series
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Deeper Blues
DESCRIPTION:Deeper Blues: The Life\, Songs\, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris\nwith Andrea Swensson\nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society and Jazz88\nThursday\, September 12\, 2024\n6:30-8:30 pm \nSpringboard for the Arts \n262 University Ave West\, St. Paul\, MN 55103 \nTickets:\n$25 – General Admission\n$50 – General Admission with copy of Deeper Blues\n\nPurchase Here\n\n\nAll ticket sales are final. \nThere will be a reading from Andrea Swensson and appearance from Cornbread Harris\, followed by a book signing. \nThe emotional\, epic story of James “Cornbread” Harris—a self-proclaimed “blessed dude” and one of Minneapolis’s most influential musicians \nFollowing the extraordinary life story of James “Cornbread” Harris\, Andrea Swensson will return to History Revealed with the life of Harris and his wide-ranging influence. Deeper Blues is a unique history of Minnesota music that evolves into a heartfelt tale of reconciliation and forgiveness\, all to the tune of the legendary musician’s signature sound. A rich mix of present-day anecdotes and historical vignettes\, and featuring never-before-seen photographs and an afterword by Jimmy Jam\, Deeper Blues tells a singular story—one imprinted on the history\, heart\, and soul of the Minneapolis Sound. \n\nThrough conversations with Cornbread\, Jimmy Jam\, and many others\, Swensson reveals a story of perseverance and unfailing grace\, a firsthand account of making music in the face of racism and segregation\, and a hard-won acceptance of the personal sacrifices that are often required when dedicating one’s life to making music. As the man himself says\, “All of my hardships ended up to be blessings.” \nFrom the heart of the Minnesota blues comes the story of James “Cornbread” Harris Jr.\, the songwriter\, pianist\, and consummate bluesman whose seventy years making music helped to shape the Minneapolis Sound. “I am a blessed dude\,” Cornbread tells Andrea Swensson\, taking us along on his musical journey from a first “gig” entertaining his fellow soldiers during World War II to his subsequent years playing music for audiences across Minnesota. Following Cornbread’s extraordinary life story\, Deeper Blues is a unique history of Minnesota music that evolves into a heartfelt tale of reconciliation and forgiveness\, all to the tune of the legendary musician’s signature sound. \nCornbread’s career started in the 1950s\, when he played with the Augie Garcia Quintet and cowrote their hit “Hi Ho Silver.” A tireless entertainer\, he has been performing live ever since\, influencing an entire generation of musicians credited with putting Minneapolis on the map in the 1980s—including his long-estranged son\, Grammy-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer James “Jimmy Jam” Harris III. Going beyond the music\, Deeper Blues turns toward family\, atonement\, and peace when Cornbread reunites with Jimmy Jam after a five-decade separation and they perform together on stage. \nA rich mix of present-day anecdotes and historical vignettes\, animated by voices from Cornbread’s life and the Twin Cities music scene\, underscored by the bluesman’s original lyrics of heartache and hope\, and featuring never-before-seen photographs of Cornbread and Jimmy Jam\, Deeper Blues tells a singular story—one imprinted on the history\, heart\, and soul of the Minneapolis Sound. \nAndrea Swensson is an author\, podcast host\, and music journalist in Minneapolis. She hosts the Official Prince Podcast and has written for numerous publications\, including NPR Music\, Pitchfork\, the Star Tribune\, City Pages\, and Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current\, where she previously hosted “The Local Show.” Her first book\, Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound\, also from the University of Minnesota Press\, won a 2018 Minnesota Book Award.
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CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Walking Tour of H. Emil Strassburger (St. Paul West Side Neighborhood)
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: Walking Tour of H. Emil Strassburger (St. Paul West Side Neighborhood)\nwith Nicole Foss\nTHIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. \nPresented by Ramsey County Historical Society \nSaturday\, August 10\, 2024\n9:00 am-10:30 am \nThe tour will begin at the David Wyrick statue titled “Overlook” at Prospect Terrace Park (corner of Prospect Boulevard and South Stryker Avenue\, on the bluff) and will have nine stops. Street parking is available and free.\n \nPlease wear comfortable shoes. Water will be provided for all guests. \nStops on tour: \n\nOverlook\nStrassburger House\nSchwarz House\nMortenson House\nBevans House\nHoulton House\nBeal House\nGrady Flats\nHeimbach House\n\nTickets:\n$10\nRCHS Members receive 20% discount on ticket price \n\nPurchase Here\n\n\nAll ticket sales are final. \nThis tour follows the homes designed by St. Paul Architect H. Emil Strassburger on St. Paul’s West Side neighborhood. \nRead about the homes before you attend. \nArchitectural Historian Nicole Foss grew curious about some of the old houses she passed on daily walks in her neighborhood. Curiosity led to research\, which evolved into our Winter 2024 cover story “Architect of St. Paul’s West Side: H. Emil Strassburger.” Very little has been published on the German immigrant Strassburger—until now. Most of the business blocks he designed in the late-nineteenth century are long gone\, but several residences still stand tall along the West Side bluff. Strassburger’s architectural contributions to this neighborhood are significant. Foss describes Strassburger’s work and his willingness to experiment with the styles of the day\, including the Richardsonian Romanesque style\, brick interpretations of Stick style with Eastlake embellishments\, and at least one exploration in Second Empire-inspired eclecticism. \nNicole Foss is a St. Paul-based architectural historian with a background in archaeology and museums. She has worked on historic preservation projects throughout Minnesota\, as well as in several other states\, and has a special fondness for St. Paul’s West Side neighborhood.
