In August 1862 the Dakota or Eastern Sioux, frustrated at being defrauded by the United States government and at losing their land and livelihood, resorted ...

For athletes, fanatics, and trivia buffs alike, Minnesota's first and only comprehensive sports almanac features 125 glorious years of winning, losing ...

A perceptive and detailed Civil War memoir of the First Minnesota Regiment chronicling such famous battles as Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and ...

A fascinating history of the Ojibwe people at home in the Minnesota landscape through 1950-as told through more than 200 vivid photographs.

Using newspaper accounts, court records, state files, and interviews with aging and often reluctant witnesses, Michael Fedo writes of ordinary people caught ...

A treasury of family secrets exposes the seamy underbelly of Minneapolis—gangsters, gambling, brothels, and the social life of organized crime.

Scores of WWII POWs offer lessons of wartime as they remember the terror and hardship of their days in captivity.

A concise history of Chinese in Minnesota, including immigration patterns, cultural and social organizations, businesses, politics, education, and family ...

A lively illustrated history that reveals how the movie business has fascinated, scandalized, and socialized the Twin Cities and its people.

A biography for young readers, ages 9 and up, that humanizes the people behind the famous Dred Scott decision, the first legal test of slavery in the United ...