Upcoming Events
Black Arts Minnesota: An Autoethnographic Approach
This talk demonstrates how archival research and artistic practices bear witness to a Black presence in Minnesota dating as far back as the 1860s.
A North Minneapolis native and fifth-generation Minnesotan, Davu Underwood Seru currently serves as the Curator of the Givens Collection of African American Literature and Life at the University of Minnesota. Formerly, Davu was an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of English at Hamline University where he taught courses in research, writing and literature, for which received the prestigious Dr. Colleen S. Bell Outstanding Faculty Award. Additionally, he is co-author of the book Sights, Sounds, Soul: The Twin Cities Through the Lens of Charles Chamblis (MNHS Press 2017) and is an award-winning, internationally recognized drummer and composer.
The War at Home: Minnesota during the Great War, 1914-1920
Americans went to war in 1917 not only against Germany but also against each other at home. The controversial declaration of war came during a contentious time when farmers and workers challenged the wealthy, African Americans struggled against Jim Crow and lynchings, women campaigned for suffrage, and millions crusaded against alcohol. In The War at Home, Greg Gaut focuses on the lives of individual Minnesotans to tell the dramatic story of this period, when the state experienced bitter polarization, nativism, flagrant disregard for democratic norms, and intense, occasionally violent, confrontations.
Bulletin Board
New Editor needed for the MISF Journal!
Evelyn Klein, long-serving Board member and Editor of the semi-annual MISF journal, The Minnesota Scholar, is stepping back as journal Editor after nine years of volunteering, and we are sorry to see her go. Anyone having interest in filling this volunteer position (with Evelyn's help and advice), please respond via the "Contact Us" link on the left-hand column of this page.