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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 Hoangby 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…
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. Whiteby 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 FlemingView 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…
Bridging Continents: The 1964 African Women’s Institute
Jeremiah E. EllisView this online sidebar as a PDF. African Women’s Institute at Macalester College, circa 1964. Photo courtesy of the Macalester College archives. Bridging Continents The 1964 African Women’s Institute Jeremiah E. Ellis In the summer of 1964, the Hugheses’ ten-acre enclave in Maplewood became a literal bridge between the…
A Tale of Two Lots: The Smith Family’s Path to Frank Street
Jeremiah E. EllisView this online sidebar as a PDF. In 1956, Silas and Roxie Smith began their arduous journey to secure a foothold in Maplewood. The Smiths overcame exclusionary real estate practices and restrictive covenants to build their modern rambler. Their persistence paved the way for four…