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.
When the Spanish American War broke out, Minnesota mustered troops. Britt Aamodt tells the story of the Thirteen Minnesota that made history at the Battle for Manila.
They were known as Kirkbride facilities, hospitals designed to give more comfort and privacy to patients with mental illness. Britt Aamodt takes us to Minnesota’s Kirkbride building, the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center.
Diablo Cody is now a celebrated screenwriter. Britt Aamodt rewinds the success story to the beginning, when Cody wrote her first script over seven weeks at a Minnesota coffee shop.
William J. Colvill has a memorial in Cannon Falls and a statue in the Minnesota state capitol. Britt Aamodt discovers why Minnesota will never forget this old soldier.
Babe Ruth was born in Baltimore, traded by Boston and beloved by the world. But Britt Aamodt looks at a day in 1922 when Babe Ruth came to Sleepy Eye, Minnesota.
Star Wars opened May 25, 1977, in only 32 theaters. It would quickly be followed by many more. But Britt Aamodt went on a quest to find out if any of the original 32 theaters were in Minnesota.
Ernest Hemingway wrote a novel based on his experiences in World War I. But Minnesota’s Amy Robbins Ware, according to producer Britt Aamodt, chose to tell her war story in verse.
Dan Jurgens had a Clark Kent childhood in Ortonville, Minnesota. But Britt Aamodt reveals that Jurgens’s relationship with the Man of Steel didn’t end there.
