Stephen P. Hall

Glosses over Dred Scott and the Dakota concentration camp. This is what I expected from a book about Fort Snelling published in 1987, but it's worth mentioning.

The Minnesota Historical Society addresses the concentration camp in a much more honest fashion in the year 2023 (giant content note, obviously): https://www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/us-dakota-war

And Dred and Harriet Scott:
https://www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/african-americans

(Now I'm mad at fucking Taney all over again, spit on his grave.)

But for all that: it's a book about my fort, with pictures of my fort. I grew up there, for the good and bad that contained. Reading the history I used to know in my sleep and seeing the pictures of the place I used to know like the back of my hand makes me feel things.… (plus d'informations)