Annette Atkins is faculty member at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict and the author of Harvest of Grief: Grasshopper Plagues and Public Assistance in Minnesota, 1873–1878 (MNHS...view moreAnnette Atkins is faculty member at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict and the author of Harvest of Grief: Grasshopper Plagues and Public Assistance in Minnesota, 1873–1878 (MNHS Press) and We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America.view less