U.S. History

Kwanzaa Family Day

Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group

The 1968 Exhibit

Steve Wilkins, Michele Bachmann's Confederate historian

Steve Wilkins is a good Confederate but a bad historian. ​Michele Bachmann has a troubled past when it comes to race relations, particularly as it relates to her understanding of slavery. Bachmann doesn't seem to know what is was like, or how it ended. Sometimes she forgets it existed at all. How ... More >>

Team Pawlenty walks back on transit union tough talk

Tim Pawlenty's "Truth" campaign is a bit blurry.​Tim Pawlenty keeps having to back away from his tough guy talk. This time, he was caught making up nonsense in Tennessee about facing down "the unions" in the "longest transit strike in the history of the United States." That certainly would ha ... More >>

Minnesota History Center's '9 Nights of Music' canceled tonight, Mill City Live in limbo due to government shutdown

​The effects of the government's failure are still rolling out this week, as Governor Mark Dayton and the GOP continue their contentious budget negotiations today and Minnesota enters its fourth day of statewide shutdown. The Minnesota History Center has announced that tonight's "9 Nights of Music ... More >>

Michele Bachmann, Witness To History: Photo Of The Day

Bachmann gets the good word from Paul Revere.​Her epic gaffe about mass murderer John Wayne Gacy reminded us yet again that Michele Bachmann has a legendary grasp of U.S. history. Here's the presidential candidate who says the Revolutionary War started in New Hampshire, for example. And that ... More >>

Minnesota History Center hosts St. Paul food and pub crawls this summer

Courtesy of Max Martin Banh mi, one of the many delicious eats guests will get to try on the Food Crawl.​History teachers always say that history can be fun and exciting, but sometimes that's hard to remember when you're slogging through pages and pages of readings. This summer, the Minnesota ... More >>

Defending John Calhoun: Comment Of The Day

Is complaining about Calhoun's support for slavery just political correctness?​Two Athens State University, Ala., professors tell us the proposal to change Lake Calhoun's name -- so that it doesn't honor a man who called slavery "a positive good" -- is nothing but a bunch of politically correc ... More >>

Dan Rather thinks Michele Bachmann is "very articulate" [VIDEO]

Dan Rather insists he's not Michele Bachmann's campaign manager.​Dan Rather used to be the poster child of liberal media bias for all good conservatives when he held down the CBS Evening News anchor chair. Then he got suckered into believing some claptrap about George W. Bush's National Guard ... More >>

RetroRama: Underneath it All

Dan Rather insists he's not Michele Bachmann's campaign manager.​Dan Rather used to be the poster child of liberal media bias for all good conservatives when he held down the CBS Evening News anchor chair. Then he got suckered into believing some claptrap about George W. Bush's National Guard ... More >>

Michele Bachmann returns to New Hampshire, where the Revolutionary War didn't start

Bachmann flunked history the last time she was in New Hampshire.​It looks like Michele Bachmann is headed back to New Hampshire for a meeting with tea partiers to try and figure out if she might make a credible presidential candidate. Uh oh. The last time this happened she told two differen ... More >>

Keith Ellison isn't patriotic enough for Herman Cain

Godfather's Pizza millionaire Herman Cain.​In pizza millionaire Herman Cain's world, all Muslims are anti-American Sharia freaks bent on forcing their religion down everyone's throats. And Cain, a Christian Republican who is toying with a presidential run, and who figures it's OK to force his ... More >>

Weekend Checklist: Rogue Valley, Devotchka, The 4onthefloor, Krown Vega

​Everybody's workin' for the weekend...and it's here.Make the most of it!

Michele Bachmann blames reporters for her American Revolution gaffe

​Just the other day, Rep. Michele Bachmann single-handedly relocated the opening battle of the American Revolution from Massachusetts to New Hampshire. Journalists took note. Embarrassing headlines were written. Now Bachmann, who has previously funked the history of slavery, the Founding Fat ... More >>

Michele Bachmann fails American Revolution history

Bachmann fails history again.​Someone go find the dunce cap. Michele Bachmann tackled American history again in public, and once again gave America good reason to laugh at Minnesota. She's already flubbed the history of the Founding Fathers and forgotten slavery. This time around, in a heav ... More >>

Discover the Real George Washington: New Views from Mount Vernon

Bachmann fails history again.​Someone go find the dunce cap. Michele Bachmann tackled American history again in public, and once again gave America good reason to laugh at Minnesota. She's already flubbed the history of the Founding Fathers and forgotten slavery. This time around, in a heav ... More >>

DIY: Brewing With the Founding Fathers

Bachmann fails history again.​Someone go find the dunce cap. Michele Bachmann tackled American history again in public, and once again gave America good reason to laugh at Minnesota. She's already flubbed the history of the Founding Fathers and forgotten slavery. This time around, in a heav ... More >>

