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MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds a fun exploration of wide-ranging topics including sports, politics, environment, business, entertainment, pop culture, and more.
MN90 is fun exploration of wide-ranging topics including sports, politics, environment, business, entertainment, pop culture, and more.

MN90: Roy Wilkins, the Civil Rights Act and LBJ

Roy Wilkins earned his professional chops as a Twin Cities journalist. But it was as an activist and director of the NAACP, says producer Britt Aamodt, that Wilkins helped change history with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

MN90: Acid Days

In 1966, University of Minnesota research assistant Mary Ray volunteered for a study. As part of the study, she received a shot of LSD. Britt Aamodt looks at the Air Force-sponsored LSD study undertaken by Dr. Amedeo Marrazzi.

MN90: Trouble Boys

Music journalist Bob Mehr wanted to write a biography of the Replacements, the Minneapolis punk/alt-rock group that formed in a basement in 1979, recorded great songs, influenced generations of songwriters and bands but then fizzled out in just over a decade. Britt Aamodt looks at Mehr’s eight-year journey to produce Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements.

MN90: Did We Meet in Another Life?

Elizabeth, a Minnesota woman with relationship questions, and Pedro, a young man struggling with the death of his brother, were both patients of Dr. Brian Weiss, a psychiatrist know for his book on reincarnation Many Lives, Many Masters. Britt Aamodt looks at the story behind Dr. Weiss’ 1996 book Only Love Is Real, about his work with Elizabeth and Pedro.

MN90: The Gopher’s Little Brown Jug

Why do the University of Minnesota’s Golden Gophers and the University of Michigan’s Wolverines football teams battle over a Little Brown Jug? Britt Aamodt goes back to 1903 to find the origins of this unusual rivalry trophy.

MN90: The Photo Ark at the Minnesota Zoo

In 2015, photographer Joel Sartore and National Geographic established the Photo Ark, a 25-year project to photograph every species held at a zoo or wildlife sanctuary worldwide. Britt Aamodt finds out what animals boarded the ark when Sartore visited the Minnesota Zoo.

MN90: The Bobkitty

Summer 2018, Jared Yost just finished mowing a lawn when he heard the sounds of an animal in distress. A kitten, or so he thought. Britt Aamodt has the story of Yost’s encounter with one of Minnesota’s wild feline species, the bobcat.

MN90: Going Dutch

In 1856, a group of men and women drove ox carts hundreds of miles from Wisconsin to Minnesota. Their settlement in Greenleafton became the first Dutch enclave in that state. Britt Aamodt looks at the history of Dutch settlement in Minnesota.


MN90: James McPherson and the Battle Cry of Freedom

Growing up in 1950s St. Peter, Minnesota, James McPherson immersed himself in comics and books about the Army Air Corps in World War II. The Civil War was the farthest thing from his mind. Britt Aamodt finds out how thirty years later McPherson wrote what many consider the greatest single-volume history of the war between the states.


MN90: Frank Lloyd Wright Goes Shopping

It had never been seen before, a fully-enclosed shopping mall that sprawled over 500 acres in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina. Britt Aamodt tells the story of Southdale, the mall that when it opened in 1956 became the model for a thousand imitators but left famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright feeling blah.

MN90: Babbit

In 1920, Sauk Centre native Sinclair Lewis became a sensation with the publication of his novel Main Street. Now the pressure was on for a follow-up. Britt Aamodt turns the page on Babbitt, Lewis’ searing indictment of smug middle-class complacency.


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