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Brooks: Minnesota Historical Society looks to the future

Henry Mills held on to the shirt that saved his life for the rest of his long life. It was a dead man s shirt. Likely wrestled off a fallen Confederate soldier on an icy Nashville battlefield in the bitter December of 1864. Mills took the shirt and wrapped it tight around the bleeding bullet wound in his leg. He lost the leg but kept the shirt. It came home with him to Minnesota first to Fort Snelling, where Lt. Henry L. Mills mustered out of the 7th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, then home to St. Paul. No matter how many times the Mills family washed the battered shirt, the bloodstains remained. But instead of burning the thing or cutting it into rags so he wouldn t be reminded of the pain and fear of those days, Mills carried this piece of his past into the future.

The Northern California town where lynchings were a point of pride, until they weren t

The Northern California town where lynchings were a point of pride, until they weren t Dylan Svoboda FacebookTwitterEmail Lizzie DuBose, 27, poses for a photo in a wooded area near a friend s home.Jungho Kim/Jungho Kim/Special to SFGATE On a Tuesday evening in April, Lizzie Dubose, a 27-year-old African American college student from Placerville, California, tuned into the small Gold Rush town’s City Council meeting via Zoom, as she had every two weeks since last June, and patiently waited her turn to speak. DuBose listened as City Council members approved a pavement project, considered sending a letter opposing a state bill and confirmed appointees to its economic advisory committee. By 6 p.m., what she and hundreds of others on the virtual call had been waiting for finally came before the council: the future of Placerville’s controversial rough-and-tumble identity. Up first: its city logo.

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