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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Indian Wars Everywhere
DESCRIPTION:Indian Wars Everywhere\nStefan Aune\, PhD\, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies\, Williams College\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 18\, 2024\, 7:00 pm\n\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom- Register Here\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nFree and open to all. \n\nReferences to the Indian Wars\, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion\, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by paratroopers jumping from airplanes\, words and images referring to Indians have been indelibly linked with warfare. In “Indian Wars Everywhere\,” Stefan Aune shows how these resonances signal a deeper history\, one in which the Indian Wars function as a shadow doctrine that influences US military violence. The United States’ formative acts of colonial violence persist in the actions\, imaginations\, and stories that have facilitated the spread of American empire\, from the “savage wars” of the nineteenth century to the counterinsurgencies of the Global War on Terror. Ranging across centuries and continents\, “Indian Wars Everywhere” considers what it means for the conquest of Native peoples to be deemed a success that can be used as a blueprint for modern warfare.\nStefan Aune graduated from Macalester College in 2011 and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.  He is a historian of the global United States whose research examines the intersections of race\, colonialism\, and violence. He teaches courses in American Studies\, Native American and Indigenous Studies\, empire and US foreign policy\, critical theory\, environmental history\, and the history of violence. His writing has appeared in American Quarterly\, Pacific Historical Review\, and in the edited volume At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. He is currently finishing a book manuscript titled Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire\, which explores how the violence that accompanied US continental expansion has influenced global US militarism from the nineteneth century through the War on Terror. His research reflects on what it means for the conquest of Native peoples to be used as a blueprint for modern warfare. Prior to Williams\, Stefan spent three years as the Elihu Rose Scholar and a faculty fellow in the History Department at New York University.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Defying the Silence
DESCRIPTION:Defying the Silence: A Chronicle of Resilience that Saved the World-Renowned Minnesota Orchestra\nJulie Ayer\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, November 30\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn this extraordinary example of how to unionize in the arts\, Julie Ayer reveals how some of the world’s finest musicians went from sitting in the Minnesota Orchestra to standing in the picket line . . . and how their city rallied around them.  The lockout that began on October 1\, 2012\, became the longest and most infamous work stoppage in American orchestral labor history.  What came to pass was a struggle for the very identity of an orchestra that had been at the heart of the Minnesota arts scene since it was founded in 1903. But the musicians didn’t feel despair–they felt defiance. And Twin Cities music lovers were ready to defend the orchestra alongside them. \nWith thirty-six years as a violinist in the Minnesota Orchestra\, Julie Ayer is the perfect voice to chronicle this powerful book about Minnesota history. She pairs firsthand accounts from personal connections with meticulous research and an intimate understanding of the institution itself. \nIn the face of adversity\, the musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra did what they do best–they defied the silence and brought the music back. \n \nJulie Ayer is a professional violinist\, arts advocate\, historian\, and author. A passionate lifelong musician\, she spent her thirty-six-year professional career in the Minnesota Orchestra\, including their ground-breaking tour to Cuba in 2015. Julie also was a member of the Houston Symphony\, Santa Fe Opera Orchestra\, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. \nThroughout her career\, Ayer was involved in many orchestra committees\, including labor negotiations. Today\, Ayer is a member of Classica Chamber Players and plays regularly in the Twin Cities. She has presented workshops and spoken to a variety of groups\, including labor lawyers\, music students\, and colleagues. Julie has a master’s degree in music and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first book\, More Than Meets the Ear: How Symphony Musicians Made Labor History\, was reviewed in publications including the Boston Globe\, Star Tribune\, and International Musician.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Prairie Imperialists
DESCRIPTION:Prairie Imperialists: The Indian Country Origins of American Empire\nKatherine Bjork\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, October 19\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as an imperial power. It was when the United States first landed troops overseas and established governments of occupation in the Philippines\, Cuba\, and other formerly Spanish colonies. But such actions to extend U.S. sovereignty abroad\, argues Katharine Bjork\, had a precedent in earlier relations with Native nations at home. In Prairie Imperialists\, Bjork traces the arc of American expansion by showing how the Army’s conquests of what its soldiers called “Indian Country” generated a repertoire of actions and understandings that structured encounters with the racial others of America’s new island territories following the War of 1898. \nPrairie Imperialists follows the colonial careers of three Army officers from the domestic frontier to overseas posts in Cuba and the Philippines. The men profiled—Hugh Lenox Scott\, Robert Lee Bullard\, and John J. Pershing—internalized ways of behaving in Indian Country that shaped their approach to later colonial appointments abroad. Scott’s ethnographic knowledge and experience with Native Americans were valorized as an asset for colonial service; Bullard and Pershing\, who had commanded African American troops\, were regarded as particularly suited for roles in the pacification and administration of colonial peoples overseas. After returning to the mainland\, these three men played prominent roles in the “Punitive Expedition” President Woodrow Wilson sent across the southern border in 1916\, during which Mexico figured as the next iteration of “Indian Country.” \nWith rich biographical detail and ambitious historical scope\, Prairie Imperialists makes fundamental connections between American colonialism and the racial dimensions of domestic political and social life—during peacetime and while at war. Ultimately\, Bjork contends\, the concept of “Indian Country” has served as the guiding force of American imperial expansion and nation building for the past two and a half centuries and endures to this day. \nKatharine Bjork is Professor of History at Hamline University and author of In the Circle of Dance: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal. \nPlease check out our partner Subtext Books\, located in downtown St. Paul and online at: https://subtextbooks.com/ for this and other History Revealed titles.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Connecting to Collections- Preservation for Who? 
