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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 Turkey’s Return

Minnesota lost its wild turkey population by the 20th century. But Britt Aamodt shows us how the DNR, with a little gift from Missouri, brought the turkey back to the North Star state.

MN90: Minnesota’s 1860 Thanksgiving

George Washington asked Americans to give thanks for their freedom. Britt Aamodt takes us to Minnesota’s first day of thanks in 1860 undertaken in a spirit of well-being that within a year would be shaken by one of the most cataclysmic events in the nation’s history.


MN90: Sally Forth

What do you call a lawyer who quits his job? Britt Aamodt learns that Greg Howard called it an opportunity from which he developed one of the nation’s most successful comic strips.

MN90: The Minnesota Nirvana Album

In 1993, Nirvana was the biggest band in the world. They could have recorded the follow-up to their mega-selling album Nevermind anywhere. Britt Aamodt tells us why they chose Minnesota.

MN90: Houdini

In 1899, Harry Houdini was ready to give up the stage. But a chance meeting at a St. Paul beer garden changed the escape artist’s mind and, says Britt Aamodt, the course of his life.

MN90: Serving Time

It’s hard enough to get elected the first time. But Britt Aamodt finds two members of Minnesota’s legislature who have been in office for more than 42 years each.

MN90: The Hogwart’s School of Illustration

Mary GrandPre worked hard to get her art degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. But Britt Aamodt tells us about the magic that got the illustrator’s work on the cover of “Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone”.

MN90: The Germans Next Door

The Americans fought overseas in World War II. But they sent their POWs home to the United States. Britt Aamodt tells us about one of Minnesota’s German POW camps.

MN90: Mayo Force

Mayo has been credited with a lot of medical innovations. But Britt Aamodt uncovers one of the Rochester clinic’s Top Secret projects during World War II that had more to do with g-forces than gerontology.

MN90: Sum-Sum-Summertime in Albert Lea

There was Gene Vincent. There was Chuck Berry. And there was Eddie Cochran. But Britt Aamodt reveals that only one of these ’50s rockers made “Summertime Blues” a hit—and hailed from Minnesota.

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