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Kill the Indian
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.
Historian Tsianina Lomawaima talks about the enduring legacy of Indian boarding schools, which sought to forcibly integrate tribal children into wh...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 09:31
  • 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
Never Never Land
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.
BackStory editor Robert Armangol explores the legacy of Operation Pedro Pan, a plan to save Cuban children from communist indoctrination by leaving...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 12:09
Running the Riot
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: The police in Gary, Ind., 1908, Credit: Library of Congress
Legal scholar Alasdair Roberts talks with Peter Onuf about the beginnings of municipal police departments in the U.S., which were organized not to ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 07:40
  • Purchases: 2
Can We Still Call It Wilderness?
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: The mountain pass, Sierra Nevada, Credit: Library of Congress
Writer Emma Marris and historian Paul Sutter join the Guys as they discuss the Wilderness Act of 1964, and how American ideas of wilderness and how...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 10:43
  • Purchases: 1
Evicted From the Wild
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: The mountain pass, Sierra Nevada, Credit: Library of Congress
Producer Jesse Dukes has the story of some five hundred families who were made to leave their homes in an area supposedly “pristine and free of hum...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 2
Visual Stylometry: Where math forays into art
From: Jenny Chen
Caption: Paintings by Craig Moran, Credit: Jenny Chen
Visual stylometry is a new branch of mathematics that uses mathematics to determine the style of a particular artists' body of work. In this piece ...

Bought by WDBM, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 5
Action Speaks "Heaven For All" Azusa Street Revival and Birth of Pentecostalism in America, 1906
From: Action Speaks Radio
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This week's underappreciated date is the Azusa Street Revival started by William J. Seymour in 1906 and brought about the revival of Pentecostalism...

Bought by WGCU, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR, and WCPN


  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 4
Centerstage Minnesota: Nicole Hoops features Trampled By Turtles and more.
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Trampled By Turtles, Credit: Joshua Timmermans/Noble Vision
This week Nicole Hoops focuses the Duluth band Trampled By Turtles with a set of music. We also hear music from Martin Zellar, Steve Kaul and the B...

Bought by KSRQ and WTIP


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Technological Innovations -- Groks Science Show 2009-09-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. W. Brian Arthur discussed the nature of technology.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2009
  • Length: 32:12
  • Purchases: 1
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
Virtuoso Voices - Yefim Bronfman (Russian Hand Cufflinks)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Yefim Bronfman
There are a couple of myths about Russian piano players – one of them is that they only play Russian music. Yefim Bronfman was born in Tashkent, U...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: :17
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