Happy Statehood Day, Minnesota!

Today is Minnesota Statehood Day, celebrating our state’s admittance to the union as the 32nd state 168 years ago. Over the last few years, I’ve written a number of articles about Minnesota’s history for our magazine, Thinking Minnesota, and have listed and linked them below in honor of the occasion.

• Abolitionism in Minnesota: Summer 2020
• Minnesota’s Civil War: The Dakota War of 1862: Spring 2022
• The 1^st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg: Spring 2023
• The road to Nashville: Minnesota in the western war: Fall 2024
• Flyover Land: Lewis and Fitzgerald at 100: Fall 2020
• The lesson of prohibition: Fall 2019
• More Ted, Less Taxes: Lessons from Theodore Christianson (by John Hendrickson): Spring 2023
• Minnesotans fight the Rising Sun: Minnesotans in the Pacific War: Fall 2025
• The good guys in a just war: Winter 2026
• Charles Stenvig: The making of a mayor: Fall 2022
• The tragedy of Hubert Humphrey: Winter 2020
• How the range was lost: The DFL’s left and right go to war: Summer 2025
• From miracle to massacre: How Minnesota returned to a two-party state: Winter 2024
• At the crossroads: The rise, fall, and rise of Walter Mondale: Summer 2021
• Beer boom: How deregulation and tax cuts allow enable craft brewers to thrive: Winter 2019

Happy birthday, Minnesota!