Author John Coy shared the inspiration behind "So Cold!" Saturday Morning on WCCO. Thank you to Reg Chapman and Adam Del Rosso for hosting John and trying one of the winter weather experiments from the book. Watch the full interview by visiting the link
Author John Coy shared the inspiration behind "So Cold!" Saturday Morning on WCCO. Thank you to Reg Chapman and Adam Del Rosso for hosting John and trying one of the winter weather experiments from the book. Watch the full interview by visiting the link below!
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We asked author Karlyn Coleman and illustrator Cori Doerrfeld of the "The Great Get-Together" the toughest question of all... Grab your copy of "The Great Get-Together" at the I Like You Booth at the West End Market or visit http://mnhs.org/press to purc
We asked author Karlyn Coleman and illustrator Cori Doerrfeld of the "The Great Get-Together" the toughest question of all...
Grab your copy of "The Great Get-Together" at the I Like You Booth at the West End Market or visit https://mnhs.info/475xi8b to purchase a copy!
Travis Novitsky and Annette S. Lee's book is on Midwest Independent Booksellers' bestseller list! This video demonstrates why!
Art reveal for “How the Birds Got Their Songs,” forthcoming in spring 2024. Thank you Sam Zimmerman! We can’t wait to publish your and Travis’s children’s picture book!
The audience gathers at Minneapolis Central Library for the launch of “Dear Jacob” by Patty Wetterling with Joy Baker. Many thanks to @friendsofhcl for hosting!
North Star Voices series features author Pete Kero of “Minescapes” at the Minnesota History Center!
Filming the book trailer for “Dear Jacob: A Mother’s Journey of Hope” with authors Patty Wetterling and Joy Baker at the Minnesota Historical Society.
Celebrate the publication of our new picture book "Nana and Abuela" this Saturday, June 10, 10:30 a.m., at Hosmer Library, 347 E. 36th St., Minneapolis. Join author Monica Rojas and illustrator Emiko Rainbow as they read and discuss this charming story about language and generations.
The leaves are coming down and the rakes are coming out . . . time for a big leaf leap! Author and illustrator Molly Beth Griffin and Meleck Davis share their new picture book in this storytime video of the new MNHS Press book, "The Big Leaf Leap". Meet
The leaves are coming down and the rakes are coming out . . . time for a big leaf leap! Author and illustrator Molly Beth Griffin and Meleck Davis share their new picture book in this storytime video of the new MNHS Press book, "The Big Leaf Leap". Meet them this Saturday, Oct. 8 at The Get Down Coffee Company with Babycake's Book Stack's mobile bookstore from noon to 1 pm. You can save the event to your calendar here: https://hubs.la/Q01pgwFP0
"Voices from Pejuhutazizi" Virtual Book Launch
Join us for a virtual celebration of the new book, "Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers," a rich trove of stories told by five generations of a Dakota family, by Teresa Peterson with Walter (Super) LaBatte Jr. This program will be streamed live and also available as a recording on Facebook and YouTube.
More info on the book at https://shop.mnhs.org/products/voices-from-pejuhutazizi
Through five generations at Pejuhutazizi (the place where they dig the yellow medicine), Teresa Peterson's family members have listened to and told stories: stories of events, migrations, and relationships in Dakota history, and stories that carry Dakota culture through tales, legends, and myths. In the 1910s, Waŋbdiṡka (Fred Pearsall) made notes on stories he heard from Dakota elders, including his mother-in-law, at the Upper Sioux Community in Mni Sota Makoce—Minnesota.
In the 1950s, when he wrote them down in a letter to his daughters, his young grandson Waṡicuŋhdinażiŋ (Walter "Super" LaBatte Jr.) was already listening and learning from his family's elders and other members of the community. And then that grandson grew up to become a storyteller.
Teresa Peterson, the great-granddaughter of Fred and the niece of Super, has her own story of finding identity to tell. In this book, she has worked with her uncle to present their family's precious collection. These stories bring people together, impart values and traditions, deliver heroes, reconcile, reveal place, and entertain. Finally, as they bring delight to listeners, they provide belonging and nurture humanity.
"Curious and Romantic Sensation": Sex, Fraud, and Celebrity in the Leon A. Belmont Case of 1880
In celebration of Pride month, join us for a discussion hosted by Katie Thornton, an award-winning multimedia journalist, Fulbright Fellow, and former Gale Research Fellow. She'll be in conversation with Lizzie Ehrenhalt, author of the recent Minnesota History article "'Curious and Romantic Sensation': Sex, Fraud, and Celebrity in the Leon A. Belmont Case of 1880."
Between October 30 and November 25, 1880, Twin Cities newspapers published more than five dozen articles on a scandal that came to be known as “the Belmont sensation.” In them, reporters wrestled with how to respond to a person they perceived to be a woman seducing other women and dressing in clothes they associated with men. Their conclusions shifted as the sensation went on, with some writers expressing outrage and others celebrating Belmont as a hero. Rather than cancel each other out, these conflicting feelings reinforced each other and created a modern celebrity icon in the mold of Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, and P. T. Barnum.
Lizzie Ehrenhalt is a public historian and the editor of MNopedia, the digital encyclopedia of Minnesota history. She has a master's degree in archives management from the University of Michigan, a master's certificate in museum studies from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor's degree in gender studies and Latin from Oberlin College. With Tilly Laskey, she is a co-editor of Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Whipple, 1890‒1918, (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2019). In MNopedia, she is the author of, most recently, "Over the Rainbow: Queer and Trans History in Minnesota."
Artist in the Gallery: Denise Lajimodiere & Angela Erdrich on "Josie Dances"
Join us for a conversation hosted by Collections Outreach Specialist Rita Walaszek Arndt (White Earth Ojibwe) with author Denise Lajimodiere (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa) and illustrator Dr. Angela Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa) as they share their new children's picture book, "Josie Dances".
In this Ojibwe girl’s coming-of-age story, Denise highlights her own daughter’s experience at powwow. Elegant artwork by Angela features not only Josie and her family but also the animals, seasons and heartbeat of Aki, Mother Earth, and the traditions that link Josie to generations past and yet to come.
This program will be streamed live and also archived as a recording on Facebook and YouTube.
The Artist in the Gallery series highlights many of the artists featured in the Our Home: Native Minnesota exhibit. Support for this program provided by the Rosemary and David Good Family Foundation.
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