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Contributing Organization
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study. (587)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives. (307)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives. (184)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives. (110)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives. (87)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, The Kerlan Collection of Children's Literature. (71)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives. (42)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives. (28)
- United States Geological Survey (9)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Business Library. (8)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library. (7)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Music Library. (7)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature. (4)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Andersen Horticultural Library. (3)
- University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. (2)
Collection
- Bat of Minerva (547)
- The American Jewish World (296)
- American Social Health Association Records (46)
- Old Cap. Collier Library (46)
- YMCA Yearbooks, Directories, and Proceedings (43)
- Forecast Public Art Collection (42)
- The Illustrated Police News (25)
- University of Minnesota Gopher Yearbooks (24)
- Records of YMCA International Work in China (22)
- YMCA Boys and Youth Work Records (22)
- Small-scale Food Initiatives in Southwest Minnesota (20)
- IAS Programming (19)
- New York YMCA Annual Reports (18)
- American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) Records (14)
- National Conference of Christians and Jews Records (13)
Type
Format
Created
Subject
- Minneapolis (Minn.) Newspapers (304)
- Saint Paul (Minn.) Newspapers (304)
- Minnesota (302)
- Jews (299)
- Jewish Newspapers (298)
- Jewish Newspapers United States (298)
- Jews Minnesota Newspapers (298)
- Newspapers (298)
- United States (298)
- Hennepin County (Minn.) Newspapers (296)
- Minnesota Hennepin County (296)
- Minnesota Minneapolis (296)
- Minnesota Ramsey County (296)
- Minnesota Saint Paul (296)
- Ramsey County (Minn.) Newspapers (296)
Creator
- Shea, Peter (583)
- YMCA of the USA (43)
- YMCA of the USA. International Division. (26)
- University of Minnesota. Gopher Board of Editors. (24)
- Order of American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) (14)
- National Conference of Christians and Jews (13)
- Public Art Review (11)
- United Neighborhood Houses of New York (11)
- American Geographical Society (9)
- University of Minnesota. Graduate School (8)
- Jerome, Gilbert (7)
- National Social Welfare Assembly (6)
- Joint Baltic American National Committee (U.S.) (5)
- Lansdale, Herbert Parker, Jr., 1898-1988 (5)
- Elliott, Richard Maurice, 1887-1969 (4)
Publisher
- Jewish World Pub. Co. (Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minn.) (296)
- University of Minnesota. Institute for Advanced Study (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 2014 (116)
- University of Minnesota. Institute for Advanced Study (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 2013 (68)
- University of Minnesota. Institute for Advanced Study (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 2011 (65)
- University of Minnesota. Institute for Advanced Study (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 2015 (57)
- University of Minnesota. Institute for Advanced Study (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 2009 (46)
- University of Minnesota. Institute for Advanced Study (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 2012 (40)
- University of Minnesota. Institute for Advanced Study (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 2016 (39)
- University of Minnesota. Institute for Advanced Study (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 2010 (33)
- University of Minnesota. Institute for Advanced Study (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 2007 (24)
- University of Minnesota. Institute for Advanced Study (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 2008 (21)
- University of Minnesota. Institute for Advanced Study (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 2017 (14)
- Munro's Publishing House (New York), 1887 (11)
- University of Minnesota. Institute for Advanced Study (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 2006 (10)
- American Geographical Society (9)
Contributor
- Gilmer, Robert (12)
- National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States (7)
- Olson, Patricia (7)
- Clark, Danny Robinson (5)
- Jendrzejewski, Rachel (5)
- Reimringer, John (5)
- Shea, Peter (5)
- Vandenberg, Katrina (5)
- Cadieux, Valentine (4)
- Fondakowski, Leigh (4)
- Shank, J. B. (4)
- Hillmer, Paul (3)
- Lyon, Joyce (3)
- Schor, Juliet (3)
- Sommer, Barbara (3)
- Description:
- Joe Amato, author and teacher, talks to Peter Shea about how his interest in history and culture developed, his experiences in Europe and Canada, and his research on the decline of regions. He discusses how his family and his upbringing affected his career and life. He also reads from a poem titled "A Trip to a Detroit Cemetary." He also discuss...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Amato, Joe
- Created:
- 2014-02-14
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Matthew Trumbull, writer and actor, talks to Peter Shea about The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children, a one-man show about his father, which he performed at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. He talks about his development as an actor and the circumstances which gradually convinced him to undertake a one-man show: notably, his father's death and do...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Trumbull, Matthew
- Created:
- 2013-08-07
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Emilie Buchwald talks to Peter Shea about how she became a children's writer: her early fascination with poetry, her college opportunities to study with John Cheever and George Plimpton, the completion of her English thesis at the University of Minnesota, her involvment at the Loft Literary Center, and her founding of Milkweed Chronicle with Ran...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Buchwald, Emilie
- Created:
- 2014-03-07
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Jeremy Iggers, journalist and executive director of the Twin Cities Media Alliance, talks to Peter Shea about his career in journalism, as well as his transition from the Star Tribune to the non-profit sector. He discusses the shortfalls of today's journalism, and the mission of the Twin Cities Daily Planet to bring light to underreported storie...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Iggers, Jeremy
- Created:
- 2014-01-21
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Mary Beth Stein is a former adjunct theology teacher at St. Catherine’s University, and an activist involved with the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform. In this interview, she talks to Peter Shea about experiences in her life which motivate her to work for social justice, inclusion, and gender equity in the catholic church. She talks about ...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Stein, Mary Beth
