PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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While New York City reopens, Harlem musicians continue one of jazz's most revered traditions at the historic Minton's Playhouse.
- Added: Apr 16, 2021
- Length: 04:20
The Schwinn bicycle has a rich history in New York’s Nuyorican communities. In many of these enclaves, you’ll find members of riding clubs showing ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 25, 2016
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 2
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:29
- Purchases: 1
Love em or hate em, they’re an ever present part of American culture. And they’re not going away anytime soon. On this edition, we talk guns…from...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We visit the Lower 9th Ward Living Museum, to learn how some are trying to preserve the lessons and legacies of the past. And we talk to a residen...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 13:31
- Purchases: 1
Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered before he could stand trial for the assassination of JFK. But that hasn’t stopped people from trying to get him into...
Bought by PRX Remix, KPIK-LP, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 20:21
- Purchases: 3
The Freedom Riders of 1961 were upholding the law. So why were they being arrested as soon as they got off the buses in Jackson, Mississippi? KFAI'...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
The Aleppo Codex is a thousand year-old manuscript that medieval scholars declared an accurate biblical text. It has been worshiped, pillaged, salv...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 17:18
The area’s so flat that every bunny hill seems a candidate. But, no, really — where is it?
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 06:53
- Purchases: 1
A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas. Today 16 percent do. As more and more people flock to cities what used to be ...
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 2
Paris has its Parisians, Boston its Bostonians. What does it take to be/become a Washingtonian?
- Added: May 18, 2010
- Length: 07:04
A tour of the abandoned buildings and decrepit remains of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane proves that mental hospitals aren’t that scary af...
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: 07:34
- Added: Dec 03, 2007
- Length: 04:04
A short doc exploring the curious legacy of a "racial cleansing" in a small Kentucky town.
Bought by WRPI, KFAI Minneapolis, and SALTcast Podcast
- Added: May 14, 2007
- Length: 13:27
- Purchases: 3
When the campaigns rallied in 1840, they were there to par-tee!
Bought by WYSO
- Added: Aug 10, 2004
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1