The Colossus of Roads: Myth and Symbol along the American Highway

Arts & Photography

Karal Ann Marling

History & Criticism

University of Minnesota Press

Between 1935 and 1943 the government-funded Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) sought to keep artists throughout the country working by creating projects that would benefit the public. In Rochester, the Memorial Art Gallery s director, Gertrude Herdle Moore, administered the WPA art program, while Isabel Herdle, her sister and the Gallery s curator, was on the program s committee. In 1937, Rochester s WPA art project was called the most interesting and effective outside of New York City by the regional director of the Federal Art Project. Rochester s model program hosted and administered by the Memorial Art Gallery funded several mural groups by the artist Carl W. Peters. This is the catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, October 18, 2015 January 3, 2016.

Art for the People: Carl W. Peters and the Rochester WPA Murals

Jessica Marten

A. Joan Saab

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

Behind the Magic 50 Years of Disneyland

The Henry Ford

On the centennial of her birth this Eisenhower Seminar presented papers and engaged in discussion about the achievements of Mamie Eisenhower.

Mamie Eisenhower, wife, mother, first lady: Her impact and influence on her time

Biographies & Memoirs

Eisenhower National Historic Site

In the summer of 1849, according to official count, fewer than 4,000 people lived in Minnesota. The tally did not include members of the Indian tribes who had called Minnesota home for generations. Nor was it clear at the time just what and where Minnesota was. Minnesota was no longer part of the Wisconsin Territory, which had ceased to exist when Wisconsin became a state. The Stillwater Convention was Minnesota's first step on the road to statehood. Nobody sanctioned (approved) the meeting. Nobody voted its delegates into office. They just boldly asserted their claim and sent Henry Hastings Sibley off to Washington as the first congressional representative from Minnesota. The bill creating the Minnesota Territory and making St. Paul its capital was signed into law in March 1849. "Thank the Lord!" cried one Minnesota pioneer when word of the action trickled into the Mississippi Valley a month later. "We live in the United States again!" Minnesota is culture and nature in happy alignment. Visitors to Minnesota who come with fishing rods and snowshoes are apt to be looking for nature, as Henry Sibley and Alexander Ramsey and Henry Schoolcraft saw it, at the very beginning, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, in its unspoiled splendor. Minnesota is past and present in happy alignment.

Minnesota Hail to Thee! A Sesquicentennial History

Children's Books

Afton Historical Society Press

Norman Rockwell 1894 - 1978

Taschen

Rockwell

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