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38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow and the Beginning of the Frontier’s End by Scott W. Berg. Pantheon Books, New York, 2012. 364 pages. $27.95 reviewed by Margaret J. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota Twin Cities native Scott W. Berg is currently on the faculty … Continue reading →

I first encountered the story of the 1990 theft of masterworks from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum two decades after the paintings disappeared, in the “Carrie” stack of my personal bibliophile-shopper (my mom), who flagged Ulrich Boser’s The Gardner Heist: … Continue reading →

Did you catch Amy Goetzman’s February 22, 2012 MinnPost interview with Walt Bachman? Walt Bachman, author of Northern Slave Black Dakota: The Life and Times of Joseph Godfrey ““In Minnesota, there were never large gangs of farm workers, or auction … Continue reading →

When I began this blog a year ago, I didn’t really know what I was doing or what niche it might fill in the research world. I only knew that marketing people advised authors to blog and with A Thrilling … Continue reading →

Pause and think about that :). You never know when you might self-righteously throw down a book and stomp to your computer, even madder that you gave away that great textbook on logic ten years ago, so now you have … Continue reading →

My primary source offering today is actually dated August 2, not August 12, 1862. But it is a companion source to tomorrow’s letter dated August 13. Listen in as officials in Washington D.C. pass the buck on the subject of … Continue reading →

Part four in a seven-part series on European American/Native American War Artifacts and the Ethics of Display by Zabelle Stodola, professor of literature and cultural studies at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. The series begins here. Part 4: Hannah Dustan: Commemoration … Continue reading →