Kirsten Delegard

Yearning for real winter, Delegard returned to Minneapolis in 2006, after an absence of twenty years. Her training as a professional historian brought the terrain of her youth into new focus. She joined the team behind Mary Wingerds North Country: The Making of Minnesota (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and became the image curator for that volume, writing a series of interpretive essays that explained the visuals.

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As part of the Historyapolis Project, Delegard is currently at work on a new history of Minneapolis which is tentatively titled City of Light and Darkness: The Making of a Progressive Metropolis in Minneapolis .

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Augsburg students will have the opportunity to be involved with the Historyapolis Project. In Delegards Minneapolis history lab course, they will research and write stories that illuminate the complexities of the citys past. They will use digital tools to share their work with the larger community.

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Kirsten Delegard is a public historian working to make connections between the past and the present in Minneapolis, a city that her Swedish grandparents decided to call home in the early twentieth century. She created the Historyapolis Project when she realized that her hometown was blind to its tumultuous history, more comfortable planning for the future than confronting the past.

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