St. Paul’s Boyd Park commemorates a Black labor leader
Frank Boyd was a celebrated organizer in Minnesota for the country’s most influential African American labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, from 1926 to 1951.
Paul Nelson
How a 1955 Thief River Falls bank robbery gone very wrong led to the murder of Kenneth Lindberg
A slip in the midst of a detour to hide a bag full of coins started a fight that ended with the banker, Lindberg, dead of multiple hatchet wounds.
The Minnesota Eight’s attempts to destroy draft files during the Vietnam War were mostly unsuccessful
Around midnight on July 10, 1970, four teams of two or three people each broke into Selective Service offices in Little Falls, Alexandria, Winona, and Wabasha, intending to destroy as many military draft files as possible.
The Kensington Runestone: Minnesota’s most brilliant and durable hoax?
The Kensington Runestone has provoked a host of scholarly and popular articles and books. The Minnesota Historical Society library carries more than forty titles on the subject.
It only took two interventions by the U.S. Supreme Court for Minnesota to revamp its legislative districts
By the late 1950s, populations of House districts ranged from 7,290 residents to 107,246, and Senate districts from 16,878 to 153,455.
In 1953, a major inter-state prostitution case centered on northeast Minneapolis’ John’s Bar
By mid-1956, John’s Bar had lost its license, and 110 men and women had been convicted of violating the Mann Act.
‘The Paradise of Minnesota’: The history of Whitewater State Park
The park’s official creation dates from 1919, though no land was purchased until 1921. By 1926, despite few roads and minimal park facilities, 40,000 visitors came.
Opioids trial, 1952: The downfall of Hennepin County Coroner Russell Heim
Federal drug agents had become curious about the unusual number of prescriptions for morphine and other narcotics that Heim issued from his 12 West Lake Street office.
When Gov. Orville Freeman declared martial law in Albert Lea during a packing plant strike, he didn’t just target strikers
Freeman also ordered the plant closed.
Hennepin County officials, bribes and 74 barrels of hidden whiskey: the Winnipeg Liquor Conspiracy
The Hennepin County sheriff provided guards to the smugglers, while the Hennepin County attorney was on hand to head off any prosecution.
Church of St. Columba: ‘A high point of modern church architecture in the Twin Cities’
The church was designed by Chicago architect Francis Barry Byrne.
All about chemistry: The remarkable career of the University of Minnesota’s Izaak Kolthoff
Kolthoff was a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Minnesota from 1927 to 1962.
A disappearing ecosystem: Minnesota’s oak savannas
Oak savannas — open grassland studded by tall, spreading oak trees — once covered 10 percent of Minnesota.
Lawyer, civil rights campaigner and diplomat: the life of William T. Francis
In July 1927, sixteen years after he first tried for a diplomatic appointment, W. T. Francis was named U.S. Minister and Consul to Liberia.
Remembering Minnesota’s Freedom Riders
The Minnesota Freedom Riders were part of a second, expanded stage of the original Freedom Rides.
Duluth’s Glensheen estate is one of the best-preserved mansions of its kind in Minnesota
The house is famous for its beauty inside and out — and as the site of one of Minnesota’s most notorious murders.
Minnesota’s Morton gneiss is one nice-looking stone
Quarried in Renville County, Morton gneiss is one of the oldest stones on the planet: about 3.5 billion years old.
On 14th anniversary of his death, remembering the career of Sen. Paul Wellstone
Among successful Minnesota politicians there have been orators, Easterners, professorial types and Jews. Only Wellstone was all of these.
St. Paul’s first murderer: Edward Phelan (probably)
On September 27, 1839, Dakota boys found a body washed up under Dayton’s Bluff, near Carver’s Cave (Wakan Tipi).
Minnesota and Wisconsin’s own Platteville limestone totally rocks
The stone is characterized by its gray color, rough texture, and many fossils.
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