NEW! ! !
Saturday, December 6, 2:00 PM
Edina Historical Society at Arneson Acres



Spring 2008 Release Events:

Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis
Friday, May 16, 2008   7:30 pm

Wisconsin Public Radio
The Larry Meiller Mid-Day Show
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Listen Live! (archive)

Northern Lights Bookstore, Duluth
Saturday, June 14, 2008   Noon

North House Folk School: Wooden Boat Weekend
Grand Marais
Friday, June 20, 2008    1:00 pm
Live on WTIP Roadhouse 5:00 PM

Hovland Arts Festival
Saturday, July 5th
(south of Grand Portage)

Regional Research Associates
Minneapolis MN

Deborah Morse-Kahn is a public historian and photojournalist who has written extensively about people and places in the Upper Midwest. She holds a masters degree in American Regional Studies, and brings the skills of archaeology, sociology and archives into her daily work. Best known locally for her first book, Edina: Chapters in the City History (1998), she has an archaeology specialization in rock art and effigy mound culture in the Upper Midwest, and authored A Guide to the Archaeology Parks of the Upper Midwest in 2003.

Ms. Morse-Kahn is a specialist in American ethnic and religious communities, with particular attention to the Amish and other ‘plain peoples,’ consulting frequently with Wisconsin state and county agencies and first responders on working with this special religious population. She co-authored Born Amish, a study of the lives of women in Amish culture, in 2004 and was a national media consultant on the events of the Nickel Mines tragedy in 2006. 

Her commitment to historic preservation issues has earned her appointment to the Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission, and has resulted in her ninth book, Lake Superior’s Historic North Shore: A Guide, recently published by the Minnesota Historical Society to  promote and protect one of Minnesota’s most treasured heritage districts.

Ms. Morse-Kahn lives and works in the historic Minneapolis community of Linden Hills.