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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.