History

Humans vs. beavers: The battle of 1993
Culverts were created to help move water underneath roads, and turned out to be a dam-building beaver's paradise. In 1993, reporter Leif Enger reported on a victory for mankind in the beaver wars.
Aspen Ideas Festival: Henry Louis Gates Jr. on race and class in America
The Harvard professor and documentary filmmaker explores the question: What would we tell Martin Luther King Jr. if he came back and wanted to know what had happened?
America's history of impeaching presidents
An historian, a political scientist and NPR legal affairs reporter Nina Totenberg explain the presidential impeachment process, and our past two experiences: the impeachment trials of Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton.
At the Minnesota Capitol, a tale of two Perpich portraits
It took former-Gov. Rudy Perpich and his family 10 years to get a portrait of Perpich and his wife Lola hung in the halls of the Minnesota State Capitol.
Reporting, memories from the I-35W bridge collapse
A look back at MPR News' coverage of the day the I-35W bridge collapsed, as well as memories from those who lived and worked in the area the day it fell.
Kirby Puckett on what made the '87 team so special
Former Twins players are gathering in Minnesota this weekend to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their World Series victory in 1987. But they will be missing their on-field leader.
Aspen Ideas Festival: Has democracy run its course?
At an Aspen Ideas Festival event, three panelists tried to answer one question: has democracy run its course?
Aspen Ideas Festival: StoryCorps founder David Isay on the importance of listening
Four hundred thousand people people have recorded their stories for radio and the Library of Congress via StoryCorps and Isay says it's important to tell the truth about who we are as human beings, in order to reduce fear and increase hope.
The fight for Native fishing rights in Minn., Wis.
A 1983 U.S. Supreme Court decision ensuring that Native Americans in Wisconsin had the right to spearfish was met with raucous protests. The same would soon follow in Minnesota.