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Take Three More Recent Books Take Three more receNT Books The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Open Window: The Lake Julia Postwar American Midwest edited by Jon K. Lauck and TB Sanatorium: A Community Catherine McNichol Stock (Lawrence: University Press of Created by Tuberculosis by Pat Kansas, 2020, 392 p., Paper, $29.95). This timely volume Nelson (independently published, examines how and why the Midwest has arguably become 2020, 283 p., Paper, $19.50). The America’s most contested political battleground. The editors’ history of the northern Minnesota introductory essay and the 17 essays gathered here reveal sanatorium as told through the inter- how the roots of conservative victories in state legislatures twined stories of Dr. Mary Ghostley, and national elections in the early twenty- first century reach Lake Julia’s superintendent from 1929 back across decades of political organization in the region, until it closed in 1952, and nurses, defined as nine states from the Dakotas to Indiana and Ohio. patients, and employees, including Deindustrialization, environmentalism, second- wave feminism, mass incarceration, the author’s parents. debates over same- sex marriage and abortion, and more played roles in transform- ing the prewar Republican Party into the New Right, a transformation associated Taconite: New Life for Minnesota’s with the Sun Belt but in which the Midwest, the authors contend, was an equally key Iron Range— The History of Erie player. The sole Minnesota- specific chapter covers the “white working- class revolt” Mining Company by the Erie Min- that led in 1969 to the election of Charles Stenvig as mayor of Minneapolis, but refer- ing Company History Project Team ences to Minnesota are abundant. (Duluth: St. Louis County Historical Society, 2019, 352 p., Hardcover, $45). Surgical Renaissance in the Heartland: A Memoir of Active and retired employees of the Wangensteen Era by Henry Buchwald (Minneapolis: Erie Mining Company (in operation University of Minnesota Press, 2020, 208 p., Hardcover, from 1940 to 2001) put in more than $24.95). After a stint in the air force, Henry Buchwald was 25,000 hours of volunteer time over recruited in 1960 by Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen to join the an almost six- year span to document Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota. The the history of one of the world’s first culture of innovation Wangensteen created was a perfect fit and largest taconite mines and pro- for Buchwald, then a young surgeon who had chafed against cessing plants, with a research facility the rigidity of East Coast medical practice. The foundations in Hibbing and taconite demonstra- of open- heart surgery, implantable infusion pump thera- tion plant near Aurora. The success pies, and other medical landmarks originated during the of the demonstration plant led to Wangensteen era at the U of M’s Medical School. In an entertaining and inspiring the construction and operation of a style, Buchwald evokes the personalities and character of the department during commercial mine and plant with an his time working with Wangensteen, 1960 to 1967, as well as telling his personal annual rated capacity of 7.5 million story. Buchwald attributes the freedom of thought and value of innovation that were tons of iron ore pellets processed crucial to creating the “Minnesota legacy” to the midwestern and western origins of from taconite ore. Beyond the book, Wangensteen, Richard Varco, C. Walton Lillehei, Richard C. Lillehei, and other pio- the Erie Mining History Project neering surgeons. includes a study guide, traveling exhibit, future permanent exhibit at Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify by Carolyn Holbrook the St. Louis County Historical Soci- (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020, 200 p., ety, and scholarships. Paper, $18.95). In the face of adversity, prominent writer, arts activist, and teacher Carolyn Holbrook has created opportuni- The Soul of the Indian: An Inter- ties for herself at every turn. She started the Whittier Writer’s pretation by Charles A. Eastman Workshop in 1981 so she could take writing courses she (Ohiyesa), with new introduction couldn’t afford. To support herself and her children she rented by Brenda J. Child (Lincoln: Bison a typewriter, took out an ad, and started a secretarial service. Books/University of Nebraska Press, This essay collection traces, in direct and affecting prose, 2020, 156 p., Paper, $18.95). Fortieth- Holbrook’s path from troubled Minneapolis childhood to lead- anniversary edition of the Dakota ership positions in the Twin Cities literary community, where physician and writer’s classic explo- she now leads More Than a Single Story, a series of panel discussions and community ration of religion as he experienced it conversations for people of color and Indigenous writers and arts activists. during the late nineteenth century. 