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"If you look at Minnesotas political history, a lot of people call us the Maverick State just because we never were really Republican or Democrat," Brian Pease said.

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.

An article by Elizabeth Faue about the 1935 Strutwear strike in Minneapolis.

An article written on the 1934 strike in Minneapolis for the 'One Day in July' festival.

An article by Larry D. Engelmann about the 1933 Hormel strike, organized by the IWW-influenced Independent Union of All Workers (IUAW).

These days, statues are coming down and buildings and monuments are being re-named as leftists scour the historical record for evidence of nonconformity with todays conventional wisdom. Generally, I have little sympathy for this project, in part because I scoff at the idea that our forebears were less moral than we are. I do make exceptions, however: there is a statue of former Governor Floyd B. Olson on the grounds

Walter Mondale’s Visionary Liberalism Is Still Echoing Today He pushed for universal daycare and battled the filibuster. And yet he spent most of his presidential campaign pretending to be more of a centrist than he actually was. Evening Standard / Getty Images Walter Mondale, shortly after Jimmy Carter chose him as his running mate in the 1976 presidential election Minnesota’s Walter Mondale, who died Monday night at 93, was the embodiment of a strand of full-throated liberalism that def...

Family says former Vice President Walter Mondale has died at 93 Mondale made his biggest mark as the vice president who converted that office from a historical joke — Vice President John Nance Gardner famously described it as a job that wasn’t “worth a pitcher of warm spit” — to one of the vital centers in American government. Written By: Bill Salisbury / St. Paul Pioneer Press | 8:12 pm, Apr. 19, 2021 × Former Vice President Walter Mondale listens to speakers d...

Walter Mondale, who rose from small-town Minnesota to vice presidency, dies at 93 By Patrick Condon, Patrick Condon April 19, 2021 — 9:09pm Text size Copy shortlink: Walter F. Mondale, a preachers son from southern Minnesota who climbed to the pinnacle of U.S. politics as an influential senator, vice president and Democratic nominee for president, died on Monday. He was 93. Known as Fritz to family, friends and voters alike, Mondale ...