News from May 2024
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The “Big May Carnival”
As early as 1904, May Fete took place on the University of Minnesota campus as a new attraction for students and faculty.
“The teeth of time”
I have been reading The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (New York & London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2011) and enjoyed some of his invocations of the bookworm as one of the ultimate, slow and steady destroyers of material joy.
The Sanborn family brought racial covenants to Robbinsdale. Now the city is renaming Sanborn Park
Racial covenants once peppered property deeds throughout Robbinsdale, as well as the neighboring suburbs like Golden Valley. Today Sanborn Park, overlooking the northern coast of Crystal Lake, bears the Sanborn name. But not for long. Thanks in part to the work of Mapping Prejudice and Just Deeds, the city of Robbinsdale is renaming the park. On May 3, 2024, the city took suggestions for the park’s new name and celebrated Shelley Day, the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that the state cannot enforce racial covenants.
“Archival Shouting”
In a recent article in Perspectives: The newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, Karin Wulf writes about archival collections that seem to “shout” as opposed to those that have been “quieted.”