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The United States of Lyncherdom

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Caption: New York Mayor Seth Low shown taming the Tammany Tiger on the cover of Puck Magazine, Credit: Library of Congress

Horrified by accounts of lynchings in his home state of Missouri, Mark Twain penned a dark, satirical essay on the subject — but then, he chose not...

Bought by WETS, KREV-LP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Added: Aug 18, 2015
Length: 07:35
Purchases: 3

The Ghost of Satires Past

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Comedians Azie Dungey and Jordan Black examine how history figures into their satirical web series Ask a Slave. This piece comes from the BackSto...

Bought by WDBM, WETS, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Added: Aug 18, 2015
Length: 06:43
Purchases: 3

What Fools These Mortals Be!

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

BackStory producer Emily Gadek has the story of a satirical arms race during the election of 1884 that changed the face of political cartooning. ...

Bought by WETS, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Added: Aug 18, 2015
Length: 07:52
Purchases: 3

Author Mary Pilon talks about the intriguing history of Monopoly

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Mary Pilon, author of "The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite Board Game," discusses her New York Times bes...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Added: Aug 07, 2015
Length: 30:30
Purchases: 1

StoryCorps: Donnie Dunagan and Dana Dunagan

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Donnie (L) and Dana (R) Dunagan

Retired Marine Corps Major Donnie Dunagan, who was the voice of Bambi in the 1942 Disney film, tells his wife, Dana, about hiding his acting credit...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WVBI-LP, Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU and more

Added: Jul 31, 2015
Length: 02:33
Purchases: 6

Tuned to Yesterday #7

From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Tuned to Yesterday

Tuned to Yesterday #7 Mystery Broadcasts include, "Sherlock Holmes" and "Suspense".

Bought by WMUU-LP

Added: Jul 13, 2015
Length: 53:00
Purchases: 1

A Brief History of Women in Comics

From: Bitch Media
Series: Popaganda

Women have been making comics since the beginning. This engaging history tracks the gender dynamics of the comics industry for 120 years, highlight...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WABE

Added: Jun 18, 2015
Length: 21:39
Purchases: 2

Melton Barker, Itinerant Filmmaker

From: Michael May

The 1930s is remembered as the golden age of Hollywood, when small towns had a palatial movie theaters, and stars like Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: May 21, 2015
Length: 07:26
Purchases: 1

Design of the Movie Theater

From: Michael May

Historian Larry May slips into one of his favorite places — the movie theater.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: May 19, 2015
Length: 08:10
Purchases: 1

PROMO - Pop History: The Past in Last Year's Media

From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Caption: Crowd lining street under the marquee of the Pantages Theatre at the 31st Academy Awards in 1959. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

30-second promo for "Pop History," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/date tag

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and WABE

Added: Feb 18, 2015
Length: :30
Purchases: 2

"Most Women Didn't Do Such Things"

From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: FEBRUARY 2015

Award-winning New York Times sports journalist Mary Pilon reads from her new book, The Monopolists.... The content may not be what you think; trivi...

Added: Feb 12, 2015
Length: 01:40

Break Me Off A Piece of That...

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Caption: Toward Los Angeles, Calif., by Dorothea Lange, 1937., Credit: Library of Congress

Composer Michael Levine, who wrote the long-running Kit-Kat jingle, tells host Brian Balogh what makes a jingle powerful — and catchy. Then… he off...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Feb 04, 2015
Length: 10:07
Purchases: 1

Tituba, Witch of Salem

From: With Good Reason

There’s a new season brewing for a television series about the Salem Witch Trials. A scholar puts one of the witches under the spotlight. Lilia Fuq...

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

Added: Nov 07, 2014
Length: 02:46
Purchases: 3

Muslims on the Mic

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Caption: Classroom in the Islamic School in Seattle, Washington, 1982., Credit: Library of Congress

Scholar Su’ad Abdul Khabeer tells BackStory producer Kelly Jones about Islam’s impact on hip-hop – and how hip-hop opened doors between different M...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix

Added: Oct 31, 2014
Length: 08:35
Purchases: 4

The Inside Scoop on Serving at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: Alan DeValerio was a White House butler for Presidents Carter and Reagan., Credit: Alan DeValerio

"The Butler" didn't do it - or so says real-life White House butler Alan DeValerio.

Added: Jul 27, 2014
Length: 06:15

Bla bla blah

From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions

XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort

Added: Jul 06, 2014
Length: 01:25

Classic Rock Originals - Part One

From: KSLU
Series: Rock School

Do you know who wrote your favorite classic rock songs? ELVIS PRESELY. LED ZEPPLIN. JOHNNY RIVERS. Find out the true writers and secret meanings be...

Bought by KSKQ, KFOK-LPFM, WSLR, and KSRQ

Added: Jun 28, 2014
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 4

Library Of Congress Preserves A Treasure Trove... Underground (short version)

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: The Packard Campus is roughly 500,000 square feet, built into the side of a mountain in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains., Credit: Library of Congress/Matt Raymond

What do you get when you take a former Cold War bunker and fill it with the world’s largest collection of films, TV shows, radio broadcasts and sou...

Added: Apr 30, 2012
Length: 03:28

From Scott Joplin to Super Mario Bros.: Making Old-Time Piano New Again

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: At age 29, Martin Spitznagel is the World Champion of Old-Time Piano Playing., Credit: Martin Spitznagel

A 20-something pianist is making old-time piano new again... with a little help from Darth Vader and Super Mario Bros.

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

Added: Nov 14, 2011
Length: 03:48
Purchases: 4

Frank T. Hopkins (Hidalgo), November 11, 1951

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...

Added: May 04, 2011
Length: 03:00

Digging up the West Coast's first fraternity

From: Becky Palmstrom

Caption: Photograph of the first fraternity on the West Coast.

It turns out fraternities are not just popular in pop culture, but are as old as America itself. Dr Laurie Wilkie and Dr Grahaeme Hesp offer a hist...

Bought by PRX Remix