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The Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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More than half of all American adults have received a COVID-19 vaccine. But even though we’ve made great strides in our vaccination efforts, there ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 03:27
Railroads & Fire
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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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
The Peril of Spring Snow in Minnesota
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Ojibwe people at a winter camp in South Harbor, Minnesota in 1875, Credit: MN Historical Society
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
Country Nation
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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Country music has long been popular in the American South but is gaining popularity in the North, a place with more country roots than you may think.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 05:45
Country Nation
From: Ford Hatchett
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Country music has long been popular in the American South but is gaining popularity in the North, a place with more country roots than you may think.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 05:45
How Women in the '50s Had More Political Influence
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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This election cycle is being billed as another “Year of the Woman” … with a record number of female candidates running for office. Despite increasi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Soundtrack to Vietnam (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The release of Ken Burns’ new documentary series has drawn fresh attention to the Vietnam War. And while many of us have an idea of what the war lo...

Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 3
Pride & Profit (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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We usually don’t think of the free market as a very… sentimental place. But a new book suggests that Adam Smith’s classical economics aren’t so hea...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
Episode Three: "Stories Someone Told Me"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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This episode's stories come from some of Alabama's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists: Rick Bragg who wrote about the Susan Smith murders and the O...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 25:00
Finding Bix (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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One hundred years ago, the first jazz recordings were made, and not many years after a young man named Bix Beiderbecke picked up the cornet. Beider...

Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 2
The Golden Age of Black Baseball (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Before Jackie Robinson, there were the Negro Leagues -- home to some of the greatest untold stories in baseball.

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 4
Hidden Figures (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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When NASA wanted to put a man on the moon, they naturally turned to the brightest — and whitest. That is, until the brilliant Katherine Johnson dem...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 4
12,000-pound lighthouse moves to new home
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Port Clinton lighthouse moves by barge, Credit: Elizabeth Miller
Hundreds gathered Tuesday to watch the Port Clinton lighthouse make a half-mile journey down the Portage River to a new home on Lake Erie. The 120-...

Bought by WXXI Rochester and WBFO


  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 2
The Haunting Tale of Why Clara Barton's Memorial Was 60 Years In The Making
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Did Clara Barton's ghost commune with the living?, Credit: National Park Service/Clara Barton NHS
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
Birth of an Answer
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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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....

Bought by KENW and WABE


  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 2
1st 2016 Republican Debates
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
Caption: The Big Ten (top Republican primary candidates duke it out at Cleveland), Credit: Fox News
Highlights of the top Republicans debating in the first contest for the 2016 nomination, with typically apolitical commentary by Rob MacClanahan

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 03:01:45
Just Call me NOLA
From: Nina Feldman
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The genesis, lovers and haters of New Orleans newest nickname.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
Historic Campus Beer
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In 2011, archaeologists discovered evidence of a brewpub on the campus of America’s second-oldest college. These days, students at William and Mary...

Bought by KENW, WKCC, KPVL, WABE, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 5
Buffalo Soldiers ride on
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Reverend Jeff Moore blesses biker, Credit: Leila Day
Cheryl Morgan is in her kitchen wrapping cookies. Each one is shaped like a buffalo. “They are brown sugar cinnamon, hand-painted buffaloes,” she ...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Painter of Light and Industry
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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J.M.W. Turner is perhaps the most important British painter--you would surely recognize an image of Tintern Abbey--and yet his life story has remai...

Bought by KENW and KKRN


  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 2
A Passion for Science at The Bakken
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Science and medicine was a main passion for Earl Bakken, inventor of the portable pacemaker. As a co-founder of Medtronic he began collecting early...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
Preview of the Tom Tom Founders Festival
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Charlottesville is gearing up for the fourth annual Tom Tom Founders Festival, a celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship. Kelley Libby repor...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 03, 2015
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 1
The not-so-secret Sherlock Holmes society
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Ryan Dawes explores the character of Sherlock Holmes, past and present, by meeting with a group of Minnesotans devoted to preserving Sherlockian cu...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
Small town movie theaters surviving in the digital age
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The downtown movie theater has long been a fixture of small town Minnesota. But with advent of multiplexes, DVDs and on-demand viewing, small town ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
St. Paul's Stone Saloon
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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These days, local craft beer is all the rage, and new taprooms are popping up all over the Twin Cities. But a look into the past reveals there's no...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 03:54