Spotlight On
MNopedia articles are assigned to at least one of nineteen broad topics, like labor, politics, architecture, and education. To help readers find articles on more specific themes, we group them together within the following topical spotlights:
Activism
African American Arts and Culture
Burial Sites
Cities of Greater Minnesota
Civil War
Companies
Conservation
Court Cases
Crime in the 1920s and 1930s
Dakota
Dakota and Ojibwe History After 1900
Disability History
Elections and Politicians
Epidemics and Public Health
Extreme Weather and Natural Disasters
Farming
Food
Fur Trade
Immigrants and Refugees
Indigenous Women and Women of Color
Inventions
Iron Range
Jewish Community Organizations
LGBTQIA+
Lake Superior (Gichigami)
Landmarks
Latinos and Chicanos
Law Enforcement
Logging
Milling
Mining
Mississippi River (Wakpa Tanka; Gichi-ziibiwininiw
Monuments and Memorials
Music
Native Heritage Month
Natural Wonders
Newspapers and Magazines
Norwegians
Ojibwe
Parks and Reserves
People of Color in Greater Minnesota
Performing Arts
Places of Worship
Racism
Railroads (in memory of Aaron Hanson
Rural Communities
Schools
Somalis
South and East Asians
Southeast Asians
Strikes
Suffrage
Swedes
Theater and Dance
US‒Dakota War of 1862
Veterans
Visual Artists
Women: Communities, Arts, and Social Change
World War I
World War II
Writers
