Journal Issues
The Minnesota Scholar, December 2024
Volume 19, Number 2
15-Study and Discussion Groups
15-Upcoming Programs & Event
The Minnesota Scholar, June 2024
Volume 19, Number 1
11-Upcoming Programs & Events
Scholar?
The Minnesota Scholar, December 2023
Volume 18, Number 1
Table of Contents
Catch up Issue
2-Editor’s Perspective:
The Long Wait by Evelyn D. Klein
3-Why Genealogy:
A scholarly Approach by Ruth Campbell
5-Book Review:
Orwell, Gandhi, and the British Raj by Michael Woolsey
8-Member Publication News: Joseph A. Amato
13-At Large:
Poetry Sparks Book Discussion by Evelyn D. Klein
9-Past Programs & Meetings
18-Upcoming Programs & Events:
The Minnesota Scholar, December 2022
Volume 17, Number 2
The Minnesota Scholar, June 2022
Volume 17, Number 1
Issue on Knowledge
The Minnesota Scholar, December 2021
Volume 16, Number 2
The Minnesota Scholar, June 2021
Volume 16, Number 1
The Minnesota Scholar, December 2020
Volume 15, Number 2
The Minnesota Scholar, June 2020
Volume 15, Number 1
The Minnesota Scholar, December 2019
Volume 14, Number 2
(David Grann)
The Minnesota Scholar, June 2019
Volume 14, Number 1
The Minnesota Scholar, December 2018
Volume 13, Number 2
The Library (Evelyn D. Klein)
Interviewing the Past (Lucy Brusic)
Book Review (Steven Miller):
Be Still: Departure from Collective Madness (Gordon C. Stewart, 2017)
Scholarly Reflections: Academy Cooperates (Lucy Brusic)
About the ERA (Evelyn D. Klein)
The Minnesota Scholar, Jun 2018 (update)
Volume 13, Number 1
Cursive Writing: An Essential Part of Ourselves (Evelyn D. Klein)
Great Books Seminars (Michael Woolsey)
Book Review (Lucy Brusic):
Taking Sides with the Sun: Landscape Photographer Herbert W. Gleason (Dale Schwie, 2017)
The Minnesota Scholar, Dec 2017
Volume 12, Number 2
Why Art? Why Not Art? (Robert Brusic)
Book Review (Joe Amato):
DIAGNOSTICS: Poetics of Time (Elizabeth Irwin, 2017)
Editor’s Perspective: (Evelyn D. Klein)
In Memoriam of Shirley Whiting A Meeting of Minds Poem: In a State of Conception (Evelyn D. Klein)
The Minnesota Scholar, June 2017
Volume 12, Number 1
Editor’s Perspective: Of Independent Scholars (Evelyn Klein)
Preserving Memories through Oral Histories (Barbara W. Sommer)
Book Review (Lucy Brusic):
The Minnesota Scholar, Dec 2016
Volume 11, Number 2
The Belonging Addiction, (Steven Miller)
After the Election, (Evelyn D. Klein)
Book Review (Lucy Brusic):
My Three Sicilies (Joseph Amato, 2016)
The Minnesota Scholar, June 2016
Volume 11, Number 1
The Driving Force (Evelyn Klein)
Pursuing Family Roots (Gus Fenton)
Voice of the People (Mike Woolsey)
Book Review (Lucy Brusic):
Her Honor : Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Women’s Movement
(Lori Sturdevant, 2014)
The Minnesota Scholar, Dec 2015
Volume 10, Number 2
Saying what needs to be said (Gus Fenton)
Politically Correct (Evelyn Klein)
The Minnesota Scholar, Jul 2015
Volume 10 Number 1
The Company of Plants (Evelyn D. Klein)
Book Review (Mike Woolsey):
Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
(Eric Foner, 2002)
Practical Thinking, Dec 2014
Volume 9, Number 2
To Bear the Mark (Kim Heikkila)
Secret Writing (Bill McTeer)
Book review (Steve Miller):
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
(Lawrence Wright, 2013)
Book review (Shirley Whiting):
Jung and Politics: The Political and Social Ideas of C.G. Jung
(Volodymyr Odajnyk, 2007)
Practical Thinking, Jun 2014
Volume 9, Number 1
Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Lakes & Almost as Many Crime Novels (Robert Brusic)
