

MNHS Press
Books we publish on the history, art and culture of the Upper Midwest.
The Minnesota Historical Society has been preserving and sharing content since 1849 — nine years before Minnesota's statehood. This set of source-rich projects, stories, and tools represent a gateway into our efforts to bring Minnesota history online.

MNHS Press
Books we publish on the history, art and culture of the Upper Midwest.

Minnesota History magazine
A lively, richly illustrated magazine published quarterly. Purchase recent issues and explore the archive.

MNopedia
Minnesota’s online encyclopedia with entries about significant people, places, events and things in Minnesota history.
The Minnesota Historical Society preserves and protects the objects, documents, places, and buildings that make Minnesota home. State
legislative archives, grant information and support for local history
conservation and preservation projects.

Deepen your understanding of Black history and the contributions Black Americans have made to Minnesota.

Background, details and historical documents relating to the tragic events of June 15, 1920.

Since 2004, the Minnesota Historical Society’s History Forum has brought the nation’s leading historians and scholars to St. Paul to enrich our understanding of American history. Each year’s line-up features speakers who demonstrate excellence in historical scholarship and showcase the diversity, power, and complexity of our shared American story.

LGBTQ stories and historical resources brought together in one place.

Minnesota is home to a rich history of notable music. Making Music History is a video series by MNHS that takes an aspect of music–a song, a concert, an artist–and uses it to get curious about history by partnering with community members, storytellers and researchers. Episodes are released quarterly, and celebrate historical connections between community, music, and notable locations throughout the state of Minnesota.

A chronological compendium of remarkable and curious events in the history of the North Star State.

It has been over 150 years since the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, a disastrous time in Minnesota history. The war had a profound impact in shaping Minnesota as we know it today. This site is a resource for learning about the war, its causes, and its far-reaching consequences.

Learn how the landmark 19th Amendment was one step in the struggle to overturn barriers to voting rights that persist to this day.