Contrasts the missionaries’ rhetoric with the reality of their work on the frontier to tell a com...

Using newspaper accounts, court records, state files, and interviews with aging and often relucta...

Casts a wide net to gather up tips for purchasing, substituting, and preparing midwestern fish, f...

Thirteen writers—including historians, journalists, novelists, a scriptwriter, and more—offer pow...

A fascinating memoir of homesteading in South Dakota in the early twentieth century.

Scores of WWII POWs offer lessons of wartime as they remember the terror and hardship of their da...

CCC veterans tell compelling stories of their experiences planting trees, fighting fires, buildin...

The only thorough treatment of Lincoln's Indian policy during the Civil War and the corrupt 'Indi...

Sustained by rich traditions, ceremonies, advocacy, and education, Dakota families are transformi...

Eleven-year-old Travis Skinaway learns about his American Indian culture and history as he practi...

Although never more than a small percentage of the Minnesota's population, Jews have made a remar...