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Interview and music program featuring Jesse Morris; a walk through the music scene in Colorado Springs in the 40's, 50's and 60's.
- Added: Aug 14, 2014
- Length: 55:46
Joshua Sirotiak seeks out the history of Second Line Jazz culture in New Orleans. Along the way, he finds a few answers to questions about his own ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 2
Memories of an African-American swimming pool and dance club in the Jim Crow south.
- Added: Jun 16, 2014
- Length: 06:51
- Purchases: 2
In the 1960s, it took almost three weeks to cross the sea from America to Vietnam. Three weeks for young men in crowded cabins, with salt water sho...
Bought by WHFR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, KYUK, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 26:24
- Purchases: 10
The Guardians of History features seven archivists working at Duke University’s Rubenstein Library. It explores why we archivists do what we do. It...
Bought by KLCC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: May 05, 2014
- Length: 08:55
- Purchases: 3
Physics professor James Buckley has spent part of his career hunting for neutralinos, a yet-undiscovered type of particle that may hold the answer ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 12:00
In April 2014, the world is taking time to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide and to remember the more than 800,000 lives that...
- Added: Mar 10, 2014
- Length: 12:27
As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...
- Added: Feb 23, 2014
- Length: 14:07
Three short "Moments" featuring 2014 NEA Jazz Master, Jamey Aebersold. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn abou...
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 14
In this special program, you'll hear Nelson Mandela as you've never heard him before. This program draws on 50 hours of recorded conversations with...
Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KUHF, 90.5 WSNC, WRPI, WCBE and more
- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 36
Why are they here?. Many Latin Americans came to the US because dangerous or deadly conditions-which the American government helped create. In pa...
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Longtime New Yorkers recall cooking and food shopping in NYC's bygone era of milk and ice delivery men, ice boxes, horse-drawn fruit and vegetable ...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:18
Margot Karp, 86, moved with her family to Washington Heights, Manhattan, in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. Karp has fond memories of her mother's str...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 03:04
With the legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine, Barton Girdwood got to wondering, what about all the gay men in Maine who never found love? S...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 1
The story of a unique landmark off the eastern coast of England - a packing shed built in the 1890s for the cleaning, sorting, and packing of oysters.
- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 01:14
Richard and Eunice introduce each other to their families and begin plans for a June wedding. Richard finds a job and is ordained. Driving north ou...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:48
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:41
In the summer of 1950, Richard goes to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The job was both part of his theological education and necessary to h...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 22:16
At Union Seminary Richard immediately audits a seminar being co-taught by John Bennett and Reinhold Niebuhr on “Christianity and Communism.” Richar...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 26:22
Richard looks forward to his studies under Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most challenging theological thinkers of his generation. In his last summer...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:41
Richard's course on Reinhold Niebuhr with Robert Bonthius, Wooster’s religion professor, confirms his decision to attend Union Theological Seminary...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 20:05
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
