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On this episode, we talked about the new book "Well of Souls," which dives further into the earliest history of the banjo than anyone has gone befo...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Feb 10, 2024
- Length: 29:32
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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
In the 1940s, Dr. Charles Drew was a surgeon and blood scientist, and today he is known as the “Father of Blood Banks.” His daughter, Dr. Charlene ...
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP
- Added: Aug 09, 2021
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 2
How should we think about history when there's nothing to support a narrative?
- Added: Jul 27, 2021
- Length: 30:00
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
Join World Footprints as we explore the story of Black Americans’ fight for freedom and equality with U.S. Civil Rights Trail guide author Deborah ...
Bought by WHFR
- Added: Feb 15, 2021
- Length: 30:54
- Purchases: 1
From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 22:24
- Purchases: 2
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 20:50
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Experience a slice of American history as two journalists share their knowledge about Martha’s Vineyard and parts of the American south.
- Added: Jun 30, 2019
- Length: 29:55
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
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
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
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
This time, we profile Guitar Slim, who — much to everyone’s surprise — hit the top of the R&B charts with “The Things That I Used To Do,” in 1954.
- Added: Jul 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with “Homesick” James Williamson and Johnny Shines.
- Added: Jul 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Elmore James, Arthur Spires, and Johnny Williams.
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Little Walter, “Honeyboy” Edwards, Muddy Waters, and J....
- Added: Jul 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile “Open the Door, Richard” — a 1947 novelty record that quickly embedded itself into the American consciousness.
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Floyd Jones, a serious and thoughtful songwriter, who was in the studio for Chess Records in 1951.
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile guitarist Big Joe Williams and harmonica ace John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, who last recorded together, this week in 1947.
- Added: Apr 27, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Ruth Brown, one of the biggest R&B singers of the 1950s, who first hit the top of the Billboard charts, this week in 1950.
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile street musician Bongo Joe, who recorded a cult favorite for Arhoolie Records, in 1968.
- Added: Apr 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Robert Johnson, who made his recording debut the week of Thanksgiving, 1936.
- Added: Apr 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
