Featured Stories: 14
Stories
What is Feminism?
It is fitting to begin a tour about the struggle for women's rights at the Mary Tyler Moore statue. Moore was both a real actress (1936-2017) and the title character in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a popular sitcom set in Minneapolis that ran…
Working Women and the Suffrage Movement
Minneapolis was a city of industry. Logging, garment making, and flour milling were all prominent industries in the growing city. Thanks to river boats and trains, new transit routes linked the region to the rest of the country. Supported by this…
Victory Memorial Drive
World War I was a particularly significant experience for Hennepin County residents. Over the course of the United States’ eighteen month military involvement overseas, 568 veterans and nurses were killed in action. Shortly after the November 11…
Augsburg University
In 1871, Norwegian immigrant Reverend August Weenaas and a small group of his students moved to Cedar-Riverside from Marshall, Wisconsin. They were in search of a permanent home for Augsburg Seminary, which included both high school and college…