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Maathai worked to establish what came to be called the Green Belt Movement to combat desertification, deforestation, water crisis, and rural hunger...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:58
In 2011, when Tawakkol Karman became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ever.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:48
Shirley Muldowney was the first person to win two and then three National Hot Rod Association Top Fuel dragster championships.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:19
in 1790 the Yankees fully intended to turn this "New World" into their own nation. The Native Americans, on the other hand, indigenous to the conti...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:36
At nearly thirty years of age, she heard the call to leave her family behind and take her adventurous spirit on the road to Japan, where she joined...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 01:56
Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
Mai threw a Pakistani tribal council and the men who raped her an unexpected curve. Rather than kill herself, she sued the rapists in a court of law.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:16
During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:22
What does a woman do when her husband and four children all die of yellow fever and her dressmaking workshop burns to the ground? She becomes an in...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:14
When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:04
By the time she'd found a small school that would accept her in the Montmarte section of Paris, it was apparent to anyone who would listen that Mic...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:35
And at twenty-eight years of age, having beaten every challenge life threw her, O'Neil climbed into the seat of a hydrogen peroxide powered rocket ...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:16
In 1993, Julie Krone became the first woman to win the Belmont Stakes.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:26
Jennie Hodgers took the name Albert Cashier, put on a pair of pants and joined the Union army.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:01
Jane Goodwin Austin became known as “Calamity Jane,” with the Mexican government placing a $1000 bounty on her head.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 01:46
After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
Dolores Huerta left her teaching job as a young woman to commit herself to working in the struggle for equal rights
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:14
A profile of Anne Hutchinson - a maverick spiritual leader in Massachusetts during the early 1600's.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:08
Zora was one of the shining lights of the Harlem Renaissance as a writer of novels, short stories, essays, articles, plays, folklore collections, a...
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 02:21
- Added: May 23, 2008
- Length: 01:19:58
The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In the last progr...
- Added: Dec 10, 2007
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
5 generations share essays on Race from This I Believe archive
- Added: Nov 10, 2007
- Length: 24:40
3 generations discussing how journalism has developed
- Added: Sep 07, 2007
- Length: 59:59
Never-before released interviews with the late Dick Latvala, the first official archivist for the Grateful Dead.
Bought by KZYX
- Added: May 03, 2007
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
My contributution to the third coast project Dollar Storeys
- Added: Apr 16, 2007
- Length: 02:30
