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Rebecca McInroy invites Kate Betts, Margaret Cook, Nancy Baker Jones, and Jean Heath to discuss The Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibit on...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 58:08
For more than a century, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 13:25
- Purchases: 2
Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 15:54
- Purchases: 1
This week in history looks back to April 1987 and the Republican race to succeed Ronald Reagan. This week, Jack Kemp, a longtime Congressman and fo...
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 04:40
This week in history (March 23-March 29) takes a look back at Senator Ted Kennedy's landslide victory over Jimmy Carter in New York's primary on Ma...
- Added: Mar 23, 2014
- Length: 04:40
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 16:54
Short interview with former Newark Mayor now Senator from New Jersey and his first days in Office in Washington
- Added: Nov 03, 2013
- Length: 02:29
Dr. Cal Ledbetter and his wife Brownie are heard here in the rebroadcast of their program appearances prior to their passing away.
- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again - legally - in 2008, mere months bef...
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 29:24
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again -- legally -- in 2008, mere months b...
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 3
Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:36
Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:32
We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:39
Goldman was repeatedly arrested and incarcerated during her life on charges of "inciting to riot" or disseminating birth control information, consi...
Bought by Radio Catskill
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 1
On the 50th anniversary of Wallace’s inaugural speech as the Governor of Alabama, Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and th...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 10:23
- Purchases: 2
Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn’t have been more different. But they shared a secret.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 01:13:55
Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.
Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WMMT, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 14:35
- Purchases: 6
In the summer of 1932, a group of World War I veterans in Portland, Oregon hopped a freight train and started riding the rails to Washington DC.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, WRPI, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 11:56
- Purchases: 5
The Federal Writers Project in West Virginia, and the battle to tell the TRUE story of the state's history.
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 06:12
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 09:56
Highly frustrated at this bold resistance right under their noses, the Nazi Powers-That-Be identified and arrested Sophie, her brother and one othe...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 1
Smith-Robinson was voted the SNCC's Executive Secretary (its chief administrator) and, as such, was a focused and militant Black Power proponent.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:38
Her anthology entitled Sisterhood is Powerful, called one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th Century by the New York Library, covered su...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:25
She's the one who told a bunch of Pentagon leaders -- when she was on the House Armed Services Committee -- that if they were women, they'd be preg...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:23
When she was found guilty of treason and "political activism" (which wouldn't even have been considered a crime for a man), she was sentenced to die.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:45
