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The Personal Side of History: The Salvation Army Booth Memorial Hospital Oral History Project

In 1994, over burgers and fries at the Ground Round in Crystal, my mother shared a secret she’d held close to her heart for the preceding 33 years: she had another daughter. She’d gotten pregnant after a brief but intense

The Eat Street 20th Anniversary Oral History Project

Do you like a hearty bowl of phở? Have a yen for some sauerbraten? Crave some spanakopita or curry or tacos or burgers? You can find all this and more on the culinary wonderland that is Minneapolis’ Nicollet Avenue. Coined

Veterans, Oral History, and The Minnesota Humanities Center

My first news update — how exciting! This year, I have had the great pleasure of becoming familiar with the work of the Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC), in particular its Veterans’ Voices program. This program shares veterans’ experiences through different

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Stay tuned for news and updates about my work.

Spotlight Oral History

2 months 3 weeks ago

"I remember in SDS in particular, that, you know, here we were, all these hippie girls. We’d burned our bras a long time ago. We didn’t wear make-up; we wore jeans and beads and funky shirts and Indian clothes—we were hippies. I mean, we were the classic hippies. And we were very much involved in the movement. We were given responsibility—but whenever we were at a point where we had to eat, the guys would be sitting in the living room working on strategy and we’d be in the kitchen making spaghetti. I will never forget that... But I don’t remember it as being negative. I just remember it as being, Well, that’s what girls do."
--Lois Glewwe, SDS @ University of Minnesota antiwar activist

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Spotlight Oral History

2 months 3 weeks ago

"There were a lot of us who were against the war and were eager to do something but we didn’t have draft cards to burn; we weren’t candidates to flee to Canada to avoid the draft. McCarthy’s great contribution was [saying], 'Let us use the political [process]. This is a government that is doing something wrong and we need to address that and use the processes of politics to address that.' And I don’t think he ever had an illusion that he was going to be the president of the United States but he came from this Benedictine tradition of moral responsibility and so he gave us a gift. You could be a grandmother and be involved. If marching in the streets with placards wasn’t your thing, you could make a contribution. So the middle class and the older people and women were empowered to make a difference in ways that were effective and appropriate." --Mary Vogel (formerly Heffernan), McCarthy for President campaign Minnesota

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