DESCRIPTION:Connecting to Collections: Preservation for Who?   \nChris Rico\, Nienow Cultural Consultants \nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, September 21\, 2023\n7:00 pm \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and Ramsey County Libraries-Roseville \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nJoin Public Historian\, Archaeologist\, and Conservator\, Christopher Rico (M.HSPH) for a focused discussion on the topic of representation and access in museum collections and how to care for and preserve your personal collections like a museum conservator. In this program\, Christopher will talk about some of the social and cultural issues connected to collecting institutes\, how these issues effect different communities\, and how it has led to the growth of grassroots community preservation initiatives and a growing need for the sharing of resources and knowledge in preservation techniques. \nMany museums and collecting institutions task themselves with adding to and maintaining their collections of 3-D objects\, books\, paper files\, and the digital and physical archives which accompany them. This task is often made a central pillar of a collecting institution’s mission as it is held that through this process\, knowledges may be preserved\, access to them expanded\, and through interpretation new understandings created. However\, being that this practice is historically rooted to empire and colonialism\, there is an undeniable effect on the way in which this mission has been conducted. Furthermore\, additional factors within institutions affect how collections are managed and what is deemed worthy of collection. Among other effects\, this results in the exclusion of certain communities within collections\, barriers to access\, and questions about the accuracy of knowledge provided by collections and their interpretation. In response to these issues\, the practices of community archiving and grassroots preservation have grown exponentially in recent decades\, creating a need for access to complex resources and knowledges often held by or provided exclusively to collecting institutions. \nChris Rico has a robust and diverse field of experience in heritage studies spanning over the last six years. He obtained his master’s degree at the University of Minnesota in Heritage Studies and Public History and has been working in various community development positions since. His breadth of experience includes extensive archival use\, processing\, and research experience\, community driven and engaged public history projects\, oral histories\, and preservation and special collections management.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Martin Luther King's Vision
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.’s Vision of Freedom in American Memory\nDr. Walter Greason\nHistory Revealed Series\nNew Date: Thursday\, January 19\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe study of Martin Luther King\, Jr.’s life and legacy offers important lessons about radical democracy in the 21st century. These principles have never been more urgently needed than in the aftermath of the 2022 election cycle. Our observation of the King Holiday and this presentation give us the opportunity to have a rich conversation between the past and the present and to get to know a new member of the Twin Cities historians’ community. \nFeatured image: Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous\, “I Have a Dream\,” speech during the Aug. 28\, 1963\, march on Washington\, D.C.\, August 28\, 1963. \n \nDr. Walter Greason is Professor and Chairperson of the History Department at Macalester College\, and he has just been named to the DeWitt Wallace Endowed Chair in History.  He is a dedicated teacher and a prolific scholar.  His books include The Path to Freedom: Black Families in New Jersey; Cities Imagined: The African Diaspora in Media and History (with Julian Chambliss); Suburban Erasure: How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey; Industrial Segregation (with David Goldberg); The American Economy (with William Gorman); Stories of Slavery in New Jersey (with Rick Geffken); and Finding your Blind Spots: Eight Guiding Principles for Overcoming Implicit Bias in Teaching. Dr. Greason is a lifelong civil rights activist and educator. His most recent projects explore the history of Black education\, hip hop\, and architecture in the United States.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story\nDocumentary Film Screening & Discussion\nwith Filmmakers Randy Croce\, Tom O’Connell\, and Anna Kuharjec\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, November 10\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe East Side Freedom Library\, Ramsey County Historical Society\, and Roseville Public Library invite you to a special session of History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story. This event will include a screening and discussion of a new documentary film.