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.


616 Pieces

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MN90: The Vice President and the Serial Killer
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Before Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer, he was a high school student. Britt Aamodt has the story of Dahmer’s school trip visit to the office of ...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 16
MN90: Catching Some Rays
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Britt Aamodt takes a look at Minnesotans’ summer preoccupation with fun in the sun, and what they wore while they were at it.

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 17
MN90: Anita Bryant’s Pie in the Face
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1977, Anita Bryant and her organization Save the Children led a crusade to repeal gay rights laws across the country. Britt Aamodt looks at what...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 16
MN90: The Dawn of the Telephone Age
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Alexander Graham Bell rang in America’s centenary in 1876 with his new invention, the telephone. Britt Aamodt looks at how the telephone arrived in...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 13
MN90: Sitting Bull in St. Paul
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By 1884, thousands of St. Paul’s citizens gathered at the train station to greet the arrival of a famous visitor. Britt Aamodt has the story behind...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 16
MN90: The Man who Stole Nitrogen from the Air
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Fritz Haber is famous as Albert Einstein’s buddy and infamous as the man who brought poison gas to the battlefields of World War I. But Britt Aamod...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 13
MN90: Seward, St. Paul and the Steamship Alhambra
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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: 11
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: 13
MN90: John Berkey’s Star Wars
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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: 16
MN90: Studying Chimps with SIV
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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: 15
MN90: The Man who Sold Pocket Watches
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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: 18
MN90: When Lion Eats Man
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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: 17
MN90: Paul Volberding: On the Frontlines of the AIDS Epidemic
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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...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KUMD, KSRQ, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 13
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: 16
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...

Bought by KVSC, KSRQ, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 12
MN90: Pen Pals with H.P. Lovecraft
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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: 16
MN90: Dayton's Department Store
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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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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: 16
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: 17
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: 22

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