June 7, 2013 - Best-selling writer Dennis Lehane, speaking in Hopkins, Minnesota as part of Hennepin County Library's Pen Pals Author Lecture Series. Three of his books have been made into Hollywood movies. Lehane says he writes fiction because he always loved to read and he comes from a long line of Boston Irish storytellers.
July 3, 2013 - On the 150th anniversary of the Civil War battle at Gettysburg, Richard Moe speaks to a sold-out Minnesota Historical Society event about his book, "The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers." Guest: Richard Moe: President emeritus, National Trust for Historic Preservation. Former chief of staff to Vice President Walter Mondale. Author of "The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers." Forthcoming book about FDR's 1940 presidential election.
July 10, 2014 - An MPR News Presents program held at Westminster Townhall Forum with former Vice President Walter Mondale.
July 14, 2014 - MPR Special Report presents an MPR News Investigation “Betrayed by Silence: A radio documentary,” which looks at clergy abuse, cover-up, and crisis in the Twin Cities Catholic Church as three archbishops hid the truth.
September 10, 2014 - Midday presents an American RadioWorks documentary titled “Greater Expectations: The Challenge of the Common Core,” which looks at how the United States is in the midst of a huge education reform. The Common Core State Standards are a new set of expectations for what students should learn each year in school.
December 26, 2014 - MPR's Cathy Wurzer hosts humorist and story-teller Kevin Kling and Matthew Sanford of Mind-Body Solutions on stage at the University of St. Thomas December 9, 2014 for a program about the healing power of storytelling.
February 11, 2015 - Minnesota author Leif Enger gave the 2015 Heginbotham Literary Lecture Feb. 6th at Concordia University in St. Paul.His best-selling debut novel, "Peace Like a River" was named one of Time magazine's top five books of the year in 2001. Enger was a reporter at Minnesota Public Radio for 20 years.
April 14, 2015 - Today marks the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. And this year is also the sesquicentennial of the end of the Civil War, which raged from 1861 to '65. Some 24-thousand Minnesotans were soldiers in the Civil War- a war that profoundly changed the nation and the state.
April 15, 2015 - A look back at how Minnesotans experienced the war and its aftermath through stories and song. "Civil War Homecoming" was presented at the Fitzgerald Theater to mark the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War.
April 15, 2015 - Today marks the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. And this year is also the sesquicentennial of the end of the Civil War, which raged from 1861 to '65. Some 24-thousand Minnesotans were soldiers in the Civil War- a war that profoundly changed the nation and the state.