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CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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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/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Finding Moses Dickson
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: Finding Moses Dickson\nwith Karen Sieber\nThursday\, June 20\, 2024\, 7:00 pm\nPlease register for the Zoom event here: \nRegister Here\n \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library. \nNew documentation places Moses Dickson\, one of the most well-known leaders of the Underground Railroad\, living in Minnesota during the 1850s. Despite being one of the most influential Black figures of the nineteenth century\, there has always been a gap in knowledge about the abolitionist’s whereabouts in the 1850s\, a period in which he was known to have led countless individuals to freedom and organized a massive slave rebellion. In celebration of Juneteenth\, historian Karen Sieber\, Director of the Finding Moses Initiative\, will give a talk on Dickson and his time in Minnesota and will provide insight into how Dickson’s story connects to both the local and the national Black freedom movements. She will also discuss a new initiative being launched around Dickson to examine the people\, places\, and moments of the nineteenth-century Black Midwest\, a collaboration between scholars across state lines. \nKaren Sieber is an award-winning scholar of riots and resistance\, Black history\, and labor history in the United States. She is best known as the creator of Visualizing the Red Summer\, part of the AP African American Studies curriculum\, and for her work in the Gayle King CBS documentary Tulsa 1921: An American Tragedy. Her work has appeared in Jacobin\, Yahoo\, MSN\, Minnesota History\, The Conversation\, PBS\, Smithsonian\, American Historical Association\, Labor\, and in the book Where Are the Workers?: Labor’s Stories at Museums and Historic Sites. For more on her work visit www.ksieber.com.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-finding-moses-dickson/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240523T143000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow
DESCRIPTION:The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi\nwith Elin Anna Labba\nThursday\, May 23\, 2024\, 1:00 pm\nPlease note 1:00 pm time: Elin Anna Labba will be joining us from Sweden.\n \nIn partnership with Norway House and the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library. \nRegister 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\n\n\nThe deep and personal story—told through history\, poetry\, and images—of the forced displacement of the Sámi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today\nIn a remarkable blend of historical reportage\, memoir\, and lyrical reimagining\, Elin Anna Labba travels to northern Norway and Sweden\, the lost homeland of her ancestors\, to tell of the forced displacement of the Indigenous Sámi in the early twentieth century. Through stories\, photographs\, letters\, and joik lyrics\, she gathers a chorus of Sámi expression that resonates across the years\, evoking the nomadic life they were required to abandon and the immense hardship they endured. \n\nMore than a hundred years have passed since the Sámi were forcibly displaced from their homes in northern Norway and Sweden\, a hundred years since Elin Anna Labba’s ancestors and relations drove their reindeer over the strait to the mainland for the last time. The place where they lived has remained empty ever since. We carry our homes in our hearts\, Labba shares\, citing the Sámi poet Áillohaš. How do you bear that weight if you were forced to leave? In a remarkable blend of historical reportage\, memoir\, and lyrical reimagining\, Labba travels to the lost homeland of her ancestors to tell of the forced removal of the Sámi in the early twentieth century and to reclaim a place in history\, and in today’s world\, for these Indigenous people of northern Scandinavia. \nWhen Norway became a country independent from Sweden in 1905\, the two nations came to an agreement that called for the displacement of the Northern Sámi\, who spent summers on the Norwegian coast and winters in Sweden. This “dislocation\,” as the authorities called it\, gave rise to a new word in Sámi language\, bággojohtin\, forced displacement. The first of the sirdolaččat\, or “the displaced\,” left their homes fully believing they would soon return. Through stories\, photographs\, letters\, and joik lyrics\, Labba gathers a chorus of Sámi expression that resonates across the years\, evoking the nomadic life they were required to abandon and the immense hardship and challenges they endured: children left behind with relatives\, reindeer lost when they returned to familiar territory\, sorrow and estrangement that linger through generations. \n\nTo order The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow from our partner\, Subtext Books\, see the page here. \n\n  \n \n\nElin Anna Labba is a Sámi journalist and was previously editor-in-chief of the magazine Nuorat. She received Sweden’s August Prize for Best Nonfiction as well as the prestigious Norrland Literature Prize.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-the-rocks-will-echo-our-sorrow/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Never Trust a Thin Cook
DESCRIPTION:Never Trust a Thin Cook and Other Lessons from Italy’s Culinary Capital\nA Celebration of St. Paul’s Sister City: Modena\, Italy\nWith Eric Dregni\nThursday April 18\, 2024\, 3:30-4:30 pm\nBook Signing 4:30-5:00 pm\nConcordia Library\nIn Person Event\nFree \nRegister Here\n \nEric Dregni will share his food-obsessed chronicles of his three years in Italy\, celebrating Saint Paul’s sister city\, Modena. He will be available to sign his books after the program. \nI simply want to live in the place with the best food in the world. This dream led Eric Dregni to Italy\, first to Milan and eventually to a small\, fog-covered town to the north: Modena\, the birthplace of balsamic vinegar\, Ferrari\, and Luciano Pavarotti. Never Trust a Thin Cook is a classic American abroad tale\, brimming with adventures both expected and unexpected\, awkward social moments\, and most important\, very good food. \nParmesan thieves. Tortellini based on the shape of Venus’s navel. Infiltrating the secret world of the balsamic vinegar elite. Life in Modena is a long way from the Leaning Tower of Pizza (the south Minneapolis pizzeria where Eric and his girlfriend and fellow traveler Katy first met)\, and while some Italians are impressed that “Minnesota” sounds like “minestrone\,” they are soon learning what it means to live in a country where the word “safe” doesn’t actually exist—only “less dangerous.” Thankfully\, another meal is always waiting\, and Dregni revels in uncorking the secrets of Italian cuisine\, such as how to guzzle espresso “corrected” with grappa and learning that mold really does make a good salami great. \nWhat begins as a gastronomical quest soon becomes a revealing\, authentic portrait of how Italians live and a hilarious demonstration of how American and Italian cultures differ. In Never Trust a Thin Cook\, Eric Dregni dishes up the sometimes wild experiences of living abroad alongside the simple pleasures of Italian culture in perfect\, complementary proportions. \nEric Dregni is associate professor of English at Concordia University in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, and dean of the Italian Concordia Language Village\, Lago del Bosco. He is the author of several books\, including In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream\, Minnesota Marvels: Roadside Attractions in the Land of Lakes\, and Midwest Marvels: Roadside Attractions across Iowa\, Minnesota\, the Dakotas\, and Wisconsin\, all published by the University of Minnesota Press.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-never-trust-a-thin-cook/
LOCATION:Concordia Library\, 1282 Concordia Ave.\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55104\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Dakhóta Iápi
