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Pardon Power in Nineteenth-Century Minnesota

An era of unprecedented clemency via executive power

Lippincott, Carrie H. (1860–1941)

The self-proclaimed "Pioneer Seedswoman of America"

Draining of Glacial Lake Agassiz

The event that created the Minnesota rivers and lakes we know today

Replacements (band)

Pioneers of alt rock, grunge, and alt country

Frontenac State Park

A dramatic landscape 500 million years in the making

Origins of the Minneapolis Homeless Shelter Movement

An example of public–private collaboration that got people without housing safely indoors

Common Loon

Minnesota's state bird

Origins of the Vietnamese Community at St. Adalbert Church, St. Paul

Building a Minnesota home for Vietnamese immigrants and their families

Spotlight On Cities of Greater Minnesota

Buildings in the Albert Lea Commercial Historic District
Albert Lea Commercial Historic District
Color image of B’nai Israel Synagogue and Dan Abraham Cultural Center, c.2013.
B’nai Israel Synagogue, Rochester
Duluth Incline
Duluth Incline Railway
Color image of the north façade of the Faribault Woolen Mill Company, 2011.
Faribault Woolen Mill Company
Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center
Fergus Falls State Hospital
Birney Quick painting a landscape out in nature, along the shore of a lake, with pine trees in the background.
Grand Marais Art Colony
Color image of the Hopperstad Stave Church Replica, 2011. Photograph by Flickr user Steve Borsch.
Hopperstad Stave Church Replica, Moorhead
Merchants National Bank, Winona
Merchants National Bank, Winona
Old Main, Mankato Normal School
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Colonial Hotel being moved to new site, Hibbing
Relocation of Hibbing, 1919–1921
Tower-Soudan Mine
Soudan Mine, Tower
Chick Simunek is greeted at home plate after hitting a grand slam during a June 20, 1951 game at Rox Stadium, 1951.
St. Cloud Rox
Family members reunited after the Worthington ICE raid
Swift and Company ICE raids, 2006
Willmar 8 on the picket line
Willmar 8 Bank Strike
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May 9

1887

The Flint Furniture factory in Faribault burns. Built in 1856, the factory was the first in the state to manufacture items for wholesale trade.

1918

Orville Freeman is born in Minneapolis. He served as the state's governor from 1955 to 1961 and later as US secretary of agriculture. While governor, he responded to the 1959 strike at the Wilson & Company packinghouse in Albert Lea by declaring martial law and closing the plant.

1921

Daniel Berrigan is born in Virginia, Minnesota. An author and a radical Catholic priest, Berrigan wrote about social responsibility and played an active role in the antiwar movement during the Vietnam era; later, he protested nuclear armament. His brother Philip, also a radical priest, was born October 5, 1923.

1998

The suit State of Minnesota et al. v. Philip Morris et al. is settled when the defendants—tobacco companies—agree to pay Minnesota and Blue Cross-Blue Shield $6.5 billion dollars in total. The settlement ended the companies’ chain of legal victories and turned the tide in anti-tobacco efforts throughout the nation.

2001

The Dalai Lama Tenzin Guyatso, head of state and spiritual leader of the Tibetan community worldwide, visits the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota and shares his message of compassion, tolerance, kindness, and peace.

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Mabel Ulrich, 1922
Ulrich, Mabel S. (1876–1945)

Mabel Simis Ulrich was a public health educator, physician, author, and public figure whose pioneering work in sex education propelled her onto multiple public health commissions in Minneapolis. She contributed to the cultural scene in Minneapolis through a bookstore that she owned, and headed the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) in Minnesota under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s.

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Washburn A Mill

Washburn A Mill was one of twenty-six Minneapolis flour mills that lined the Mississippi River below St. Anthony Falls during the city’s industrial heyday. By the early 1900s, its company (Washburn-Crosby) was the leading flour miller in Minnesota. The historic building has had five reincarnations in its more than 150 years: an original mill (1874–1878); a rebuilt second mill (1880–1924); a renovated mill (1924–1965); a warehouse (1965–1990); and a museum operated by the Minnesota Historical Society (2003–present).

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