Christopher Hommerding

Christopher Hommerding is a historian of US LGBTQ history and holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has appeared in the Public Historian, in the Annals of Iowa, and on the history of sexuality blog Notches. He is the recipient of a 2019 Minnesota Historical Society Legacy Research Fellowship.

Minnesota’s Grand Portage National Monument protects a trading route use by people in northern Minnesota for centuries

By Christopher Hommerding

Sept. 13, 2021

The Grand Portage is an ancient overland trail used by Indigenous peoples since at least the start of the first millennium CE.

The outbreak of World War I forever changed the plans for Minneapolis’ Victory Memorial Drive

By Christopher Hommerding

Oct. 12, 2020

The original ideal for the road was part of an overall plan to connect Minneapolis’ major parks with parkways.

Minnesota conservationist Ernest Oberholtzer worked to protect the Boundary Waters

By Christopher Hommerding

Nov. 18, 2019

In the summer of 1909, Oberholtzer had his so-called “3,000-mile summer.” His goal was to travel the major canoe routes of the Rainy Lake watershed.