Minnesota Experience

For decades, Twin Cities PBS (TPT) has dived into the whitewater of bygone eras and emerged with insight about our shared past and values as Minnesotans. Tapping into TPT’s rich archive of historical stories and adding new ones to the fold, Minnesota Experience holds the mirror of history up to the modern moment as a force that can forever change who we are and who we want to be.

Last Episode
May 16th, 2021 Armed with Language
Minnesota was home to a little-known military intelligence school during WWII that trained Japanese Americans be to translators. Primarily recruited from concentration camps on the West Coast, these men and women, served while many of their families remained imprisoned. For their efforts it is said that they "shortened the Pacific War by two years and saved possibly a million American lives."
# Title Aired
1 Flour Power
2 Lost Twin Cities III
3 Cornerstones: A History of North Minneapolis
4 Fires of 1918
5 Lost Twin Cities 4
6 Glensheen and the Congdon Legacy
7 Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian
8 The People's Protectors
9 MN in the 70's
10 The Fabulous Ice Age
11 Hmong Pioneers: Honoring the First Wave
12 Restoring The People's House
13 Tales of the Road
14 Made in St. Paul
15 Martin Luther King in Minnesota
16 The Legendary Saint Paul Winter Carnival
17 North Star: Making Home
18 North Star: Making Change
19 Cass Gilbert: Standing the Test of Time
20 Jim Crow of the North
21 Gracious Spaces: Clarence H. Johnston
22 Women Outward Bound
23 The Minneapolis Sound
24 Minnesota's Deadliest Tornadoes & Fiercest Floods
25 A History of the Land
26 Great American Railroad Journeys: Minneapolis to St. Paul
27 Great American Railroad Journeys: Red Wing to Portage, WI
28 Minnesota Remembers Vietnam: America's Secret War
29 Out North - Part 1
30 Out North - Part 2
31 Iron Range: Minnesota Building America