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.


788 Pieces

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MN90: The Lyle Mammoth
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1996, William Lyle was only trying to dig up gravel for his farm’s driveways. Britt Aamodt looks at what he found instead: the bones of a woolly...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 22
MN90: The Largest Rodent in Minnesota
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Beavers live in every county in Minnesota. Their large teeth can cut through a tree in minutes. Britt Aamodt wonders why beaver teeth are orange an...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 21
MN90: Justine Kerfoot: Legend of the Boundary Waters
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Justine Kerfoot never intended to stay in Minnesota. But the Great Depression led her to the lodge on the Gunflint Trail and the wild spaces that w...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 27
MN90: The Northern Minnesota Hamm’s Beer Commercials
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In 1865, Theodore Hamm established Hamm’s Beer in St. Paul. This beer became known for its cartoon bear and catchy jingle. But in 1973, Hamm’s sent...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 20
MN90: William Maupins: Duluth Civil Rights Leader
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Britt Aamodt tells the story of William Maupins, born two years after the Duluth lynchings, who became a leading light in the port city’s fight for...

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  • Added: May 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 21
MN90: The Federal Music Project
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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The Federal Music Project put musicians to work in the Great Depression. Britt Aamodt also has the story on the less-than-spectacular director of t...

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  • Added: May 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 16
MN90: The Locust Plagues of the 1870s
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Farmers would never forget the 1870s. In this piece, Britt Aamodt looks at the reason why: Locust

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  • Added: May 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 19
MN90: The 1998 Comfrey-St. Peter Tornado Outbreak
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The first tornado touched down in Minnesota after 4 pm. Britt Aamodt recounts the 1998 Comfrey-St. Peter Tornado Outbreak, when over a dozen twiste...

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  • Added: May 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 15
MN90: Ole Rolvaag, Writer of Giants in the Earth
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Ole Rolvaag thought he was destined to be a fisherman like his father. Britt Aamodt looks at how the opportunity to the immigrate to the United Sta...

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  • Added: May 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 16
MN90: Buzz Schneider’s Miracle
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Before William “Buzz” Schneider was a Miracle on Ice, he was a sports-obsessed boy growing up on the Iron Range. Britt Aamodt looks back the career...

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 21
MN90: Bonnie & Clyde’s Okabena Bank Heist?
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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are remembered as the romantically doomed outlaw couple of Depression-era Texas. So why does a Minnesota town lay cl...

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 20
MN90: The Donner Party Man Who Founded a Town
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There’s a ghost town in Minnesota called San Francisco. Britt Aamodt has the history of William Foster, member of the Donner Party, murderer and to...

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 24
MN90: He Who Stands on a Cloud and the Father of the Mayo Brothers
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The Minnesota settlers called him Cut Nose. The Dakota knew him as He Who Stands on a Cloud, one of the 38 men hanged after the 1862 Dakota Uprisin...

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 16
MN90: And Now for Something Completely Gilliam
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Terry Gilliam was the only American member of the legendry British comedy troupe Monty Python. Britt Aamodt has the story of Gilliam’s Minnesota co...

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 23
MN90: When the Torrance Tornado Hit Minnesota
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In 1938, when the University of Minnesota held the NCAA Track and Field Championships at Memorial Stadium, many wondered if Louis Zamperini would b...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 22
MN90: Minnesota’s First Sex Reassignment Surgery
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In 2017, newspapers announced the Mayo Clinic had performed Minnesota’s first male-to-female sex reassignment surgery. They were off by 50 years. B...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 20
MN90: Dr. Tanner and his Fabulous Fasts
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Henry S. Tanner became a Gilded Age sensation for what he didn’t do. Britt Aamodt has the story of the Minneapolis doctor whose publicized fasts be...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 20
MN90: A Psychiatrist at Nuremberg
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Dr. Douglas Kelley was an American psychiatrist whose job it was to decide whether 22 Nazi officials were “mentally fit” to stand trial for war cri...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 16
MN90: MinneWeed
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Dandelion isn’t the only weed growing in Minnesota backyards. Britt Aamodt has the story on ditch weed, also known as wild marijuana.

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 19
MN90: Minnesota’s First Documented AIDS Case
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1981, Bruce Brockway wasn’t feeling well. Doctors didn’t know what was wrong. Then in June, the CDC published a report on five men in Los Angele...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 20

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