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed Special Program\nDakhóta Iápi (Dakota Language): Its History and Future\nwith Šišókaduta (Joe Bendickson)\, Dr. Rev. Clifford Canku Sr. and Heather Menefee\nModerated by Meredith Cummings\, RCHS editor\nThursday\, March 21\, 2024\, 7:00 pm\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. \nIn 2023\, Dakhóta language scholars from the University of Minnesota\, with their instructor Šišókaduta (Joe Bendickson)\, worked with Ramsey County Historical Society to write a brief history of Dakhóta iápi (language) in three parts. The piece begins with an early history of the language following settler coloni­zation and extending through the boarding school era. It continues with a collaborative segment highlighting current language initia­tives and the positive effects these have for both the Dakhóta and non-Indigenous communities in establishing themselves in Minnesota history. The article culminates with words of encourage­ment to Dakhóta language teachers and second-language learners from Dr. Rev. Clifford Canku Sr.\, one of the few remaining first-language Dakhóta speakers and a holder of traditional knowledge. \nŠišókaduta\, and graduate student Heather Menefee will participate in a panel discussion about the history of the language and current language revitalization efforts. \nImage: From Ramsey County History magazine. \nDr. Rev. Clifford Canku\, Sr. is the author and editor\, along with Michael Simon\, of The Dakota Prisoner of War Letters: Dakota Kaskapi Okicize Wowapi (2012). With Nicolette Knudson and Jody Snow\, he is also a creator of Tokaheya Dakota Iapi Kin/Beginning Dakota (2010). Canku earned a BA from the University of Minnesota at Morris\, and a master of divinity from the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary in Iowa. He has retired after many years as a professor of Dakhóta studies at North Dakota State University and as a Presbyterian minister. He continues to serve as a teacher\, elder\, and minister of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakhóta Oyáte from his home at Kaksíza Háŋska. \nŠišókaduta (Joe Bendickson) is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakhóta Oyáte of Lake Traverse Reservation. He worked as a Dakhóta language instructor at the University of Minnesota for many years until recently\, when he began a full-time position as linguistic director and editor at Dakhóta Iápi Okhódakičhiye (DIO)\, a 501c3 nonprofit organization of dedicated Dakhóta community members\, language learners\, and speakers. DIO recently released Dakhód Iápi Wičhóie Wówapi\, the first Dakhóta language dictionary app with 28\,699 audio recordings. \nHeather Menefee is a student of Šišókaduta\, a staff member at Dakhóta Iápi Okhódakičhiye\, and a PhD candidate in history at Northwestern University. She has also worked as the teaching assistant for the Dakota Language Program at UMN\, where she continues to study the language and support other learners. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-dakhota-iapi/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Special Events
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Heart of the Heartland
DESCRIPTION:The Heart of the Heartland: Norwegian American Community in the Twin Cities\nDavid C. Mauk\nHistory Revealed Special Event\nThursday\, February 15\, 2024\, 1:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, Ramsey County Libraries and Norway House \n\nLive presentation on Zoom. Register Here.\nPlease note 1:00 CST program time – Prof. Mauk will be joining us from Norway.\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\nAn in-depth look at the Norwegian American community of Minneapolis–St. Paul and its deep and complex role in the economic\, political\, and cultural life of the Twin Cities over more than 170 years. \nSince the earliest days of European settlement in the region\, tens of thousands of Norwegians have found their way to Minnesota. Many early arrivals settled in the cities\, while others who initially chose the countryside departed for urban settings after they had become accustomed to the ways of their adopted home. The growing Twin Cities became home to Norwegian immigrants and their migrating compatriots alike. \nThese Norwegian Americans took up employment in a range of fields. They also assembled in churches and charitable organizations\, carrying on homeland traditions even as they took on prominent roles in the larger urban community. Minnesotans of Norwegian descent in the twenty-first century may not speak their ancestral tongue\, but they lovingly uphold many cultural practices of their ancestral home. \nThe Heart of the Heartland brings together personal interviews\, demographic research\, and archival exploration to inform stories of assimilation\, ascendency\, and collaboration among Minnesota’s Norwegian Americans and their neighbors over 170 years. \nFrom the Minnesota Historical Society Press\, co-published with the Norwegian American Historical Association. \nDavid C. Mauk is the author of The Colony that Rose from the Sea: Norwegian Maritime Migration and Community in Brooklyn\, 1850-1910 and numerous articles about Norwegian American ethnicity. Now retired\, he taught American studies at the University of Oslo.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-heart-of-the-heartland/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Special Events
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Indian Wars Everywhere
DESCRIPTION:Indian Wars Everywhere\nStefan Aune\, PhD\, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies\, Williams College\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 18\, 2024\, 7:00 pm\n\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom- Register Here\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nFree and open to all. \n\nReferences to the Indian Wars\, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion\, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by paratroopers jumping from airplanes\, words and images referring to Indians have been indelibly linked with warfare. In “Indian Wars Everywhere\,” Stefan Aune shows how these resonances signal a deeper history\, one in which the Indian Wars function as a shadow doctrine that influences US military violence. The United States’ formative acts of colonial violence persist in the actions\, imaginations\, and stories that have facilitated the spread of American empire\, from the “savage wars” of the nineteenth century to the counterinsurgencies of the Global War on Terror. Ranging across centuries and continents\, “Indian Wars Everywhere” considers what it means for the conquest of Native peoples to be deemed a success that can be used as a blueprint for modern warfare.\nStefan Aune graduated from Macalester College in 2011 and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.  He is a historian of the global United States whose research examines the intersections of race\, colonialism\, and violence. He teaches courses in American Studies\, Native American and Indigenous Studies\, empire and US foreign policy\, critical theory\, environmental history\, and the history of violence. His writing has appeared in American Quarterly\, Pacific Historical Review\, and in the edited volume At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. He is currently finishing a book manuscript titled Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire\, which explores how the violence that accompanied US continental expansion has influenced global US militarism from the nineteneth century through the War on Terror. His research reflects on what it means for the conquest of Native peoples to be used as a blueprint for modern warfare. Prior to Williams\, Stefan spent three years as the Elihu Rose Scholar and a faculty fellow in the History Department at New York University.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-indian-wars-everywhere/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:Landmark Center Holiday Bazaar
DESCRIPTION:45th Annual Landmark Center Old-Fashioned \nHoliday Bazaar\nLandmark Center\n75 Fifth St. West\, Saint Paul MN 55102 \nNovember 30\, 2023: 10 am-7 pm\nDecember 1\, 2023: 10 am-7 pm\nDecember 2\, 2023: 10 am-5 pm \n$5.00 admission\, under 12 free.\nAdmission charged by Landmark Center. Admission fees help Minnesota Landmarks support Landmark Center’s free and low cost community arts & cultural programs. \nA Saint Paul Holiday Tradition!\nDiscover the perfect holiday gifts for everyone on your list as you explore a marketplace brimming with distinctive\, artisanal goods. \nJoin us at the RCHS booth!\nAuthor appearances & book signings: \n\nNovember 30\, 4-7 pm: Dick Kronick & Jeanne Kosfeld\, Neighborhood Architecture–Irvine Park\nDecember 1\, 4-7 pm: Dick Kronick & Jeanne Kosfeld\, Neighborhood Architecture–Irvine Park\nDecember 2\, 10 am-noon: Peggy Stern\, Grasshoppers in My Bed\nDecember 2\, noon-2 pm: Terry Swanson\, Grasshoppers in My Bed\n\n \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/landmark-center-holiday-bazaar-3/
LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,Special Events
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SUMMARY:Landmark Center Holiday Bazaar
DESCRIPTION:45th Annual Landmark Center Old-Fashioned \nHoliday Bazaar\nLandmark Center\n75 Fifth St. West\, Saint Paul MN 55102 \nNovember 30\, 2023: 10 am-7 pm\nDecember 1\, 2023: 10 am-7 pm\nDecember 2\, 2023: 10 am-5 pm \nThursday & Friday Twilight Shopping Special!\nEnjoy a complimentary refreshment\, courtesy of Landmark Center: 4-7 pm \n$5.00 admission\, under 12 free.\nAdmission charged by Landmark Center. Admission fees help Minnesota Landmarks support Landmark Center’s free and low cost community arts & cultural programs. \nA Saint Paul Holiday Tradition!\nDiscover the perfect holiday gifts for everyone on your list as you explore a marketplace brimming with distinctive\, artisanal goods. \nJoin us at the RCHS booth!\nAuthor appearances & book signings: \n\nNovember 30\, 4-7 pm: Dick Kronick & Jeanne Kosfeld\, Neighborhood Architecture–Irvine Park\nDecember 1\, 4-7 pm: Dick Kronick & Jeanne Kosfeld\, Neighborhood Architecture–Irvine Park\nDecember 2\, 10 am-noon: Peggy Stern\, Grasshoppers in My Bed\nDecember 2\, noon-2 pm: Terry Swanson\, Grasshoppers in My Bed\n\n \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/landmark-center-holiday-bazaar-2/
LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,Special Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231130T203000
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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.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-defying-the-silence/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:Landmark Center Holiday Bazaar
DESCRIPTION:45th Annual Landmark Center Old-Fashioned \nHoliday Bazaar\nLandmark Center\n75 Fifth St. West\, Saint Paul MN 55102 \nNovember 30\, 2023: 10 am-7 pm\nDecember 1\, 2023: 10 am-7 pm\nDecember 2\, 2023: 10 am-5 pm \nThursday & Friday Twilight Shopping Special!\nEnjoy a complimentary refreshment\, courtesy of Landmark Center: 4-7 pm \n$5.00 admission\, under 12 free.\nAdmission charged by Landmark Center. Admission fees help Minnesota Landmarks support Landmark Center’s free and low cost community arts & cultural programs. \nA Saint Paul Holiday Tradition!\nDiscover the perfect holiday gifts for everyone on your list as you explore a marketplace brimming with distinctive\, artisanal goods. \nJoin us at the RCHS booth!\nAuthor appearances & book signings: \n\nNovember 30\, 4-7 pm: Dick Kronick & Jeanne Kosfeld\, Neighborhood Architecture–Irvine Park\nDecember 1\, 4-7 pm: Dick Kronick & Jeanne Kosfeld\, Neighborhood Architecture–Irvine Park\nDecember 2\, 10 am-noon: Peggy Stern\, Grasshoppers in My Bed\nDecember 2\, noon-2 pm: Terry Swanson\, Grasshoppers in My Bed
URL:https://rchs.com/event/landmark-center-holiday-bazaar/
LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,Special Events
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Prairie Imperialists
DESCRIPTION:Prairie Imperialists: The Indian Country Origins of American Empire\nKatherine Bjork\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, October 19\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as an imperial power. It was when the United States first landed troops overseas and established governments of occupation in the Philippines\, Cuba\, and other formerly Spanish colonies. But such actions to extend U.S. sovereignty abroad\, argues Katharine Bjork\, had a precedent in earlier relations with Native nations at home. In Prairie Imperialists\, Bjork traces the arc of American expansion by showing how the Army’s conquests of what its soldiers called “Indian Country” generated a repertoire of actions and understandings that structured encounters with the racial others of America’s new island territories following the War of 1898. \nPrairie Imperialists follows the colonial careers of three Army officers from the domestic frontier to overseas posts in Cuba and the Philippines. The men profiled—Hugh Lenox Scott\, Robert Lee Bullard\, and John J. Pershing—internalized ways of behaving in Indian Country that shaped their approach to later colonial appointments abroad. Scott’s ethnographic knowledge and experience with Native Americans were valorized as an asset for colonial service; Bullard and Pershing\, who had commanded African American troops\, were regarded as particularly suited for roles in the pacification and administration of colonial peoples overseas. After returning to the mainland\, these three men played prominent roles in the “Punitive Expedition” President Woodrow Wilson sent across the southern border in 1916\, during which Mexico figured as the next iteration of “Indian Country.” \nWith rich biographical detail and ambitious historical scope\, Prairie Imperialists makes fundamental connections between American colonialism and the racial dimensions of domestic political and social life—during peacetime and while at war. Ultimately\, Bjork contends\, the concept of “Indian Country” has served as the guiding force of American imperial expansion and nation building for the past two and a half centuries and endures to this day. \nKatharine Bjork is Professor of History at Hamline University and author of In the Circle of Dance: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal. \nPlease check out our partner Subtext Books\, located in downtown St. Paul and online at: https://subtextbooks.com/ for this and other History Revealed titles.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-prairie-imperialists/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Oakland Cemetery Walking Tour 2023
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: Oakland Cemetery Historic Walking Tour \nThursday\, October 12\, 2023\n1:00 am-2:30 pm \nTo register: Oakland Cemetery Walking Tour 2023 \nSpace is limited to 20\, reserve today! \nJoin experienced tour guide and historian Denise Dunnell Wells on a fascinating outdoor walking tour of Saint Paul’s famous Oakland Cemetery. The tour will feature the resting places of some of Saint Paul’s most famous and infamous personalities. It is all a matter of perspective! Denise will give you an overview of the cemetery’s history\, discuss some of its legends\, and show us the final resting places of these citizens. \n\nTour is outside only – please wear walking shoes and dress for the weather.\nThere are some hills on the tour and prepare to be on your feet for two hours.\nThere are no restrooms in the cemetery.\nOakland Cemetery is located at 927 Jackson Street\, Saint Paul.\nPlease park in the fenced-in lot that is off of Sims and Jackson\, by the Main Office.\nWe will meet at the green cement block at the beginning of the parking lot.\n\nIn case of severe weather\, or if you have other questions\, please check with RCHS at events@rchs.com \nDenise Dunnell Wells\nDenise Dunnell Wells is a former Alexander Ramsey House docent and has led many popular tours of Irvine Park. She has been a history volunteer for over 25 years and currently serves as a volunteer and tour guide for both RCHS and MHS.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-oakland-cemetery-walking-tour-2023/
LOCATION:Oakland Cemetery\, 927 Jackson Street\, Saint Paul \, MN\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Tours
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SUMMARY:Family History Day: Digital Archiving
DESCRIPTION:Family History Resources at Ramsey County Historical Society and George Latimer Central Library\nSaturday\, September 23\, 2023\n2:30 pm – 4:30 pm\n\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nGeorge Latimer Central Library\n\n\nFamily History Digital Archiving\nAndy Boss meeting room\n2:30-5:00 pm \nIn person. Registration required\, limited to 10 registrants. For registration\, see the George Latimer Central Library Calendar. \nLibrarians Anders Oftelie and Andrea Herman will give a brief talk on best practices for preserving family history\, then registrants will have the opportunity to make digital copies of their memories. \nOnly attendees who register will get a chance to digitize their documents. \nRegistrants will be limited to 5 documents each due to time constraints. \nThe following formats are acceptable: paper\, hard copy photographs\, negatives\, and slides. No other formats will be allowed.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/family-history-day-digital-archiving/
LOCATION:George Latimer Central Library\, 90 W 4th St\, Saint Paul \, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Research
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SUMMARY:Family History Day: Resources
DESCRIPTION:Family History Resources at Ramsey County Historical Society and George Latimer Central Library\nSaturday\, September 23\, 2023\n1:00 pm – 2:00 pm\n\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nGeorge Latimer Central Library\nFamily History Resources Talk\nAndy Boss meeting room\n1:00-2:00 pm \nIn person. Free and open to all. No registration needed. \n\n\nLearn all about family history materials available at the Ramsey County Historical Society and George Latimer Central library with Mollie Spillman\, RCHS Curator/Archivist and Andrea Herman\, Latimer Librarian. We have many resources to get you started in your research. \nMollie Spillman has worked as the RCHS Curator/Archivist since 1994 and has been responsible for growing the collection\, preserving it and making it accessible to the public in a number of ways. \nAndrea Herman has been working at the Saint Paul Public Library since 1989 and has been answering reference questions at George Latimer Central Library since 1997. She is also coordinator for the Innovation Lab makerspace\, which includes digitization equipment. \nThe day will continue with : \nFamily History Digital Archiving\nAndy Boss meeting room\n2:30-5:00 pm \nFor more on the second program\, see https://rchs.com/event/family-history-day-digital-archiving/ \nIn person. Registration required for this portion\, limited to 10 registrants. For registration\, see the George Latimer Central Library Calendar.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/family-history-day-resources/
LOCATION:George Latimer Central Library\, 90 W 4th St\, Saint Paul \, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Research
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Connecting to Collections- Preservation for Who? 
