MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds

Series produced by Ampers

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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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Not every West Coast American of Japanese descent was herded into an internment camp after Pearl Harbor. Some, like Ruth Tanbara and her husband Ea...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
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February 1969, St. Paul’s Winter Carnival hosted an out-of-this world event: Breakfast with Spock. This cozy nosh at the St. Paul Hilton took place...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KSRQ, WDSE, WTIP, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
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August 1963, 58 Minnesotans boarded a bus in the early dawn for nation’s capital. They were headed to one of the most historic events in American h...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
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In 1961, Charles W. Bailey II was a Washington correspondent for Cowles Publications in Minneapolis when he and a fellow had an idea for a novel. T...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
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In 1972, Minnesota’s Westgate Theater hit on a novel idea to compete with the large multiplex theaters being built. Play the same film, and only th...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
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Minette and David Ponick became entranced with the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy watching their films on a local Twin Cities TV station. Decades late...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
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In 1963, the symphony orchestra remained largely a privileged domain of white men. But with an upcoming tour of the American South, the Minneapolis...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 13
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In 1856, singing prodigy 13-year-old Adelina Patty made a stagecoach stop in Stillwater to perform for the lumbermen, their families and other loca...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
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In 1943, the United States Office of War Information dispatched Ingrid Bergman, star of Casablanca and a native Swede, to Minnesota with a film cre...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
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Alonzo J. Whiteman, aka, AJ Whiteman, aka the Penman, was a Minnesota legislator from Duluth. By the time he died in 1922, he was wanted in 40 citi...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 12
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In 1912, Japan gifted 3,000 cherry trees to the United States, which were planted in Washington, D.C. One hundred years later, Japan made a second ...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 14
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By the early 1980s, Maureen McCormick, oldest sister Marcia Brady on The Brady Bunch, was coming off a 5-year cocaine addiction, when she met an ac...

Bought by KSRQ, KBEM, KVSC, WDSE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 12
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In 1963, Bob Dylan was a folkie with a guitar when he appeared in Greenwood, Mississippi, on the front lines of the fight for Civil Rights. At a vo...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 12
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In World War II, the Japanese occupation of the Pacific region cut off a precious kapok, a product of an Asian tree, used for life vests. So the Co...

Bought by KSRQ, KVSC, KBEM, WDSE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 12
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1984 – Prince jotted off the song “Nothing Compares 2 U” in the spare moments between promoting his new album Purple Rain and preparing for his big...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
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1936 – The Marx Brothers—Chico, Harpo and Groucho—arrived in Duluth. In overcoats. In July. The comedians heard it was cold up there. But they stuc...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KSRQ, KBEM, WTIP, WDSE and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
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In 1978, Brenda Spencer just wanted to meet John Lennon. She’d traveled from Minnesota to join the other fans that hung outside his New York apartm...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KSRQ, KBEM, WTIP, WDSE and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
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In 1942, one of the most recognizable women in America stepped off a train in St. Cloud. She was Marian Anderson, the opera singer called the Voice...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KSRQ, KBEM, WTIP, WDSE and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
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Mary Welsh was not only Ernest Hemingway’s fourth (and last) wife but also his literary executor. But critics sniffed at the idea of this lumberman...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KBEM, WTIP, WDSE, KVSC and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
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By 1985, Miles Davis was five years out of a self-imposed retirement, when he didn’t even pick up his trumpet. Now the jazz legend, eager for new c...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 13