'Voices of Minnesota': Historian Hy Berman, in his own words
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Hy Berman, Minnesota's foremost historian, died Sunday at the age of 90.
In this 1998 "Voices of Minnesota" interview, he told MPR's Gary Eichten that public education and the GI bill allowed a child of New York immigrants to become one of Minnesota's most fondly remembered professors and — best storytellers.
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