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Upton Sinclair’s novel “The Jungle,” published in 1906, is a seminal work that exposed the harrowing conditions of the meat-packing industry in the...
- Added: Jan 13, 2024
- Length: 04:21
Andrew Wyeth, an American artistic luminary, transcended the canvas to become a masterful chronicler of the human condition and the natural world. ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2024
- Length: 10:27
It's Thanksgiving time in America and we are talking turkeys, and sage grouse, and taking your calls on our scary-story line. What does the arrival...
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- Added: Nov 23, 2022
- Length: 28:00
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Nearly a quarter of Israel’s population gathered to watch the 20th anniversary military parade in a newly unified Jerusalem. We’re taken back to th...
- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 11:21
From the top of Tell El-Ful, an abandoned hilltop in East Jerusalem, you can see all the way from Amman to Tel Aviv, from Jerusalem to Ramallah. An...
- Added: May 18, 2022
- Length: 01:08:41
When neighbors Steve Gray and Anat Harrel of Kibbutz Hanaton in the Upper Galilee lost their jobs as tour guides due to the pandemic, they decided ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2022
- Length: 36:04
How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history?
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Joyce Sanchez says th...
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 28:40
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Phyllis Wilson, a retired Army veteran of 37 years and President of the Military Women’s Memorial Foundation, joins us to talk about the Memorial a...
- Added: Mar 23, 2021
- Length: 42:48
From: World Footprints LLC
Hear about the initiative Franklin, Tennessee has launched to preserve and share a fuller and accurate truth about its place in American history.
- Added: Mar 17, 2021
- Length: 32:22
This episode focuses on the social impact of Ernest Green’s life journey—a different type of travel experience--and his role in the civil rights mo...
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 37:07
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 16:48
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It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a lib...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 20:41
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In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 26:22
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We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...
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- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 20:50
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Arianna Skibell takes us to Battir, a pastoral village about three kilometers southwest of Jerusalem. Over the centuries, the serene landscape has ...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2019
- Length: 19:16
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Preserving history is about more than battling mold and disintegration. We took a trip to Greenpoint, Brooklyn to learn about how an environmental ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 24:49
In the historic city of Magdeburg, Germany, there is a Johnny Cash themed country music festival called Nashville Days – complete with corndogs and...
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- Added: Mar 27, 2019
- Length: 28:01
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On this episode of Culture Clique the dead walk again and history comes alive. Willard Huyck sits down with Jonelle Moore and Jim Vrchota to talk a...
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- Added: Nov 09, 2018
- Length: 19:15
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Interviews with Victoria Price, author of The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self, and Michael P. Daley, author of Bobby Bluejacket: T...
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- Added: Jul 30, 2018
- Length: 53:59
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Communism ended in failure, capitalism corrupted Russia’s soul. Now Russians are looking inward. Our story follows the grandson of a once forgotten...
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- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 29:48
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries you'll meet Vicki Obee former director at Bittersweet Farms, a private non-profit that offers services to adul...
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- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:38
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John Webb as written and presented by Richard Caldwell
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 08:30
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about how an angry Ike came off the golf course to kic...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:46
Our lives are controlled by the invisible hand from the grave. Death does not prevent people from influencing the world with their wealth, but such...
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 46:43
We discuss diseases and syndromes that distort reality, past societal failures with mental health as well as the brave story of young Nellie Bly. W...
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- Added: Jun 02, 2016
- Length: 32:39
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