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March 18: Catalina de Erauso
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Catalina de Erauso
Catalina de Erauso (March 18, 1600): After leaving nun’s convent, Catalina dressed as a man, and left on a long journey from San Sebastian to Vall...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 19: Anne Drysdale And Caroline Newcombe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Anne Drysdale
Anne Drysdale And Caroline Newcombe (March 19, 1840) The two women were squatters. They established a successful sheep farm at a time when women ra...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 20: Mary Anne Talbot
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Mary Anne Talbot
Mary Anne Talbot (March 20, 1792): An Englishwoman who wore male dress and became a sailor during the Napoleonic Wars. While a cabin boy aboard a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, KISU, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 5
March 21: Pocahontas
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Pocahontas
Pocahontas (March 21, 1617): Later known as Rebecca Rolfe, was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial Jamestown, Virginia...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 22: Mary Prince
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Mary Prince
Mary Prince (March 22, 1831): A Bermudian woman, born into slavery. Her autobiography, The History of Mary Prince (1831), was the first account of...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 23: Ann Green
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Ann Green
Ann Green (March 23, 1775) Known as “printer to the Province” of Maryland. She was employed in Philadelphia with Benjamin Franklin & Andrew Bradfor...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 24: Deborah Sampson
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Deborah Sampson
Deborah Sampson (March 24, 1802): An American woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Re...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 25: Maria Esquivel and Micaela Bastidas
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Micaela Bastidas
Maria Esquivel and Micaela Bastidas (March 25, 1781): These two women played an important part in the Inca revolt against the Spanish invaders. Al...

Bought by KMXT and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 2
March 26: Elleanor Eldridge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Elleanor Eldrige
Elleanor Eldridge (March 26, 1784): In her Memoirs (1838), Elleanor claims that it was her grandfather who was captured, along with his family, i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 27: Bridget Biddy Mason
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Bridget Biddy Mason
Bridget Biddy Mason (March 27, 1988): Biddy Mason was born a slave in 1818, She was given to Robert Smith and his bride as a wedding present. Brid...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 28: Grace Sherwood
From: Guy Rathbun
Caption: Grace Sherwood
Grace Sherwood (March 28, 1705): She was tried and convicted of witchcraft in the Princess Anne County court of the U.S. state of Virginia in 1705...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
Our Bodies, Ourselves - 40 years of fighting fear
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Piece image
In the 40 years since Our Bodies, Ourselves was first published by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, the book has been both praised and ba...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations with Women Making History/ Nancy Pelosi & Zainab Salbi
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Nancy Pelosi
Martha Burk interviews Nancy Pelosi, first female Speaker of the House, and Zainab Salbi, best selling author and founder of Women for Women Intern...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 56:48
Roe v. Wade at 39/ Where Women Stand in 2012
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Sarah Weddington, Credit: Weddington Center
Equal Time series host Martha Burk interviews Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued the Roe v. Wade case legalizing abortion in the United Stat...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT


  • Added: Jan 05, 2012
  • Length: 56:48
  • Purchases: 2
The Cutting Place
From: Lu Olkowski
Series: In Verse: Women of Troy
Piece image
A documentary poem about DJ Guerin, who’s 32, with 7 kids.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 5
Just a Girl
From: Lu Olkowski
Series: In Verse: Women of Troy
Piece image
A documentary poem about an afternoon spent with Billie Jean Hill at the Flag Day parade in Troy, New York. Billie Jean is a 25-year-old woman with...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio, BBC Americana and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 6
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -3: Democracy's Denial: Revolutions in Wilmington (1898 --
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: Wilmington's black newspaper--after the "riot" and coup
In 1898, White Supremacist Democrats in North Carolina overthrew Wilmington's integrated administration. The plotters killed dozens of African Amer...

Bought by WCPN and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 2
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -7a: Lynching's End?: A Texas Whydunnit Murder Mystery (1930)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Piece image
Mob madness leads to a pivotal feminist protest during the dark days of Jim Crow racism.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KUER, WCPN, KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
Jenny or the abuse of Native American women, part II
From: Anton Foek
Piece image
Karin Artichoker, director of the shelter program in Kyle talks to us

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WGDR


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
Learn from My Mistakes
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A mother berates that her teenage daughter to learn from the mistakes the mother made as a teen. Problem is, Mom won't say what mistakes.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Lawyers
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A divorce lawyer is deeply disturbed when his own client wins.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
Strip Club USA Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Strippers and club patrons talk about what draws them to America's thriving sex industry.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Audible, WZBC, and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
Strip Club USA Part Two
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Men and women, physically in the same place, inhabit different worlds.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Audible, WZBC, and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 4