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Thrilled be your host! Check out our first few episodes on muralismo, fallout shelters, better baby contests, and bison!
Minnesota Unraveled is a new podcast that pulls on the threads of the past to reveal new perspectives and expand our knowledge of the history we share. Listen to the trailer and subscribe today to hear the first episode on November 7: mnhs.info/3AcipEW
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Today, Gov. Tim Walz was announced as a candidate for Vice President. Back in 2014, then-Congressman Walz met with History Day National Qualifiers from the Mankato region.
Image: Tim Walz posing with Minnesota History Day students.
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Our friends at @mnhs just opened a special exhibit called "Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow" which includes the story of Dred Scott, a former slave at Fort Snelling.
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Cut out for my birthday to hit up the Charles Schulz exhibit at the @mnhs. Really enjoyed it.
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Backstage at the @mnhs with @pattywetterling @joytbaker getting ready to do a presentation on their remarkable book “Dear Jacob” published by Mn Historical Society Press
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Just watched the live steam of the lighting of the beacon at Split Lighthouse (picture) in memory of the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald lost on this day in 1975. A simple but very moving ceremony organised by @mnhs including the muster of the last watch of the Fitz
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MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | Discover MN History Firsthand!
Take your students on a journey through time by visiting any of Minnesota Historical Society's 26 historical sites. Our field trip programs are designed to make history come alive! @mnhs
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"This is just a huge piece of MN history. We needed steel for everything when the country was growing. That's why it's a National Historic Landmark."
- James Pointer, Lake Vermillion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park
WATCH: bit.ly/3Bf9q0P
📷: @mnhs
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In his 43 years as acquisitions librarian at the Minnesota Historical Society, Pat Coleman secured countless gems of MN history for the state’s archives. On the day of his retirement, he spoke with host @CathyWurzer about the joy he found in his work.
mprnews.org/story/2021/08/06…
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This summer, preservation architects, structural engineers, stonemasons, and ironworkers are working to keep the @MillCityMuseum ruins standing. Read more about these preservation goals and techniques in ENTER entermn.com/articles/limits-…
@mnhs #historicpreservation #millcitymuseum
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The Minnesota Historical Society has acquired a rare Civil War artifact: a shirt taken from a Confederate casualty, used to bind the leg wound of a Minnesota soldier at the Battle of Nashville in 1864. "Any item that survived the battlefield is rare," @mnhs says of the shirt.
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Two Rivers has been chosen as the new name for Henry Sibley High School pipr.es/8QwsUDc
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The 2021 Virtual National Award Ceremony will stream LIVE TOMORROW at 3pm EST.
Congratulations to all National qualifiers this year! We'll miss the Parade of States and can't wait to cheer you all on!
Tune in here: nhd.org/virtual2021awards
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Writers Louise Erdrich and Natalie Diaz were named winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in the categories of fiction and poetry — also included was Marty Two Bulls Sr. who was named a finalist in editorial cartooning on Friday.
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#OneYearAnniversary: Governor Tim Walz issued a proclamation on Monday asking Minnesotans for a moment of silence at 1 pm on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, for 9 minutes and 29 seconds to honor George Floyd on the one-year anniversary of his death.
spokesman-recorder.com/2021/…
#GeorgeFloyd
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It's the launch of "Sparked," via @mnhs. "It is a book that we believe can be the basis for further, meaningful reflection, even reckoning, with Minnesota’s complicated history with race, racial disparity, white supremacy, and racism itself." Read more at bit.ly/3oDz1LM
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Astronaut Sally Ride and poet Maya Angelou will be the first individuals honored through the American Women Quarters Program. ow.ly/t70s50ESHHt
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Minnesota Historical Society now has vintage copies of Minneapolis Spokesman Recorder digitized and available for viewing at @mnhs newspaper hub -- mnhs.org/newspapers/hub
