Lizzie Ehrenhalt

Lizzie is a public historian and the editor of MNopedia, the digital encyclopedia produced by the Minnesota Historical Society. She has a master’s degree in archives management from the University of Michigan, a master’s certificate in museum studies from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor’s degree in gender studies and Latin from Oberlin College. She is a co-editor of Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Whipple, 1890‒1918 (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2019).

Cecelia Regina Gonzaga’s brief time in Minnesota ended after she was arrested for impersonating a woman

By Lizzie Ehrenhalt

Dec. 7, 2020

Gonzaga strenuously defended herself, saying, “I have always earned an honest living, although I have not found life as bright as most people…I have always found it easier making a living doing women’s work than men’s.”

As the nexus between the Pigeon River and Lake Superior, Grand Portage has been an important Minnesota site for centuries

By Lizzie Ehrenhalt

July 23, 2018

Indigenous people have used the eight-and-a-half-mile pathway that connects the Pigeon River with Lake Superior since at least the beginning of the first millennium CE.

Joseph Lobdell stood trial in Minnesota in 1858. His alleged crime? Impersonating a man.

By Lizzie Ehrenhalt

May 22, 2017

The circumstances of Lobdell’s arrest are unclear.

From a Minneapolis art gallery’s basement to the heights of the alternative rock scene: Babes in Toyland

By Lizzie Ehrenhalt

Feb. 20, 2017

In their recordings and live performances, they honed an abrasive, commanding sound that attracted fans from across the United States and Europe.