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From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

One Sunday afternoon, a man named William Mumler decided to take a self portrait. He said he was alone in the photography studio, but as the photog...

Transportation Is A Human Right

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

The U.S. transportation system has long been rife with inequality, making it more difficult for low-income people, people of color, and people with...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

The Man Behind the Projector

From: Out of the Blocks

It was a good living. If you can stay in business 53 years, that says a lot.

Bought by PRX Remix

The High Resolution Life

From: Elaine Vitone

Ernest Sternglass' work made possible Apollo 11's first videos from the moon, and he pioneered digital radiology while working at the University of...

A Voicemail Valentine

From: Radio Diaries

Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. But in the 1930s many people were doing it for the first time....

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix

Ep.03: The Rainbow Warrior & Out of Fashion Fishing

From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Episodes

The Rainbow Warrior comes home to Vancouver. Is this ship iconic in the city where Greenpeace began? What is a FAD or Fish Aggregating Device? We ...

An Airplane for Everyone

From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself

Airplanes in department stores? There was a time in U.S. History when people experienced this reality. But are we any closer today to realizing the...

The Wright Brothers with Special Guest David McCullough

From: Alan Duncan

What can America learn for today from the Wright brothers? Don’t miss this fascinating interview with David McCullough on The Public Square®.

Route Cause

From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Host Ed Ayers talks to historian Christopher Jones about the 1870s skirmish between John D. Rockefeller and the upstart competitors who built the c...

Innovation & Obsolescence: The Life, Death, and Occasional Rebirth of Technologies

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: Ben Gross' personal video discs and player. , Credit: Photograph by Mariel Carr.

Some technologies flash in the pan so quickly they hardly leave a trace (Google Glass anyone?); while others seem to stick around long past their u...

Bought by WTJU

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

What could collapse the Golden Gate Bridge?

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: The Golden Gate Bridge, standing strong., Credit: Isabel Angell

Throughout film history, the Golden Gate Bridge has been leveled in earthquakes, ripped apart by apes, melted, and even bitten in half by a mega-sh...

Bought by PRX Remix

The Teeth Beneath Your Feet: Oddities in Urban Archaeology

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: URS Corporation archaeologists excavate at a site beside I-95 in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia., Credit: Mariel Carr

Where can you find a teacup, the molar of a goat, and an arrowhead all in one place? At an urban archaeology site, that’s where.

Bought by WTJU

13: The Sounds of East London (Standard Length)

From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)

From bells to restaurants, and glasses to songwriting this episode explores the people and sounds of London's East end.

The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Thomas Alva Edison

From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves

Look around your daily life. There's a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere.

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more

Large Wildfires Jumpstart Debate on Fire Management Techniques

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Photo by (cc) Flickr user Lotus R

A topic that we covered more than a year ago, but was just as relevant in 2013 is fire, more specifically wildfires. When we aired our show, The Bu...

Bought by KHNS

Friday Night Lights

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Contributor Meg Cramer tells the story of the first electrically lit town in America -- Wabash, Indiana.

Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, and KFAI Minneapolis

DJ Carl Sagan and His Golden Records

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

Before the launch of the Voyager probes, Carl Sagan was given the daunting task of assembling a guide to all things human. Something that would fit...

The Rise of the Roller Coaster

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

Roller coasters are the workhorse of the modern theme park, but their rise to popularity has been long and strange.

Bought by PRX Remix

34: Recalling 1993

From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds

Maybe pay phones really do encourage time travel.

Bought by XRAY.fm and WJCT

Engineering Gotham From Below

From: Bishop Sand

Caption: This is a look up from the 86th Street Station construction site.

The New York City Subway is a complex system that keeps NYC running and it is still being built. Hear the reasons for the initial construction, the...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, and PRX Remix

The Last of the Iron Lungs

From: Julia Scott

Caption: Martha Lillard, 65, uses her iron lung to breathe at night., Credit: Julia Scott

Sixty years after polio was eradicated in America, a dozen survivors still rely on their iron lungs to breathe. Come inside the machine Martha Lill...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, KOSU, Hark! and more

The Mysterious Life of the Rubber Ducky

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

Rubber Duckies aren't just an old fashioned bathtub toy.

Bought by PRX Remix

Fordlandia, from Dream to Ghost Town

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

The rise and fall of Henry Ford's Fordlandia, a rubber plantation and American colony in the Amazon.

Bought by PRX Remix

Library Of Congress Preserves A Treasure Trove... Underground (short version)

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: The Packard Campus is roughly 500,000 square feet, built into the side of a mountain in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains., Credit: Library of Congress/Matt Raymond

What do you get when you take a former Cold War bunker and fill it with the world’s largest collection of films, TV shows, radio broadcasts and sou...

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