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"The truth behind the legend from the voices of the Lakota.
The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, or "Custer's last stand," as it is also known, ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 06:40:27
New Mexico-based Hampton Sides’ newest book is "On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle.” Based on ne...
- Added: Nov 17, 2018
- Length: 09:55
Pulitzer Prize-winning Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times, is one of America’s best known and most award-winning biogra...
- Added: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 09:20
This episode of A New York Minute In History explores the Women’s Rights Movement from the Seneca Falls Convention in Central New York in 1848 to e...
Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WYAP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUAF Public Radio, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Oct 24, 2018
- Length: 59:29
- Purchases: 5
"America's Ghost Storyteller", Diane Ladley, reveals actual, untouched recordings of mysterious paranormal activity experienced by guests of her ha...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio
- Added: Oct 08, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Most of us are familiar with the Nazi concentration camp confession, “First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
2018 National Heritage Fellow altarista Ofelia Esparza explains the true meaning of The Day of the Dead.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Oct 02, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Delia Owens, the co-author of several nonfiction books on African research and wildlife, has penned her debut novel, “Where the Crawdads Sing.”
Thi...
- Added: Sep 27, 2018
- Length: 09:50
Join us as we wrap up our ongoing series devoted to Bluesville Records. This time we’re in the Windy City of Chicago, as we enjoy vintage classics ...
- Added: Sep 23, 2018
- Length: 01:58:59
Most of us have a basic understanding of events surrounding the Vietnam War. That understanding, however, is usually vague, and incomplete. Especia...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 14, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in ...
- Added: Sep 11, 2018
- Length: 26:43
This time, we profile guitarists Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas, whose 1930 recordings for Paramount baffled researchers for nearly a century.
- Added: Sep 01, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile St. Louis guitarist Hi Henry Brown, who made a handful of remarkable sides for Vocalion in March 1932, and then disappeared.
- Added: Sep 01, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile the March 1932 recording sessions held by Vocalion in New York City, as the nation was in the grips of the Great Depression.
- Added: Aug 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Rocket 88,” by Jackie Brenston — widely considered to be one of the archetypal records of rock ‘n’ roll.
- Added: Aug 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Although American Indians in Virginia now enjoy both state and federal recognition--that came fairly recently. For many years American Indians didn...
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 27:52
This time, we profile “Baby Scratch My Back” by Slim Harpo — the only number one hit on the Excello label during its 23 year run.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Key to the Highway” — one of the enduring classics of the blues, first recorded by pianist Charlie Segar in 1940.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
Filmmaker John Heminway, author of "In Full Flight. A Story of Africa and Atonement," describes both the good and the bad in the life of Dr. Anne S...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 09:58
Brantley Hargrove is the author of "The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras.” It’s a true story of a Denveri...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 09:56
Nature writer Craig Childs is the author of Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America. It’s a travelogue of places and people, just like us...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 09:56
This time, we profile Stick McGhee’s 1949 anthem to good times and cheap booze — a big hit that saved a fledgling Atlantic Records from bankruptcy.
- Added: Aug 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
It all started with the red wolves who now live, for the most part, in eastern North Carolina at Alligator River. These wolves had once numbered in...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 24:33
This time, we profile B.B. King, who hit the number one spot on the Billboard R&B charts with “Three O’Clock Blues,” this week in 1952.
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Europe is in crisis. The continent we have known since the end of World War II is quickly changing.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 15, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
