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From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake

Early boarding Schools

220212 Lou Reed, Jim Messina, Leon Russell, Answer Songs - All Music You've Never Heard

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song

Caption: Lou Reed before he was "Lou Reed"

Every week, another 85 songs you've never heard as we search for the heart and soul that later was declared "rock and roll." Fact is, there was no...

Bought by Prairie Public, KFCF FM, KPRG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WQCS and more

The Struggle of Aníbal Troilo

From: Classic107.3
Series: Tango with Cally

The music, life and times of superstar orchestra leader and bandoneon soloist Aníbal Troilo.

Bought by WXXI Rochester

StoryCorps: Cohen

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Time now for StoryCorps, As the end of year approaches, we’re taking time to remember those we’ve lost. This week, we honor the late Justice Ruth...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and WYAP

The End of the American Frontier Myth, Greg Grandin

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

In this episode, Laura interviews author and Yale historian Greg Grandin about his new book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border W...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer

'80's Crack Crisis and Peat

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Topic 1: What We Learned From the Crack Crisis in America. Topic 2: The Future is Peat

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KQRU FM LP, KOWS, and WYAP

119: Pete and Repeat

From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk

Margaret and Matilda Roumania Peters were sisters and tennis champions in the 1930s, long before Serena and Venus Williams. While still in high sch...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio

Zajal with Dave Soldier and Pedro Cortes - How medieval Andalusia influenced the entire western hemisphere

From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: Zajal With Dave Soldier And Pedro Cortes

On this podcast Dave Soldier & Zajal album producer Pedro Cortes discuss how the influences of medieval Andalusia influenced the entirety of the we...

EP1 Mississippi Delta Blues

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Once upon a time on the Mississippi Delta...

EP18 The Fish Sisters

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Two sisters, two individuals, two different approaches to the Blues!

Bought by WTIP

EP23 "Chess Records Blues"

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Chess Records was one of the early flourishing record labels that had Blues artists on it roster.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Tyehimba Jess

From: New Letters on the Air

Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess reads from his multi-award winning poetry book, OLIO, delving into the voices of African American creatives in ...

Aida Edemariam, THE WIFE’S TALE & Russell Powell, APPLES OF NEW ENGLAND

From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice

We talk with Aida Edemariam about her memoir, The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History. It’s about her Ethiopian grandmother who, over nearly a century ...

The Hovland plane crash

From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project

A Cessna 185 disappeared in the fall of 1971, and no trace of the plane or its three occupants was found until nearly 12 years later. In this edit...

The Art of Jon Swanson, Museum Curator

From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat

Caption: Jon Swanson checking light levels for pieces in "X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out,"., Credit: Minnesota Marine Art Museum

On this episode of "Art Beat" we get to know Jon Swanson, curator for the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona. Jon has a passion for art. At age ...

Bought by KVSC

Cedar Grove

From: Catherine Moore

Caption: Ye Must Be Born Again, Credit: Roger May

Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...

Bought by WMMT

Origin of the name Greenpeace.

From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments

We hear who really came up with the name Greenpeace and why.

Dr. Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson: Healthcare in 1894

From: My Account of It
Series: My Account of It

Caption: Dr. Halle Tanner Dillion Johnson was the first woman and the first black woman to practice medicine in Alabama. She was licensed in 1891.

Here's an account of healthcare in the rural Alabama. This account was written in 1894. Listen.

Louie Fournier, logger and chainsaw collector, Cass Lake, MN

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Call of the Wild

Milt Lee speaks with Louie Fournier, logger and collector of chainsaws.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KKRN

Working: Then & Now

From: Radio Diaries

In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more

When Ground Zero was known as Radio Row

From: Radio Diaries

For more than four decades, Radio Row it was the largest collection of radio and electronics stores in the world. Then in 1966 the stores were cond...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix