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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: A Billion-Year-Old Drink of Water

Soudan is recognized as Minnesota’s oldest iron ore mine. Britt Aamodt travels underground where something far, far older has collected in an abandoned drill hole.

MN90: Grand Master of Science Fiction

To readers of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Clifford D. Simak was a stellar science editor. But outside the office, he was a Grand Master of Science Fiction. Britt Aamodt remembers the author of the sci-fi classics “Way Station” and “City”.

MN90: The Ancient Brines of Minnesota’s Oldest Mine

Soudan is recognized as Minnesota’s oldest iron ore mine. Britt Aamodt travels underground where something far, far older has collected in an abandoned drill hole.

MN90: Moonshiner’s Dance

Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music was the acoustic bible of the 1960s folk revival. This vinyl whiz-bang offered a musical tour of the South, all except for one track. Britt Aamodt traces its origins to a small café bar on St. Paul’s University Avenue in the 1920s.

MN90: MinneMania

Since the 1960s, Beatlemania has evoked images of swarming crowds and screaming girls. The hysteria erupted at every stop on the Beatles’ 1964-65 American tour. However, Britt Aamodt uncovered one journalist’s account that singled out Minneapolis as the capital of Beatlemania.

MN90: Castle in the Wilderness

High school can be the best four years of someone’s life, or the worst. But Britt Aamodt located a high school in Hibbing, Minnesota whose value extends beyond dusty yearbook memories.

MN90: Surf’s Up

“Well, everybody’s heard about the bird. Well, uh, bird, bird, bird, bird is the word.” Britt Aamodt traces the origins of the 1963 surf rock hit, “Surfin’ Bird”, to Minneapolis.

MN90: All That Glitters Is Gold

What’s magnificent, has a big dome and is worth its weight in gold? No, not a CEO with a golden parachute. Britt Aamodt finds the answer at Lakewood Memorial Chapel in Minneapolis.

MN90: Freedom Ride

Claire O’Connor was a freshman at the University of Minnesota in June 1961, when she took a Greyhound bus into the heart of Jim Crow. The Freedom Rider shares her story with Britt Aamodt.

MN90: How Dinkytown Got Its Name

It’s a mystery on the scale of the Egyptian pyramids and with as many red herrings as an Agatha Christie novel. How did Dinkytown get its name? Britt Aamodt follows the evidence to the University of Minnesota campus for some answers.

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