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This time, we profile Windy City keyboard legend Little Johnny Jones, who was in the studio with Muddy Waters and Leroy Foster in 1949.
- Added: Apr 07, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, who recorded an iconic slice of down home blues, "That's All Right," this week in 1946.
- Added: Apr 04, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi guitarist Tommy Johnson, who cut one of the prophetic masterpieces of the blues, this week in 1928.
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Saunders King and Elder Utah Smith — two early pioneers of the electric guitar.
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 03:29
As tensions escalate between North Korea and the United States, Hawaii finds itself on the frontlines in preparing for a nuclear attack. Whether or...
- Added: Dec 07, 2017
- Length: 03:26
Florida is an ever-changing landscape. With little warning, what was once land, becomes water, and what was once water becomes land. Frequently. E...
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- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
When someone spends their time flattering their boss or superior, they’re known as a sycophant. It’s also called the “slime effect.” Although it wa...
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- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 03:56:19
From: Out of Bounds
Award-winning naturalist, poet & author discusses her most recent book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 29:00
From: Out of Bounds
Civil liberties attorney, educator, author of "Madison’s Music: On Reading the First Amendment"
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 28:00
Just as America is a nation of immigrants, Virginia is a commonwealth of immigrants. For the first time ever the state Department of Historic Res...
- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 08:45
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about fateful explorers in the Arctic.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:45
Hour One of the program "Ballad Singer" features 11 original interpretations of old ballads, most of them to be found in the Child Ballads collecti...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 54:38
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...
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- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
More books have been written about Bobby Kennedy than most public figures in our history.
Although he’s remembered as a fiery liberal, we easily ...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s been more than 240 years since the war of America’s independence began. Yet, the name Benedict Arnold still evokes any number of negative resp...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This is a series of quotations from women who were passionate about their politics, power and immortality. They sought justice, equality, knowledge...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 2
Before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, he had to announce the death of W.E.B. Du Bois. The crowd fell into tears.
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- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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As jazz emerged as the popular music of the 1920s, it was common to have the trumpet as the lead instrument, however, a few pioneering musicians wa...
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
A so-called spiritual medium, Clara Barton’s so-called spirit, and the man whose dedication swayed him to fall for an elaborate swindle.
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 07:20
In Virginia, there are eight Indian tribes, some several thousand people in all. Yet the United States doesn’t believe they exist. The seeds of thi...
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 27:39
Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was only a part of ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is baffling for most Americans. It’s understandable because it is so convoluted. How many of us h...
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
A bell tower without a carillon is like a throat without a voice box. Utterly mute. This story could be called the mystery of the missing bells and...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 27:33
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
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- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