DESCRIPTION:Connecting to Collections: Preservation for Who?   \nChris Rico\, Nienow Cultural Consultants \nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, September 21\, 2023\n7:00 pm \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and Ramsey County Libraries-Roseville \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nJoin Public Historian\, Archaeologist\, and Conservator\, Christopher Rico (M.HSPH) for a focused discussion on the topic of representation and access in museum collections and how to care for and preserve your personal collections like a museum conservator. In this program\, Christopher will talk about some of the social and cultural issues connected to collecting institutes\, how these issues effect different communities\, and how it has led to the growth of grassroots community preservation initiatives and a growing need for the sharing of resources and knowledge in preservation techniques. \nMany museums and collecting institutions task themselves with adding to and maintaining their collections of 3-D objects\, books\, paper files\, and the digital and physical archives which accompany them. This task is often made a central pillar of a collecting institution’s mission as it is held that through this process\, knowledges may be preserved\, access to them expanded\, and through interpretation new understandings created. However\, being that this practice is historically rooted to empire and colonialism\, there is an undeniable effect on the way in which this mission has been conducted. Furthermore\, additional factors within institutions affect how collections are managed and what is deemed worthy of collection. Among other effects\, this results in the exclusion of certain communities within collections\, barriers to access\, and questions about the accuracy of knowledge provided by collections and their interpretation. In response to these issues\, the practices of community archiving and grassroots preservation have grown exponentially in recent decades\, creating a need for access to complex resources and knowledges often held by or provided exclusively to collecting institutions. \nChris Rico has a robust and diverse field of experience in heritage studies spanning over the last six years. He obtained his master’s degree at the University of Minnesota in Heritage Studies and Public History and has been working in various community development positions since. His breadth of experience includes extensive archival use\, processing\, and research experience\, community driven and engaged public history projects\, oral histories\, and preservation and special collections management.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-connecting-to-collections/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed
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SUMMARY:Pathways Gala
DESCRIPTION: Pathways Gala for Gibbs\nTuesday\, September 12\, 2023\n5:30-8:00 pm\nWabasha Street Caves\nPathways Gala Site: https://gibbs.givesmart.com  go to Browse\, Bid and Buy and you can view the items! \nThe Pathways Gala is a fundraising event supporting the one-of-a-kind educational programs at Gibbs Farm. As the Twin Cities’ premiere historic site dedicated to youth education\, Gibbs Farm is known for its vibrant and unique field trips that strengthen students’ understanding of the past. \n\nVery limited seating available\, register to our wait list and we will contact you to confirm your registration. Waitlist registration.\n \n\nThe Silent Auction is Live! \nRamsey County Historical Society welcomes you to bid on some of the amazing silent auction items! Funds raised will benefit Gibbs Farm and the one-of-a-kind education programs for children in our community. \nVisit our auction site to view and bid\, or text Gibbs to 76278 and follow the link! We have some amazing items including something for everyone\, including some unique and rare experiences\, theater performance tickets\, restaurant gift cards\, museum passes\, wine baskets and more! Take a look at the Pathways Gala Auction site.\nThe Silent Auction closes the night of the event at 7:00 pm. \n\n\n\nAnd we have some great Live Auction items for you to bid on at the event! \nLive Auction Preview\nLive Auction Item 1001: In Home Chef Dinner \nA Once-in-a-Lifetime foodie event! Local Chef Tammy Haas will prepare a four-course meal\, complete with wine pairings\, for up to six (6) guests in your home. Tammy’s cooking style combines classic techniques with impeccably fresh ingredients. She has been part of the Cooks of Crocus Hill family for more than 15 years where she teaches a wide array of cooking classes from the basic to exotic. \n \nLive Auction Item 1002: New Orleans Getaway \nGet away to the Big Easy! Visit The National WWII Museum\, featuring immersive exhibits\, multimedia experiences\, and an expansive collection of artifacts and first-person oral histories. Includes airfare vouchers for two\, two night stay in one of the era-inspired rooms at the Higgin Hotel\, and a docent-led tour and admission tickets to the museum. \n \n  \nAccessibility\nThis event is open to all and we welcome your attendance and support. Our auction can be viewed on a smartphone or tablet\, and we will have staff on site to aid with bidding or act as a proxy bidder if you are unable or uncomfortable using the technology. The Caves are ADA accessible and there is reserved parking on site. If you have any other accommodations or accessibility questions\, please reach out to us. \nParking\nParking is available at the Caves\, overflow parking is also available at the HealthPartners lot next door. There will be an attendant on site to direct guests once the Caves lot is full. \nQuestions?\nIf you have other dietary restrictions\, accessibility needs\, or other questions\, please feel free to reach out to us at events@rchs.com or call us at 651-222-0701. \n\nAbout Pathways Gala\nThe Pathways Gala is a fundraising event supporting the one-of-a-kind educational programs at Gibbs Farm. As the Twin Cities’ premiere historic site dedicated to youth education\, Gibbs Farm is known for its vibrant and unique field trips that strengthen students’ understanding of the past. Gibbs Farm’s hands-on\, participatory learning model helps students immerse themselves in the history of Minnesota’s earliest inhabitants. Each year\, 15\,000 students attend in-person field trips at Gibbs Farm\, participating in programming that enriches their education both academically and socially\, helping them to recall facts at a higher rate\, increase critical thinking skills\, and broaden their understanding of history and culture to increase empathy. \n \nAbout Gibbs Farm\nRamsey County Historical Society’s Gibbs Farm has been a regional leader in education for the past 68 years. Now considered one of the Twin Cities’ premiere historic sites\, Gibbs Farm serves more than 23\,000 students and educators each year during field trips\, summer camps\, special events\, and digital outreach programming. Gibbs Farm is recognized by educators across the region as one of the most important primary resources available for telling the story of Minnesota’s Indigenous cultures and early pioneers: a story many teachers require significant assistance to tell. Gibbs Farm supports schools with in-person and online historical programming that utilizes storytelling\, music\, arts\,\ncrafts\, role playing\, and other examples of hands-on\, participatory learning. \n \nYour Support Matters\nYour support of the Pathways Gala and will directly help strengthen and enhance the one-of-a-kind educational programs at Gibbs Farm. Your commitment to local education will connect you with more than 20\,000 supporting members of the RCHS community. RCHS brings together a diverse cross-section of educators\, parents\, homeowners\, local businesses\, and faith organizations – all connected by a love of their community and a passion for sharing its history. Please consider sponsoring the event or making an auction donation. \nSponsorship Levels\nSponsors will be acknowledged online\, in-person at the Pathways Gala\, and in RCHS’s annual report\, reaching an audience of more than 20\,000 people in the Twin Cities community. In addition\, all sponsors above $500 will receive complementary tickets to the Pathways Gala on Tuesday\, September 12 at the Wabasha Street Caves. All tickets include a plated meal\, presentation\, and the opportunity to participate in the silent and live auction events. \nLevels Support & Tickets\nPresenter: $7\,500\, 8 tickets\nTrailblazer: $2\,500\, 6 tickets\nTrail Guide: $1\,000\, 4 tickets\nDaytripper: $500\, 2 tickets \nFor more information on sponsorships or donating items for the Silent or Live Auctions\, please contact Natasha at natasha@rchs.com or call 651-222-0701. \nThank you to our Sponsors \n\n\n \n 
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LOCATION:Wabasha Street Caves\, 215 Wabasha St S\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Whiteness in Plain View
DESCRIPTION:Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota\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
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Scandinavian Immigrants & the Civil War
