Minnesota's Twentieth Century [[electronic resource] ] : Stories of Extraordinary Everyday People
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| Autore: |
Tice D. J
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| Titolo: |
Minnesota's Twentieth Century [[electronic resource] ] : Stories of Extraordinary Everyday People
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 977.6 |
| 977.6/05 | |
| 977.605 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Minnesota -- Biography -- Anecdotes |
| Minnesota -- Biography | |
| Minnesota -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes | |
| Minnesota -- History -- 20th century | |
| Minnesota -- History | |
| Minnesota | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PROLOGUE: The Special Feeling We Had; INTRODUCTION: RAPIDS IN THE STREAM OF TIME: The Dawn of the Twentieth Century, 1901; THE LAST HANGING: The Gottschalk and Williams Murder Cases, 1905; UNSAFE FOR DEMOCRACY: The World War I Loyalty Crusade, 1917; PEACE AND DEATH: The Influenza Pandemic, 1918; A LOT OF PREACHERS, A LOT OF GANGSTERS: Prohibition, 1920; THE MOST ATROCIOUS CRIME: The Duluth Lynchings, 1920; SAVE YOUR BREATH AND START CLIMBING: The Milford Mine Disaster, 1924; ANOTHER COUNTRY: Life on and off the Reservation |
| DUST BOWL SISTERS: The Great Depression, 1934GREAT GOVERNORS: Johnson, Olson, and Stassen; A HAVE-NOT'S WAR: The Spanish Civil War, 1937-38; LOST ISLAND: Isle Royale Fishing; BARBED-WIRE WARRIORS: The POWs' Secret War, 1943-45; IRON LADY: The Voice of the Range; ARE YOU COLORED?: Discrimination and Progress; WHERE THE ACTION WAS: Wars Hot and Cold; A CERTAIN DISTANCE: ""The Sixties""; SOLDIER'S HEART: Vietnam, 1968; WHO THE HELL IS KEN DAHLBERG?: Watergate, 1972; ON EAGLE'S WINGS: The Long Journey of a Hockey Legend; HAUNTED EXILES: Saigon to Minneapolis | |
| ROOT CAUSES: The Farm Crisis That Never Ended | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | One hundred years of remarkable Minnesota stories are brought together for the first time in Minnesota's Twentieth Century. A collection of writings and interviews that originated with the popular feature "A Century of Stories" in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, this book reveals the progress of a courageous, industrious people and their changing state. Lavishly illustrating these recollections are indelible images-contemporary photographs of the storytellers, as well as historical views of street scenes, prohibition arrests, and landscapes-that reflect the transformations of the past one hundred |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Minnesota's Twentieth Century |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-5297-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784104403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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