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‘Disco Demolition Night’, the brainchild of 24 year-old shock jock Steve Dahl, caused mass hysteria at Comiskey Park, Chicago on 12th July, 1979 – ...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 09:43
Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned off the coast of Tuscany on 8th July, 1822. His wife, Mary Shelley, waited an agonizing ten days to disc...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 10:08
‘The Seven Wonders of the World’ *sounds* impressive, but could they do with an update? That was the mission of the mysterious Swiss-based ‘New 7 W...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 09:15
Sliced bread had never been automated before Otto Rohwedder unveiled his “power-driven, multi-bladed bread slicer” at Chillicothe Baking Company on...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 09:34
Who invented the hamburger? It’s almost impossible to know, given that mincemeat has been consumed all around the world, and for centuries – but Os...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 10:26
- Purchases: 2
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
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the book "Songs of Earth," which is an updated version of song collector/folklori...
- Added: May 13, 2023
- Length: 27:30
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
Polio survivor Shirley Duhart tells her longtime friend and doctor, Dale Strasser, about why wearing stylish shoes has been so empowering.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio
- Added: Apr 25, 2023
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 1
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
Archives tell an important story. The people in them—and the people left out—say a lot about our politics, culture, and consciousness. Today, resea...
- Added: Apr 13, 2023
- Length: 17:12
On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin hunts for a serial killer with a couple of reporters in Hulu’s Boston Strangler.
Bought by WRMU, KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, and RADIOLEX
- Added: Mar 16, 2023
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 4
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
In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 25:48
Topic 1: A new book details the financial, emotional, and social strain of incarceration on prisoners and the family members trying to care for the...
- Added: Jan 24, 2023
- Length: 51:45
- Purchases: 6
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
Rev. Harry Blake came to StoryCorps to speak with his daughter Monica Mickle about how his experiences growing up the son of a sharecropper in Loui...
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 02:44
On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin joins in the adventures a middle-aged royal who refuses to grow old gracefully in Corsage.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KKRN
- Added: Dec 23, 2022
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Christmas wouldn't be the same without Dickens. And, the railroads changed Christmas forever.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1: This movie star knew what depravation felt like; Topic 2: How Jimmy Stewart stole our hearts
Bought by WYAP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 52:47
- Purchases: 4
Professor Mikey's Old School Christmas special presents a detention hall you may not remember but you will never forget!
Bought by KDUR and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 59:29
- Purchases: 2
Half siblings Linda Mae Lawelawe and Doug Carillo talk about how their lives were shaped by Kalaupapa--America’s largest leprosy colony.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Nov 01, 2022
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 1
Have you ever accidentally dropped something in a lake? Plenty of Minnesotans have. That's why lake and river bottoms are full of artifacts and boa...
- Added: Oct 27, 2022
- Length: 06:38
Producer Alex Chambers investigates the new bell tower outside the radio station windows, learning the history of carillons, and reflecting with th...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 26, 2022
- Length: 18:41
- Purchases: 1
