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.
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.
In 1990, the Minnesota Twins finished in last place. When the 1991 season started, it was anybody’s guess how the major league team would fare. Britt Aamodt gives us the startling conclusion to one of the best years in Minnesota baseball history.
Jimi Hendrix lit his guitar on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival. He jammed the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock. But Britt Aamodt wants to tell you about the night in May 1970 when one of the hottest guitarists to ever sling a Stratocaster rocked St. Paul.
Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has a dream to make humankind a multi-planetary species. But Britt Aamodt has discovered that the South African visionary has some very down-to-earth Minnesota ties.
The producers of the last Star Trek film with the original cast wanted to go out with a bang. Britt Aamodt says the script got some of its inspiration from a Minnesota poet.
Before Oscar Wilde became a dead author studied in literature courses, he was a dandy with a love of beauty, the arts and the written word. Britt Aamodt gets the dirt on his drab overnight in Minneapolis.
If you have ancestors who came to Northern Minnesota to mine at the turn of the 20th century, then you have ties to this Duluth room, says Britt Aamodt.
