: For Students, Faculty, and Staff 
50th anniversary of the Public Broadcasting Act
Fifty years ago, on November 7, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the…
Rebecca ToovNovember 7, 2017
In A Vietnamese Kitchen
In this week’s episode of Look What We Found, titled “In A Vietnamese Kitchen,” the…
Rebecca ToovOctober 27, 2017
Look What We Found
This year for U of M Radio On Your Historic Dial we’re going on a…
Rebecca ToovSeptember 28, 2017
Hedley Donovan, alumnus, journalist
Hedley Donovan is the subject of this installment of "From the Archivist." Donovan, University of…
Rebecca ToovFebruary 24, 2017
Summer of 1946
Seventy years ago, in the summer of 1946, an epidemic of poliomyelitis was inflicted upon…
Rebecca ToovAugust 18, 2016
Reel to Reel
More than 11,000 reels of recorded audio are now preserved at the University Archives. These…
Rebecca ToovJune 24, 2016
Preserving your heart
February is American Heart Month, which brings awareness to heart disease, the leading cause of…
Rebecca ToovFebruary 25, 2016
Radio history at the U of M
On January 13, 1922, the University of Minnesota was granted a full license to broadcast…
Rebecca ToovJanuary 13, 2016
Nachtrieb’s Nuances
Leave it to an archivist to notice an unexplained detail in the current Andersen Library…
Rebecca ToovSeptember 18, 2015
Tricks & Treats: The Halloween Blackout of 1957 & The Transistorized Pacemaker
The University Archives is the repository of the C. Walton Lillehei papers, a collection of…
Rebecca ToovOctober 30, 2014