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One hundred years ago, the city of Norfolk, Virginia was the first Southern city in the US to screen the notoriously racist film Birth of a Nation....
- Added: Aug 21, 2015
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 2
Recorded in Havana, this Fresh Talk episode features controversial Cuban artist Tania Bruguera and her recent launch of a new initiative: the Hanna...
- Added: Jun 18, 2015
- Length: 09:31
2015 marks the 100th anniversary for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The museum is well known for its free admission. But it wasn't always that ...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 1
The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed, and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the ye...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 09:15
- Purchases: 1
San Francisco is America’s second most densely populated area, after Manhattan. And with new construction all over town, it’s going to get even den...
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 06:01
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
A team of proofreaders in Virginia has just wrapped up the three-year job of digitizing the papers of the Founding Fathers. They say ending the pro...
Bought by KENW, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 4
On the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we talk with a woman who lived through history.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 09, 2014
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
A mockumentary about an OJ Simpson/Othello mashup musical will be released on iTunes and will play one night in theaters nationwide--June 17, the 2...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
This year marks the 125th birthday of a San Francisco historic Landmark. Not City Hall, not the Golden Gate. The Bayview Opera House — San Francisc...
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 07:35
The army is scrambling to recover missing war records from Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the meantime, many veterans struggle to get their disabilit...
Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WXDU
- Added: May 02, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 3
A Facebook selfie or Instagrammed lunch is a far cry from what used to be required to take a picture. With expensive, slow technology, most photos ...
Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 3
Scholars gathered recently at a conference in Virginia to explore the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The keynote address fell to a Stanford schol...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 1
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 a country that had been divided was reunited. But after the physical wall was torn down, Germany was still l...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 02:27
A recent book critical of Thomas Jefferson as a slaveholder has raised controversial questions about our founding father. Allison Quantz has the st...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 02:47
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Marshall Expedition, an important event in the history of early American commerce. Recently, a group o...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 03:27
As the 100th Anniversary of the Lyric Center for the Arts passes the Lyric Center celebrates new life and a bright future. Maddi Frick recently tou...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 09:19
- Purchases: 1
Producer Amy Clark presents a musical train trip up Highway 61 in honor of Bob Dylan’s 71st birthday
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 07:44
- Purchases: 2
Washington's oldest monuments have nearly been forgotten. But a group of engineers, preservationists and history buffs is racing to change that.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 04:10
Washington's labor, immigrant and faith communities are promising a large and vocal turnout on Tuesday (May 1) for annual May Day marches and ralli...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 04:48
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, more than 50,000 rescue and recovery workers converged at the World Trade Center. Among them were the 62 members o...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 03:55
Most Civil War scholarship focuses on generals and their armies. But historians at a recent conference explored how water, heat, and horses affecte...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 1
A recent poll shows forty percent of Americans still think Gulf seafood isn’t safe to eat. Commercial fishermen in Bayou La Batre are fighting to w...
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 05:34
One concern raised by the Exxon Valdez experience is the long term mental health impact, which didn’t hit residents near Prince William Sound until...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 05:46
As the newest country in the world celebrates, Becky Palmstrom travels to Kenya to hear the prayers and songs of the refugees waiting to return to ...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 05:18
