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Minnesotans found ways to cope and adapt to the Great Depression. They helped each other through mutual aid societies, cooperatives, labor unions, and political movements. They also sought entertainment and escape from their troubles at Minnesota’s numerous parks and lakes.

During World War II, the Japanese military launched thousands of Fu-Go balloon bombs across the Pacific Ocean, hoping to cause damage and panic in the United States.

How an academic from Wisconsin gave her life defying the Nazis.