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Ramsey County History – Fall 2011: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Reviews Jeanne Reeves Newhall Shepard, A Long View into the Past (Bloomington, Ind.: Sybil S. Eakin, 2010). Larry Millett, Once There Were Castles: Lost Mansions and Estates of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011). PDF of Book Reviews…
Ramsey County History – Spring 2011: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Reviews Kitty Gogins, My Flag Grew Stars: World War II Refugees’ Journey to America (BookSurge Publishing, 2009). Marvin R. O’Connell, Pilgrims to the Northland: The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840–1962 (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009). PDF of Book Reviews…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2011: Book Review
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Review What Readers Are Saying about The Dutiful Son, Louis W. Hill, and Glacier National Park Excerpts from a variety of communications to the Ramsey County Historical Society regarding the Society’s recently published book, The Dutiful Son, which is a biography of Louis W. Hill (1872–1948), the second son…
Ramsey County History – Summer 2010: Book Review
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Review Mary Lethert Wingerd, North Country: The Making of Minnesota (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010). PDF of Book Review…
Ramsey County History – Spring 2010: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Reviews William D. Green, A Peculiar Imbalance: The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Early Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2007). Roger Bergerson, Winging It at a Country Crossroads: The Ups and Downs of Minnesota’s First Real Airport (St. Paul: Roger Bergerson, 2008). PDF of…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2010: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Reviews Larry Millett, Murder Has a Public Face: Crime and Punishment in the Speed Graphic Era (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2008). Greg A. Brick, Subterranean Twin Cities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009). Robert Goodman, the Last Rafter: David Bronson and the St. Croix Lumber Industry (Stillwater, Minn.: Hardenbergh Foundation and the Washington…
Ramsey County History – Fall 2009: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Reviews Joan C. Brainard and Richard E. Leonard, Three Bold Ventures: The History of North Oaks, Minnesota (North Oaks, Minn.: Hill Farm Historical Society and Beaver’s Pond Press, 2007). Biloine W. Young, “My Heart It Is Delicious:” Setting the Course for Cross-Cultural Health Care: The Story of the Center for International Health (Afton,…
Ramsey County History – Summer 2009: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Reviews Jacqueline Nasseff Hilgert, The Bond Between Brothers: From Lebanon to America: An Immigration Story (Minneapolis: NFR Communications, Inc., 2005). David M. Grabitske, Six Miles from St. Paul: The Family and Society of Sarah Jane Sibley (Mendota, Minn.: Friends of the Sibley Historic Site, 2008). PDF of Book…
Ramsey County History – Fall 2008: “Minnesota at 150: Marking Minnesota’s Sesquicentennial: Four New Books”
Steve TrimbleMinnesota at 150: Marking Minnesota’s Sesquicentennial: Four New Books Author: Steve Trimble An essay on four new books that were published in time to celebrate Minnesota’s sesquicentennial. The books are Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out, written by Annette Atkins; Stephen J. Keillor’s Shaping Minnesota’s Identity: 150 Years…