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The North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader
An engaging history of Minnesota, told in compelling essays by the state's finest historians and writers.
Two hundred years of Minnesota history spring to life in this lively and captivating collection of essays. The North Star State encompasses the wide range of Minnesota's unique past—from the Civil War to the World Wars, from frontier life to the age of technological innovation, from Dakota and Ojibwe history to the story of St. Paul's black sleeping-car porters, from lumber workers and truckers' strikes to the women's suffrage movement.
In addition to investigative articles by the state's top historians, editor Anne Aby has assembled captivating first-person accounts from key moments in Minnesota history, including George Nelson's reminiscences of his years in the early nineteenth-century fur trade; the diary of Emily Goodridge Grey, an early African American settler; and Jasper N. Searles's letters home from the Battle of First Bull Run.
Two hundred years of Minnesota history spring to life in this lively and captivating collection of essays. The North Star State encompasses the wide range of Minnesota's unique past—from the Civil War to the World Wars, from frontier life to the age of technological innovation, from Dakota and Ojibwe history to the story of St. Paul's black sleeping-car porters, from lumber workers and truckers' strikes to the women's suffrage movement.
In addition to investigative articles by the state's top historians, editor Anne Aby has assembled captivating first-person accounts from key moments in Minnesota history, including George Nelson's reminiscences of his years in the early nineteenth-century fur trade; the diary of Emily Goodridge Grey, an early African American settler; and Jasper N. Searles's letters home from the Battle of First Bull Run.
486 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2002
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September 29, 2018
For history books related to the state of Minnesota, "North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader" by Anne Alby is not the first book I'd recommend. Across 29 essays, we the reader get an at times biased viewpoint of the history of the state which at times can be uninteresting & honestly geared toward perhaps a college class in history of the state. While the essays themselves are grouped into segments of the state's history, this is not a book I'd recommend to anyone with an interest in the history of the Land of 10,000 Lakes especially if you are not a native like I am and only a visitor. Very disappointing.
March 5, 2013
This book was a good comprehensive overview of the history of Minnesota. The book covers a lot of ground and at times went into too much detail of certain topics making me forget that I was reading a book about Minnesota. However it does a nice job presenting topics that you don't learn in grade school.
July 13, 2009
we don't learn about this in school much and it is good to know the basic history of where we live. after all it is the center of our universe.
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