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This time we profile “Open the Door, Richard” — a 1947 novelty record that quickly embedded itself into the American consciousness.
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Son House and B.B. King, who both made historic live appearances in Chicago the Saturday night before Thanksgiving, 1964.
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile James “Beale Street” Clark — barely a footnote in blues history — who recorded an enduring classic, this week in 1945.
- Added: Apr 12, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Windy City keyboard legend Little Johnny Jones, who was in the studio with Muddy Waters and Leroy Foster in 1949.
- Added: Apr 07, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, who recorded an iconic slice of down home blues, "That's All Right," this week in 1946.
- Added: Apr 04, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi guitarist Tommy Johnson, who cut one of the prophetic masterpieces of the blues, this week in 1928.
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Bart Ehrman asks how did a religion that began with a small group of illiterate day laborers become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire in ju...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KPIP-LP, and WETS
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 3
This time, we profile Saunders King and Elder Utah Smith — two early pioneers of the electric guitar.
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton explores the education of famous artists John Biggers and Samella Lewis.
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 50:20
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 25:35
The Justice Department has submitted a controversial request to add a question about citizenship status to the 2020 Census. Experts say the questio...
Bought by Harford Community Radio, KYUK, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB and more
- Added: Jan 12, 2018
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 6
Items have gone missing from the state capitol and she’s determined to find them. On this episode of Culture Clique we talk to Natalie Heneghan who...
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 23:13
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts ...
Bought by KPIP-LP, WETS, and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Oct 13, 2017
- Length: 57:57
- Purchases: 3
Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 03:56:19
The release of Ken Burns’ new documentary series has drawn fresh attention to the Vietnam War. And while many of us have an idea of what the war lo...
Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WOUB
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 3
About 2,500 years ago, the body of a Chinese nobleman was placed in a tomb with items he cherished most: furnishings, bronze vessels, weapons and s...
Bought by KBYI
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 1
We hear a lot in the news about the Antarctic ice sheet melting – but what else threatens a place so cold, so remote, and so seemingly barren? In t...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 21:32
We usually don’t think of the free market as a very… sentimental place. But a new book suggests that Adam Smith’s classical economics aren’t so hea...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Jun 09, 2017
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 1
What does color of skin have to do with equal access to justice in America? The Equal Protection Clause, part of the 14th Amendment to the Constitu...
- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 48:40
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts...
- Added: Jun 02, 2017
- Length: 57:57
- Purchases: 2
Just as America is a nation of immigrants, Virginia is a commonwealth of immigrants. For the first time ever the state Department of Historic Res...
- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 08:45
From: World Footprints LLC
World Footprints will explore Wilmington, Delaware and the Brandywine Valley’s rich American history and vibrant arts and cultural scene with its E...
- Added: Apr 18, 2017
- Length: 59:55
One hundred years ago, the first jazz recordings were made, and not many years after a young man named Bix Beiderbecke picked up the cornet. Beider...
Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 2
The Cherokee Nation was one of the most powerful tribes living in Virginia, five hundred years ago. Today, the Cherokee are one of the largest Nati...
Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Radio Newark
- Added: Mar 10, 2017
- Length: 03:47
- Purchases: 3
Before Jackie Robinson, there were the Negro Leagues -- home to some of the greatest untold stories in baseball.
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 4
