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    August 17, 2017
    Curator Typhanie Schaffer and North Dakota State University professor Angela Smith put the finishing touches on a display case for the opening of The North Dakota Jewish Experience exhibit at Bonanzaville in West Fargo. David Samson / Forum News Service
    Exhibit featuring Jewish contributions to North Dakota comes to Bonanzaville
    WEST FARGO—As the rest of the country is grappling with how to understand racial divides after violence erupted at a neo-Nazi rally in...
    newsAugust 17, 2017 - 6:00am
    July 10, 2017
    The scope of input on whether to reopen Grand Mound, a Native American burial mound west of International Falls, to the public is expanding to include more input from Native Americans. (Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society)
    MN state director gathering Native American input on Grand Mound
    INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. — The scope of input is expanding on whether Grand Mound, a Native American burial site located west of International...
    newsJuly 10, 2017 - 8:30am
    June 25, 2017
    Marjorie Caldwell Hagen, seen in a photo from when she was in Arizona prisons from late 1992 to early 2004, serving time for arsons in Ajo, Ariz. Her attempts for earlier release on parole met with resistance and were denied. (Image via Arizona Department of Corrections)
    Marjorie Caldwell faced years of legal trouble after Duluth's Glensheen murders
    Trouble continued to follow Marjorie Caldwell after her 1979 trial and acquittal for murder conspiracy in the slayings of her mother and her...
    newsJune 25, 2017 - 6:00am
    One of the victims of the double killings at the Congdon mansion is removed while numerous officers continue to investigate the scene. (1977 file photo / Duluth News Tribune / Forum News Service)
    Trail of clues, legal twists kept Glensheen murder case going for years
    For authorities, the case that would become the notorious Glensheen murders began on a warm, muggy summer morning. It was just before 7 a.m....
    newsJune 25, 2017 - 6:00am
    June 22, 2017
    Annual meeting an opportunity to discuss direction of county historical society
    BEMIDJI—Members of the Beltrami County Historical Society will determine its direction for the coming year at its annual meeting Saturday....
    newsJune 22, 2017 - 5:46pm
    June 7, 2017
    Former President Theodore Roosevelt arrives for the laying of the cornerstone for a Carnegie Library at Fargo College, September 5, 1910. The campus was once located south of Island Park in Fargo. NDSU Archives, Fargo
    Fargo sets sights on new Teddy Roosevelt historical marker
    FARGO — Plans for a historical marker commemorating Teddy Roosevelt's Sept. 5, 1910, visit to the city are in the works, according to a...
    newsJune 7, 2017 - 5:38am
    April 30, 2017
    Sunday is the 50th anniversary of a storm that drowned four people -- three brothers went out onto the pier and were swept off the pier by the waves, and one of the three Coast Guard members who attempted to rescue them also drowned. Tom Mackay was a friend of Edgar Culbertson, the Coast Guard member who drowned, and sits by a plaque honoring him in Canal Park. (Clint Austin / Forum News Service)
    Lake Superior's 'frightful blow'
    DULUTH — Three Coast Guardsmen tethered themselves together to rescue three brothers who had made their way down the Duluth ship canal's...
    newsApril 30, 2017 - 6:00am
    March 4, 2017
    Anjanette Schussler, left, and Charles Rodgers of the Minnesota Historical Society talk about an album of historic photos, depicting the construction of the Minnesota State Capitol, which resides in the State Archives collection in St. Paul on Thursday, March 2, 2017. Scott Takushi / St. Paul Pioneer Press
    Found in a pile of garbage, a priceless piece of Minnesota Capitol history
    ST. PAUL — When Lloyd Jackson was dropping off some trash at Pig's Eye Landfill one day in the 1950s, he stumbled across an old photo album...
    sportsMarch 4, 2017 - 1:00am
    February 12, 2017
    Academy students at Red Lake Middle School and Red Lake High School students competed in their school History Day Competition on Jan. 25. Submitted photo.
    Red Lake students compete in History Day competition
    On Jan. 25, Academy students at Red Lake Middle School and Red Lake High School students competed in their school History Day Competition. Students...
    newsFebruary 12, 2017 - 9:00am
    December 15, 2016
    A committee has been meeting for the past year to discuss reopening to the public the Native American burial mound named Grand Mound. The site, located west of International Falls, has been closed to the public since 2007. (Minnesota Historical Society photo)
    Meetings on Grand Mound reopening continue
    INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn.—A group planning to reopen Grand Mound, a Native American burial mound located west of International Falls,...
    newsDecember 15, 2016 - 9:39pm
    Tom Garvey, property manager of the old Nopeming Sanitorium, describes the vandalism and general decay in the Nopeming boiler plant around him in January 2015. (File photo / Forum News Service)
    Former tuberculosis sanitarium in Duluth now open for tours
    The nonprofit group hoping to restore a former tuberculosis sanitarium just west of Duluth has turned to tours of the deteriorating facility...
    newsNovember 15, 2016 - 1:13pm
    September 14, 2016
    The wheel and rudder of the Antelope broke free from the rest of the ship when it sank in 1897, and now rest alongside the wreck on the bottom of Lake Superior. (Photo courtesy of Jerry Eliason, Ken Merryman and Kraig Smith)play button
    Remarkably preserved shipwreck 119 years ago located in Lake Superior
    DULUTH, Minn. — The aged Antelope may have been one of the most venerable vessels on the Great Lakes, but it was living up to its fleet-footed...
    newsSeptember 14, 2016 - 11:50pm
    June 27, 2016
    ‘Lost Towns’ presentation on July 9
    BEMIDJI -- The The Beltrami County Historical Society will host a "Minnesota's Lost Towns" presentation by Rhonda Fochs at 2 p.m. July 9 at the Beltrami County History Center, 130 Minnesota Ave. SW. Fochs, a Minnesota regional author and retired educator, will discuss “Minnesota’s...
    newsJune 27, 2016 - 7:35pm
    May 10, 2016
    CARNEGIE LIBRARY: Another step forward for Carnegie: Committee closes one grant process, prepares for another
    BEMIDJI -- The extensive effort to raise funds for restoring the Carnegie Library in Bemidji's downtown has hit another milestone. During a Tuesday...
    newsMay 10, 2016 - 5:25pm
    February 5, 2016
    GLENNIS MOON COLUMN: The Blackduck Area History and Art Center doors will soon open again
    It seems only yesterday that we were opening the door to the Blackduck Area History and Art Center and here we are again re-opening that same door ... at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13. This is the beginning of our 10th year and we will start our celebrating with a new art display in...
    opinion/columnsFebruary 5, 2016 - 10:39am
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