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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: The King of Frozen Foods

Jeno Paulucci had a flair for deals and an eye for opportunity. Britt Aamodt has the story of the son of Italian immigrants who made it big with his packaged Chinese food business, Chun King.

MN90: The Hormel Strike on Film

Barbara Kopple won her first Oscar for a documentary about Kentucky coal workers. She won her second Oscar for a documentary about striking meat packers in Austin, Minnesota. Britt Aamodt takes a look at Kopple’s American Dream.


MN90: Sister Polio

Sister Elizabeth Kenny wasn’t a nun. She got the title sister from her work as a nurse in Australia. But she’d remembered today, says Britt Aamodt, for the polio treatment she brought to Minneapolis in 1940.

MN90: Chris Fisher in the Lost City

Chris Fisher was teaching anthropology when he was invited to be part of an expedition. Britt Aamodt follows Fisher on his quest to locate an ancient city in the Honduran rainforest, a journey documented in Douglas Preston’s 2017 best-seller The Lost City of the Monkey God.

MN90: Polio and Nail Polish

Peg Kehret was just a kid looking forward to homecoming when her leg muscle began to twitch. Britt Aamodt tells the story of Peg’s polio year.


MN90: Cologne: The 1939 Home Movie in the National Film Registry

Every year, the Library of Congress’s National Film Preservation Foundation selects 25 films for inclusion in the National Film Registry. Among the 2001 selectees were The Sound of Music, The Planet of the Apes (1968) and Jaws. Britt Aamodt’s segment focuses on the Minnesota home movie that made it in that year’s list.

MN90: Life and Death on a Poor Farm

In early America, the poor were sometimes auctioned off as indentured servants. In 19th- and early 20th-century Minnesota, the counties had an “enlightened” alternative to dealing with the unfortunate and alone. Britt Aamodt takes us to Minnesota’s poor farms.


MN90: Minnesota’s Extinct Bison

In 1921, miners near Crosby, Minnesota, uncovered a deposit of animal bones. One skull belonged to a typical American bison. But Britt Aamodt tells the story at the others, which represented a bison species that went extinct 5,000 years ago.

MN90: Minnesota’s Unofficial State Bird: The Mosquito

Mosquitoes have been found preserved in amber tens of millions of years old. And they’re still around. Producer Britt Aamodt looks at Minnesota’s pesky history with its unofficial state bird.

MN90: Ye Old Mill: The Oldest Ride at the Minnesota State Fair

There may be no time machines. But Britt Aamodt has found a ride at the Minnesota State Fair that’ll take you back to 1915.

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