It’s About Time

Jessica Intermill & Lib Loeb (BugNip Press 2026)

Bdote

Scroll right to view images of Bdote over time

American Progress

John Gast, American Progress, 1873, oil on canvas, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-09855.

General James Wilkinson

First Lieutenant Zebulon Pike

Charles Willson Peale, Zebulon Montgomery Pike, 1808, painting, Smithsonian, IAP 46020262.

Bishop Henry B. Whipple

J. Russell & Sons, Henry B. Whipple, c. 1860, photoprint, Minnesota Historical Society, AV2002.169.450.

Public Execution

John C. Wise, Execution of the Thirty Eight Sioux Indians At Mankato Minnesota December 26, 1862, 1883, color lithograph, private collection, accessed Aug. 4, 2026.

Minneapolis

Maps show the city segregate over time

Highway “Improvement”

Road projects paved segregation with depressed property values

Marguerite Mills, “Freeways Minneapolis Black Population,” Mapping Prejudice Project, Mapping Prejudice, accessed Aug. 11, 2026.

Minneapolis Star Tribune Company, Looking north on Fourth Avenue S. at Twenty-fourth Street, All the buildings at right have been replaced by I-35W,” 1850, photonegative, Minnesota Historical Society, MH5.9 MP2.2 p239. This intersection lies within the area coded D6 in the redlining map.

Jessica Intermill, “Area D6 looking north on Fourth Avenue S. at Twenty-fourth Street 76 Years Later,” 2026, photograph, author’s collection.