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HOUR ONE: "Living In Skin" - All over America, people have stopped touching faces and hugging friends. This hour, explore the inner life of your sk...
- Added: Aug 06, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
Today’s guest is Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. St. Louis turns out...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Dec 08, 2020
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
At the age of 42, Bridget Mason won a court case in California that freed her and her daughters from slavery. She went on to become a California re...
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 05:14
Born in 1832, Mary Fields was the first African-American female Star Route mail carrier in the United States. Wearing two guns that she sometimes b...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Apr 30, 2019
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Sylviane Diouf of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture talks with Ed Ayers about some of the overlooked legacies of enslaved Muslims ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 1
It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Poetry is form of self-expression that’s become vital to the incarcerated. To mark National Poetry Month, we bring you a special production by the ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 29:00
August 28th marks the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech in front of the Lincoln memorial in Washington, D.C., wh...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, WUFT, WESM 91.3 FM, WCSU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: Aug 23, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 14
The Melungeons were a mixed-race group in southern Appalachia with an elusive history. Now some Melungeon descendants are looking to DNA testing fo...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WTJU
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 16:56
- Purchases: 2
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove talks about her writing with a focus on her most recent book of poems, Sonata Mullatica. [30:44]
- Added: Feb 29, 2012
- Length: 30:45
- Purchases: 2
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A conversation about the contingency of one state's role in the Civil War.
- Added: Jun 09, 2010
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 2
