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MN History Center
345 W. Kellogg Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55102
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$10 adults
$8 seniors (65+)
$8 college students (valid ID)
$5 children ages 6-17
Free for MHS members and children age 5 and under.
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Museum Hours
10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday;
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesday through Saturday;
12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday;
Closed Monday (open Monday holidays year round, including 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Labor Day)
2010 Sep 8
History Forum
Explore America’s rich and fascinating history with some of its best historians at the History Center’s premier lecture series.
HISTORY FORUM 2010-2011
A Nation Among Nations
Explore six events that have challenged, informed and changed American beliefs about the United States and its place in the world.
The MN History Center offers rush ticketing for sold out History Forum lectures. Rush sign-up begins at 1 p.m. on each lecture date and is held at the Ticket Services table outside the 3M auditorium on Level I of the History Center. Rush seating begins at 1:50 p.m. when open seats can be guaranteed. Ticket prices: $8 MHS members; $10 general.
Box Office Policies:
• Series subscription: $76 public/$54 MHS members, on sale Sept 7 at 9 a.m.
• Individual tickets: $14 public/$10 MHS members, on sale Sept. 21, pending availability.
• Reservations are required and will be confirmed when payment is received.
• Tickets purchased within seven days of the lecture will be held at the door.
• All other confirmation materials will be sent via regular mail.
• Museum admission charged separately.
• No refunds will be given.
• Tickets will sell out quickly.
Upcoming History Forum
The Presidency of George Washington, 1789-1797
- Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 2:00pm
His presidency capped off the Revolution, strengthened a nation in its infancy, and created a mythic standard for American politics and leadership that still haunts Washington D.C. Distinguished historian John Ferling pulls back the curtain of myth that has enshrouded the nation’s first President, brings to light the real George Washington—his ambitions, foibles and true strengths—and reveals why, in Ferling’s words, America was “fortunate to have have had Washington and lucky to have survived him.”
John Ferling, professor emeritus at the University of West Georgia, is the author of numerous books including The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon, the award-winning Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence and A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. Dr. Ferling delivered the inaugural History Forum lecture in 2004. He is also a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
The Trials at Nuremberg, 1945-1949
- Saturday, November 6, 2010 - 2:00pm
American prosecutors at Nuremberg, faced with a legal challenge for which there was no precedent, turned to the familiar principles of the New Deal for guidance, forever redefining human rights and the United States’ vision for the world. International human rights historian Elizabeth Borgwardt examines how New Dealers at Nuremberg established a new definition of human rights, one that inextricably links international security to individual civil liberties, and that still underpins human rights efforts around the globe today.
Elizabeth Borgwardt, author of the prize-winning A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights, specializes in the history of human rights, international law and the international history of modern America. Associate professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis, has received multiple teaching awards and was a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies during spring 2008. Dr. Borgwardt is also a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
The 1918 Influenza
- Saturday, December 11, 2010 - 2:00pm
In nine short months the so-called “Spanish Flu” killed 675,000 Americans, then its virulence, and the wartime censorship, political maneuvering and scientific struggle that accompanied it, faded from our national consciousness for nearly a century. Best-selling historian and author John Barry explores how the confluence of biology and wartime politics allowed a deadly virus to thrive, motivating Americans accustomed to invulnerability to erase from national memory the terrors of the greatest epidemic in human history.
John M. Barry is Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Bioenvironmental Research of Tulane and Xavier Universities and a New York Times best-selling author. The National Academies of Science named The Great Influenza: the Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History the year’s outstanding book on science or medicine. Barry has advised the Bush and Obama administrations and United Nations, and World Health Organization officials on influenza, pandemic preparedness and response. Barry is also the only non-scientist to serve on a federal government Infectious Disease Board of Experts.
Bombing in Haymarket, 1886
- Saturday, January 22, 2011 - 2:00pm
A bomb thrown by an unknown assailant killed seven policemen at a Chicago union rally in 1886, sparking public hysteria that crippled the American labor movement until the 1930s and led to the wrongful executions of three men. Labor historian James Green revisits Haymarket, the decades of anti-immigrant and anti-union sentiment it helped inspire, the international controversy it created, and the cultural divide it exposed over who should have a voice in American public life and politics.
James Green, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, is author of Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America. He has served as president of the Labor and Working Class History Association, as a lecturer in the Harvard Trade Union Program, and as research director for the PBS series "The Great Depression." Dr. Green is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
The Mexican War, 1846-1848
- Saturday, February 12, 2011 - 2:00pm
Labeled unjust by critics at the time, the Mexican War added over a million square miles to the United States and created a lasting division between America and its neighbor to the south. Western historian Sam Haynes looks beyond ideas of “Manifest Destiny” to explain America’s first war on foreign soil and explores the significance of a conflict that made the U.S. into a continental power and established a border that continues to trouble the nation today.
Sam Haynes is associate professor of history and director of the Center for Southwestern Studies at the University of Texas-Arlington. He is the author of James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse, editor of The United States and Mexico at War: Expansion and Conflict and co-editor of Manifest Destiny and Empire. The recipient of numerous awards and research fellowships, Haynes has also served as an historical advisor for PBS and History Channel series about the Mexican War.
The U.S. in the Middle East Since 1945
- Saturday, March 5, 2011 - 2:00pm
Ever since Truman stationed soldier in Iran to protect WWII oil supplies, the United States has maintained a presence in the Middle East. American troops and intelligence personnel have been continuously deployed to countries ranging from Israel to Afghanistan over the past 65 years. Foreign relations historian Jeremi Suri examines the causes behind America’s increased cultural, military and economic role in the region, its influence on the Middle East and its implications for the United States.
Jeremi Suri is E. Gordon Fox Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and winner of the university's Class of 1955 Distinguished Teaching Award and Dorothy and Hsin-Nung Yao Teaching Award. In 2007, Smithsonian Magazine named him one of America's "Top Young Innovators" in the humanities and sciences. He is author of several books including American Foreign Relations since 1898 and Henry Kissinger and the American Century. Suri is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
