This folder contains materials created/collected by the YMCA's Urban Group, as well as other records of the North American YMCA's urban work. The majority of this collection is focused from the 1950s through the 1970s, when the urban population of the United States grew rapidly. Major topics include race relations and institutional inequality, y...
Created:
1961 - 1962
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the YMCA's Urban Group, as well as other records of the North American YMCA's urban work. The majority of this collection is focused from the 1950s through the 1970s, when the urban population of the United States grew rapidly. Major topics include race relations and institutional inequality, y...
Created:
1970
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Will Weaver‘s debut novel was Red Earth, White Earth, about a native Minnesotan returning to his home town due to conflicts between white farmers and local Native Americans. It was made into a CBS-TV movie in 1989. His 1989 short story collection, A Gravestone Made of Wheat and Other Stories, won many awards, including the Minnesota Book Award...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Weaver, Will
Created:
2014-04-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
William Moseley talks to Peter Shea about food security issues in Africa, and some of the food policy issues facing African governments, in light of a recent trip to Botswana.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Moseley, William
Created:
2012-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
William LaFleur talks to Peter Shea about differences between the beliefs of Buddhist and Judaeo-Christian societies with respect to issues such as abortion and organ donation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
LaFleur, William
Created:
2006-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
William Cunningham talks to Peter Shea about his experience as a biological and environmental scientist, his authoring of a leading environmental science textbook, globalisation, and accellerating environmental change.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cunningham, William
Created:
2008-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This folder contains federal government publications collected by the Social Welfare History Archives staff or acquired along with collections given to the Archives. These publications cover a wide range of social issues and services from the early 1900s to 1980. This folder specifically contains materials relating to children and youth in an ur...
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Walter Enloe talks to Peter Shea about the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that occurred in Japan on March 11, 2011, and about his experience as an educator and peace activist in Hiroshima and the Twin Cities.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Enloe, Walter
Created:
2011-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Letterpress volumes of outgoing survey correspondence, dated April 15, 1895 - April 24, 1896. The correspondent is Ulysses S. Grant, assistant state geologist and son-in-law of Prof. Winchell, who performed the duties of the state geologist during Prof. Winchell's absences on European trips.
Creator:
Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota
Created:
1895-04-14 - 1896-04-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains administrative materials regarding the founding and activities of the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Materials include faculty files, meeting minutes and agendas, newsletters, handbooks, correspondence, and memos. On January 14, 1969, members of the Afro-American Action Com...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Dept. of Afro-American and African Studies.
Created:
1994
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
The subject contained within this United Neighborhood of New York scrapbook include the activities, administration, and philosophy of settlement houses and community centers as well as the development of professional social work. Includes documentation of issues and programs relating to: housing standards and tenement law reform, immigration and...
Creator:
United Neighborhood Houses of New York
Created:
1919 - 1927
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
The subject contained within this United Neighborhood of New York scrapbook include the activities, administration, and philosophy of settlement houses and community centers as well as the development of professional social work. Includes documentation of issues and programs relating to: housing standards and tenement law reform, immigration and...
Creator:
United Neighborhood Houses of New York
Created:
1935 - 1937
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
The subject contained within this United Neighborhood of New York scrapbook include the activities, administration, and philosophy of settlement houses and community centers as well as the development of professional social work. Includes documentation of issues and programs relating to: housing standards and tenement law reform, immigration and...
Creator:
United Neighborhood Houses of New York
Created:
1934 - 1935
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
The subject contained within this United Neighborhood of New York scrapbook include the activities, administration, and philosophy of settlement houses and community centers as well as the development of professional social work. Includes documentation of issues and programs relating to: housing standards and tenement law reform, immigration and...
Creator:
United Neighborhood Houses of New York
Created:
1933 - 1934
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Tressa Sularz is a fiber artist living and working in her home studio in Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work reflects movement and transitions -- from curving forms suggesting movement, embellished with earthly stones suggesting timelessness to cocoons reflecting on a time of stillness and inwardness with eventual rejuvenation. This curre...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sularz, Tressa
Created:
2016-03-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Tina Richards talks to Peter Shea about the various aspects of her outreach to her new Hmong neighbors, and about what she has learned from observing their gardening and cooking practices.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Richards, Tina
Created:
2012-08-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Tim Hoogland, historian, talks to Peter Shea about his work as the coordinator of History Day. He discusses the challenges involved with students learning about history, lack of teacher resources, and the role of the Minnesota Historical Society in solving these conflicts. He talks about how History Day is used as a vechicle for underprivileged ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hoogland, Tim
Created:
2014-02-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Thomas Schmidinger, political scientist, social and cultural anthropologist, and scholar of the Middle East, talks to Peter Shea. He recalls his wealthy, conservative Catholic upbringing as it framed his early awareness of racial and social inequity and prompted his interest in the Middle East and the relationships between religion, state, and s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Schmidinger, Thomas
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Thomas Rose talks to Peter Shea about his artistic interests and some themes that unite his work, such as the intersections of architecture and memory.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Rose, Thomas
Created:
2011-08-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Thomas Fisher talks to Peter Shea on the commonalities of recent disasters, including the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and on his vision for the future of systems design.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fisher, Thomas
Created:
2011-04-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Thomas Fisher is a Professor in the School of Architecture and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. He has written extensively about architectural design, practice, and ethics. In this interview, he talks about his work on 21st-century cities and the "on-demand" economy.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fisher, Thomas
Created:
2015-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Thia Cooper is Associate Professor in Religion, Latin American Studies, Peace Studies, and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. Her teaching and research interests include theology and liberation, theology and development, faith and practice in faith-based aid agencies, non-western Christianities, and religion in Lat...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cooper, Thia
Created:
2014-04-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This is an issue of one of the Survey family of periodicals. The Survey was titled the Charities Review, Charities and the Commons in earlier stages. From 1912 the Survey was published weekly, but because weekly publication was prohibitively expensive and because of a constant clash between readers seeking technical material and readers seeking ...
Creator:
Survey Associates
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This is an issue of one of the Survey family of periodicals. The Survey was titled the Charities Review, Charities and the Commons in earlier stages. From 1912 the Survey was published weekly, but because weekly publication was prohibitively expensive and because of a constant clash between readers seeking technical material and readers seeking ...
Creator:
Survey Associates
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This is an issue of one of the Survey family of periodicals. The Survey was titled the Charities Review, Charities and the Commons in earlier stages. From 1912 the Survey was published weekly, but because weekly publication was prohibitively expensive and because of a constant clash between readers seeking technical material and readers seeking ...
Creator:
Survey Associates
Created:
1917-01-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This is an issue of one of the Survey family of periodicals. The Survey was titled the Charities Review, Charities and the Commons in earlier stages. From 1912 the Survey was published weekly, but because weekly publication was prohibitively expensive and because of a constant clash between readers seeking technical material and readers seeking ...
Creator:
Survey Associates
Created:
1913-12-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Part 6/16 of Oil and Water. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This course meets the Technology and Society Liberal Education requirement by exploring not only the technical and scientific issues ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gilmer, Robert
Created:
2010-10-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
