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Ramsey County History 2026 Issue 3
Jennings Mergenthal, Lisa Heinrich, and Kylie Linh HoangVolume 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…
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…
Ramsey County History 2026 Issue 1
Paul Nelson and James Fleming, Kate Dietrick, Eula T. Murphy (with David V. Taylor)Volume 61, No. 1 Paul Nelson and James Fleming, Kate Dietrick, Eula T. Murphy (with David V. Taylor) PDF of full issue: Ramsey County History 2026, Issue 1 Articles in this issue: “Hired to Carry the Dagger: Pierce Butler in St. Paul” Authors: Paul Nelson and James Fleming…
Myth, Memory, and the Origins of the St. Paul Jewish Community Center Symphony Orchestra
Kate Dietrick“Under Lisowsky’s Baton” by Kate Dietrick To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. Conductor Peter Lisowsky in action. Part of the St. Paul Jewish Community Center records, courtesy of the Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives, University of…
Looking Back at the Black Community
Eula T. Murphy (with David V. Taylor)“Growing Up in St. Paul” By Eula T. Murphy (with David V. Taylor) To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. Eula T. Murphy in 1961 when she was forty-one years old. The photographs with this article are from the author.
Ramsey County History Summer 2025
Andrea Swensson, Diane Trout-Oertel, Robin J. Doroshow, Nancy Sanchelli Guertin, Frederick L. JohnsonRamsey County History Summer 2025 Volume 60, No. 3: Summer 2025 Diane Trout-Oertel, Robin J. Doroshow, Nancy Sanchelli Guertin Link to download PDF of full Ramsey County History Summer 2025 Articles in this issue: The Matriarch of the Art Colony Early Twentieth Century Art in St. Paul as…
Early Twentieth Century Art in St. Paul as Seen Through the Career of Alice Hügy
Diane Trout-Oertel“The Matriarch of the Art Colony” By Diane Trout-Oertel To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images, please view the PDF version. Portrait of Alice Hügy by Clara Mairs, 1922. Hügy had brown hair, brown eyes and wore wire-rim glasses. Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society. In…
Ramsey County History Spring 2025
Andrea Swensson, Chia Youyee Vang, PhD, Janice R. Quick, Pete BoulayRamsey County History Spring 2025 Volume 60, No. 2: Spring 2025 Chia Youyee Vang, PhD, Janice R. Quick, Pete Boulay Link to download PDF of full Ramsey County History Spring 2025 Articles in this issue: Reflections from the 1.5 Generation Fifty Years of Hmong Lives in Ramsey County…
A History of Drive-in Movie Theaters in Ramsey County
Pete BoulayThe Rose sat at the corner of Snelling Avenue and County Road C in Roseville from 1948 to 1979, and was Ramsey County’s first drive-in movie theater. Photo by Robert Murphy. “First Show at Dusk” By Pete Boulay To see this complete magazine article with endnotes and additional images,…