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Throughout the 1840s and 50s, Professor Jonathan Baldwin Turner of Illinois College championed the idea of agricultural colleges. Illinois Senator Lyman…
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During the Spanish-American War, the first battle involving Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders took place on June 24, 1898. Author Stephen Crane said…
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The final months of World War I collided with the terrible flu pandemic of 1918. The war facilitated the global spread of the virus, and many service…
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Bismarck is home to a house inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The beige brick house built in 1963 and 1964 is of the Usonian design. These…
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This week in 1910, the Fargo Forum and Daily Republican newspaper revealed an interesting potpourri of life in the Red River Valley. At the Fargo Opera…
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Today we continue our series on National Historic Preservation Month with a story on The Walla Theater in Walhalla, North Dakota. It was built in the…
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With the construction of the railroad, towns blossomed every few miles along the tracks, and each was confident that it would soon grow from a village to…
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Today there are a growing number of trends and diets that are supposed to help Americans, especially children, get healthier. From avoiding carbs to…
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May is National Historic Preservation Month, and today we hear about The Froeschle house in Bismarck. As veterans in the post-World War II era faced a…
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What began as a case of smallpox in a family near Olga, North Dakota, became an “alarming” epidemic that spread to the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation…
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May is National Historic Preservation Month. Today, we have more about Grand Forks schools added to the National Register of Historic Places. The need for…
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On May 19, 1882, the Bismarck Tribune wrote: This was in the aftermath of a massive migration of Black refugees into Kansas in 1879. They were called…