Tracking a National Obsession: The 50th Anniversary of the JFK Assassination (Michael Woolsey)
Book review (Ginny Hansen):
Buoyancies: A Ballast Master’s Log (Joe Amato, 2014)
Practical Thinking, Nov 2013
Volume 8, Number 2
Book review (Robert Brusic):
Practical Thinking, May 2013
Volume 8, Number 1
Book Review (Shirley Whiting):
Practical Thinking, Oct 2012
Volume 7, Number 2
Book Review (Shirley Whiting):
Practical Thinking, Mar 2012
Volume 8, Number 1
MISF and Fiscal Agency (David Megarry)
Museumization (Mary Treacy)
Book Review (Dennis Shapiro):
Practical Thinking, Sep 2011
Volume 7, Number 2
How to Use a Research Library (Timothy J. Johnson)
Collecting and archiving in a digital age (Lucy Brusic)
Book review (Shirley Whiting):
The Art of Music: the Music of Art (Charles Cubrimi)
A History of Astronomy (Bill McTeer)
Practical Thinking, Mar 2011
Volume 7, Number 1
How to Use an Editor (Virginia Hansen)
Save the World (Philip Dahlen)
The Dead Sea Scrolls (Robert Brusic)
The Bohr-Einstein Debates (Bill McTeer)
Communication Revolution (David Juncker)
On Revolutions, Digital and Otherwise (Lucy Brusic)
Practical Thinking Sep 2010
Volume 6, Number 1
Yes, but Is it Health Insurance? (Lee Wenzel)
Practical Thinking, Dec 2009
Volume 5, Number 2
Physics Encounters Consciousness (Bill McTeer)
Human Systems Dynamic (Philip Dahlen)
Life After the Bailout (Lucy Brusic)
Book Review (David Juncker):
Practical Thinking, Feb 2009
Volume 5, Number 1
What Maps Can Tell Us (Lucy Brusic)
The Minneapolis Sustainable City Project (David Juncker)
Tales of Two ( or Maybe Three) Cities (Joseph Murphy)
John Sloan’s City (Robert Brusic)
The Underground Scholar (Curt Hillstrom)
Practical Thinking, Jun 2008
Volume 4, Number 2
Reflections from the Wireless Pond (Charles Cubrimi)
Hidden Heroes (Mary Treacy, Rhoda Lewin, David Juncker, Lucy Brusic)
Book Review (Ginny Hansen):
Practical Thinking, Feb 2008
Volume 4, Number 1
The Page and the Screen: A Reflection on Libraries and Their Use (Charles Cabrini)
The Internet Strikes Back (Bill McTeer)
A Timeline of the Growth of the Internet
The Internet: Technological Kudzu (Lucy Brusic)
Henery David Thoreau: His Journey to the Twenty-First Century (David Juncker)
Practical Thinking, Jun 2007
Volume 3, Number 1
Absolute Truth? (Gene Scapanski)
Case of Recurring Worldviews (Curt Hillstrom)
Authoritive Information in the Information Age (Thomas Eland)
Who Controls Information (Mary Treacy)
History and Hollywood (Robert Brusic)
Afterwords (The Editors)
Practical Thinking Jan 2007
Volume 2, Number 2
Rethinking Adult Education in a Pancake World (Terilyn C. Turner)
Globalization: The Next Hot Thing (Paul Chapman)
Globalization: Will it make or break us? (Anne Auten)
Practical Thinking, Jun 2006
Volume 2, Number 1
Immigration: Arguing Past One Another (Tom Cytron-Hysom)
Immigrant Adults As Learners: Lessons From the Field (Leslie Shore)
Journey to the New World: A Brief History of Jewish Immigrants’ Lives in Minneapolis (Rhoda G. Lewin)
Another Kind of Fusion (David A. Wesley)
Practical Thinking, Dec 2005
Volume 1, Number 2
Practical Thinking: Science in Context, (George Anderson)
Theories vs. Hypotheses, Ideas and Opinions: The Role of Scientific Methodology (David F. Junker)
Book Review (Judy Yaeger Jones):
Practical Thinking, Jun 2005
Volume 1, Number 1
Negotiating the Currents: Reflections on the Role of Religion in Contemporary America (Robert Brusic)
The Sacred in America (Jerry Stein)
Writing on Reading: What might be learned from two books (Roger Sween)
Book Review (Kathie S. Frank):
