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Abraham Galloway is the Black figure from the Civil War you should know about

Abraham Galloway is the Black figure from the Civil War you should know about

Galloway escaped enslavement, became a Union spy and helped recruit thousands of Black soldiers to fight with the North, but his name has been largely left out of the Civil War narrative.
by Elizabeth Blair

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Who were the Vikings, really? 

Who were the Vikings, really? 

How about those Vikings? Not the football team. We’re talking about the ancient voyagers and raiders from the North. MPR News host Angela Davis talked with a Minnesota historian and an archeologist in the U.K. about Vikings in popular imagination and new research that challenges old ideas about who they were and where they went. 
by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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World remembers Holocaust as antisemitism rises in pandemic

World remembers Holocaust as antisemitism rises in pandemic

Holocaust survivors and politicians warned Thursday about the resurgence of antisemitism and denial as the world remembered Nazi atrocities and commemorated the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
by The Associated Press

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50 years ago, Gophers game ended in legendary brawl

Fifty years ago, Ohio State was ranked the six best college basketball team in the country, and the Gophers were 10 places behind them, at No. 16. Minnesota’s new coach, Bill Musselman, was an Ohio native, apparently stoking the rivalry between the two teams.
by Tim Nelson

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Want to understand the U.S.? This historian says the South holds the key

Want to understand the U.S.? This historian says the South holds the key

Imani Perry says the South can be seen as an "origin point" for the way the nation operates. Her book “South to America” reflects on the region's history and traces the steps of an enslaved ancestor.
by Dave Davies

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StoryCorps: Strangers helped a child survive the Holocaust. Then they became his family

StoryCorps: Strangers helped a child survive the Holocaust. Then they became his family

At age 11, Philip Lazowski found himself alone in a Nazi ghetto as Jews were being sent to their deaths during World War II. At StoryCorps, Philip, now 91, remembered how quick thinking and a woman's kindness in that moment saved his life.
by Jo Corona and Emma Bowman

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The story of marriage equality is more complicated — and costly — than you remember

The story of marriage equality is more complicated — and costly — than you remember

Sasha Issenberg, author of “The Engagement,” a history of marriage equality, says he doesn't see the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges being overturned anytime soon.
by Danielle Kurtzleben

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Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers

Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers

Pennsylvania is reviewing its 2,500 roadside markers, scrutinizing factual errors, inadequate historical context, and racist or otherwise inappropriate references.
by The Associated Press

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