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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.
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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. [Read Transcript...]
In this special edition of Minnesota Native News, we hear Marty Case, Director of the Indian Treaty Signers Project. In this lecture “Treaty Signers: Making the American Myth” from The Minnesota Humanities Center, Case shares his research on how treaties transformed people’s relationship to land in what became the United States. Case separates reality from … [Read Transcript...]
“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. [Read Transcript...]
