Minnesota Lawyer

The risk that human error could usher in the apocalypse remains enormous.

U.S. Indian agent Lawrence Taliaferro, a bureaucrat who played a crucial role in the seizure of Native American land in the Upper Mississippi Valley in the 1830s, came to deplore the “rascality and frauds permitted by the treaty making power generally.”

A look at the progressive politics of Ignatius Donnelly, a larger-than-life Gilded Age politician who was half madman and half prophet

Joseph Lobdell suffered decades of legal persecution

The Red Wing, Minnesota, native became the United States' first female ambassador in 1949.

A protracted 1860s political battle culminated in the state enfranchising black men two years before the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment

Francis H. Shoemaker, an amoral self-promoter, ascended to power in an era of economic and political uncertainty.

Ann Bilansky executed in 1860 despite shaky murder case

Did Gov. Floyd Olson order a tabloid journalist murdered?

The state's founding was marred by a legislative caning and the spectacle of dueling constitutional conventions