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Norman K. Risjord


Born
in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, The United States
October 21, 1931

Died
January 31, 2019

Genre
History


AKA Norman Kurt Risjord;
University: BA, College of William and Mary (1953)
University: PhD, University of Virginia (1960)
Professor: History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Average rating: 3.65 · 255 ratings · 39 reviews · 50 distinct works • Similar authors
A Popular History of Minnesota
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Jefferson's America, 1760–1815
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Thomas Jefferson
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Representative Americans: T...
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Representative Americans: T...
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Insights on American History
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“By 1849, when Minnesota achieved the status of a territory, St. Paul numbered about 900 inhabitants, Stillwater about 600, and St. Anthony about 250.”
― Norman Risjord, A Popular History of Minnesota: With History Travel Guides
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“The northern public immediately assumed that Douglas was handing Kansas to the South as another slave state because proslavery emigrants from Missouri were certain to dominate its politics. In the ensuing uproar the disintegrating Whig Party disappeared altogether, and a new antislavery Republican Party was born.”
― Norman Risjord, A Popular History of Minnesota: With History Travel Guides
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“Thus, Minnesota was the first state to volunteer soldiers for the Union army, two days before the president issued a public call for seventy-five thousand enlistments to serve for three months.”
― Norman K. Risjord, A Popular History of Minnesota
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