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Hoosier: What's In a Name?
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Hosts Doug Storm and Trish Kerle' are joined by historian Jim Madison to discuss the Hoosier through history. Madison has just published a new book...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:01:02
700 Fathoms under the Sea
From: David Schulman
Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel
Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
Place + Memory: Remembering Dreamland
From: Jesse Dukes
Caption: The high dive at Dreamland., Credit: Courtesy Dr. Reginal Shareef.
Memories of an African-American swimming pool and dance club in the Jim Crow south.

Bought by KALW and WABE


  • Added: Jun 16, 2014
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 2
Ski Champion's Invention Transformed The Sport
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Hjalmar Hvam was a champion ski jumper., Credit: courtesy of the Oregon Historical Society
A Norwegian immigrant in Oregon invented the first quick-release ski binding, which made skiing safer and more appealing.

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 16:51
  • Purchases: 2
The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
Caption: Forrest Carter
Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 15:54
  • Purchases: 1
Cass Lake Times Articles: Tree Cutting & Illegal Squatters
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
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Elaine talks about newspaper articles with emphasis on tree cutting.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
Shaynowishkung Assimilation Era
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
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Elaine talks about the assimilation era.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:33
  • Purchases: 1
Shaynowishkung II Reservation & Treaty Making Era
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
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Elaine talks about the reservation and treaty making era.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:28
  • Purchases: 1
Women Stories: Polygamy and the Beginning of the Cradle Board
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
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Elaine talks about women's stories.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 1
Women Stories: Dawn Woman Plural Marriages
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
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Elaine talks about women's stories,

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 12:27
  • Purchases: 1
Women Stories: Bear Woman and Names
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
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Elaine talks about women's stories.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 12:01
  • Purchases: 1
News Article: Beating of 10 Year Old Harry White at Onigum Boarding School
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
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Elaine tells us about a newspaper article describing a boy being beaten at a boarding school.

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 12:43
Love of Children Bizuswah
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
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Elaine talks about love of children Bizuswah.

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 10:28
Things That Broke Up Our Families; Boarding Schools, Social Services
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
Caption: Elaine Fleming
Elaine tells us about how boarding schools and social services broke up our families.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 1
Healing Walks and Community Action, Part 2
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
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Elaine talks about healing walks and community action.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 1
Healing Walks and Community Action, Part 1
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
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Elaine talks about healing walks and community action.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 1
Harlem In Revolt - Part #3 (Malcolm X unedited interview)
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X (1964), Credit: Associate Press
Malcolm X 1963: The uncut interview.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:09:59
Harlem In Revolt - Part #2
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X 1964, Credit: Associate Press
This is the second hour of the documentary 'Harlem In Revolt.' It was made by a young writer called Austin Clarke and looked at the state of Harlem...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Harlem In Revolt - Part #1
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X 1964, Credit: Associate Press
A little more than fifty years ago, 1963, was a time of great upheaval in the United States. The fight for civil rights was in full force with peop...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
CRACK: The Drug That Consumed the Nation's Capital
From: Kellen Quigley
Caption: Mayor Marion Barry
For years, powdered cocaine was D.C.'s drug of choice, but when crack hit the streets in the eighties, the city was afflicted by levels of addictio...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 51:30
Old Sturbridge Village
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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At Old Sturbridge Village, a rotating cast of men and women don period clothes while performing 19th century roles for the public. Emily Kwong take...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Thomas Alva Edison
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Look around your daily life.  There's a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere.

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2014
  • Length: 23:26
  • Purchases: 7
The Fairfax Stone and West Virginia v. Maryland
From: Traveling 219
Caption: Map showing Maryland's claim to West Virginian land.
The historic landmark known as the Fairfax Stone was reportedly placed in 1746 to mark what would become part of the border between Maryland and Vi...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 06:44
Pearl Curran - "Ghost"-writer
From: Hold That Thought
Series: People, Places, and Ideas to Explore
Caption: Illustration of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth from the American Weekly, ca. 1940
Professor Daniel Shea shares the story of Pearl Curran, who, beginning in 1913, used a Ouija board to transcribe novels, plays, essays, and poetry ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
Teachings From Turtle Island - Hour Three
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
Caption: Teachings From Turtle Island
This is the third installment of Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People. Teachings From Turtle Island is a series of ten progr...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 56:48
  • Purchases: 4

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