Steve Hoffbeck, History Department, delivered a public program on “The Home Front In Minnesota During World War II” at the Fergus Falls Public Library September 30th. Professor Hoffbeck examined Minnesota’s experiences in W.W. II, including the Norwegian Battalion and combat; making ammunition at Twin Cities ordnance plants; rationing gasoline, silk, and sugar; of blackouts; and the pathos of war, featuring […]
September 22-October 10 |Livingston Lord Library | Second Floor Library Hours “Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations” is a new traveling exhibition that will explore the Native nations in Minnesota and their history of treaty making with the United States. The exhibit will open Sept. 22 in the Livingston Lord Library, second floor, where it will […]
Paul Harris, History, has two recent publications. He reviewed Domestic Frontiers: Gender, Reform, and American Intervention in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East by Barbara Reeves-Ellington for the Journal of American History, and he contributed a “Preface” to Past & Presently, a collection of poems by Dan DeVries, an old friend. He also attended the annual meeting of the […]
Looking for an online summer course? You’d better hurry as low enrollment courses will be cancelled on Friday. Check out History 121: US to 1877 Description: The colonial beginnings to the end of Reconstruction; the founding of the American society and growth of the new nation through the aftermath of the Civil War. MnTC Goal 5.
There will be an Open House on Thursday, May 1 from 3–5 p.m. in honor of Dr. Ceci Mafla-Bustamante’s retirement. MacLean Hall, Room 268. Please come and celebrate with us and wish Ceci well in her next adventure!