DESCRIPTION:For Gud Og Vort Land:\nScandinavian Immigrants & the Civil War\nSaturday\, July 22\, 9:00 am-1:00 pm\nNorway House\n913 E Franklin Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN 55404 \nJoin us for a very special History Revealed as we explore the contributions of Scandinavian immigrants from Minnesota and Wisconsin during the Civil War. The motto of the Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment\, “For Gud Og Vort Land\,” (For God and Our Country)\, serves as the thread for this day of programming. Beginning with a tour of the Pioneer & Soldiers Cemetery led by Susan Hunter\, the the day continues with the story of the Fifteenth Wisconsin\, known as the “Norwegian Regiment.” The life and contributions of Colonel Hans Christian Heg and other Scandinavian soldiers from Minnesota and Wisconsin will be told by Odd Lovoll\, author of Colonel Hans Christian Heg and the Norwegian American Experience. \nSchedule\n9:00-10:00 am \n\nTour the Pioneer & Soldiers Cemetery with Susan Hunter\nPark at the Cemetery\, 2945 Cedar Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN 55407\nCost for the tour is $5.00\nPre-registration is preferred\nTickets are available at the Norway House website\n\n11:00 am-1:00 pm \n\nColonel Hans Christian Heg and the Norwegian American Experience with Odd Lovoll\nBook signing and discussion\nProgram will take place at Norway House\nFree and open to the public\, no registration required\nThe book will be available for purchase\nSee the Norway House website for more\n\nSusan Hunter is the founding member of the Friends of the Pioneer & Soldiers Cemetery. She is a historian and author of many articles about the cemetery. \nColonel Hans Christian Heg and the Norwegian American Experience is the first full-length biography of Colonel Heg examines the life of a Civil War hero while illuminating the experiences of Norwegian American immigrants who found both hardship and success in a new home. \nHans Christian Heg (1829–1863) was a Norwegian American abolitionist\, journalist\, antislavery activist\, prison reformer\, politician\, and soldier. Best known for leading the Fifteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment on the Union side during the Civil War\, Heg died of wounds received at the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863. \nWhile Heg’s achievements earned him a statue on the Wisconsin state capitol grounds\, behind his public persona was a life emblematic of his generation. Heg’s family hailed from Lier\, Norway; economic as well as religious challenges led them\, like so many others\, to leave their homeland for the promise of a better life. Heg himself trod multiple paths: joining in the California Gold Rush\, pursuing a political career in support of the Free Soil Party and then the newly formed Republican Party\, and taking up the role of Wisconsin state prison commissioner. Like his fellow immigrants\, he made a living and nurtured a family at the same time that he was defining what it meant to be both Norwegian and American. \nHeg’s remarkable leadership of the Fifteenth Wisconsin\, the “Norwegian regiment\,” is the stuff of legends. But this book is more than a biography of one man: it is the story of a generation of immigrant citizens who contributed politically\, economically\, and socially to the American Midwest and beyond. \nOdd S. Lovoll is the author of several books on the Norwegian American immigrant experience\, including Norwegians on the Prairie\, Norwegian Newspapers in America\, and Across the Deep Blue Sea. He was born in Sande\, in Møre og Romsdal\, Norway\, and immigrated to the United States in 1946. Lovoll was educated at the University of Bergen and the University of Oslo before receiving an M.A. from the University of North Dakota and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He taught for three years at Minnesota and then spent 30 years as a professor of history at St. Olaf College in Northfield\, Minnesota\, where he is professor emeritus. Lovoll also served for 20 years as publication editor for the Norwegian-American Historical Association. In 1986\, Lovoll was decorated with the Knight’s Cross First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit by King Olav V of Norway\, and in 2001 he was inducted into the Scandinavian Hall of Fame at Norsk Høstfest\, North America’s largest Scandinavian festival. He lives in Northfield\, Minnesota.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-scandinavian-immigrants-the-civil-war/
LOCATION:Norway House\, 913 E Franklin Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Special Events,Tours
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Italians on St. Paul's East Side
DESCRIPTION:Italians on Saint Paul’s East Side\nJohn Andreozzi\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, July 20\, 2023\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nItalians have had a significant presence in St. Paul.  Although there were only a few as the City began to grow in the 1850s\, within five decades their numbers had grown substantially. Many settled in Railroad Island and Swede Hollow on the East Side. They had been farmers in Italy\, but in St. Paul they worked on the railroads that surrounded their neighborhood\, as well as the city’s public works department\, while some were self- employed as peddlers or operators of confectionery and grocery stores. \n\nSt. Paul Italians founded institutions in Railroad Island that offered protection from bigotry and facilitated the assimilation process. The Dante Alighieri society formed in 1883\, was the first Italian group in the state. The Christ Child Center\, a Catholic settlement house which offered a variety of programs\, was located in a building erected by Italians. East Side Italians established Saint Ambrose church in 1915\, and they became known for their processions honoring patron saints. \nJohn Andreozzi was born in Lackawanna\, NY\, and has worked as a teacher\, clinical social worker\, community organizer\, and ethnic historian.  He has been studying Italian American history for more than fifty years\, and he holds Master’s Degrees in Sociology and Social Work. In 1985\, he moved to the Twin Cities to work at the Immigration History Research Center and Archives.\, and he became an organizer of Festa Italiana MN.  John has written two books and several scholarly articles on the experiences of Italians in the United States\, and he maintains a website at Italian-American-Experience.org. \nHis presentation is part of our series “Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants.” \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day. programs which focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
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CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Nature's Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:Nature’s Crossroads: The Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota:\nA Wide-Ranging Environmental and Historical Study of the Evolution of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul Area\nWith George Vrtis and Christopher W. Wells \nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, June 22\, 2023\n7:00 pm \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe industrial and commercial development of the Twin Cities transformed the landscape\, dispossessed the original Native inhabitants\, and had consequences which reached far beyond the geographic borders of the Metro Area.  Join Chris Wells and George Vrtis as they describe the environmental history of our region.  \nMinnesota’s Twin Cities have long been powerful engines of change. From their origins in the early nineteenth century\, the Twin Cities helped drive the dispossession of the region’s Native American peoples\, turned their riverfronts into bustling industrial and commercial centers\, spread streets and homes outward to the horizon\, and reached well beyond their urban confines\, setting in motion the environmental transformation of distant hinterlands. As these processes unfolded\, residents inscribed their culture into the landscape\, complete with all its tensions\, disagreements\, contradictions\, prejudices\, and social inequalities. These stories lie at the heart of Nature’s Crossroads. The book features an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars who aim to open new conversations about the environmental history of the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota. \nAbout the Editors \nGeorge Vrtis is an environmental historian and professor of history and environmental studies at Carleton College. He is the coeditor of Mining North America: An Environmental History since 1522. His research interests include mining and resource use\, urban environments\, and protected areas and wilderness. \nChristopher W. Wells is an environmental historian and professor of environmental studies at Macalester College. His is the author of Car Country: An Environmental History and Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader. His research focuses on the ways that technology—and especially technological systems—have reshaped the American environment\, mediating and structuring people’s relationships with the natural world. \nFor more\, see:\nhttps://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/northland-outdoors/new-book-explores-minnesotas-environmental-history\nhttps://minnesotareformer.com/2023/03/08/book-excerpt-twin-cities-grew-thanks-to-dakota-ojibwe-land-connections-to-national-markets/
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CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:ERA Celebration & Commemorative Plaque Unveiling
