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Remembering New Orleans 2005, post-flood, clearing up some of the misconceptions thereof, bringing attention to the effects of climate change and t...
- Added: Aug 30, 2024
- Length: 58:00
On her birthday, a Sonnet Sequence "The Rage of the World" .
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 16, 2024
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 1
July is Disability Pride Month, which commemorates the July 26, 1990 anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In honor of the anniversar...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KGLP, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN
- Added: Jul 08, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
If you remember your junior high history lessons, you know that the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, famously declaring that...
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- Added: Jun 27, 2024
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
Back in the day Mom stayed home with kids, housework, and runny noses. Dad went to work, plopped down in the evening with the newspaper or TV and d...
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- Added: Jun 06, 2024
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
Official history says the first Memorial Day celebration was held in Arlington National Cemetery on May 30, 1868, where Union and Confederate soldi...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Most people think Mother's Day is just a day for mom to get gifts and thanks. But it has a far more serious and important origin and history.
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- Added: Apr 27, 2024
- Length: 03:01
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On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall"
(submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...
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- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: 01:03
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Christmas traditions around the world have different origins and different meanings -- not all Santa and elves, sometimes funny, many surprising.
- Added: Dec 19, 2023
- Length: 03:00
On September 28, 1905 Einstein's paper on the special theory of relativity was published in Annalen der Physik. A Poetic version, "Einstein's So...
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- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 01:23
- Purchases: 1
The United Nations designates October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, promoting empowerment and rights of girls to safe, educated, ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 03:00
On today’s show, we remember Mathew Shepard - a gay University of Wyoming student murdered 25 years ago this month.
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 45:11
Labor Day has been a national holiday since 1894, when President Grover Cleveland signed the law making the first Monday in September a day off for...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 03:00
August is the month when we mark Women's Equality Day, when the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote passed in 1920. But we're still behi...
- Added: Aug 23, 2023
- Length: 02:30
Recollections of what brought people joy when they were 18. Composed in an Exquisite Corpse style. Produced in celebration of the 18th birthday of ...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 08:14
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited pay discrimination against women and minorities was passed August 1964. Some thought it was a joke -- looks...
- Added: Jul 27, 2023
- Length: 03:00
June is Pride Month, and June 28th is Pride Day, marking the unofficial beginning of "Gay Liberation" in 1969 with the Stonewall riots in New York...
- Added: Jun 20, 2023
- Length: 03:00
Memorial Day is when we honor those who died while serving in the armed forces. It dates from 1866, when women decorated graves from both sides of ...
- Added: May 25, 2023
- Length: 06:00
March 14 is date this year when U.S. working women finally reach the amount men earned by the end of last year. And that’s only when all women are...
- Added: Mar 04, 2023
- Length: 03:01
What has she learned along the way?
- Added: May 27, 2022
- Length: 04:10
In this episode, NPR’s Chief Economics Correspondent Scott Horsley talks with Jeffrey Garten, former Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton Admi...
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- Added: Aug 18, 2021
- Length: 59:00
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One of the original 13 Freedom Riders, what Charles Person faced during the Civil Rights Movement was far worse than his time as a Marine in Vietnam.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:26:58
Only 11 years old on Bloody Sunday, JoAnne faced the charging horses and the swinging batons of the state troopers.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:06:54
Freedom Rider, Dave Dennis, never thought about getting involved in the Civil Rights Movement but he did want a date with a pretty young lady.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:31:59
Her mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. The pretty white southern woman who defied Jim Crow and fought for civil ri...
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:23:34