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Thank you for visiting the Archive Portal, a public depository of original audio dating back to MPR’s founding in 1967. It consists of MPR News and its related programs, APM Reports, The Current, Classical MPR, and music performances made in partnership with orchestras and artists from around the region. Provided below are informational sections regarding archive site and its contents.
For information on the history and mission of Archive, please visit The Archive Department
HOW-TO-NAVIGATE
The MPR Archive contains a mass of wide-ranging material. To assist in searching and locating specifics, below is a brief outline of tools available in exploring material within portal:
TOPICS: At top of main page, a dropdown menu allows user to focus searches on a certain topic
CONTRIBUTORS: Located below title of story are contributor name(s) present within that story. User can view other stories that contributor is within by clicking name link
COLLECTIONS: Located below title of story are topic and other collection links associated to subject. One can find other related material by clicking link (ex. – Politics, Civil Rights in Minnesota)
SEARCH: At top of main page, a “Search” field allows user to find a subject (Boundary Waters), date (ex: 2000-09-01), or program (Midday)
Some audio pages have transcription as additional reference.
PLEASE NOTE: Only content that has been cleared for public use or rebroadcast is posted to this site; if the license to use the content does not belong to Minnesota Public Radio, or it was broadcast as part of our national partnerships originally (such as NPR), it will not be part of this public archive. In cases where the content is not available. Information for making an inquiry can be found by clicking contact options. Most of the digital content that appeared on MPR News, Classical MPR, or The Current can be accessed or searched from those sites if the content is still available for streaming or viewing.
LANGUAGE
The Archive contains some content that may be harmful or difficult to view. Items across MPR’s history are preserved and made available to the public as a historical record. As a result, some of the materials presented here may reflect outdated, biased, offensive, and possibly violent views and opinions due to pervasive systemic intolerance. In addition, some interviews and recordings relate to violent, triggering, or graphic events which are preserved for their historical significance.
In curating material, our practice is to present audio as it aired and was published. When we find outdated or offensive content, we do our best to provide a written warning note disclaimer for listener/viewer, while keeping the original material intact without edits.
We acknowledge that we are often describing communities of which we are not a part, and many of these communities are historically marginalized and underrepresented in the archives. We recognize our responsibility to describe our collections and their creators respectfully and carefully. We also recognize that we may sometimes fail and are committed to a process of constant learning, reflection, and improvement.
If you discover harmful or offensive language in catalog records and metadata that is not noted as such, please contact us at archive@mpr.org. The Archive is committed to using inclusive, antiracist, non-derogatory language when creating catalog records and describing our collections. However, we acknowledge that some of our descriptions of the original material contain language that may be euphemistic, racist, homophobic, sexist, ableist or that demeans the humanity of the people we describe. We are dedicated to noting or correcting those records as we find them.
CONTACT
The Archive strives to provide a wide breadth of material. Please note that only content that has been cleared for public use or rebroadcast is posted to this site; if the license to use the content does not belong to Minnesota Public Radio or it was broadcast as part of our national partnerships originally (such as NPR), it will not be part of this public archive. In cases where the content is not available, see the option below to contact us for more information. There is also a general contact for other inquiries regarding the site or content. A member of the Archive department will reply in a timely manner.
Please note that most digital content that appeared on MPR News, Classical MPR, The Current, or Marketplace can be accessed or searched from those sites if the content is still available for streaming or viewing.
REQUEST TO REPUBLISH: If you would like to request use of our content for publications, broadcast, or educational purposes, please use republishing form located here or by clicking on “Contact” at top of screen to submit your request.
GENERAL INQUIRY: A request form is not necessary for general comments or questions regarding content or site. Please submit these to archive@mpr.org
FUNDING & SUPPORT
The Minnesota Legacy Amendment allows MPR to complete the important preservation of this historical material. Through the generosity of this, and other granting organizations, we continue the process of digitizing, preserving, and presenting thousands of stories recorded over the past 50+ years on MPR News, Classical MPR, The Current, and our affiliated programs. Our dedicated archive staff, funded in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment, focuses on content related to Minnesota’s cultural heritage, Minnesota's literary history, specific programming, and tape digitization requests by MPR News, APM services, and the public. For more information regarding Amendment, visit https://www.mpr.org/public/legacy-amendment-projects
Acknowledgement also goes out to the generous support from the following organizations:
Comer Science & Education Foundation