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7/14/2009: Before integrating Major League Baseball and creating the first players' pension fund, Baseball Commissioner Albert "Happy" Chandler was a young college kid playing ball on the northern plains.

7/20/2009: Great Northern Railway president Ralph Budd loved history. So, when he needed to enhance the profitability of the railroad in the early 1920s, he combined his personal and professional interests to come up with a winning plan: the Upper Missouri Historical Expedition.

7/23/2009: The 1942 Battle of Midway was a turning point in the war in the Pacific. The Japanese fleet had suffered a crushing blow, but they still had an ace up their sleeve: the secret aircraft carrier, Shinano.

7/24/2009: If you've been listening in lately, you'll likely recall the hard days of travel General Henry H. Sibley and his army put in throughout the summer of 1863 as they pursued the Dakota warriors, also traveling hard, believed to have been responsible for the raids in Minnesota a year earlier.

7/26/2009: With the recent sighting of a family of owls at the State Historical Society in Bismarck, the city has been slightly owl-crazy. However, the wise old birds have been seen in North Dakota for many years. One sighting resulted in a strange incident, occurring on this date in 1923.

7/27/2009: What would a dentist serving overseas likely do during wartime? If your answer involves teeth extractions, peddling toothpaste or flossing, you may be surprised.

7/31/2009: During the economically difficult times of the Great Depression, the city of Chicago ambitiously staged the Century of Progress Exhibition in 1933 to celebrate the city's centennial.

8/11/2009: On this date in 1907, the Minot Daily Reporter printed a surprising story about a vicious attack on the Dogden stagecoach line, comparable to some of the worst incidents of road rage today.

8/15/2009: It was on this date in 1863 that General Sibley, along with a US Army force over 3,000 strong, crossed Buffalo Creek in present-day west-central Cass County.

8/19/2009: On this date in 1874, reports of Lieutenant Colonel Custer’s Black Hills Expedition were pouring into Bismarck. The newspapers delighted in printing fantastic tales about what the explorers found in the Southern Dakota Territory.