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In the 1900s, dictators rose to power across Europe as democracies fell to fascists and communists. History Professor Timothy Snyder argues that de...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 29:53
Cacao was born in a bean-shaped area in the upper Amazon and is believed to have been grown and used—first, as a drink—in countries that now encomp...
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 24:01
In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘e...
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- Added: Apr 23, 2017
- Length: 26:14
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Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...
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- Added: Mar 31, 2017
- Length: 22:05
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Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...
- Added: Mar 29, 2017
- Length: 21:27
There’s no denying that the current moment is grim, for the environment, civil rights, and plain old human decency. But I once heard a wise man say...
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- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 30:00
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Radio Curious tours the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a safe haven for black slaves seeking refuge from the south through the underground rai...
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- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 29:01
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As the temperature and population continue to rise in the southwestern United States, water becomes scarcer than ever. How did we get here? Will th...
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- Added: Sep 07, 2016
- Length: 29:20
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Who doesn't enjoy that refreshing feeling when you walk in from 90 degree heat to the cool blast of an air-conditioned room? Last month extreme hea...
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- Added: Aug 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Charles Fountain about his book, "The Betrayal: the 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball."
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- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 30:31
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The Fifth Symphony opens very famously with four memorable notes. Beethoven was asked what he meant by this opening and he’s said to have replied, ...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 59:18
Professors Derek Hirst and Steven Zwicker discuss the life and work of Andrew Marvell.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 16:04
When Vance Gellert decided to photograph the Iron Range, people asked him why. In his traveling show Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota, V...
- Added: Feb 05, 2016
- Length: 13:30
Brian Fagan discusses how animals have shaped our history and how our conception of them has changed over time.
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 22:57
- Purchases: 3
Nathan Ward, who was an editor with American Heritage, has written for The New York Times and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, n...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 12:44
Levinson, a former finance and economics editor at The Economist, discusses the compelling history of what was once the world's largest retailer.
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 30:41
On this episode, Jimena Canales discussed the debate of Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein.
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 31:58
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According to or my guest, Alan Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” We track three “subversives” in our progra...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 57:14
TJ English is an award winning journalist and screenwriter.
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 16:14
Today’s Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is about a critical St. Cloud building that hasn’t existed for over 100 years and the Minnesota Histori...
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 29:45
Radio Curious visits with David Ebershoff, author of "The 19th Wife," a book about Ann Eliza Young, and her realization and then quest to speak out...
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- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 29:01
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation about Ellis Island, it's history and the people who arrived there, with Andrew Weiss, a historian and then to...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 29:01
Summer is the time for baseball all over the country, and in Minnesota that’s no different. The history of baseball in Minnesota, however, has inc...
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 29:56
Radio Curious revisits a conversation with whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked top-secret, military documents about the Vietnam war in 1971. ...
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- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 29:01
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A recent Pew survey found that 48% of Americans are still unconvinced that global warming is happening and that human activity is causing it. How c...
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- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 30:00
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