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The Remains of Glory

The Remains of Glory, the sequel to Urdahl's Three Paths to Glory, follows two Minnesota Union soldiers and a Confederate officer from Tennessee through the bloody and harrowing final two years of the American Civil War in the western theater. Tod Carter, Clint Cilley, and Jimmy Dunn experience the horror, triumphs, and losses of this epic moment in our nation's history...

Interrupted Lives

This is the history both of Tuberculosis in Minnesota and of the Glen Lake Sanitorium, where, in the first half of the twentieth century, so many TB patients were housed as they fought their illness...

Wisconsin's Lost Towns

Wisconsin has over 200 lost, long ago, and nearly gone places. Why they began, why they faded or died encompasses many issues, many reasons. For Rhonda, her love of lost towns and long ago places began in northern Wisconsin, and in this book, she explores the stories and tales of Wisconsin’s places of the past.

Minnesota's Lost Towns Central Edition

The long-awaited second book in the Minnesota’s Lost Towns series is now available. Travel along as we visit and learn about more than 125 central Minnesota locations. The book covers twenty-seven of Minnesota’s central corridor counties, from east to west. Read how the towns were created, how they developed and lived, and why they died. Discover the people and places of Minnesota’s past...

Minnesota's Lost Towns Southern Edition

Pack your bags and come along as we journey to over 125 lost towns in Southern Minnesota. Read how the Civil War, changes in transportation, county seat disputes and other historical happenings changed Minnesota’s landscape. Learn how and why lost towns and communities were created, how they thrived and why they eventually faded into history...

Rooted in Iron and Ice

Author Gary W. Barfknecht jokes that his baby-boom boyhood home in Virginia, Minnesota, wasn’t exactly at the end of the world. But he could see it from there. With energetic style and sly wit, this son and grandson of miners paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of his daily life in the harsh, frigid, isolated strip of mineral wealth known as the Mesabi Iron Range...

Minnesota's Lost Towns Northern Edition

The long-awaited second book in the Minnesota’s Lost Towns series is now available. Travel along as we visit and learn about more than 125 central Minnesota locations. The book covers twenty-six of Minnesota’s central corridor counties, from east to west. Read how the towns were created, how they developed and lived, and why they died. Discover the people and places of Minnesota’s past...

Desert Crosses

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HR Pioneers

“Addressing society’s major unmet needs as profitable business opportunities.” —Control Data Mission Statement. Control Data Corporation not only revolutionized the mainframe computer market but also redefined human resources and its role in the lives of employees...

The Mankato Reconcilliation Powwow

“This book gives a detailed and accurate description of how the Mankato Powwow began and what it is. It will be a good addition to anyone’s library and should be read by American Indians and non-Indians alike. It could be used in local schools as a text on local history.“ – Jim Buckley, one of the original founders of the powwow

Asylums, Treatment Centers, and Genetic Jails

In a time when those who were labeled “feeble-minded” and “defective” were locked away and forgotten by their relatives, when patients could be sterilized against their will, and treatments included inducing insulin shock and restraining patients by any means possible, state hospitals in Minnesota proliferated...

The Day the Watertower Froze

“Now and then a spirit crosses the birth of an individual and it sets the path for that person’s life (Pete John Humphrey). David’s life has moved down an interesting path. His family contains that Indian Spirit to provide guidance for his soul. David has taken his time to record a piece of history of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe...

Red Cliff, Wisconsin

Red Cliff, Wisconsin: A History of an Ojibwe Community, (Volume 1), is the story of the first three hundred and more years of the Ojibwe people in the Chequamegon Bay region of western Lake Superior. This volume covers the Ojibwes’ arrival, the coming of the French, English, and Americans, and concludes with 1854 and the advent of the reservation era...

We Will Have Gained Ourselves

"We Will Have Gained Ourselves is an important contribution to the fields of feminist research methods, global/transnational feminism, and higher education. Mumbi Mwangi's analyses of African women's experiences studying in the U.S. illuminate the consequences of their decisions on their understanding of themselves as women, wives, mothers, and citizens...

Cut Nose

"Dean Boutin, after exhaustive research and thoughtful analysis, has given us the definitive life story of a historical figure deeply human yet undeniably tragic. Rather than emulate his predecessors by presenting a distorted image of Cut Nose, who was once defined as a fiend in human shape, the author gives us fresh insights into the mind and heart of a great leader of his people...

Lives Lived Large

Through business or science, sports or entertainment, the forty-one individuals in this book have affected the world around them in big ways. Starting as a history project in New London-Spice public schools, this book tells the stories of many of the famous people to have sprung from the fertile soil of Minnesota...

No Home for Us Here

During World War II, an estimated six million Jews lost their lives to Hitler's vision of a pure German race. This horrific loss of life has been condemned the world over . . . and should be. But, by the time the Nazis geared up their campaign against the Jews, another, far more deadly campaign approached completion: the annihilation of Finns from Russian soil...

In the Shadow of Glory

The Hooked X

The Hooked X is a secret symbol first found on an inscribed slab of rock, dated 1362, unearthed by a farmer in Minnesota in 1898. This mysterious symbol inspired the author to pursue a nine-year investigation on both sides of the Atlantic that led to the discovery of other artifacts and clandestine documents indicative of secret trips to North America long before Columbus...

Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers

Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers: The Mysteries of the Hooked X  is the third book in a series that investigates the origin and meaning of a mysterious symbol originally found on the five fiercely debated medieval North American rune stones...

Stearns County and the Dakota War of 1862

During the year 1862, the United States was in turmoil as the Civil War continued. Minnesota would start its own war in August with the Dakota Indians. From the Dakota's loss of lands, encroachments by whites, embezzlement and questionable annuity dealings, the clash of cultures, starvation, drought, and previous conflicts, the tensions reached a climax. All these factors brought on war...

History and Hauntings of the Halloween Capital

History and Hauntings of the Halloween Capital takes a look into why the small village of Anoka, MN, has been declared (by Congress and everything!) to be The Halloween Capital of the World...

Malice Toward None

A gravestone inscription leads the author on a search through early Minnesota history, and then U.S. and Civil War history. He discovers that four siblings orphaned by the Dakota War commissioned that inscription in memory of their parents and younger sister, and that their many descendants now live all around him...

Northern Orchards

A thought-provoking collection of essays and poems that explore memory, the meaning of place, and sacred space.

Shaping the North Star State

The history hidden in the story of Minnesota's borders. How were those borders formed, what deals were struck, and why does Minnesota looks like it does.?

Finding Foxholes

Finding Foxholes is a refreshing look at WWII memories. It includes first-hand accounts from an American soldier who stormed Omaha Beach and traveled across Europe, and the tales of revisiting those European sights with his daughter and son-in-law decades later...

Minnesota's Lost Towns Northern Edition II

Most Minnesotans have a lost town. Everywhere Rhonda traveled throughout the state, people shared their stories and their towns with her. Each new discovery led to more tales of northern Minnesota’s lost towns. Join us as we journey to northern Minnesota’s past once again...