Through a judicious selection of documents from the papers of the League of Women Voters of the United States in the Library of Congress, Stuhler reveals the rich history of an organization designed to serve the public interest. In the aftermath of the 72-year long effort by American women to win the vote, the League was formed to prepare these new voters for their responsibilities as full participating citizens. The organization's first president, Maud Wood Park, and her associates established Citizenship Schools throughout the nation to educate women, and they were so successful that one newspaper complained, "Why not for men, too?" Succeeding presidents built the League's reputation as an organization inventive in its dual roles as a voter educator and civic activist. While League members were expected to be nonpartisan, they were also encouraged to be active in their parties, a sometimes confusing posture. Nevertheless, the League--as an advocate in support of specified public policies--succeeded in maintaining an informed nonpartisanship that came to be respected by opinion and political leaders, and the public learned that it could depend upon the League for unbiased information in election contests. In making it possible for women to show their strength and do what they have done for some 80 years, the League has made incalculable contributions to the public good. Students, scholars, and the informed public interested in American political and women's history will find this documentary collection invaluable.

For the Public Record: A Documentary History of the League of Women Voters

Politics & Social Sciences

Barbara Stuhler

Politics & Government

Pogo Press

Turning walls of a city into a giant sized painting is an idea that has been kicking around in history for a long, long time. This book documents mural art in both rural and urban Minnesota. These mural have been created by professional artists as well as sign painters and neighborhood amateurs who paint a wall as a group activity. After a recap of the history of mural painting Moira Harris maps out where each of the murals are with the photographic display. Brief biographies are included for the muralists that were known.

Museum of the Streets: Minnesota's Contemporary Outdoor Murals

Arts & Photography

Harris, Moira F.

History & Criticism

Decorated vehicles vividly reflect the art traditions and popular culture of the Americas. In this pictorial survey, art historian Moira Harris considers the ox carts of Costa Rica, the buses on Panama, the Tap-Taps of Haiti, the Kustom Cars of the United States of America, and the chivas of Columbia.

Art on the Road: Painted Vehicles of the Americas (Pogo Press Art and Popular Culture Series)

The general consensus (never proven) seems to be that there is more theatrical activity per capita in the Twin Cities are than anywhere else in the nation, New York included. This book therefore, is a humble attempt to make reader's a bit more aware of Minnesota's theatrical heritage. The material is arranged in four chronological divisions: Part One takes us from the soldier shows at old Fort Snelling to 1883 when not one but two Grand Opera Houses were constructed. Part Two ends with 1933, the date when Buzz Bainbridge gave up his theatre to become mayor. Part Three covers the thirty year interval between the demise of the Bainbridge Players and the opening of The Guthrie, while Part Four is concerned with the explosion of activity that immediately preceded and followed the opening of The Gutherie. This title has been selected as a Bernard Hewitt Award Nominee for outstanding Research in Theatre History.

Minnesota Theatre (Arts & Popular Culture Series)

Whiting, Frank M.

Humor & Entertainment

Art historian Moira F. Harris analyzes the known Fort Marion drawings attributed to Wo-Haw, Kiowa warrior and artist (1855-1924), in relationship to then contemporary events.. Her work shows how Kiowa Indian painting developed from its traditional beginnings to the preset day. This most unusual colony of artists developed at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, where more than seventy men from five hostile tribes of the Southern Plains were imprisoned from 1875 to 1878. Their humanitarian jailer, Captain Richard H. Pratt, believed they could be made into useful productive citizens if given direction and the opportunity to develop their native abilities. He provided them with paper, pencils, and colors, and offered them the opportunity to produce art works for sale to whites. More than a third of these "Florida boys" participated and hundreds of their works are preserved in widely scattered public and private collections.

Between Two Cultures: Kiowa Art From Fort Marion

The Paws of Refreshment: The Story of Hamm's Beer Advertising

San Francisco Murals: Community Creates its Muse, 1914-1990

Timothy W. Drescher

Minnesotans have in the past century honored heroes and public figures, created mythic and heroic town symbols, funded abstracts on public streets and walkways, and now find themselves surrounded by a growing forest of sculpture carved by the chainsaw. Minnesota has more than 630 different pieces of outdoor sculpture, located in 150 different communities.

Monumental Minnesota: A Guide to Ourdoor Sculpture

Sculpture

NOTE: This is the Beta of the 2nd Edition. Some content may change orbe added until May 2021. See http: //saasbook.info for details.Purchasers of Kindle version (available February 2021) will get free updates for life. Aone-semester college course in software engineering focusing on cloudcomputing, software as a service (SaaS), and Agile development usingExtreme Programming (XP) and the Rails and jQuery frameworks.Endorsed by leading companies including Google, leading scholarsincluding Turing Award winners, and students from all over the worldwho have taken the edX course series "Agile Development" fromBerkeleyX, to which this book is an ideal companion. Hands-onexercises are freely downloadable from GitHub. A complete version ofthe course including autograding for the exercises is available in theCodio web-based IDE. See http: //saasbook.info for details, table ofcontents, and extensive free resources for both classroom and remoteinstructors.

Engineering Software As a Service: An Agile Approach Using Cloud Computing

Computers & Technology

Patterson, David A.

Fox, Armando

Web Development & Design

What do Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, and Oscar Wilde have in common? They, and authors Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Bayard Taylor, Knut Hamsun, Fredrika Bremer, Max O'Rell, and Frederick Marryat all visited Minnesota between 1838 and 1890. Each of these authors, and Minnesota's Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning author, Sinclair Lewis, plumbed their Minnesota experiences in later prose and fiction. Reprinted here are eleven essays by John T. Flanagan, originally published in Minnesota History, the journal of the Minnesota Historical Society, which describe the sojourn of these authors and the literary results.

Minnesota's Literary Visitors

Literature & Fiction

Flanagan, John T.

Literary

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