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Ramsey County History – Fall 2022: Book Review

Volume 57, Number 3: Fall 2022 Book Review Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota by Chad Montrie Reviewed by Renoir W. Gaither RCHS_Fall 2022_Book Review…

March of the Governors #20: Jacob A. O. Preus

Paul Nelson and Matt Wright

March of the Governors, Governor #20 Jacob A. O. Preus (Series Podcast #21) By age forty-one, Jacob A. O. Preus had been Minnesota’s insurance commissioner and state auditor and had served two successful terms as governor (1921-1925). On his watch, the Minnesota…

History Revealed: Vikings in the Attic

Eric Dregni

Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America with Eric Dregni History Revealed Series Program Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022 Video on YouTube In partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library Growing up with Swedish and Norwegian grandparents with…

Ramsey County History – Summer 2022: “Bob Brown: ‘Paint What You See'”

Paul Nelson

Bob Brown: “Paint What You See” Author: Paul Nelson This is the story of a solitary St. Paul resident named Bob Brown. Attempting to make a living in the midst of the Great Depression was difficult, to say the least, but Brown took long walks around the…

Ramsey County History – Summer 2022: “All Hail Young Historians: Minnesota Represented at National History Day 2022”

Ramsey County Historical Society

All Hail Young Historians: Minnesota Represented at National History Day 2022 Everyone loves a good competition, including the Minnesota junior high and high school students whose thirty-six projects advanced from local, regional, and state levels all the way to the top—the National History Day national competition, which took…

March of the Governors, Governor #17, Adolph Olson Eberhart

Paul Nelson and Ken Peterson

Adolph Eberhart Podcast Link Adolph Eberhart (1870-1944) was a penniless, immigrant child from Varmland, Sweden, who embraced the opportunities the United States offered. Despite minimal schooling, he was named valedictorian of his class at Gustavus Adolphus College. He later became…

History Revealed: Natural Curiosity

Don Luce

A Natural Curiosity: The Story of the Bell Museum with Don Luce History Revealed Series Program Date: July 21, 2022 Video on YouTube Since its humble start in 1872 as a one-room cabinet of curiosities, the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum of natural history…

History Revealed: Daybreak Woman

Jane Lamm Carroll

Daybreak Woman with Jane Lamm Carroll History Revealed Series Program Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 Video on YouTube In partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library A remarkable woman’s life spans nearly a century of peace, invasion, war, exile, return, and…

March of the Governors, Governor #16, John Albert Johnson

Paul Nelson and Ken Peterson

John Albert Johnson Podcast Link Minnesota’s sixteenth governor, John Albert Johnson, was our fourth from St. Peter. He had a “rags-to-riches Horatio Alger life.” The son of Swedish immigrants, he quit school at age twelve to support his mother and siblings. Self-educated, he eventually became a newspaper…