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Quatrefoil Library
Creator: Karl Nycklemoe
First Published: June 10, 2025
Quatrefoil Library is a non-profit lending library and community center in Minneapolis that specializes in LGBTQIA+ material. Its circulating collections include books, DVDs, and CDs, but ...
Aerial view of East Grand Forks, flooded.
Creator: Tom Weber
First Published: June 10, 2025
Flooding on the Red River in April and May 1997 set twentieth-century records at most locations along the Minnesota–North Dakota border and into Manitoba, Canada. At the time, it was the ...
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Creator: Tom Beer
First Published: June 05, 2025
In 1935, Minneapolis was rocked by radical populist protests as workers responded to the Great Depression, unemployment, and anti-union employers. Industrial unions galvanized discontent ...
Linda Burfield Hazzard, 1913
Creator: Paul Nelson
First Published: June 02, 2025
In 1914 Linda Burfield Perry Hazzard’s unconventional healing methods landed her in prison in Washington State for manslaughter. Despite minimal medical training, she styled herself a ...
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Creator: Abigail Venuso
First Published: April 28, 2025
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 ...
Washburn-Crosby Mills advertisement
Creator: Jeff Kolnick
First Published: April 25, 2025
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 ...
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First Published: March 20, 2025
The Finnish-language newspaper Uusi Kotimaa (New Homeland) reached readers for more than fifty years, from the 1880s until 1934. For all but five of those years, its headquarters was the ...
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Creator: Paul Nelson
First Published: March 10, 2025
Until 1897, Minnesota’s governors enjoyed unrestricted power to pardon, or commute the sentence of, anyone convicted of a crime in state courts. The first such pardon was given in 1854, the ...