The MSU Authors Collection is an important part of the University Archives' holdings because the works in this collection document the intellectual heritage of the university and the contributions of MSU faculty, staff, students, and alumni to contemporary scholarship.
Beginning in 2008, the University Archives has hosted a biennial reception honoring MSU faculty, staff and emeriti faculty authors who had written and/or edited monographs, musical scores or recordings, films or videos. This digital collection showcases the books, scores, recordings, films or videos created by faculty and staff at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Where appropriate and where copyright allows, full-text versions are made available of certain MSU Authors' works.
For more information about the MSU Authors Collection, visit https://library.mnsu.edu/archives/collections/university-archives/msu-authors/ .
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Centennial West: Essays on the Northern Tier States
William L. Lang
In 1889-1890, the admission to the Union of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota added more territory to the US than any admission since the original 13 colonies. These 12 essays, revised after their presentation at a centennial conference in Billings, Montana, June 1989, cover topics including law enforcement and the development of legal institutions, statehood and territorial politics, labor movements, life on Indian reservations, the development of railroad towns, and New
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Joinings and Disjoinings: The Significance of Marital Status in Literature
JoAnna Stephens Mink and Janet Doubler Ward
Joinings and Disjoinings illustrates the importance of marriage or singleness in short stories and novels and suggests the diverse perspectives the topic can provide on specific works and on analysis of the cultural importance of marriage and marital status. Essays discuss canonical and lesser-known works, providing social, historical, and literary context.
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A Pun My Word: A Humorously Enlightened Path to English Usage
Robert Oliver Shipman
Explains the differences between similar words and phrases, and provides examples of proper usage.
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Those Barracks Babies
Marcia Baer
This is a book about how a group of folks, in a time long ago, living in a small Minnesota college town, celebrated life. It is a story of reflection. Reflection into the past when times and people were - shall we say - different. The people were veterans returning from the war, the time was the middle of the century-1947 through 1964. The place was Mankato State College in Southern Minnesota. This is the
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Women's Movements in the United States: Woman Suffrage, Equal Rights, and Beyond
Steven M. Buechler
Steven Buecheler has written a comparative sociological analysis of the woman suffrage movement (1840s-1920) and the contemporary women’s movement (1960s to the present). His identification of similarities and differences between these movements reveals persistent feminist issues over time as well as the distinctive concerns of each movement in the sociohistorical context. Buecheler compares these two movements in terms of their origins, organizations, ideologies, class and racial diversities, countermovement’s, and outcomes. He uses resource mobilization theory.
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The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815
Johannes Postma
Presenting a thorough analysis of the Dutch participation in the transatlantic slave trade, this book is based upon extensive research in Dutch archives. The book examines the whole range of Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade from the beginning of the 1600s to the 19th century.
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Wampum Belts & Peace Trees: George Morgan, Native Americans, and Revolutionary Diplomacy
Gregory Schaaf
Examines the relationship between American rebels and the Native American Indians during the Revolutionary War.
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Turkish Culture for Americans
Hasan Dindi, Maija Gazur, Wayne M. Gazur, and Aysen Kirkkorpru-Dindi
This book is a must for anyone wanting to succeed in doing business or interacting with Turks. The centerpiece of the book is the presentation of a framework of comparisons of commonly-held American and Turkish values. To illustrate these underlying cultural differences, as well as important legal considerations, the authors have crafted a series of interesting, true-to-life, often humorous, cultural episodes which illustrate some of the common difficulties and misunderstandings that Americans encounter in dealing
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Country Fiddle
Marilyn Bos
Country dance -- Scratch and stomp -- Green corn -- My own house -- tom and Jerry -- Arawac -- May Day -- Chrokee reel -- Bygone days -- Santa Lucia -- Cab ride -- Kentucky home waltz -- Walking in my sleep -- Flying cloud cotillion -- Peacemaker's hornpipe -- Red wing polka -- Sweet song -- Kentucky home waltz (slurred version) -- Shaggy dog -- Blue Ridge waltz -- St. Anne's reel --
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Test Bank to Accompany Smith and Roberson's Business Law, Seventh Edition
Georgia Louise Holmes and Len Young Smith
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Developmental/Adapted Physical Education: Making Ability Count
Carl B. Eichstaedt and Leonard H. Kalakian
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Instructor's Manual Developmental/Adapted Physical Education: Making Ability Count
Carl B. Eichstaedt and Leonard H. Kalakian