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RIVER OF THE GODS by bestselling historian Candice Millard is her fourth book. Known for her meticulously researched work, her newest book is an ad...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 10:08
The first clause of the First Amendment forbids Congress from adopting any laws tending to the establishment religion. Even with that definitive ve...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 03, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Wherever you look in history, you’ll find misogyny. It’s equally rampant in the rumors surrounding Cleopatra during her reign and Kamala Harris bef...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 12, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A late-summer tribute mix of music, history and celebration featuring some of those who have left us--while striving to move the world towards a be...
- Added: Aug 21, 2022
- Length: 59:07
Escape with us to a simpler place and time. Before COVID, before monkeypox, before traveling got so fraught. To a town promoters claimed then was e...
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- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
David Gergen has been a White House adviser to four presidents (Nixon, Ford, Reagan & Clinton) of different parties, CNN senior political analyst, ...
- Added: Jun 16, 2022
- Length: 09:54
Book bans and challenges have been on the rise in the past few years. When BPL launched a free eCard to give out-of-state teens access to our eBook...
- Added: Jun 13, 2022
- Length: 25:25
“I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.”
Bill McKibben is an educator, en...
- Added: Jun 03, 2022
- Length: 09:53
Former President Donald Trump attacked the press relentlessly before and after his term in office. A master at manipulation, he even admitted that ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, and KCBX
- Added: May 23, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In WAYS & MEANS. Lincoln and his Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War, author Roger Lowenstein not only spells out how each side in very diff...
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 10:26
ANGELS OF THE PACIFIC by Elise Hooper (her fourth novel) tells the powerful story of American Army and Navy nurses kept as prisoners for nearly thr...
- Added: Mar 03, 2022
- Length: 09:36
Libraries weren't always located in their own stately buildings. Many of our branches used to operate out of pharmacies, laundry rooms, storefronts...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 26:16
- Purchases: 1
It’s just possible that our understanding of history is seen through a distorted lens. We think we know how the modern world was made. But, keep in...
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Most of us know very little about the history of the African American. Their contribution to our culture and society is rich and multilayered that...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KCBX
- Added: Feb 01, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Pauli Murray was a 20th century Black Queer civil rights trailblazer and legal scholar you’ve probably never heard of. On this edition of Out in th...
- Added: Jan 31, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 4
"THE STEAL. The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It," co-authored by Mark Bowden, concentrates in week-by-week, sta...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 1
Can a lawyer in their first courtroom case win against the mighty power of the US federal government? Yes, she did.
The Farmer’s Lawyer by North D...
- Added: Jan 07, 2022
- Length: 09:18
These are songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of so this is a deep dig into the non-commercial arts instead of pop music as de...
Bought by KCHU, KFCF FM, KPRG, and Prairie Public
- Added: Jan 05, 2022
- Length: 02:57:11
- Purchases: 4
A tribute to to jazz pianist, composer and Philadelphia studio owner Tony Luisi.
- Added: Jan 04, 2022
- Length: 59:31
An extra hour of celebration of those who've left us this year, with music and events that broke too late to be included in A Shortcut Through 2021
Bought by KAAD-LP
- Added: Dec 31, 2021
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 1
The story of American business is the story of real estate. More than two hundred years of seizing, claiming, settling and developing. And, the col...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 14, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Bestselling, award-winning historian Nathaniel Philbrick's "Travels with George" is a blended account of two road trips separated by about 230 year...
- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 08:47
Dylan Thuras is co-author of "Gastro Obscura A Food Adventurer’s Guide," a book with 500 entries that span all seven continents and fifty states. C...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 09:49
Marisel Vera talks about unpacking the history of late 19th century Puerto Rico for her novel “The Taste of Sugar.”
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
We’re hearing a lot of rhetoric about the decline of American society. Politicians cloak themselves in the need for a renewal to an America of the ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
