This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, at the outbreak of World War I, industries in the north opened employment to African Americans. They left the south in record numbers for jobs in the north.
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The Upsala Area Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of the farming community of Upsala, Minnesota. To this end, the society operates a museum located within the 1913 Axel Borgstrom House. Exhibits cover local and state history, as well as the area's Swedish heritage.
The society offers exhibits. The website offers historical photographs.
The farmstead dates to 1886. John Henry and Laura Ann Rawlins Hinkle built their Queen-Anne-style home in 1892. The Hinkles built a smaller, Free-Classic-style home on the property around 1910 for their son, Henry Ernest Hinkle, and his wife, Bertha Elizabeth Rogers. As an intact group of farm buildings from the Queen Anne era, it is the only such group in Bloomington and one of the few in Monroe County. Now 11.08 acres, the farmstead includes a Midwest three-portal dairy barn, grain crib, early garage, and blacksmith shed.
The farmstead offers tours.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how small farmers formed the Farmers' Alliance to increase their political power. The alliance became the core of the new Populist Party.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, in the 1880s, black farmers suffered the most in the economic downturn and organized themselves into the Colored Farmers' Alliance.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how the production demands of World War I draw blacks and whites from rural areas to factory jobs in the cities. However, along with that migration came racial tension.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the invention of the harvesting machine by Cyrus McCormick, which revolutionized wheat production and freed up the American workforce.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how farmers, miners, and other working-class members banded together to push silver as the new currency of the United States.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Homestead Act, signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 as a way to encourage settlement of the American West.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how the discovery of gold in California in 1848 led to an unprecedented migration, as thousands of people traveled west in the hopes of making it big.
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