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In this essay Aaron Brown dresses down the most popular words from the year 2012, according to the Global Language Monitor.
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- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 1
Steve Downing reflects on the highly positive nature of the existence and effects of Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 2
Dan Sinykin provides a comprehensive of the historically illuminating new book "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van ...
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- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 1
Repealing the union-crippling Taft-Hartley Act should have been a prime issue throughout the election campaign.
- Added: Oct 18, 2012
- Length: 03:13
From Victorian parlors to Starbucks, pigments have defined and connected societies.
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- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 01:51
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The violent pastime known as bull baiting entertained the wealthy and poor alike and shaped the breed we now know as the bulldog.
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- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 01:48
- Purchases: 1
Since their rise with the release of the 1978 game Space Invaders, video arcades have evolved alongside home gaming systems.
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- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 01:49
- Purchases: 3
Before the coming of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, there was the IWW - the Industrial Workers of the World - to lead a major and fiercely fought...
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 05:10
The pair of crawler-transporters at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida have been delivering shuttles to their launch pad since the Apollo missions...
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- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 01:47
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Labor leader Art Carter was an important but now largely forgotten hero of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 04:56
Labor leader Gene Debs died 85 years ago this month, but remains an important inspiration for those struggling against powerful anti-labor forces.
- Added: Oct 13, 2011
- Length: 05:27
Sharon Chmielarz has had poems published in several literary magazines including The Laurel Review, The Iowa Review, Water~Stone, Kalliope, Ascent,...
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- Added: Jun 16, 2011
- Length: 23:45
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The child labor laws that protect young workers from severe exploitation are under serious attack.
- Added: May 13, 2011
- Length: 04:55
In marking Ronald Reagan's centennial, don't forget he was one of the most viciously anti-labor presidents working Americans ever faced.
- Added: Jan 14, 2011
- Length: 06:02
Those seeking ways to revitalize the declining US labor movement need look no further than the drive launched 75 years ago this month by the fledgl...
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:53
Union organizers Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings were the victims of one of the most outrageous frameups in U.S. history.
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 06:05
Grand Rapids resident Matthew Miltich tells the story of his grandfather Andró Miletic and his reluctant journey from seaside Croatia to the Iron R...
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- Added: Jul 15, 2010
- Length: 16:42
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How much of the sixth sense is perception and how much is reality?
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
- Length: 04:59
98 year-old Anna Nordgren talks about growing up in Bovey, MN with her Finnish immigrant parents.
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 16:22
A provocative tour into one of America's most curious museums, The Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
- Added: May 23, 2010
- Length: 10:22
- Purchases: 3
High up on that list of the shocks of aging is the first time a cop calls you "sir."
- Added: Mar 29, 2010
- Length: 03:14
Of the many dramatic events in the long struggle to win decent conditions for America's farm workers, none have been more dramatic -- or influentia...
- Added: Aug 07, 2009
- Length: 03:11
It's the 90th anniversary this month of the Seattle general strike, one of the most dramatic strikes in U.S. history.
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- Added: Feb 07, 2009
- Length: 03:30
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Although much media attention is being paid to "Milk," the movie about gay rights hero Harvey Milk, we shouldn't forget that not long ago media co...
- Added: Nov 21, 2008
- Length: 04:13
- Added: Nov 21, 2008
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
