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.


783 Pieces

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MN90: Seward, St. Paul and the Steamship Alhambra
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1860, William H. Seward, governor of New York and failed presidential hopeful, came to St. Paul to stump for Abraham Lincoln. He spent four days...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 14
MN90: The Ghost of Disco Past
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Everybody knows that before First Ave was an iconic live music venue it was a Greyhound bus station. But fewer know the history of the in-between y...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 15
MN90: John Berkey’s Star Wars
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1975, George Lucas was pitching a new space opera to Hollywood. To help him with the pitch, Lucas brought along work by John Berkey who speciali...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 20
MN90: Studying Chimps with SIV
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Growing up in Minnesota, Michael Wilson knew he wanted to work with primates after he watched a documentary on Dian Fossey. Britt Aamodt looks at W...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 20
MN90: The Man who Sold Pocket Watches
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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How did Richard Sears become the 19th-cenury’s king of mail order catalogs? Britt Aamodt has a tale of an unwanted crate of pocket watches and an i...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 19
MN90: When Lion Eats Man
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Since the 1970s, Craig Packer of the University of Minnesota’s Lion Center has studied lion behavior in the wild. For six years, Packer and two stu...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 22
MN90: Paul Volberding: On the Frontlines of the AIDS Epidemic
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Paul Volberding grew up in Rochester with a bedroom window that overlooked the Mayo Clinic. Britt Aamodt picks up the story years later when Volber...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 17
MN90: Judith Guest’s Ordinary People
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Judith Guest had only been living in Edina for a year when she received the news every writer wants to hear. Britt Aamodt looks back at Guest’s bre...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 19
MN90: Brainerd’s Mystery Outbreak
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Summer tourists know Brainerd as a lake destination. But epidemiologists know about it for another reason. Britt Aamodt has the case history of Bra...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 12
MN90: Pen Pals with H.P. Lovecraft
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1926, Donald Wandrei was a 19-year-old university student when he decided to write a fan letter to H.P. Lovecraft. Britt Aamodt has an account o...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 20
MN90: Dayton's Department Store
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Since its opening in 1902, Dayton’s was a Minneapolis destination for shopping, dining and making memories. Britt Aamodt gives a brief history of t...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 17
MN90: Red Minnesota
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1946, Forrest O. Wiggins was the first African-American instructor hired by the University of Minnesota. Two years later, he was fighting to kee...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 23
MN90: Pest, Thy Name Is Deer Fly
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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What is that pest that chases joggers down roads and plagues summer bathers with its piercing bite? Britt Aamodt takes a closer look at the deer fly.

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 21
MN90: The Weird World of Wolbachia
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1924, Minnesota entomologist Marshall Hertig and a colleague discovered a bacteria residing in mosquitoes. He called it Wolbachia. Britt Aamodt ...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 28
MN90: Wadena’s Cozy Film History
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Wadena’s Cozy Theater screened its first silent film in 1914, The Last Days of Pompeii. Britt Aamodt explores the history of film through one long-...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 19
MN90: Minnesota's First Telegram
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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The first telegram was sent in the United States in 1838. Minnesota wanted to get hooked in but it had to wait for the trains to bring the telegrap...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 21
MN90: Hiroshima, Mr. Nier
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Al Nier was a physics researcher at the University of Minnesota when he figured out how to separate the isotopes of uranium. Britt Aamodt traces th...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 16
MN90: Don the Gorilla
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Don was one of the last lowland gorillas taken from the wild before 1973’s Endangered Species Act. Britt Aamodt remembers the gorilla who not only ...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 21
MN90: Kofi Annan’s 1960 Road Trip
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1960, Kofi Anna was an economics student at Macalester College in St. Paul. Britt Aamodt takes a snapshot of the future United Nations secretary...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 22
MN90: The Man behind Churchill and the Guthrie Theater
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Tyrone Guthrie was a noted theater director when, in 1940, he was called upon to assist England’s new prime minister. Britt Aamodt looks at a later...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 23

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