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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
Historian Max Page talks about why New York City is so often the target of destruction on the page and the silver screen. This segment comes from t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 09:10
- Purchases: 1
Terry Baum talks fulfilling her destiny, presenting the evidence, and the advantages of a one-woman show.
- Added: Jan 02, 2015
- Length: 21:47
Timothy Spall talks paring things down, letting the character tell you what to do, and the lexicon of the grunt.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 25, 2014
- Length: 22:41
- Purchases: 1
Lisa Rivo of The National Center for Jewish Film talks crossovers, treasure hunts, and preserving history.
- Added: Dec 23, 2014
- Length: 35:52
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by WRVO Public Media
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL co-founder Nick Prueher talks cultural anthropology, local angles, and topless darts.
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 20:28
A team of proofreaders in Virginia has just wrapped up the three-year job of digitizing the papers of the Founding Fathers. They say ending the pro...
Bought by KENW, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 4
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Producer Kelly Jones and scholar Barbara Meek talk through Hollywood Indian English - a grammatical stereotype that often endures in today's media ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 2
As San Francisco bids farewell to Candlestick Park, we’re talking to people about their memories of this iconic San Francisco landmark. Today we he...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 02:24
There are eleven tribes of Indians who call Virginia home, among them the Chickahominy. And though they all now enjoy state recognition, the federa...
- Added: Nov 12, 2014
- Length: 28:31
In the 19th century, Richmond, Virginia was central to the American slave trade, earning the city more than 4 million dollars annually. A new exhib...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 2
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: Oct 26, 2014
- Length: 01:45
- 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
For nearly 75 years, children from the orphanages of New York and other cities were shipped west to families in the West who needed farm labor. Som...
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: 08:05
- Purchases: 2
“Passages: Treasures of the Bible,” currently is in Springfield, Mo, the fifth stop on a national tour. Learn more about the traveling exhibit here...
- Added: Sep 30, 2014
- Length: 08:16
Nadav Schirman, Mossab Hassan Yousef, and Gonen Ben Yitzak talk hope, perspective, and first meetings.
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 24:34
Where can you find a teacup, the molar of a goat, and an arrowhead all in one place? At an urban archaeology site, that’s where.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 36:50
- Purchases: 1
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:22
- Purchases: 2
Chris Mason Johnson talks being alert, Rock Hudson as a touchstone, and perplexing Millennials.
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 18:10
Programmer and Film Noir expert Elliot Lavine talks opaque experiences, waking dreams states, and why a film is always better sitting in the dark w...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 22:06
- Purchases: 1
The army is scrambling to recover missing war records from Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the meantime, many veterans struggle to get their disabilit...
Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WXDU
- Added: May 02, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 3
A Facebook selfie or Instagrammed lunch is a far cry from what used to be required to take a picture. With expensive, slow technology, most photos ...
Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 3
Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller talk revealing human nature, looking a Galapagos tortoise in the eye, and babysitting Cate Blanchett.
- Added: Apr 14, 2014
- Length: 21:31
As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...
- Added: Feb 23, 2014
- Length: 14:07
Lots of us know about China Camp State Park--there’s good hiking and mountain biking, and the beaches along San Pablo Bay are peaceful. But before ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 10:16
