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| Preface | xi | |
| 1 | Of Ice and Early Man | 5 |
| The Great Meltdown | ||
| Early Humans | ||
| The Mississippian Tradition | ||
| Visiting History | ||
| 2 | First Nations | 16 |
| The Dakota People | ||
| The Ojibwe People | ||
| Visiting History | ||
| Side Trip The Kensington Runestone | ||
| 3 | Explorers and Fur Traders | 27 |
| French Explorations | ||
| The Arrival of the Ojibwe | ||
| The Age of the Voyageurs | ||
| Under the American Flag | ||
| American Explorations | ||
| Visiting History | ||
| 4 | From Wilderness to Statehood | 51 |
| Indian Cessions and White Pioneers | ||
| Minnesota Territory | ||
| Displacing the Native Inhabitants | ||
| The Fast-Moving Frontier | ||
| The Thirty-Second State | ||
| Visiting History | ||
| 5 | Minnesota's Two-Front Civil War | 83 |
| From Bull Run to Shiloh | ||
| Roots of the Dakota Conflict | ||
| The Dakota War | ||
| Vengeance | ||
| From Antietam to Appomattox | ||
| Visiting History | ||
| 6 | Empires in Green | 111 |
| From Prairie to Wheat Belt | ||
| Spring Wheat and Barbed Wire | ||
| The Grasshopper Plagues | ||
| Empire in Pine | ||
| Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the Passing of the Logging Frontier | ||
| James J. Hill and the Great Northern Railway | ||
| Empire in Rouge | ||
| Visiting History | ||
| Side Trip Paul Bunyan | ||
| 7 | The Age of Reform | 145 |
| Ignatius Donnelly and the Politics of Reform | ||
| The Farmers' Alliance | ||
| The Rise and Fall of the People's Party | ||
| Dawn of Progressivism | ||
| Women's Suffrage and Prohibition | ||
| Visiting History | ||
| Side Trip The Atlantic Crossing: An Immigrant's Story | ||
| 8 | The Birth of a Liberal Tradition | 179 |
| The Nonpartisan League and Wartime Repression | ||
| Birth of the Farmer-Labor Party | ||
| Progress and Poverty in the Booming Twenties | ||
| The Depression, the New Deal, and Farmer-Labor Leadership | ||
| Harold Stassen and New Model Republicanism | ||
| Visiting History | ||
| Side Trip God's Fault or the Railroads'? The Cloquet Fire of 1918 | ||
| 9 | Maverick in the Mainstream | 207 |
| World War II | ||
| Hubert Humphrey and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party | ||
| Hubert Humphrey and Civil Rights | ||
| The Ebb and Flow of a Liberal Consensus | ||
| The Ultimate Maverick | ||
| Visiting History | ||
| 10 | Minnesota Exceptionalism | 232 |
| The Mayo Clinic | ||
| "Which Way Is Ireland?": Lindbergh's Flight Across the Atlantic | ||
| Words and Music in the Twin Cities | ||
| The State Park System | ||
| The Boundary Waters | ||
| The Taconite/Reserve Controversy | ||
| Visiting History | ||
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 267 | |
| Appendix | A Guide to Visiting History | 271 |
| Index | 275 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Justin Hennis
reviewed A Popular History of Minnesota on June 16, 2020
A Popular History of Minnesota
This book is about just what the title implies: a history of MN from the first peoples who lived here all the way up through modern times.
The aspect of this book which I found related to my experience in MN is learning about MN political, moral and social liberalism. MN's generous social programs have made it a unique state-- and these social programs have done nothing but help our state. We have the highest life expectancy of any state except Hawaii, we always place near the top in test scores and etc. Other areas of MN exceptionalism are things like the Mayo Clinic, our art and music and our state parks (including the Boundary Waters).
MN has become a home for more and more immigrant groups because of MN social programs, including as we all know, large Hmong and Somali groups as well as many South and Central American immigrants.
While I have been aware for some time now what an awesome state MN is, it was great to read about it in a book. It also made me think about the CTEP program in general and how it's part of a larger system in MN, and a larger tradition, of trying to make our communities better places to live. MN has always gone about betterment in smart, effective and unique ways and I think CTEP is very Minnesotan in that way. It responds to a large need within the community and allows members to directly work at fixing the problem through education and sharing of resources. It does well in the Twin Cities because there are already so many great organizations to partner with.
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