San Antonio College Library

Traces the state's history from the formation of the land itself to the mid-1960's.

"The northern plains are often ignored by the rest of the nation or, if not, are mentioned in the context of the weather, Mount Rushmore, or the Black Hills. However, North Dakota and South Dakota have a colorful past--and present--deserving of greater recognition. Norman K. Risjord relates the remarkable histories of these two states, from the geological formation of the Great Plains to economic changes in the twenty-first century. Risjord takes...

In this two-part series, David Sutherland creates a portrait of Robin Charboneau, a single mother living on North Dakota's Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal from the wounds of sexual abuse she suffered as a child. In Part 1, Robin leaves the reservation to start a new life in Fargo. She enrolls in the University of Minnesota, learns troubling news about her...

In Families of the USA, five-year-old Kyle lives in North Dakota with his parents and three brothers. They farm wheat and cattle with his grandparents and several uncles and aunts and their families on what was originally a homestead farm. Kristin and her family are African Americans, living in Wilmington, Delaware. We visit her classes at school, her father at work as director of a social service agency and watch her mother teach physical education...

Four women share their secrets after the funeral of their ex-husband. It happens when they decide to ride back together and the car becomes stuck in a snow storm. They all agree he was a good-for-nothing, so why did they marry him? The setting is North Dakota.

On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt and her husband. So begins an exhilarating forty-year saga brimming with colorful, unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary, who will cause a miracle; seductive Karl, who lacks his sister's gift for survival; Sita, their lovely but disturbed cousin; and the half-Native...

A century of industrialization has left our food system riddled with problems, yet for solutions we look away from the land - to nutritionists and government agencies, scientists and chefs. In a groundbreaking departure, Deeply Rooted finds answers by looking to the people who actually grow our food.