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Minnesota History Magazine

Minnesota History magazine provides history lovers with intriguing stories about Minnesota’s past in full-color, richly illustrated print and digital formats.

  • In-depth articles
  • Lively short features
  • Book reviews
  • Stunning historic photographs and artwork

The magazine is published four times a year as a benefit of MNHS membership and is also available by subscription.

Current Issue Summer 2023 (68/6)

Cover of current issue
  • The Life and Legacy of Charles Schulz, Creator of Peanuts
  • Fighting Words: Shakespeare and Minnesota's Experience of Civil War
  • MNHS Press Book Excerpt: Minescapes: Reclaiming Minnesota's Mined Land

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Recent Back Issues

Spring 2023 (68/5)
  • A New Exhibit Expands the Stories at Split Rock Lighthouse
  • White Supremacy on Parade: The Fight to Stop The Birth of a Nation in the Twin Cities
  • From the Archives: Minnesota National Forest: The Politics of Compromise, 1898–1908

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Winter 2022-23 (68/4)
  • A Gift to All Deaf Minnesotans: A History of St. Paul’s Charles Thompson Memorial Hall
  • The White Red Men: The Improved Order of Red Men in Minnesota, 1875–1920
  • MNHS Press Book Excerpt: “A Child of the Indian Race”: A Story of Return

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Fall 2022 (68/3)
  • Preserving Minnesota’s Wild Rice: The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge
  • Rudy Returns and Minnesota Pivots: The 1982 Election for Minnesota’s Governor
  • “I Thought I Would Wright You a Few Lines”: Solomon G. Comstock and Civil War Veteran Pensions

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