Minnesota History Magazine Winter 2024–25 (69.4)

Departments

Director’s Note
Kent Whitworth

Curator’s Choice
Katy J. Mollerud
Precontact Ceramic Pot from Crow Wing County

LandMark
David Stevens
Washburn-Crosby A Mill / Mill City Museum, Hennepin County

News & Notes / Looking Back

Preserving > Sharing > Connecting
MNHS Member Tom H. Swain

Articles

Turning Point: The First Professional Historians at MNHS
William Convery

Director of research and a MacMillan Fellow for Strategic Initiatives at MNHS, William Convery traces the history of research at the MNHS through the careers of three professional historians employed by the Society: Solon J. Buck, Grace Lee Nute, and Theodore C. Blegen.

An Invitation: Presenting 25 Objects that Speak to 175 Years of MNHS History
Cecily Marcus

For this 175th anniversary milestone, five of MNHS’s curators took up an impossible challenge: Choose five objects that reflect the breadth, depth, diversity, and surprise of Minnesota history and all of its people from MNHS’s collections of more than one million books, artifacts, images, and objects. Director of collections Cecily Marcus describes the challenge.

Curators present 25 Objects to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the MNHS
Catherine Cooney, Jennifer Huebscher, Kathryn Hjuda, Angelica J. Maier, Spencer Wigmore