Minnesota History (nonfiction)

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Flames of Discontent: The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike
Flames of Discontent: The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Ceding Contempt: Minnesota’s Most Significant Historical Event
Ceding Contempt: Minnesota’s Most Significant Historical Event 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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A Popular History of Minnesota
A Popular History of Minnesota 3.60 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out
Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out 3.66 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Chinese in Minnesota
Chinese in Minnesota 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Finns in Minnesota
Finns in Minnesota 3.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Germans in Minnesota
Germans in Minnesota 3.26 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Hmong in Minnesota
Hmong in Minnesota 3.47 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Irish in Minnesota
Irish in Minnesota
by: Ann Regan
3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Jewish People in Minnesota
Jewish People in Minnesota liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Mexicans in Minnesota
Mexicans in Minnesota 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Somalis in Minnesota
Somalis in Minnesota 3.50 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Norwegians in Minnesota
Norwegians in Minnesota
by: Bill Holm
3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Poles in Minnesota
Poles in Minnesota really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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North Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota's Superior Coast
North Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota's Superior Coast 4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Gunflint Burning: Fire in the Boundary Waters
Gunflint Burning: Fire in the Boundary Waters 3.94 avg rating — 399 ratings
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Minnesota's Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell
Minnesota's Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell
by: Sue Leaf
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Paul Wellstone: The Life of a Passionate Progressive
Paul Wellstone: The Life of a Passionate Progressive
by: Bill Lofy
3.98 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Hubert Humphrey: A Biography
Hubert Humphrey: A Biography 3.90 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota
Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Music Legends: A Rewind on the Minnesota Music Scene
Music Legends: A Rewind on the Minnesota Music Scene 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Dearest Anna: A Love Story
Dearest Anna: A Love Story 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Pillsburys of Minnesota
The Pillsburys of Minnesota 3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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They're Lying: The Media, The Left, and The Death of George Floyd
They're Lying: The Media, The Left, and The Death of George Floyd 4.49 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Everyone's Country Estate - A History Of Minnesota's State Parks
Everyone's Country Estate - A History Of Minnesota's State Parks 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Dakota War of 1862: Minnesota's Other Civil War
The Dakota War of 1862: Minnesota's Other Civil War 3.65 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Shaping the North Star State: A History of Minnesota's Boundaries
Shaping the North Star State: A History of Minnesota's Boundaries 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Guthrie Theater: Images, History, and Inside Stories
The Guthrie Theater: Images, History, and Inside Stories 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Down to the Last Pitch: How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves Gave Us the Best World Series of All Time
Down to the Last Pitch: How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves Gave Us the Best World Series of All Time 3.81 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Minnesota State Fair: An Illustrated History
Minnesota State Fair: An Illustrated History 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Fort Snelling at Bdote: A Brief History
Fort Snelling at Bdote: A Brief History 4.28 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Everybody's Heard about the Bird: The True Story of 1960s Rock 'n' Roll in Minnesota
Everybody's Heard about the Bird: The True Story of 1960s Rock 'n' Roll in Minnesota 4.07 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 4.12 avg rating — 4,504 ratings
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Stand Up!: The Story of Minnesota’s Protest Tradition
Stand Up!: The Story of Minnesota’s Protest Tradition 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World
Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
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A History of Minnesota, Vol. I (Volume 1)
A History of Minnesota, Vol. I (Volume 1) 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Minnesota in the '70s
Minnesota in the '70s really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings
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A History of Minnesota, Vol. 2 of 4
A History of Minnesota, Vol. 2 of 4 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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How to Talk Minnesotan: Revised for the 21st Century
How to Talk Minnesotan: Revised for the 21st Century 3.56 avg rating — 155 ratings
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A History of Minnesota, Vol. 3 of 4
A History of Minnesota, Vol. 3 of 4 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound
Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound 4.33 avg rating — 176 ratings
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A History of Minnesota, Vol. 4 of 4
A History of Minnesota, Vol. 4 of 4 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis
The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis 3.74 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Libraries of Minnesota
Libraries of Minnesota 4.04 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes: Jim Walsh on Music from Minneapolis to the Outer Limits
Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes: Jim Walsh on Music from Minneapolis to the Outer Limits
by: Jim Walsh
3.94 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Carnegie Libraries of Minnesota
Carnegie Libraries of Minnesota 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis
The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis 4.24 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Swedes in Minnesota
Swedes in Minnesota 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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By The Ore Docks: A Working People’s History Of Duluth
By The Ore Docks: A Working People’s History Of Duluth 3.91 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia
Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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St. Paul: An Urban Biography