- Created:
- 2013-08-15
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Mary Treacy, librarian and activist, talks to Peter Shea about her passion for information accessibility. She describes the conception of The Minnesota Center for the Book and how the center filled an important void in the world of libraries and information ciruculation. The Minnesota Center for the Book's first major project involved the preser...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Treacy, Mary
- Created:
- 2014-05-22
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Candy Simmons, producer and actor, talks to Peter Shea about performing her one-woman show, Expiration Date, at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. She talks about her development as an actor, leaving her family home in Alabama, trying to make it in New York, and settling in Minneapolis as an independent producer. She discusses her passion for s...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Simmons, Candy
- Created:
- 2013-08-06
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Freya Manfred, poet, talks to Peter Shea about the influence of her childhood embedded in nature on her writing. She discusses the different poets and writers who have impacted her work and guided her as a person and poet. Growing up, Manfred had a rather solidary childhood. This is manifested in much of her work, which focuses on the human rela...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Manfred, Freya
- Created:
- 2014-06-21
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Jack Rose talks to Peter Shea about his career path, his interests in technological gadgetry, radio broadcasting, and acting in community troupes, and how he became involved with Kristin Anderson's 2013 Fringe production Hitler, Satan, and Me: A Love Story. He talks about some of his tenets of acting and about his time living in Germany in the 1...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Rose, Jack
- Created:
- 2013-08-03
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Jack Zipes, Professor of German, talks to Peter Shea about his experiences living in Germany. He discusses his how these experiences shaped the way he views and understands the United States, as well as his Jewish heritage. Zipes talks about his varied interests in literature and language, and how these passions have converged throughout his aca...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Zipes, Jack
- Created:
- 2014-02-28
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Louis Jenkins, poet, talks to Peter Shea about his work. As an Okalahoma transplant who settled in Duluth, Jenkins' work was deeply influenced by Minnestoa culture and landscape. His connections with other Minnesotan artists and poets have allowed him to take part in numerous meaningful collaboratives. Jenkins discusses his upbringing in Oklamho...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Jenkins, Louis
- Created:
- 2014-04-13
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Sarah Stonich, best-selling author, talks to Peter Shea about her writing process. She discusses the influence of Minnesota in her novels. Stonich recounts the story of her building a cabin in northeastern Minnesota with her young son following her divorce. This process motivated her to write a memoir on the events. She discusses how this connec...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Stonich, Sarah
- Created:
- 2014-07-29
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- David Haynes, novelist and teacher, talks to Peter Shea about his career, from elementary teaching to direction of the creative writing program at SMU. He talks about his students and the ways in which his teaching helps his writing. He thinks about his readers and his own reading, then describes a course on Speculative Fiction he taught in 2013...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Haynes, David
- Created:
- 2013-11-27
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2017-11-28
- Description:
- Kristin Anderson, actor and writer, talks to Peter Shea about her play, Hitler, Satan, and Me: A Love Story, presented at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. She talks about the experience which led her into Catholic seminary and Lutheran ministry, and the exorcisms and demonologies which inform her play. She discusses her marriage and her resea...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Anderson, Kristin
- Created:
- 2013-08-05
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- 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.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Danny Robinson Clark talks to Peter Shea about his wife, Mattie. He recalls memories of her: their childhood experiences in Mississippi, her personality and determination, her family and upbringing, her love of reading, and her labor in cotton fields. He remembers her exposure to the "southern argot" and recalls her gifted storytelling, beginnin...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Clark, Danny Robinson
- Created:
- 2014-01-28
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Karlheinz Essl, composer, computer musician, and improviser talks to Peter Shea. He talks about playing progressive rock and finding the "utopian" concepts of Karlheinz Stockhausen as a teenager, and explains his ideals of musical experience with reference to the ideals of John Cage. He describes how his memories of playing prog rock came back t...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Essl, Karlheinz
- Created:
- 2014-08-21
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Kristian Petersen, Professor of Religion, talks to Peter Shea about his academic path to studying Islam in China and Sino-Islamic intellectual history. He recalls his early exposure to Daoism and Sufism, their bearing on his personal life, and his influential instructors. He discribes his interest in how perceptions of religious traditions are c...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Petersen, Kristian
- Created:
- 2013-09-12
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Danny Robinson Clark, retired actor, takes up where he left off, at his struggle with recurrent pain during acting. He talks to Peter Shea about dynamics of race and prejudice among his fellow actors, his fascination with Constantin Stanislavski's "An Actor Prepares" and John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men". He discusses commonalities of playwrigh...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Clark, Danny Robinson
- Created:
- 2013-08-13
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
- Description:
- Helena Goscilo, Professor of Slavic and East European Languages, talks to Peter Shea about the course of her academic career from Russian literature to gender studies to visual imagery. She mentions her projects on Vladimir Putin's self-presentation and on Soviet posters, continuing to discuss wartime Soviet posters: their placement, their choic...
- Creator:
- Shea, Peter
- Contributor:
- Goscilo, Helena
- Created:
- 2013-10-13
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
- Last Updated:
- 2018-02-13
