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March 18: Catalina de Erauso

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Catalina de Erauso (March 18, 1600): After leaving nun’s convent, Catalina dressed as a man, and left on a long journey from San Sebastian to Vall...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMXT, and WNMU-FM

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 3

March 19: Anne Drysdale And Caroline Newcombe

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Anne Drysdale And Caroline Newcombe (March 19, 1840) The two women were squatters. They established a successful sheep farm at a time when women ra...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMXT, and WNMU-FM

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 3

March 20: Mary Anne Talbot

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Mary Anne Talbot (March 20, 1792): An Englishwoman who wore male dress and became a sailor during the Napoleonic Wars. While a cabin boy aboard a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, KISU, and WNMU-FM

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 5

March 21: Pocahontas

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Pocahontas (March 21, 1617): Later known as Rebecca Rolfe, was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial Jamestown, Virginia...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 4

March 22: Mary Prince

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Mary Prince (March 22, 1831): A Bermudian woman, born into slavery. Her autobiography, The History of Mary Prince (1831), was the first account of...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 3

March 23: Ann Green

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Ann Green (March 23, 1775) Known as “printer to the Province” of Maryland. She was employed in Philadelphia with Benjamin Franklin & Andrew Bradfor...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 4

March 24: Deborah Sampson

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Deborah Sampson (March 24, 1802): An American woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Re...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 3

March 25: Maria Esquivel and Micaela Bastidas

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Maria Esquivel and Micaela Bastidas (March 25, 1781): These two women played an important part in the Inca revolt against the Spanish invaders. Al...

Bought by KMXT and WNMU-FM

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 2

March 26: Elleanor Eldridge

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Elleanor Eldridge (March 26, 1784): In her Memoirs (1838), Elleanor claims that it was her grandfather who was captured, along with his family, i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMXT, and WNMU-FM

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 3

March 27: Bridget Biddy Mason

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Bridget Biddy Mason (March 27, 1988): Biddy Mason was born a slave in 1818, She was given to Robert Smith and his bride as a wedding present. Brid...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 4

March 28: Grace Sherwood

From: Guy Rathbun

Grace Sherwood (March 28, 1705): She was tried and convicted of witchcraft in the Princess Anne County court of the U.S. state of Virginia in 1705...

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59

March 29: Eunice Williams

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Eunice Williams (March 29, 1713): An English colonist taken captive by French and Mohawk warriors as a seven-year-old girl from in 1704. Taken to ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 3

March 30: Georgiana Molloy

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Georgiana Molloy (March 30, 1830): An early settler in Western Australia, who is remembered as one of the first botanical collectors in the colony...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 4

March 31: Rebecca Lukens

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Rebecca Lukens (March 31, 1825): An American businesswoman. She was the owner and manager of the iron and steel mill that became the Lukens Steel C...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM

Added: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 4

Mary Casanova on her new book, "Frozen," set in 1920s border country in northern MN

From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse

WTIP's Ann Possis chatted with author Mary Casanova recently about her newest book, "Frozen," from the U of MN Press. Set in the beautiful, wild ar...

Bought by KVSC

Added: Oct 31, 2012
Length: 18:37
Purchases: 1

KUT's Views and Brews: Billie Holiday and The Art of Persona

From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix

Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." In a recent Views and Brews f...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and WJSU

Added: Sep 27, 2012
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 2

Culturology: "Frozen" by Mary Casanova

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology

Mary Casanova has written and published 30 books. Her most recent effort "Frozen" is the story of 16 year old Sadie Rose in the Rainy Lake area on ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and KSRQ

Added: Sep 25, 2012
Length: 18:30
Purchases: 3

A Conversation with Sarah Cash

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Sarah Cash discusses the making of a great collection of American art.

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Jul 05, 2012
Length: 30:33
Purchases: 1

HYSTERIA -- Director Tanya Wexler interview.

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Tanya Wexler, San Francisco, CA 5/1/12, Credit: Andrea Chase

Tanya Wexler talks standing ovations, double-entendres, and setting the mood.

Added: Jun 04, 2012
Length: 25:04

The Heart's Truth

From: Muriel Murch

Caption: Florence Nightingale helps a sick man, Credit: unknown

A conversation between nurses. Interviewer Muriel Murch talks with nurse, writer and poet Cortney Davis

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KRZA

Added: May 05, 2012
Length: 28:17
Purchases: 2

Margaret Sanger - Woman Rebel

From: Camino Real Productions, LLC

A dramatization of the life and work of Margaret Sanger, birth control activist, followed by an interview with the author, Ann Beyke and political ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUNM, and WRPI

Added: Mar 25, 2012
Length: 55:21
Purchases: 3

Janet Fox's novel FAITHFUL

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

During this program, Janet Fox talks about and reads from FAITHFUL, her debut novel for teens and young adult readers. She also talks about the con...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio