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Millions of high school dropouts hope their ticket to a better job is getting a GED. But critics say passing a test is not the same as getting a hi...
Bought by WMUU-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KPIP-LP, WITF, 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Sep 06, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 15
This is the story of the life and death of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language. It was produced for the Transom Story Workshop.*
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Jun 02, 2013
- Length: 08:21
- Purchases: 1
A look at the Great Chicago Fire with Dr. Fiona Halloran.
- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 07:51
“Grounded: The End of the Shuttle Era and the Future of Manned Space Flight,” is a special report from KUT News exploring mission, place and what i...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Jun 14, 2011
- Length: 52:25
- Purchases: 1
For over a hundred years, the USS Constellation served the Navy and her country. The 1854 Sloop of War’s proudest moment may have been rescuing 70...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 11, 2010
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 1
One Czech high school teaches students what it was like to live under a communist regime.
- Added: Jul 28, 2010
- Length: 05:21
- Purchases: 2
Honoring the late John Hope Franklin
- Added: Apr 05, 2009
- Length: 29:00
Some Gee Whiz Facts About Lindberg
- Added: Jun 25, 2008
- Length: 02:03
5 generations share essays on Race from This I Believe archive
- Added: Nov 10, 2007
- Length: 24:40
3 Generations talking about WEALTH
- Added: Nov 05, 2007
- Length: 59:59
5 generations share essays on Community from This I Believe archive
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 59:59
Enid Wizig is a good mentor for the No Limits Theater Group students. She, like them, is profoundly deaf. They prove there are "no limits" for he...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Jun 14, 2007
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
Rediscovered disks by a '70's era high school stage band are creating a new cult following
- Added: Jul 25, 2006
- Length: 09:08
Laura Leedy Gansler joins Talking History's Linna Place in conversation about Sara Emma Edmundson, who disguised herself as a man, and joined the U...
- Added: Mar 29, 2006
- Length: 29:02
Have you ever wondered why we have Daylight Savings? Michael Downing joins Bryan Le Beau to answer this and other questions.
Bought by KSJD
- Added: Mar 29, 2006
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Guest, David Laskin discusses the surprise blizzard of 1888, that claimed lives of Midwesterners- many of them children. The program includes comme...
- Added: Feb 04, 2006
- Length: 29:02
Steven Watts discusses the life of Henry Ford, with host Bryan Le Beau. The program features commentary and our usual look at History in the News a...
- Added: Feb 04, 2006
- Length: 29:00
Marriages were not historically speaking, founded on love, Stephanie Coontz discusses the institution of marriage with Talking History's Linna Plac...
- Added: Feb 04, 2006
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 2
Our interview features James Loewen who discusses the historical practice of banning minorities after sundown in American communities, plus our reg...
Bought by KDUR
- Added: Feb 04, 2006
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Interview features Bryan Burrough, discussing the gangster era of the 1930s, along with our regular features, History in the News and Site of the W...
- Added: Dec 09, 2005
- Length: 29:02
Author John Barry discusses the influenza pandemic of 1918, Chris Crenner comments on the forerunner of today's medical advice columnist- Dr. Logan...
- Added: Dec 09, 2005
- Length: 29:00
Interview with Ron Chernow author of "Alexander Hamilton," and we continue our series of special readings from the unpublished recollections of the...
- Added: Oct 03, 2005
- Length: 29:00
Interview features a discussion on the history of freethinking in America; program includes our regular segment History in the News and a reading f...
- Added: Oct 03, 2005
- Length: 29:02
Interview focuses on the teaching of history in today's classrooms, commentary examines what we learn from history,
- Added: Sep 07, 2005
- Length: 29:00
Jacquelyn Hall, Professor of History at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill discusses teaching history in schools with host Bryan Le Beau and...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Sep 07, 2005
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1