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Today, women outnumber men on college campuses, but that wasn't always the case. Before the 1960s, colleges routinely used gender quotas to suppres...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 13, 2018
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 3
Bach and bluegrass. The combination really works, as composer Carol Barnett and lyricist Marisha Chamberlain proved a few years ago when they creat...
- Added: Nov 02, 2017
- Length: 08:00
The Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra has 25 mandolins and plays a combination of specially composed mandolin music and tunes everybody has heard. And t...
- Added: Jul 27, 2017
- Length: 07:59
Working on a dairy--especially a small dairy--is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, more dangerous even than construction. Over the pas...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 20:18
Corneal blindness affects millions worldwide. A husband-and-wife team at the University of Pittsburgh has been working toward the dream of regrowin...
- Added: Jun 08, 2016
- Length: 13:23
In "The White Elephant,” Yochai Maital walks us through the history of Tel Aviv’s ‘New’ Central Bus Station — a derelict eight-story behemoth and m...
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 32:00
In real life, the business of jury selection is a 400 million dollar industry. So in a world of high priced jury consultants what does a jury of ou...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 24:42
What's the perfect environment for a fern species dating back 65 million years? Look no further than Washington, D.C.'s subway system.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 05:52
- Purchases: 1
Lucille Horn, 95, tells her daughter, Barbara, about the baby incubator exhibit at Coney Island that saved her life.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 01:52
- Purchases: 3
Walter Naegle tells his niece, Ericka, about the unconventional decision that he and his partner, Bayard Rustin, made to protect their union.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 1
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Mar 15, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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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
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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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
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
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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
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
There's a song out there that could make you crash your car... but in the most relaxing way possible.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
A panel discussion with experts on Palm Springs Modernism, hosted by Public Record Managing Editor Ken Alan.
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 28:30
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 don't most people know about camels? A lot, says Gil Riegler of the Oasis Camel Dairy.
- Added: Jul 05, 2013
- Length: 05:22
If you’ve got a mailbox, chances are that at this point in the election season, it’s stuffed with campaign literature. You might be so sick of it t...
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 03:37
