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Moorhead historic home sale provokes anger

A historic home that's one of the oldest in the city of Moorhead is on the auction block, much to the chagrin of some of its fans.

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Photos: Nation remembers JFK on 50th anniversary of death

Photos: Nation remembers JFK on 50th anniversary of death

Fifty years after John F. Kennedy fell victim to an assassin's bullet while visiting Texas with his wife, people at home and abroad paused Friday to remember the 35th president of the United States.

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Reverent memorials mark JFK 50th anniversary

Reverent memorials mark JFK 50th anniversary

The nation solemnly marked the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination Friday with subdued remembrances at Kennedy's grave and the infamous site in downtown Dallas where the young, glamorous president was gunned down in an open-top limousine.

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City gives preliminary OK for demolition of Star Tribune building

City gives preliminary OK for demolition of Star Tribune building

The staff at the Heritage Preservation Commission in Minneapolis has signed off on the demolition of the Star Tribune building to make way for a Downtown East park planned near the new Vikings stadium. Here’s a look at the building through nearly a century of Minneapolis history: The building itself is a bit of Minnesota Read more →
by Tim Nelson

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What the March on Washington called for, and what we got

What the March on Washington called for, and what we got

Wednesday marks the 50th celebration of the March on Washington, and it's a little hard to resist the urge to compare the America of 1963 to 2013, to see how they've diverged. Although the "I have a dream" and the "content of their character" bits tend to get top billing in these remembrances, the event was called "The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" -- and it's worth noting that the word "jobs" comes before "freedom."

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NBC re-airing Martin Luther King Jr. interview

NBC News says it will rebroadcast a 1963 "Meet the Press" interview with Martin Luther King Jr. in honor of the March on Washington's 50th anniversary next week.

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Researchers uncover little-known internment camp

Researchers uncover little-known internment camp

Deep in the mountains of northern Idaho lies evidence of a little-known portion of a shameful chapter of American history. There are no buildings, signs or markers to indicate what happened at the site 70 years ago, but researchers sifting through the dirt have found broken porcelain, old medicine bottles and lost artwork identifying the location of the first internment camp where the U.S. government used people of Japanese ancestry as a workforce during World War II.

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Scrapbooks give peek inside Hemingway's early life

Scrapbooks give peek inside Hemingway's early life

Ernest Hemingway's mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, started a series of scrapbooks documenting the childhood of the future Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner by describing how the sun shone and robins sang on the day in July 1899 when he was born. Starting Sunday, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston will make the content of five Hemingway scrapbooks available online for the first time.

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Minn. exhibit explores US-Native American treaties

A new exhibit at Bemidji State University explores the relationship between Native Americans and both the federal and state government.

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Ground Level: Reviving Minnesota relics

Ground Level: Reviving Minnesota relics

Residents in hundreds of Minnesota towns in recent years have wrestled with what to do with prominent old buildings that no longer define the community. The efficiency of demolition weighs against an instinct to preserve. Many have struggled to find new uses, to create new souls. This Ground Level project portrays the difficulties, the angst, the cost and the lessons learned by people making an effort to refresh their towns by saving an icon.

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