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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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Today marks the anniversary of one of the most memorable basketball games in North Dakota history. It took place in the Bismarck Civic Center as the…
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Norval Baptie was born on this date in 1879. He is enshrined in Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and is in the Ice Skating Hall of Fame. His career influenced… -
The Cannonball River got its name from the stones found in its waters and along its banks that are so round and smooth that they “greatly resemble cannon…
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On this date in 1901, North Dakotans learned that a large group was interested in relocating to the state. A real estate firm in Grand Forks had received…
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More than a century ago, rabies scares left authorities with few options. So-called “mad dogs” were to blame, and essentially all that could be done was…
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A silk crisis came to America in the summer of 1941. That was the time when Japanese military-forces took total control over French Indochina, and the…
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Lawrence Welk was born on this date in 1903. He grew up in a sod house near Strasburg in south-central North Dakota. His first clear memory was of…
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One of the deadliest foodborne epidemics in North Dakota killed 13 people, 12 of them in mere days, after a dinner party in 1931 in Grafton. Seventeen…
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On this date in 1909 North Dakotans learned of a clever plan that Deputy Sheriff Brown used to capture a fugitive. Joseph Schuber was charged with…
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On this date in 1917, North Dakotans learned that golden eagles were sighted in the Sheyenne Valley. First noticed in 1915, the eagle population was…