\n\nThe Farmer-Labor movement founded the most successful third-party in U.S. political history. This progressive movement elected candidates and advanced political change in Minnesota from 1917 until its merger with the Democrats in 1944\, to form the DFL\, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. The documentary portrays this history through the voices of Farmer-Labor leaders and their descendants\, as well as contemporary historians and activists. Animated segments bring the personal stories of Farmer-Labor men and women to life\, while songs from the period convey the spirit of the movement. \nWhile the movement’s ideas and achievements still affect Minnesota’s political and social fabric\, its history is largely unknown. The documentary addresses that awareness gap and points out how Farmer-Labor goals and the challenges still resonate today. \nPlease join filmmakers Randy Croce\, Tom O’Connell\, and Anna Kuharjec for a conversation after the screening. \nRandy Croce has been a documentary photographer and video producer since 1976. His PBS broadcast shows include Clouded Land\, If Stone Could Speak and Who built Our Capitol? He worked at the U of M Labor Education Service\, where he produced shows with workers and their unions. \nTom O’Connell is a retired professor of Political Studies from Metropolitan State University and served as founding chairperson of ESFL’s Board of Directors. He has taught and written about social movements with a special focus on MInnesota’s Farmer-Labor and Progressive Populist History. \nAnna Kuharjec has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois and is teaching in the History program of the Dougherty Family College of the University of St. Thomas. \nFree and open to all. \n\nThis presentation is part of our 2022 series “Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants.” \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, programs which focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Vikings in the Attic
DESCRIPTION:Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America\nwith Eric Dregni\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, October 20\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nGrowing up with Swedish and Norwegian grandparents with a dash of Danish thrown in for balance\, Eric Dregni thought Scandinavians were perfectly normal. Who doesn’t enjoy a good\, healthy salad (Jell-O packed with canned fruit\, colored marshmallows\, pretzels\, and even olives) or perhaps some cod soaked in drain cleaner as the highlights of Christmas? In Vikings in the Attic\, Dregni tracks down and explores the significant—and quite often bizarre—historic sites\, tales\, and traditions of Scandinavia’s peculiar colony in the Midwest. It’s a legacy of the unique—shots of turpentine for the common cold—but also one of poor immigrants living in sod houses while their children attend college\, the birth of the co-op movement\, and government agents spying on Scandinavian meetings hoping to nab a socialist or antiwar activist. \n \nEric Dregni is the author of 20 books including Vikings in the Attic\, Weird Minnesota\, Never Trust a Thin Cook\, Let’s Go Fishing!\, For the Love of Cod\, and Impossible Road Trip. He wrote about his 15-year experience running one of the Concordia Language Villages in You’re Sending Me Where? Dispatches from Summer Camp. As a Fulbright fellow to Norway\, he survived a dinner of rakfisk (fermented fish) thanks to 80-proof aquavit\, took the “meat bus” to Sweden for cheap salami with a busload of knitting pensioners\, and compiled the stories in In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream. \nHe is Professor of English\, Journalism\, & Italian at Concordia St. Paul and\, in the summer\, dean of the Italian Concordia Language Village\, Lago del Bosco. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three kids. \nMaking Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants\nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day. programs which focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Tikkun Olam
DESCRIPTION:Tikkun Olam: Jewish Women Serving Their St. Paul Community\nwith Kate Dietrick\, Gabrielle Horner\, and Janet Kampf\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, March 17\, 2022\n7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants. These programs focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home. \nFive women from St. Paul’s Jewish community—Hannah Austrian\, Sophie Wirth\, Annie Paper\, Gretta Freeman\, and Rhoda Redleaf embraced and helped resettle impoverished Jewish immigrants through education efforts\, job training\, and by providing relief. They also rallied for basic rights\, stepping up in times when progressive actions by women were often frowned upon. While their names may have been forgotten by most\, their work to make the world a better place still impacts the local community to this day. Their lives provide insights into Jewish immigrant life in the upper Midwest in the late nineteenth century. \nAuthors and historians Kate Dietrick\, Gabe Horner and Janet Kampf will present the stories of these women and the long-lasting effects that their efforts have had on the Jewish community. \nTo learn more\, see the Ramsey County History article in the Fall 2021 issue. \nImage: Boys at the Lake Rest Vacation Home\, established in 1911 was renamed Sophie Wirth Camp in 1926 to honor the work of Sophie Wirth. \nKate Dietrick is the archivist for the Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives at the University of Minnesota. She is a resident of St. Paul and a member of Mount Zion Temple. \nGabrielle Horner is a descendant of Italian\, German and English immigrants to St. Paul and is a lifelong resident. She is coauthor of A Grand History: The Summit Hill Neighborhood’s First 200 Years. \nJanet Kampf joined Mount Zion Temple in 1968 and is a member of The Women of Mount Zion Temple. She is the past chair and the current secretary-treasurer of Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Scottie Primus Davis
