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Sunken treasure: One of the many Great Lakes shipwrecks, found

Ken Merryman of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society, joined MPR News host Tom Weber to share what it's like to stumble upon a shipwreck when you're not looking for it.
by MPR News Staff

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APM Reports documentary, Bridge to Somewhere: Lessons from the New Deal

APM Reports documentary, Bridge to Somewhere: Lessons from the New Deal

To preview Labor Day, you'll hear an APM Reports/American RadioWorks documentary about jobs and public works programs during the 1930's, called "Bridge to Somewhere: Lessons from the New Deal." It was produced in 2009 by Catherine Winter.

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Douglas Brinkley on the Roosevelts and the National Parks

Douglas Brinkley on the Roosevelts and the National Parks

We mark today's centennial of the National Park Service with a talk by historian Douglas Brinkley, who has written books about the two presidents he thinks have had the biggest impact on conservation in America: Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR said, "there's nothing more American than the National Parks."

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The time Minnesota almost ruled the internet

MPR News host Tom Weber dove into the history of the early internet with Twin Cities writer Tim Gihring.
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Live at National Press Club: National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis

Live at National Press Club: National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis

The National Park Service is 100 years old this month, and Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis talks about what many have called "America's best idea." President Franklin Roosevelt said "there is nothing so American as our national parks" and they show that "the country belongs to the people."

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Aspen Ideas Festival: Bryan Stevenson on race and history

Aspen Ideas Festival: Bryan Stevenson on race and history

Bryan Stevenson calls for a new study of racial history and says the great evil of American slavery wasn't involuntary servitude, it was the narrative of racial differences that we created to sustain it. He believes this led to terrorism, then segregation, and now a presumption of "dangerousness and guilt."

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History Forum: Imperialism and America's mission abroad: A century ago and now.

History Forum: Imperialism and America's mission abroad: A century ago and now.

A look at globalization, racism and America's role in the world, from the perspective of events more than a century ago. Susan Harris was featured at the 2016 History Forum, and she gave her talk the intriguing title, "Pious Hypocrisies: Mark Twain, The Philippines, and America's Christian Mission Abroad."

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David Blight on the Civil War in American memory

David Blight on the Civil War in American memory

The historian explores the immediate aftermath of the Civil War: efforts to fulfill the promise of emancipation, repairing the sectional divide between the north and south and the ongoing racial divide.

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Nick Hayes: 'Putin's Power Game at Home and Abroad'

Nick Hayes: 'Putin's Power Game at Home and Abroad'

Minnesota's preeminent Russia expert, professor Nick Hayes, gives a complex portrayal of Vladimir Putin, a man who sees himself as the leader who has given Russia a place at the table for international diplomacy.

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Historian Kevin Boyle on 'Arc of Justice'

Historian Kevin Boyle on 'Arc of Justice'

Kevin Boyle, author of the National Book Award-winning, "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age." The story of Dr. Ossian Sweet, a black doctor who moved into a white neighborhood in Detroit in the 1920's. Famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow made the stirring closing arguments 90 years ago on May 11.

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