170 MINNESOTA HISTORY News & NoTes Fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic Visitors to the History Center can plans are still being developed for Mill over spring and summer 2020 resulted take in special exhibits including First City Museum and additional historic in temporary closures of MNHS sites Avenue: Stories of Minnesota’s Mainroom sites, although it is unlikely that any will and facilities and layoffs of 216 staff out and Prince: Before the Rain, which have open in 2020. The updated list of what is of the 595 people who were employed in been extended to January 3, 2021. Entry open may be found at mnhs.org/media April, representing a 36 percent reduc- will be limited; advanced tickets are rec- /news/12106. tion in staff. ommended. Market House by D’Amico To ensure the health and safety of Over the summer, MNHS reopened café will offer grab-and-go items, and the guests, staff, and the community, MNHS Jeffers Petroglyphs, Lower Sioux History Center store is open. is limiting the number of daily visitors at Agency, Oliver Kelley Farm (on select The Gale Family Library at the historic sites and museums. Tickets can Saturdays), Split Rock Lighthouse, and Minnesota History Center is being be purchased online or through the box the trail sites Birch Coulee Battlefield, reconfigured to accommodate in-person office at 651-259-3015. A limited number Marine Mill, and Traverse des Sioux. researchers and will open later this year. of tickets will be available for walk-ups. The Minnesota History Center and the Look for more information, including MNHS is following recommendations trading post (retail store) at the Mille the opening date, at mnhs.org/library. from the Minnesota Department of Lacs Indian Museum opened October 1. MNHS is prepared to offer self-guided Health and the Centers for Disease Con- (The Mille Lacs Indian Museum, which tours at the State Capitol as soon as the trol and will adjust reopening plans as normally closes for the season at the end Minnesota Department of Administra- necessary. of October, will remain closed.) tion reopens the building. Reopening For the first time ever, MNHS’s annual meeting will be held virtually. The 171st annual meeting will be held from 6:30 Letters to 8 pm, November 5, 2020. A panel Congratulations on two powerful stories in the Summer 2020 issue. Both “Something in the discussion about pivotal moments in Water: Brainerd’s Water Fluoridation Battle” by Paul Nelson and “‘In That Very Northern Minnesota history—150, 100, and 50 City’: Recovering a Forgotten Struggle for Racial Integration in Duluth” by Chad Montrie years ago—will be moderated by Kevin reflect the issues which continue to divide us into those who are comfortable with the sta- Maijala, MNHS interim deputy director tus quo, unhealthy or unjust as it may be, versus those who insist that we can improve both for learning initiatives. Panelists are our personal well-being and the well-being of the greater community. At the bottom lies Kate Beane (Flandreau Santee Sioux), fear: fear that fluoride in our water or measles vaccines might make us sick or that black or director, Native American initiatives, brown homeowners next door might lower the value of our property. MNHS; journalist Curt Brown, author Let’s hope that these timely articles help Minnesotans reflect more deeply and produc- of the Minnesota history column in the tively on how to move our lives, and the lives of our children, toward health and inclusivity. Sunday Star Tribune; and Brittany Lewis, I hope to see more articles of this sort, which by [reflecting on] past events, shed bright founder and CEO of Research in Action light on current emotional and divisive issues. and senior research associate at the —Dutton Foster, St. Paul Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Reader Tom McCarthy wrote to express his disappointment over use of the term “costume” to refer to the garment portrayed in the Curator’s Choice feature (Summer 2020, p. 51): “If an article were to be written about the history of Vikings football players’ ‘costume,’ I imag- Correction: The W. K. (not, as was pub- ine you would receive ample complaint. Please begin using gender equal language.” lished, W. H.) Kellogg Foundation did not Sondra Reierson, MNHS 3D objects curator and coauthor of the article, replies: “In and does not own the Kellogg Company, retrospect I should have used ‘uniform’ rather than ‘costume,’ as we are referring to the maker of breakfast cereals, as described clothing of athletes. Clothing curators regularly refer to ‘costume’ and ‘costume collec- in “Something in the Water: Brainerd’s tions’ in a non-gendered way, but this usage is museum jargon that should have been Water Fluoridation Battle,” p. 58, in the stripped from an article meant for public consumption. I fully understand that in this con- Summer 2020 issue. text the word ‘costume’ appears gendered, and I apologize for this oversight.” Contact us Comments, questions about Minnesota History ? Send them to 345 Kellogg Boulevard West, St.
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