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Join us today for a good-natured celebration of some of our early presidents. We share tales about Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. It's an hour...
Bought by KALW, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KTSW 89.9, WVPE, KCNP and more
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 54:56
- Purchases: 7
The question of whether and how to compensate descendants of people formerly enslaved in the United States has hung over the country since the end ...
Bought by KRCB 104.9
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 03:21
- Purchases: 1
The director of the California Innocence Project discusses the power of clemency and pardons - from historical roots to current expressions of this...
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 05:00
As tensions escalate between North Korea and the United States, Hawaii finds itself on the frontlines in preparing for a nuclear attack. Whether or...
- Added: Dec 07, 2017
- Length: 03:26
This is not normal. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.
Bought by WETD
- Added: Nov 21, 2017
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 1
Our Earliest Ancestor
- Added: May 12, 2017
- Length: 02:00
When Continents Collide
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 02:00
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by WRVO Public Media
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Oct 26, 2014
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
The current philosophy seems to be the more “friends” that we can amass on Facebook, or the more “followers” that we can attract on Twitter, the be...
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 08:12
According to Psychology Today, mindfulness can be defined as “a state of active, open attention on the present. When you’re mindful, you observe yo...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 09:34
Kooky characters have lessened in number, so has our opportunity to pitch in and help them or to put up with a little misery or embarrassment from ...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 06:20
Permanence—the state or quality of lasting or remaining unchanged indefinitely—might appear to be an outmoded, unrealistic concept.
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 08:16
Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Rodin On Film." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota p...
- Added: Aug 11, 2013
- Length: 02:00
Carol Ann Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
He was shy, geeky ... a genius ... and helped turn the tide in World War II.
- Added: Apr 28, 2011
- Length: 03:00
The Ten Boom family hides Jews and members of Dutch resistance from the Nazis in a secret room. Raided by the Gestapo, Corrie, her sister and their...
- Added: Apr 09, 2011
- Length: 03:00
You know, I'd like to meet the person who cut down the last palm tree on Easter Island. What were they thinking?
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
A young black man learns about his identity through local African American history. KRAK
- Added: Jun 16, 2008
- Length: 09:13
Five Module pieces focusing on America's Second President
- Added: May 02, 2008
- Length: 44:10
Sunday, April 14th, 1935, mid-afternoon. A monstrous black dust cloud quickly forms over southwest Kansas -- and within minutes, people were runnin...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
The Battleship Missouri is best known as the site where World War II officially ended on Sept. 2, 1945. Veterans share tales about the ship, nickn...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Delta College Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and KVMR
- Added: Dec 06, 2006
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Nov 24, 2006
- Length: 03:34
Five 90-second programs, each recounting a remarkable act of everyday courage drawn from the Carnegie Hero Fund archives.
- Added: Feb 11, 2005
- Length: 07:43
