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Ramsey County History 2026 Issue 3

Jennings Mergenthal, Lisa Heinrich, and Kylie Linh Hoang

Volume 61, No. 3 Jennings Mergenthal, Lisa Heinrich, and Kylie Linh Hoang PDF of full issue: Ramsey County History 2026 #3   Articles in this issue: “An Insatiable Colonial Appetite: The Rise and Fall of the Passenger Pigeon in Ramsey County and Environs” Author: Jennings Mergenthal Flocks of passenger…

The Rise and Fall of the Passenger Pigeon in Ramsey County and Environs

Jennings Mergenthal

“An Insatiable Colonial Appetite” by Jennings Mergenthal To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. In April 1864, the Saint Paul Daily Press advertised the lunch menu at the Star and Garter Concert Saloon: “Turtle soup, frog legs, roast…

Amelia Earhart’s Sojourn in St. Paul

Lisa Heinrich

“Before Her Ascent to Fame” by Lisa Heinrich To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. Over a hundred years ago, high school students in St. Paul were enjoying Central High School’s new location at Marshall Avenue and Lexington Parkway. A…

We Should All Be Public Historians

Kylie Linh Hoang

by Kylie Linh Hoang To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. My history education began in a very ordinary classroom with a whiteboard and a large world map. I remember reading atlases and encyclopedias and diligently copying down dates and…

Ramsey County History 2026 Issue 2

Jeremiah E. Ellis, James Fleming and Paul Nelson, Frank M. White

Volume 61, No. 2 Jeremiah E. Ellis, James Fleming and Paul Nelson, Frank M. White PDF of full issue: Ramsey County History 2026, Issue 2   Articles in this issue: “James and Frances Hughes and the Architecture of Black Excellence in Minnesota” Author: Jeremiah E. Ellis At a…

James and Frances Hughes and the Architecture of Black Excellence in Minnesota

Jeremiah E. Ellis

“The Merit of Service” by Jeremiah E. Ellis To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. My mother once told me about a day in her childhood when a teacher offered to drive her home from school. As they pulled out…

Pierce Butler’s Seventeen Years Serving as St. Paul’s First US Supreme Court Justice

Paul Nelson and James Fleming

“Horseman of the Court” by James Fleming and Paul Nelson To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. The following is the second of a two-part series about the life and career of Pierce Butler. To read the first article on…

Growing Up Dos Culturas

Frank M. White

by Frank M. White To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. When I think back on my family history, where do I begin? I was born in November of 1945, which seems like a long time ago, into a bicultural…

Rights and Reasoning: Pierce Butler’s Supreme Court Opinions

Paul Nelson and James Fleming

View this online sidebar as a PDF.   Rights and Reasoning Pierce Butler’s Supreme Court Opinions by James Fleming and Paul Nelson   Buck v. Bell In 1927, the Supreme Court ruled that sterilization of female dependents by a state was lawful.1 Carrie Buck, an eighteen-year-old resident of a…