DESCRIPTION:Scottie Primus Davis: A Story Forgotten to Time\nwith Mary K. Boyd\, Chester C. Owens Jr.\, Granvile T. O’Neal and Steve Trimble\nOther panelists may be announced. Moderated by Meredith Cummings\, RCHS Editor\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 17\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nScottie Primus Davis spent her formative years in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, growing up under the tutelage of involved parents and well-respected “movers and shakers\,” including J. Q. Adams\, the Farr sisters\, Nellie Francis\, and others. So\, it wasn’t a surprise when the determined Davis became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Minnesota\, hired on as a no-nonsense English teacher\, and continued her lifelong learning\, completing a master’s degree from Harvard University. But now we have the honor of learning about the incomparable\, the unforgettable (Miss) Scottie Primus Davis. \nHistorian Steve Trimble\, author of an article in Ramsey County History magazine on Miss Scottie Primus Davis\, will be joined by educator Mary K. Boyd in a panel discussion moderated by RCHS Editor Meredith Cummings. \nImage: Scottie P. Davis in her graduation photo from the University of Minnesota. Photo courtesy of University of Minnesota archives and the Saint Paul Almanac. From Ramsey County History magazine. \n\n\n\nMary K. Murray Boyd is President and CEO of MKB & Associates\, Inc.\, an education and human services consulting business. Ms. Boyd has extensive experience in management\, leadership\, communications and coalition building\, serving in a variety of roles professionally and in the Saint Paul community. She held several positions in the Saint Paul Public Schools beginning as a teacher’s aide and retiring in 2001 as an Area Superintendent. Since retiring from Saint Paul Public schools\, Boyd has served in three interim positions\, Manager of Ramsey County Child Protection\, Director of Ramsey County Community Human Services Department’s Family and Children’s Services Division and Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Hamline University. She has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of St. Thomas and at the University of Minnesota. \nChester C. Owens Jr. is a retired business owner\, veteran\, historian\, community activist\, and student of Miss Scottie P. Davis in the late 1940s/early 1950s. He served in the U.S. Air Force. In the early 1960s\, he worked with the Northwest District Citizens Committee and the NAACP to desegregate the downtown shopping district in Kansas City\, Kansas\, and served as chairman of the NAACP’s Labor and Industry Committee from 1960 to 1963. In 1976\, Owens bought H.W. Sewing and Co.\, serving as president of the agency. In 1983\, he was elected to the City Council of Kansas City\, making him the first African American elected in the 20th century. Serving two terms on the council\, he also briefly served as deputy mayor in 1984. Owens retired as president of H.W. Sewing and Co. in 1998. Owens has also served on numerous boards and as president of the Northeast Business Association\, on the boards of Homeowner’s Task Force for the State of Kansas\, the Economic Opportunity Foundation\, and Sumner High School Alumni Association. He is also a member of Sigma Pi Phi and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternities. He is the recipient of numerous awards\, among which are the Kansas City\, Kansas Leadership Award in 1989\, of which he was the first ever recipient; the Kansas City Globe’s One Hundred Most Influential Citizens in 1990; the 2012 Outstanding Leadership Award presented by the Kansas House of Representatives;  the NAACP Civil Rights Award; and the Friends of Yates’ Black Man of Distinction Award. Owens has also been honored through the naming of the Chester C. Owens Sumner Alumni Room and The Chester Owens Jr. Construction Skills Training Center\, which houses a U.S. Department of Labor-run program called YouthBuild\, both named in 2011. \nMr. Owens will be joined by Granvile T. O’Neal\, an actor and fine arts professional based in Kansas City\, Kansas. O’Neal serves on the board of the Traditional Music Society and is curator for the Chester C. Owens Sumner Alumni Room\, which maintains artifacts\, memorabilia\, and historical information on Sumner High School. He also has numerous commercial\, voice overs\, and film credits. \nSteve Trimble is an author\, a historian\, and a frequent contributor to the Dayton’s Bluff District Forum. He is a member of the Ramsey County Historical Society Editorial Board\, and has written a number of articles for our magazine\, Ramsey County History\, including an article on Scottie Primus Davis in the Winter 2022 issue. Steve is a frequent lecturer\, author\, and book collector.
