Advanced Search Fewer Search Options

Topics

African Americans
Agriculture
Architecture
Arts
Business and Industry
Cities and Towns
Crime and Punishment
Education
Environment
Health and Medicine
Immigration
Labor
Native Americans
Politics
Religion and Belief
Science and Technology
Sports and Recreation
Transportation
War and Conflict
Women

Category

Event
Group
Person
Place
Structure
Thing

Era

Before European Contact: Pre-1585
Civil War and Reconstruction: 1850-1877
Colonization: 1585-1763
Development of Industrial United States: 1870-1920
Expansion and Reform: 1792-1861
Great Depression and World War II: 1920-1945
Post-World War II United States: 1945-1989
Revolution and a New Nation: 1754-1800
United States in a New Global Age: 1980-Present
banner_logo
MNHS

MNopedia

Frontenac State Park

A dramatic landscape 500 million years in the making

Learn More
Frontenac_State_Park_hero

Recently Added Articles

Quatrefoil Library

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 ...
Place
United States in a New Global Age: 1980-Present
Arts
Education
Aerial view of East Grand Forks, flooded.

Flooding of the Red River, 1997

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 ...
Event
United States in a New Global Age: 1980-Present
Environment
See All Recently Added Articles

This Day in Minnesota History (June 16)

1854

Arriving in St. Paul, the steamer Galena delivers cholera along with its passengers. Cholera's last occurrence in Minnesota would be in 1873.

1863

General Henry H. Sibley and his troops leave Camp Pope, near present-day Redwood Falls, on a campaign against the Dakota.

1931

The bones of "Minnesota Man" are uncovered by a road crew near Pelican Rapids. Despite its name, this glacial-age human skeleton is likely that of a teenage girl.

1945

The last navy tanker built at the Savage Shipyard is launched. The Wacissa is one of eighteen ships manufactured there for the war effort.

1955

Mary Grant, the youngest of Sauk Centre's fabled Grant Sisters, is born. She later played the French horn in venues around the world.

1999

Kathleen Soliah, a fugitive since 1974, is arrested in St. Paul. Having lived under the name Sarah Jane Olson, Soliah was a presumed member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the group that kidnapped Patty Hearst, and was wanted for the attempted bombing of two police cars. She had been featured on the television show America's Most Wanted a few months before her arrest.

Select a New Date

History Near You

Choose a location on the map to see history near you.

Please wait, the pin is being added to the map.