Livingston Lord Library

Northwest Minnesota Historical Center

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Hyman Berman, Jews in Minnesota (2002) -- part of the ongoing The People of Minnesota series published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

Carl H. Chrislock, Ethnicity Challenged: The Upper Midwest Norwegian-American Experience During World War I (1981) -- an excellent study of the Norwegian-Americans in the northwest and how they responded to attempts to "Americanize" them during the early part of the 20th century.

Roger Echo-Hawk, Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in the United States (1994) -- published in Minnesota, this brief work has an overview of Native American efforts to reclaim ancestral remains from museums and historical societies.

Sherri Fuller, Chinese in Minnesota (2004) -- part of the ongoing The People of Minnesota series published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

June Holmquist, ed., They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the State's Ethnic Groups (1981) -- the best source for good, comprehensive essays on the various nationalities who settled in Minnesota, spanning the history of the region.

Anne Gillespie Lewis, Swedes in Minnesota (2004) -- part of the ongoing The People of Minnesota series published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

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Kathleen Lonzen, Germans in Minnesota (2003) -- part of the ongoing The People of Minnesota series published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

Carlton Qualey, Norwegians in Minnesota (2002) -- part of the ongoing The People of Minnesota series published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

Ann Regan, Irish in Minnesota (2002) -- part of the ongoing The People of Minnesota series published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

Linda Mack Schloff, And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855 (1996) -- excellent book that includes numerous personal reminiscences of Jewish women in Minnesota.

David Taylor, African Americans in Minnesota (2002) -- part of the ongoing The People of Minnesota series published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.