St. Paul: An Urban Biography 4.33 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Twin Cities Album: A Visual History
Twin Cities Album: A Visual History 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America 3.96 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Minneapolis: An Urban Biography
Minneapolis: An Urban Biography
by: Tom Weber
4.22 avg rating — 133 ratings
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The North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader
The North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
by: Dan Egan
4.34 avg rating — 11,017 ratings
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Duluth: An Urban Biography
Duluth: An Urban Biography 4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History (Volume 174) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History (Volume 174) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) 4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Rochester: An Urban Biography
Rochester: An Urban Biography 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Thank You for Shopping: The Golden Age of Minnesota Department Stores
Thank You for Shopping: The Golden Age of Minnesota Department Stores 4.06 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Great Lakes Water Wars
The Great Lakes Water Wars 3.96 avg rating — 339 ratings
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North Country: The Making of Minnesota
North Country: The Making of Minnesota 4.49 avg rating — 114 ratings
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November's Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
November's Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913 4.03 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Minnesota: A History
Minnesota: A History 3.58 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815 4.10 avg rating — 1,277 ratings
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Minnesota, 1918: When Flu, Fire, and War Ravaged the State
Minnesota, 1918: When Flu, Fire, and War Ravaged the State 3.84 avg rating — 461 ratings
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The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas 4.24 avg rating — 1,849 ratings
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African Americans in Minnesota
African Americans in Minnesota 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Minnesota in the '70s
Minnesota in the '70s really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Great Lakes Sea Lamprey: The 70 Year War on a Biological Invader
Great Lakes Sea Lamprey: The 70 Year War on a Biological Invader 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Scott Collection: Minnesota's Black Community in the '50s, '60s, and '70s
The Scott Collection: Minnesota's Black Community in the '50s, '60s, and '70s really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Superior Rendezvous-Place: Fort William in the Canadian Fur Trade, Second Edition
Superior Rendezvous-Place: Fort William in the Canadian Fur Trade, Second Edition 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Minnesota Eats Out: An Illustrated History
Minnesota Eats Out: An Illustrated History 4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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What Should a Clever Moose Eat?: Natural History, Ecology, and the North Woods
What Should a Clever Moose Eat?: Natural History, Ecology, and the North Woods 4.25 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Minnesota 150: The People, Places, and Things that Shape Our State
Minnesota 150: The People, Places, and Things that Shape Our State 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Border Country: The Northwoods Canoe Journals of Howard Greene, 1906–1916
Border Country: The Northwoods Canoe Journals of Howard Greene, 1906–1916 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota's Past
Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota's Past
by: Peg Meier
3.97 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition
The Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition 4.23 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Women's History in Minnesota
Women's History in Minnesota
by: Jo Blatti
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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This Storied River: Legend & Lore of the Upper Mississippi
This Storied River: Legend & Lore of the Upper Mississippi 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The State We're In: Reflections on Minnesota History
The State We're In: Reflections on Minnesota History liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Upper Mississippi: A Wilderness Saga (Rivers of America, #2)
The Upper Mississippi: A Wilderness Saga (Rivers of America, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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People's Health: A History of Public Health in Minnesota
People's Health: A History of Public Health in Minnesota liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History
Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History 3.87 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Minnesota Vacation Days: An Illustrated History
Minnesota Vacation Days: An Illustrated History 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Manitous: The Spiritual World of the Ojibway
The Manitous: The Spiritual World of the Ojibway 4.19 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Ojibwe in Minnesota
Ojibwe in Minnesota 4.05 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Minnesota Book of Days
Minnesota Book of Days 3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Chippewa Music
Chippewa Music 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Minnesota History Along the Highways: A Guide to Historic Markers and Sites
Minnesota History Along the Highways: A Guide to Historic Markers and Sites 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 4.16 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Minnesota in the Mail: A Postcard History
Minnesota in the Mail: A Postcard History 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen
The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen 4.49 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
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Schoolhouses of Minnesota
Schoolhouses of Minnesota 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,687 ratings
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Minnesota in the Civil War: An Illustrated History
Minnesota in the Civil War: An Illustrated History 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 19,437 ratings
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Earth Brought Forth: A History of Minnesota Agriculture to 1885
Earth Brought Forth: A History of Minnesota Agriculture to 1885 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Breath of Wilderness: The Life of Sigurd Olson
Breath of Wilderness: The Life of Sigurd Olson 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Baseball in Minnesota: The Definitive History
Baseball in Minnesota: The Definitive History 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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