MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds

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MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds" is a history program airing on Ampers stations in Minnesota. It is a co-production of Ampers and the Minnesota Historical Society.

MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds" is a history program airing on Ampers stations in Minnesota. It is a co-production of Ampers and the Minnesota Historical Society.


541 Pieces

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MN90: Going Dutch
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1856, a group of men and women drove ox carts hundreds of miles from Wisconsin to Minnesota. Their settlement in Greenleafton became the first D...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 6
MN90: James McPherson and the Battle Cry of Freedom
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Growing up in 1950s St. Peter, Minnesota, James McPherson immersed himself in comics and books about the Army Air Corps in World War II. The Civil ...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 6
MN90: Frank Lloyd Wright Goes Shopping
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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It had never been seen before, a fully-enclosed shopping mall that sprawled over 500 acres in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina. Britt Aamodt tells t...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 6
MN90: Babbit
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1920, Sauk Centre native Sinclair Lewis became a sensation with the publication of his novel Main Street. Now the pressure was on for a follow-u...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 6
MN90: The Hire
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 2001, David Carter was an artistic director and writer at Minneapolis ad agency Fallon but his scripts for luxury car manufacturer BMW were turn...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 6
MN90: Have a Nice Ride
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Britt Aamodt takes a tour of the history of bike sharing programs and Minneapolis’ Nice Ride system.

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
MN90: The Worst Sex Abuse Scandal in Sports History
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Maggie Nichols had been a gymnast since age three. The Minnesota athlete knew there’d be injuries. They came with the sport. Britt Aamodt examines ...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: The Youngest Gumm Sister
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1924, Frances Gumm made her stage debut at age two in Grand Rapids, singing “Jingle Bells.” Britt Aamodt tells the story of the girl who became ...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
MN90: Together Again without Dean
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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The Together Again tour was supposed to be a 29-city reunion tour of three of the original Rat Packers: Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin and Frank Sin...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: A Boy Called Sparky
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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It was almost like Charles Schulz was destined to be an artist. Days after his birth, November 26, 1922, an uncle nicknamed him Spark Plug after a ...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
MN90: Robert Alexander’s Russian Trilogy
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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R.D. Zimmerman’s fascination with Russia took root with an introductory Russian language class at Macalester College in St. Paul. Britt Aamodt exam...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: From St. Louis Park to the Middle East
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Growing up in St. Louis Park, Thomas Friedman looked forward to afternoon golf games with Dad. Friedman figured he’d be a pro golfer. Britt Aamodt ...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Hazeltine National Golf Club
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Totten “Tot” Heffelfinger was an amateur golfer who worried that Minnesota’s golf courses were becoming too small and cramped for a new era of hard...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Actors with Minnesota Accents
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Beginning with the 1996 film “Fargo” and continuing in 2014 with the spin-off TV series, actors have inhabited a fictional universe centered in sma...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Mark Sertich: World’s Oldest Hockey Player
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Mark Sertich from West Duluth was a hockey player but not just any old hockey player. Britt Aamodt takes a page from the Guinness Book of Records w...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: The Rolling Stones at Danceland in '64
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Less than a month before, in May 1964, the Rolling Stones’ first LP hit American record stores. So when they rolled into Excelsior, Minnesota, ther...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
MN90: Nearly Famous Alison Bechdel
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In the late 1980s, Alison Bechdel moved to Minneapolis to work for the LGBT newspaper Equal Time. But in her spare time, she drew and elaborated on...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
MN90: Because She Wrote Winn-Dixie
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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For years, Kate DiCamillo called herself a writer, thought of herself as a writer, but wasn’t actually doing much writing—until a cold Minnesota wi...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
MN90: Little Crow's Death
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1864, a year after the Dakota Conflict, Chief Little Crow, his 16-year-old son, one woman and a handful of men returned to the Minnesota land th...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
MN90: Minnesota Marielito
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Rene Valdes was one of 125,000 Cubans who sought asylum in the United States during the Mariel Boatlift of 1980. Valdes only knew he wanted to live...

Bought by KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, KVSC, KBEM and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11

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