Minnesota
190 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- German Minnesota: The Other Great Immigration
- Lake Itasca and the Source of the Mississippi
- Statehood and the Shape of a State
- The First Peoples: Dakota and Ojibwe at the Center of the Continent
- The Grange, the Farmers' Alliance, and the Farmer-Labor Tradition
- The Mesabi Range: Iron Ore and Steel
- The North Woods: Lakes, Silence, and the Land That Water Made
- The Scandinavians: How the North Woods Became New Norway and New Sweden
- The White Pine Era
- Voyageurs and the Fur Trade
- What Minnesota Made of Itself
- Wheat Country: From Homestead to Hard Red Spring
Near Duluth
- Alexander McDougall and the Whaleback Ships
- Bob Dylan Was Born Here
- Carlton: A County Seat That Had to Wait
- Clayton, Jackson, McGhie, The Lynchings of Nineteen Twenty
- Daniel Greysolon and the Naming of a City
- Duluth Union Depot: Seven Railroads Through One Door
- Endion Station: The Depot That Moved
- Enger Tower and Skyline Parkway
- Esko: Finnish Roots on the Road to Duluth
- Glensheen: The Congdon Mansion and Its Dark Chapter
- Lake Superior, The Cold Inland Sea
- Proctor: Iron Ore Capital of the Rails
- Proctor: Top of the Iron Mountain
- SS William A. Irvin: The Flagship of the Lakes
- The Aerial Lift Bridge
- The Anishinaabe and the Treaty of Eighteen Fifty-Four
- The Duluth Lynchings of 1920
- The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Danger of November
- The Grain Elevators and the World's Bread
- The Mesabi and the Ore Docks
- Thomson: The County Seat That Disappeared
Near Fargo
Near Grand Forks
Near International Falls
Near Minneapolis St Paul
- Bdote, Where the Waters Meet
- Columbia Heights
- Coon Rapids Dam
- Dunn House and the Ox Cart Trail
- Eastcliff: The University President's House on the Bluff
- First Dwelling in Minneapolis — The Pond Brothers
- Fort Snelling and the Dakota Winter
- Fort Snelling and the Scotts
- George Floyd: Nine Minutes and Twenty-Nine Seconds
- Halfway to the Pole
- Hmong Minnesota: After the Secret War
- Hubert Humphrey and the 1948 Civil Rights Speech
- Indian Mounds Park — Two Thousand Years Above the River
- James J. Hill and the Saint Paul Empire
- Kaposia: Little Crow's Village
- Malcolm Willey House
- Mall of America and the Invention of Retail as Destination
- Maple Grove, Minnesota
- Mary Tyler Moore and the City That Became a Character
- Osseo, Minnesota
- Philando Castile and the Pattern Before Floyd
- Prince and First Avenue
- Red Rock: The Dakota Sacred Boulder on the Mississippi
- Richard Keith Sorenson — Medal of Honor
- Rondo, and What Interstate Ninety-Four Erased
- Saint Paul Central High School
- Saint Paul Union Depot — Grand Terminal of the Empire Builder Era
- Somali Minneapolis: A City Within a City
- St. Anthony Falls and the Mill City
- St. Anthony Falls and the Mill That Exploded
- Swede Hollow
- The 1934 Teamsters Strike
- The Cathedral of Saint Paul
- The Finnish Pioneers of Minnesota
- The Foshay Tower, Wilbur Foshay, and the Crash
- The I-35W Bridge Collapse
- The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
- The Mississippi Gorge and the Chain of Lakes
- The Somali and Hmong Arrivals
- The Stone Arch Bridge
- The Twin Cities: Two Cities, One River
- The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862
- Washburn-Fair Oaks: Where the Milling Millions Lived
- Wayzata: Gateway to Lake Minnetonka
- West Saint Paul
Near Stillwater
- Before Stillwater: The Dakota, the Ojibwe, and the White Pine Treaty
- Birthplace of Minnesota: The Stillwater Convention of 1848
- Historic Main Street
- Sawdust City: Stillwater and the Lumber Boom
- Tamarack House: Joseph Brown and the Birth of a County
- The Joseph Wolf Brewery Caves
- The Saint Croix Boom Site and the Great Log Jams
- The Saint Croix Crossing
- The Sauntry Mansion and the Alhambra
