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A story of the lives-- the torture, starvation, forced marriages...and fear of Cambodians (Khmer) forced into the labor camps and Killing Fields cr...
- Added: Sep 21, 2017
- Length: 56:40
- Added: Sep 04, 2017
- Length: 02:42:35
Host Bob Kustra interviews Beth Macy, author of "Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South."
- Added: Apr 28, 2017
- Length: 30:00
After more than 150 years, historians (and many Californians) are facing the horrifying truth that Indian slavery was a key source of labor that he...
- Added: Nov 14, 2016
- Length: 58:25
The first two-party debate of the 2016 presidential election; wreaking havoc in Africa and the Spanish Main, Sir Francis Drake disembarks at Plymou...
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 02:22:44
Destroying Books Destroys Culture? This year, 100 million people in the U.S. did not read a book. The past is full of book burnings designed to cen...
- Added: Sep 07, 2016
- Length: 30:01
This is a difficult story to tell. Most Americans are sickened that it’s even part of our heritage: The practice of lynching. It’s so distant, most...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Host Bob Kustra talks with Pamela Newkirk about her book about a young African man who was displayed in a cage in the Bronx Zoo in 1906.
- Added: Jul 01, 2016
- Length: 29:51
The Holocaust during World War II -- Horrifying images and stories that have come to symbolize an international conflict.
What the story doesn’t t...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 17, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
For Women's History Month, we revisit a novel that's built around real life West Virginia murders of a widow and her three children during the Grea...
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- Added: Mar 11, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Newkirk and Reader's Corner host Bob Kustra discuss Newkirk's book about "The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga."
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 30:10
One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 29:00
In today’s edition of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack sits down with St. Martin Mayor Jim R...
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 31:27
Well, you might believe some, of course. "Watergate" was a conspiracy, indeed.... Touching on a more recent national trauma, author Rob Brotherton ...
- Added: Dec 11, 2015
- Length: 01:40
In Virginia, there are eight Indian tribes, some several thousand people in all. Yet the United States doesn’t believe they exist. The seeds of thi...
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 27:39
Have you ever wondered how Lake George got its name? Or who predicted the tornado of April 1886? Or even why this area hosts so many German Catholi...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 30:47
“Learn Yourself” and Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
Interview: Mike starts a special segment of We Do The Work c...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Sep 25, 2015
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
Shortly after World War One, the Ottoman Empire was in its fiinal days.
The last desperate act of the Turkish nationalist army was to destroy the...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 07, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Another authentic author's voice -- Jo Ivestor reads from her touching book, The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960's Deep South. Her true sto...
- Added: May 03, 2015
- Length: 01:40
KVSC Radio at St. Cloud State University presents Trial by Mob: The Duluth Lynchings. On the evening of June 15, 1920, a crowd of thousands attacke...
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
The first of a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the 1970s ...
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 01:45
The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:51
Presidents often disappoint us. Professor Rowland Brucken reads from his book, A Most Uncertain Crusade: The United States, the United Nations, and...
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Join us for a special program featuring two legendary albums. The first, a "Conversation With The Blues," was recorded by Paul Oliver during the su...
Bought by Radio New Zealand and WJSU
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
There are eleven tribes of Indians who call Virginia home, among them the Chickahominy. And though they all now enjoy state recognition, the federa...
- Added: Nov 12, 2014
- Length: 28:31
