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10/19/2016: Murders in North Dakota aren’t as numerous as most states, but the early years weren’t pretty, as North Dakota’s first archivist described in a speech before a federal judge on this date in 2000.

10/20/2016: Today we share another Datebook chapter on the life of Professor E.F. Ladd of the North Dakota Agricultural College in Fargo. He was a major proponent of purity in consumer goods. The Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials at North Dakota State University grew out of Ladd’s interest in the purity and effectiveness of paint. He also promoted the wholesomeness of drugs and medications, but his primary interest was the wholesomeness of food.

10/26/2016: There is a familiar phrase that accompanies the change of seasons in modern times. It goes like this: “Spring Ahead; Fall Back.” In springtime we set our clocks ahead one hour, and when fall arrives, we move our clocks back one hour. This rhythm of the seasons and the movement of the clock’s hour-hand governs our time and somehow gives us another magical hour of daylight.

10/31/2016: The National Historic Preservation Act was created fifty years ago, and among the treasures preserved are many older buildings that come with interesting histories, superstitions, and… this being Halloween… things that go bump in the night.

11/3/2016: North Dakota traditionally votes red for Republican, but today’s general election in 1908 was a bit of a mixed bag.

11/7/2016: Raymond Wicklander is known around his hometown of Washburn as a retired implement dealer and buffalo rancher. Many do not know of his service during World War II as a Navy dive bomber pilot and recipient of the Navy Cross.

11/10/2016: They’re called “America’s best idea” by Ken Burns, and they receive tens of millions of visitors from around the world every year. America’s National Parks are truly an American treasure. Today marks a special date for a National Park close to our hearts. Previously known as Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park, it was on this date in 1978 that President Jimmy Carter signed a law designating this western North Dakota treasure as a National Park.

11/11/2016: World War I, which took place from 1914 to 1918, was the deadliest conflict the world had ever known. So, when the “Great War” ended, it brought jubilation.

12/27/2016: Cooperstown and Hope were once in the same county – Griggs – which was established by the Territorial Legislature in 1881. But that wasn’t to last.

1/4/2017: The Winchester Model 1873 repeating rifle was the first firearm to use the slogan “the gun that won the west.” But Sam Colt also claimed the title for his Peacemaker revolver.