May 25, 1992 - Excerpts from "We Had to be Strong," a documentary about women's experiences in the military. Includes various interviews and commentary.
June 5, 1992 - MPR’s Kitty Eisle interviews Howard Sivertson, a Grand Marais artist and author of "Once Upon an Isle: The Story of Fishing Families on Isle Royale." Sivertson details the past of Isle Royale fishermen.
June 22, 1992 - A Midday special broadcast from the newest Minnesota Public Radio news and information station, KCCD 90.3 FM in Moorhead, Minnesota. During program, MPR’s Dan Olson completes interviews and a local tour.
June 22, 1992 - Verlyn Anderson, director of the Concordia College Library and professor of Scandinavian Studies and History; and Hiram Drache, writer and professor of History at Concordia College-Moorhead, discuss the institution’s unique status as it celebrates 100 years.
June 22, 1992 - A collection of MPR staff reading pieces from Land in Her Own Name: Women As Homesteaders in North Dakota by H. Elaine Lindgren. The book recounts women's fascinating accounts from rural life…such as locating a claim, erecting a shelter, and living on the prairie in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
July 15, 1992 - MPR’s Mike Edgerly interviews historian Steven M. Gillon, author of The Democrats' Dilemma. Book presents the Democratic party through the lens of Walter Mondale's political career.
July 18, 1992 - Local historian Karal Ann Marling reviews Truman, a biography by David McCullough.
August 11, 1992 - MPR’s Mike Edgerly interviews Baxter Clarence Hall, Jr. and Clyde Thornton Wood about travels along the Mississippi River. The two wrote the book Big Muddy: Down the Mississippi Through America's Heartland, capturing environmental elements, the past, and the people along the river’s shores.
August 27, 1992 - Betty Fussell, author of The Story of Corn, explains the history, mythology, and cultivation of the crop. It is a plant that formed the basis for much of the civilization in the Western Hemisphere.
October 12, 1992 - Historian and author Kathy Pelta discusses her book, Discovering Christopher Columbus: How History Is Invented, which takes a look at the bias that created a false history studied in U.S. classrooms for many decades.