Michele Bachmann flubs history of slavery and the Founding Fathers

Don't know much about history.​Michele Bachmann likes to lecture Americans about how they're just not as smart as she is when it comes to understanding the importance of the Founding Fathers and their principles. But speaking to a group of anti-taxers in Iowa, she got her history wrong. In exto ... More >>

Chocolate Sampler Night: Fete Mondial

Don't know much about history.​Michele Bachmann likes to lecture Americans about how they're just not as smart as she is when it comes to understanding the importance of the Founding Fathers and their principles. But speaking to a group of anti-taxers in Iowa, she got her history wrong. In exto ... More >>

'1968 Film Festival' screens Saturday

​The 2010 "1968 Film Festival" will take place tomorrow at the Minnesota History Center, showcasing short films triggered by any and all things related to that crucial turning point in American history; the year 1968. And the best part is, it's sure to be educational, enlightening, and it is defin ... More >>

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​The 2010 "1968 Film Festival" will take place tomorrow at the Minnesota History Center, showcasing short films triggered by any and all things related to that crucial turning point in American history; the year 1968. And the best part is, it's sure to be educational, enlightening, and it is defin ... More >>

Sibley House Historic Site 100th Birthday

​The 2010 "1968 Film Festival" will take place tomorrow at the Minnesota History Center, showcasing short films triggered by any and all things related to that crucial turning point in American history; the year 1968. And the best part is, it's sure to be educational, enlightening, and it is defin ... More >>

Michele Bachmann and Barack Obama are prayer buddies

Pete Souza/White HouseObama signs the National Day of Prayer proclamation​Last week, U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb ruled that the federal law designating a National Day of Prayer was unconstitutional. And now we have President Barack Obama and Rep. Michele Bachmann -- gasp -- joining si ... More >>

Bachmann signs her health care independence declaration

At a press conference, she signs a poster board printed in a way made to mimic the Declaration of Independence.

Will Bachmann smack Robertson's devil-worshipping Haitians comments?

She may not have time, between rants about the usual radical-leftist-takeover jabbering, but it sure would be refreshing, wouldn't it?

Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World

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Dia de los Muertos Celebracíon

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99th Birthday Celebration

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Juneteenth Festival

She may not have time, between rants about the usual radical-leftist-takeover jabbering, but it sure would be refreshing, wouldn't it?

RetroRama

She may not have time, between rants about the usual radical-leftist-takeover jabbering, but it sure would be refreshing, wouldn't it?

Clive Murphy: Almost Nothing

She may not have time, between rants about the usual radical-leftist-takeover jabbering, but it sure would be refreshing, wouldn't it?

Obama Inaugural Celebration: One Nation: A New Birth of Freedom

She may not have time, between rants about the usual radical-leftist-takeover jabbering, but it sure would be refreshing, wouldn't it?

Juneteenth Festival

She may not have time, between rants about the usual radical-leftist-takeover jabbering, but it sure would be refreshing, wouldn't it?

Bud, Not Buddy

She may not have time, between rants about the usual radical-leftist-takeover jabbering, but it sure would be refreshing, wouldn't it?

Of Mice and Men

She may not have time, between rants about the usual radical-leftist-takeover jabbering, but it sure would be refreshing, wouldn't it?

Was Dred Scott Decided Correctly? Rethinking slavery, the constitution and the coming of the Civil War

She may not have time, between rants about the usual radical-leftist-takeover jabbering, but it sure would be refreshing, wouldn't it?

The spirit (and rhythm) of 1776

Celebrate July 4 with a crooning John Adams!

Happy 4th of July

Celebrate July 4 with a crooning John Adams!

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Celebrate July 4 with a crooning John Adams!

Buried History

Minneapolis's past lies forgotten at the Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery

Purple Mountain Majesties

"American Sublime" looks at the spacious skies and gathering storms of the beautiful landscape painting

Rainy Days and Mondays

The Great Depression are like the weather

Rebirth of a Nation

Director David Gordon Green reconsiders the South's constitution in George Washington

Race for Last

In One Drop of Blood,writer Scott L. Malcomson examines the destructive legacy of racial designations

Once Upon a Time in the West

Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, Jack Crabb, returns to the saddle and the great legends of the frontier

The Stray's the Thing

Take a Sad Song and Make It Better: Karl Baker Olson in the Children's Theatre Company's Peter Pan.

Patriot Games

Friendly Fire: KTCA's Liberty! shoots for a simple, affirming version of the American Revolution.

Sir Duke

Affirmative Action: Director Bill Duke on the set of Hoodlum.

Babes in Armies

Affirmative Action: Director Bill Duke on the set of Hoodlum.