The Forum, Winter 2005
Volume 16, Number 2
The Forum, Fall 2004
Volume 16, Number 1
The Forum,Spring 2004
Volume 15, Number 3
The Forum, Winter 2004
Volume 15, Number 2
The Forum, Fall 2003
Volume 15, Number 1
The Forum, Spring 2003
Volume 14, Number 3
Someone Had to Do It: The Beginnings of MISF (Cheryl Dickson)
All That Fiddle (Morgan Grayce Willow)
Reflections on the Annual Meeting (Judy Yeager Jones)
Scholars’ Use of Libraries (Roger Sween)
The Forum,Winter 2003
Volume 14, Number 2
The Forum, Fall 2002
Volume 14, Number 1
The Forum, Spring 2002
Volume 13, Number 3
The Forum, Winter 2002
Volume 13, Number 2
The Forum, Fall 2001
Volume 13, Number 1
Shea brings philosophy to television (Peter Shea)
Making Sense – Moving Forward (David Juncker)
President’s Column (Shirley Whiting)
The Forum, Fall 2000
Volume 12, Number 2
Time in a (Throwaway) Bottle (R. A. Thompson)
Broken Symmetry (George Anderson)
Airborne Culture (R. A. Thompson)
Who’s Who on the MISF Board (Shirley Whiting)
The Forum, Spring 2000
The Forum, Volume 12, Number 1
The Forum, Winter 1999-2000
The Forum, Volume 11, Number 3
A Comparative Study of Religious Architecture in the New and Old Worlds
Bridging the ‘Digital Divide’ (George Anderson)
The U of M’s Anderson Library and Archival Caverns (Helen Watkins)
On Nurturing a Flow-Chart for Knowing (Ginny Hansen with Helen Watkins)
The Forum, Fall 1999
The Forum, Volume 11, Number 2
From Minnesota’s Rivers to Walden Pond (Helen Watkins):
The Pleasure of Tinkertoys (Richard Thompson):
The Forum, Spring 1999
The Forum, Volume 11, Number 1
Reckoning MISF’s Past With Its Future (George A. Anderson)
Postcards from a Lost World (Richard Thompson):
The Forum, Fall 1998
Volume 10, Number 3
Architecture of Religious Freedom: A report on the Annual Meeting Program (George Anderson)
1998 A Year of Many MISF Accomplishments: Annual Report of the MISF President (Patricia McDonough)
National Scholars Coalition Conference Held Here (Ginny Hansen)
Scholars Pursue Trivial Fun at Conference (Roger Hammer)
The Forum, Summer 1998
Volume 10, Number 2
Weaving For Worship: Art in the Service of a Community of Faith (Helen Twombly Watkins)
Book Review (Helen Watkins):
A Place at the Lake (Paul Clifford Larson, 1998)
There Is a Difference (Roger Hammer)
The Forum, Spring 1998
Volume 10, Number 1
MISF Develops Itself for Benefit of Members: Message from the New President (Pat McDonough)
Something Constructive (Grace Morgan Willow)
The Minnesota Book Awards: Ten Years of Community Involvement and Support (Roger Sween)
MISF Members Nominated for Book Awards
Irish Literature’s Chaotic Authority Figures (Pat McDonough)
The Forum, Fall 1997
Volume 9, Number 3
Editorial (Helen Twombly Watkins)
President’s Message (David F. Juncker)
The Forum, Summer 1997
Volume 9, Number 2
Home at River’s Edge (David S. Wiggins)
The Myth of Histroic Preservation (Tom Abeles)
Meditations on the Theme of Place (Helen Twombly Watkins)
The Forum, Winter 1997
Volume 9, Number 1
The Forum, Fall 1996
The Forum, Volume 8, Number 3
Renewal At The Minnespolis Athenaeum (John Parker)
President’s Message (Dave Juncker)
The Forum, February 1996
Volume 8, Number 1
IMA: An Association of Independent Scholars (Rhoda Gilman)
President’s Column (Ross Corson)
A Library of Cultural Insights (John Parker)
Women in Print (Glenda Martin and Mary Treacy)
Scholars’ Forum Study Groups (Curt Hillstrom)
The Forum, Fall 1995
Volume 7, Number 3
Presient’s Column (Ross Corson)
A Source for Cultural Historians (John Parker)
So What Is This Internet, Anyway?
