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Americans believed the Soviet Union was cut off from the West. Nothing went in. And very little came out. Yet, tens of thousands of Americans visit...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 01:42
Today on Culture Clique we bring you Part 2 of our series on a Minnesota music venue that is truly a hidden gem, The Oak Center General Store. The ...
- Added: May 03, 2022
- Length: 27:43
Today on Culture Clique we bring you the first in a two-part series on a Minnesota music venue that is truly a hidden gem, The Oak Center General S...
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- Added: May 03, 2022
- Length: 29:20
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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
Dr. Lidar Sapir-Hen of Tel Aviv University introduces us to a celebrity piglet. Discovered in a Jerusalem home from the 8th century BCE, it challen...
- Added: Feb 24, 2022
- Length: 08:46
In this episode, we explore the mass acceleration of nearly every process on earth that began in Britain in the 1700s during the Industrial Revolut...
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- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 48:25
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Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of former slaves and a founder of Bethune-Cookman University. She was often the only woman of color with a sea...
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- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 05:02
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On this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, we tell the story of Chuck Ealey's long and winding road to the College Football Hall. Especially long ...
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- Added: Feb 07, 2022
- Length: 06:40
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The following audio is a shortened segment featuring the story of preservationist, banjoist and fiddle player Bascom Lamar Lunsford, as told in the...
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 08:23
Alzheimer's disease used to be a rare diagnosis. But today, more than 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's and this number is projecte...
- Added: Jan 14, 2022
- Length: 45:47
- Added: Nov 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Water has a power unlike almost any other element on Earth. In large enough quantities or with enough force behind it, water can effectively lay wa...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 22:05
By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...
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- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 28:54
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Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 14:06
Elena Passarello discusses her relationship to Elvis and his tribute artists during the Coronavirus pandemic.
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 17:36
In 1971, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled his drug-fueled haze during an off-road-desert race, the Mint 400, in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Veg...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 11:17
What's in a name? We reflect on where we belong and what it means to be American, especially in the wake of anti-Asian hate crimes.
- Added: Apr 06, 2021
- Length: 52:02
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
Since World War II, there have been countless American GIs stationed at military bases all over Germany. Sylvia Cunningham and Monika Müller-Kroll ...
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- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 28:52
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Join us as author Fatima Shaik uncovers the hidden history of a free Black brotherhood that was almost lost forever.
- Added: Feb 21, 2021
- Length: 24:52
Join World Footprints as we explore the story of Black Americans’ fight for freedom and equality with U.S. Civil Rights Trail guide author Deborah ...
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- Added: Feb 15, 2021
- Length: 30:54
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You ever drive the "Loneliest Road In America"? That's what they call U.S. 50, across the Great Basin Desert through the middle of Nevada. Not many...
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- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 28:00
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My name is Shawn Hughes. I wrote this piece consciously, recapping one of my most important moments of the year. In the midst of two pandemics, eve...
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 06:54
