2009 Reading #35: Saint Paul: The First 150 Years

[snurri]

Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
31. Dôra, Doralina by Rachel de Queiroz.
32. The Mercenaries by Donald E. Westlake.
33. A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter.
34. Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart (Part One of the Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox).

35. Saint Paul: The First 150 Years by Virginia Brainard Kunz. Brief overview of St. Paul's history, focusing on the waves of immigration and the various ethnicities here. Given that that's one of the major threads of my research, it's lucky that I picked this one up. Pretty general, but still a good starting point for some things.

Comments

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Reminds me that I still have a doctoral thesis on African American migration to Minnesota from the Civil War to the 1930s. There was a sizeable black middle class that established itself early on. They even kept Birth of a Nation out of the Minnesota movie theaters.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Rondo neighborhood I've been researching is where the black community was centered. Then, of course, they put I-94 right through the middle of it.