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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
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Matt Novak of the blog "Paleofuture" talks about "The Jetsons," the show that helped define American ideas of future technology without thinking mu...
Bought by WOUB, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 07:47
- Purchases: 4
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Maria Lane, author of Geographies of Mars, relates what Percival Lowell observed on the red planet. This segment comes from BackStory's episode "Th...
Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 09:02
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Bradley Boyd and reporter Ashley Creek head to the top of an old hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, which made provisions for a future that never came. ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 05:11
- Purchases: 3
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian Max Page talks about why New York City is so often the target of destruction on the page and the silver screen. This segment comes from t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 09:10
- Purchases: 1
Ruth Coker Burks tells her friend Paul Wineland about caring for AIDS patients during the...
Bought by WUTC, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 3
A innovative technology to preserve endangered sound recordings without playing them (which would further damage them) is bringing the voices of po...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 4
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Producer Kelly Jones and scholar Barbara Meek talk through Hollywood Indian English - a grammatical stereotype that often endures in today's media ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 2
There’s a new season brewing for a television series about the Salem Witch Trials. A scholar puts one of the witches under the spotlight. Lilia Fuq...
Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 3
It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Laura Belman is descended from three signers of the Declaration of Independence, and is working to preserve the history of early Washington, D.C.
- Added: Oct 11, 2014
- Length: 03:06
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
For nearly 75 years, children from the orphanages of New York and other cities were shipped west to families in the West who needed farm labor. Som...
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: 08:05
- Purchases: 2
Alton Yates tells his daughter, Toni, about being part of a small group of Air...
Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WEZU, WTJU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 03, 2014
- Length: 04:24
- Purchases: 5
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort
- Added: Aug 11, 2014
- Length: 01:34
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Aug 03, 2014
- Length: 01:40
Turns out the author of our national anthem could very well have been nicknamed "Francis Scott Off-Key."
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort
- Added: Jul 13, 2014
- Length: 01:41
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort
- Added: Jul 06, 2014
- Length: 01:25
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Jun 30, 2014
- Length: 01:41
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Jun 23, 2014
- Length: 01:27
Not only was Washington, D.C., the site of The Beatles' first full North American concert in 1964... It was also the first North American city to a...
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 09:45
Andy Warhol once said: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But in this town, you'll meet people who claim that in the pa...
- Added: Sep 12, 2013
- Length: 06:26
What many people outside Massachusetts don't know is that the brother of reputed Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, Billy Bulger, was similarly powerfu...
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 02:24
Marfa Public Radio's Joe Nick Patoski, Willie Nelson biographer and host of the Texas Music Hour of Power, looks back on the life and career of the...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 56:36
Bernard Holyfield (R) tells his friend Charles Barlow (L) about a painful memory from his childhood in the 1960s.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 02:18
- Purchases: 1
