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We look at the history of the Cameron House in San Francisco's Chinatown. The women who founded the organization worked to rescue Chinese women and...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
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Bestselling, award-winning historian Nathaniel Philbrick's "Travels with George" is a blended account of two road trips separated by about 230 year...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 08:47
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Dylan Thuras is co-author of "Gastro Obscura A Food Adventurer’s Guide," a book with 500 entries that span all seven continents and fifty states. C...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 09:49
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“Cold Case Chronicles” tells the stories of victims – some missing, some murdered and some with changed identities. All are true, and each are myst...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 09:54
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Flynn Berry’s third thriller, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, is “Northern Spy.” It's a thriller about the contemporary IRA, and two sisters who find the...

  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 09:56
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A generational discussion about life in Arkansas over history

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 23:52
Caption: Rotterdam Slavery Memorial, Credit: Courtesy of Pixabay
We discuss why preserving and expanding historical narratives is important to protecting our future with Cordell Reaves from the New York State Off...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 34:38
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An interview with Danforth Prince, author of "The Seductive Sapphic Exploits of Mercedes de Acosta: Hollywood's Greatest Lover"

  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 24:30
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Topic 1: Museums are returning artifacts to their countries of origin, but maybe they shouldn't. Topic 2: California apologizes for helping with th...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2020
  • Length: 48:24
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Topic 1: The true story of Yasuke, the African samurai. Topic 2: The debate over statistical significance. Topic 3: An Adventurer who inspired gene...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 49:58
Caption: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
Thomm Jutz, singer, songwriter, musician is my guest. New CD "To Live in Two Worlds Vol 1" is the occasion.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:52
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Wind your way through the world’s markets, both physical and financial, to find out how they’re changing. This week on Meat + Three, we explore glo...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 19:35
  • Purchases: 1
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During the Nazi regime, many German artists, scientists, and other intellectuals found refuge in Southern California. The authors Lion Feuchtwanger...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 34:48
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Dan Pedersen, author of, TOPGUN. An American Story, was the boss of the group that formed the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School. Also known as the...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2019
  • Length: 09:56
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Elaine Weiss’s "The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote" is the true story of the suffragettes. These are the female leaders who—in the f...

  • Added: May 27, 2019
  • Length: 09:55
Caption: “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
Our program features an in-studio interview with Paul Buhle; Debs’ words brought to life by four local writers; and ends with Buhle talking to an a...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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New Mexico-based Hampton Sides’ newest book is "On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle.” Based on ne...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2018
  • Length: 09:55
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times, is one of America’s best known and most award-winning biogra...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 09:20
Caption: Dancing at the Great Dakota Gathering, Credit: Bill Stoneberg
On this episode of Culture Clique, we have the second show in our series on the Great Dakota Gathering here in Winona, MN. This time around we talk...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 16:09
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Delia Owens, the co-author of several nonfiction books on African research and wildlife, has penned her debut novel, “Where the Crawdads Sing.” Thi...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2018
  • Length: 09:50
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Filmmaker John Heminway, author of "In Full Flight. A Story of Africa and Atonement," describes both the good and the bad in the life of Dr. Anne S...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:58
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Brantley Hargrove is the author of "The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras.” It’s a true story of a Denveri...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:56
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Nature writer Craig Childs is the author of Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America. It’s a travelogue of places and people, just like us...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:56
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We talk with Steven Stoll about his brilliant history of Appalachia: Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia. Then, coastal property values are threa...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Westminister
We explore points around the globe from London and the Jewish contributions to British society to America as we explore it’s history on the back of...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 59:55