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‘Disco Demolition Night’, the brainchild of 24 year-old shock jock Steve Dahl, caused mass hysteria at Comiskey Park, Chicago on 12th July, 1979 – ...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 09:43
How jazz influenced the fight for racial equity.
Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNCU, WUTC, and Morton College Radio
- Added: Nov 22, 2022
- Length: 01:39:38
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 50:13
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 01:26
Fifteen, 3-minute vignettes celebrating the contributions of African Americans in classical music.
Bought by Texas Public Radio, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM, Texas Public Radio, Vermont Public, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and more
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 45:00
- Purchases: 10
The UNM Lobos make aviation history in 1929, flying to the Rose Bowl.
- Added: Dec 16, 2011
- Length: 01:56
The telegraph comes to Santa Fe in 1868 and changes everything.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 01:59
Truth or legend? New Mexico’s most persistent treasure tale: the lost mine of Padre Larue.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 01:58
An attempt by a New Mexican US Senator to legitimize squatters on Pueblo Indian land is foiled by public outcry.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 01:58
Lovington and Hobbs vie for the honor of becoming the Lea County Seat.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 01:59
A Hillsboro blacksmith stumbles into the richest silver mine ever found.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 01:57
The colorful history of this southern New Mexico fort.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 02:00
The story of a Buffalo Soldier who won the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Warm Springs Apache uprising of 1880-1881.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 01:58
Philadelphia heiress Catherine Drexel builds a Catholic school for Indian students in Santa Fe.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 02:00
A US Army cavalry troop astride camels in the Southwest desert? Well it seemed worth a try a the time.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 01:58
A former slave turned cowboy makes a surprising discovery that changes the archaeological timetable in America.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 02:00
A simple chimpanzee from Cameroon makes space history and becomes a national hero.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 01:59
General Kearny leads the Army of the West to Santa Fe and claims New Mexico for the United States of America.
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 1
How the experience of driving VegOil parallels the experience of the first automobile drivers.
- Added: Sep 13, 2005
- Length: 06:06
Five 90-second programs, each recounting a remarkable act of everyday courage drawn from the Carnegie Hero Fund archives.
- Added: Feb 24, 2005
- Length: 07:43
Five 90-second programs, each recounting a remarkable act of everyday courage drawn from the Carnegie Hero Fund archives.
- Added: Feb 24, 2005
- Length: 07:45
Five 90-second programs, each recounting a remarkable act of everyday courage drawn from the Carnegie Hero Fund archives.
- Added: Feb 24, 2005
- Length: 07:42
Five 90-second programs, each recounting a remarkable act of everyday courage drawn from the Carnegie Hero Fund archives.
- Added: Feb 24, 2005
- Length: 07:46
Five 90-second programs, each recounting a remarkable act of everyday courage drawn from the Carnegie Hero Fund archives.
- Added: Feb 24, 2005
- Length: 07:47
Five 90-second programs, each recounting a remarkable act of everyday courage drawn from the Carnegie Hero Fund archives.
- Added: Feb 24, 2005
- Length: 07:45
