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Historian Alison Rose Jefferson discusses her book ‘Living The California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During The Jim Crow Era’. She demon...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 07, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
30 Seconds of Democracy is series of 30 second spots. Each will offer a slice of our democratic freedoms, through history, law, and perspective wit...
- Added: Oct 25, 2019
- Length: 14:45
Minneapolis and St. Paul are known as the Twin Cities, but relationships weren’t always so sisterly. During the summer of the 1890 census, both cit...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:38
There are things that hold history for each of us – a stitch, a book, a hat – things that we carry around for our whole lives. In this episode, we...
- Added: Oct 12, 2018
- Length: 10:43
- Purchases: 2
Dollar General is coming to Georgetown...
- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 02:53:07
One of Allen Ginsberg's first publishers was taken to court for a book that an undercover police officer deemed "not fit for children to read."
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :59
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth. In the 1970s, he became the first black detective ever to serve in ...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 45:08
- Purchases: 1
With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein i...
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 58:13
A new exhibit at the Minnesota History Center creates a picture of Twin Cities suburban life from after World War II to the 1970s. Dan Spock, direc...
- Added: Oct 20, 2015
- Length: 18:04
The Black Panthers weren’t the only ones arming themselves in the 60s and 70s. And as Making Contact producer George Lavender found, not everyone h...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 06:26
- 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
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Jan 15, 2014
- Length: 01:34
Listen back as KUT’s Rebecca McInroy talks about what it means to be “American” with UT Anthropology Professor John Hartigan, The Department Chair ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 01:01:51
What's really going on at Fort Meade?
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 23, 2011
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 1
State Representative Larry Haws from St. Cloud has worked in public service for over 40 years. His list of accomplishments and awards include an A...
- Added: Dec 28, 2010
- Length: 29:58
Paris has its Parisians, Boston its Bostonians. What does it take to be/become a Washingtonian?
- Added: May 18, 2010
- Length: 07:04
The founders of the City Reliquary hope their museum will help change the way New Yorkers think about the city.
- Added: Apr 20, 2009
- Length: 08:42
IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 54:15
- Added: Jan 07, 2007
- Length: 01:58
Looking for San Francisco's Greektown
- Added: Nov 30, 2006
- Length: 05:42
Edgar May speaks with his sister Madeline Kunin about their first day in America.
- Added: Aug 31, 2006
- Length: 04:38
A critically-acclaimed story detailing one man's quest to find the author of two diaries from 1960 and 1961 that he found in a thrift store.
Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, WYBC, and WYSO
- Added: Sep 03, 2004
- Length: 17:36
- Purchases: 4