Livingston Lord Library

Northwest Minnesota Historical Center

A Basic Bibliography of Minnesota History

From the collections of the Northwest Minnesota Historical Center.


This bibliography on Minnesota history makes no claim to being exhaustive. What it does do is offer information on some of the best books and articles available concerning various topics. For more comprehensive listings consult the bibliographies in several of the works cited here.


The bibliography is arranged by topic, following the general chronology of the history of Minnesota, from pre-history to late 20th century. Each topic is appended by a list of the books and articles about that topic. Links to documents and other sites in Minnesota history are also provided for some of the topics.

 General History of Minnesota  Lumber Trade
 Agriculture and Industry in the 19th Century  Mining Frontier
 Dakota Conflict (The Sioux 'Uprising' of 1862)  Minnesota from 1940 to the 1960s
 Early European and American Exploration  Minnesota in the Late 20th Century
 Early White Settlement  Minnesota Territory
 Education in Minnesota  Native Americans
 
 Ethnicity in Minnesota  Populist-Progressive Eras
 Farmer-Labor Party  Railroad Boom in the Northwest
 
 Fur Trade  Statehood and the Civil War Era    
 Geography  Trade Before the Civil War
 
 Great Depression  Women's History