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The St. Paul nonprofit Women’s Advocates founded one of the first shelters in the country for women escaping domestic violence. It started in the e...
- Added: Jun 22, 2023
- Length: 06:46
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
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
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
To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 16:34
- Purchases: 3
This Valentine’s Day we could have just brought you some sappy love stories from science’s past. But instead we offer you three tales of lust, lone...
- Added: Feb 13, 2019
- Length: 01:17:06
On this episode of Art Beat we interview Chris Newberry a producer and director of photogrophy for the film Time for Ilhan the story of
the first ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2018
- Length: 30:52
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
Kay Johnston Massar tells her husband, Cy Massar, about being the first girl to play Little League baseball.
- Added: Apr 05, 2018
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 2
A women's history-month series, highlighting lesser-known historical female figures.
- Added: Feb 13, 2018
- Length: 01:03:37
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 25:35
Bertha Palmer as written and presented by Kathryn Chesney
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 07:04
Eliza Webb as written and performed by Lilian B. Moore
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:39
Archeologist Adelaide Bullen written and presented by Anita Palladino.
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:01
The Triangle Seagals, WAVES national unit #144 is a North Carolina based women’s organization for active, former active, retired, and reservists. F...
- Added: Jul 17, 2016
- Length: 36:27
We talk with Connie Cox from Itasca State Park about Mary Gibbs, the first woman park commissioner in the nation.
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 15:22
- Purchases: 3
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a profile of Eliza Jane Nicholson, a small town poet who became the first woman publisher of a major metrop...
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 10:24
As combat roles open to women, we present conversations from those who served when their roles and expectations were defined by gender.
Bought by WVBI-LP, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and Blue Mountain Radio
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 03:41
- Purchases: 4
Thanks to Taylor Swift, 2015 will be remembered as the year we all wanted to be part of the “squad”--Taylor’s ever growing group of friends. Pop mu...
Bought by KENW, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN
- Added: Oct 30, 2015
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 4
In the mid 1800’s, boomtown-San Francisco was a city of men, only about 15 percent women. Slavery was illegal in the West but still-- white men wer...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 10:30
- 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
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
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with Diane E. Benson (Tlingit). She is an actress in the film For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska.
Bought by KSTK
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 15:29
- Purchases: 1
This feature explores the life and some of the myths of Harriet Tubman with interviews by experts from Cambridge, MD, the town where "Moses" was bo...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Jan 24, 2011
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 3
How about a flight with Amelia Earhart? Only this distant relative has no record of crashing - this Amelia Earhart sticks to reporting the traffic ...
Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 05:37
- Purchases: 2