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CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Harriet Scott
DESCRIPTION:Settler Colonialism Seen Through the Life of Harriet Scott\nwith Jane Henderson\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 10\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nScholars of institutionalized racism have used the term “settler colonialism” to characterize the development of the United States — and many other countries. While this has been a useful concept leading to the asking — and answering — of productive questions\, it has often\, perhaps too often\, been deployed at a level of abstraction that seems remote from the ways that indigenous people\, white people\, immigrants\, and African Americans have lived their lives and interacted with each other. \nJane Henderson’s research engages the conversation around American slavery in the North within the framework of the expansion of the U.S. nation state through the frontier.  Fort Snelling\, the first white American settlement in the Minnesota territory\, was also the site of the first Black community in the state.  Henderson’s research draws on letters of prominent military officials\, merchants\, and others involved in “Indian business.”  She probes the letters and records of Lawrence Talliaferro\, an Indian agent for the Federal Government tasked with administering  annuity payments to Dakota and Ojibwe peoples\, in exchange for claims to their land.  Talliaferro was one of the largest slave owners in the Minnesota territory.  Henderson uses these sources to trace the life of Harriet Robinson\, who was owned by Talliaferro and held at Fort Snelling. In 1836/37\, she met and married Dred Scott\, who 20 years later would earn a place in history by suing for his freedom\, his case reaching the U.S. Supreme Court.  Henderson uses Harriet (and Dred) Scott’s lives not only as pathways into reconstructing the lives of enslaved women and men at Fort Snelling but also to illuminate the shifting political economy of the region from centering the fur trade toward an economy based on the commodification of land\, the commercialization of trade\, and the exploitation of labor\, both enslaved and free.  Her presentation\, while centered on the previously little told story of an individual enslaved woman\, will raise important questions about the relationships between U.S. militarism\, slave labor\, genocide\, and emancipation on the frontier. \nImage: Harriet Robinson Scott\, from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated\, New York\, June 17\, 1857. \n \nJane Henderson grew up in the Twin Cities before earning a BA in Ethnic Studies and Spanish at the University of San Diego. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at UC-Berkeley\, and she has returned to Minneapolis to research her dissertation on Black place-making in Minnesota. \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants. These programs focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
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CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Making Minnesota - Saint Paul
DESCRIPTION:Making Minnesota: The Story of Saint Paul\nBill Lindeke\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 20\, 2022\n7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants. These programs focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home. \nBill Lindeke will explore this topic as it relates to the history of Saint Paul in the second program in the series. The first will be “We Are Meant To Be Here” on January 13\, 2022. More information on both these programs and the series will be coming soon. \nBill Lindeke is an urban geographer and writer who focuses on how our environments shape our lives. He wrote MinnPost’s “Cityscapes” column from 2014 to 2017\, has written articles on local food and drink history for City Pages and the Growler\, and has taught urban geography at the University of Minnesota and Metro State University. He writes a local urban blog at Twin City Sidewalks and is a member of the Saint Paul Planning Commission. He is the author of Minneapolis–Saint Paul: Then and Now and the coauthor of Closing Time: Saloons\, Taverns\, Dives\, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities with Andy Strdevant. His most recent book is St. Paul: An Urban Biography\, a concise history of St. Paul. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/ \nImage: Postcard titled “St. Paul\, 1856\,” describing the cover as an oil painting by S. Holmes Andrews. The first Minnesota Territorial Capitol building is in the center far background. From the RCHS Collection.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-making-minnesota-saint-paul/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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