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Reconstructed Lac qui Parle Mission
Creator: Peter J. DeCarlo
First Published: March 25, 2024
Lac qui Parle Mission in Chippewa County was the leading station of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions’ work among Dakota people between 1835 and 1854. Though ...
Lydia B. Angier
First Published: March 07, 2024
Lydia B. Angier was declared insane and committed against her will to Rochester State Hospital in 1896. For the next three years, she wrote letters arguing for her release and restoration ...
Children’s meal in Cambridge State Hospital
Creator: Nathan Stenberg
First Published: March 01, 2024
Welsch v. Likins (1974) was a landmark legal case for disability rights in Minnesota. It dealt with three issues fundamental to the disability community. First, it addressed the right to ...
Harold LeVander giving a speech
Creator: Paul Nelson
First Published: February 21, 2024
Harold LeVander ran for political office for the first time at age fifty-six. He won, served a single term as governor of Minnesota, and never held political office again. A Republican with ...
Lakewood Chapel exterior, ca. 1996
Creator: Brian McMahon
First Published: February 05, 2024
The Memorial Chapel at Lakewood Cemetery (3600 Hennepin Avenue) in Minneapolis is one of the few buildings that can claim to be modeled after two World Heritage Sites. Its exterior, ...
Karl Rolvaag
Creator: Paul Nelson
First Published: January 18, 2024
In his youth a hobo, a radical, a soldier, and a scholar, Karl Rolvaag became an adroit politician—a key builder of the Democratic Farmer–Labor (DFL) Party. He served eight years as ...
State Representatives Keeler, Kozlowski, and Becker-Finn during House debate on MIFPA
Creator: Rita Pyrillis
First Published: January 05, 2024
In 1985, Minnesota state legislators passed the Minnesota Indian Family Preservation Act (MIFPA) to address shortcomings in the federal Indian Child Welfare Act. The federal law had been ...
Paul Bunyan artwork by William B. Laughead
Creator: Kasey Keeler
First Published: December 26, 2023
The giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan—bearded, ax in hand, clad in red flannel and work boots—has come to represent Minnesota’s Northwoods. Folklore credits him and his sidekick, Babe the Blue ...