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From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
BackStory producer Andrew Parsons brings us the story of James Strang, a Mormon leader who moved his followers to Michigan’s Beaver Island -- where...
- Added: Mar 25, 2015
- Length: 11:02
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
BackStory producer Nina Earnest recounts the extremes to which Puerto Rican nationalist Pedro Albizu Campos and his followers fought for independen...
- Added: Mar 25, 2015
- Length: 10:59
- Purchases: 2
Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:52
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'...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:59
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Mar 15, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 23:44
- Purchases: 2
James J. Hill is known as the “Empire Builder.” His vision for a Great Northern Railway in the 19th century helped put Minnesota on the map. Produc...
Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 2
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
In the past few years, the White House and the Kremlin have sparred over Syria, the Winter Olympics, and now, the crisis in Ukraine. It can be temp...
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 54:00
Presidents often disappoint us. Professor Rowland Brucken reads from his book, A Most Uncertain Crusade: The United States, the United Nations, and...
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 01:40
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
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Producer Nina Earnest and legal scholar Lea VanderVelde unpack the tort of seduction — one of the few claims women could make to challenge sexual h...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 10, 2015
- Length: 07:26
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Author Larry Tye and host Brian Balogh discuss the masterful campaign by PR guru Edward Bernays, to convince American women to take up smoking. Plu...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 11:13
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Author Richard Jurek describes how one giant leap in public relations helped launch NASA’s lunar program - and how brands used the space program to...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 09:39
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian Cathy Gudis returns with the story of how advertising followed 20th century Americans out onto the open road, and discusses efforts to cu...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 10:37
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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
San Francisco is America’s second most densely populated area, after Manhattan. And with new construction all over town, it’s going to get even den...
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 06:01
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All about cars, planes, boats and trains.
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 05:00
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 05:00
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 05:00
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 05:00
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 05:00
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 05:00
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 05:00
