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  • A Sense of Place: Minnesota Past & Present

    One hundred fifty years ago on May 11, 1858, the Territory of Minnesota joined the Union as the 32nd state. Since then, Minnesotans have been leaving their mark on the region and the nation.

    07/02/09

Faculty

  • Q&A with Prof. John Howe

    07/02/09

  • Cultural Kaleidoscope: Caesar Farah

    By Kate Tyler
    Writing on a laptop computer in the dining room of his suburban Minneapolis home, Middle East historian Caesar Farah sometimes finds his glance wandering to the curved dagger adorning a wall near the window. Sheathed in wood and crisscrossed with a woven brocade belt, the sword is a janbiyi, a traditional dagger worn by Yemeni men for centuries. It's rarely used as a weapon today, Farah notes. But for him it is an evocative reminder of the complex and often violent history of the Middle East, where ethno-religious conflict and epic struggles over oil, land, and power have pushed the region--and the entire world--to the dagger's edge of catastrophe.

     07/02/09

  • Riding the Waves of Change: Sara Evans

    By Kate Tyler
    As historian Sara Evans boxes up a lifetime of work on American social change, it's hard to imagine a better backdrop than the history-making presidential runs of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

     07/02/09

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  • Major Awards

    07/02/09

  • In Memoriam

    Paul W. Bamford, a long-time member of the History faculty, passed away on August 22, 2007 at the age of 85.

     07/02/09

  • New Faculty

    07/02/09

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