{"id":6043,"date":"2015-08-24T15:48:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T15:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:27:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:27:41","slug":"minnpost-bill-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/08\/24\/minnpost-bill-green\/","title":{"rendered":"MinnPost features Professor Bill Green&#8217;s latest book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3918\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"MinnPost\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost-115x115.jpeg 115w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost.jpeg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Augsburg College Professor of History <strong>Bill Green<\/strong> spoke with MinnPost about his latest\u00a0book, &#8220;Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865-1912.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Green told reporter Amy Goetzman that his book\u00a0chronicles conditions for African-Americans in Minnesota in the half-century following the Civil War and\u00a0picks up where his\u00a0previous book, \u201cA Peculiar Imbalance: The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Minnesota, 1837-1869,\u201d\u00a0left off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The history [of Minnesota] is amazing, particularly when you look at who was here before statehood and how they interacted with each other,&#8221; Green said. &#8220;I found that we were lacking a good accounting of the black people who were part of that history. Most of them didn\u2019t leave a written record, which looks like they had nothing to say, but of course they did. They were part of this experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/books\/2015\/08\/degrees-freedom-chronicles-black-history-minnesota-during-post-civil-war-era\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit the MinnPost website<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg College Professor of History Bill Green spoke with MinnPost about his latest\u00a0book, &#8220;Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865-1912.&#8221; Green told reporter Amy Goetzman that his book\u00a0chronicles conditions for African-Americans in Minnesota in the half-century following the Civil War and\u00a0picks up where his\u00a0previous book, \u201cA Peculiar Imbalance: The Fall and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11508,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions\/11508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}