Happy Statehood Day, Minnesota!
Today is Minnesota Statehood Day, celebrating our state’s admittance to the union as the 32nd state 167 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 1st 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
- Charles Stenvig: The making of a mayor: Fall 2022
- The tragedy of Hubert Humphrey: Winter 2020
- 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!