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History

Novelist Paul Auster writes about home

Novelist Paul Auster writes about home

Paul Auster's new novel about abandoned homes and broken families speaks to Americans' experience with the recession. He revisits themes of existential crisis and the search for identity.

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Presidents in the digital age

Presidents in the digital age

George Washington is on Twitter, JFK's archives are now digital, and Barack Obama is the first "social media President." Hear how Presidential history is alive on the Internet.

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150-year-old letters give voice to Dakota prisoners

150-year-old letters give voice to Dakota prisoners

For nearly 150 years, the voices of Dakota men imprisoned after the Dakota Conflict of 1862 went unheard. But the details of their imprisonment are starting to emerge, in dozens of letters written by those men and now being studied by historians in Fargo.
by Dan Gunderson

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In Lee's and others' stories, exhibit shows power of unexpected events

In Lee's and others' stories, exhibit shows power of unexpected events

Koua Fong Lee, who spent more than 2 1/2 years in prison before being released, is part of a new exhibit at the Minnesota History Center that spotlights how unexpected events have the power to forever alter the course of a person's life.
by Jessica Mador

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A remembrance of WWII resistance fighter Reidar Dittmann

A remembrance of WWII resistance fighter Reidar Dittmann

Reidar Dittmann, a retired professor at St. Olaf College in Northfield who was a prisoner at a German concentration camp during World War II, is being remembered by friends as a man committed to helping people marginalized by society. Dittmann died recently at the age of 88.
by Dan Olson

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Bones found on island might be Amelia Earhart's

Bones found on island might be Amelia Earhart's

Three bone fragments were found on a deserted South Pacific island that lay along the course Amelia Earhart was following when she vanished. Scientists at the University of Oklahoma hope to extract DNA from the tiny bone chips to prove whether they are Earhart's -- who disappeared in her 1937 quest to become the first woman to fly around the world.

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Few Pearl Harbor veterans remain to mark anniversary

Few Pearl Harbor veterans remain to mark anniversary

Today marks the 69th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War II. It was a defining moment in American history, and one in which Minnesotans played a role that's still remembered, by young and old.
by Tim Nelson and Anissa Stocks

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A painful history retold through jazz music

A painful history retold through jazz music

Growing up, jazz guitarist David Becker heard stories of how the Japanese captured his Dutch grandparents during the invasion of Indonesia in World War II. On his new album "Batavia," he retells his family's adventures through music.
by Euan Kerr

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Founding Fathers' papers to be accessible online

Founding Fathers' papers to be accessible online

The University of Virginia Press is putting the published papers of Washington, Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin on a National Archives website that is expected to be accessible to the public in 2012.

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