This photograph shows men cutting firewood. During the Great Depression, local welfare agencies used work in exchange for food and shelter as a form of unemployment assistance. This was particularly the case before government programs were put in place as part of the New Deal.
Created:
1930 - 1935
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Portrait photograph of some men affiliated with Central Community House. Central Community House and its West Side counterpart, Neighborhood House, were created to assist immigrants newly arrived to the community. Although the settlement house roots were in the Jewish community, the curriculum and activities offered emphasized Americanization an...
Created:
1920?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish 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:
1993 - 1994
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Memory Works: Documenting Legacies of a 'Forgotten War'. Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem screens three short films that touch on the legacies of the Korean War from the perspective of a divided family, a Korean adoptee, and women activists who cross the DMZ to promote peace. These stories challenge the notion that the Korean War is 'forgotten' and ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Borshay Liem, Deann
Created:
2016-10-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Presence of the Past: Memory, Fiction, and the Contemporary Landscape Faulkner said the past is not even past. David Lowenthal among others has said that the past is a foreign country. But in fact the past is all around us and constitutes a big part of our sense of who and where we are. The past is central to people's personal stories, to we...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ellis, Mary Relindes; Watson, Catherine; Vreeland, Scott; Nunnally, Pat
Created:
2014-10-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Presence of the Past: Memory, Fiction, and the Contemporary Landscape Faulkner said the past is not even past. David Lowenthal among others has said that the past is a foreign country. But in fact the past is all around us and constitutes a big part of our sense of who and where we are. The past is central to people's personal stories, to we...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ellis, Mary Relindes; Watson, Catherine; Vreeland, Scott; Nunnally, Pat
Created:
2014-10-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A framed display of an article in "Design News (November 1963) describing the memory disks floats and magnetic heads used in the Burroughs On-line Disk File. The display features the cover of the magazine issue, a channel 13 magnetic read/write head, a recording disk, and an excerpt with graphics, from the article by E. W. Schrader, West Coast E...
Created:
1965
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
If a concept class can be represented with a certain amount of memory, can it be efficiently learned with the same amount of memory? What concepts can be efficiently learned by algorithms that extract only a few bits of information from each example? We introduce a formal framework for studying these questions, and investigate the relationship b...
Creator:
Valiant, Gregory (Stanford University)
Created:
2016-05-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek. For more than a century and a half, the Sand Creek Massacre has been at the center of struggles over history and memory in the American West: from the government investigations launched in the massacre's immediate aftermath; to the work of so-called Indian reformers, including Helen...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Kelman, Ari
Created:
2015-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Minnesota Issues was a half-hour weekly television program produced by University Media Resources of the University of Minnesota that was broadcast on public television channel KTCA, St. Paul. The program was produced and hosted by former Minneapolis mayor and University public affairs professor Arthur Naftalin from 1976 to 1988. [Broadcast June...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. University Media Resources
Contributor:
Naftalin, Arthur; Salisbury, Harrison E.; Marlow, Andrew (Producer)
Created:
1983-06-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest host "Memories of Minnesota Mavens" with moderator Rabbi Bernard Raskas, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple of Aaron at Knollwood Place
Created:
1990-10-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
The Memoria recounts the victory of the mission Indians against a troop of slave raiders from Sao Paulo (400 Portuguese and 1000 Indian allies). Includes testimonies of various witnesses assembled by the Jesuits.
Creator:
Ureña, Padre Thomas
Created:
1641
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Text for memorial services, including prayers in English and Hebrew for fathers, mothers, and grandfathers and the Mourner's Kaddish in English and Hebrew with the Hebrew transliterated.
Creator:
Hodroff and Sons
Created:
1940?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.