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.
May is the month when students start thinking about final exams and summer vacation. But in 1972, the students at the University of Minnesota were facing down the Vietnam War. Britt Aamodt revisits the riots of spring with Bill Huntzicker.
One of the seminal books on the psychological how-tos of writing emerged from a YWCA night class in Minneapolis in the depths of the Great Depression. Britt Aamodt finds out why Brenda Ueland’s book still resonates nearly 80 years on.
He was Swede-Finn. He was Communist. And he was in the right town at the right time. Britt Aamodt tracks down America’s first communist mayor in Crosby, Minnesota.
Good times have often been associated with strong spirits. Yet Britt Aamodt takes us to a Minnesota town in the late 1800s where the only spirit in the house was Temperance.
You can still see the Blegen name around Minneapolis. The University of Minnesota’s Blegen Hall was named after professor Theodore Blegen. But Britt Aamodt takes us to Asia Minor where another Blegen, Carl, carved his name on the legendary walls of Troy.
Ignatius Donnelly was a lot of things—lieutenant governor of Minnesota, state senator, amateur scientist and gentleman farmer. But Britt Aamodt goes back to 1882 in search of the book—and its far-fetched premise—that made Donnelly an international star.
Numbering only 31 issues, The Little Sandy Review influenced the voice and scope of music journalism. Britt Aamodt traces the folk music ‘zine’s roots to Dinkytown in 1961.
The radar equipment had been used in World War II to train pilots. But a University of Minnesota researcher discovered it could also be used to detect cancer. Britt Aamodt follows the story of Dr. John Wild, pioneer of ultrasound.
Lead Belly lived up to his title, the King of the 12-String Guitar. Britt Aamodt tracks down the story of the Minneapolis Private Party Tape, recorded a year before Lead Belly’s death.
He was one of the best-selling authors of the Jazz Age and a Minnesotan. Britt Aamodt goes back to 1930 when Sauk Centre native Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
