Minnesota Historical Society Press
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The Creator’s Game: A Story of Baaga’adowe/Lacrosse
$8.95 Add to cartEleven-year-old Travis Skinaway learns about his American Indian culture and history as he practices the Creator’s game, lacrosse.
- Author: Coulson, Art
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0873519094
- Language: English
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The Mukluk Ball
$16.95 Add to cartKarhu the bear lives in the piney north woods near the bustling burg of Finn Town. When he sees a billboard advertising “Mukluk Ball: Come One, Come All,” he wants to go Unfortunately, a few obstacle… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Katharine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1681341166
- Language: English
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Rhoda’s Rock Hunt
$17.95 Add to cartRhoda is on a long, long hike with her aunt and uncle, each of them carrying backpacks of gear as they walk through the north woods. While Auntie June and Uncle Jonah watch for wildlife and set up the… [more below]
- Author: Griffin, Molly Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0873519507
- Language: English
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The Moons
$17.95 Add to cart- Author: Poling, Chan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342952
- Language: English
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Oskar’s Voyage
$17.95 Read moreA tiny chipmunk named Oskar accidentally stows away on an enormous Great Lakes freighter. Can he survive an epic trip–and find his way back home?
Near a bustling harbor, a plucky chipmunk’s love of- Author: Salas, Laura Purdie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342847
- Language: English
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Minnesota’s Hidden Alphabet
$16.95 Add to cartLook at the natural world around you. Closer now. Can you find the letter “A” in a jumble of tree roots, the letter “I” in a cattail, the letter “O” in a bird’s nest? Joe Rossi traveled the state in s… [more below]
- Author: Rossi, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 087351808X
- Language: English
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My Mighty Journey: A Waterfall’s Story
$18.95 Add to cartI am
a powerful
waterfall.
I listen.
I pay attention.
I have a long memory.
You might find it hard to believe,
but I have moved through time.
My Mighty Journey is the story of the only major water… [more below]- Author: Coy, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1681340089
- Language: English
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Storm’s Coming!
$16.95 Add to cartDid you know that flowers, insects, and birds can help predict the weather? Near her lighthouse home, Sophie reads the signs and sounds a warning: “Storm’s coming!”
- Author: Preus, Margi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1681340186
- Language: English
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Booth Girls: Pregnancy, Adoption, and the Secrets We Kept
$18.95 Add to cartA thoughtful and emotional multigenerational story of contested motherhood and the stigma of adoption–equal parts biography, oral history, history, and memoir.
Kim Heikkila’s mother had a secret: in- Author: Heikkila, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1681341905
- Language: English
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War.
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Moe, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0873514068
- Language: English
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Honor the Grandmothers: Dakota and Lakota Women Tell Their Stories
$17.95 Add to cart“The four oral histories presented in this attractive volume pay homage to elder women who quietly serve as community and political activists within the Lakota-Dakota Nation. . . Recommended.”–Librar… [more below]
- Author: Penman, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: October 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0873513851
- Language: English
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Fort Snelling at Bdote Updated Edition: A Brief History
$14.95 Add to cartFor millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power. In the 1820s, the newly arriving U.S. troops built Fort Snelling on the bluf… [more below]
- Author: DeCarlo, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1681341719
- Language: English
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Shipwrecks Along Lake Superior’s North Shore: A Diver’s Guide
$24.95 Add to cartAn in-depth tour of the many sunken ships submerged in the waters of our great inland sea, Lake Superior.
- Author: Daniel, Stephen B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0873516184
- Language: English
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Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux
$18.95 Add to cartGovernment officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white population and a loss of hu… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Gary Clayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0873511964
- Language: English
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Homemade with Honey
$17.95 Read moreAcross the country, communities are looking for ways to help increase and support local bee populations. Never has honey, aptly described as “liquid gold,” seemed more precious. Stirred into tea or sp… [more below]
- Series: Northern Plate
- Author: Doeden, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0873519574
- Language: English
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Swedes in Minnesota
$17.95 Add to cartA concise history of Swedes in Minnesota and the enormous influence that they have had on our state’s politics, history, and culture.
No ethnic group is so identified with a single state as the Swedes- Series: People of Minnesota
- Author: Gillespie Lewis, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0873514785
- Language: English
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Closing Time: Saloons, Taverns, Dives, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities
$27.95 Add to cartAn entertaining journey into the highs, lows, bright spots, and dark corners of the Twin Cities’ most famous and infamous drinking establishments–history viewed from the barstool.
In 1838, a rum tra- Author: Lindeke, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1681341379
- Language: English
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A Murder on the Hill: The Secret Life and Mysterious Death of Ruth Munson
$24.95 Add to cartThe mysterious murder of a woman in a historic neighborhood is shrouded in scandal, innuendo, police neglect, and media sensationalism in Depression-era Minnesota. Join author Roger Barr as he searche… [more below]
- Author: Barr, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342898
- Language: English
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Come, You Taste: Family Recipes from the Iron Range
$27.95 Add to cartThis cookbook brings together eclectic cuisines and enticing tales to honor the Iron Range of yesteryear through traditional dishes preserved and shared over the course of a century.
Potica or kolache- Author: Carpenter, B. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0873519698
- Language: English
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Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics
$19.95 Add to cartThe only thorough treatment of Lincoln’s Indian policy during the Civil War and the corrupt “Indian System” of government aid that mainly benefited ambitious whites.
- Author: Nichols, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0873518756
- Language: English
