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History

Expert sought for online Minn. encyclopedia

Have an encyclopedic knowledge Minnesota history? The state Historical Society is hunting for an editor for an online encyclopedia of the state that's in the works.

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1963 at 50: A year's tumult echoes still

1963 at 50: A year's tumult echoes still

A new year was just beginning -- an extraordinary year, in which so much would change. George Wallace said "segregation forever!" -- the same year the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. The US and the Soviet Union signed a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and "The Feminine Mystique" catalyzed the women's movement. At the center of it all was the Kennedy administration.

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Minnesota Sounds & Voices: Dean McFarlane, last in a line of stone carvers

Minnesota Sounds & Voices: Dean McFarlane, last in a line of stone carvers

Dean McFarlane is a 10th-generation master stone carver. His great-grandfather started the Minneapolis-based family stone carving company in 1916. But the line ends with McFarlane: There are no family members waiting in the wings to become master stone carvers.
by Dan Olson

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Photos: Stone cutting, from buildings to the curling rink

Photos: Stone cutting, from buildings to the curling rink

Dean McFarlane is a 10th-generation master stone carver. His great-grandfather started the Minneapolis-based family stone carving company in 1916. But the line ends with McFarlane: There are no family members waiting in the wings to become master stone carvers.

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Low-water rivers offering up glimpse of history

Low-water rivers offering up glimpse of history

From sunken steamboats to a millennium-old map engraved in rock, the drought-drained rivers of the nation's midsection are offering a rare and fleeting glimpse into years gone by.

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Dakota riders begin somber journey to mark 150 years since executions

Dakota riders begin somber journey to mark 150 years since executions

Dakota Indian horseback riders and support teams are gathering in South Dakota on Monday for an annual memorial journey to southern Minnesota. Their ride will end in Mankato on Dec. 26, the 150th anniversary of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. On that day in 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged from a single gallows platform in downtown Mankato in retribution for the US-Dakota war.
by Mark Steil

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Historic Boston church considers sale of hymnal

Historic Boston church considers sale of hymnal

The first book printed in what would become the United States was a Puritan hymnal of psalms, sturdy enough that 11 copies that came off a wooden Cambridge press in 1640 still exist. Now, a copy of the Bay Psalm Book may bring millions of dollars to the Boston church that owns it -- if a divided congregation agrees in a vote Sunday to sell it.

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Library of Congress highlights diaries, letters from Civil War

Library of Congress highlights diaries, letters from Civil War

Letters and diaries saved for 150 years from those who lived through the Civil War offer a new glimpse at the arguments that split the nation then and some of the festering debates that survive today.

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New film remembers University Avenue's glory days -- and looks to its future

New film remembers University Avenue's glory days -- and looks to its future

The commercial street connecting St. Paul to Minneapolis is like your favorite bawdy relative: quirky, over-sized, and rough around the edges. A new documentary suggests the avenue's glorious early days could provide some clues as to what its future might be.
by Laura Yuen

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Hatchet, speakeasy help tell tale of Prohibition

Hatchet, speakeasy help tell tale of Prohibition

A hatchet used to bust up saloons, the verdict sheet from Al Capone's trial, and lawman Eliot Ness' sworn oath of office are among the more sobering artifacts in a new exhibit documenting the driest period in U.S. history.

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