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
- 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 2021
- "Promptly and Gratefully Embraced": Absentee Voting and the Minnesota Soldier During the Civil War
- Stunt Girl Journalism: Eva McDonald Valesh and the Rhetorical Enactment of the Labor Movement
- MNHS Press Book Excerpt: The View from Split Rock: A Lighthouse Keeper’s Life
Previous Issues
Spring 2021
- "Curious and Romantic Sensation": Sex, Fraud, and Celebrity in the Leon A. Belmont Case of 1880
- Policing Politics: Labor, Race, and the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, 1945-1972
- From the Archives: Censorship and Journalists' Privilege: The Case of Near versus Minnesota—Half a Century Later
Winter 2020-21
- Hardware Store Sedition: The Case of Charles W. Anding
- Flying for Dollars: The Victory Loan Flying Circus in the Twin Ports, April 20, 1919
- MNHS Press Book Excerpt: Daybreak Woman: An Anglo-Dakota Life
Fall 2020
- So Near and Yet So Far: The Female Suffrage Bill of 1870
- Julia B. Nelson: “The Rock on Which the Effort for Woman Suffrage Has Been Founded in This State”
- Woman Suffrage and Ethnicity in Rural Minnesota: Local Agitation in Pipestone and Lyon Counties