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: Winter 2022-23
- A Gift to All Deaf Minnesotans: A History of St. Paul’s Charles Thompson Memorial Hall
- The White Red Men: The Improved Order of Red Men in Minnesota, 1875–1920
- MNHS Press Book Excerpt: “A Child of the Indian Race”: A Story of Return
Previous Issues
Fall 2022
- Preserving Minnesota’s Wild Rice: The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge
- Rudy Returns and Minnesota Pivots: The 1982 Election for Minnesota’s Governor
- “I Thought I Would Wright You a Few Lines”: Solomon G. Comstock and Civil War Veteran Pensions
Summer 2022
- “Last Chance Liquor ’til South Dakota”: County Option in Minnesota, 1915–1965
- A Stranger in a Strange Land: Charles Joseph Latrobe and a Visit to Fort Snelling, 1833
- MNHS Press Book Excerpt: When Minnehaha Flowed with Whiskey: A Spirited History of the Falls
Spring 2022
- Righting a Wrong: Eighty Years Since the Order That Put Japanese Americans Behind Barbed Wire
- Answering Lincoln’s Call: Hamline University Students and Staff Confront the Civil War
- From the Archives: William B. Riley and the Fight Against Teaching of Evolution in Minnesota