DESCRIPTION:Celebration & Plaque Unveiling: Honoring WWII Codebreakers and the Founding of Engineering Research Associates\nThursday\, June 15\, 2023\n3:30-5:30 pm\n1902 Minnehaha Avenue West\, St. Paul\, MN 55104 \nParking for the plaque unveiling is available at the site. \nFeatured speakers include: \n\nLowell Benson\, VIP Club\nRemarks from Norb Berg\, Control Data\, read by James McGuire\, former Vice President at Control Data\nDean Laurance\, Sperry Rand\nDon Hall\, Historian and author\nChad Roberts\, President & CEO of RCHS\nJohn Rollwagen\, CEO at Cray Research\nManny Villafaña\, Cardiac Pacemakers\, etc.\n\nIn a salute to a remarkably powerful era of entrepreneurism\, the Ramsey County Historical Society (RCHS) is celebrating the enduring economic and technological activity unleashed in the Twin Cities by Engineering Research Associates (ERA) more than 75 years ago. A commemorative plaque was installed at the company’s original site\, 1902 Minnehaha Avenue West in St. Paul\, on Thursday\, June 15\, 2023. \nERA was formed in 1946 by a group of U.S. Navy codebreakers who had been brought together to help the country and its allies win World War II. They were mathematicians\, physicists\, engineers\, and other specialists who interpreted German and Japanese electronic communications at a top-secret location in the Washington\, D.C. area. When the war ended\, the Secretary of the Navy wanted to keep them together because he saw the group as an important national resource. Getting funding proved difficult until John Parker\, a US Naval Academy (Annapolis) graduate working in corporate finance\, raised $220\,000. \nAlthough a Washington resident\, Parker was a director of St. Paul-based Northwest Airlines. He also owned a glider business at 1902 Minnehaha that was deactivated after the war. Parker moved the key employees from Washington to his empty factory in St. Paul. In doing so\, he established the Twin Cities as one of the cradles of the computer industry\, eventually making it the home for many thousands of jobs in more than 100 technology companies. \nA lineage of corporate growth emerged in 1952\, when Remington Rand bought and combined ERA and Eckert Mauchly Computer Corp. in Philadelphia to form Remington Rand UNIVAC (RRU). Four years later Sperry Corp. acquired Remington Rand and renamed the company as\nSperry Rand. Its various computer activities were consolidated into the Univac Division. In 1986\, Sperry and Burroughs Corp. merged to form Unisys\, which then operated at twenty-eight sites in the Twin Cities area. \nWilliam Norris was an early member of the codebreakers group and of ERA. In 1957\, he left RRU to found Control Data Corp.\, which became one of the world’s leading computer manufacturers and spawned dozens of spinoff companies. Seymour Cray\, an employee of ERA and later Control Data\, left Control Data in 1972 to form Cray Research\, a company that dominated the supercomputer market well into the 1980s. The successes of these companies inspired local engineers to apply their technical expertise to medical products and create dozens of medical\ndevice companies. \nBy the 1980s\, Control Data and Unisys each had more than 20\,000 employees in Minnesota. Today\, at least four Control Data descendants\, all in Bloomington\, remain in the region: Ceridian\, SkyWater Technology\, Polar Semiconductor\, and Seagate Technology Holdings. Unisys retains a service center in Eagan. \n“The plaque memorializes the ERA story\, serving as reminder of Minnesota’s place as an early founder of the region’s high-tech economy while also underscoring the importance of entrepreneurs to our community\,” said Chad Roberts\, president and CEO of RCHS. \nAmong the speakers at the event will be John Rollwagen\, who was CEO at Cray Research\, and Manny Manny Villafaña\, who left Medtronic to found Cardiac Pacemakers\, St. Jude Medical\, and a string of other medical technology firms. “It’s still true that individuals start companies from scratch and build them into big companies\,” Rollwagen said. “I still believe it can happen.” Villafana has founded and taken public seven medical technology companies and is now on his eighth startup. “We’re still the mecca of the med-tech industry\,” he said. \nThis is not the first time the Minnehaha Avenue site has earned a commemorative plaque. Lowell Benson has consistently kept the ERA story alive as the historian of the VIP Club\, which has represented retirees from ERA and its successor companies since 1980. Benson said Sperry\nput up a plaque on the site in 1986 but that it disappeared in the 1990s. \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society would like to acknowledge the work of Benson and of the University of Minnesota’s Charles Babbage Institute\, which has built up an extensive collection of documents about the computer industry in Minnesota. Erwin Tomash\, an engineer at ERA\, founded the Institute and Dr. Arthur Norberg\, who held the University’s ERA Land Grant Chair for the History of Technology\, was the Institute’s first chair. \nRCHS appreciates the generosity of Don Hall in making this event possible. Hall is the author of “Generation of Wealth: The rise of Control Data and how it inspired an era of innovation and growth in the Upper Midwest\,” published by the Nodin Press in 2014. RCHS thanks the current\nowners of the building\, Capital Partners\, for their assistance with this project. \nImage: Early ERA employees\, c. 1955\, l-r: Jack Hill\, Dr. Arnold Cohen\, Frank Mullaney\, Bob Perkins\, Arnie Hendrickson\, Bill Keye. From the Charles Babbage Institute\, University of Minnesota\, Minneapolis
URL:https://rchs.com/event/era-celebration-commemorative-plaque-unveiling/
LOCATION:1902 Minnehaha Avenue West\, St. Paul\, MN\, 1902 Minnehaha Avenue West\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55104\, United States
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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).
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: An Interrupted Childhood\, Part Two
DESCRIPTION:An Interrupted Childhood:\nOral Histories of Polish WWII Survivors in Minnesota\, Part Two\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, April 6\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the Minnesota Polish Medical Society\, the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library.\n \nIn conjunction with a photographic exhibition in Landmark Center\, March 5-April 30\, 2023 \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe stories of three Polish survivors of WWII will be shared – oral histories of their experiences as refugees\, and that of other Polish immigrants to Minnesota. In conjunction with the photo exhibition\, “An Interrupted Childhood” shown at Landmark Center and at the Minnesota State Capitol\, join us and learn the stories of Maria\, Wiktor\, and Adam\, shared histories that shed light on the forgotten children of WWII. Adam Han-Gorski will be the survivor in attendance at this program. \nIf you have missed Part One of this program it will be available on the RCHS YouTube channel. \nWWII shaped the course of Polish history in the 20th century and redefined its borders. It started in September 1939 when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Poland. The two invaders effectively dismembered the country. Poland suffered immense losses; nearly six million Polish citizens\, including three million Polish Jews\, were killed. \nThe stories of WWII survivors Adam\, Anatol\, Leonard\, Magdalena\, Maria\, Walter\, and Wiktor are part of the MPMS project An Interrupted Childhood: Polish WWII Survivors in Minnesota. During this phase of the Kalejdoskop Polski MN project\, we collected the oral histories and photographs of Polish Minnesotans who have been through the horrors of the war: a forced laborer in the Third Reich\, deportees to Siberia\, a Polish Army Cadet\, a Volhynia Massacre survivor\, and a Holocaust survivor. These stories represent different fates of Poles during WWII and its aftermath. The collected narratives teach us lessons of suffering\, survival\, resilience\, and gratitude are truly humbling and inspiring. \nThis two-part program and exhibition represents part two of the Kalejdoskop Polski MN project initiated in 2020 by the Minnesota Polish Medical Society that aims to document the stories of contemporary Polish immigrants and refugees who settled in Minnesota. The lead artist for Kalejdoskop Polski MN is Grzegorz Litynski\, a professional documentary photographer (www.litynski.com). This body of work forms a traveling photographic exhibition. Katarzyna Litak curates the exhibition. \nExhibition Organizer & Curator: Katarzyna Litak\, MD\, is MPMS President\, Kalejdoskop Polski\, MN project manager\, exhibition designer\, and curator. She conducted oral interviews for the project. Originally from Poland\, she continued medical training at the University of Minnesota. She is also a practicing physician. \nHistory Witness: Adam Han-Gorski was born to a Jewish family in Lwów\, Poland (now Ukraine)\, in 1940. Adam survived ghettos in Jaworów and Kraków and was saved by his Polish nanny Katarzyna. At age five\, he reunited with his parents\, who survived the Holocaust. After the war\, the family was forcibly relocated from Lwów\, which became part of the Soviet Union\, to Upper Silesia\, Poland. Later Adam lived in Israel\, Austria\, Germany\, and the United States. Adam became a renowned violinist and a concertmaster who performed with many orchestras worldwide\, including the Minnesota Orchestra. \nOral histories will be shared from:  \nMaria was born in Tiutków\, Poland (now Ukraine)\, in 1939. In June 1940\, Maria was deported with her mother and brother by Soviet Security forces (NKVD) to a work camp in Siberia when she was 18 months old. She was separated from her mother during the deportation and stayed behind with her aunt. Tiutków (Ukrainian name: Тютьків\, Tiutkiw) is a village in the Tarnopol region\, around 100 miles southwest of Lviv. It is located in Volhynia and became a part of the Soviet Union in 1945. After the war\, Maria was deported to Poland from the village where she grew up. It was now a part of the Soviet Union. She grew up behind the Iron Curtain. Therefore\, she could not reunite with her mother and brother Anatol in the United States until March 1957\, when she was 18 \nWiktor was born in Warsaw in 1938. After the Germans and the Soviets jointly invaded Poland\, Wiktor’s family moved out of Warsaw because Wiktor’s father was threatened with arrest by the Nazis. Wiktor spent the whole German occupation in a small village in eastern Poland. After the war\, the family returned to Warsaw. Wiktor became a television documentary filmmaker. In 1980\, he became involved in the Solidarity movement. After martial law was imposed in December 1981\, he lost his job and was pushed out of the country by the communists with a one-way passport. Since 1983\, Wiktor has lived with his family in Minnesota. \n 
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Strike!
