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Since statehood, Minnesota workers have joined together to improve and protect their livelihoods, rights, and voices in the workplace.

Yes. Beginning in 1940, a group of Minneapolis businessmen created the Aquatennial, a civic festival and parade, to “improve Minneapolis’s reputation nationally” following labor strikes in the 1930s.

Minnesota is one of just a handful of states that does not charge sales tax on clothing — a bit of tax policy thats so well known that it attracts tourists.

Jeremy Brecher's short history of the militant and successful strike of truck drivers in Minneapolis in 1934, in which strikers beat police off the streets.

A history of the 1934 strike of Teamsters in Minneapolis and the organising of workers of trucking companies across the city prior to it.

Ernest Lundeens long career in Minnesota politics culminated in a fight to stay out of World War II — and came to a tragic conclusion.

The US Supreme Court has made many sweeping, landmark decisions. Here's a primer on 46 of the most important ones, and how they changed American life.

Balancing that budget loss would require enormous spending cuts, increases in other taxes, or both.

The 1930’s generated a mass movement against chain stores — such as the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company — that used their power to bully suppliers and undercut competitors, just like Walmart and Amazon today. 

Former New Garden Theater changed its address from one street to another without moving.