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It's Not Wise to Rush About
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Sargeant Mountain Pond in Acadia National Park is the oldest pond on the east coast. Fittingly, it's amassed its fair share of lore. Two friends ad...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 1
Weathering the Storm: A History of Extreme Weather [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Detail from Collier’s magazine cover, May 28th, 1954, Credit: Smithsonian Institution
100 years ago this week, the thermometer in Death Valley, California, hit the highest temperature ever recorded anywhere in the world: 134°F. This ...

Bought by WUFT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRIR, Louisville Public Media, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Pet Friendly: A History of Domestic Animals
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Photograph c1870, by Henry Pontier
America is a pet-owning nation. Over 60% of households, in fact, possess some sort of furry or feathered friend, and we spend over $50 billion a ye...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KTNA, WFAE, WXXI Rochester, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
Sue Leaf on her new book about the father of Minnesota ornithology
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Dick Swanson chatted with Sue Leaf recently about her new book, "A Love Affair with Birds," from the U of MN Press. The book is a wonderful ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 24:04
  • Purchases: 1
228: Atlantic Memory
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Atlantic Memory is a concept which includes every aspect of maritime culture in order to inspire greater public understanding of maritime endeavors...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:10
Is the Bay Area home to the "last rustic town of metropolitan America"?
From: KALW
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One of the attractions of living in the Bay Area is that you have the buzz and activity of towns located near impressive natural surroundings – eve...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:52
Federalizing Floods
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh talks with sociologist Karen O’Neill about the federal government’s move into flood control in 1917 – as landowners along the Mis...

Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, KHNS, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 4
That Lawless Stream: A History of the Mississippi River
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: The city of New Orleans (detail), c1885, Credit: Library of Congress
The Mississippi River is central to the American landscape and imagination. And for centuries, it has served as a battlefield in which our most com...

Bought by WUFT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, XRAY.fm, KBRP Community Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Beat: Connie Wanek - "Honey"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Duluth writer Connie Wanek is the author of three books, most recently "On Speaking Terms" from Copper Canyon Press. She has received several award...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:11
Presence of the Past
From: Jennifer Jerrett
Caption: Archeologist Michael Holt at work in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve., Credit: NPS photo by Andrea Willingham
Some of the earliest records of human occupation in North America are in northwest Alaska. Archeologists in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve te...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 4
A day at Herring River
From: Ben Harden
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Every spring, river herring return to the rivers and ponds of Cape Cod to spawn. They are met by a group of volunteers who, come rain or shine, sho...

Bought by Radio Newark and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 2
Mille Lacs Kathio State Park
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Mille Lacs Kathio State Park encompasses 9,000 years of human history. At one time it was an important social and spiritual center for the Dakota, ...

  • Added: May 31, 2013
  • Length: 04:51
REBELS WITH A CAUSE -- Nancy Kelly Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Nancy Kelly,, San Francisco, CA 9/27/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Nancy Kelly talks cause, effect, and how saving the Marin Headlands paved the way for Alice Waters.

  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 24:05
History Speaks: The Boundary Waters
From: WTIP
Series: Arts and Culture
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Today, more than 200,000 people visit the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness each year. This unique natural area is widely appreciated, but for ...

Bought by KVSC, KVSC, and KSRQ


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 26:55
  • Purchases: 3
Horse Companions
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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When horses need social time they turn to everything from farm animals to spider monkeys.

Bought by KGUA and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 2
Distillations Episode 171: Underground Worlds
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Susan Warzek helps her fellow speleologists return Howe Caverns to its natural splendor., Credit: Amy Kraft
In this episode we investigate the science beneath our streets. First how a team of amateur speleologists are keeping Howe Caverns safe. Then a loo...

Bought by KALW and WTJU


  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 16:35
  • Purchases: 2
Carbon Politics: Coal, Oil and the Sources of Democracy
From: WFHB
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Columbia University historian Timothy Mitchell, whose latest book traces the relationship between carbon-based energy production and the developme...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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We revisit one of our first interviews with environmental historian Richard White. He addresses the (mis)perceptions of the natural world, the ambi...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 23:59
Stop Saving the Planet!
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Historian, author, and urban park ranger Jenny Price makes her case for throwing out the well-tread “save the planet” mantra in favor of a new envi...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 39:49
Gather at the Table
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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First, two authors set out on a life-changing journey together to examine the ugly realities of racism, the enduring cultural scars left by the Ame...

Bought by WCNY and WCWP


  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 2
Life in the Post Natural World
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Curator for the Museum of PostNatural History in Pittsburgh, Richard Pell describes a new way for us to view how humans control the evolutionary pa...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 19:03
An Early American Conservationist
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Chautauqua scholar Lee Stetson, who portrays environmental conservationist John Muir. Muir founded the ...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Remembering Blair Mountain
From: Miranda Brown
Caption: March on Blair Mountain, June 2011, Credit: Talking Across the Lines
A 16-minute spoken history / audio documentary on Appalachian regional history and the prominent issue of mountaintop removal coal mining. Compiled...

Bought by WDBM and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 15:55
  • Purchases: 2
Distillations Episode 169: Neighborhood Preservation
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Can this church be saved? Chemists and congregants alike say yes., Credit: Alex Lewis
In this episode we see old bones made new again. First the ongoing restoration of Philadelphia's 19th Street Baptist Church. Then a discussion abou...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 17:11
The Anthropocene Frontier!
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Environmental historian Jon Christensen discusses the mythos of the American frontier and some of his unique approaches to history. Christensen als...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 40:29

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