DESCRIPTION:Strike!: Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law\nDr. William D. Green\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, March 23\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe program will focus on Dr. Green’s new book which recreates twenty days in April 1970 when a then-illegal strike by Minneapolis’s public school teachers marked a singular moment of cultural upheaval—and forever changed the city’s politics\, labor law\, educational climate\, and the right to collective bargaining. \nWhen viewed from our turbulent times\, the Minneapolis of fifty years ago might seem serene\, but Minneapolis schoolteachers of the day remember it quite differently. It was\, author William D. Green said of their recollections\, as if they’d been through war. Since the inception of public education in Minnesota\, teachers were expected to pursue their vocation out of civic spirit\, with low wages\, no benefits\, and no job security. Strike! describes the history and circumstances leading to the teachers’ extraordinary action\, which pitted the progressive and conservative teachers’ unions against each other—and both against the all-powerful school district\, a hostile governor and state legislature\, and a draconian Minnesota law. Capturing the intense emotions and heated rivalries of the strike\, Green profiles the many actors involved\, the personal and professional stakes\, and the issues of politics\, law\, and the business of education. \nInformed by interviews\, firsthand accounts\, news reports\, and written records\, Strike! brings to life a pivotal moment not just for Minneapolis’s teachers but for the city itself\, whose government\, school system\, and culture would\, in a complex but inexorable way\, change course for good. \n \nWilliam D. Green is the M. Anita Gaye Hawthorne Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and professor of history at Augsburg University. He is author of The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota\, 1860–1876 and Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota\, 1865–1912 (both winners of the Hognander Minnesota History Award) and Nellie Francis: Fighting for Racial Justice and Women’s Equality in Minnesota\, all published by Minnesota. He is vice president of the Minnesota Historical Society. \n“At a time when teacher strikes\, education reform\, and public sector unionism are once again at the center of public debate\, we need this deeply researched and sharply narrated account of the 1970 Minneapolis teacher strike more than ever. And no one is better prepared to tell that story than the renowned historian\, professor\, and former superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools\, Bill Green.” —William P. Jones\, author of The March on Washington: Jobs\, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights  \n“Teachers’ unionism and teachers’ strikes emerged as central topics in American industrial relations in the past decade. William D. Green weaves personal experience with scholarly research to explore the roots of these developments half a century ago. The result facilitates a conversation between the past and the present\, which sheds new light on both.” —Peter Rachleff\, co-executive director\, East Side Freedom Library \n“An inspiring read that shows the hard-fought gains for schools. A frustrating read that shows how many of the problems facing schools have new names and new decorations but are at the core the same as they’ve always been. William D. Green’s book is an important and enthralling history that could not feel more relevant to today.” —Tom Rademacher\, author of It Won’t Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching  \nPlease check out our partner Subtext Books\, located in downtown St. Paul and online at: https://subtextbooks.com/ for these and other History Revealed titles.
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CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: An Interrupted Childhood\, Part One
DESCRIPTION:An Interrupted Childhood:\nOral Histories of Polish WWII Survivors in Minnesota\, Part One\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, March 2\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the Minnesota Polish Medical Society.\n \nIn conjunction with a photographic exhibition in Landmark Center\, March 5-April 30\, 2023 \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe stories of three Polish survivors of WWII will be shared – oral histories of their experiences as refugees\, and that of other Polish immigrants to Minnesota. In conjunction with the photo exhibition\, “An Interrupted Childhood” shown at Landmark Center and at the Minnesota State Capitol\, join us and learn the stories of Magdalena\, Walter\, and Anatol\, shared histories that shed light on the forgotten children of WWII. Adam Han-Gorski will be the survivor in attendance at this program. \nThis is part one of a two part presentation\, the second part will be on April 6\, 2023\, also on Zoom. Please join us for one or both parts of this very important program. \nAdditionally\, please join the exhibition contributors for a concert by violinist Adam Han-Gorski at the Exhibition Opening on Sunday\, March 5\, 2023\, 2:00-4:00 at Landmark Center. For more information on the opening and this concert\, please see the Landmark Center calendar at https://www.landmarkcenter.org/events/. \nWWII shaped the course of Polish history in the 20th century and redefined its borders. It started in September 1939 when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Poland. The two invaders effectively dismembered the country. Poland suffered immense losses; nearly six million Polish citizens\, including three million Polish Jews\, were killed. \nThe stories of WWII survivors Adam\, Anatol\, Leonard\, Magdalena\, Maria\, Walter\, and Wiktor are part of the MPMS project An Interrupted Childhood: Polish WWII Survivors in Minnesota. During this phase of the Kalejdoskop Polski MN project\, the collected the oral histories and photographs of Polish Minnesotans who have been through the horrors of the war: a forced laborer in the Third Reich\, deportees to Siberia\, a Polish Army Cadet\, a Volhynia Massacre survivor\, and a Holocaust survivor. These stories represent different fates of Poles during WWII and its aftermath. The collected narratives teach us lessons of suffering\, survival\, resilience\, and gratitude are truly humbling and inspiring. \nThis two-part program and exhibition represents part two of the Kalejdoskop Polski MN project initiated in 2020 by the Minnesota Polish Medical Society that aims to document the stories of contemporary Polish immigrants and refugees who settled in Minnesota. The lead artist for Kalejdoskop Polski MN is Grzegorz Litynski\, a professional documentary photographer (www.litynski.com). This body of work forms a traveling photographic exhibition. Katarzyna Litak curates the exhibition. \nExhibition Organizer & Curator: Katarzyna Litak\, MD\, is MPMS President\, Kalejdoskop Polski\, MN project manager\, exhibition designer\, and curator. She conducted oral interviews for the project. Originally from Poland\, she continued medical training at the University of Minnesota. She is also a practicing physician. \nHistory Witness: Adam Han-Gorski was born to a Jewish family in Lwów\, Poland (now Ukraine)\, in 1940. Adam survived ghettos in Jaworów and Kraków and was saved by his Polish nanny Katarzyna. At age five\, he reunited with his parents\, who survived the Holocaust. After the war\, the family was forcibly relocated from Lwów\, which became part of the Soviet Union\, to Upper Silesia\, Poland. Later Adam lived in Israel\, Austria\, Germany\, and the United States. Adam became a renowned violinist and a concertmaster who performed with many orchestras worldwide\, including the Minnesota Orchestra. \nOral Histories will be shared from the following (they will not be in attendance):\nMagdalena was born in Kraków\, Poland in 1925. During WWII\, Magdalena lived in Kraków until she was arrested in a street roundup on the way home from school in 1941. Magdalena was 16 when she was sent to Germany as a forced laborer. In 1945\, after the war\, she met Eugeniusz (Eugene) Świderski\, a Polish officer who spent five years in a POW camp in Germany. They married and lived in France. In the 1950s\, the family emigrated to the United States with their daughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth Seidner\, Magdalena’s daughter\, was the history witness. \nAnatol was born in 1934 in Tiutków\, Poland (now Ukraine). In June 1940\, at age five\, he was deported with his mother and sister by the Soviet Security forces (NKVD) to a work camp in Siberia. He was released with his mother from the camp in the winter of 1941/42. On their way to the Polish army formed under General Anders\, Anatol separated from his mother and spent nine months in Soviet Russia alone. On the brink of death from starvation\, his mother found him in a Polish orphanage in Iran. With Polish troops\, he and his mother went from Iran to Lebanon before they immigrated to the United States after the war. \nWalter was born in Burdykowszczyzna\, Poland (now Belarus) in\, in 1926. In September 1939\, the Soviet Army invaded eastern Poland\, and the brutal occupation began. In February 1940\, Walter’s family was sent by NKVD to a Soviet work camp near Arkhangelsk in the Arctic Circle. Two years later\, Walter and his family were released from the work camp and journeyed to Uzbekistan to the Polish Army under General W. Anders. As a teenager\, Walter completed military training for Young Soldiers in Egypt and participated in the legendary Monte Cassino battle in 1944. After the war\, he lived in Great Britain and then emigrated to Minnesota in 1961. \n 
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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.
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