PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.
Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 26, 2023
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 2
Limestone work used to be quite dangerous. Joyce Jeffries remembers workers, including her grandfather, dying or getting injured. It’s gotten safer...
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 51:59
Casimiro “Cas” Torres reflects on how his childhood led him to incarceration at New York City’s Hart Island, where he buried the poor and unclaimed...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Aug 10, 2021
- Length: 02:12
- Purchases: 1
Tom Germano speaks with his son, Thomas, about the Great Postal Strike of 1970, and his love of delivering the mail.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 1
Greg Yance and Neoma Farr worked alongside each other during the Great Flood of 1993, to gird the town of Niota, Illinois from the rising waters of...
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Jul 02, 2018
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
Gloria Del Bianco and her nephew, Lou, remember her father, Luigi Del Bianco, one of the chief stone carvers of Mt. Rushmore.
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 01:55
- Purchases: 2
88-year-old Frank Curre remembers serving on the U.S.S. Tennessee during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDBM, WVBI-LP, WEZU, KUER and more
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 02:23
- Purchases: 10
- Added: Jan 20, 2006
- Length: 07:33
