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How Sputnik Sent Women to College
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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Today, women outnumber men on college campuses, but that wasn't always the case. Before the 1960s, colleges routinely used gender quotas to suppres...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 3
Life on Mars?
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Maria Lane, author of Geographies of Mars, relates what Percival Lowell observed on the red planet. This segment comes from BackStory's episode "Th...

Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 2
On Top of the World
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Bradley Boyd and reporter Ashley Creek head to the top of an old hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, which made provisions for a future that never came. ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 3
The New End of Old New York
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Historian Max Page talks about why New York City is so often the target of destruction on the page and the silver screen. This segment comes from t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:10
  • Purchases: 1
'Reel' Indians
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Chief Hollow Horn Bear depicted as the “American Indian” on a 14-cent stamp, 1922. , Credit: U.S. Postal Service.
Producer Kelly Jones and scholar Barbara Meek talk through Hollywood Indian English - a grammatical stereotype that often endures in today's media ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 2
Go West, Young Orphan
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Pedro Pan girls, Florida City, Fla., 1962. , Credit: Courtesy of Ileana Ortega Menéndez.
For nearly 75 years, children from the orphanages of New York and other cities were shipped west to families in the West who needed farm labor. Som...

Bought by WOUB and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 2
Coal? It’s a Gas!
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It’s no news flash that, over the years, one of the dirtiest sources of energy has been coal; in fact, it’s among the top contributors to carbon di...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Horse Named "Buckwheat"
From: Rogi Riverstone
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
Alabama Alabama
From: Anton Foek
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One {....} of a captain. Kathy Broughton grew up in Birmingham Alabama but soon learned fishing from

Bought by WBHM


  • Added: Aug 01, 2008
  • Length: 11:10
  • Purchases: 1