Women of Mystery and History
Docent Bob Brusic will lead a tour of a dozen or so paintings featuring women, either as subject or artist, in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The tour will begin…
Read MoreF. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul on 24 September 1896. Although his family left for Buffalo, New York, before his second birthday, he returned to St. Paul in…
Read MoreScholars without Walls: How our book came to be and why
We will introduce our new book, Scholars without Walls: The History of the Minnesota Independent Scholars’ Forum. The book, which will be available for purchase at this event, tells how a group of…
Read MoreConnections and Corrections: Women in the Criminal Justice System and their Families
This presentation is a review of a qualitative study of eighteen women who were in a women’s residential correctional facility. Bowen family systems theory was used as the theoretical base…
Read MoreAnnual Virginia Hansen Poetry Day
The annual Virginia Hansen poetry day at MISF will begin with a brief introduction on the use of metaphor by poet and teaching artist, Evelyn Klein. It will be followed…
Read MoreMinnesota Muslims-Up Close
Muslims have been part of Minnesota since the 19th Century so why are we just noticing them now? Examine the diversity and the unity of the Muslim experience in the…
Read MoreThe Weight of Silence: Unwed Mothers at the Salvation Army Booth Memorial Hospital in Midcentury Minnesota (or, History, My Mother, and Me)
In February 1959, the Minneapolis Morning Tribune published a series of articles about the ailing American family, pointing to the “crisis of the unwed mother” as a factor in the…
Read MoreFrom Winnipeg to New Orleans: the route of the Jefferson Highway in Minnesota.
Carol Ahlgren is both an architectural historian and historian in the Twin Cities. She received a 2017 Legacy Fellowship from the Minnesota Historical Society to study the highway’s history and…
Read MoreMinneapolis’ Murdered Editors. A Look at Investigative Journalists and the Underworld in the Early 20th Century.
In the early 20th century the Minneapolis underworld was ruled by some pretty ruthless mobsters and gangs who did not look kindly on efforts of campaigning newsmen to clean up…
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