Prairie Island community trying to reclaim noose used in 1862 mass execution of Dakota menApril 26, 2024 1:18 PMBy Peter CoxThe Prairie Island Indian Community filed a claim through its Tribal Historic Preservation Office. The claim was made through the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Play39min 54secHistorical markers are everywhere in America. Some get history wrongApril 21, 2024 7:55 AMBy Laura Sullivan and Nick McMillan The nation's historical markers delight, distort and, sometimes, just get the story wrong.
Hubert H. Humphrey could replace Henry Mower Rice in proposed congressional statue swapApril 17, 2024 3:40 PMBy Dana FergusonMinnesota lawmakers are weighing a resolution to ask that Humphrey’s likeness go into the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall, replacing Rice’s statue, which has been on display for more than a century.
Play35min 00secSeizures, broken spines and vomiting: Scientific testing that helped facilitate D-DayApril 10, 2024 2:17 PMBy Terry Gross Biomedical engineer Rachel Lance says British scientists submitted themselves to experiments that would be considered wildly unethical today in an effort to shore up the war effort.
Play9min 17secNew exhibit showcases letters that LGBTQ+ community used to connect from 1950s to todayApril 2, 2024 1:24 PMBy Cathy Wurzer and Ellen FinnThe exhibit pulls materials from across the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies at the University of Minnesota to examine how the use of mail by LGBTQ+ people has subverted the postal service through challenging obscenity laws, and the reliance on anonymity and discretion.
The piece of wood that saved (only) Rose in ‘Titanic’ was auctioned off for $718kMarch 28, 2024 9:19 AMBy Rachel Treisman The debris that saved Rose’s life in Titanic — and sparked a quarter-century of debate — fetched over $718,000 at an auction of iconic Hollywood movie props last week. It's based on a real artifact.
Play9min 36secI-35W survivor recalls tragedy in wake of Baltimore bridge collapseMarch 26, 2024 4:11 PMBy Cathy Wurzer, Ellen Finn, and Amy FelegyLindsay Walz survived the fall into the Mississippi River nearly 17 years ago. One of the hardest parts for Walz is living with survivor’s guilt and the lasting trauma.
For Minnesotans, Baltimore bridge collapse brings back memories of I-35W disasterMarch 26, 2024 11:41 AMBy MPR News StaffFor some Minnesotans, Tuesday’s collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore brought back memories of the tragic, deadly collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis back in 2007.
1 of the few remaining survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor has died at 102March 21, 2024 8:08 AMBy The Associated PressOne of the few remaining survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has died. Richard C. “Dick” Higgins died at home in Bend, Ore., at the age of 102.
Play4min 15secEight decades after it crashed, expedition launched to find ‘America’s Ace of Aces’ plane March 21, 2024 4:00 AMBy Dan KrakerEighty years ago this week, one of the most famous airplanes in U.S. military history — one with a connection to the Twin Ports — crashed in the South Pacific. Now an expedition is being launched to find it.