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Ramsey County History – Summer 2019: “‘I’m as Restless as a Lion:’ The Aspirations of St. Paulite Ruth Cutler”

Johannes Allert

“I’m as Restless as a Lion:” The Aspirations of St. Paulite Ruth Cutler Author: Johannes Allert A young, affluent St. Paulite, Ruth Cutler searched for a purposeful life. A college-educated progressive, Ruth watched the world around her react to war, poverty, the suffrage movement, illness, and loss and responded…

Ramsey County History – Summer 2019: Annual Report

Ramsey County Historical Society

Ramsey County Historical Society 2018-2019 Annual Report PDF of RCHS Annual Report 2018-2019…

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Ramsey County History – Summer 2019: “One Hundred Years Serving New Americans: The Centennial of the International Institute of Minnesota”

Krista Finstad Hanson

One Hundred Years Serving New Americans: The Centennial of the International Institute of Minnesota Author: Krista Finstad Hanson 2020 Co-Winner of the Ramsey County Historical Society Virginia B. Kunz Award As visitors and clients open the doors to the International Institute of Minnesota in St. Paul, they…

Ramsey County History – Spring 2022: “Growing Up in Ramsey County: With a Dash of Foreign Spice”

Kitty Gogins

Growing Up in Ramsey County: With a Dash of Foreign Spice Author: Kitty Gogins 2020 Co-Winner of the Ramsey County Historical Society Virginia B. Kunz Award Kitty Gogins wrote the companion piece to Krista Finstad Hanson’s International Institute of Minnesota history. Gogin’s family, beginning with her refugee parents, Olga and…

Ramsey County History – Spring 2019: “Where the Grass is Always Green: The Founding of Midland Hills a Century Ago”

John Hamburger

Where the Grass is Always Green: The Founding of Midland Hills a Century Ago Author: John Hamburger Golf was growing in popularity in 1915 when a group of University of Minnesota professors built a nine-hole golf course on the edge of the Farm Campus. Four years later, the…

Ramsey County History – Spring 1992: “A Matter of Time”

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Ramsey County History – Spring 2019: Book Review

Gary Gleason

Book Review of The Crusade for Forgotten Souls: Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Institutions, 1946–1954 by Susan Bartlett Foote. PDF of Book Review…

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Ramsey County History Podcast #13 – Spring 2019: International Institute of Minnesota

Paul Nelson and Krista Hanson

International Institute of Minnesota The International Institute of Minnesota opened its doors in St. Paul in December of 1919 to serve the needs of recent immigrants and refugees. One hundred years later, the world has changed, but the International Institute is still in St. Paul, still doing…

A Life on the Middle West’s Never-Ending Frontier

Reviewer: Meredith Cummings

A Life on the Middle West’s Never-Ending Frontier Willard L. “Sandy” Boyd Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019 394 pages; hard cover; 22 b&w photos; $35 A Life on the Middle West’s Never Ending Frontier is a well-written and sometimes humorous and self-deprecating memoir by St. Paul native…