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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: Zen and the House on Otis Avenue

One of the biggest nonfiction books to come out of the 1970s was spurred by a road trip. Britt Aamodt traces its origins to a house in St. Paul.


MN90: Women in the House

The feminists who arose in the ’60s and ’70s set out to change the world. Britt Aamodt finds out how one Minnesota feminist made changes one legislative seat at a time.


MN90: The Artist In Red Wing

Charles Biederman was one of the great abstract artists in the 20th century. Britt Aamodt tries to discover why this Cleveland-born artist has more art in Minnesota museums than anywhere else.


MN90: Oregon, Ho!

Three Minnesota guys wanted to find a fun way to teach history. Britt Aamodt tells us how they did it with Conestoga wagons and bouts of dysentery.


MN90: Minnesota Twins

What’s stronger: nature or nurture? Britt Aamodt sheds light on a Minnesota study that tried to answer that question.


MN90: World War SPAM

Americans fighting overseas in World War II craved a little taste of home. Britt Aamodt says they got it by the can, courtesy of a Southern Minnesota company.


MN90: What’s That Smell?

3M is famous for inventing the Post-It note. But Britt Aamodt has uncovered a 3M that gave you a scratch you just had to sniff.


MN90: Spymistress

World War II propelled many women out of the home and into the work force. Britt Aamodt reveals the secret history of one Minnesotan whose wartime job sent her behind enemy lines.


MN90: Purple Rein

George Orwell may have written about 1984. But Britt Aamodt tells us how a Minnesota artist, who partied like it was 1999, brought that year’s box office and Billboard charts under purple rein.


MN90: A Woman At War

Millions of men fought in the Civil War—and unknown numbers of women. Britt Aamodt shares the history of one St. Paul woman who put on the Union blue.


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