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Bob Kustra interviews Sonia Purnell about her book "A Woman of No Importance"

  • Added: Dec 02, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
Caption: Meg Crane's home pregnancy test prototype, 1968., Credit: Courtesy of Bonhams.
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 3
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The Freedom Riders of 1961 were upholding the law. So why were they being arrested as soon as they got off the buses in Jackson, Mississippi? KFAI'...

Bought by Hark! and WDSE


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
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A historian raises questions about the morality of the archival process and reveals how the NSA may change the future of history research.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 12:39
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Was DC really built on a swamp? Why does the grid system have no J Street? And what's up with all those crazy traffic circles?

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 3
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Examining how unpopular wars are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes

  • Added: Oct 27, 2008
  • Length: 08:00
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Examining how social safety nets are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes

  • Added: Oct 24, 2008
  • Length: 08:09
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Examining how health care is being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes

  • Added: Oct 15, 2008
  • Length: 09:17
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Examining how energy and the environment are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' att...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 07:56
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Examining how science and technology are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 07:52
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Examining how identiy politics is playing out in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 08:06
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Examining how immigration is being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:20
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Examining the rhetoric of the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 07:56

  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 2