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: 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
MN90: Stephen King at the Opera
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Does Stephen King like opera? Who knows? But he gave the Minnesota Opera the green light to adapt one of his novels. Britt Aamodt goes behind the c...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 20
MN90: Winona of Minnesota
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Can Minnesota really claim Winona Ryder as one of its own? Britt Aamodt explores the actor’s North Star roots.

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 19
MN90: A Last Toast to Company B
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1930, on the anniversary of the First Battle of Bull Run, Charles Lockwood uncorked a bottle of wine and drank a toast to a roomful of empty ch...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 17
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
MN90: MinneWeed
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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: A Psychiatrist at Nuremberg
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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: Dr. Tanner and his Fabulous Fasts
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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: Minnesota’s First Sex Reassignment Surgery
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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: When the Torrance Tornado Hit Minnesota
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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: 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: He Who Stands on a Cloud and the Father of the Mayo Brothers
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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: The Donner Party Man Who Founded a Town
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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: Bonnie & Clyde’s Okabena Bank Heist?
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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: Buzz Schneider’s Miracle
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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: Ole Rolvaag, Writer of Giants in the Earth
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KSRQ, KVSC, KKWE Niijii Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: May 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 16

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