The Forum, Summer 1995
Volume 7, Number 2
Who Says So? Voices in the Museum World (Carolyn Gilman)
President’s Column (Ross Corson)
A Library of the Renaissance and Reformation (John Parker)
The Forum, Winter 1995
Volume 7, Number 1
President’s Message (Ross Corson)
Editor’s Column (Tom Ables)
A Natural Affinity
How to Start a Study Group (Curt Hillstrom)
The Forum, Spring 1994
Volume 6, Number 2
Timeliness and Timelessness of Information (Tom Ableles, editor)
Books, Books, Books…(John Parker)
President’s Column (Bob Thimmesh)
The Forum, Winter 1994
Volume 6, Number 1
Annual meeting fails to pick millennial person (Ginny Hansen)
President’s Column (Robert F. Thimmesh)
Editor’s Column: On the Net (Tom Abeles)
The Forum, Fall 1993
Volume 5, Number 3
How Independent Can An Independent Scholar Truly Be?
President’s Message (Robert Thimmesh)
National IS Coalition Shates How-To on Funds, Publishing, andf More (Rhoda Lewin)
The Last Word (David Juncker)
The Forum, Spring 1993
Numbers 1 & 2
The Forum, Fall 1992
Volume 4, Number 3
Apples of Our Eyes:
The Walls (Lucy Smith)
Civic Responsibilities (David Juncker)
The Forum, Summer 1992
Volume 4, Number 2
Message from the President (David Wiggins)
Book Report (David Wiggins):
Last Words:
The Forum, Winter 1992
Volume 4, Number 1
President’s Message
A Charter Member Reflects on Benefits (Ginny Hansen)
The Last Word:
The Forum, Fall 1991
Volume 3, Number 3
Copies and Proofs (Dave Juncker and Lucy Brusic)
The Forum, Summer 1991
Volume 3, Number 2
Freedom of Information (Ryan A. LaHurd)
Message from the President (David Wiggins)
Science and the Independent Scholar (Roger Jones)
The Forum, Spring 1991
Volume 3, Number 1
Science and the Independent Scholar (Roger Jones)
Message from the President (David Wiggins)
The Forum, Spring 1990
Volume 2, Number 2
From Library Stacks to Stage Door: Independent Scholars and Performance (Jane Curry)
Message from the President (Susan Margot Smith)
Member Spotlight Feature: Rhoda R. Gilman (Susan Smith)
The Forum, Winter 1990
Volume 2, Number 1
Independent Scholars and the Revolution in Information Technology (David Wiggins)
Message from the President (Susan Margot Smith)
Member Spotlight Feature: Vince Leo (Susan Smith)
The Forum, Fall 1989
Volume 1, Number 3
Librarians and Independent Scholarship (Roger Sween)
Message from the President (Susan Margot Smith)
Member Spotlight Feature: Jo Blatti (Susan Milnor)
The Forum, Summer 1989
Volume 1, Number 2
Independent Scholars: An Interim Report (James Bennett)
Message from the President (Susan Margot Smith)
The Forum, Spring 1989
Volume 1, Number 1
Independent Scholarship Enters a New Era (Susan Smith)
Message from the President (Susan Margot Smith)