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19th Century Settlement
20th Century Growth and Diversity
20th Century Growth and Diversity: Maps, 1930s
20th Century Growth and Diversity: Maps, 1990-2000

Websites

American Indian Communities in Minnesota: Twin Cities American Indian Community
http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/departments/scr/report/bands/TC.htm
American Swedish Institute
http://www.americanswedishinst.org/
HACER
http://www.hacer-mn.org/
Hennepin History Museum
http://www.hhmuseum.org/
Minneapolis Census 2000
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/citywork/planning/census2000
The Minneapolis Foundation: Programs & Projects
http://www.mplsfoundation.org/programs.shtml
Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program
http://www.nrp.org/
Minneapolis Urban League
http://www.mul.org/
Minnesota Historical Society
http://www.mnhs.org/
Minnesota's National Register Properties
http://nrhp.mnhs.org/
Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization
http://www.npcr.org/index.html
Twin Cities Free-Net: Minneapolis Neighborhoods
http://www.freenet.msp.mn.us/nhoods/mpls/

Residents of the City - General Resources

Atwater, Isaac. History of Minneapolis. Find a Copy!
New York, Munsell Pub. Co., 1895.
Heath, Richard. Minneapolis growth and city form. Find a Copy!
[Minneapolis, Minn.: City Planning Dept.?,19--]
Legacy of Minneapolis: preservation amid change. Find a Copy!
1st ed. Blooming, MN: Voyageur Press, c1983.
Millett, Larry. Twin cities then and now. Find a Copy!
St. Paul, Minn: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1996.
Minneapolis past [videorecording]. Find a Copy!
Saint Paul, MN: KTCA: KTCA/Video [distributor], c1993.
Shutter, Marion Daniel. History of Minneapolis, gateway to the Northwest. Find a Copy!
Chicago, Minneapolis, Clark Publishing Company, 1923.
Stipanovich, Joseph. City of Lakes: an illustrated history of Minneapolis. Find a Copy!
Woodland Hills, Calif.: Windsor Publishing, Inc., 1982.

Residents of the City - Specific Resources

Anderson, Gary Clayton. Kinsmen of another kind: Dakota-white relations in the upper Mississippi valley, 1650-1862. Find a Copy!
St. Paul, MN.: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1997.
Caught between cultures: selected works from the COMPAS/MAX program. Find a Copy!
[Saint Paul, Minn.: COMPAS, 1990].
Closing the circle: the Indian in Minneapolis: a new era. Find a Copy!
[Minneapolis: University of Minnesota 1975].
Fiene, Susan. Celebrate Northeast! a coloring book of the many cultures of our neighborhood. Find a Copy!
[Minneapolis?: s.n.],c1994.
Hamermesh, Madeline. Telling it like it was--I think. Find a Copy!
Fort Bragg, CA: Cypress House, c1998.
Ljungmark, Lars. For sale-Minnesota; organized promotion of Scandinavian immigration, 1866-1873. Find a Copy!
Chicago, Swedish Pioneer Historical Society, 1971.
Minneapolis Negro profile: a pictorial resume of the black community, its achievement, and its immediate goals. Find a Copy!
[Minneapolis: 1969?]
Minnesota's Black community. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis: Scott Pub. Co., c1976.
North Minneapolis: Minneapolis historic context study. Find a Copy!
[St. Paul, Minn.] : Landscape Research, 1998.
North Side memories: an oral history of Minnesota's largest Jewish neighborhood. Find a Copy!
St. Paul, MN: Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, c2000.
Northeast Minneapolis: Minneapolis historic context study. Find a Copy!
[St. Paul, Minn.] : Landscape Research, 1998.
The Oriental in Minnesota, a report to the Governor Luther W. Youngdahl of Minnesota. Find a Copy!
[St. Paul] 1949.
Pearson, Marjorie. South Minneapolis: an historical context: final report. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis, Minn.: Hess, Roise and Co., [2000]
Peterson, Garneth O. Jewish settlement in Minneapolis, 1860s-1972: historical context for the Minneapolis preservation plan. Find a Copy!
[Saint Paul, Minn.] : Landscape Research, [1997].
Petersen, Penny A. Hiding in plain sight: Minneapolis' first neighborhood. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis, MN: Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association/NRP,[1999].
Rode, Peter. Ethiopian and Somali families in Minneapolis: a community study. Find a Copy!
[Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board, 1999].
Schmid, Calvin Fisher. Social saga of two cities; an ecological and statistical study of social trends in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Find a Copy!
Minneapolis, Minn., Bureau of Social of Social Research, The Minneapolis Council of Social Agencies [c1937].
Speaking for themselves: a survey of Hispanic, Hmong, Russian, and Somali immigrants in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. Find a Copy!
Saint Paul, MN: Wilder Research Center, [2000].
They chose Minnesota: a survey of the state's ethnic groups. Find a Copy!
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1981.

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