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In the 1970s and 1980s, feminists redefined what it meant to be a woman in the United States. These activists didn’t always agree on how to reach t...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 46:02
Minnesota was the first state to take Big Tobacco to trial in the 1990s. Minnesota was also the first state to take the vaping company Juul to tria...
- Added: Mar 14, 2024
- Length: 28:53
The Covid shut down occurred almost four years ago to the day. This piece includes On the Front Lines, with a guy by the name of Leigh Carter, a nu...
- Added: Feb 27, 2024
- Length: 23:28
Explore the loving journey of Carol Burnett, a story of resilience, heart, and the transformative power of laughter.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 16:43
Love triumphs, even through the Civil War, and the story of a union within the Union - the profound love of Ulysses and Julia Grant
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 15:10
John and Annie Glenn's life story is one small step for a man and one giant leap for love!
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 14:53
A Nightmares to Fairy Tales love story with shock rocker Alice Cooper and his wife of 48 years, dancer Sheryl Goddard Cooper.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 16:48
The untold and surprising behind-the-scenes history of Walt Disney's Lady and The Tramp.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 18:46
- Purchases: 1
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 25:23
This week we encounter the supernatural with Beth and Chris Houlihan.
- Added: Oct 12, 2023
- Length: 26:58
Our guest today, Smithsonian Associate Kevin Dennehy, is someone who can guide us through a journey to Normandy like no other. Smithsonian Associat...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Oct 09, 2023
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 1
Limestone work used to be quite dangerous. Joyce Jeffries remembers workers, including her grandfather, dying or getting injured. It’s gotten safer...
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 51:59
The role of women, particularly Indigenous women, during the legendary fur trade in Minnesota is often overlooked. KFAI contributor Joe Friedrichs ...
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 21:58
There’s a tiny town just north of Minneapolis that is entirely surrounded by Columbia Heights. It's called Hilltop. In a way, Hilltop was forced in...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 07:56
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 26:48
The Minneapolis Humane Society formed in the late 1800s to protect animals — and even children — who could not speak for themselves. The early year...
- Added: Mar 16, 2023
- Length: 25:16
In the late 1880s, a young journalist named Eva Valesh went undercover in Minneapolis to report on the lives of working women for the St. Paul Glo...
- Added: Feb 16, 2023
- Length: 18:19
From where we stood, in every direction, as far as the eye could see, there were people holding placards above their heads, all of them moving, som...
- Added: Jan 23, 2023
- Length: 25:44
Escape with us to a simpler place and time. Before COVID, before monkeypox, before traveling got so fraught. To a town promoters claimed then was e...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Two stories that revisit the past.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 50:30
- Purchases: 1
At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 14:06
Since the first rail line was completed in Minnesota in 1862, the railroad has had a storied existence in the state. Fire is part of that story. KF...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Apr 25, 2021
- Length: 07:09
- Purchases: 1
This spring marks the 80th anniversary of the 1941 blizzard that killed dozens of people in Minnesota and North Dakota. The region has a reputation...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Apr 17, 2021
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 2
While New York City reopens, Harlem musicians continue one of jazz's most revered traditions at the historic Minton's Playhouse.
- Added: Apr 16, 2021
- Length: 04:20