- The Stillwater Lift Bridge
- The Territorial Prison and the Younger Brothers
- The Warden's House Museum
- The Washington County Historic Courthouse
Along the way
- Albany, Minnesota
- Albert Lea, Minnesota: The Town That Chose to Live Longer
- Albert Lea, Nineteen Fifty-Nine: When the Governor Called Martial Law
- Albertville, Minnesota
- Alexander Faribault: Fur Trader Who Founded a City
- Alexandria Carnegie Library
- Austin, Minnesota: George Hormel and the Pork Shoulder That Fed the World
- Barnesville, Minnesota
- Barnum, Minnesota
- Battle of Birch Coulee
- Battle of Redwood Ferry
- Beltrami and the Source of the Mississippi
- Bemidji: First City on the Mississippi
- Bobby Zimmerman, Hibbing, and the Name He Left Behind
- Brandon, Minnesota
- Chief Little Crow: The End of a War
- Chippewa National Forest: First East of the Mississippi, Anishinaabe Homeland
- Clearwater, Minnesota
- Crookston and the Red River Bonanza Farms
- Dassel and the Ergot Museum
- Ellendale, Minnesota
- Eveleth's First Building
- Faribault Woolen Mill: Warmth Through Every American War
- Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center
- Fillmore County: The Driftless Area
- Freeport, Minnesota
- Geneva, Minnesota
- Glencoe Fort: A Town That Armed Itself in the Dakota War
- Grand Mound and the Rainy River People
- Granite Falls: Yellow Medicine and the River That Named a War
- Gust Akerlund's Photograph of Small-Town Minnesota
- Hinckley: Born of Lumber, Consumed by Fire
- Jackson, Minnesota: What Inkpaduta Left Behind
- Lake Bemidji State Park
- LeDuc Historic Estate — Carpenter Gothic on the Mississippi
- Leech Lake and the Battle of Sugar Point
- Leech Lake, Battle of Sugar Point
- Mankato, Minnesota
- Martin County Courthouse: The Dome on the Lake
- Medford, Minnesota
- Minnesota Marine Art Museum
- Montevideo Station: The Milwaukee Road's Minnesota Terminus
- Montevideo: Named for Uruguay by a Civil War Veteran
- Moose Lake and the Great Fire of 1918
- Moose Lake: Agates, Glaciers, and Minnesota's Worst Disaster
- North Branch: Logging Town on the Sunrise River
- Ojibwe Treaty Rights: The Fish Wars of the 1980s
- Owatonna: The Jewel Box Town
- Owatonna's State Orphanage: Ten Thousand Children
- Pine City: Logs, Lakes, and the County Seat
- Plato, Minnesota: Named by a Greek Philosophy Fan
- Prince at Paisley Park
- Red Lake Nation: The Land That Was Never Ceded
- Red Wing — Dakota Homeland and Stoneware Capital
- Rothsay, Minnesota
- Rush City: Named for the Rushes
- Rutledge, Minnesota
- Saint John's Abbey: Benedictines and Breuer
- Sandstone: The Kettle River Quarry Town
- Sauk Centre, The Original Main Street
- Sigurd Olson and the Wilderness Idea
- Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home
- SPAM, Hormel, and the Strike That Failed
- St. Joseph, Minnesota
- Stacy, Minnesota
- Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota
- Sullivan's Jewel Box: The Bank That Saved an Architect
- The Battle of Sugar Point
- The Beaver Islands
- The Bois Forte Band and the Lake They Never Left
- The Boundary Waters: One Point One Million Acres of Silence
- The Canoe Country: Superior National Forest and the Portage Trail
- The Cutter Winona
- The GAR Hall at Litchfield
- The Palmer House, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street
- The Saint Paul Southern Electric: Minnesota's River Railway
- The Spam Museum: All Things Pork Shoulder
- The Thirty-Eight of Mankato
- The Twin Metals Fight: Copper, Nickel, and the Boundary Waters Watershed
- The Volstead House: Father of Prohibition's Forgotten Legacy
- The Water Highway: French-Canadian Voyageurs and the Continental Trade
- The Winter Saloon: Three Generations and One Long Prohibition
- Thief River Falls: Snowmobiles and Circuit Boards
- Voie de la Liberté Milestone
- Willow River, Minnesota
- Winona County, Minnesota
- Winona State University